Another weigh-in come and gone. Two more pounds shed. I'm almost to 10% of my goal. At this rate, i'm looking at October. Not a pretty picture at all. Don't get me wrong, i'm committed, and this is going to happen, but . . . a whole year? I gotta step this up.
So that's what I'm doing. I added another 50% to my cardio time at the gym every day. We'll see what that does. I tend to do the elliptical for half (ramp up - high heart rate) and then a walk on the treadmill for half (ramp down - cool off) so hopefully it's not just my body getting into a routine rut. I can't stand certain things - my knees don't favor jarring activity so like running or the cybex is out, but there's gotta be some other kinds of cardio activity I can work in to keep my body guessing.
That's really the challenge of the whole thing I'm thinking. Changing your diet isn't hard because eating different food is challenging, it's the change of the menu and the prep. You're in a rut, you do what you always do. Here's the 20-30 things i'm used to cooking and eating and guess what - none of them are compatible with what I'm trying to do now. Same thing at the gym - it's super easy to just do the same things every week but your body gets used to it and burns less efficiently. You gotta stir things up.
There's probably a good analogy for life somewhere in there. I'm going to pretend to be obtuse though so I can keep focused though. Go-go-gadget meltdown.
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