Day Seventy-One
I was awakened by a text, and I went ahead and got up to go to the gym. I was actually excited to do a real workout and see what I weighed afterward.
I realized on the way to the gym that today's weight-lifting was my lightest routine that I do, so I decided to do two songs on the elliptical to one song while weight-lifting, and I included my abs in the weight-lifting, too. On the elliptical, I positioned my legs on "narrow" for the first song and "medium" for the seconde song. I think I'm too short (and have too many knee issues) to do "wide." This worked well, and I turned up the resistance each time I got back on. All in all, I did the elliptical seven times, so, through fourteen songs, and I had six periods of abs and/or weight-lifting in between them. At the end of each elliptical song, I paused my iPod and increased my speed for the rest of that minute. I kept track of how many minutes I did the elliptical, and, when the last song ended in the fifty-ninth minute, I decided to just go ahead and do one more minute.
So, total elliptical minutes was sixty. The whole workout was about eighty minutes. I can say this--I definitely did more weight-lifting by at least twice than I normally would have done. It wasn't too bad going back and forth, although I do miss gradually building my resistance on a long stretch of the elliptical, and watching different numbers go by. But, hey, if this will take weight off, I'll do it.
My weight was lower today than it has been in a long time. I think this is working. And I still haven't REALLY fasted the sixteen hours, because I am still needing to take the antibiotic in the morning, so I am having two eggs and a glass of tomato juice with that, and then fasting the rest of the time.
I have been coughing more today, and my feet have never recovered from the beating they got this morning. I am worn out and will be going to bed soon, but I feel good about it. I think (hope) it's just going to take time for the cough to totally go away. I bought some more water for the steamer and picked up some more cough medicine.
For lunch, I had some leftover cheesy tuna rice and a good amount of leftover green beans. I had a peach for a snack. I had one small sloppy joe and some roasted asparagus for dinner. I am having my hot cocoa. That is it for today. Pretty good, huh? I hope to get to the end of the first ten pounds by the end of the weekend.
After getting back up to all nine sets of abs a couple of nights ago, I let myself have a night off of them last night. So I made myself do them tonight, even though my body hurts and I don't want to.
I realized on the way to the gym that today's weight-lifting was my lightest routine that I do, so I decided to do two songs on the elliptical to one song while weight-lifting, and I included my abs in the weight-lifting, too. On the elliptical, I positioned my legs on "narrow" for the first song and "medium" for the seconde song. I think I'm too short (and have too many knee issues) to do "wide." This worked well, and I turned up the resistance each time I got back on. All in all, I did the elliptical seven times, so, through fourteen songs, and I had six periods of abs and/or weight-lifting in between them. At the end of each elliptical song, I paused my iPod and increased my speed for the rest of that minute. I kept track of how many minutes I did the elliptical, and, when the last song ended in the fifty-ninth minute, I decided to just go ahead and do one more minute.
So, total elliptical minutes was sixty. The whole workout was about eighty minutes. I can say this--I definitely did more weight-lifting by at least twice than I normally would have done. It wasn't too bad going back and forth, although I do miss gradually building my resistance on a long stretch of the elliptical, and watching different numbers go by. But, hey, if this will take weight off, I'll do it.
My weight was lower today than it has been in a long time. I think this is working. And I still haven't REALLY fasted the sixteen hours, because I am still needing to take the antibiotic in the morning, so I am having two eggs and a glass of tomato juice with that, and then fasting the rest of the time.
I have been coughing more today, and my feet have never recovered from the beating they got this morning. I am worn out and will be going to bed soon, but I feel good about it. I think (hope) it's just going to take time for the cough to totally go away. I bought some more water for the steamer and picked up some more cough medicine.
For lunch, I had some leftover cheesy tuna rice and a good amount of leftover green beans. I had a peach for a snack. I had one small sloppy joe and some roasted asparagus for dinner. I am having my hot cocoa. That is it for today. Pretty good, huh? I hope to get to the end of the first ten pounds by the end of the weekend.
After getting back up to all nine sets of abs a couple of nights ago, I let myself have a night off of them last night. So I made myself do them tonight, even though my body hurts and I don't want to.
Comments
Post a Comment