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My journey from fat to fit! |
| I’ve been trying to lose fat and get fit for a long time. This will be my blog about my fitness journey! |
| You can either choose to exercise or not to exercise. If you choose to exercise, you need to progress to the point where you’re training twice a day. If you reach that point then stop training for a while, your stamina goes down and you have to start all over from a lower level. Once you reach a high point in your training, you must maintain it and practice periodization. This is the best way to build more muscle and keep it. I’ve been maintaining my walking schedule. I walk for 40 minutes before breakfast, every day except Sunday. I train arms one day, and shoulders the next, then take day three off. I’ve seen a lot of progress with my biceps and shoulders. I’ve been cutting up apples and grapes and eating them for a snack. This is better than having sweets in my opinion, I think this is a breakthrough. Getting in shape is 90% diet. The reason I started eating grapes is because I read a recent study in mice proving that grapes helped increase muscle mass. Here’s a metaphor: if you had to grab onto something painful to grasp, and after 20 seconds, for every second you held on, the amount of cash you get doubles, starting with one dollar. If you held on for a minute, you’d have at least one million dollars. The same can be said for getting your diet dialed in. If you figured out how to eat in a way that maximized losing body fat, you should hold onto that technique for as long as you could. Eating fruit instead of candy or other junk foods is the solution I’ve been looking for! |
| Last week I went shopping with Eagle, he is the older brother of my brother in law. After going to two stores and getting groceries, we went to a restaurant where he bought me a sandwich. We ate in the car, and I inadvertently dropped half of my sandwich on the floor board. Eagle commented on how I struggled to reach down and grab it because of my immense belly. Looking back, I can see that I need to lose a lot of weight, at least a hundred pounds. I weighed in the high 280s in early March of this year, and I went up to 300 in mid April. This morning, I was 294.8 pounds, so I’m making progress in the right direction. I’ve been lifting weights, mainly training biceps one day and shoulders the next. I forgot to mention that I ordered six 2.5 pound plates for my dumbbells, so I can train shoulders with 23.6 pounds on each side. I’ve also made personal records with biceps, curling 35 and 40 pounds on each dumbbell. |
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has oddly set off a motivating dopamine reaction that gets me going. Weights I can do at the house when I wake up or before bed. I'd like to be able to walk more, but my schedule is not that wide open where I can walk consistently. Right now I'm fighting a touch of a cold that's settled in my throat/sinus area so weights are good for me now. I'm also tracking on Weight Watchers since I started last DEC. While, I'm happy with my tracking habits, I do need to focus on more zero or 1 point foods. I agree - getting in shape is 90% diet. Sending you good vibes for meeting your goals. 
