Its not the jeans that make me look fat — its the FAT!!!

So I attended the last bootcamp of my session. Shaved a minute off my 1K time.  When I started a month ago it took me 9m 2s to do 1K.  My time on Friday was 8m 3s — which amazed me I was postive having done three bootcamps in a row this 51 year old body would just shut down.  Instead I was amazed and thrilled to be down almost one whole minute!!!  Of course that just made me want to do this more and more.  I ate quite a bit after the exercise — somewhere I read that exercise surpresses your appetite for 2 hours — WRONG!!!!  Well I ate well on Saturday — we walked down to the store to get milk in the morning and that was the extent of exercise for the day.  On the way back up the hill to our house my sweetheart noticed that I was now powering up the hill.  When we first moved in I struggled up this small steep hill almost daily — but now I just powered up and felt great.  I really should have gone out and done something else but there was another part of me that felt after three heavy duty exercise days I deserved the weekend off.  Of course I am too old to ever become an elite athlete and with that mindset I will never become elite — all I want to be is healthy and below 200 pounds.  I have bounced around in the 200’s since 1990 and I am tired of it.   So today I brought extra workout gear and plan to either attend a class at work or go to the gym and make my own mini bootcamp — I am just not good at pushing myself — I am the sort of person that needs to be directed.  Funny thing is I took a quiz the other day and my score told me I am a director — guess I just need to find more of that personality within.

Filed under: General on May 28th, 2007