Day 19 - Insulin Resistance

When I started the slow carb diet, my goal was to test my discipline and see if I have significant results in weight loss.

I soon found another reason to continue and a more compelling one.

I think I might I have insulin resistance. Not that I went to the doctor for a check up or anything. I was looking up for ways to get rid of a dark skin patch (I'm asian fair so any dark skin on any area is odd) at first I thought it was dead skin cells that you can scrub over or some bruise I acquired from pole dancing until I came across symptoms for insulin resistance and how it might lead to type 2 diabetes. Some of the symptoms involves; fatique, weight gain. ability to focus which are general symptoms if you are overweight. I will have to go to a the doctor to find out more. Not that I am particularly alarm but I feel like it might in some way contribute to why I feel like I am always very ill discipline that perhaps my body is reacting and not responding the way it should if it was being optimum. 

I do not know if the lack or the excess of carbs contribute to the insulin resistance. I heard that diabetics shouldn't eat a lot of carbs so perhaps less carbs does do more good.

 

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Day 17 - It takes a while to stick to a habit

I was so sore from the pole routine the other day, I wanted to fit in some stretching but I was hurting so much I decided to skip any form of activities I wanted to do.

I hadn't really noted what I ate as the entire week went through with much of a blur but I know I was eating better.

I also know at some point I have to take a reality check with the scale or the measuring tape. I don't really like confrontations. My fat percentage however is still at 45.6% which haven't drop since a week ago. I don't know if that is a good thing since I don't gain any fats. I seem to think that cheap "fat analysis" meter I bought from China wasn't any good. I can feel my body change even if the number don't seem to prove it.

And I know it because my workout numbers seem to improve today; some more than the other.

Friday's Pole workouts – Pole Strength Routine

Pole Squat – 10 reps 2 sets

Pole Plies – 1 reps 2 sets

Pole Lunges – 10 reps 1 set

Pole Leg Lifts – 10 reps 1 set

Pole Single Leg Squats – 10 reps 1 set

Pole Hold – 7 reps first set 5 reps 2nd set 

Pole Row – 10 reps 2 sets

Pole Triceps Push – 10 reps 2 sets

Pole Shoulder Push – 10 reps 1 set 

Leg Hook Side Crunch – 10 reps 1 set

Knee Tuck – 0 reps 0 sets (I was too sore and tired by the time I reach here!)

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