Sheesh. Been a while since I posted here. But I got sidetracked with some other business so I didn't really have the time to check in here.
Anyway, I met my first goal!
I currently weigh 198.8. Weighed myself this morning right after I ate lunch (woke up at noon, haha).
I wonder though, I've been doing a lot of exercise lately (flutter kicks, bicycle, bicycle crunches, weight lifting, etc), so I know I'm probably gaining muscle. If I wasn't gaining muscle mass, I wonder how much I would weigh if I was just weighing the amount of fat I'd lost?
Honestly I don't feel like I've lost much fat really. I mean, I can kind of see the muscles in my legs and arms now, but there's too much fat around it still for it to be really defined just yet. It's kind of like I can just see little hints that I'm building muscle, but not much else.
My legs especially are making me happy right now. I mean, my calves have always been pretty strong since I walked a ton even before I really got into exercising all the time, but now when I flex the muscle in my calves I can almost see definition there...
On my thighs, they're still not as great as my calves. It's weird, there's barely any fat on my calves compared to the rest of my body. But anyways, there's still a lot of fat on my thighs, especially UPPER thighs, but like when I lay down on my back ready to do bicycle crunches or flutter kicks, I can see the shape of my muscle starting to show...
I love seeing that, so sometimes I just lay there for a minute and stare at it rofl. Cause even just that little hint of muscle there allows me to kind of see what my legs will look like after I lose all the weight. It looks so healthy... so it gives me so much motivation just looking at it to keep up with my exercising.
Speaking of exercising, I realized I don't really keep track of how much exercise I do daily. Like I don't have a specific regimen for what I do, but I just do it.
Like, the other day, I rode bike for about 1 mile, and there are a lot of hills around here. My legs felt like jelly afterwards.
Then after I rested for a bit when I got home, I did some wall push-ups (still can't quite do regular ones on the floor just yet, but I think I have the right form down for wall ones now), and some curls with my weights. I did around 25 wall push-ups and two sets of 25~30 curls. But it's not that I have any specific amount set, I just keep going until I start feeling the burn in my muscles and then go a bit farther than that, since I've heard/read that going past your limits is what you should do when you work out if you want to build muscle.
Then I laid down and did my crunches and flutter kicks. Usually for those I do as many as I can before my back starts to hurt. I can usually manage about a set of 10 reps for the bicycle crunches (counting 1 rep as doing both legs and not just one) before my back starts complaining. So then I'll rest for maybe 15 or 20 seconds or so to give my back a bit of a break, and then I'll start doing flutter kicks. For those I usually count to 30 or 35 (~15 reps) since that's about when my back starts hurting for the most part. Then I rest again and repeat until my back gets too uncomfortable to continue or my ab muscles start spazzing a bit (like spasming and twitching and whatnot).
So I basically do that about every day at least once. Most times I do it more than once, but not all at the same time. I don't like exercising when other people are home, so if I ever get the excuse like to go to the bathroom or head for a trip upstairs, I do one or two of the exercises. Usually I make a point to do 25 wall push-ups whenever I go to the bathroom. There's just enough space in the downstairs bathroom to do it, and there's perfect privacy for it.
If I go upstairs, I might do some curls (my weights are in my room), or some flutter kicks or crunches, or today I tried doing some squats. I figure that it's good to exercise throughout the day even if it's just a little bit... you know, the more exercise the better right?
But I always make sure I do an extensive workout for at least 30 minutes right before I go to bed... I wonder if that's good or bad? I read that you're supposed to eat within 30 minutes of working out, but it's bad to eat before you go to bed too... Hmm... I'll have to do some research on that. Maybe there's a fruit with protein in it? Hahaha. Or maybe I'll just buy some peanuts and have a serving of those after working out... that's a good source of protein, right?
I'll check it out I suppose.
Anyway, new goal!
..<195!
Just 4 pounds to go!
