Breathe Me

So it's a new week. Yet I don't feel nearly as ambitious as last week. Weigh in days (Mondays) can be uplifting or discouraging or downright disappointing. Well, I lost a pound, so I am down to 134. I mean, don't get me wrong, that is great and I need to keep reminding myself that not only am I losing fat, I'm gaining muscle which weighs more than fat. So even though this is a big accomplishment, I still feel a bit disapointed. I know it's probably because I only have 10 more, make that 9 more, pounds until my goal weight, so it's going to go that much slower. It's not like when I had 50 pounds to lose, which at the beginning you tend to lose more because it's mostly fat to lose. So now that I am trying to not only lose the rest of my fat but build muscle at the same time, it's going to be tougher. I know this, I've studied this, yet it still doesn't make it any easier.

Ok, so now about my eating and work outs last week. I really slacked off last week and only worked out 5 days, which was kind of disappointing, but circumstances came up. I ate really well and saved up all my "allowable" bad eating for the weekend and still had some points left over to spare (not including work out points). So I'm pretty proud about how I ate, but I could always do better. I did do all of my Chalean strength training sessions and for some reason they were way tougher than week one. Must be all that muscle I'm breaking down, gets weak, then gets stronger (hopefully). And I only got in two days of Cardio, but I can deal with that. I will just need to step it up this week.

Considering my disappointing weigh in (and other personal crap), the week hasn't started out the best. But at least I can vent all my stress in my workouts. Which, after two weeks, I am noticing some significant increases in energy, despite my lack of sleep sometimes. So obviously one of the many benefits of exercise!

So my goals for this week:

Workout 6 days
Drink 1 more glass of water a day
Try to get in 6-7 hours of straight sleep a day for the rest of the week
Try a new fruit or vegatable

See ya next week!

~Skinny Phoenix