The Problem with Tomorrows…

04.02.08 / Exercise, Food, Health, Pedometer, Reports / Author: kiniwoman
Tags: Update

…is that they are always “tomorrow.”

A week ago, I said I would update everything, “tomorrow.” Apparently, that meant in another week.

Here’s the whirlwind update.

DIET: My diet sucks. Terribly. I eat healthy stuff, mostly, but, too much, or not at the right intervals, or something.

WATER: I really need to be consistently drinking my water. Preferably, plain water and not with any artificial sweeteners in it.

EXERCISE: Consistency is what I do not have lately.

I have been attending the weekly workouts at the play structure since January 8th. Honestly, I LOVE the group workouts. Seriously love it. I just wish it was more than once a week. Unfortunately, it wasn’t just a workout. Apparently, it was a whole program with diet, exercise, and a bunch of “mental” exercises. I know people need to be well rounded this way, but I was really only looking for the workouts especially since I was going be at the play structure anyhow and if I could be working out for 45 minutes to an hour of that time (and off my bottom) all the better! I am just completely not interested in the other components of what they are trying to do. At least not right now.

I had had success with the low-glycemic diet way back when I did it. I stopped when the holidays arrived. I maintained throughout the holidays, but just could not get going again once they were done. That was a little more than a year ago too! I am SO happy that I did not gain everything back. I believe it is because I have incorporated a lot of it into my nutritional habits and lifestyle, but as I am still stuck in the 200s, I obviously haven’t got it enough into my life.

Tomorrow (there’s that word again), I will weighing in with the workout group. I believe it will also be measurement day as well. I fully expect a gain this week. I hope not a huge one. I have been working out this week, but honestly focusing more on the strength and sculpting type and hardly at all on cardio.

Tomorrow morning (yes, I know…that word), I am rejoining my low-gi lifestyle.

For today, my diet went well. Not particularly low-gi, but not horrid either. I drank 64 ounces of water, but half of it was with Crystal Light packets. Also, two cups of coffee (no sweetener!!) with milk. Need way more veggies. I have once again been using SparkPeople (only because I know people there now) and becoming immersed in it, and am considering giving FitDay another chance (I thought it was frustrating when I tried it a year ago).

My workout today was a 45-minute DVD: The Bar Method: Fatfree followed by 20 minutes on my recumbent bicycle. I attempted intervals, but I was just not focused on it.

I once again put on my pedometer and have fallen horridly short of recommended step counts. I would like to say that I had completely forgotten to put it on until about 9 am (having been up almost 4 hours at that point). The dismal count was 2559. My goal for the month is to better that number each day. Even if it is only by ten, as long as it is higher, I will be happy with it.

In summary, I am re-entering the low-glycemic nutrition world, I am watching and improving my step counts, I am exercising every day, and I will update here at least once per week.