A healthier life

Brrr....was it cold this morning, but underneath my khaki pants, I had on pajamas, then four layers on (undershirt, polo, sweater, jacket) with a scarf, a thin beany and gloves.

I feel so relaxed now...which is how I generally feel after biking to work.

I've been keeping up this biking/gym routine. This is the fourth week of my beginning a "healthier life". And even though my time with a trainer last Friday was hard (and I felt the pain all through the weekend), I managed to do some of my routine yesterday (what I remember and what I had time for). My muscles seem to hurt less this time, since they were used to the strain. And they say that weight training helps loose weight because the muscles burn up fat.

My trainer gave me some combination exercises to try, i.e. squating onto a bench then standing up and lifting weights over my head, or doing lunges and following up with a bicep curl. I'll have to ask him for others since I don't remember them all.

Anyway...I was happy to see that the scale dropped from 222 to 219 lbs. EL YAY! I know you should lose 1 lb. a week healthily. So that's 4 lbs a month, and if I want to lose 20 lbs, I should be able to do it in 5 months: May 2010. In the words of Bridget Jones, "I'll do it."

Gerry