I still love the
gym. I've been 4 out of 5 days so far this week (the other day L and I went for a 5 mile walk, which was really nice). I've been doing mostly the
treadmill and elliptical so far, but got on the bike for the first time today, and I thought I was going to die!! I had to stop twice in 20 minutes to give myself a moment to recover before I could carry on, and when I stopped, the timer on the bike stopped counting down. Now that really is unfair.
Since I've never been good at running and I can keep going *forever* at 4mph on the
treadmill, I've been experimenting with some IT by varying the gradient, but keeping the speed the same, and that seems to be working well. I can't believe that I feel fitter already. But I suppose I have been exercising now for over 2 weeks.
I've also been experiementing with resistance training, but I really am going to have to work out my own program with that because the PT I saw on Monday has given me a program of ridiculously low weight and high reps. I started out with the
weights she gave me, and did the required number of reps without any effort at all, so I doubled the weight and halved the reps, and that seemed better. But I'm going to need a better plan than that for the long term.
My total miles walked for last week was 24, so I beat my target. I'm not going to set myself a new target because I'm experimenting with so much of the new equipment at the
gym that it is eating into walking time. I'm still walking 2 - 3 miles every time I get on the
treadmill, and going out for walks when the weather's nice, so I've hardly stopped walking altogether. L and I are planning to walk to a beach about 6 miles away one day when it's really warm weather, and take a picnic. It isn't warm enough to go in the sea without a wetsuit yet, but hopefully it soon will be.
I bought a protein supplement to try today because I've been worrying that I'm not getting enough protein. I decided not to have any this evening because I already pack a lot of
calories into the last 6 - 8 hours of the day, but I'll try some tomorrow morning. Apparently, I can mix the powder with soya milk, which I like the taste of (and it will add more protein), and if I get bored with that I can put some food flavouring in it. L thinks I'm weird because I'm taking this new healthy
weight loss thing so seriously.
And finally, my average weight for the last 7 days is 155.1lb, a loss of 1.2lb. I'm feeling amazingly positive about this. Long may it last.
