As to the gym, I realized that I just have to go. It’s like homework, you may not want to do it, but you know you have to. You have to force yourself to do it, and that’s all there is to it.
So I went to the gym today, and upped the elliptical time to 40 minutes, instead of the usual 30 (40 minutes, by the way, was the normal time for the 100 Days diet). I didn’t lift, but I am going to ease into that. For now, I want to force myself — on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays – to go do cardio. After a few times, I’ll be used to being there. Hell, I’ll even like being there. And after a while, I’ll just gravitate towards the gym. I know this from past experience, but now I realize I am starting much further behind than I thought.
So all I ask of you is to bear with me while I figure this process out. Some of you have sent along suggestions, which are greatly appreciated. I am always open to suggestions about improving this quest. And if you are beside yourself thinking that you have it all figured out while I flail around every day, wondering why the weight isn’t coming off, then I understand. The problem with me is that I am stubborn. I love hearing your suggestions, and I take them all into consideration, but that doesn’t mean I am open, immediately, to enacting them. I’d rather strike out on my own first.
But the good news is that, with the power of elimination and my penchant for striking out, soon we’ll all be on the same page.
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1 - Hucbald
1] Throw the scale in the trash.
2] Fill a liter mug with ice cubes all the way to the top first thing when you get out of bed in the morning, fill it with water, grab a multi-vitamin while you let the water chill, then drink the water as quickly as is comfortable. Refill the mug until the remaining ice barely floats, and repeat until you have melted all the ice.
3] Eat two hard boiled eggs.
4] Work out for fifteen minutes.
5] Eat a low carb lunch.
6] Repeat 2-4 in the evening, but add something like a ground beef steak.
7] Have a late evening snack. Dry roasted nuts are perfect to aid regularity (I have them for lunch too).
Dieting alone to lose weight is the most inefficient way to lose weight there is. The trick is to get your slothful metabolism roaring along. Making your body warm a lot of 32 degree water to 98.6 is one way, working out for A FEW MINUTES twice a day is another, and eating four times a day is the final piece of the puzzle: If your body feels starved, it will conserve fat as a survival mechanism.
My nickname was fatso as a kid. I know how this works.