newway45’s BodyBlog

I always seem to get a good start but don’t finish very well. The only good thing is that I am doing something and I am working on controlling my eating. Doing this I have been able to stop the upward climb of my weight and waist. This in itself is an accomplishment for me. However, I want to take my July or September progress pictures at Caladesi Island. That is going to be my family’s treat for my progress. The reason I am doing that is the picture I have up now is from Caladesi Island about 7 years ago. So I am working on it being a great deal better than the last one.

 My exercising for the week goes as such:

Mar 15. 3 mile bike ride

Crunches 2 sets of 20 reps

Push ups 2 sets of 10 reps (with the perfect pushup)

Yep, that is it for the week. The pedal is broken on my bike and my leg started to hurt a bit so I cut my ride short. The next day I had 15 tiles (20 X 20) to change in a house. I was on my knees for over 5 hours and my leg started to cramp so bad from the bad pedal.

Right now I am actually concentrating more on a job search and increasing my Financial Education that I am letting my Physical training and learning slip. I need to find a good balance between it all.

OK here is the shocker. I did nothing. That is right, no exercise whatsoever. Other than what I do at work on my job I did nothing extra. The time change has helped me out, I feel more like myself and did start back up yesterday. So I will be posting a better week next Sunday. I could fill this with many excuses, some of which are legit. However, I could have worked through or around all of the situations and did something. So I take full blame, make no excuses and just promise to get back on track from here on out.

Wednesday Feb. 25 I did a 6.4 mile bike ride. I did it in 1.6 mile increments. I had no work and had to take the kids to school. When I got to the car I discovered I had a flat. I changed it to the spare and it was also flat. So the kids and I jumped on our bikes and biked the 1.6 miles to school. I dropped them off and biked home. My sister-in-law came later that evening to take me to get my tire fixed so it wasn’t fixed by the time the kids got out. So I biked back, picked them up and rode back for a total of 6.4 miles.

 Unfortunately there wasn’t much else this week including work. I definitely ate too much and did not sleep well. So I am back up to 221.5 and a waist of 45.

My realistic short term (two month) goal is to get down to 215 with a 42 inch waist by May 2nd. I will keep you updated on my exercising and hopefully it will be way more intense then the last two months.