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Originally Posted by Gina in NY
You sound like my trainer - he is always telling me I need a day off, yet the fear is too intense. A day of only cardio is as easy as I can take it. Unless my kids are sick or I'm snowed in, I do not take a day off. I have yet to develop that particular healthy habit.
It is as if I will wake up 288 the next day if I take one day off. It is the all or nothing thinking that I have divorced from food that is now married to my life in the gym. I hope that when I reach goal, I will feel differently and I think I will. Maintenance is a different life than the push to take off the weight.
I have a good friend at the gym, he had a heart attack at 32 and now at 44, he is in the best shape of his life. He says the same thing - he can't stay home or the pressure in his mind, the self talk goes to, "You're a slacker, you're going to lose all you've worked for, you'll have another heart attack and not be here for your kids" and there he goes - off to the gym.
So good for you John, that you can take off. It still feels like a risk to me. Of course, it is also the only time of the day that is just for me. As a mother, wife, teacher, every other moment is giving to someone else.
My appointment with the...doctor of joinst and tendons - mind blank here - is on Thursday. I hope he'll be able to fix me up. I am prepared for a lot of pain - that is usually how it goes. Oh - orthopedist..
Take care.
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Oh I completely understand what you are saying. This is my first break in 6 months. lol. I felt like I owed it too myself. Besides the weight is still coming off anyways cause I cut my cal intake quite a bit since im not active for these couple of weeks.
Plus you're body will get used to you're program. Taking some time off and then coming back and hitting it hard will shock the crap outta you're body and you will see the lbs melt off. For all I know im going to hit goal weight sometime this summer. Which means I would have lost like 250lbs in 12 months. lol.
I say work you're program hard until it slows up some. then change it up. I'm in the mindset now that im just a healthy person period. I eat right I workout right... I aint worried. My will power and disicpline are there. And that aint changing for life.
I'm now a different person. I might be able to have a 6 pack before the years over...which would be nuts. I gotta get you some pics of my legs gina. Are you're legs getting nuts like mine?
They bulge out everywhere and today I was wearing shorts and went to the store. I was getting gas in line and I swear some chick behind me was looking at my calves. lol. They stick out so much now and are so big...it kind looks werid.
Anyways how long's this section be up and going? for some reason a couple weeks ago I didn't see it. Glad to hear you are doing well btw.
I could hit 269 tomorrow morning. hah how nuts is that man.