Very proud of ya

2 points to the person who tells me where I got my post title from.

I've been to the gym the last 3 days. In a row! I also went last Thursday I believe it was. And I actually had the intention of going last Friday, so much so that I packed a gym bag and threw it in the car before work. But then I was stuck at work late :( Like, midnight late. Today I went directly from work, which was a first. It worked out pretty well, by 6:30pm I was on the elliptical - usually I'm barely home by that time.

All of these last 4 times in the gym this week I have done cardio only, about an hour each time, and burned between 650 and 710 cals each time. Yay! And the fitness part of it is actually pretty easy. As in, I can do 7 resistance and 7 incline with not-quite-ease-but-still-doable-for-the-better-part-of-an-hour-without-getting-winded. That was too many connected words, yes. But yeah, I'm feeling "fit". But still fat. I've actually dropped below the weight I last posted on here, but I hadn't updated here for awhile. I was actually hovering around 171 or 172 before I went on vacation at the beginning of the month. When I got back, I weighed in at 177. Sadness. This morning I weighed in at 173, 31% body fat. So I'm feeling pretty good about that. Let's see if I can't get below 170 sometime in October!

I'm trying really hard to just get in the habit of going to the gym every day right now. That's why I've only been doing cardio - when I think of going to the gym just to squat, which I lack the flexibility for squatting properly all the way down, or do overhead presses that take a lot out of me, I get discouraged and I believe this is the source of many a skipped trip to the gym. With cardio I just tell myself, just hop on the machine and see how that goes for a bit. Don't like it (as I didn't on Saturday)? Try another machine (as I also did - tried the bike for the first time in awhile. Surprise - I loved it! And it has a built in fan!!!). Still hating it? Ok, go home, at least you tried! Even when I wasn't feeling it Saturday, that change of machine enabled me to knock an hour out anyway, which was extremely encouraging. I can almost look forward to going the gym for cardio only, so that's what I'll be doing for now. Once I've got the habit down, I'll try to expand back into the weights too. It's not that I don't like doing the weights, it's just a lot of work and more often than not I end up disappointed with my disappointment.

So, I really hope I'm able to keep up my good streak of going to the gym and getting a solid workout. I feel awesome afterwards (except tonight...but that was due to some rancid milk :( ), and I know I'm working hard at being healthy. Oh and then also I can eat slightly more :D I've been pretty good calorie-wise though, I think. Still working on the type of food I eat though. While I was on vacation it was nothing but junk food provided for me, so I kinda went on a junk food binge and it hasn't quite ended yet.

On another note, I got a kettlebell the other week. A 20 lb-er. Cuz I'm strong. Actually I can barely do it at that weight. I've determined I can do 4 mins straight of kettlebelling and then I'm wiped. Like, totally completely wiped. Panting for breath. Sweat coming out of every pore. So I figure that's a good workout for 4 minutes, right? I try to do that about 2 or 3 times a day. But I haven't done it since I started going to the gym again :O I mean to, though. That was my plan for getting strength training in while avoiding the weights at the gym. Takes alot out of me though. I just need to keep trying :D