Not much to write. Been gyming for four weeks now and having training session number three with my personal trainer tomorrow.
Jogging a full twenty five minutes now. It's definitely different without having the final 5K goal. Now I'm keeping up with consistent jogging as I build myself up for 3 thirty minute jogging sessions a month. I ran at the same speed I did for the 5K today, which was good. It's nice to know that I'm back at that pace.
I'm getting to the gym about four days a week. Three days running with one day adding weight training to that and then one day boxing with a trainer. I have two more sessions with the trainer. I haven't been swimming as much as I would like mainly because of a bit of a cold.
Weight is between 67 and 68 now, but it is definitely slow going. Although I feel much healthier I can't really see it yet. Feeling a bit down about that tonight.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
The Gym
In order to keep running in this cold weather, I joined the gym about two weeks ago. It has been great! I'm not freezing or cold and I'm managing to keep up with training for another 5K as well as do some other exercises. My routine now includes swimming and weights and come Friday I'll have my first session with a personal trainer to do some boxing.
I started this whole project in order to lose weight and it has been the one thing that has kept eluding me. For most of the last year my weight has hovered between 68-70Kgs and in the last few months has stuck quite firmly between 69-70Kgs (This is approximately 148-150 pounds). Dieting has never been a strength of mine as I just can't say no to food of any sort, and I've found that my resolve to eat properly usually increases when exercising. Advice from my initial assessment at the gym was to ensure I eat lunch (which has been quite a mission, but I'm doing it). This came as a surprise as usually I'm told to eat less food, but I have noticed less of a run at 5pm to all the junk food, so maybe this was the reasoning. The trainer I'm working with has asked me to keep a food diary so that he can create a diet for me - now I'm very nervous about this, but it will be interesting to see what his advice is.
Anyway, the reason for my post today is that when I got on the scale this morning it read 67Kgs! A small step I know, but a weight that I haven't seen in a very long time and definite motivation to keep going.
I started this whole project in order to lose weight and it has been the one thing that has kept eluding me. For most of the last year my weight has hovered between 68-70Kgs and in the last few months has stuck quite firmly between 69-70Kgs (This is approximately 148-150 pounds). Dieting has never been a strength of mine as I just can't say no to food of any sort, and I've found that my resolve to eat properly usually increases when exercising. Advice from my initial assessment at the gym was to ensure I eat lunch (which has been quite a mission, but I'm doing it). This came as a surprise as usually I'm told to eat less food, but I have noticed less of a run at 5pm to all the junk food, so maybe this was the reasoning. The trainer I'm working with has asked me to keep a food diary so that he can create a diet for me - now I'm very nervous about this, but it will be interesting to see what his advice is.
Anyway, the reason for my post today is that when I got on the scale this morning it read 67Kgs! A small step I know, but a weight that I haven't seen in a very long time and definite motivation to keep going.
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