weigh in
I don't often weigh myself, because I get way too wrapped up in the number and freak out if it's a number I don't like. However, I understand that it's a good thing to weigh yourself now and then to make sure your weight is going in the right direction. So after working out for about a month, I figured it was safe to weigh myself.
Ouch.
I had underestimated my weight by a good ten pounds, which already was ten pounds heavier than I wanted to be. So now after scrambling like crazy at the gym, I am still currently twenty pounds over where I want to be. On the one hand, it's discouraging that I am not closer to my ideal weight in spite of working out so much lately. On the other hand, well, what did I expect? Truth be told, my exercise habits the past two or three years have been seriously lacking discipline, and I have been pretty careless in my diet. So I have only myself to blame.
On the bright side, I know I am already in better shape than when I joined Life Time Fitness in August. In one of the early classes, the instructor had us do a back bend, and I could hold it for only a few seconds. Yesterday, I was actually shocked that I could now hold a back bend much, much longer with no problem at all. So this stuff works; it just takes time.
And overall I am loving Life Time. I go over my lunch hour, and they have a variety of noon classes during the week. Twice they have 50/50, which is half cardio and half strength, though really more of a cardio class. They have one Strictly Strength class, which is all hand weights and bands and medicine balls and such. And then twice they have Total Conditioning, which is sort of like 50/50, but with more strength stuff...sort of like 70/30, I guess.
It's all fine...I just have to remind myself that I didn't gain all the weight in a month, so it's not all going to come off in a month.
Ouch.
I had underestimated my weight by a good ten pounds, which already was ten pounds heavier than I wanted to be. So now after scrambling like crazy at the gym, I am still currently twenty pounds over where I want to be. On the one hand, it's discouraging that I am not closer to my ideal weight in spite of working out so much lately. On the other hand, well, what did I expect? Truth be told, my exercise habits the past two or three years have been seriously lacking discipline, and I have been pretty careless in my diet. So I have only myself to blame.
On the bright side, I know I am already in better shape than when I joined Life Time Fitness in August. In one of the early classes, the instructor had us do a back bend, and I could hold it for only a few seconds. Yesterday, I was actually shocked that I could now hold a back bend much, much longer with no problem at all. So this stuff works; it just takes time.
And overall I am loving Life Time. I go over my lunch hour, and they have a variety of noon classes during the week. Twice they have 50/50, which is half cardio and half strength, though really more of a cardio class. They have one Strictly Strength class, which is all hand weights and bands and medicine balls and such. And then twice they have Total Conditioning, which is sort of like 50/50, but with more strength stuff...sort of like 70/30, I guess.
It's all fine...I just have to remind myself that I didn't gain all the weight in a month, so it's not all going to come off in a month.