I’ve been sick, hell, I still feel sick. Not like I’m going to die, but just not feeling well all week. Even took a day off just to be sick last week. So no exercise this week to speak of, I think I made it to the gym twice.
The result, weight gain. Stepped on the scale this morning to a gain of 1.8 pounds.
Well, I’ve not felt all that great this weekend. No energy, sluggish, stomach turning in circles, cough, all the signs that I’m heading toward getting sick. And to make things worse, I haven’t made it to the gym since Wednesday.
But what we all want to know is, how’d the weigh in go? I stepped on the scale this morning and it read a gain of 0.6 pounds. Maybe I just need to take a good shit, but if I’m honest it’s because I’ve had a lazy week and fast food lunches Thursday and Friday.
The gym is working out. I met with the trainer Saturday morning and got a new exercise plan that should do me better than what I’ve been doing. And best of all, I got on the scale this morning and I was down 3.4 pounds. Sweet.
Positive thinking, exercise, and eating right. I can do this.
The long and short of it is, I lost 1.2 pounds this week. Not the results that I was hoping for, but better than gaining.
I have today off and no real plan. Tasha is at work. I drove her in so I’d have the car to pick up a new cable box. But as luck would have it Comcast is closed for the holiday. Should have figured that. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow.
I spent some time working on the website. Nothing that you can see just yet, but I have high hopes for the future. I also put in a little time in City of Heroes fixing up my super group base. All in all I did nothing of note.
Time to go pick up Tasha and then off to the gym. Later.
Had my second of two free personal trainer sessions this morning. The first one was all about the talk; what do I eat, what’s my day like, what are my habits, etc. for an hour. A get to know me meeting and to get an idea what will work for me. This one, the second, was all about the exercise. Body weight and balance exercises to be more precise. I was shown and asked to do something like 10 exercises. To make a sad story short, I’m strong, but I have no sense of balance. i.e., the weight machines are easy, standing on a bosu ball and using dumbells is hard.
I like and am a big fan of the body weight stuff. I was doing a lot of that stuff back at the old house. I’m just horribly out of shape and out of practice. Embarassingly so. I’m good with the first set, not so much with the second, on every exercise. The trainer says it’s all about stamina and that it’ll come with time. My job is all about doing it once and has led to bad habits and muscle memory.
So the plan is to mix these body weight exercises into my routine. One day of weights and one day of body weight exercises, rinse and repeat.
I’ll keep you in the loop. Later.