Wow. Just wow. It has been far too long since I've updated this blog, and this is the one out of my four that I really should have been keeping up with all this time.
What else can I say except I think I finally have it right. I have cut back on so much food and have gone back to resistance training at the gym, and it has really helped so much. I was never huge in the first place, but I have gone down about 20 lbs from when I started all this, about 5 or 6 lbs away from my goal, and I'm probably about 5% away from my ideal body fat percentage.
I guess this all really started when my cousin decided she wanted to rejoin the gym (we used to go together when I first signed up there many moons ago) to get into better shape for her wedding. This was in late June/early July last year, and she was getting married in September. Of course as they were finalizing her membership, they pushed sessions with a personal trainer on her, and on me since we were supposed to be going together. We were kind of reluctant, but decided that if we wanted to see some results by the wedding, we'd need a crash course, and personal training would get us there.
In time my cousin found that she was getting pretty busy with her wedding preparation and couldn't come to the gym as often, and eventually not at all. I, however, had a stubborn motivation to stick with it, and I kept going to the sessions, even renewing them as they expired, and doing more and more cardio on my own.
I also stopped drinking diet pop, juice, and milk, and drink tea sparingly. I no longer eat cereals or muffins for breakfast, bread, rice, potatoes or any kind of starchy carbs with my meals except for a few large-flake oats with breakfast and some quinoa (which isn't even really a grain) with my other meals. I never touch junk food anymore, although I miss the salty snacks dearly, and people think I am stuck-up or something because I won't eat their desserts. I stick to mostly chicken or fish, and veggies and salad. I usually only have a fruit a day with breakfast. I'm also taking whey protein (since I lift weights) and a calcium citrate/vitamin D3 supplement.
The only vice I still have is my new-found love affair with almonds, the raw, plain kind. It's hard to find nuts in the store that don't have a lot of salt on them, but I can get a nice big bag of them at Costco for $10. That and I like my glucose tabs just a little too much.
All of this has been a lot of tough work, and there are a lot of things I miss, but I've never felt better and I wouldn't change or stop what I am doing for the world. At least I hope so.
What else can I say except I think I finally have it right. I have cut back on so much food and have gone back to resistance training at the gym, and it has really helped so much. I was never huge in the first place, but I have gone down about 20 lbs from when I started all this, about 5 or 6 lbs away from my goal, and I'm probably about 5% away from my ideal body fat percentage.
I guess this all really started when my cousin decided she wanted to rejoin the gym (we used to go together when I first signed up there many moons ago) to get into better shape for her wedding. This was in late June/early July last year, and she was getting married in September. Of course as they were finalizing her membership, they pushed sessions with a personal trainer on her, and on me since we were supposed to be going together. We were kind of reluctant, but decided that if we wanted to see some results by the wedding, we'd need a crash course, and personal training would get us there.
In time my cousin found that she was getting pretty busy with her wedding preparation and couldn't come to the gym as often, and eventually not at all. I, however, had a stubborn motivation to stick with it, and I kept going to the sessions, even renewing them as they expired, and doing more and more cardio on my own.
I also stopped drinking diet pop, juice, and milk, and drink tea sparingly. I no longer eat cereals or muffins for breakfast, bread, rice, potatoes or any kind of starchy carbs with my meals except for a few large-flake oats with breakfast and some quinoa (which isn't even really a grain) with my other meals. I never touch junk food anymore, although I miss the salty snacks dearly, and people think I am stuck-up or something because I won't eat their desserts. I stick to mostly chicken or fish, and veggies and salad. I usually only have a fruit a day with breakfast. I'm also taking whey protein (since I lift weights) and a calcium citrate/vitamin D3 supplement.
The only vice I still have is my new-found love affair with almonds, the raw, plain kind. It's hard to find nuts in the store that don't have a lot of salt on them, but I can get a nice big bag of them at Costco for $10. That and I like my glucose tabs just a little too much.
All of this has been a lot of tough work, and there are a lot of things I miss, but I've never felt better and I wouldn't change or stop what I am doing for the world. At least I hope so.
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