Ch-ch-ch-chaaaanges!....

Man, my face is so much thinner than when I started this journey. Wow.
I also have a neck now. I once had a high school English teacher who made fun of me. She used to say I was like Mike Tyson in that I had no neck. I suppose I went right from shoulders to head. Now I actually have a neck. Heh.
My muscles are becoming pretty well-developed.

Good stuff.

Next week's workouts....

I have three strikes against me for workouts next week:

First, my trainer will be on vacation next week, so I'll be on my own for workouts.
Second, they're re-finishing the gym floor, so that means no Tuesday and Thursday classes.
Third, they're closed on Friday due to Independence Day, so no Friday class nor a workout at all.


When I work out next week, I'll have to listen to music on my iPhone so I can concentrate on music whereas normally I listen to the TV and my trainer talk. I think finding some good music will get me thru. I want to try to up my jogging to 30 minutes straight at some point next week.

I could just work on jogging Tuesday and Thursday since I don't do weights those days anyway. Abby will be there those days, and she's a runner and is encouraging me to run a 1/2 marathon in August. She could give me some pointers, I'm sure.

Friday I could either skip working out that day or possibly go for a walk or jog on the bike trail. We'll see....

I forgot that we're thinking of playing Wally Ball a couple of times next week. We'll see how that goes!

Last night's weigh-in....

I weighed-in last night. I GAINED a pound. Yeah. I'm working out harder than before. Jogging more and more each time. Eating the same. It seems like when I come back to the gym on Monday after having the weekend off, I 've lost more weight and as the week goes on, the weight goes up. They're telling me that I need to eat more, like 100 calories more. I understand the logic, but it's hard. I don't know where to add the food. I'm full at dinner. I could stand to eat more for lunch or maybe my afternoon snack. But what do I add? I can already barely afford to eat what I'm eating now. In fact, I really CAN'T afford to eat what I eat now. It comes down to food or gas sometimes. Ugh.
It's only a pound.
Back to 213, I think. I forget.
Blah.

Today's workout....

So last Wednesday my trainer wanted me to better my time as far as jogging. My old longest time for jogging continuously at 6.5mph was 12 minutes. I decided to jog for 20 minutes last Wednesday and did so!
So today she wanted me to better my 20 minutes from last Wednesday. I decided to jog for 25 minutes today non-stop at 6.5mph. I warmed up with a three minute walk. I then put a towel over the display so I wouldn't fixate on the time and psych myself out. I looked at the time at about 22 minutes, not realizing that I didn't have 3 minutes to go, but instead 6 minutes to go due to my 3 minute warmup! My trainer told me I had a minute left before we realized I had 4 minutes left! Arg!
Oh well. I ended up making it 25 minutes without a problem! Hell yeah! I'm close to running a 5K!
Go me!

Last Thursday's weigh-in....

So I tried to blog at one point last week after the weigh-in Thursday, but Blogspot was down.
Anyway, I lost 1 pound last week. I have 12 more to go.

Eating more....

So I'm trying to increase my calories by a little bit this week. I think that with my jogging that I need to eat a bit more as I'm expending more energy and burning more calories. I also think it might help with my weight loss numbers (not that they're bad).
I'm adding the calories it in a healthy manner, of course. I also decided I should really try to eat more fruit as I only eat an apple a day, so I'm combining efforts. I've added half of a banana to my meal plan. That should increase my calories by 50 or so. I might even try to eat the other half of the banana in the evening when I have my almonds.
I ate the 1/2 banana with my lunch yesterday and was full after lunch. Bananas are very filling.

Today's workout yields new record....

So my trainer today wanted me to jog for longer than I have before. Meaning a longer continuous jog rather than those days where she has me do like 6 minutes then walk 1 and 5 and walk 1, etc. My old continuous jogging record was 12 minutes at 6.5mph. Today I decided I'd jog for 15 minutes to beat the old record. Part of me felt that 15 minutes wasn't enough. I covered the screen on the treadmill with my towel and told my trainer she could look at the screen occasionally to check my time. Once I hit 15 minutes, I decided to keep going.
I jogged for 20 minutes straight at 6.5mph the whole time!!! Not bad! 8 minutes longer than my previous best.
After about 30 seconds or less of walking at 3.5mph after the jogging, my heart rate was around 146 and dropping steadily. After 3 minutes of walking I checked it and my heart rate was all the way down at 116. My conditioning is really good right now. My heart rate drops fast as soon as I walk.
I'm really proud of my accomplishment! Who knew 103 pounds and 9 or so months ago that I'd be jogging for 20 minutes straight?!