Don't think for a second that my silence as of late has anything to do with lack of adherence to the great schedule. I have, however, been having trouble making it to the gym at the ambitious hours I set for myself.
Monday:
The Plan: 9am at the gym, 20 min cardio, 10 min abs
The Reality: After a very frustrating fiasco with a bicycle basket, I ended up at the gym by 10 or so. It was a good time, though after that and the fiasco, I was quite hungry.
Tuesday:
The Plan: 3:30 at the gym for a leg and ab workout
The Reality: It was only natural that after touting my wonderful morning on spacekadet blog, my afternoon turned to shit. I didn't bring enough food with me to school, and by the time my 3 hour lecture/lab was finished at 3:30, I was painfully hungry. I thought I'd be able to go if I nourished a bit, and I'd heard the eggplant gyros were good at Kismet Cafe (not exactly in line with the diet, but I was too hungry to care). So I walk to the hell that is The Drag, get the gyro and carry it back to my office. I get there and find that it's a meat gyro! No matter how long I stared at it, hoping I could convince myself it was eggplant, in the end I was left with meat scraped off a stick. I was so sad. So I went home and found a snack but I was still unsatisfied. Hopeless and dashed, I was so frustrated and tired of looking for food that I gave up and went to sleep. Eventually I awoke to Tim, wonderful Tim, who sympathized with my plight and took me to Mother's Cafe on Duval. I had a salad with some of their delicious Cashew Tamari dressing and a bowl of broccoli cheese soup, a rare treat for a vegetarian (and also not in line with diet, but at that point losing weight was the last thing on my mind). I have to wonder if this was a blessing in disguise: for a few days prior, I'd been experiencing some pain in my left inner thigh and shooting down to my knee. Nothing huge but uncomfortable. It was probably best to stay off it.
Wednesday: Another day.
The Plan: 9am at the gym, 20 mins of cardio and 10 min abs
The Reality: I'm so pathetic at this 9am thing. I think I ended up at the gym a little after 10am. The workout always feels so short and I'm often tempted to do more. I wonder if that would be bad?
Thursday:
The Plan: 3:30pm gym fun day
The Reality: Much happiness because my bike is sorted out and I was able to cycle to school: I'm going to make a habit out of this. As of 2pm I was on spring break so I went to the gym early. It was nice and quiet and I got my leg workout in. My abs were really sore today, but I can tell they are getting stronger. Already it's getting easier to do more challenging exercises, like the one where you lift your legs up and lift your ass off the ground. I also did some upper body maintenance but nothing too strenuous.
After the workout, I came home, got naked, and prepared for a task I've been avoiding: measurement. I had planned on measuring everything -- biceps, chest, etc. -- but after the trauma of measuring my hips, waist, and thighs, I decided to stop there.
Today I feel like I'm gaining weight. Fingers crossed that I'll feel differently when I do my next measurement a month from now.
Posted by monica at March 12, 2004 12:04 AM