Happiness Is…. A Workout Routine

I am feeling fantastic this morning! There are a couple of reasons for this:

1 It feels good to be back into a routine.

2 I had an AMAZING workout last night. After I got home, I did kettlebells for a bit, then we all had an early supper. After that I headed to the gym. I had originally intended to go to spin class, but I’m planning to go to that Saturday morning, so I opted for the elliptical instead. I did cardio Coach #5, working for a total of 65 minutes. I pushed it hard and felt awesome afterward.

I met with Amy (the nutritionist at work) yesterday. It’s mostly for accountability – I find touching base with her for a few minutes every couple of weeks to be an additional support. Anyway, I told her how happy I am that I finally have developed a yoga practice. It makes me feel so good, and I consider it a key component to my fitness and weight loss –if for no other reason than the stress relief component it brings.

I spoke with the yoga instructor at lunch Monday (she also teaches the tone & sculpt classes). One reason the sculpt classes weren’t working for me is because my right knee is bothering me a bit and the squats and lunges just weren’t working for me. I needed something else I could do until I’ve lost some more weight and strengthened my leg muscles back up. So doing weights – either kettlebells or free weights on my own where I can do the exercises that work for me is better right now. I am doing step ups in place of lunges and using the squat machine only. Those are working well.

When I thought about it, I realized one reason I was feeling stressed last week was because the scale didn’t move for a few days. That happens to me – it doesn’t move every day, instead it will hold steady for 2 or 3 days then show a 2 pound drop. I don’t know why, but that’s just how it seems to go. Anyway, I was hopping on the scale every morning and it was making me feel edgy. I need to weight myself on my weigh day (Sunday) but not hop on the scale every single day. It just creates tension where there doesn’t need to be any. And it makes me too focused on the outcome rather than the behaviors that drive the outcomes. (I do tend to overthink things).

Having said that, I got on the scale (without thinking) this morning and I was down 2 pounds for the week. Sweet!

Hope you have a great day!