The Fourth Great Attempt: Week 11
March 28, 2010 @ 02:17 pm
As a quick update to my "people who notice first" post from a couple days ago, I had another nice unexpected moment yesterday. The Beau and I were walking home from the gym and he was calling his brother (with whom he's running the Hood to Coast this year). As he was bragging about a new milestone his brother asked if I'd been going to the gym too, because in the pictures from our vacation last week I looked like I'd been losing weight. It was a really nice moment, and made me feel good.In other news, I have not been the most well behaved this week. I've worked out every day but Monday and really hard, too - hitting the same benchmarks as before I took a nearly 2 week break for vacation. I paid for it, though, because my legs are whupped! But that's okay. I did a day of strength training too.
The thing about the gym lately is that I've been working it really hard, like I should, and I'm diligent to keep going back but man, when I think about it in the morning my first instinct is "Damn, this is gonna hurt" because it's been a really strong few weeks. So I'm always tempted to take a day off ... but really I think I'll just focus on more strength training since that's just as important as cardio in the long run.
But where I've really been naughty this week is in eating. I just feel hungry a lot. Maybe it's stress maybe it's just not sticking to what I know is best to do. But I've been snacking a lot, especially at night, and especially on things I ought not. I haven't been drinking as much water as I should, and frankly I've felt a little bloated or heavier lately. And I had two nights in a row that I went for drinks with friends. Oh well. I'm gonna get back on track with drinking all the water I should and also taking my vitamins and omega-3s. I can definitely feel the difference between when I take the omega-3, and thus feel the inflammation decrease, and when I don't.
So onwards. I will probably finally do a weigh-in this coming week. It's been a long time and I might as well bite the bullet if it's bad, or enjoy it if it's good. The Beau and my 5-year anniversary is this week, too, and about 2 weeks after that will be the 5 year anniversary of when I moved to New York. Five years ago I weight in the neighborhood of 280 - 285. I doubt I'll be back to that level by the anniversary but I hope I'm at least closer. I feel good, and that matters.
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Darnfitness — Apr 3, 2010 @ 01:31 am
OK, imagine I'm in front of you, then I give you a nice hug. A long warm hug. Felt good, right? Now, I bitch-slap you, out of nowhere!!!!!! I'm gonna scream this: STOP WORRING ABOUT THE LITTLE THINGS!!
Yeah, I needed a internet-shout-out. I mean, for the last year I have lost 10 kilos, that's about 18 pounds, I guess? And I did it drinking most of weekends, eating way too more that I needed some days, and not following the rules every day. But what did do, was workout a lot. Body Combat classes became my second nature. This last week I'm flirting with running too. Whatever work for you, just keep moving!
What I mean is: keep working out, even if it is a slow walk! If you are watching your diet, keep doing that. If you are working out heavier, keep doing that also.Every little splurge you have, eating maybe alittle more than you should, its not important, as long as you keep a rute and a goal and work towards it.
Lets say you eat an apple. Thats healthy, isnt? Now lets say you eat at McDonalds for a whole month, lunches and dinner and snacks, all in McDonalds. But one day, among those fast-foods meals, you had a apple. That one apple, among a whole month of fast-food, makes you healthy? No! Obviously not.
Now if you keep a good eating-schedule, lets say for a whole week, and in sunday you eat at McDonalds, that makes you fat? Hell, no! Its the same principle. One meal at week (or even two, or three, but thats the limit) doesnt makes you fat. You can cheat, even if you didnt planned to. So, if you did cheat, who cares! Enjoy your happy meal, and then get right on track. If I'm not in your gym, and wating for you (in spirit) to come, just go to the gym and and join me in spirit!!!