Great news! I can finally do one full pushup and I’m only on week 4 of the program!! I can’t express how happy I am since never in my life have I been able to do an actual pushup. Well, maybe one time in my life when I had a personal trainer for about 6 months. However, took me a lot longer than 4 weeks of a program to do it.
My body is starting to slowly tone up. I’m noticing a little definition here and there that I didn’t have before. I’ve taken some before photos but I don’t want to post any until I’m finished with the Basic routine. So before and afters come about once every 10 weeks. 😛
Next week I’m going to see a nutritionist and figure out a way to fine tune a healthy maintainable diet. Not a loose weight diet, just a healthy one. I don’t really believe in loose weight diets in most cases (exceptions to everything). If you want to kick start something than go for it, however in the long run a healthy diet and exercise is what’s going to help you maintain.
If you read my last post then you know my current weight. I’m not to proud.
I realize that for some 129 seems like it’s awesome. Personally it isnt for me. Everyone has different goals and for me, weight is not one of them. I could care less right now how much I weigh.
What I’m concerned with is Body Fat %.
A person can weigh 170 lbs but have incredibly low body fat. That’s because muscle weighs more.
You can measure body fat by calipers that can be purchased pretty much anywhere. GNC, Walmart, Target, your local fitness or vitamin shop. Their not too expensive depending upon the type you get. My husband and I have a scale that tells you.
Now keep in mind that these methods are not 100% accurate. None of them are unless you want to pay oodles of money to go have a team of professionals do it. The point is to pick a method and stick to it. It’s the number going up or down is what you need to concern yourself with. Continue reading
This is the starting point for my personal journey through the fitness world to better my mind and body. Also to set a good healthy example for my daughter.
Let me start by telling you about me and where I was.
When I was in high school I was certainly not the most active by any standard. Sure I walked a lot with friends around the neighborhood, but that was it.
After high school when I got my first car the walking pretty much stopped. Sure I went camping and stuff sometimes but that’s not really that physically challenging. Not where I lived anyways.
That pretty much carried on till I got married. I didn’t put on a lot of weight, but I did put on about 10 lbs after my one quarter stint at Ohio University. Lots of walking mostly uphill since freshman weren’t allowed cars. I was in ok shape then I guess.
Now if you take into consideration that I had pretty much nill for muscle you can guess that pretty much all the weight I had was fat. Mostly on the belly and hips. Since that’s generally where women tend to store it. Also keep in mind that I’ve never been huge on eating a lot. In general my calories always stayed between 1000 and 1300 per day and I was not working out or keeping fit at all.
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