Losing It
October 2nd. Alex and I will be competing in a regional KumDo tournament as part of our school team. Along with six other students, we will be performing a form exercise. In preparation we have been training 6 days a week, with the bruises to prove it! Last year the students from our school won in the team form division. I hope we can do the same this year.
The Weigh-In. For registration, Master Lee had to take our weight. For many in the class this seemed like a judgement (the girls especially growing moody), but I was very curious having not seen a scale in some time. As it turns out, eating smaller portions and exercising does help with weight loss. While Alex didn't actually lose any weight, he did lose inches. We already knew this, though. We are going pants shopping this weekend, because none of the pants he came with fit him anymore. I, on the other hand, have dropped 15 pounds!
I do not attribute the loss solely to martial arts. I see more of a benefit coming from the amount of walking we do (on average, about an hour+ a day). It's also been easy to eat healthy here with snacking foods like roast squid and fish jerky. Even eating out, the majority of food that is put in front of us is a vegetable of some sort (kimchi, marinated turnips, seaweed, corn, zucchini, etc.). We've come to appreciate a good apple, bunch of grapes, or banana, too. I hate to disappoint the masses looking for the miracle-of-all-fad-diets, but it looks like exercise and a balanced diet do actually work.
The Weigh-In. For registration, Master Lee had to take our weight. For many in the class this seemed like a judgement (the girls especially growing moody), but I was very curious having not seen a scale in some time. As it turns out, eating smaller portions and exercising does help with weight loss. While Alex didn't actually lose any weight, he did lose inches. We already knew this, though. We are going pants shopping this weekend, because none of the pants he came with fit him anymore. I, on the other hand, have dropped 15 pounds!
I do not attribute the loss solely to martial arts. I see more of a benefit coming from the amount of walking we do (on average, about an hour+ a day). It's also been easy to eat healthy here with snacking foods like roast squid and fish jerky. Even eating out, the majority of food that is put in front of us is a vegetable of some sort (kimchi, marinated turnips, seaweed, corn, zucchini, etc.). We've come to appreciate a good apple, bunch of grapes, or banana, too. I hate to disappoint the masses looking for the miracle-of-all-fad-diets, but it looks like exercise and a balanced diet do actually work.
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