It's hard to notice it on a day-to-day basis, but when you put the images next to each other, you can definitely see that my gut is getting smaller. I think I'll get more of an effect once I start strength training which I hope to do this week. Hopefully later today I'll have the time to plan out this week's routine.
I want to take a moment to really go over the warm-up exercises especially but then I think I'll come up with something simple to start with based on dumbells and body weight that I can mostly just do by myself in a quiet corner of the gym. I still haven't used up my first two complementary strength training visits from the gym staff, so hopefully those don't expire, but I'd like to be a little more familiar with the book's recommendations before I do that.
I'm excited that a friend's thinking of joining me at the gym. I hope it will be affordable to her, as the peer pressure will be just what I need, and it might make it a lot more fun.
But, so far today, I do have to report a bit of a fail yet again, I'm in a cafe and I defaulted to a mocha. I'm actually kind of surprised because I'm learning just how much anxiety coffee is giving me, so it's not a good thing to have it. But so it goes. The cafe smells so much of bacon though that it breaks my heart....
Even though it's been a few days since I've been to the gym, I'm deciding not to go today because I started the new stronger meds, and the one I was allergic to really caused my muscles to hurt, so I want to go a few days taking it easy so that if my muscles hurt I know it's the meds not exercise and so I can stop immediately. Then, I plan to start the next phase which is strength training and reduced carbs.
Oh, one more thing, I found a great PDF for low-carb recipes, so I'll be uploading some of my favorites here as I try them.
