One Week Review

So I'm one week in.

Overall I'm happy with my recommitment to the gym. It's going pretty well, I could still add more cardio in, but I think that'll come the more I go and the more my life sort of normals out.

With food, I'm finding it pretty easy to keep breakfast and lunch to the 25% rule and when I'm out to eat. But I'm having a hard time still doing this and keeping it down when I'm having dinner at home or watching tv late at night. That's the hardest thing for me right now getting use to lowering my calories. I'm hoping I'll get better at it the more I keep up with my food diary.

I'm two pounds down as of this morning, but I think it might be water weight. But hey, maybe it's actually working :)

Workout 6: Chest Day (e.g. Bitch Day)

Chest day is my least favorite day ever. And I might have been a bit hungover for other reasons, albeit not from a rager the night before sadly.

Was a few minutes late but had a quick efficient chest workout with the bestie again. Had muscle failure doing pushups at the end so felt like that was a good sign. Didn't have cardio, but did have an 815am meeting I needed to get to.

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Workout 5: Monday Cardio Day

Mondays are always the hardest day, and bestie and i definitely don't get up early on Mondays so I try and do cardio by myself after work.

I definitely was not having a fun time and needed some inspiration. Usually that requires some Hoarders on Lifetime. That wasn't enough. So I decided maybe reading was needed - and I'm reading Gone Girl - which if you haven't read, DAMN ITS SO GOOD. Such a good distraction while doing 40 minutes of cardio followed by 100 lunges and 100 squats. Overall not too shabby for a Monday evening at the gym.

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Workout 4: Sunday Funday?

Sunday was a good day. Met the bestie at the gym and we did arm day. You know what I hate about arm day though, you feel like t-rex the rest of the day. Like no joke. Your arms just sort of fold up unless you keep stretching them out.

Also, it was a funday pool day so we added in a set of shoulder exercises. Gotta make those shoulders pop at the pool gurlfriends.

No cardio but our workout did last an hour. But I also went to a concert at 930 club to see Neon Trees. I danced. I'm gonna consider that cardio for the day.

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Workout 3: Friday Workout

Today was leg day. My favesies, besties most hated. We determined we would do leg days on Fridays since he would make it through because it's Friday, and we would do chest days on Tuesdays since I'm already bitching at that point anyways.

Legs to me are the easiest to push through and I enjoy it. So today wasn't too shabby.

Only hard part was getting up early still - even though we had a late start by meeting at 7. I've been on a bender watching The Good Wife while working late, so I've been going to sleep late and sleeping poorly due to work stress. Although this morning I woke up at 550 thinking I overslept, went back to sleep and when my alarm went off at 630 I literally thought I was dying from exhaustion. But, the experiment called and so I beckoned.

At the end of the workout, bestie had gotten some water for his protein shake, it was sitting on the locker room bench all cold and looking fine, and I said so, and he gave it to me. Such a catch, that one. That water might have saved my day it tasted so good.

Now, on to the weeeeeeekend.

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Workout 2: Tired

Back day. 630am. 

I'll just summarize today by sharing my checkin on Facebook: "I want to go back to bed."

But it happened. 2% of the way there. Now for breakfast of two hard boiled eggs and a banana. 

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Workout 1: Getting in to It

First day in to a routine is always hard, and today was no exception, although it could have been harder so that's encouraging.

Met my best friend at the gym at 630am like we do most days of the week. We debated what we should do, and settled on shoulders (it is tank top season after all). We did 5 different exercises ranging from 3 sets to 4 sets, and 10 reps each.

*as a note, if you are reading and thinking you might be able to do some routines that I do, or pick up some tips on workouts and weightlifting, this is the wrong place for that. I barely knew anything about weight lifting. I know nothing about science or muscle names, and I heavily rely on the bestie to help come up with the routines.

At the end of the routine, it was about 45 minutes in, and I had to get to work. I knew I committed to doing cardio, but this morning that was not an option timewise. Luckily, my afternoon at work cleared up meeting wise and I was able to leave the office around 5. While mentally I was not in the mood to go BACK to the gym and do cardio, I knew it was needed if this was going to be my first day.

So I went to the gym closest to my house and did 20 minutes of sprint cardio on the stairmaster (3 minute warmup, alternate between 1 minute at full speed and 2 minutes at warmup speed until your time is up. A trainer taught me one time that alternating between steady state cardio some days and sprints is a good way to make sure you don't plateau. That could be bullshit for all I know, but I usually try and do sprints when I'm less motivated cause you do more in less time.

As for eating. I left about a third of my meal on the plate at lunch, and at dinner I just made sure that I had the appropriate portion size. I also tracked all of it on the food diary app. 

All in all, day one, complete, all goals accomplished. Feeling good.

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