So, with this post, I'm going to do something I kind of never thought I would do. I'm about to post pictures of myself without a shirt on. You have been warned, and you are welcome to turn back now. Of course, I know that my mother-in-law, wife and maybe a cousin or two are probably all that will ever see this post, so I'm not too self conscious about it, but I'm still a little nervous.
Here's the deal: I started working out almost two months ago. I've tried exercising to get back in shape and lose weight several times over the past several years, but nothing has ever really stuck. I tried joining a gym and running, and I never made it more than maybe four weeks with any consistency. This time, I got sick after week one, and that could have derailed me, but I just took the week off and then kept going. So, I'm almost done with week seven of my current workout program, and I feel like I'm actually seeing and feeling some results and more importantly, I want to keep going. This is amazing to me, because in order to fit these workouts in, I have to get up before 6am three days a week, but I really am enjoying pushing myself and working hard for 15-20 minutes every morning. That's it, that's all the time I spend on the actual workout, and I'm still getting results. I love HIIT!
Tomorrow, I am repeating the workout I did on my very first day, so I can compare what I was able to do now to what I did then. That will be the true test of how much I have improved over the past seven weeks of workouts, but there is other evidence of improvement, too.
- I am consistently wearing my belt one notch tighter than before I started. (Today, I realized I could actually go another notch, but it made my pants bunch weird. So I may actually need to go down a size in pants soon.)
- I don't get tired walking down the ten flights of stairs from my office to the parking garage anymore. Yes, I'm ashamed to say it used to be a little tiring even going down.
- I can confidently push Reid up McCall's hill in his stroller without worrying about getting tired and letting him roll down the hill.
- I have lost 10+ pounds. I'm not sure I want to admit where I started, but lets just say I'm 20% to my goal.
- I didn't think to take a "before" picture when I first started, but I took on a couple weeks in on March 1. I took another on April 3. There are no drastic changes, yet, but I can see some definite differences. The biggest difference I notice is the definition in my arms and shoulders. I didn't think to take a picture flexing, but that would probably provide a much more dramatic difference.
Okay, so here is photographic evidence that I referenced a the beginning. Notice the little helper I had in the top two pictures. :)
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