I expected to hit my weight goal this month, but I didn't expect to hit it in the first week, and with everything else going on it feels a little bittersweet and anti-climactic. Regardless, I was surprised this morning when I weighed under 225. By the way, Lose It if you see this, maybe you should make those milestones something that shows up. I got something at every milestone except for the ones where you hit your goal, or even the weight lost. For the record this is approximately one hundred pounds I've lost. Probably a little more from my peak, but I didn't get on the scale then.
So, where do I go from here?
Well, my plan is to make this the exception and keep the weight off. How do I plan to do that? I'm going to continue to target 30+ minutes of exercise a day, weigh myself, and continue to log my meals. Those are changes from previous times when I've lost weight. Normally I "celebrate" and almost immediately start going back to where I was. To avoid that I've done a few things to help me along with this. First was buying an actual bike. We're in nice weather season here in Florida and I should be able to go for an actual ride next weekend. Second was joining the distance challenge through Echelon. I'm on a team and I do better when there's either competition or someone is relying on me. I'm going to continue to do those. Third is Merinda wants to get a little more fit, so we're starting to go for walks and I'm very happy to swap some riding days for those. In line with that I'm considering changing my workout routine and swap in some evening rides instead of only the morning. Yeah, I prefer morning rides, but I did a few evening rides over the past two weeks and remembered that I like those instructors too. So, I might have to add in a Tuesday/Thursday night ride.
That brings me to my last topic today and it's fatigue. I accepted this at the end of September because I was pushing myself very hard to hit my targets, but I didn't expect to feel shattered this morning. Janet's class felt a little hard and I got into zone 5, but it wasn't until I got into Sam's class that I crashed. I struggled with the arms and then could barely keep myself going during the intervals and if I'm being honest I thought I might have to quit. I fought my way through the rest of the morning but damn... Yeah I worked out last night, and can accept my arms/shoulders being shredded but not sure about the bike workout. It's not like I really stretched myself here. I'm going to take it easy tomorrow, go to yoga in the morning and maybe try a low impact ride afterwards, and then do my normal Sunday workout, and maybe I just need some days to recover. One thing I did last night was to take a bath with some muscle soak in it. It felt great but my blood pressure was pretty low afterwards and it took me a while to stop sweating afterwards. I guess I'm just a sweaty bastard and if my BP keeps crashing I'll talk to the doctor again.
Anyway, on to the next episode... Have a great weekend and talk soon!
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