Exercise

I'm proud to say I moved with Richard again this morning. That's four days in a row and I'm very proud of myself. I didn't feel like doing it this morning, but have committed to moving and so I did it anyway. I will say if it warms up again, which they are saying may happen near the beginning of next week, I may take a day off and walk instead. I'd really like to do an every other day with Richard and walking. We'll see if the weather will cooperate.

I also did some strength training exercises. I did two sets with fifteen reps in each set of the following exercises. I did bicep curls. I did not use any weights right now (not that I have any to use but understand I can use soup cans when the time comes to add weights). I did modified push-ups. Modified in that I did not get up on my knees. I just used my shoulders and arms to lift my upper body as if I were doing a push up. No way could I do that on my knees right now but my day is coming. And I did this exercise called back extensions. These are basically like a curl but done lying on your stomach. You lock your hands behind your head and lift your upper body off of the floor holding for a count of two before slowly lowering yourself back down. Okay, it's a lot like the push-ups I did but the push ups utilized my arms and shoulders.

I kind of have what I fondly call "the heebie jeebies" in my back across my shoulders and upper back. It is that tired creepy crawling feeling one gets sometimes. I get them most often in my legs (diagnosed as restless leg syndrome) but tonight they are in my back big time. I just added the push-ups today and the bicep curls. I'm guessing it's the push-ups that have caused this. No problem. I'm not going to stop doing them. I'll rest the muscles tomorrow and be back at it again on Saturday. Those I will do every other day!

So, there you have. My pitiful attempts at exercise. I know that the more weight I shed, the better it will get so please don't think I'm down on myself. I'm not. I'm doing more now than I was doing one year ago and even one month ago.

Onward I go praying the scale is going to show a drop of at least three pounds this week so I can to 420 and then start on the next ten pounds. I really want to make my goal of 399 by March 1st. I can do this!