Good morning!! Three days of group fitness in a row and I am beat! I can see why they call last night’s class KILLER ABS! I did moves last night that I didn’t think was possible for a guy of my weight and stature. Some of them I hadn’t done since Jr High PE class. I had better get used to it. I have four weeks more of this two days a week on TOP of my daily morning workouts. With all this sweat, pain, and tears you would think that I would have seen something on the scale this morning.
Well, honestly I was quite discouraged when I stepped on the scale. This morning’s weigh-in was 290.0… This is going up, and not DOWN. Considering my goal weight and what I should be weighing, I can’t be hitting the plateau already??!!! My guess is that I am not drinking enough water again, something I struggled with before I started this journey, nonetheless now. This is probably about the time some people quit on this journey, when they have literally given it their all and still see little or no results. However, I have to be in it for the long haul. It’s just as life is, a journey for the long haul. When everything isn’t so peachy, and doesn’t always go your way. When life seemingly owes you more than it’s giving you, but you fight back and make it come to you. I will succeed. I will see 100lbs come off this year. I can look at it this way. I have already seen 10% come off! That only leaves 90% for the rest of the year, and it’s just getting started.
Michael
Weight loss for a guy like me is sort of like climbing Mt. Everest. At first it appears absolutely impossible. Then, after you get started it seems closer, but in the persuit there is PAIN and endurance is needed. Well, that’s sort of what my day was yesterday. Today’s weigh-in is the exact same as yesterday 289.4, but considering what I did yesterday I would have thought it would be at least another pound lost.
Boot Camp at Indiana Fitness Club has proven to be the hardest thing I have ever done in regards to exercise. There were a few times last night I didn’t know if I would live or die right there. The muscles exercised I didn’t even realize existed. I thought Ab crunches on the big ball were hard.. Then there was something called AB jumping jacks. When doing the chest press with cables, Nathan asks if the red one was good for me. I said simply that it felt like it was going to kill me.. He simply says, GOOD that’s what I like to hear. We will do the red ones again.
You know that you have the right trainer when he says to you point blank that you WILL be in pain and you WILL feel like your going to die. As you can see, I didn’t die and even though I had pain then, the pain now isn’t that bad. It’s a SMALL price to pay for the rewards that are coming. I am concerned about pushing too far, however in some ways I am still easing into it. I am just glad that I am not on the level 1 workout. It might be the last workout I would do.. =) Oh well, tonight is CARDIO-ABS. For some reason I am thinking there are more AB Jumping Jacks in my future. Oh man………
At first I had thought the scale was broken. Could it be? Is this really working for me? Well, this mornings weigh-in was 289.4!!! I am only 3.6lbs away from my January goal. This is 11lbs lost since Christmas Day.
Yesterday I underwent the first “Cardio-Aerobic” type workout I have ever done. I thought before it was all over that I would fall over in exhaustion, but somehow I made it! I told myself I would never do anything that Richard Simmonds would do on a video, but that all went out the window last night. When you actually do something like that, you gain a tremendous amount of respect for those who dance around on mats and step up and down on their steps.
Tonight we do circuit/strength training (more up my alley). We shall see. =)=)=)
Michael
If there is anything I am going to learn from this whole experience, it is this… Losing weight is NOT the primary lesson here. The primary lesson is a LIFE LONG commitment to doing what is healthy for your body and for your life! I thought before this week that my diet in general wasn’t that unhealthy. I had cut out some things before now, for example eating a half pint of chocolate ice cream in one sitting, stuffing a bag of potato chips. Eat until my tummy little felt like it was going to explode, etc.
I have found myself on many occasions this week reaching for something telling myself that it isn’t allowed anymore. The body knows how to kick and scream for it, sort as in food withdrawal! However, it is comforting to know that I didn’t die yesterday. My body still survived on it’s roughly 1650 calories and all was well. Knowing this is roughly 1/2 of what I was used too in a given day, this is a tremendous accomplishment.
I slacked yesterday on my water intake and the timing of my food intake. I also only had 3 meals yesterday not including the shake so I could have used one or two other snacks during the day. So the metabolism wasn’t burning continually.
With all that in mind, I still weighed in at 291.8 this morning. So, 4 tenths of a pound from yesterday I will take.. And be happy!
This weekend will be a very interesting challenge. Tomorrow night my wife and I will be going out on a date to a local restaurant. It will NOT be Golden Corral thank goodness (even though I absolutely LOVE the place and even now want to go immediately), but nonetheless it will be interesting to see if I can make wise choices in some ways “blind” and on the cuff. If I can maintain at least a positive direction this weekend, we have to declare at least a small step of victory.. If I can get over the big hump, the blessing is just on the other side!! A thinner, healthier, and happier ME..
Michael
