I went to the doc to day and got my lab results from last week. Everything checks out fine except for a few thing. My choleterol is pretty high and my vitamin D is very low. So I need to decrease one and boost the other.
When I got home, I took my "starting" pics. Get ready, because here comes the ugly truth of my weight and size.
I was reading the article in the lastest People magazine on Danny Cahill (that's him seven months ago), the winner of season 8 of The Biggest Loser. I saw a lot of similarities between the two of us. He is 40, I'm 36. He's 5' 11", I'm 6' 0". When he started the show he weighed 430 lbs. I now weigh 434 lbs. (according to my latest doc visit I lost 1 lb. since last week.) He used to wear pants size 56". I currently wear pants size 54", but they have some elastic in them so I would say I have a 56" waist. When I see the way Danny looks now, I say to myself I will someday look like that. I don't think I want to get that low, but I would like to reach my target weight goal of 246 lbs.
After taking the pics, I popped in one of my workout DVDs. I've done the workouts on The Biggest Loser Workout, Vol. 1 before.
The thing I really like about it is that it comes with a workout plan for you. It has four different routines and they tell you to switch between them over several weeks. So this week I will do Routine #1, next week it will be Routine #2, then back to #1, then #2. I'll do that for the first month then switch over to #3 and #4. So I will do the DVD workouts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Then on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday I will do just cardio on the eliptical machine I bought over a year ago.
I also plan to mix it up a bit and try other forms of exercise to keep it fresh. I plan to get my bike fixed up. I bought it years ago and can count the number of time I actually rode it on one hand. I also hope to borrow a punching bag from a friend at work. I want to start walking either around the neighborhood or at a track. Talking to one of my buddies at work, we want to look into playing racquetball at one point. I would also like to get back out on the tennis court. That is one thing I really miss. So I have quite a few options other than just doing cardio on a machine in my living room.
Things are looking up!
