Fatness Be Gone

Well, I had a personal setback this week and started to fall into old habits. I gained 3 pounds but I’ve caught myself, and will be getting back on the wagon tomorrow in the morning. I am learning a lot about myself and how I let my emotions control my eating habits. I didn’t realize it until recently, but I am emotional eater. I’ve recognized it and now I have to figure out how to minimize and hopefully break this habit.

Also, as of tomorrow, I will start to keep track of how long I have gone since smoking a cigarette. Yes, I bought a bunch of cartons right before the tax increase for the ‘children’. Now, since I don’t want to pay for the children, I will be forced to quit smoking. I’m down to my last pack so it’s cold turkey time. It’s also part of the life change that I set out to complete at the beginning of this blog.

I will be resetting my diet plan to the beginning and bringing it closer to the Body For life model. I hope with the weight lifting and the changes to smaller, more frequent meals, I can achieve better results. With the weight I’ve lost already, I feel that I have taken enough pressure off my back and am am ready to start lifting machine weights.

My tentative workout plans for the next month are as follows:

Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays

– Machine weight circuit training plus two hours race-walking on the treadmill.

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays

– Step aerobics, core and abdominal training plus two to three hours road cycling.

I have also done the following:
a) Reset my diet master plan. I now have until the 9th of July to reach 250 pounds.
b) I’ve reset the map-my-fitness challenge to start tomorrow. In order to complete the challenge, I must lose 50 pounds within 60 days of Mother’s Day 2009.
c) I had my body measurements taken. I have lost two inches from most parts of my body. My calves have gotten a little bigger (probably all that walking and cycling) and my neck stayed about the same. Now that I am about to begin weight training, I expect those numbers to improve over the course of the next month or so.