New structure
I have been thinking about how to restructure my day. I am not doing it just yet because I am leaving for vacation on the 13th and my whole life will be in a uproar then but when I come back, I am thinking of restructuring my life to include exercise and such. I am doing betting on the exercise so far. When I am working, I always get at least 30 min. on the treadmill. I warm up before I get on it and I am slowly speeding it up and walking without holding the bars (thanks to Nancy and her blog so I know what to do) I have been really enjoying the exercise but I want to vamp it up a little more. What I am thinking of doing is getting up maybe 15 min. earlier and doing squats and leg lifts. I want to get up to doing 54 three times a day. Then I am planning on buying some exercise DVD’s while in the US and at night I can do those. So much of my flesh is loose and they really need to be tightened up. Especially my stomach and thighs so I want to target those. These are a few of my plans. I also want to reach my goal. I have been struggling so badly for a month and I need to get back on plan and stay there! I hate dreading the scale. I want to get on and like what I see. I want to learn how to like what I see when I look in the mirror.
i had some people tell me on another thread that I set too high goals for myself and expect perfection. It is true. I can’t look at what I have alreayd lost and be happy. I continually look to see what more I have to lose. I am hoping that when I reach goal, I can look back and then say, yes, I did good. I am afraid if I do that now, I will stop losing weight. It doesn’t help that I live in a country where I am still considered large. Not fat but compared to them, large. I just have expectations of myself that I want to make. I am about a size 8 now but I want to be lower then that. That is my dream and it is easily attanable being that I still have 20 to 30 pounds to go. I really want this and need to keep this in mind when I want to eat off plan. I can do this, I have to do this!
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Once you get back from vacation things will settle down then you can focus on you and your health! I got one of the Leslie Sansone walking DVDs from Wal Mart and it is a good one for beginners. You can do one mile (12 minutes), two, three or four (one hour). The lady on it says if you do the whole DVD at once you can burn around 800 calories on avg. Anyone can do this. My friend said her co worker did it and has been doing it for seven years and has maintained a 60 pound weightloss. Good luck to you and travel safely!
You’re doing awesome! Yeah, it’s that all or nothing mentality that gets us, isn’t it? I try not to focus on any of that, because I know how perfectionistic I can be, also.
While you’re over here, if your family has cable, you can try out the exercise on demand channel to sample different workout videos… then you’ll have a good idea which ones you will enjoy and which ones target what you’re looking to target. My favorite one (so far) for abs is SHAPE…omg, it left me sore for DAYS… and I think it was maybe 8 minutes long!
I’m so glad I stuck out in your head and helped you with form.
That’s great.
You have a great plan. I completely agree and encourage you to add strength conditioning to your exercise routine. It will help tone you like no tomorrow. I also recommend Yoga to help tone up and even Pilates.
Have fun on vacation!! So glad you get to come out here and see your family.
