Week 7 and a new twist

On to week 7, which is undulating and I kind of look forward to it.  I am getting excited to work out again but I need some new incentive.  So I decided that I will take my picture and have a before picture to remind myself why I am working.  I plan on taking a picture every 4 weeks as long as I stay sharp.  If I need more incentive I can up how often I take pictures to keep me going.

Well, here it goes...

First pictures-

So here I am at 296.7.  Yes, I know, up from that last weigh in that I had, but I sort of maybe kind of binged on cookies and pizza this weekend.  I felt like I was making a new start on everything at the beginning of the week and sort of let loose.  Back to it now, I guess.

Week 6...in the bag!

I have completed week 6 and I am dreading week 7.  Week 7 things will get a little hairy but I am down with that.  I am so ready to just sweat again that I have added as much as I can after I get that base work out done.  We will look closely at the next 4 weeks and see how that will all work together.

I have decided that I have to take my diet a little more seriously as well as my workout.  I have to take more time for my cardio because I know myself and I know that weight doesn't leave me until I start burning it off with cardio, unfortunately.  Maybe I am impatient but I am ready to get back down to where I was last year at this time (35 lbs lighter).  I have been looking at before and after pictures online of all sorts of people and I get to thinking that maybe I can do that.  I am seriously considering taking a picture of myself now and then again in 3-4 weeks and so on.  Maybe I will start that tomorrow...

Week 6

So I have made it to week 6.  I am kind of excited except that it is my pull day tomorrow and I suck at pull days.  I have found that these workouts aren't quite enough for me right now so I have had to supplement.

Last week I spent a lot of time on the treadmill and the elliptical.  On the latter I was going forward and backward for 3 minute stints and that ... well for lack of a better word, sucks.  It is a little harder this week since I have to leave the house to get to a gym to do said running and I am super disappointed as I ordered some new five finger shoes and I had to send them back to get a bigger size and they finally returned, only to be returned for a bigger size.  Turns out I wear a 45.  Like my Bikilas say, 45, on the inside that I didn't know still even had the letter on.  I thought they were totally worn out.  Turns out, they need to have a few more miles in them yet.  Third times a charm!

WEeeeeeeek 5.....

Week 5 is officially kicking my ass.  I had to hurry through the days this week because of Thanksgiving and it is Tuesday and I am already on day three-pull day.

Pull days suck because I suck at the pull exercises because I weigh a thousand pounds and I feel it is impossible to impose all of that onto me of which it takes all of the planet to generate that gravity for which I try and defy....with the pull exercises...which suck... ad naseum.

Anyway, onward.  I have been craving greens like mad.  It's crazy I know, but for a vegetarian I have been eating very few green things as of late.

Here we go Week 5....

I may be a cheat.  I weighed myself for the first time in 2 weeks and I desperately want success.  I may have told the Wii that I was wearing 2 lbs. of clothes instead of 1 lb.  I justify it by saying that usually I wear a short sleeve shirt and shorts instead of the long sleeve and pants that I was wearing today...

SO .... I am finally down a pound.  294.5 and hopefully I can keep losing.  I think that for certain I need to do more than just the exercises for this program to lose the weight.  Throughout the years the only proven way for me to lose weight is for me to run my fat ass everyday.  However, I do enjoy the exercises as I feel stronger than I have for a long time.

Now if I can just be more careful about my eating habits...

Week 4...

I finished up Week 3 strong, which is ironic because it is strength week (weak) and the new exercise format can be killer.  I have found that I am in better shape than I thought because I have had to put at least one of the exercises in the regiment to a higher level in order to get to muscle failure.  I still haven't quite gotten there except during the Pull day, which I suck at.  Never had much time to fail at pull ups.  I guess I need to make time now. 

Eating has been a little easier however I have found that it is nigh impossible to stay vegetarian when traveling and visiting relatives.  One helpful discovery is that my watch works as a gym timer in a pinch (since I forgot mine).  Another fun discovery that I found out was the elliptical machine.  I have decided that strength exercises alone are not going to cut it for me.  They haven't in the past, why should they now?  I stepped onto my in-law's elliptical and was going forward for x number of minutes and backwards for the same amount of time.  That was killer.

Anyway, I have decided to defer weighing in to every two weeks.  At least then I can be disappointed half as many times a month.  Here's to finishing week 4 and starting supersets next week.

Half way through Week 3

So far these workouts have been ok.  It is just way different than the first week and really does take me to the edge of muscle failure.  Pulling exercises tomorrow so, not really looking forward to that....