BabyG79’s BodyBlog

It’s been a good week.  I’ve been hitting the gym consistently all week.  TB hasn’t been so pumped to workout this week but at least my workout buddy at work has remained on trakc with me.  She’s pretty much been having me guide her with the strength training since she’s really never done it before.  I think that she might think I"m trying to kill her though.  She’s probably been more sore over the last two weeks then she’s ever been.  At first she seemed a little concerned but I think I’ve convinced her that being sore isn’t a bad thing as long as it’s not completely debilitating.  I’ve noticed that so many people (especially women) have the mentality that if you are sore the next day then you did something wrong.  This baffles me.  I feel like I wasted my time if I’m not feeling it for at least two days after a workout.  I remember the first time I ever touched a weight, when I was 14 in the high school weight room, I was thrilled that I could actually squat my body weight.  My legs were screaming for the next 4 days but I loved it.  I could feel them changing.  To me that’s what it’s all about!  Anyway, I digress….we workout out together every day except for TUesday.  I actually did a split routine on Monday doing 1 hour of cardio and abs in the afternoon with her and an hour of upper body in the evening.  We went to the stability ball class yesterday and I didn’t feel so stable since we also worked out chest, biceps, triceps, lats and shoulders the day before on Wed.  I kept falling off the ball!  Oh well.  We didn’t do toomuch on lower body this week outside of the ball class and the cardio so we’re going to hit glutes, quads, calves and hammys today so I can have the weekend to recover.

I officially set my shoprt term goals this week to be:

1) DO 5 unassisted pull-ups

2) Lose 20 lbs

…target date is 5-2

Oh, where to start.  I knew I was off track but I finally got the courage to add it all up today.  I took new pictures which I’m calling my starting (yet again) pics.  From what I can see all my progress sinc this time last year is ruined.  I’ve only been out of the gym 4 months and have managed to undo 12 months worth of work.  Technically I have only gained back 10 lbs of the 21 that I lost, but it sure feels like 50.

Ok, enough of the pity party.  What am I doing about it?  Everything that I should be.  I’ve been back in the gym for about 3 weeks.  I’m at the point where I’ve gained a little muscle but havne’t seen much fat loss yet so the scale is a little discouraging.  I know that I’ll be seeing resultls soon though.  Another big change for me this time aound is that I have a gym buddy (aside from TB).  I go to the gym with TB at least 3 nights a week and we do our cardio and weight training together.  But recently I have started working out with a lady that I work with.  We just finished week 1 and I"m optimistic.  Right now our plan is to go Mon, Tue, Thur & Fri.  We willdo 30 min of cardio and 30 min of strength training (breaking up lower body and upper body on different days).  Then we do a stability ball class on Thursdays. 

 So I have it all mapped out.  My biggest challenge will be if TB or my workout buddy at work backs out on me.  Then I will need ot find the motivation to go on my own.  That’s always where I get stalled.  I"ll just have to get past that I suppose.

 Food wise I"m still following the basic South Beach diet.  I’ve digressed into phase 3 permanently, so I"ll be going back to phase 1 this week which basically eliminates sugars and carbs.  It will be rough getting rid of my carb cravings again but as long as TB is on board, which he says he is, that will make it easier.