January 30, 2013 - Exercise Update

Got in my orientation on the weight machines last night. What fun! I forgot how much I enjoyed using those.  I liked going through it with the trainer, as I was able to understand the purpose of the exercises and get my weight ranges set right.  I am excited to use them again and kinda bummed I need to let my body rest from them tonight since I did a full set last night. :-/

I've been getting in 20 minutes of cardio on the machines 3 times a week on average. I'll admit, it's pretty boring and I have a really hard time pushing myself to do it. Probably if I had a better distraction while I'm on it, I would do better. Last night I used the ARC which is a sort of cross between a nordic track machine and an elliptical. I was feeling strong, I guess, because I was really coasting along for a bit there. Didn't burn a ton of calories, but I felt like I was pushing myself a bit more than usual.

I'm not sure if I'm sad or happy about what I'm doing cardio-wise. I've been so sedentary for so long, I'm not surprised that so little can wear me out. I'm actually happy that I can even plug along the 20 minutes I can do and that I could lift the weights I did last night. At the same time, I'm sad because I know I had worked so hard to get stronger and all that is gone. Sigh. What's gone IS gone, though and beginning again will have the same great feelings of victory and satisfaction as they did before. Hopefully so much so that I won't let myself lose what I gain this time.

Weigh-in tonight. I'm really excited about seeing the scale even though I shouldn't be focused so hard on those numbers. I guess it's the measure of progress and I hope I see some. I'll update here when I get home.

Update:  Weigh-in rescheduled for tomorrow night. Tried the wii and it has me down 4.6lbs from 2 weeks ago. Not terribly reliable, though, as I had just put in new batteries and I was wearing some different clothes. BUT...it was going DOWN and that's the right direction. :)