A weight loss journey and other ramblings.

still sticking with the plan

2008-01-16T16:29:00.000-08:00

Another good day as far as exercise goes. I made it through everything and have started doing the resistance band assisted pullups since right now there is no way I can do 15 by myself.

What's annoying me however is the diet I just don't feel like I am losing at all yet. I went on a website that says that I should be consuming 2300 calries a day to lose weight. To me that seems like alot. I know you don't want your body to think you are starving but if I eat some spinach and grilled chicken every couple of hours won't my body think I am getting plenty to eat? You would think so!

Interval training today

2008-01-15T14:20:00.000-08:00

Today was a good day. My workout consisted of the usual warmup and cool down but today instead of running I jumped rope for 1 minute then pounded the heavy bag for 2 minutes. It felt really good a broke a sweat and got my heart rate up nicely.

I can tell I need more weight in the heavy bag though because it was flying all over.

Nutrionally I am happy I have been eating smaller meals and staying at my minimum calories required to lose weight. I am using the website fitday to track my meals and calories.

Fitday was recommended to me by one of the fine members of "six pack attack" a forum for people like me trying to better their lives.

Officially Day 1

2008-01-14T13:39:00.000-08:00

I am counting today as my actual 1st day of my new exercise program since I started last Thursday. It is just to soon for me to jump to the week 2 workout.

I am may have made a mistake today. I want to see what improvemnet I make along the way so today I saw how many pushups and situps I could do in a minute and how many continuous pullups I can do.

pushups-49
situps-39
continuous pullups-6

Well, I did this all before my official workout and I have to tell you I was shot!

So far so good....

2008-01-12T12:15:00.000-08:00

This will be a recap of the last couple of days.

I was pretty proud of myself yesterday. It was Friday and a "date" night for my wife and I. I actually told her she would have to wait because I had to do the week 1 workout. Before I would have just skipped the workout and gone out.

As for the workout. I did not think it would be as hard as it was to get through, but, I made it all 3 sets. My body was not wanting to do exactly what I was telling it to do but I forced my way through. I am feeling it today..but you know it's good to know that I still have muscles to even get sore.

It is Saturday today and I just finished my interval training. I had to stay in the house because I am watching my daughter. After some thinking I pulled out the Bosu ball and my heavyduty bodylastics bands(theTerrel Owens version they just came out with).

For the warm up I jogged in place On the Bosu. For the hi intensity I anchored 2 30lb bands to the door. then backpedaled and back forward as fast as I could all the while keeping my arms tensed with the bands. After the minute was up I jumped from the floor to the Bosu for 2 minutes. For the cooldown I jogged in place on the bosu for 5 more minutes. My heart rate got up to around 145 doing this so I was happy with the effectiveness of the workout.(the sweat was really dripping.

Now it is time to relax and watch some American football! Go Packers!!

What I look like now...

2008-01-10T19:05:00.000-08:00

Yikes! It's about time I do something about my body. I know there is an athlete hidden inside all that padding.

I wonder if I should trim my body hair?

Finally getting off my butt!

2008-01-10T15:48:00.000-08:00

Today is the first day of what will hopefully be many days to come of my 16 week journey to be a better me.

Since it's Thursday I started with interval training. You know, it looks easy on paper but when you do it it really makes you gasp for air. It almost feels like I did a full body workout. Basically you run hard for a minute then take it slower for 2 this is called a round add a 5 minute warmup in the beginning and a 5 minute cooldown at the end... I did 3 rounds.