Friday Workout
Sep. 23rd, 2005 06:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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_storyteller_ and I have become long-distance workout partners, and I feel like if I post it here, with the public goal of working out six days a week, it should help to keep me honest and accountable.
The alarm went off at 5am again, but this morning it took me a long time to get out of bed. Then the novel I'm reading mugged me in the bathroom. Breakfast of oatmeal, my new practice. I actually turned on the grill for a quesadilla (my usual favorite breakfast) but a deep impulse came up and I turned it off and got down the Quaker Oats. Scanned some email while eating.
Did not feel like exercising, but did about 15 minutes of weight work. It's half the time of my assigned workout, but I was moving and worked up a sweat.
When I first got back to working out, about three months ago, I made myself exhausted and ill because I pushed too hard, too fast. I'm giving myself permission to go slowly this time: but not permission to miss a day. Even if it's only 5 or 6 or 10 or 15 minutes, I have to put on my shorts and my tennies and do it.
I have nuts on my desk at work for snacking, and South Beach Diet Maple Crunch bars for the car, so I'm less likely to go through the drive-through, especially after work. Last night, I cooked two batches of an almond and parmesan baked chicken from the South Beach Diet cookbook. (I'm not formally "doing" South Beach, but I like their food better than anything else I've tried.) I've also been drinking a lot of water again at work.
Simply not eating quesadillas -- or McDonalds -- for breakfast should be a huge win.
_storyteller_ and I have become long-distance workout partners, and I feel like if I post it here, with the public goal of working out six days a week, it should help to keep me honest and accountable. The alarm went off at 5am again, but this morning it took me a long time to get out of bed. Then the novel I'm reading mugged me in the bathroom. Breakfast of oatmeal, my new practice. I actually turned on the grill for a quesadilla (my usual favorite breakfast) but a deep impulse came up and I turned it off and got down the Quaker Oats. Scanned some email while eating.
Did not feel like exercising, but did about 15 minutes of weight work. It's half the time of my assigned workout, but I was moving and worked up a sweat.
When I first got back to working out, about three months ago, I made myself exhausted and ill because I pushed too hard, too fast. I'm giving myself permission to go slowly this time: but not permission to miss a day. Even if it's only 5 or 6 or 10 or 15 minutes, I have to put on my shorts and my tennies and do it.
I have nuts on my desk at work for snacking, and South Beach Diet Maple Crunch bars for the car, so I'm less likely to go through the drive-through, especially after work. Last night, I cooked two batches of an almond and parmesan baked chicken from the South Beach Diet cookbook. (I'm not formally "doing" South Beach, but I like their food better than anything else I've tried.) I've also been drinking a lot of water again at work.
Simply not eating quesadillas -- or McDonalds -- for breakfast should be a huge win.
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Date: 2005-09-23 02:22 pm (UTC)And the cinnamin raisin bars are the best ones. :)
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Date: 2005-09-23 02:32 pm (UTC)ROTFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been there. Done that.
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Date: 2005-09-25 07:38 pm (UTC)I bought low fat ice cream the other night... or I should say Jae persueded me to but low fat. normally something I would avoid. But I'm sure I will adapt.
Anything you do towards the goals you have set is better then doing nothing.