We had our 2-month weigh-in on Tuesday and I lost a unencouraging 3 lbs. While overall, I'm down 16 lbs, after having such a great first month, this last weigh-in was not my proudest moment. But if you take the 16 lbs and divide it over the 8 weeks I've been training, it comes to a loss of 2 lbs a week, which is a nice healthy weight-loss. So I'll just continue to look at the overall number and quickly forget that only 3 of that came off last month. I hit a plateau. We're working on changing things up to get my body moving back in the right direction.....the path to winning the contest! :)
For the past month, we've been doing "homework." This homework consists of doing workouts on our own. At first it was just once a week and now it is up to twice a week. The workout is a 35 minute cardio workout that keeps your body going back and forth to your 80% max heart rate. For my age, that HR is 150. So, since my knees haven't been doing well with running, I hit the elliptical machine. I warm up for 5 minutes and then start the climb to get the machine up to a hard workout. I do this fast pace hard workout for one minute and then go all the way back down so that my heart rate can recover back into the 115 range. I do this 6 times. I then cool down for about 2 minutes and I'm done! It is a quick and high calorie burning workout that kicks off most of my days. I've noticed lately that it has taken my body less time to recover. Originally it took about 2 minutes. Today it took me only 1:15! That means I'm getting into shape!!!
The worst part about all this working out is the nappy feeling I have all day. My hair is always up in a ponytail and I wonder why I'm going to wash it when I'm just going to workout again first thing in the morning. Plus most mornings after my workout, I'm off to the races to get all the things done in the morning before the boys get out of school. This usually doesn't include a shower. I'm happy to finally get into the shower when nap time arrives around 1 pm. Yes, that is a long time to be sweaty nasty when I workout at 8:30/9AM!!!
