Nope I Haven't Given Up

I know its been a couple of weeks since I last posted, however, I am happy to report that I HAVE BEEN EXERCISING every day since last Tuesday, and watching what I eat. Surprising, huh? I will say it isn't easy, and when I get on the treadmill I am always thinking I can't wait to get off this thing.

I started out doing only 30 minutes on the treadmill, which really doesn't sound like a long time, except that when you're out of shape and too heavy and been at work all day and really want to just come home and veg out in front of the tv, that half hour seems like 2 or 3 hours. lol  As soon as I get home though I get on it and  I have finished the half hour and amazingly I do feel a lot better afterwards.

We also have workout equipment, I can't even think of what its called but one of those big things with weights and you can do different exercises on it, and I have been doing that too, using only the 5 lb. weight. I usually do a set before I get on the treadmill and then a set after I'm done. I know that technically you shouldn't do those every day because from what I read you should do it every other day and let your muscles rest, plus you are still burning calories that way. Still, I have been doing them every day, though today I am going to try not to and just do other exercises and then jump on the treadmill.  Also this week I am using the 10 lbs. weight, which I have Hector to thank for that. One of the pins that holds the weights came out and he saw and stuck it back in there, but at the 10 lbs. At first I thought about moving it back to the 5 (especially after I tried doing a set and was like yikes! This is heavy! And yes you would be surprised how heavy just 10 lbs feels!) but then I decided to just go ahead and keep it. But I don't think I will be moving to 15 any time soon.

I have upped my time this week on the treadmill too, to 40 minutes. Last week I averaged about 1 1/4 miles, 205 calories, and this week it is about 1 2/3 miles and around 250 calories.  I keep telling myself to take it easy and slowly build up on the exercise because after all,  I am out of shape and I can't expect to just get in shape over night, but once I start then I feel guilty if I don't finish by the expectations I have in my mind. And like I said, once I'm done I do feel pretty good, so thats a plus.

As for food, I kind of round about count calories, but haven't been writing them down or anything. But I have been eating less and I haven't been going crazy with them either. This past weekend I did have Cheesecake Factory with Vickie, but I had a pretty healthy salad to offset the piece of cheesecake I had (which I didn't even finish.....I only ate maybe a little over half of it.) When I do want something sweet, I bought grape and strawberry popsicles and they only have 80 calories and they satisfy the sweet tooth I have.

All in all, so far, I'm pretty optimistc and plan on sticking with it. I think it might be a little more difficult while I am in California, because I won't have weights to lift, but I'm going to try and get a walk in every morning and in the evening, and of course I'll be swimming and that's great exercise too.  So we'll see.

So far so good, even if it is a later start than I planned. :>)