Making progress…

22Feb08

I really can see changes in my body in only two weeks. And although my official WI is tomorrow (I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make it though, the snow is pretty bad here today), I can already tell that I’ve lost. My face, neck and waist are smaller. If I don’t get to the meeting I’ll just weigh myself at home. Usually whatever I weigh on the scale at home naked is what I weight at my meeting with my weekly WI clothes on.  This morning the scale said 159.8 but I can’t even THINK that I’m actually FINALLY in the 150’s. I’ll wait to see what my official WI is if I make it to tomorrow’s meeting. If not I’ll just use whatever my home scale says tomorrow morning.

My eating has been impeccable this week, really. I mean I’ve journaled every single little thing I’ve eaten, and nothing unplanned. Sometimes I have great weeks, sometimes I have really bad ones. This was a good week. Ironically I used up all of my AP’s and FP’s for the week. Right now I’m about 6 points over my limit and I KNOW I’ve lost. So what does that tell you? For me it just says that it’s okay to use all of those points, the FPs and APs as long as you use them for good things.

My friends and I have decided to go on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera in August so now I really have incentive to get this weight off!

I don’t know what was going through my head this morning, I was trying to figure out weight selections for Workout B since this was the first time doing the workout with 12 reps instead of 15, and I got all turned around. I forgot about the alternating sets and ended up doing the two sets of overhead press back to back instead of alternating with the pull downs. UGH! So I just went ahead and did the two sets and then the two sets of pull downs, and thankfully I remembered to alternate the lunges and crunches at the end.The lunges STILL kill me and I haven’t even been able to up the weights yet because just the 12’s in each hand and my body weight I can barely finish the reps. I managed to finish the first 12, but on the second set I could only go up to 9. Not gonna give up though. Although I was NEVER a big fan of lunges. I remember when I first started working out with the firm I would sub squats for lunges cause I hated them so much. Will they ever get easier?

I also did a half hour of HIIT on the treddy. Love the gymboss, I never have to look down at the console. So far this is how I’ve broken down the HIIT.2 min warm up at 2.0 speed
1 min at 5.5 speed (I always keep the incline at the lowest level. I might think about increasing in the future.. we’ll see)
2 min at 2.0
1 min at 5.5
2 min at 2.0
1 min at 6.0
2 min at 2.0
1 min at 6.0
2 min at 2.0
1 min at 6.5
2 min at 2.0
1 min at 6.5
2 min at 2.0
1 min at 7.0
2 min at 2.0
1 min at 7.0
6 min at 2.0 cool down

I’ve never used 7.0 on the treddy before, I was always too big to run, I just felt everything flopping around and it was not a good feeling. I don’t know that could keep up that 7.0 run for longer than a minute but it’s nice to get up there. I’ve also found that stretching afterwards, especially the hamstrings, keeps me from getting stiff during the day. Now tomorrow might be another story. I’m just waiting for hurting quads.

I’m gonna take the weekend off I think. I noticed that since I gave myself that rest day on Thursday this mornings workout was excellent. Besides me messing up the alternating sets, I felt good, had energy enough to do the workout AND the HIIT.

I am gonna look for alternatives to the treddy for HIIT. Although right now I’m fine with what I’m doing, I don’t want to get bored with it and as I’ve found I need to keep switching things up so my body will not adapt to what I’m doing.

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Tags: hiit, loss, lunges, reps, sets, treadmill, weight watchers, weights