Am I the only one who finds exercising easier than dieting?
I swear, dieting is more painful than any pain I've felt exercising so far. In fact, since exercising, it seems I've been more hungry. Thus I eat more. And sometimes, its not healthy.
It's like putting a starving man in front of the most delicious food and saying, "Now you can't eat any of this, but you may look and admire it as much as you want". Its like a delirious request. I. DON'T. LIKE. DIETING.
But, I am...
The junk food at our house has been cut down majorly. We are replacing it with healthy fruits. I, personally, like vegetables more than fruit. (Broccoli, yum!). That, and my pop in take is almost diminished. The only time I seem to drink it is when we go out to eat.
Food is like the love of my life, and my worst enemy. Ugh!
Aside from that though, I pushed myself this past weekend and I was so sore at work. Usually I've only been working out for 30 minutes, taking break when needed, and kind of taking it easy because I just couldn't push myself to do that. Well, last weekend, I went about an hour exercising, doing exercises I used to do in school (I used to do 100 lunges, 100 sit ups, 20 push ups, 50 jumping jacks, running in place for about 15 minutes, and jump roping for 5 minutes). I used to do all that like it was nothing. Now I can barely do any of it. But I did that an some more on Saturday and I paid so much for it Monday. It hurt to move.
Anyway, I took a break and let myself recover a day. Then I exercised again Tuesday, Wednesday, and now today. And amazingly. I'm able to go the whole half hour without stopping. That seems pathetic to some. And maybe others might even pity me for being so out of shape. But to me, this is great improvement. And my body is actually starting to enjoy it. I start to feel run down if I don't exercise. It's amazing. I am proud of myself.
The only problem with today's exercise, was that I decided to have some ice cream before I went to exercise. And it was almost exactly after I ate the ice cream. I don't know why, just a slip of the mind perhaps? I just wasn't thinking fully that "Hey, gotta exercise, maybe you shouldn't have that delicious ice cream" But nah. My stomach won that round, and now I'm sort of paying for it. I actually looked it up online (although I don't remember the site). And it said that you should wait at least a half hour after you eat a full solid meal to exercise and give your body time to digest it. For lighter snacks, at least 15 minutes. And the snacks shouldn't be ice cream. Don't follow my example. It should be something like yogurt, or a fruit smoothie. Something HEALTHY!! Once again not ice cream. Hey, I said I cut down on the junk food at the apartment, I didn't eliminate it entirely.
But lesson well learned from it. I wont be doing that again.
Anyway:
Weight: 140-142 (one pound!!!)
Pant Size: 8-9
Endurance: Still sucks, but definitely improving,
My inspiration for the coming week. ^^^^
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