Well, it’s not so much my gut, as my large ass and flabby arms. With no kitchen, and the kitchen living in the living/dining room, this caused some serious problems in my well being. Outside of the mess driving me CRAZY, there was no room in our house to work out, and no place to prepare food. So, much dining out was done, fast food was consumed, and no exercising was had. As a restul, my ass has spread. Well, my whole body has flabbed out. Yuck. I was feeling down anyway, and let me tell you, flabbing out does not help ones depression.
Well, the kitchen is now in the homestretch. We are making food at home, so no more fries or pizza. I actually still need to actually diet some to lose the weight I need to, but at least I am not gaining any more.
Mid-may, we joined a gym. It’s a basic gym, but it has all my needs, ellipticals, weights, and weight machines. It has some other stuff, too, but I don’t concern myself with those things. I don’t have a problem doing cardio, in general. However, strength training of any kind bores me. Well, except for crunches. But, I digress. Somehow, going to a gym, and having a circuit, and a routine make me enjoy my strength training. I work muscles I would ordinarily ignore. So, this is a good thing. We got a special that gives us the summer free. This rocks for me, because heat and I do not mix. I get sick and wilty, and it sucks. Being in air conditioning helps this immensely.
So, we are shooting for every other day. I do some cardio to warm up, my strength circuit, more cardio (right now, it’s at 50 minutes total between the two, but I’m going to start upping that), stretching, and crunches. We want to start adding other activities on our off days, like running and rollerblading to mix things up. But, we are getting there.
Sunday, I was bold, and stepped on the scale.
It said:
147.5 # (I tried not to cry because this is what I started at, pre working out)
30% body fat (I did not cry, because that is lower, and theoretically I’ve lost about two pounds of fat)
So, there I am. Methinks I will take a page out of The Seamster’s blog, and start posting about my fitness regularly. I figure having my embarrassing body stats out there for everyone to see will help keep me motivated, and get me back to where I was not so very long ago.
Good for you. Glad the place is almost done. Jen says we’re going to join a gym, too. But that’s been said for the past three months. In the mean time, I bike to work most days and consume plenty of beer and pizza for my own diet.