Monday... again!

Well, last week was a pretty good week all around. I worked out hard and met all my goals more or less. I worked out 6 days, and did the following.

* Keep calories around 1500 per day (except one date night)
Did better this week than most however, went out for Sushi on Friday night and had a bit of a carb fest last night, so know I went over my 1500 per day. I’d say I was successful 4 days out of 7. I need to work on this one the most....
* Turbo Jam 3x week (45min sessions)
Complete
* L2R (learn to run) 3x week (30 min sessions)
Complete
* Strength Training 3x week (Turbo Sculpt, Lower Body workout, Bowflex Upperbody)
Complete
* Treadclimber 2x week (3 min)
Only once
* Walk the dog 2x week (hubby gets the rest of the walks).
Only once (she wasn’t feeling well the last couple of days, lame leg, so I only took her out once)

Goals this week are very similar:

• Calories at 1500 6 days a week, around 2000 one day (cheat day)- Track everything in Fitday and post weeks total's....
• Turbo Jam 3x week (45 min sessions)
• L2R 3 x week (30 min sessions)
• Strength training 3 x week
• Treadclimber 1 x week
• Walk dog 2 x week (or more)

All in all, my body is tired and stiff. I sleep really well at nights but my weight is not going down. Now last week was not a good week for me as for bloating, water retention so hopefully that is the reason the scale didn’t budge much at all. But when I look at the whole scheme of things, I’ve only lost 21 lbs since October 1st. Ten years ago, by this time, doing almost the exact same thing, I had lost 50 lbs. 10 years in age seems to be making a difference. My metabolism must be really slow….. I am going to be 50 in a couple of years, so I guess that would explain it.

But it is sooooo frustrating. I’m really working out hard, maybe I can work out harder, I don’t know, maybe I need more strength training sessions? Build up that muscle so that I burn better. But I’d really like to get rid of some of that fat before I build up too much underneath it. I don’t want to be a fat fit person . I can feel my abs getting stronger but there is still that layer of insulation on top….

Sometimes I think I try to hard, think about this too much, and am causing stress or something. Maybe I need to just let it go for awhile and just go through the motion. Just eat clean, healthy and keep up the exercising. Something has to move and soon.