I am so thankful this week that I’m finally feeling back to normal and I was able to workout a couple of times. In fact, yesterday I met with my new trainer, Robbie, for the first time, but I’m getting a bit ahead of myself.
Even though I’ve been tracking, drinking water, and just started back with activity, I’ve been feeling sort of bloated all week. I’m not sure if it’s PMS or not, because Aunt Flo has become a somewhat inconsistent visitor (pre-menopause?) these last 6 months or so. If I had to bet, though, I’d guess she was due to arrive any time now. Because of all of this, I wasn’t sure what to expect from the scale.
Which means I lost 1.4 lbs this week , for a total loss of 2.6 pounds, overall. Which on the one hand is a really poor result in two months’ time, but I have to remind myself that I gained 10 pounds in 2-3 weeks in late Aug/early Sept, and I’ve been working hard to recover from that. (So in a way, I’ve lost over 12 pounds in 2 months, which is a more positive way to look at it). I’m feeling so encouraged and proud of myself for being able to achieve such consistent weight loss in this last month. But then again, that’s what I should expect with consistent effort.
My attitude is still really positive and nothing can break my momentum. And now that I’m able to really workout out, I’m expecting even bigger losses, and speaking of working out…
First Training Session with Robbie
My first session with Robbie was great; he gives me good feedback, encourages me, and makes me feel like I’m really accomplishing something. He told me that for the first two weeks or so, he’s going to give me more full-body workouts so that he can observe my strengths and weaknesses, and see how far he can push me and where he might need to back off. Here’s what we did yesterday:
- 20 toe-taps onto the step
- 10 squats
- 10 squats with long bar (raising the long bar over my head on my way up)
- 20 crunches with feet extended, arms extended (holding small weighted ball), then bringing both arms and legs in towards stomach and squeezing
- 20 more toe taps
- 2 sets of plank, held for 20 seconds the first time and only 14 seconds the second time
- 2 sets of the following circuit:
- 20 toe taps
- 20 hip bridge (laying on the floor, squeezing glutes upward toward ceiling)
- 20 bicep curls (supine on the way up)
- 20 overhead tricep presses
- 20 standing (feet split) chest press
- 10 push ups
- 20 squats with long bar
- stretching:
- chest stretch
- calf stretch
- hip flexor stretch (new to me, but very cool)
I felt like I kept up really well, and even though I was out of breath quite a bit of the time, the workout wasn’t exhausting for me. I think once my lungs are back to full power (once this cough is all the way gone), I’ll be able to do even more without getting out of breath so quickly. I think Robbie was fairly impressed with my abilities and realized that I was in better shape (for the most part) than he originally thought. (He didn’t say this, but I got that feeling from him – he seemed pretty impressed with what I was able to do). I left this workout feeling so exhilarated and good about myself. Plus, I burned 603 calories, so what’s not to love?!
A great session that makes me look forward to Friday afternoon’s session all the more.
{I’m so sorry that this is up so late, but today was ridiculously busy and this is literally the first opportunity I’ve had to sit down and write}.
Congrats on your loss this week! That sounds a tough workout, sounds like you are very determinded. Look forward to reading your progress 🙂
Yay for the loss!!! You have been doing incredible with your food, and it’s great that it is showing on the scale. Proud of you for getting back into going to the gym and meeting with a trainer, you’ll be to your lapband goal in no time!
Congrats! Are you sore today? I like that next-day sore feeling sometimes and I seem to get it 100% of the time I do any workout that includes overhead tricep presses. Those kill me!
Way to go on your loss!
Glad you had a great 1st session!