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kilroySo, while my diet hasn't been working, I would like to report some mild success on the exercise front.
I've managed to keep a regular pattern of biking more or less consistently for the last few months-- three days a week, 25 minute sessions. It's indoor biking at home, but that means I can catch up on all these TV series people keep telling me about while I do it. :)
When I started off it was less minutes and I could feel the burn in my legs for a long time afterwards. Now my legs have frankly never looked better, I can run up a set of stairs without panting again, and I'm at the point where I should definitely kick up the minutes-per-session. I can comfortably fit a lot more minutes on those three nights a week, so there shouldn't be any time-management problems. If I want to include more sessions I'll run into some timing issues, but my body will probably support it at this point if I choose to do so.
On a separate front, I've started trying to do daily push-ups-- not very many as of yet, and not pushing myself to do more than I can handle. It's another one of those things I can sneak in pretty much anywhere in just a few minutes, so it actually gets done. My upper body strength is frankly pitiful-- I've been improving already and yet still don't need two hands to count my dailies. But it is getting better, and will continue to do so as long as I stick with it. Plus I find myself standing straighter after the push-ups, which I really need.
Neither of these things will do much about my "Hey, you're turning 30 soon" pudge, but that's fortunately not the point. The point is that my cardiovascular system won't be a shuddering, pulpy mass and I'll be able to lift moderately-full grocery bags without feeling it afterwards.
I've managed to keep a regular pattern of biking more or less consistently for the last few months-- three days a week, 25 minute sessions. It's indoor biking at home, but that means I can catch up on all these TV series people keep telling me about while I do it. :)
When I started off it was less minutes and I could feel the burn in my legs for a long time afterwards. Now my legs have frankly never looked better, I can run up a set of stairs without panting again, and I'm at the point where I should definitely kick up the minutes-per-session. I can comfortably fit a lot more minutes on those three nights a week, so there shouldn't be any time-management problems. If I want to include more sessions I'll run into some timing issues, but my body will probably support it at this point if I choose to do so.
On a separate front, I've started trying to do daily push-ups-- not very many as of yet, and not pushing myself to do more than I can handle. It's another one of those things I can sneak in pretty much anywhere in just a few minutes, so it actually gets done. My upper body strength is frankly pitiful-- I've been improving already and yet still don't need two hands to count my dailies. But it is getting better, and will continue to do so as long as I stick with it. Plus I find myself standing straighter after the push-ups, which I really need.
Neither of these things will do much about my "Hey, you're turning 30 soon" pudge, but that's fortunately not the point. The point is that my cardiovascular system won't be a shuddering, pulpy mass and I'll be able to lift moderately-full grocery bags without feeling it afterwards.