Got 9 miles in yesterday.
Not all at once but over the course of the day in 2 mile or 2.5 mile chunks so figured that I ramped up the ole metabolism 4 different times yesterday for a total of about an hour and a half worth of cardio. My hamstrings are tight today and I'm a bit sore but it is a good kind of sore not a hurt kind of sore. I was playing games while on the treadmill and kept bumping up the incline every minute then when I couldn't take it anymore I finished out that minute then started bumping it back down. Then a seperate time I was on the treadmill I ramped it up to 5.3 mph and ran that for 4 minutes then took it back down to 4.3 for 3 minutes, lather, rinse, repeat until the 2.5 miles were done. Was sweating like a pig when I got finished and the heart rate monitor said that my pulse was up to 178 but that is what showers are for.
Today is 5 miles plus weights and I'm also thinking about adding some free weights with arm exercises on Saturday since I'm planning on running both days.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
I did it!
Ok - managed to get in 4 more miles last nite for a total of 5 yesterday. Was planning on getting up at 5am this morning but got up late so only managed 2.5 this morning with another 3 (or more) planned for lunch. That will bring me to a total of 5 for today too and then if I can fit in another 2 tonight it will get me the 7 that I planned on getting today. Saw 172 on the scales this morning and I swear that I can feel the fat burning away from my hips and thighs. The pants I'm wearing today are practically falling off of me and I had to keep my hand in my pocket to hold them up while walking in to work today.
I don't mind working out twice a day and my thinking is this - after you work out not only do you benefit from the workout but you also get an 'after-burn' effect where your body still burns calories at a higher rate for a while. I'm thinking that working out twice a day will cause my metabolism to ramp up twice a day therefore burn more calories. I don't know which one to believe as my treadmill showed that I burnt twice the calories this morning than fitday.com did when I keyed in my exercise.
I'm dropping off my sewing machine to have it cleaned and worked on tonight because I think that I can limp along my clothes for a couple of more pounds lost simply by taking them in at the waist and putting darts in them. I'm just not willing to go drop money on clothes right now because I want to see exactly what a difference the working out twice a day will make at the end of 2 weeks. I'm only 2 pounds away from my October 1st goal and am really wondering if I can lose 2 lousy pounds in 5 days that plus my goal is to log at least 25 miles this week and hopefully it will be closer to 30. I'm going to go ahead and run Saturday & Sunday because that is a part of this experiment.
I am really on point now because NASCAR will be here the first week in November and I really want people to notice or at least see a difference since I only see some of them twice a year. I think that the more I lose and the more muscle I build will only help speed up the metabolism and cause me to lose even more. Don't really have a final weight goal in mind as I figure that my body will settle on what weight it wants to be - I just want my thighs to quit rubbing together.
I don't mind working out twice a day and my thinking is this - after you work out not only do you benefit from the workout but you also get an 'after-burn' effect where your body still burns calories at a higher rate for a while. I'm thinking that working out twice a day will cause my metabolism to ramp up twice a day therefore burn more calories. I don't know which one to believe as my treadmill showed that I burnt twice the calories this morning than fitday.com did when I keyed in my exercise.
I'm dropping off my sewing machine to have it cleaned and worked on tonight because I think that I can limp along my clothes for a couple of more pounds lost simply by taking them in at the waist and putting darts in them. I'm just not willing to go drop money on clothes right now because I want to see exactly what a difference the working out twice a day will make at the end of 2 weeks. I'm only 2 pounds away from my October 1st goal and am really wondering if I can lose 2 lousy pounds in 5 days that plus my goal is to log at least 25 miles this week and hopefully it will be closer to 30. I'm going to go ahead and run Saturday & Sunday because that is a part of this experiment.
I am really on point now because NASCAR will be here the first week in November and I really want people to notice or at least see a difference since I only see some of them twice a year. I think that the more I lose and the more muscle I build will only help speed up the metabolism and cause me to lose even more. Don't really have a final weight goal in mind as I figure that my body will settle on what weight it wants to be - I just want my thighs to quit rubbing together.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Goals
173 - ok that puts me just 3 lbs away from being 170 and I'm wondering, since it is a goal to reach 170 by the first of October, if I can manage to lose 3 lbs in 1 measly week. I think I'm going to try something - I'm finally going to start the 2-a-days for the next 2 weeks just to see how much of a difference it will make. The schedule will be 5 miles on Monday, Wednesday & Friday along with weights on Mon & Wed and Yoga on Friday and 7 miles on Tuesday & Thursday. The 2-a-days will consist of 4 miles in the morning (or evening since I didn't manage to get up and run this morning) and then 1 mile on the weight lifting days to warm up and another 3 miles at lunch on Tues & Thurs. Not really going to worry about weekends since, while I don't run I also don't sit down with chasing a 3 yr old and housework.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Another .5
Ok - have seen 174 for a couple of days now so I will finally start to believe it.
Life just got busier and I'm struggling to get my exercise in. I think that I just need to pencil it in my calendar and make it an appointment. Also need to do a bit of better planning and get my slug-ass up and exercise in the morning when I know that the gym at lunch is impossible because trying to fit in exercise at night just doesn't work with 2 kids at home and a new house that seems to need something done every night.
I never started the 2-a-days but figure if I can start it now that still gives me 6 weeks until Race weekend so maybe I can still see a significant loss (I mean besides the 12 lbs lost so far). I am busy and 'active' but just don't think that the activity is the same as exercising. The area I need to target the most right now is my waistline - my hips don't really exist and there isn't much difference in the tape measure between my waist and hips so I need to start doing some exercises to define the waistline.
Today is 3 miles on the treadmill since I missed yesterday and haven't worked out since last Thursday (to speak of). I need to lift weights but would rather run than lift weights so will probably just lift weights 1 day this week. Apparently I'm doing something right because I'm still loosing weight - albeit slowly.
Life just got busier and I'm struggling to get my exercise in. I think that I just need to pencil it in my calendar and make it an appointment. Also need to do a bit of better planning and get my slug-ass up and exercise in the morning when I know that the gym at lunch is impossible because trying to fit in exercise at night just doesn't work with 2 kids at home and a new house that seems to need something done every night.
I never started the 2-a-days but figure if I can start it now that still gives me 6 weeks until Race weekend so maybe I can still see a significant loss (I mean besides the 12 lbs lost so far). I am busy and 'active' but just don't think that the activity is the same as exercising. The area I need to target the most right now is my waistline - my hips don't really exist and there isn't much difference in the tape measure between my waist and hips so I need to start doing some exercises to define the waistline.
Today is 3 miles on the treadmill since I missed yesterday and haven't worked out since last Thursday (to speak of). I need to lift weights but would rather run than lift weights so will probably just lift weights 1 day this week. Apparently I'm doing something right because I'm still loosing weight - albeit slowly.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Another Half
Ok - saw 174.5 this morning on the ole scales.
My scales only register in half-pounds so I was probably very close yesterday when I saw 175 and my workout yesterday must've put me down the half pound. I'm going to change my weight lifting day from Wednesday to Thursday so that I will be lifting weights Monday & Thursday and I'm also going to change the workout a bit. Currently I am doing 2 sets of 15 reps with the same amount of weight both times - now I am going to start with 1 set of 15 reps with the usual amount of weight then add 5 pounds and do 10 reps then add another 5 pounds and do 5 reps. I might add 10 pounds instead of just 5 if the addition of five pounds doesn't wear out the muscle. I didn't do this yesterday so will start this Thursday with the new weight lifting routine. I will continue running every day and do think that increasing the intensity of the workout on the treadmill is what is helping contribute to the drop in scales this week. Either that or my body has detoxed and finally realizes that it is going to HAVE to drop lbs or else!
NASCAR will be at Texas Motor Speedway the first weekend in November (for the race) and since we go to both races at TMS my goal is to drop enough pounds so that our friends notice it. We have friends that we only see twice a year at the races and I want, desperately, to drop enough weight that they will see it. I know this sounds shallow but it is just something that I am working towards. That gives me about 7 weeks and at a pound a week that is 7 pounds which will be about 17 pounds lost over all but I think that if I just keep increasing the intensity that maybe, just maybe I can lose 1.5 pounds a week which will be about 10.5 more pounds and will be a 20+ pound loss which should DEFINATELY be noticable. Either loss will put me down into the 'normal' category instead of the 'fat' category for my height.
Yeah Right! Like I've ever been normal.
My scales only register in half-pounds so I was probably very close yesterday when I saw 175 and my workout yesterday must've put me down the half pound. I'm going to change my weight lifting day from Wednesday to Thursday so that I will be lifting weights Monday & Thursday and I'm also going to change the workout a bit. Currently I am doing 2 sets of 15 reps with the same amount of weight both times - now I am going to start with 1 set of 15 reps with the usual amount of weight then add 5 pounds and do 10 reps then add another 5 pounds and do 5 reps. I might add 10 pounds instead of just 5 if the addition of five pounds doesn't wear out the muscle. I didn't do this yesterday so will start this Thursday with the new weight lifting routine. I will continue running every day and do think that increasing the intensity of the workout on the treadmill is what is helping contribute to the drop in scales this week. Either that or my body has detoxed and finally realizes that it is going to HAVE to drop lbs or else!
NASCAR will be at Texas Motor Speedway the first weekend in November (for the race) and since we go to both races at TMS my goal is to drop enough pounds so that our friends notice it. We have friends that we only see twice a year at the races and I want, desperately, to drop enough weight that they will see it. I know this sounds shallow but it is just something that I am working towards. That gives me about 7 weeks and at a pound a week that is 7 pounds which will be about 17 pounds lost over all but I think that if I just keep increasing the intensity that maybe, just maybe I can lose 1.5 pounds a week which will be about 10.5 more pounds and will be a 20+ pound loss which should DEFINATELY be noticable. Either loss will put me down into the 'normal' category instead of the 'fat' category for my height.
Yeah Right! Like I've ever been normal.
Monday, September 10, 2007
175
175 - dang is this body ever slow in letting go of the food products.
My clothes are fitting looser and my ring spins on my finger so even though I don't see the scales move very much I know that the body composition has changed. Friday I had on a pair on black dress slacks and didn't even have to unbutton or unzip them to go potty. I just pulled them straight down - the downside was that I spent the day fighting to keep them up and think that I'm going to invest in some cute belts to get me through the clothes size changes. I know that I could probably go down a size but don't really want to spend money on 1 size down when I also know that I will continue to lose weight. Think I will just limp along with belts until I can go down 2 sizes.
While laying in bed Saturday morning the Mr. rubbed my hips and said that he could really tell that I have dropped weight - not sure if that is supposed to be a compliment, I should get pissed over it or if he was just being nice to initiate some morning sex :)
My clothes are fitting looser and my ring spins on my finger so even though I don't see the scales move very much I know that the body composition has changed. Friday I had on a pair on black dress slacks and didn't even have to unbutton or unzip them to go potty. I just pulled them straight down - the downside was that I spent the day fighting to keep them up and think that I'm going to invest in some cute belts to get me through the clothes size changes. I know that I could probably go down a size but don't really want to spend money on 1 size down when I also know that I will continue to lose weight. Think I will just limp along with belts until I can go down 2 sizes.
While laying in bed Saturday morning the Mr. rubbed my hips and said that he could really tell that I have dropped weight - not sure if that is supposed to be a compliment, I should get pissed over it or if he was just being nice to initiate some morning sex :)
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
200 miles
Moved the ticker from 100 miles to 200 miles now that I'm over half way to 100. I'm just going to keep moving it up as I log more because I want a record of how many miles I will log this year. Am back to running now (from walking) and yesterday lifted weights for the first time since I was hospitalized.
Now if I can just start those darn 2-a-days I'm pretty sure I will be able to drop into the 160's soon.
Now if I can just start those darn 2-a-days I'm pretty sure I will be able to drop into the 160's soon.
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