Friday, January 30, 2009

Off Track

Weigh in's were Wednesday and I didn't even lose a pound. I lost .6 pounds. It kind of frustrated me because I lost 8.2 pounds in the first week and it's like this week, the scale wouldn't budge. I'm halfway thinking that it's due to my sodium intake. I've tracked that and unfortunately, out of the 2,300 mg that they recommend on Spark People, I'm getting an average of 1,000 mg over that. That bites. Everything I eat has a decent amount of sodium and although it was easy to give up pop and start my diet, I'm not sure that I can give up sodium so quickly. I'll try to limit my intake, but this is what's going to be my biggest struggle.

So, my diet is still going as planned (minus sodium) however, I've been slacking on my workouts. I was supposed to do 30 minutes of cardio and all of my strength training on Wednesday. Well, I did my strength training, I just happened to skip out on my cardio because the day was rather busy. I told myself that I would finish up my cardio on Thursday.

On Thursday, I started my cardio. I had been jumping rope for five minutes in my parent's kitchen (I know, what was I thinking?), when all of a sudden, my rope hit the light on the ceiling and it came falling down. It shattered in pieces all over the floor. I obviously stopped.

So, then I told myself that I would finish it up today, which means not only do I have to do seven strength training workouts (2 sets of 15 reps each), but I have to do 55 minutes of cardio instead of thirty minutes. I did my step ups a few minutes ago for ten minutes so now I have to jump rope (vigorously) for ten minutes, jump rope (slow) for ten minutes, go for a twenty minute walk, and do five minutes of vigorous jumping jacks. That's what I get for slacking.

1 comment:

  1. We all get off track sometimes. The important thing is to just keep going and don't lose sight of the goal. I am a dedicated martial artist. Three days a week my training begins at roughly 4:30 a.m. and will last until roughly 9:00 a.m. The other days of the week I may get in an hour, I may get in 5 hours; it all depends on the day. Keep up the good work.

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