Hello everyone and anyone!
I thought that since I have recently redetermined myself to lose the extra fat I lugg around everyday, I should post on my plan to do it. I hope to come back to this as motivation and hope anyone else that wants to, comes to talk about their plan! It'd be good to share tips, successes and getting past setbacks!
So I decided to get on my Treadmill since it's usually too hot and muggy outside to walk. I am using a walking plan I found on the prevention website. It's a 12 week walking plan for the treadmill.. The first four weeks you do 2-30min cardio walks(these times include 5mins warmup and 5min cool down), 1-33min speed intervals (1min fast/5min recovery), 1-35min incline intervals (5min up, 5min down) and one 28 min Power Mix with a Speed Pyramid, Incline Period and recovery. The as you get to the 2cd and 3rd 4 week periods you increase time and cardio walks. I think it is a very good plan! I'm excited to see how my health improves and my stamina improves on the TM after I'm done with each 4 week period. So I started on Sunday I did the Cardio Walk at 3.3mph (a good brisk pace for me), Monday I did the speed interval 1min at 4.0mph and 5min at 3.0mph, I didn't do the next cardio walk yesterday but I'm going to do it when I get home after work at 7pm. Your suppose do it in this order CW, SI, CW, II, rest, PM, rest then repeat. But I'm going to try and at least get each exercise in a 10day period then repeat, If I do it in 7 days then great all the faster till I move to the next 4 weeks level. I made a whole chart of the workout and am going to X each workout off. I'm going to add a 0.1 mph to each week except the weeks I incease time at the 5th week and 9th week, so by the end of the 12 weeks I'll be walking speedily along at 4.3mph for a full 40mins By then I hope the fat will be just melting off me! Wow! looking at that it would've been easier to just make a little chart instead of explaining it all! But I need to make more concrete by "saying" it out loud.
So the next problem is my diet. I hope to start evaluating my food choices and eat more fruits and vegetables each day. I am a fast food junkie and need to learn to prepare and plan for home meals. I thought about doing that Nutrisystem where they send you every meal and snack for a whole month, but I would probably eat out and have all these packed foods taking up space. I really like alot of the Smart Ones frozen dinners. Though I usually need more to eat that just that. I really don't have a plan on the food end laid out like I do the exercising, but I hope to start changing it over the next few days so I can see some changes on the scale next week.
So what's your plan?