Sigh....

20 minutes ago I was supppppper pumped to tell you all about my workout. I was going to title this something exciting and interesting...but then about 15 minutes ago my parade encountered some rain. Ashley was a TOTAL debbie downer, and what's ironic, is the stuff she called me out on, I was already planning on voicing in this post anyway. Sigh. Here we go anyway:

It's time to get in the habit again. Summer is looming, and NONE of my pants from last year fit. None. It's a good time. I finally decided tonight was as good a time as ever to hop back on the horse, so I drove over to the gym in rush hour. My positive demenor remained, and I decided to tan first. I was VERY happy to see that the gym was sparsely occupied, so after saying hello to Ashley (who, by the way, lives at the gym) I chose my favorite machine to start on: the bike! Looooove this thing, as I've previously mentioned. Since my heart really wasn't in the workout, when is it ever, I decided to stay on this machine only tonight. It has been over a month since I worked out, so come on... Anyway, after 5 minutes, I thought maybe 20 minutes would be sufficient for tonight. I was inspired, however, when I saw some seriously obese people come in....so it frightened me into staying on. When minute 25 came, I wondered if it was possible to stay on for a full hour tonight. Immediately I knew I wanted to try. Meanwhile, Ashley ran about 2 miles, and did various other things - but I was content with my showtunes, peddling away. I put myself on level 7, and manged to stay around an average 71 RPM (<--- I don't even know what that means...) so it's not exactly like I was slacking.....anyway, the entire time I knew I was going to write this, and I knew I wanted to pose a question: Is it possible to lose the amount of weight I want to lose, over an appropriate amount of time of course, with just riding the bike? If I did an hour a day? I'd work my level up, but get this: I ran for an hour, burning like 390 calories, and riding over 11 miles!!!! 11!!!! It said I was averaging like a 4 minute mile! I think that's why I enjoy biking to running so much - It would take 3x as long for me to even get close to RUNNING a mile. Anyway, I was impressed with myself.

When I returned home, however, Ashley was quick to point out that in order to be successful I need to have a more balanced workout. It's not like this is news to me. I'm well aware. I also am well aware of my limitations though....and working out, no matter how much I KNOW I NEED TO, is just hard to do. If I can find something that I sort of enjoy, that I can read while doing, I think I'll be more successful. Even if it's all I do. If I try to do what I was doing before I'll just get bored again. The other thing she called me out on, leaning back in the chair. I peddle really fast, but I don't sit up right the entire time. Every few minutes I sit back up, but the majority is definitely leaning back. OH WELL. To be fair to me again, it was my first trip back, so geeze.

I could probably throw in 30 minutes on the elliptical once a week......but my question remains: would it really be worthless to just do the bike alone? If nothing else it has to be a huge step up from what I've been doing............which is nothing. So yeah.

Oh and also, get this: Will's parents are taking a nutrition class, and a couple weeks ago at their hous they told me that their teacher said you're supposed to drink half your weight in ounces of water a day. This seems intense, but when I really thought about it, I could see the logic. You're flooding your system with water, which it has no choice but to metabolize, and use for all sorts of good things. I've been taking this to heart, and a couple days I've literally drank almost 80 oz's of water. I can't describe to you how much I pee now. It's great because I have this gigantic USMC water jug from the base which measures up to 34 oz's. Even when I don't drink 80, which is hard to do, I am so conscious of it that I drink at least 34 a day. Today I've drank like 50 so far.

Anywayyyy, this is boring now.

Hopefully more SOON.

<3