Weekend Motivation

Ugh! I am tired. I went to bed too early and woke up too soon (3AM). I couldn't go back to sleep until 6AM and had to wake up at 8AM to go to work. Why does the body punish you for trying to get more sleep? You would think that it would be grateful for the break. Bags under the eyes would magically disappear, skin would tighten but no, I am more tired and have a slight headache.

Enough bellyaching! I went to the gym on both weekend days and here is the breakdown:

Saturday - weights, abs only. Abs really fought me hard and did not want to crunch. I even cramped them up somehow. A cramp in the ab region is not fun, I didn't know how to relax them. I just bent backwards a little and they were ok but I stopped. You won this round abs!

Sunday - I did the eliptical trainer while watching football. I used the machine with handles like a cross country skiing thing. I did the workout in the three minute increments so for 3 minutes I used no hands, for the next three minutes I grabbed the non-moving handles in the middle of the machine that take your pulse and for three minutes I used the swinging handles.

It made the 30 minutes go by fast. I like this concept of micro goals. On the treadmill, I use the same system - 3 minutes fast and 2 minutes slow, etc.

This blogging does influence how I did. I ate sensibly and exercised on both days so that I could honestly blog about it. I thought of a few things I would like to add and even a new invention:

How about a scale that tracks your weight loss without actually telling you your weight. So the first time you step on it, you push a button to tell it that this is your starting weight. When you weigh again, it will say "-1 lbs" so just your weight loss (or gain) but not the starting number and no math to do.

I also want to add a graph showing weight loss with the same concept. No starting number, just the progression of loss.

Wow! I added a picture. Yes! Give me an H, a T, a M, a L. Anyway, this chart sh0ws progress without seeing the y axis and that number glaring at you.

Now all I need to do is either invent the scale I was talking about or actually step on a "regular" scale and start tracking. Next week's goal - get on a scale.