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Jul. 4th, 2011 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicI have so many excuses for being in crappy shape. Wrist injury. Bronchitis. Crazy schedule. Blah, blah, blah, just because I have my reasons, that doesn't make me not a sloth.
When I went to the doctor last week, I was prepared to have gained weight, but I figured something in the neighborhood of 5, maybe 10 pounds. It was significantly more than 10 pounds. So. That won't do. Time to push the excuses aside and just fucking get back to it.
I moved my dumbbells into my bedroom so that they're in a more visible location. Each day, I've been doing sets of shoulder and bicep exercises, along with squats. I'm anxious to get back to pushups, but my wrist isn't quite ready yet. It's much better, though, so I'm hoping it won't be long.
Also, the new job I think I'm going to start soon is just 1.8 miles from here. Should be a totally easy bike ride, right? Ugh. It's so not. I tried it the other day and wussed out before I got all the way there, because the road I took was too curvy with no shoulder or bike lane. I was trying a back road because Canyon, the main road, doesn't have a bike lane out that direction, and it is a very busy road...but I think if I do bike, I'll have to go that way. But there's another problem. It's uphill the whole way. It's not a huge hill, just a long, gradual one, and it turns out I'm in no shape to do that for a mile on a bike. Which is kind of distressing because really? It should be easy. So I'm going to work on getting into the right kind of shape for that ride, and until then, I'll probably walk or bus to work to start out.
I'm also nervous that taking a full time job will make it harder for me to work out or just be healthy in general. Right now I play this game with myself where I tell myself I'm going to work out, and I put on my workout clothes, and then I take anywhere from 1-5 hours to actually go do it. But I always set a deadline for it in my head and I always make it by then. I just usually have a nice large window. And I get my best workouts in the early afternoon, right after my lunch is well settled. Messing with that schedule (or rather, lack thereof) is going to be a challenge. But I'll do it.
Because I've gained more weight than I'm comfortable with, and I'd like to get rid of it ASAP and never see it come back.
When I got fat before, it took reaching 199 pounds on the scale to be like WHOA, no more fucking around, time to get serious about this. And I lost 60 pounds. I gained about 7 of them back and leveled out in the 140s, where I've been perfectly content for the last few years. I'm glad to know that I've recalibrated and that now my oh hell no weight is much lower than two bills, but I'm annoyed with myself for hitting that threshhold again.
So anyway, I've been trying to get in some serious exercise every day since that doctor's appointment. Yesterday I went on a great hike with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sillygoosegirl and her husband. It was about a 5-mile round trip, with a fairly significant elevation gain. It was strenuous, but at no point in the hike did I feel like I was pushing too hard, so that's good. Then today I went to the gym for a run/bike cardio combo. Having been sick, and on vacation before that, it's been about a month since I've really run, so I'm easing back into it. A mile warmup jog, then 30 minutes on the bike or elliptical. I wish I felt like I could do 4-5 miles like I could last year, but I'll get back to that before too long. It's a promise I'm making to myself.
I'd also like to get to a pilates class soon. And regularly. I bought a package of classes through LivingSocial, but I haven't cashed it in yet, so I suppose I should do that soon.
When I went to the doctor last week, I was prepared to have gained weight, but I figured something in the neighborhood of 5, maybe 10 pounds. It was significantly more than 10 pounds. So. That won't do. Time to push the excuses aside and just fucking get back to it.
I moved my dumbbells into my bedroom so that they're in a more visible location. Each day, I've been doing sets of shoulder and bicep exercises, along with squats. I'm anxious to get back to pushups, but my wrist isn't quite ready yet. It's much better, though, so I'm hoping it won't be long.
Also, the new job I think I'm going to start soon is just 1.8 miles from here. Should be a totally easy bike ride, right? Ugh. It's so not. I tried it the other day and wussed out before I got all the way there, because the road I took was too curvy with no shoulder or bike lane. I was trying a back road because Canyon, the main road, doesn't have a bike lane out that direction, and it is a very busy road...but I think if I do bike, I'll have to go that way. But there's another problem. It's uphill the whole way. It's not a huge hill, just a long, gradual one, and it turns out I'm in no shape to do that for a mile on a bike. Which is kind of distressing because really? It should be easy. So I'm going to work on getting into the right kind of shape for that ride, and until then, I'll probably walk or bus to work to start out.
I'm also nervous that taking a full time job will make it harder for me to work out or just be healthy in general. Right now I play this game with myself where I tell myself I'm going to work out, and I put on my workout clothes, and then I take anywhere from 1-5 hours to actually go do it. But I always set a deadline for it in my head and I always make it by then. I just usually have a nice large window. And I get my best workouts in the early afternoon, right after my lunch is well settled. Messing with that schedule (or rather, lack thereof) is going to be a challenge. But I'll do it.
Because I've gained more weight than I'm comfortable with, and I'd like to get rid of it ASAP and never see it come back.
When I got fat before, it took reaching 199 pounds on the scale to be like WHOA, no more fucking around, time to get serious about this. And I lost 60 pounds. I gained about 7 of them back and leveled out in the 140s, where I've been perfectly content for the last few years. I'm glad to know that I've recalibrated and that now my oh hell no weight is much lower than two bills, but I'm annoyed with myself for hitting that threshhold again.
So anyway, I've been trying to get in some serious exercise every day since that doctor's appointment. Yesterday I went on a great hike with
sillygoosegirl and her husband. It was about a 5-mile round trip, with a fairly significant elevation gain. It was strenuous, but at no point in the hike did I feel like I was pushing too hard, so that's good. Then today I went to the gym for a run/bike cardio combo. Having been sick, and on vacation before that, it's been about a month since I've really run, so I'm easing back into it. A mile warmup jog, then 30 minutes on the bike or elliptical. I wish I felt like I could do 4-5 miles like I could last year, but I'll get back to that before too long. It's a promise I'm making to myself. I'd also like to get to a pilates class soon. And regularly. I bought a package of classes through LivingSocial, but I haven't cashed it in yet, so I suppose I should do that soon.
Anyway, that's the latest. If anyone wants to go on a hike with me, it's my favorite kind of exercise :)
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Date: 2011-07-06 03:06 am (UTC)But I'm sure you'll get into a routine after you start your new job and the working out will fall into place :) I'm excited for your new possibilities!