Need to get a move on it

At the beginning of the year I set myself a goal of trying to get my weight back down to 170 pounds by the end of the year, I started on a strong note and was able to get my weight down to 193 pounds but everything since then has gone to hell and because of this I have to admit that I have been going backwards instead of forwards. Since mid February I have had one illness after another and because of this I have not step inside a gym for almost two months.

I know the first thing that everyone will be saying is that I failed at my New Year’s Resolution to lose weight and to a point I would have to agree with you but then on the flip side I now have to look at what am I going to do now to get myself back on track and were I should be.

The first thing that I am going to have to do is to get back on to the whole calorie counting track, the reason that I am doing this first is because it was the last thing that I gave up on while I was ill. The last time that I filled in my calorie tracker was just over three weeks ago but even then I was neglecting to add some of the condiments that I would be having with my meals along with some of the drinks.

An example of this would be the fact that I would not be putting in any of the cups of tea that I would drink within a day and with a each cup of tea coming in at around 15 calorie and with me normal drinking from five to ten cups of tea a day that’s a lot of extra calories that I am missing out on.

The other part that I need to start doing is going back to the gym, it may seem like one of the easiest things to say but doing it can be the hardest, the reason that it has become so hard is the fact that I have not been for so long.

My plan of action will be make up of two steps, step one is to restart the calorie counting and start going back to the gym, when it comes to going to the gym I will start off slow and then work my way up. I will first start with twenty minutes on the excise bike for the first day and then follow it up on the second day by doing five minutes on the cross-trainer. For the next three days afterwards I will then add an extra five minutes each day on to the cross-trainer until I reach twenty minutes in total. Upon competing that I will then finish up by getting on the rowing machine and completing five minutes on the first day and then taking it up to a total of ten minutes.

Once I have completed step one I can then move onto step two. Step two is to try and not make the gym boring so that I won’t give up and the way in which I will go about this is by doing weight training every other day. I hope to us this as away to keep the gym fresh and to allow me to tone up, the last part of step two will be to start decreasing my meal size so that I am eating less while excising.

So that is going to be my plan going forward and hopefully the goal that I set myself at the beginning of the year of losing 30 pounds can be done, I know that it may not be the easier way to achieve my goal but when I look back at the pictures of me when I was a lighter it gives me the motivation to get back into shape.

Until Next Time.