gjesy69’s BodyBlog

Well I’m off to a slow start, just lost a very little but it was my fluid retention time, so I’m not letting it get me down, I expect to make some major progress by next week. 

My cardio has been excellent and my weights are going well.  Just need to keep pushing.  I’m feeling the progress.

It’s been a tough week, had a terrible misunderstanding with one of my most wonderful of friends, it was difficult to keep focus.  I’d say it caused a bumby start.  But we’ve made amends and I have gotten back into the groove.  I have much I want to accomplish by my birthday so I must be dedicated.  Just got done with my upperbody workout and I now think I understand what Otto means when he says his arms are "pumped", My arms are still to loaded with fat to be able to visualize it, but I can feel it.  They feel enormous right now.  Did 30 min of cardio before breakfast then 40 min more after my weight training.  I can’t believe how much I enjoy sweating now, and all the crazy heavy breathing, it’s such a release!  But now I feel ravenous, had my recovery drink, but I feel like I could eat a whole cow right now.  So hungry.  I will wait a little longer and have some chicken and veggies I believe. 

After doing a lower body and an upper body workout this week I am so sore.  Continuing to push the cardio.  Eating great.  Hoping somehow to burn off 3.5 more pounds before Monday, but I know that is pushing it, but the closer to 215 the better.  Feeling great though.  Having a great time reaching these goals.  My birthday is around the corner, and it’ll be perfect as long as my darling love spends it with me.  He lives so very far away so I will be possibly 30 pounds lighter than when he saw me last, that’s pretty cool, wonder if he’ll be able to tell?

Very happy to have passed my initial goal, but I am interested in seeing if I can get a few more off by my weigh in next week. 

I’m feeling very good physically and mentally, spiritually quite good too, perhaps at my best in years actually.  Now this is all really new ground ventured.  I had gotten down to around 214 I believe just before I got married back in 2006 but that was only for a day or so, plus I had not been working out at all, so I was all soft and mushy.  Now I have a good deal more of muscle happening, so I believe I am actually thinner now, just carrying a good deal more in muscle weight and I definitely feel better than I did then. 

 My diet is now spot on and my exercise.  Then I was doing an extreme diet, now I’m doing what I think of as a living diet, it’s the working of how I plan on eating the rest of my life, so not really a dieting diet, just a healthy way to eat.  Adjusting it according to my needs of the current day. 

I received a comment from someone at church yesterday, someone I’ve seen a good deal there but have never really had a conversation with, they felt compelled to compliment me and tell me they could tell I’ve lost a good deal of weight and I am looking great, that never hurts to hear. 

Well I’ve reached 10 pds loss, but it has been slow loss the past 2 weeks, I’m not feeling as discouraged as I have about this in the past.  Often this would be the point I would say, oh it’s not working anyway, why I am torturing myself when I could eat what I want and weigh the same. 

This time I feel the physical changes even though they aren’t showing up on the scales.  I am feeling so much more of the muscles running up and down my torso, more than ever before and I feel the skin tightening around my neck and face, so I know the scale will probably give me a big drop in a few days or so. 

I have continued to push the cardio and my weight training has been going very well, although I am not getting very sore from it anymore.  I am pushing farther each time on different excercises.  So I am making progress.

So let’s just see what these last two weeks of this initial super strict phase brings.  I must admit, I’ve haven’t been this good for a long time on a program.  I believe the last time I did was back in 1997, and I was getting great results then, but I was derailed by a death in the family, I lost focus and it’s been a long time since finding my groove again, hasn’t it. 

I feel that with my friend Otto I have a much better support system where before I was all alone this time I have someone to look to for support, encouragement and advice, I think it will make all the difference in making it all the way and then will be not only maintaining but setting new goals to reach. 

I’m actually surprised at how much I love it all.  I know a lot of people hate exercising and do it only because they have to, but I am realizing I really love it.  I like doing my cardio and zoning out while I’m pushing my body, it’s like meditation, I love pushing myself on the weights challenging myself to have better form and lift well and properly.  And I love how good I feel afterward. 

That being said I think I shall prepare to go do some cardio, legs tonight too!