After a hiatis from the blog I decided to do a post today. During the cold months it is just harder for me to be consistent with my exercise. But turn Spring I'm right back to walking, jogging and lifting weights on a consistent basis. As a result the weight has been coming down. I got up to 238 shortly after the Christmas holidays, but when I weighed yesterday I was at 230.5 lbs.
When I don't exercise, I don't eat well. I think for me it is due to stress related eating. Without the endorphines and the other beneficail chemicals released during exercise, my brain substitutes food for my "feel good".
I would like to make this blog more interesting without having to spend a lot of time. If you have any ideas let me know and I'll consider encorporating them.
Meantime here is my usual entry
weight: 230.5 The last time I weighed it was 233.5 on Sunday 3 days ago. Since I don't remember my weight before Sunday its hard to tell from what this 3 lb drop is due. I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't jump up a pound or two the next time I weigh this coming Saturday. That is when I'll be back at the gym. I'm only weighing every 3 days for now. One reason is I don't have the more accurate balance beam scales at home.
Exercise: Short .2 mile walk in morning and at lunch. Lifted weights involing all muscle groups with heavy lifting with legs and back - the larger muscle groups. It took me about 45 minutes. I've started allowing my pulse rate to drop to 96, which is 60% of my max, between lifts. I've been feeling better after lifting both short term and long term after doing this. I walked about .5 miles to cool down. My pulse rate was 126 when I started and I allowed it to come down evenly to 100 during the walk. After the walk I stretched for about 10 minutes to maintain flexiblity and reduce soreness in the following days.
Food:
Brkfst- Bowl of Raisin Bran. Not the best cereal for a low carb diet but I like it. half grapefruit and Coffee.
Snacked on bits of apple (cut up into 1/8 pieces) throughout the day Also had about 10 peanuts and 5 walnuts.
Lunch-Bean, cheese and meat burito, small taco and diet coke from Taco Bueno.
Dinner - Cup of mixed vegatbles (beans, peppers, carrots, water chestnut - a stir fry blend), canned salmon and buttermilk. Not a gormet meal but I liked it. I'm not hard to please and it was fairly healthy but not optimum.
