The Chances

How a 250+ Pound Couch Potato Got Healthy

Friday, March 14, 2008

Oh man, I gotta share this one. The past few days I've been worried (as I always am) that I'd gained some weight because in the evenings, my belt's been feeling tight. It's like I've been bloated or something, and in the mornings my weight has been the same.

So I took a close look at my belt and noticed the reason it was feeling tight: I've been using the next notch in the belt and didn't realize it! So I measured myself and sure enough, I'm an inch smaller around the belly button, making it 36". So it looks like the new program's working!

Now watch that jinx the whole thing.
Alrighty, Day 5: same workout as Tuesday, and again, I was about 35 minutes. The past two days I've done what I did Monday & Tuesday, following the exercises like a menu, so I have no idea why it's going faster. My guess is because I'm familiar with the exercises now, I can just go through the circuits faster.

Anyway, I had some things to do at work so I didn't jog after. 35 minutes total, 294 calories burned.

And I feel much better this afternoon. Then again I'm pumped up with cough medicine, too. :) Days 6 & 7 are off! WOO!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Day 4... very similar to Monday's workout circuits, exercises were shuffled a bit. What's weird though is I finished in 35 minutes. Ran 15 minutes after: 5 @ 7mph, 5 @ 6mph, then 5 more @ 7mph. Total 405 calories burned.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

I jogged 5k today, and my time was for CRAP once again. Oh well, it was a nice day. :) 29:28:14, 363 calories burned. Burned 99 calories walking back (cooldown) for 15 minutes, so 462 total for the day.