Sunday, October 10, 2021
Week of October 10 – October 17.
I didn’t mention in my last blog (Keep Pushing! Keep Digging! | Sincerity (devotionsonline.blog) that I wanted to increase my activity when exercising. So I logged many exercise minutes to ensure I was burning calories to lose weight. So here it is, a new week, and it’s time to start planning the week. I continue to use the cycle and the elliptical machine. And I continue to eat heavy at the beginning of the week, like today, Monday, and Tuesday, and on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday is the days I eat very light. Salads, cottage cheese, grapes, and things like that keep calories down and continue to burn them simultaneously. I don’t use lettuce on my salad; I use spinach, the big leafy greens for fiber so I can feel full longer. Here are the results of my workouts this week.
October 11, 1,615 calories and did 79 minutes of exercise.
October 12, 1,647 calories and did 76 minutes of exercise.
October 13, 1,590 calories and did 76 minutes of exercise.
October 14, 1,682 calories and did 79 minutes of exercise.
October 15, 2,079 calories and did 100 minutes of exercise.
October 16, 1,726 calories and did 80 minutes of exercise.
October 17, 1,010 calories and did 37 minutes of exercise.
I can honestly say that this week’s production really paid off. But trust me when I say this; there are consequences behind your actions. Good or bad. Sunday, October 17, is weigh-in day. I have to say I am impressed. I dropped 5 pounds; I’m finally under the 299 threshold. I’m at 294. The weight keeps coming down. It is not the time to stop; it is a time to keep pushing and digging. I must continue to be active and find what I can do to keep myself motivated. It’s a never-ending process. This is good. What are you doing to stay motivated?
Week of October 17 – October 24
I am happy because I finally got under the 299 threshold I’ve been sitting on; I’m more dedicated to losing weight and keeping fit. But, it’s a new week, and it is time to start planning it. Failure to plan is planning to fail. So, put the work into the plan. My plan is; that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I will use the elliptical and cycle machine for my workouts, strictly cardio (spoiler alert; I will regret that later.) So, I hit the gym bright and early and got to work. Here are my results for the week.
October 18, 1,461 calories and did 75 minutes of exercise.
October 19, 2,453 calories and did 126 minutes of exercise.
October 20, 1,906 calories and did 79 minutes of exercise.
October 21, 1,953 calories and did 86 minutes of exercise.
October 22, 2,224 calories and did 125 minutes of exercise.
October 23, 1,774 calories and did 81 minutes of exercise.
October 24, 1,063 calories and did 41 minutes of exercise.
So I weighed myself as it was October 24. I’m confused. I stayed at 294. What is going on? This issue has to be investigated. I talked it over with my mother, a former fitness trainer, to help dissect this issue. We both came up with something that it could be. Today, I felt bloated, and I have no idea why I felt bloated. That was part of the problem.
Meanwhile, during the week, I drank a lot of Powerade. I believe it was the Powerade. My mother thought it was the tea I had been drinking. Then we both came up with a third option that could be an issue. That is the cottage cheese. It was not the low-fat kind of cottage cheese. After examining what I’ve eaten and been drinking over the week, we devised a plan to see if it worked. Find out in the next blog what the plan is and see if I actually lost weight.
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