Fitness Journal – restart

I have entitled this post “restart” because that is exactly what I am doing. I am starting a new chapter in my life in many areas due to changes both internal and external so re-vamping my fitness routine makes sense to me. I was doing pretty good with it before but without a real plan and without a partner, it was way too easy to fall off the wagon. So here’s the new plan and how it’s going so far…hopefully I will have lots of faithful updates on progress without all the excuses. 🙂

• Food – I just wrote a new post (Food, friend or foe?) about how our eating habits have changed. That in and of itself has changed a lot about my body. I have seen improvements in my energy which has allowed me to do a workout without having to sacrifice the rest of my day to the couch.
• Support – I have a new and un-named buddy in fitness who has promised me to keep me accountable to our workout goals and I have promised the same for him/her. Go team!
• Workouts – this time we have a plan, at least one type of workout every day from Monday through Friday. This means that even on bad days, there has to be at least a short walk and some stretching. Hopefully that will help establish working out as a new part of our daily routines.

We just started this plan this week and so far I am really excited about it. This morning I saw a number on the scale that I haven’t seen in a looooooong time. It’s finally a whole pound under the plateau that has seemed to be my curse so I’m taking that as a good sign. Also, I was able to do 30 mins on the elliptical machine at the gym without stopping which, for me, is a pretty big deal!

So that’s where I am right now and I hope to be writing about even lower scale numbers and even bigger workout numbers next Friday 🙂

PS – the thumbnail pics will be beach scenes from now on to inspire thoughts of swimsuits and how much more fun the summer would be if I was more in-shape for activities.