Today was weigh in day. I did my normal morning routine and then hopped on that scale… and it mocked me.

No worries. I’m not upset. It always stinks to see the numbers going the opposite way that you want, but I know how weight loss works. You WILL NOT see a loss every single week, especially when you are exercising hard and a female.

I have multiple sore muscles from using the Total Gym harder or in new ways. Sore muscles equal water retention. For some one that size that can be anywhere from 2-6 pounds of water retention.

I’m 100% positive I’ve logged all my calories and MFP has never steered me wrong in the past 9 years. I’ll show a couple examples of the calories I’ve consumed. The first will be Net calories (Calories minus any extra exercise logged).

Next is the Calories in general. This is how much I ate each day.

At 1950 Calories a day I should lose about 1.8lbs a week with a sedentary life. With an “office” job my life is considered primarily sedentary.

Anywho,

Keep it going,
-Kimmie

Woo! So got through day 16 of my exercise streak.

My core/ abs are so sore from one of the stretching exercises I’ve been doing the past few days. Took a walk yesterday. Still harder than it should be, but it’s mostly just my back that starts getting tired and aching. From what I’ve researched it’s the muscles that are weak back there and the back/ spine and muscles surrounding it, have to compensate and work harder to do balance on these inclines we have. That means these are harder, but I have done this core work the last few days that hopefully will start to help.

The accessories I got for my Total gym came in and I used the wing bars, went through all the training cards (Some of those exercises are still a long way off for me), and in a day or two, I will try the leg extenders.
So yeah I did pull ups! Pull ups!! That’s what the wing bars attachments are for.

I really may have to take back the hatred I have of exercise. I really am starting to like the Total Gym machine. Some moves are still insanely hard, some I know I can’t do yet at all but working harder each time, putting in a little more time, and knowing I’m going to be moving up to the next level on the legs soon, are all exciting.

Weigh in day tomorrow. I will post the results here, no matter what.

Keep it going
-Kimmie

We all have different things that motivate us. My streak motivates me to keep going. I finish my exercise and get to add a day on the white board. I’ve finally reached 14 days. Yes two straight weeks of some sort of exercise each day, even with three days of stiff knees.

You can see I’ve added some things to my whiteboard space. Since it’s like wallpaper I can always add more space if I need to, as well. Those are more goal weights. Not sure yet what I will reward myself with when I hit those goals. I’ll need to think about it more. 200 lbs has the asterisk by it because that will be huge for me. I have NEVER been 200lbs or lower in my adult life. In fact, I am pretty sure I was already over 200lbs in Junior high. So whatever my reward for then, it will be something big!

I’m 5′ 7″ so my goal weight is supposed to be between 125 and 155 according to most charts I’ve seen. When I get closer to that It will be easier to be sure. When I was at 206.6 lbs (My all time low) I had at least 50 lbs to go from what I could see.

Anywho,

Keep it going,
-Kimmie