I'm going for my fat test this afternoon -- or rather, I think my trainer would call it the biosignature test. She follows the principles of Charles Poliquin quite closely. I think he's American and has trained a lot of pro athletes. But when I Google for his supplements, it seems like he is more popular in the UK?? I wish I was able to walk into a store to pick up his supplements instead of buying them online.

So anyway, this biosignature test -- she'll be using calipers to pinch my fat in 12 different spots. Where you are high in fat tells you what hormone you have too much of which in turn will tell you where to change your diet and what supplements you should take. I asked her about taking something for my cortisol levels. I don't think the fat accumulating in my middle is all attributed to diet although I think my trainer would disagree.

When we do our workouts 3 times a week, we do heavy lifting for my legs, and work on strengthening my weak lats. Then we end off with interval training. Today, we did like 5 sets of barbell squats. I think I am squatting my body weight, but I never know which plates she is using and I lose track (I must be...She told me it took me 4 weeks to squat my own body weight!). And we did a couple of varieties of pull downs which were at almost half my body weight. She says by the time I do pulldowns of my own body weight, I will be able to do chin ups with ease. Right now, my lats are too weak for that. We ended off the workout where I alternated between cycling fast for 30 seconds-rest for 10-running up and down 2 flights of stairs 2 steps at a time-rest for 10 seconds four times. I thought my legs would have given up running up the stairs, but it actually got easier. I was quite tired by the end of my intervals!

I feel good in my body these days even though I'm not where I would like to be. I love that I'm a lot stronger and that my stomach feels flatter. I guess I am doing pretty well after 4 weeks. My trainer thinks my blockages are mental and that I'm able to achieve even more.

I tell my friend a a lot about what my trainer says. He said to me, "you pay her $xxx an hour for her to be a c*nt?" He doesn't agree with her ideas a lot. I don't agree with her 100% of the time, that's for sure, but I am definitely seeing results! I was telling her about my old trainer and the kind of exercises we used to do. My current trainer said I had no business doing some of the exercises I was doing before since I wasn't able to squat my own body weight. (I think my old trainer thought I could?!)

... I just got some feedback on my latest food journal..."No peanut butter" What?! It's the natural stuff!!! I put peanut butter on celery sticks because I hate celery! She also told me to go to bed earlier, but I honestly can't. When am I supposed to go food shopping? Or do my cleaning?