Finishing Week One

So far so good.

Without making any major changes in what I eat weighing in today I was down 7.8 pounds from Monday.

Weekends suck for breakfast which is weird since I have all the time in the world to make anything I want. Mostly, I just want to sleep in. Add that desire to the Healthe Trim no food for three hours rule and breakfast goes right out the door on Saturday and Sunday. In fact, today I didn't get up until 1pm so my first meal won't come around before 4pm.

That's all on me.

Otherwise, the exercise is coming along now. The walk yesterday wasn't too unpleasant and my heart seemed to pound slightly less in my chest for thirty minutes afterward.

So OJ, sandwiches and a nice dinner at Ruby Tuesday made for a casual Saturday of dining.

I also will incorporate measurements on a weekly basis with the same rules as the weight, no starting numbers just the change from week to week.

Those measurements will be in the following areas (please refer to the image at the top – not entirely to scale)

So the numbers will look like this

Left Ankle: 0

Left Thigh: 0

Hips: 0

Middle: 0

Chest: o

Neck: 0

Left Bicep: 0 (done in a curl flex position)

Left Wrist: 0

Besides the walking and the exercise bike which I will try to get in some time on today, I am doing very light dumbbell workouts with 6.6lb weights. I will be doing curls, presses, wrist rolls, inverse curls and lifts. If I called something by the wrong name there I apologize. Maybe I'll do a video to demonstrate them at some point. I also do calf raises and squats about every other day but I don't seem to have much of a plan. I will look at creating a spreadsheet to track the reps and sets for these exercises too. The idea isn't to add muscle but more to create tone and some sort of endurance by increasing reps and sets along the way.

Mainly, I'll want to see – numbers about except maybe bicep and thigh numbers which would hopefully stay about the same or go up slightly. I really don't expect a big change in ankle or wrist but my in depth research does indicate that weight loss can come from the farthest parts going in, so you might not see a big shrinking in the hips, but your ankles or wrists could be showing a faster improvement. I have no idea and will go with the idea that more information is better than less for now.

We'll see how it goes when week two starts tomorrow.