2 Down, 30 to Go

[rowyn]

I'm almost three weeks into the "8 Minutes in the Morning" routine, insofar as I am following it. Which is to say: I have been doing all the exercises, and even in the morning 15 of the 18 times (so far). I have basically ignored the diet portion of the book as Way More Work Than I Am Willing to Put into Food.

This said, I have been eating somewhat less overall than I was in Decemeber or November, but I am not particularly dieting even by my own standards. I have also continued to do cardio, mostly my exercise bike, in the evenings. I am determinedly plugging away at my exercise bike as I type this, because my brain is too numb to compose anything interesting.

I am down two pounds since I started. This is not terribly impressive, but I am pretty happy about it anyway. My current exercise/diet strikes me as fully sustainable -- I can easily see doing this for years without feeling unduly put-upon. So as long as the scale trends downwards, I am cool with this. I don't really expect my weight to continue to go down at a pound a week, but I'll wait until I've plateaued for a few weeks before I decide more drastic action is warranted. Like eating vegetables* or something.

I am only 20 minutes into this workout and already I am out of boring stuff to write about. My brain is going to have to come up with something good for the next 10.

* I actually did buy a giant bag of frozen mixed vegetables a week ago, and Lut steamed some for us to have with rice for dinner yesterday/lunch today. I had some salad dressing by way of sauce. This worked surprisingly well for dinner, although it was less inspired reheated. Anyway, I'll have to do this more than once a week before I count it has a dietary change.

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I tried one of those 8 minute things, and roughly 45 seconds into it I realized that it hurt enough that even if I managed to force myself to finish the 8 minutes once or twice, I was never going to be able to do it as a regular thing, so there was really no point continuing.

Ugh. x.x

[rowyn]

I think whatever 8-minute workout you found must have been a lot more rigorous than the ones I've been doing. c_c For one, it's 8 minutes of strength-training, not cardio, so unless I pick weights that are too heavy it's not usually a bear to do. The only body-weight exercise that I hate is push-ups, and this book doesn't expect participants to be able to do push-ups. (The worst it has is kneeling push-ups, which still suck but I can -- barely -- manage to do the requisite 4 sets of 12 on those.)

Oh, on the horrible-body-weight exercises front, I am sure I would hate pull-ups too, but (a) I don't have a pull-up bar and (b) there's no way I can do one.

Which 8-minute workout did you try?

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Y'know, pull-ups get easier when you lose weight, because then you're lifting less weight!

[rowyn]

I kind of hope to do a pull-up some day, but I am pretty sure that I will need a whole ton more upper body strength before I can come close. Regardless of my weight.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

The pilates one I showed you -- it looked like it was mostly stretches and should be easy, but the positions it put me in were VERY uncomfortable.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Yay! Possibly sustainable healthy!

[rowyn]

Possibly sustainable and possibly healthy! n_n