Wednesday update

Well, I hit my goal. I weighed myself when I worked out the other day without Jimbo, and was at 231.5 lbs. Today, I was at 229.75 lbs. Thats just over 10 lbs in two weeks!! If I can keep that rate up, in 12 weeks, at an average of 5 pounds a week, I will hit 150! I haven't been 150 since I was a wee child! By the time I was 16, I had all ready hit 200 plus, and my full height.... I mean, this is like wow, baby! My co-worker came with me today, for fun sake, we will call him Cyrano. No, not De Bergerac. He joined, I do believe! My goal is to lose fat, his is to gain muscle, and trim up. I am hoping I can get a work out partner out of this, it will help in the long run. It would help to have someone there to push me when I don't have Jimbo pushing me.

Oh, yeah, forgot to mention this in the first one, I bought Apex Performance Multi Vitamin, and today, I got the nutrition bars. We will see how these all turn out. I just put this in here, so when I look back, i have some record of what I did. The bars were chocolate chip cookie dough.

A look at my mental and physical state:

Mentally, I have noticed that I am more focused, I don't forget things as easily ( my memory still sucks, but not as bad), In general, I tend to smile more for no reason, and I will just start singing or humming things to myself. I feel a lot better about a lot of things. The world doesn't seem like its going to end. I guess I should qualify that statement. Probably the last year or two, my mood has just gone from bad to worse. I never felt like I had anything to look forward to. Now, I look forward to hitting my goal. I look forward to having a body that I never thought could be mine. I find with each pound I lose, I become more committed to that goal. The more I become committed, and see the results I have achieved so far, I gain more confidence. The more confidence I gain, the more I push myself to lose those pounds. It's a self reinforcing positive circle.

As for my physical condition, when I warm up on the elliptical, it takes me longer to hit my target heart rate, and my heart rate is no longer sky rocketing every time I step on the damn thing. Oh, it does go up, but it doesn't spike as high. It's getting easier for my abs to hold the bridge excercise he has me do.

I really truly do look forward to each and every session with Jimbo. I am hoping to pick his brain for more knowledge and information. I have always looked at the world in a scientific manner, and I just like to know the hows and whys of things.

Overall, yeah, it's 10 lbs, and I can see that something is different, but Im just not sure where its coming from mostly. I think its an overall reduction over the entire mass. It will probably be a few more weeks before I start seeing larger muscles and more definition. I am patient. I will prevail.

I think that is it for now, I may start cooking dinner here in a while. Yes, a healthy one.