Session #15

[lynn]

At our last session Mr. W. says to me, "next time we're going to do a good old-fashioned body building workout."

Yesterday I realised that means isolate each muscle and systematically kill them cold-blooded. We did upper body and already today the insides of my elbows, biceps, shoulders and upper back is hurting. Not my triceps yet.

And, as usual, we started with abs.

Tomorrow, since I have the day off, I'm scheduled for 7am instead of 3:30pm. Yay! We're doing lower body muscles. Boo.

This morning I ran on the treadmill. I ran about 2.65 miles in 29 minutes. That's alternating my speeds (intervals) and a five minute warmup walk included. WHY can't I just stay on long enough to get to 3 miles? It's like, once I get to 30 minutes, I just want to fall off the treadmill and die. Yet, I jumped rope for another few minutes. Couldn't that energy be better directed? Like, toward getting to 3 miles? Can't I slow down and conserve some?

But it was nice we did upper body yesterday. It didn't interfere with the run at all- except when dropping my shoulders, it was a little achey.

Comments

[aislingfaye]

Yay! I'm so happy you're enjoying this :D

About your run, I know what you mean... I wonder what the answer to that is. It is funny how you can totally be drained on one activity, and then go do another. Why can't you combine it? I wonder what Mr. W would say?

[aislingfaye]

How've the sessions been going? :D

[lynn]

Sorry. I need to adjust my settings so I get notifications in my email.

They've been going great- I'm getting addicted. Dear Husband notices every change and he comments particularly on my bottom (which I can't see), my waist and my legs. I'm trying to get him to notice my arms but he only seems to concentrate on the curvy bits. Go figure. :) Oh yeah, and my face is thinner and I have collar bones again. Whee!

[aislingfaye]

No problem! I think your wolf-attack photo series at the top is missing, too... I have a lot of empty pink space when I'm viewing your journal and it just occurred to me I don't see that photo.

That's so awesome about the results showing up! While the scale isn't moving near as quickly as it should -- as long as I'm eating decently and not feeling bloated, I can see results, too. I just wish the scale would hurry it up ;) I just am needing to see at least something good happening right now since some of my other goals etc aren't doing so well.

Also can't wait for some of my clothes to start fitting better again. Isn't it frustrating when you feel like you should look and weigh a lot less than you really do? Argh... c'mon body & clothes, catch up to the mental side of things. Heheheh!

Keep up the great work! How many more sessions do you have? You're going... twice a week now? I can't remember what you'd said (if you had... it sounds like the schedule floats a little to work with all the other schedules, I guess?).

[lynn]

I know- I've got, like, the opposite body image of an anorexic. I keep thinking I look fine, and then I see myself in a picture and I'm like, whoa! I'm fat! :) But I have a skirt that I've pinned up twice. When I put it on without the pin, it falls to the floor.

This pleases me.

I'm going through the end of August, i think. After my first 12, I paid for an additional 20. If finances are still looking okay at the end of these, I'll buy more. So I think I'm like, at, 16 or 17 out of 32. But yeah, I'm going twice a week. Weds and Fris.

[aislingfaye]

That's sort of how I am, too. While I know for example that I've looked a lot better -- I don't feel like I weigh as much as I currently do... I feel like I'm back on track where I was before the gain happened. Until I try on clothes and or like you said see yourself in a photo. It's such a huge ego deflation. "Oh." D'oh!!!!

If the clothes and photos were to catch up a little more with how I see myself, I wouldn't mind quite as much about the scale and would just assume it truly was firming up and it'll come down eventually. Hopefully things'll start kicking in soon.

I remember your financial plan -- I hope it all keeps working so you can keep doing this. :D