This week has mostly been about activity and fitness for me. Spring is in the air, as soon as March rolls around my overall energy levels dramatically increase. Being on Weight Watchers now for two full months has taught me a lot of things or more specifically has opened my eyes to new ways of seeing things.
I’ve always had a stumbling block when it comes to fitness and exercise. I hate going to the gym. Luckily, I have an elliptical machine at home, which I am trying to make a concerted effort to use on a daily basis, if only for 10-20 minutes a day. On average since, I began WW in January, for the first month my weekly activity points were below 20 per week. Although, I may not have been accurately counting them as diligently as I could’ve been. For the month of February, I hovered in the 20-30 activity points per week range. This week, due to increased activity I hit 60 activity points for the week. Being more active and physically fit can come from a variety of others things involving not going to the gym. I walk a decent amount on a daily basis whether its just my meanderings around my office, going to and from my car in the garage, taking the stairs instead of elevators, or taking a walk during lunch. Aside from that, being as active as one can be is better than just slow roasting in bed or on the couch. Simple daily activities can boost your metabolism, tone muscles and promote weight loss. I never thought about cleaning being beneficial to my health and well being, but you do burn calories and whatnot when you scrub the floor, do laundry, or clean the house etc.
All that said, I lost another pounds this week bringing my weight loss total to 15 pounds. I’ve started noticing from my increased activity levels that I am losing more body mass in place of muscle development and toning. My biceps aren’t just mushy flab globs anymore, the muscle is coming back, which is awesome. I hated flexing my biceps and seeing no change between the relaxed and flexed states. Hopefully, by summer time I can start wearing tank tops again wtihout being overly self conscious. The muscles in my calves and thighs is toning up nicely too because I try to walk as much as I can. Even my abs are toning up, which is nice.
I realized that I forgot to actually set a new weight goal once I hit my first goal, my next goal is 180 pounds, and I’m 5 pounds away at this point. I’m also about 10-15 pounds away from a healthy BMI (20-25), currently I am at 27. I decided to recalibrate my daily points to 24 from 25 to see how that works out for me. I’ve still been doing well, I went a little over again this week, but still have yet to burn through my weekly points allowance. I tend to use 10-15 extra points per week (out of 35).
Now that I am becoming more active, lets hope I can stick with it. I think once I got over the hurtle it became easier to really want to continue to be more active. I’m going to try to keep up with at the very least doing the elliptical machine at home on a daily basis. I’ve always wanted to learn yoga, but again like going to the gym, I have a weird thing with going to yoga classes. I think its because I am a hard core multi-tasker, committing to doing one thing in particular for X amount of time just never is appealing for me.
As an interesting side note, Tim and I were discussing cheese. I was telling him the other night to use up the regular mozarella before using my reduced fat. He said okay, and then told me just to keep getting the reduced fat cheeses for the both of us to use. Given his cheese consumption, I am putting this one in the win column.
Tags: fitness, food, Weight Loss, Weight Watchers