Our New Year Weight Loss Contest to get into great shape for 2010 with i-Marbella winner Annalisa Turner-Sterling (30) will be turned into great shape and we will help her to lose those extra holiday kilos. We provided her with a top personal trainer Samy Mohamed and a 3 months free gym membership at the well-known Plaza Gym in Centro Plaza in Nueva Andalucia. We bring you the second part of her very personal diary. And we'll be adding pictures soon!

DAY29:End of the first month

17.03.10

My first Month of training is now over. I’m starting to feel healthy and fit as I can keep up with the spinning class and do my other cardio training well. The personal trainers are very supportive and often change my routines and will always train with me (so I can’t cheat!); although I know that if I cheated I would only be cheating myself. 

Exercise Plan

My exercise plan has been mapped out and I’ve been told to try to exercise 6 times per week, consisting of 5 days in the gym and 1 day of exercising out of the gym (ie.  running on the beach/paseo, cycling etc). 

For my days in the gym, every day will include 1 hour of cardio +  a stomach area workout.  Then twice a week I’ll do an upper body workout, and twice a week a lower body workout.

Expert Exercise Tip:

Keep motivated and don’t let your body get used to your exercise routine, mix things up regularly.

Diet:

Samy didn’t really change my diet.  I have only stuck with the previous rule of not eating carbs for in my evening meal. I’ve been eating REALLY healthily and watching everything I eat. I’ll have something light for breakfast (without carbs), a light lunch (with carbs) and a tuna salad or a light chicken salad in the evening after the gym. I only drink alcohol at the weekend, plus I’ll have 1 day where I eat whatever I want. 

Stay tuned for the last update and pictures of Annalisa!

Click here to read the first diary entrance here!