Insanity Week 2, Juicing and Juicers

Hooray! Week 2 of Insanity is upon me. Minimal body aches and I have been doing the stretches religiously. We don't want a repeat of the last time, do we?
Today was Cardio Power and Resistance and as usual, it kicked my ass. My glutes are still burning as we speak.

I hate fruits and vegetables. A standing joke among my asian friends is that I don't eat grass. This means I never get my 5 a day nutrients.
However, that is all about to change. On Friday, Blogger Miss Jia posted a before/after picture on twitter which, if I must say was AMAZING! She lost so much weight and her skin was glowing. Her secret? She is on a juice fast and that was her Day 13. After reading about Juice Fast, I realised it was not for me.

1. I like food
2. I am currently on Insanity and I need all the energy I have
3. I need to be up and about, work, life etc and I can't do all my activities on a juice-only diet
4. I really like food and cooking.

However, I still need the benefits of consuming fruits and vegetables. I have decided to replace breakfast and dinner with Juice. Vegetable and Fruit Juices only for breakfast and dinner, and eat solid foods for lunch.

Hopefully, this will help clean out my system while still maintaining my energy level.

Bought my juicer yesterday and a lot of fruits and veggies.

After my Insanity work out this morning, I made Carrots, Spinach, Oranges and Lemon juice for breakfast. It tasted so nice. Looking forward to making grapes, broccoli, apple, lemon and spinach juice tonight.

I weighed last night and I realised I am down 1.4kg from last week. Happy with the progress, but I need to lose more :)

Oh one last thing, cleaning the juicer is a nightmare (well time-wise) if you don't have a dish washer like me.

I will be sharing my favourite juice recipes as I discover them. One tip though, consume juice as soon as you make it so you don't miss out on essential nutrients.

Have a good week.....

Let's Try Again.....

Remember my last post? How I hurt myself by week 3 of Insanity?
Well Yea, I am fully recovered. I did the 30 days Jillian Michaels workout during my down time and I have to say, I missed Insanity.... *gasp* I really did. It was working for me and I noticed I looked better :)

Anyway, I have decided to give it a try again. So this morning was my Day 1.

The first day of Insanity is the Fit Test, which sets a baseline to track your progress as the weeks go on. The instructor, Shaun T, takes you through a warm-up, then a series of cardio moves that last 60 seconds each with a 60 second rest in between. The warm-up alone sent my heart rate through the roof, which got me excited. I must admit I felt woozy and tired mid way but still continued to the end.

Here are my stats for the main cardio moves


Move Fit Test Day 1- 30/07/2012

Switch Kicks 123
Power Jacks 30
Power Knees 74
Power Jumps 32
Globe Jumps 5
Suicide Jumps 8
Push up Jacks 13
Low Plank Obliques 41


All I need to improve on right now are my eating habits. Decided to eat better starting today (well I had 3 scoops of Ice cream yesterday....sigh) and so let's hope this works.

Have a good week guys.....