Another Week

Last week passed without any exercise for a variety of reasons, primarily laziness. In Sunday I met my parents for a good amount of time. My mother expressed concern about my health and that freaked my husband out much more than my railing and ranting about my health.

Yesterday, being Monday, I realised that work wasn't too pressing, so went to the gym. I've also put a meeting in my calendar for the 2 hrs it takes me to go to the gym and get back home so that nobody can really schedule something for that time. I'm planning to keep that going this week. I also joined Peer Trainer. It's a free resource online that allows you to log stuff and join groups. Groups full of people who are trying to work out. It's just been a day, but hopefully it'll be of some value. One of the key things I already learnt, is that adding too much too soon is a recipe for failure.

I tried to do diet and exercise modification at the same time, failed. Now though, been doing the cooking/eating in a planned way for almost 3 weeks, and it seems to be working. So now can add exercise. Peer Trainer suggests that we only add 1 new thing a week.

So yesterday I went to the gym, did 25 minutes on treadmill and 10 minutes cycling. Felt good after that. Not too tired and no bad aches and pains. Today, no aches and pains either, which means I'm not overdoing it. I only walked on the treadmill, but did just over 10 minutes at 5.8 kmph which I thought was quite good. Got a good stride going, no knee aches or foot aches. Cycling was also good - I felt it working muscles without hurting knees.

Naturally, I feel all righteous because I did exercise yesterday and it didn't kill me. The plan is to follow the same process today. Work properly during the day (wasting little time) and leave with sufficient time to get to gym.

I realised that I ate a couple of sweets yesterday! Bad me! Still, I'm not too upset, since I did just about everything else right.