The Last Straw

Alright, here it is. I am putting it out there.  When I pull the tank tops back out next year, I want some serious muscle tone. The way I see it, I can’t look as good as these cutesy little girls in their early 20’s. Stuff is changing. My hair is falling out, all but the gray ones of course.  My eyebrows are somehow lower than they used to be. My stomach…ahh, nevermind. You all know about my stomach. So the point is, I theoretically do have control over my arms.  

So as I decided yesterday,  I spent $20 on a bar.  Spent another $20 on weights for the bar. Plan to use this too in some calf raises since I would like my leg muscles to eventually look like I USE THEM.  :roll:  Now comes the hard part of figuring it all out. All of the reps and sets and all that. It seems so complicated to figure out where to start and when to increase the weight, etc. I feel like such a bumbling idiot even thinking about it. But I will just have to find my way.

The good news is that as of this morning I am at 155.6!!! So the poundage that I thought I had packed on was actually just fluid and TOM and too much food in my system all that junk. Woo hoo! I am back to my previous low weight. Since my body gave me that nice little readjustment, I am sure I will not get to see less than 155 anytime soon. But whatever.

Breakfast and lunch same as usual. Dinner will probably be grilled salmon. I did not go to the track today. I will serve some time on the elliptical and figure out something that resembles a plan for the weights.

***Ok. Day one with the weights is done. There was no rhyme or reason, really. I just had a couple things in mind: try not to hurt myself and to push myself a couple reps past where my brain wants to stop. I increased the tension on my elliptical to give my legs a little work out and did 5 minutes at a time, alternating with using the weights. I guess tomorrow I will know if I did enough. Hopefully I will be feeling some pain. I feel like I did enough. Who knows.