Week 2

Catching up is hard, so I will put Monday's and Today's workout together.

I stepped on the scale this morning, today, Tuesday, I and have seen 4 lbs lost. Although for some reason I thought it would be more, I am happy that I made some progress. My dear husband, laughs at me because I want quick results.

I have PCOS( poly cystic ovarian syndrome). It makes losing weight difficult. Especially around the midsection. I take Metformin every day, 1500, and I feel if I combine both exercise and my medication I make a step in the right direction. This PCOS is the reason I have started working out in the past, but quit. I would work out for weeks, and see no change. But I had had enough. So this year I am making sure I combine all three factors: my medication, working out, and eating more healthy. That for me means cutting out a chunk of carbs from my diet. It is a difficult thing to do, and in order for me not to set up myself for failure, I kept a bit of carbs in the diet.I also cut down on my sugar intake. Fruit has helped with this craving, but every now and then I will have a small piece of chocolate, and you know what I don't feel guilty about it. For me the thing was to make a change in the positive direction, which I have.

Seeing the 4 lbs dropped has made me a bit hopeful, that I can actually do this. This week already I feel like I have more energy, less grumpy, and overall happier. I have more energy to keep up with my tot.

So back to my workout, I did 1 hour on the stair climber thingy, and then did 20 sit ups, and 30 push ups. The thing that make me want to work out is that I know what I am going to do, and though an hour doesn't seem like much, I don't feel like I am killing myself. I push myself when I feel like I can go harder by stepping up the resistance. I would do minutes here and there where I would be at resistance 10, then back down to 6.

For breakfast I ate: Brann Flakes, and a grapefruit, and a cup of water.
Lunch: I had a serving of hummus, the morning star chicken nuggets, grapes, blueberries, strawberries, and 5 pits chips. More water.
Snack: I had a Kellogg skake.
Dinner:Homemade Chicken soup YUMM.
I had 2 small cookies later that evening.

Today I have decided to do a double work out. Insane I know but I like my Tuesday routine where I take my tot to the Tumbling class, and go strait to the family fitness room. He know the routine, and runs right in. I worked out again on the stair master for 50 min. Then I worked on my abs, and did some sit ups. It was hard today to try and get them all in. And I did fail to meet my goal of 20, I only did 17. Slacker. I just felt so tender in my tummy, that I just had finished. Oh well. There is always tomorrow to do a bit better. But later tonight I will go and do a Zumba class. I am so looking forward to this. It will break up my routine, and I know I will have some fun doing this.

Breakfast consisted of a whole grapefruit, and a cereal bar. We were running late, so I did what I could.

Lunch: Spinach salad, strawberries, blueberries, walnuts candied.

Snack: A very small bag of hot cheetos. Yikes. I know now that I type it I am like why, why did I do that. I was so hungry for a snack, and I made the wrong choice.

Dinner: Soup/sandwich combo. I didn't want anything too heavy before I hit the gym class.

Here is to a better tomorrow with better decisions.