I woke up this morning feeling pretty dang sore. More so than I have in a while. I can only assume that this means that my work out routine continues to be effective. I've tried to keep it as varied as possible by switching between jogging, weight lifting, and exercise on the Wii Fit. Yesterday I tried some of the more difficult Yoga poses for the first time. I wonder If thats why I'm so sore today. All I know is I haven't felt this way since I played soccer in High School and, in all honesty, its a feeling I've missed. The sense of accomplishment that accompanies a sore set of muscles is very fulfilling.
More good news to report today. This last week I lost six lbs. This means I've lost a total of eleven lbs in about ten days. Now I'm not one to argue with quick results but compared to the first few weeks that's an amazing difference. I wasn't sure if it was healthy to loose weight that fast. I did some research and apparently a lot of what I lost could have been water weight. I also found that that kind of weight loss isn't terribly unusual if I'm working out every day and doing lots of cardio. Jogging and my exercise with the Wii fit both add up to a hefty amount of cardio so I think I'm okay.
I can easily say I've never felt this determined to stay committed to an exercise routine before. I'm out running every day and I'm already seeing noticeable changes in my figure. I weigh 235 lbs now, a weight I haven't even been close to since college. Perhaps the most momentous even of this week is the fact that I have reached my first REAL goal. According to my BMI when I started, I qualified as obese. Now I'm about 6'3 so I carried all my weight pretty well but I just couldn't stand to hear the cutsie little pixilated voice tell me, "That's Obese" every time I weighed myself. Now, after loosing over ten lbs, I no longer fall into the 'obese' category of the BMI. Now I'm just 'overweight'.
So I've made some good progress but I have a feeling that the real challenges are going to be in the weeks to come. I'm going to have to really push myself if I want to see results. I'm aiming to loose another ten lbs in the next month So I hope anyone reading out there will continue to follow my progress along with me.
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