Difference

No I don't quite think I can see a difference yet. But I feel after purchasing the heart rate monitor I am hating the treadmill less than I did before. Only problem is it is VERY hot in the basement right now for running, I could run in the morning, but I am not a morning person, nor do I have the patience for that in the morning.

Now to get some weight lifting in and use the spin bike. Then I will maybe be ready to take on the world.

Yesterday...

After what was a pretty dreadful day yesterday, I picked myself up again and figured out what my next step was.
I have a friend that is going to Orange Theory Fitness and she is loving it, but my problem is I make so many excuses not to go to that sort of thing, even if I have paid for it, that it is not worth going. I also do not take construction criticism well when it comes to my form of how the instructor wants an exercise done versus how I am doing it to compensate for the amount of pain that plagues my person when doing anything. That is just the way it is.

So, I bought myself a heart rate monitor and downloaded Polar Beat (app) and Polar flow which is for your computer. Then I jumped on the treadmill last night and the bike this morning. This way it can track what I am doing in each heart rate zone. Orange Theory is based on a system of spending the most time in zone 4, anaerobic zone, so I decided that would be what I would try and do, but on my own.

I think the total combined on these two works outs was that Z4 was 10%, Z3 was 46%, Z2 was 34%, Z1 10%.
All in all not too bad, and it gives me something to achieve. I have yet to determine if the treadmill will be on my to do list this evening, I think it depends on how close to 10,000 steps I get.

On the Wagon

Back on the wagon to success again this morning. Had a surprise house guest, which although delightful is often sore on the waistline.

So we are back to:

• 40 situps a day
• 10 burpees a day
• 20 kettle bell swings every 2-3 days
• 20 min of bike/treadmill about every day
• 9000 steps a day, hoping to get than to 10,000 steps a day!
• 4 litres of water a day

Any other healthy habits I can think of will be added. I have almost opened a Todoist account, which you can check off your successes and it gives you points. I will see if it works, but it does keep me slightly more motivated to do these things that are on my list and keep track of them. 

I know in order to have success you need to switch things up, but I do need to get into the routine of getting them done on a consistent basis. I will change it up and add other things, but next week I think :)

Really?

My body fat percentage better be going down, as the actual number went up. Not by much, but it did in fact go up. Grr. Got my bridesmaids dress ready for the wedding, and so that gives me a slight bit more incentive to keep at it.

Of a morning I do:

• 40 situps
• 10 burpees
• and my kettle bell for 20 reps to tone my triceps (chicken wings are awful)

I am getting in around 10,000 steps a day, trying to increase that to more around the 12,000 - 15,000 mark, but that is tough some days. I would change my fitbit to a goal of 15,000 steps a day, but I just feel like such a failure when I do not get them in. 

Also last night and friend and I went for a swim around the lake, which was good, I am a little sore today. 

I am also finding it trickier to get all the water I want to drink in for a full day, but I will work on that too. I just truly need to spend less time avoiding working out and more time actually working out.

I will get there lovebugs, have a great day. 

The Beginning

"It starts at the very beginning, a very good place to start...'

I have tired time and time again to successfully attain my goal weight. I have tried a host of things, but I have never found anything that works. Yesterday I had a friend over and I said that if I spent the same amount of time working out as I did knitting I would be in fantastic shape.

Today I weigh in at 243.8 lbs, I am 6'1" BMI 32.1.

I am not 100% sure what I truly want my goal weight to be, but I do know that in the 200's is not where I am happy. A range would be 140 - 180. According to BMI, 140, is not a possibility, but 170 would not be bad for me.

The heaviest I have ever been was 250 lbs, so I am down 6.2 lbs, which I think is amazing, but I am not 100% sure how I did it.

My biggest problem is that I get down to 240, and I just seem to stop and am not able to get below that, sometimes I will hit 239, and that excites me, but after that I think I get conceited, and just either give up or go back to my old habits. 232 was the lowest I ever got, I was doing Ducan... but the problem here was I could not just eat protein, and vegetables, I live in a world full of food, and cheese, and wine, and although I am not a huge drinker, I will just eat.

So my goal list:

1. 240: buy kobo - technically I reached 240, and bought my kobo, but it came back again
2. 230: laser under arms
3. 220: unknown
4. 210: unknown
5. 200: unknown
6. 190: unknown
7. 180: unkown
8. 170: a miracle ;)

My good habits:

1. I walk about 9,000 steps a day, sometimes as high as 20,000
2. I drink about 4 litres of water a day
3. I always eat breakfast

My bad habits:

1. Going to bed, thinking mmm I think I want a snack, and having a snack, instead of sleeping
2. Waking up thinking mmm I am hungry and eating instead of drinking a glass of water
3. I eat one item, am not satisfied and then just eat until I find something that makes my craving go away. 
4. If food is left out I will graze, continually, or if I am making dinner I will eat while I am making dinner, and probably eat enough to count as dinner before I eat dinner. 

This is the beginning what I hope will be a wonderful change, and a change that will stick and make me feel like a more wonderful, fabulous, complete human being. It is on the internet for me, not really for anyone else, but I needed to somewhat declare it to the world to see if I could be accountable to the world and not just to myself.