Residing in the Mind of Nine

Week 1 - Progress.

There's been progress already! I'm assuming that the first 10lbs or so is going to be mostly water weight, but I've already lost 2lbs from my current weight. EVEN IF this weight is temporary, it's a definite confidence booster that I can lose this weight.

Now for the rest of the week, the job is to maintain it.

Changes I've made to my eating/diet: I've pretty much stopped snacking. This is extremely hard for me, actually. With the start of school again, and being in my final semester, snacking was really the only thing that could "ease" my stress level...

I guess you could say that I'm one of those people who thinks while they munch. lol I know this is a terrible habit, but when you're pulling all nighters, this is one thing I had to do to keep myself from stressing out.

And our good friend has a pretty sweet gym, so we've been over there working out more often. I hope she doesn't mind, really. We bug her quite often to work out and such. Did I mention that she also has a sauna?

Her gym is so awesome! It also has a small dance studio where we decided to practice iaido for the first time in a long time... I think I should have stretched out my arms before I picked it up again. My forearms are definitely sore.

I should really iron out a work out schedule for myself. I didn't do as much cardio as I wanted in the end, but I did end up getting a good work out for the arms and legs.

Next time:

• 30-45 mins of cardio at least! And this is to be accomplished first!
• Some free weights - I still need to figure out what I want to get done there...
• Leg presses 8D
• Iaido practice after the intense work out/warm up!
• Sauna... which we haven't tried out just yet...

More updates later 8D I should go out and pick up fabric I need for Juvia and Nanami soon.

CHEERIO!