Friday, May 18, 2012

Making Progress

Well I am liking the way I feel.

It has been two weeks now since I started. I am starting to feel the routine now. It doesn't all feel as clumsy anymore. I am feeling more energy throughout my day. My workouts are getting encouraging. I LIKE THIS.

Two weeks ago I could barely get through 5 laps with break in between. Now my workout this morning was 3 laps on the 4 minute, 2 laps on the 3 minute, repeated 3 times for a total of 20 laps. I am working out 5 days a week and I only missed one day yesterday because of a doctor's appt. I worked out on my upper body with the weights even though today is supposed to be a leg day. I prefer the upper body workout so I just made up for yesterday. I am doing 30 crunches with a weight in between each machine. I gotta get that 6 pack showing. Right now my six pack has a bag of ice on it.

I will weigh myself on Mondays. I don't feel like I have lost weight but I do feel like I am building muscle. I am thinking about changes in my diet too. I know weight loss is a combination of both diet and working out. I am drinking more water. I still do have the Arizona Energy daily but I will work on replacing that with something better. I do like Apple juice. It does have sugar in it but maybe the natural sugars will be better for me?

Diet is gonna be the hard part for me but I know I will just be spinning my wheels if I don't make some serious changes. What do you healthy people like to eat?

1 comment:

  1. Popcorn (no butter, no salt) for snacking, with a glass of wine at night. It really satisfies the crunch urge. I graze on lettuce, raw spinach, and stuff like that during the day. Poached white breast of chicken for dinner. Fruit -- lots of it -- in the mornings. Lunch? Overrated :-).

    Once a week -- like tonight -- I'll enjoy a bigger dinner and splurge. Tonight, for example, marinated fish with honest American french fries. Maybe a salad. I think -- although I have no scientific evidence here -- that my stomach will think I'm starving it and start storing calories and such if I don't reassure it once a week that I'm really not.

    Love you, cuz!

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