I lost 1 pound last week.  I’m at 138 this morning. Although it’s not much, it is something, and I am not discouraged.  A healthy amount to lose is 1-2 pounds a week, so I’m right on track. I tried a new workout today from Health Magazine.  For 20 minutes, you are supposed to ride a bike doing the following:  Pump hard for 8 seconds, then rest-ride for 12 seconds. I noticed my 8 seconds were up to about 120RPM and my rest-ride was around 80RPM.  I was out of breath and bored after 10 minutes, so I moved to my new stand-by walk/jog routine.  After 10 minutes of that, I was ready to try the bike routine again. I couldn’t stop thinking about the magazine article boasting about a study where women who did this trick lost 3 times more fat (especially from their legs and butts) than women who exercised at a steady pace for 40 minutes. So I went back to the bikes, but this time I tried a recumbent bike.  It was not as hard a work out as the regular bike.  This is a definite ’try again’ work out. Maybe next time I’ll last longer than 10 minutes. If you try this biking trick, I’d love to know what you thought about it.

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Posted: September 24th, 2007 under Daily Journal, My Favorite Workouts.
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I’m not sure why, but I’m up 2 pounds today.  This is the reason that you may not want to weigh in every day.  If something like this can discourage you or send you into an I’ve-already-failed-so-why-not-eat-that-brownie mood, then DO NOT weigh in every day.  This two pounds is either water weight, because I didn’t eat my 3rd snack, or the scale was wrong yesterday morning. No, I still haven’t gotten a new scale.  I was planning on going to the wineries today with my friends and had saved up 2.5 cheats for the occasion.  They all flaked on me, and I ended up at the In-Law’s for dinner.  My mother in law is one of the healthiest people I know, so I was not worried about eating there. I’m glad I had some cheats left though because she cooked ribs, baked french fries and cole slaw.  I needed to use one cheat because ribs are not a lean cut of meat.  I didn’t need to use cheats for the BBQ sauce or the cole slaw because they were sugar free.  The fries were baked with a bit of EVOO and spices.  I decided to use my last cheat and a half for the week on wine when I got home. (big smile)  

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Posted: September 23rd, 2007 under Daily Journal.
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