My first post - but it's actually day 7 of trying to find the new me!
So I'm one of those who made the New Year's resolution to lose weight, but it really is more than that. I am really going to get healthy this year. My main goal is to become consistent with exercise. Not start out, quit, start again, but stay with it. I really do like to exercise, I just don't like getting up at 4:30 am, but this is the only time I can do it.
So far I am doing well. I am going to spend two weeks concentrating on exercise and watching my portion sizes. If that does not seem to help me lose weight then I will start up with Weight Watchers again at home (I know how to calculate points and all that, so I do it on my own - would love to join, but money is the problem right now - two children in daycare should say it all!)
I have already lost 1 pound since my weigh-in last week, and I think that I may have lost one more (I couldn't tell if my scale said 190 or 189 this morning - 4:30 is early).
I have figured out a few rewards for myself so far - they can't be extravagent because of the money situation, but I believe these are doable. Here is what I have so far:
lose 10 pounds: purchase Yoga Shakti from Deep Discount DVD
lose 20 pounds: purchase Firm Calorie Killer 2
50 workout days by February 28 - Firm 3-in-1 bootcamp
These are great rewards for me, so I hope they really motivate me!
A summary of my exercise so far is:
12/31/2005: Fit Prime Metaboost
1/1/2006: Fit Prime Flexposture, 1 mile walk in afternoon, 10 minute solution pilates segment and 10 minute solution yoga segment (before bed)
1/2/2006: Firm Cardio Burn (morning), 10 minute solution pilates segment, yoga for meditation segment (before bed)
1/3/2006: Walk and Jog (morning), 2 - 1-mile walks (during day), Denise Austin Hit the Spot Pilates - Core, Yoga for Meditation segment (before bed)
1/4/2006: Cathe Basic Step Body Fusion DVD add-ons - did all three - upper/lower/abs (morning), yoga for meditation segment (before bed)
1/5/2006: AM Yoga for Meditation, AM Stretch (morning - this is my rest day), 2 1-mile walks (during day)
1/6/2006: Cathe Low-Impact Step Firm Abs segment 1
So far so good on my every day in January workout schedule. Enjoyed the nice weather here on Tuesday and Thursday and went for walks during my breaks at work. Won't be able to do that today - it's a screaming north wind and about 45 degrees - too cold for me. I do plan to do pilates and yoga tonight.
I am also wearing my pedometer daily, trying to get in as many steps as I can. Today was the first day I wore it while exercising and that was great - it's only 10am and I already have over 4000 steps.
For my exercise I am using the Firm's January rotation as a guideline for the type of workout but throwing in my own videos that I haven't tried. I think I will do the rotation as they wrote it next week, because I feel the need to do a lot of Firm. That means I start with Complete Body Sculpting tomorrow. I have done this one or two times and I think I like it - we'll see tomorrow.
Okay enough for now - I will probably make another entry