Archive for March 19th, 2010

The sun came out for a few hours today and it was a welcomed surprise!  It definitely helped me get up and get moving.  Thank you SUN!  I hope you come out to play more often.

I hit the gym about an hour before my personal training session was scheduled with Kevin.  It gave me plenty of time to stretch thoroughly and get warmed up.  I walked for about 6 minutes and then started my run.  And I ran and ran and ran some more.

I have learned to trick myself.  Basically I play mind games with myself.  I start out with the mentality that I’m only going to run for 10 minutes and when 10 minutes comes I tell myself to run for 2 more minutes.  And this time I pushed myself even further.  I ran for FIFTEEN MINUTES!!!   This is the longest that I’ve EVER run in my entire life.  Whats really funny is that I told Kevin.  Sometimes I am hesitant to tell him when I run longer than 10 minutes because he might expect it every time.  Sounds dumb, I’m sure, but its the truth.  Once he finds out that I can run longer than 10 minutes then he’ll expect it each and every time.  Anyways, this time I was ECSTATIC so I blurted it out!

I also decided to get on the scale today.  At first I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea or not but I had to know.  I haven’t been on the scale since last week and even then it was just a check-in.  Just to see how things were going since there haven’t been any weigh-ins.  At that point, last Friday, I was only down about 2 lbs.  Better than gaining but still not as much as I’d hoped to have lost.

Anyway, today when I got on the scale, it said 202 lbs!  It was 2pm and not 5am when I typically weigh-in.  It was AFTER eating breakfast, snack and lunch.  It was AFTER drinking plenty of water during the day.  Does this mean that I might be under 200 lbs?!  Did I FINALLY lose more than 50 lbs since I started personal training in October 2009?!  It definitely makes me start thinking.  All I know is that I MUST keep working hard and do everything I can before I weigh-in on Wednesday!

Kevin did a full fitness evaluation this afternoon.  I’m happy to report that ALL AREAS improved and some improved dramatically.  When I first started training with Kevin I could barely do 5 push ups and I had horrible ‘range of motion’ but today I did 25 – with almost perfect range.  We also tested my plank.  When I first started I did 30 seconds and that was being generous.  This time I held it for 2 minutes and 18 seconds!  Maybe all that ab/core work is finally paying off.  Lastly, Kevin tested my Vo2 Max – its now 29.  This is up from 22 in October.  The skin fold test – 7 spots, were also DOWN!  I guess all the frustration didn’t go unheard.  Please body, continue to change and please scale, continue to DROP!

I am proud of ME!  I can do this and I will continue to accomplish more.  “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!”