Fitness Blog #3

Weight: 179.0 lbs

Contiuned downward trend. Pants are now loose as hell and I am down another belt loop (still no measuring tape).

I have been working out like a fiend too; I have been trying to run outside on the few days when the weather has been nice and try to get in a gym on a treadmill or an elliptical trainer on other days.

Being past the first two weeks of Atkins, I have been able to add nuts, specifically macadamia nuts, into my diet. I also had a glass of wine, which had no noticeable effect.

Just yesterday I started lifting weights. Prior to that I had done only cardio for no particularly good reason. I expected to be very sore today and was pleasantly surprised that is wasn’t that bad. I took it easy the first time of course and plan to increase my effort.

My dad and I discussed weights this weekend when I was visiting my parents, and he had some good suggestions. Most notably is that I should go slowly on strength exercises, for example not quickly jerking a dumbbell up and dropping it but to hold it with one’s muscles all the way. I adapted the same things to the crunches I have been doing in the morning. Instead of doing many fast crunches, I am doing fewer slow crunches which have felt more effective.

I have yet to work out a routine, but plan on continuing with weights starting tomorrow.

In other news, Jim Henley linked to my previous fitness blog entries (its near the bottom of the post). I honestly didn’t think that anyone but some friends read this blog. However, I put these entries online and publicly available for a reason: To have a few weeks of diet entries and then quit would be embarrassing not only to me but to potentially all internet users. I couldn’t just post before pictures without eventually publishing after pictures as well.

There is no way that I would give up this diet at this point though. I have been cooking and eating far better than I have before and I love the workouts.