Ok, so I read all of these magazines. I actually love magazines. Over the course of the last year I have lost over 20lbs. This is great. Love being smaller. I have been walking/running so my legs are nice and fit but that leaves the middle of my body not much more than the pillsbury doughboy. I have chicken arms and legs. No upper body strength. YEAH. What the hell is that all about. Anyway, so I am looking at this magazine. Fitness RX I think it is called. In it there is a fitness model of note and she has this 30 days program. Of course they make all these promises of what you can accomplish in 30 days. So, I have decided to conduct an experiment. I am changing my diet to one that would be called a "Clean Diet". This is the diet those fitness models follow and really they have banging bodies so... Anyway, I am also going to follow the 30 day workout schedule. As written. So, today was day one. I got my giant ass lunch cooler. I packed my lunch. And today I started the exercise program. I did 25 minutes on the ellipical to warm up and then it was down to the weight area. Today was upper body. Did I mention I have no upper body strength. Well, it bears repeating. I enter manland (you know that weight area with the free weights that seems to get dirty looks if you enter and are not cut). I find a bench so I can do those overhead presses with the dumbbells. I pick up 7.5 lbs. Just for edification that is about the smae weight as a new baby. After 3 sets of 10 reps I thought my arms were going to fall off and that was my first exercise. This was a lot more difficult that one would imagine. There were 9 total different exercises. 8 focuses on arms, back, and chest and the last was for abs. I was doing weights from 5:40 - 6:10. So 30 minutes to finish all of that was pretty good. But it is 9:30 now and my arms are exhausted and kind of sore. This is day one. OH MY GOD!!! It takes a day or two for the full soreness to usually hit. Oh, see I haven't mentioned I am a belly dancer. AND Saturday (2 days from now) I am supposed to perform at a studio hafla. And I am doing veil. My noodle arms will have to make this work.
Breakfast was a ton of food, compared to what I usually eat. Cheerios, ff milk, blueberries and egg whites. I am stuffed. What I was most amazed about. All of that food and it was only 273 calories. It means I burned more calories this morning working out then I actually ate for breakfast. In the past my breakfast usually had more calories and was a lot less filling. There is more work involved in doing this, but I have optimism about eating lots of food. I forgot to take my measurements last night so I will have to do that tonight. And I will have to get my actual weight. I think it is about 136.2, but I am not 100% sure. Need to check that. Need all my starting numbers to see what 30 days can actually do
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