Just blogging (Blog 3)
Well it’s been about 5 months since my last blog and I have to say that since then I did figure out wher the weight went. It has really started to show up in my core my waist size has gone up about an inch and a half as has my abdominal area and chest, but this is not due to exercise or a lack of exercise. I’ve been running pretty regularly, actually my running has improved quite a bit, although I may never have the legs to be an outdoor runner, running on the pavement even the indoor track really puts stress on my knees, shins and even calves. But I do fine on the treadmil. My eating has pretty much gone to crap. I’ve had a lot of obsticles in my life for the last 6 months and have not been making time to prepare my meals nor have I been tracking my diet. I use to keep a diet diary which, I may not have mentioned in my past blogs because I must have overlooked its importance and usefulness in my diet managemant. I started to get away from the journal because, for one, I never really looked back at it, unlike my workout logs which I would look at from time to time to see my progress I never took a 2nd glance at my diet diary. I also thought I could just keep track of my eating in my head. Well that kind of reminded me of my whole reason for starting the diary. It was accountability, if Im writing down my food intake then I can hold myself accountable for what I am doing and correct any habbits that are going to hinder me from attaining any goals.
I’v started tracing and preplanning my meals again am hoping to drop a few pounds and try to get back under 10% BF by mid february, about 10lbs should do it I’m at 186lbs right now and around 13%bf. I would mainly just like to get back down to where I was about 8 months ago when I finished my weighloss phase of my plan. I did a lot of cardio and core building exercises through the summer and fall to build my core muscles but I didn’t get into the wieght room as much as I would have liked. In addition to my fitness goals I’ve also been going to school part time to work on another degree, I decided last semester to take a full load which is also what Im planning to do this semester as well to try to finish the program by the end of the year. Which put a lot of demand on my time, more then I realized it would.
I’ve also had a lot of things going on in my life that I would rather not mention but l have been spending a lot of time eating out and going to the gym. Sounds kind of counter intuitive but like I’ve said before I like to exercise and I like to eat. So a really good workout makes me hungry, I guess one habbit feeds the other.
Well it a new year and so It’s time to set some new years goals. I finished last year at or maybe a little lower then the weight I stared it at, which truthfully was my original intention weighwise, and I reached my year starting goal for running. I wanted to be able to run a certain distance in a certain time. As I said I’m no marathon runnner nor would I plan on winnning any 5k or 10ks but as I said I have never been a runner nor has cardio been a big strength of mine, I wanted to strenthen a weakness and now I have. NOw I think its time to move on, I have done a lot of reading and research in different areas and think it’s time to set some new goals.
I hope everyone has a great 2008 and good luck to all.
