My weight this morning is SCARY bad. Warning call headed. So, I shall be running 2 times per day til Christmas Eve and also weights every day. I am making my official schedule as we speak. I ate for crap last night. And for NO reason! AGHHH I haven’t done that in so long. And to top it off, I didn’t drink water ONCE yesterday! Isn’t that sick???

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Okay, I have now run 3 miles and done day 1 of my weight training. Life is much better and I feel in control again. So, just in case anyone is wondering, I used to be into weight lifting… like LOVED it!… and there was a sight my father in law (who is 6′7″, 250, and like 6% bodyfat!) turned me onto called bodybuilding.com that was so helpful. When I first started, I bought some 5 and 8 pound dumbells and went through their HUGE list of exercises, narrowing the list to dumbell exercises only so I could work out at home. So, now I am basically starting over again. I just went through my workout journal from last time and took the workouts from that. The deal this time is I broke it down into 4 days: chest/triceps, back/biceps, legs, and shoulders/traps. I am going to do one per day, take a day of rest, and start over. Today was legs and this is what I did:

db lunges 8×10x3
ss db squats 8×10x3

standing calf raise 8×10x3
ss seated calf press 8×10x3

stiff legged dead lifts 8×10x3

bench hamstring curl 8×10x3

I went super easy on the weight and the reps because I don’t want to get too sore too fast. I am definitely not as strong as I was before… Also, the ss means super set, which is where instead of taking a break after the first one, you go directly into the second one. So I did 10 lunges, then 10 squats, then break for 30 seconds and then repeat for a total of 3 times.

The reason I am telling you all this is because when I first started, weightlifting was SO intimidating to me. I was afraid of doing it wrong and killing myself, or looking stupid, or getting all big and bulky. But you know what? NONE of those things happened. Also, weight bearing exercise is PROVEN to increase bone density (check out this article! ). And we all want to have nice posture, right? No osteoporosis here! Also, the sight has these amazing, motivational transformation stories. Check em out!

Alright, I’m done here. I’m off to shower and get ready for this day. The boys got some early Christmas money from both my Dad and Grandma, so they are taking us to the movies and then going to get some gifts :-)

Happy Saturday!!