Wow, I slept in this morning.
OK, this week wasn’t good for me at all. I didn’t do any physical therapy. I didn’t do any weights. I kind of did aerobics yesterday as I was figuring out the treadmill, but it was only for about 30 minutes. I did spend a lot of time on the garage getting it ready for the treadmill. And now it is beautiful.
Those are my weights in the front, the physical therapy ball is behind them, and the treadmill is in the back. The other half of the garage is all the shelves and such, and the girls bikes are over there now.
Last Saturday, after posting, I went for a walk and did upper weights, along with most of my physical therapy routine. Today, I intend to do the same.
The girls are in school now and I feel that I will be able to settle back in to a routine very quickly. I really do miss the exercise. I feel SO good when I do it. PLUS, I was back up at 228 this morning, so I’m hardly going to sit around and let THAT happen.
Hopefully, some of you out there have had a more successful week than I have. I’d love to hear about it.
Postscript- today is my 100th blog entry!
September 4th, 2004 at 4:55 am
Hi Laura! Well, today I sure am going to be griping alot!! I have been averaging 5 days a week of exercise….35-60 minutes of either walking or tennis. The scale has been at 6 pounds lost this week, so 6 pounds gone it is. What I feel grumpy about is the ‘diet police” and the ‘exercise police’ around here! They’ve been mighty annoying lately. One night, when starting to walk with my husband…he twice asked me if I was going to walk , or ‘mosey’ all night!! After the second time, I left, and went home and walked with a neighbor! Another time, we went to a nature reserve to walk. I checked out the trails descriptions, and decided that there were a few that I was not ready for…anything with the words “steep’, “narrow’, and ‘rigorous”.
Good thing I printed out the maps and descriptions, as my husband kept wanting to try another trail. When I protested, he wanted to leave and go off on the other trail to jog uphill and show off!! When we got home, he asked when we were going to go on a “real”hike!! I’ve been walking for about 6 weeks or so now, but I have a long way to go as far as fit walking!! Just when I think my legs can’t go any faster, don’t you know a little old lady will pass me up!!! And I am surely getting tired of all the Atkins food that the other members of my family have around to eat. It’s getting mighty boring and I’m very frustrated with the ‘non-selection’ available. I can make intelligent choices of what to eat, as long as there are choices!! I have never liked eating a lot of meat to begin with!! Cooking sure isn’t any fun anymore, when all I do is make the same few main dishes each and every day. Boredom is a bad thing!! Okay, maybe I’m done now, haha!
September 4th, 2004 at 9:37 am
Jenny, have you heard of slow-tick muscle exercise? I don’t know what your goal is or how far you have to go to get there, but let me just slap that hubby for you and give him a dose of reality. If you want to be a sprinter, go “steep” “rigorous” or “fast” if you want a lean, mean, healthy machine, you have to use your slow-tick muscle, slow-tick muscles are the ones that the endurance walkers, runners (and I’m not saying that you should be trying to run, not until you are ready) baseball, basketball, etc sportsmen use. Athletically speaking, to burn more fat off your body faster, you actually want to go slower, but steadier. A sprinter, high-jumper, any fast – boom then it’s over – uses up a lot of energy and sure….gets that heart rate up fast and hard and gets the blood pumping, but he also finishes really fast and it’s overwith, you’re never going to rid your body of stored fat that way. Unfortunately, he either needs to figure that out and support you, or you need to get a dog or a new friend to walk with you.
Are you doing Atkins or looking for things to eat with it when they are??? There are all kinds (depending on what you like) of great things to eat – but you’re talking to a NON-Atkins advocate so I wouldn’t be any help there, although I have found that fresh green beens sprinkled with kosher salt and microwaved for 2 minutes are scrumptous. A word I never use for vegetable-anything.
La-The garage looks great! How does Abner like the new treadmill?
As for me, I twisted and twerked up my knee and have been taking it easy on it this week. I have been doing my breathing and can feel a difference in the waistband of my slacks but that’s about it. We’re about to undertake our major house redo and I am excited have a dedicated workout space!
Good luck all! Keep it up!!!
September 4th, 2004 at 2:00 pm
Sorry Jenny. Keep it up. I agree with what Gayle said about slow and steady wins the race. In high school, I took an aerobics class. The teacher made this big deal about target heart rates, and as we were doing the activities, we had to frequently stop and check our heartbeat. If it was too high, she made us slow down. I remember being frustrated when I had to slow down at times when I felt I could do more, but I slowed down anyway, and I was amazed at how quickly my fitness improved. I was able to do more, my heart rate dropped quicker after the cool down, and I lost weight. It made a lasting impression on me to respect and listen to my body, and to exercise slower, steadier, and longer.
So far today, I have had a fabulous go on the treadmill (for 50 minutes) and I did my physical therapy. I am hoping to go out and do upper body weights soon, and then today will have been successful.
September 5th, 2004 at 4:06 am
Hi there,
I’m looking forward to joining the Health Group after my cycling vacation (Sept 11-18). It seems that with company coming, and on vacation week when they feed you like cattle, that I’m eating extremely poorly. Ugh.
BTW, I’m really glad it’s called Health Group and doesn’t have a cutesy name. It keeps it respectable and serious, doesn’t dumb it down. Y’know what I mean? And I like that it’s not about weight but about health.
Have a great healthy week,
Larissa
September 5th, 2004 at 9:38 am
Thank you, Larissa! I look forward to seeing you around on Saturdays.
September 5th, 2004 at 3:07 pm
Thanks for the hints about ‘slow and steady’! I went walking this evening, and decided to give that a try. It was a lot more pleasant, and I did actually go longer, without feeling like I wanted to quit already!! Previously, my husband always wanted to hold my hand, and I don’t think that it was exactly romantic, as he walked a step or two ahead of me, and so I felt like I was being pulled along.
He would have me walking very fast, and then my shins would hurt, and I would be so out of breath that I could not talk. This evening I said I did not want to hold hands, and he got highly offended, and actually left and went home(!), saying he would come back and pick me up!!(we had driven to the school). Needless to say, I aint never going walking with him ever again!! No, I am not following the Atkins diet, but everyone else in my family is, or some form of it. That means there is not a whole lot of stuff in the house to really cheat on, because the husband insists on grocery shopping, and we only buy what he ‘approves’. But, they sure eat alot of the same stuff day after day. I like variety, and with that Atkins going on around here, there are no more soups or casseroles, etc to add variety. Just a few basic meats and then the vegs. Boring!!