Today for some reason, I am completely exhausted! I wasn't in the mood at all to go to the gym. Normally I am. I went to the beach this morning..so I guess, who WANTS to go to the gym after relaxing at the beach? NOT ME! Buttttt...I did anyways! I actually had a really good workout! [Does anyone notice that when you least want to go to the gym, you seem to get a better workout?] That happens to me all the time.
Today I did 3.5miles on the elliptical. For anyone who is wondering what I do, when I get on the elliptical I do 5 min [forwards] at the Resistance 1/Crossramp 10 [i dont touch the crossramp settings] Then after 5 minutes I bump the resistance up to a 5 and go backwards. I switch off forward/backwards every 5 minutes. After 10 minutes I bump up the resistance to 15 for 10 minutes then for the last 10 min I bump it up to 20 [20 is the max] Its super slow but you will get a great leg workout! I like to have the crossramp up because it makes me sweat more. For some reason I LOVE sweating at the gym. I will literally look down and drip sweat all over the machine. Even if I do 3 miles on the treadmill I dont sweat as much as I do on the elliptical.
I havent gotten to much into weights yet, I think I said this on a previous post. Im more concerned about getting into the habit of doing 30-45 min of cardio 5-6x a week. I even thought about working out twice a day, but I dont think that's going to happen right away.
Last night I went to Outback for dinner and NORMALLY I would order a side of fries..but I didn't. It's just not worth it to me to go to the gym and sweat and work my butt off, then go eat fried food, and until your motivated and WANT to lose weight and be healthier, that won't happen. Anyways, I ordered the Outback Special, a 9oz steak and you get two sides, I got [French Onion Soup, and Mixed Veggies with no butter] I know the french onion soup isn't the BEST thing to get, but that's my absolute favorites, and i figured, its better than fries! The french onion soup is 466cal, and my steak was 381, and veggies were nothing so 847 cal is way better than I used to have, which was like 2000+ calories! I feel horrible after eating that steak though, [don't get me wrong, it was one of the best i've ever had] but I know it takes longer to digest red meat, so i just feel like it's just sitting in me, which makes me mad. I didn't lose anything, which irritates me. I know I should've done better so I def. learned my lesson!
Here's some pictures from my day! :)
Until next time..
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