Today was a monumental day! I went to Bally’s to work out and weighed myself before and after.
It was great to see more progress and it was an incredible workout today. I sweated almost 2 pounds out. Sure it is just water weight, but it is also a measurement of how hard I worked out. I had been averaging about 1 pound lost as sweat during workouts. This was about twice the amount and I had pushed it today.
I started with 20 minutes on the treadmill. I did 5 minutes at 5% incline walking 3.3 mph. The next 10 minutes were at 10% incline and the last 5 minutes were back at 5% incline at 3.5 mph. I was really inspired by all the folks that were jogging on the treadmills today and decided to do a little myself. I have had pain and discomfort in my knees and ankles before trying to jog. I have been avoiding it. Today that changed. I put the treadmill to 1% incline and jogged 2 minutes at 4.5 mph. Sure that is not a lot but it was a start. I then walked 2 minutes the went to jog one walk one. I did this for 30 minutes. My jog speeds were 4.5, 5.0, 5.2, and 5.5 mph in cycles. At jog time I would do the 4.5 then the next jog time I would do one of the higher amounts. Something else changed. I was able to let go of holding onto the treadmill while jogging. That was huge for me. I was actually jogging freely as I had been doing years ago. Once 30 minutes passed I moved to the elliptical machine and did another 20 minutes of cardio since I was feeling so good.
I ate a banana on the way home because I was starting to really feel my empty stomach talking to me. Once home I made a two egg omelet with 3 turkey sausage links and 1/2 serving of ore-ida tater tots. I added some red pepper to the omelet and put hot sauce on it for some spicy seasonings. Lunch today was at IKEA and I had a Waldorf chicken wrap AND a veggie wrap, I was hungry! and for dinner we bought some middle eastern food that I packed half away for tomorrow ( I used to eat it all at once) and made a big salad to put the chicken haleem, chick peas, and white rice over. WOW it was tasty. I am still under calories for the day and might have an apple with some peanut butter as an evening snack.
I took another picture today and cropped it next to the one I am using as my profile picture on myspace. I ca see the difference already! What do you think?
For some reason my pictures are being stretched taller and make me look thinner in both before and after shot here. in the admin area to edit the post they show normal. Strange.
I plan on going to Bally’s again tomorrow for a bonus workout. Have a great night!
