First Week of Exercising

Okay, I am very late in posting. In my defense the hubster was working from home and my computer is in his office so I didn't want to bug him and then it snowed which of course made it too cold to blog. That makes sense doesn't it.

Anyhoo, I weighed my self this past Friday. I was so anxious to see the results of my hard work through the week. How many pounds had I lost? I was hoping for 2. When I woke up I raced to the bathroom so I could have my big weigh in. I couldn't believe my eyes when the results were finally in. I had lost..........drum roll please.............zero pounds. How could that even be?

Normally I eat something sweet every. single. day. I love my sweets. I don't eat a lot, but I always have a few cookies after dinner or after lunch too. That past week I only allowed myself on two occasions a total of 7 Low Fat Vanilla Waffers between the two days. I ate almost half of what I normally do, I ate much healthier too. I drank almost all water & the rest was tea with dinner only. I ate no snacks at all. I hit the treadmill Mon-Wed for 30 minutes at an incline of 4 at 3 mph. I am really out of shape, I was not trying to kill myself. I did crunches 4 days in a row and other assorted leg exercises. How could I have lost NOTHING? It was very upsetting to say the least.

I knew immediately that my easy way out on the treadmill was not going to get me anywhere. You see, on an incline at a slower pace it shows that I burn more calories than at no incline and going faster. Going faster poops me out more and since I was all about burning calories I went with the incline and 3mph. And it got me nothing. It also proved once again what I have always said about my body. What I eat has very very little to do with my weight. It is all about the cardio for my body.

Our bodies are so unique, what works for one may not work for another. My body only responds to cardio and having muscle to burn more fat. Always has, I don't know why I thought I could get away with a low mph on the treadmill? So, lesson learned here and that would be that we have to do what works for our bodies. Our bodies respond differently and we have to do what will work for our own individual bodies. My body needs cardio with some light weight lifting.

I do have some good news though. That Friday I immediately changed my treadmill routine to 3.5 mph at a 0 incline for thirty minutes. I did it Fri & Sat and I increased my crunches, still did the leg workouts and I incorporated a small amount of dancing to test the waters. I checked and I have lost 3 lbs!!!!! I will not weigh again until this Friday but I needed to check to see if this new workout was having any effect. I am also going to do a DVD cardio dance workout this afternoon. This should help. I am hoping to lose one more pound this week for a total of 4 lbs lost over last Friday's results. I am excited already!