Wen73’s BodyBlog

You know how, during this time of the year in particular, weighing in is most usually dreaded?  I, too, wasn’t looking forward to stepping on the scale this morning due to all the tempting foods over the past two days of Christmas celebrations.  Maybe it’s because my stomach hasn’t agreed with many foods lately that I was actually able to lose weight this Christmas.  Whatever the reason may be I’ll happily accept the loss!

I don’t want to get too excited yet because it’s been months now that I’ve been trying to get into the 140’s.  They’re seemingly getting closer and I couldn’t be happier.  Why is it that others can’t understand the desire to make change?  I think my family has decided to keep most comments about my weight loss endeavor to themselves.  Honestly, I believe that will work best because I’m tired of trying to get others to understand that I’m doing this to become healthier and because I’m tired of carrying extra weight when I know I can at least get back into the 130’s.  I did get there in 2001 after my son had turned 6 months old.  Trust me, I know this journey isn’t easy nor do I expect it to be.  It’s the mental set backs that are the hardest, but I think that the weight training in addition to the cardio I do will get me where ‘I’ want to be.

Everybody has to start somewhere, right?  I had forgotten just how sore some muscles in one’s body can become when they’ve not been used in a particular manner.  I’ll work through this I know, but I should have been a little less gung ho when I did my first lower body workout two nights ago.  Actually, I should rephrase that by saying, "READ ALL IMPORTANT ASPECTS of creating a weight routine THOROUGHLY before jumping head first into it!"  Therefore, one would realize that each body group was meant to have two varied exercises rather than attempting to do ALL that were written in the book (Body for Life).  LOL, yes, I’ve got very sore quads currently.  Walking at the mall trying to finish my Christmas shopping, which I did not, did not help alleviate any of the pain either.  Add two flights of stairs in my house (basement and second level) and there is no alleviating the excruitiating burn with every step.  I’m not whining really!

I really need to get in my cardio session today.  Is that the advisable thing to do or do I rest my quads some more?  Advice is greatly appreciated.  Yeah, you can withhold the chuckles, LOL!

Week 1 almost completed!