Last weight-in had me down to 16# lost, which was another 5# and my 5% goal, hooray! But I also had donuts (well, apple fritters, which despite the fruit content are probably worse than donuts) last night, so I would not be shocked to see a small gain or no loss this week. In the hopes of combating the donuts, I have been trying to get some exercise in.
We live on this hill, and it's pretty steep. I'll have to check but I think we go up like 500 feet in a quarter mile. And I've started trying to get out nightly to walk down the hill and back up. Including the time to get to the top, go down, go back up, and get back to the house it's about 30 minutes.
But man that hill sucks. Literally, it sucks the life out of me. I joked earlier about how I was going to add it as a venue on Foursquare just so I could check in to a place called "That hill is a #%&^@" -- though I probably won't. If I did, no doubt I'd be the mayor, and that seems like kind of a score-whore move.
Anyway, it's really annoying (but not so surprising, I guess) how difficult it is to keep up a good pace on that hill, and so far every time I've done it (all three days), I'm so spent by the time that I make it back to the top of the hill that I can't even contemplate going back down again. I'm sort of telling myself that I'll only do one circuit the first week or two, maybe more after that. I'm hoping that I will be able to build up a tolerance and some stamina and eventually I'll be able to do two or more circuits without going much over 30 minutes. Or at least going over 30 minutes won't kill me so badly.
I set my next goal weight to be 275#, which was my target for the 7-weeks in the future exercise we did a few weeks ago, looks like it was March 16th. That was a pretty aggressive goal though so I am not going to be disappointed if I don't make it.
