Thought I would start tonight with an update. 5 weeks ago tonight, we joined Weight Watchers, and 4 weeks ago yesterday, I joined a gym. It has been a very challenging roller coaster ride so far. Trying to figure out what I can or can't eat. When to eat it, or when to eat it. When to workout. I think I'm finally figuring it out. I try to eat a good breakfast on my first break at work, follow up with a decent, but healthy lunch, and then I try to have enough points that I can eat something light for dinner. We then go for a workout at the gym. Afterwards, that leaves me with a low point snack, like an apple or orange in the evening before I go to bed. I have also read that you need at least 7 hours of sleep at night to give your body time to relax and heal itself. That has been tough, but I've been trying to go to bed at a decent time. I've always been one to stay up after everyone has gone to bed and watch tv by myself or play some video games, or just surf the Internet. Doing this has cut into some of my "me" time, but one week in and I'm already feeling the benefits. I feel more refreshed the next day at work and have more energy too. As of tonight, I lost 4.4 lbs. this week, bringing my total to 24.8 in 4 weeks! Melody has lost a total of 18.4 in the same time frame!
I took that picture of me tonight at the gym just before my lower body workout tonight. I can already tell a difference in my body. I breathe easier. I have more energy. I have a longer stamina to do things. The biggest difference I have seen in me over that last 4 weeks has been at work. I have more energy to jump in and do something, where before, I may have blown it off. It has really showed in my consistency at work. I stay more active and more engaged, where before, I may be active one day, and tired and out of breath the next. When I look down, I see less belly than I used to. My pants are starting to bag a little. I know it seems like some of this stuff shouldn't be happening after only losing 24 lbs, but I'm starting to build muscle too. I can tell how easier it's getting lifting some of the heavier things at work. The strain on bending over and picking up something heavy is going away.
One of the biggest ways I have been achieving stuff is to set goals for myself. I set short attainable goals, and I've set long term goals. The picture on the top is a great example of one of my short goals. That is a workout pattern on my bicycle at the gym. The one highlighted I completed Weds. Night. It starts at a 3 resistance and works it way up to 9, drops down to 3, climbs up to 10, and drops to 3 and the goes back up to 11. It finishes the last 3 minutes at at a 3 resistance. The whole workout goes for twenty minutes. When I started riding the bike, I couldn't go.10 without stopping and catching my breathe. My goal was to complete the 1st workout, which is just left of the highlighted one. It was like going up a hill and riding back down, it climbed up to a 9 resistance. I completed the first one last Friday, and rode all 20 minutes without stopping. I went a total of 3.7 miles in that time. I moved on Monday and Weds. to the highlighted one. I set a new personal best Weds. night. I went the whole 20 minutes without stopping and rode 4.25 miles! My next goal is to go 5 miles without stopping and do it in under 25 minutes.
The picture above is an example of one of my long term goals. I saw this bicycle at Academy, and decided to make it a goal. If I can lose 100lbs. I'm going to buy it for myself. It's got big tires and the gears would make it a perfect bike to ride on the dirt roads by my house. Only 75 more to go! Some of the other goals may seem foolish or something you may never though about but, they each one have a meaning to me. Eat dinner at Olive Garden. Melody loves that place, but I don't. They have chairs with arms on them, and an obese person as myself can't fit in them. I want to lose enough weight where I can sit comfortably there. I want to ride a roller coaster. Nothing more embarrassing than being asked to get off the ride because you're too fat, or watching everybody else ride because you're too afraid to even try. I want to do the zip line across the Oklahoma River. I'm too afraid they'll say you weigh too much, and refuse to let me ride. I want to run in a 5k. 2 specially. 1, our small town hosts one called the Warrior 5k every year as a fundraiser. I want to complete that one day. The other is the Memorial 5k. We have some friends whose son was in the YMCA across the street during the Bombing of the Murrah Building. He's grown to be a fine young man, and one of my son's best friends. I would like to run it with him and my son one day too. I want to drive a NASCAR. In my current situation, I couldn't even fit through the window right now, but I would love to drive a car over 150 mph on a race track. Like I said, some of these may seem corny, but they are my goals, and as we have been learning, this is my story. This is about my journey, not any one else's. I hope my rambles encourage you to write your own story. Don't let it be one a miserable one of failure, but a exciting story of reward and success!
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