Workout

Yesterday I started my exercise routine. I'll be exercising on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays...and I'm changing up my diet a bit to include more fresh things and less dead things. :)

A funny thing happened at the gym: I went through the cycle, a couple of toning machines, and then I decided to do a ballet warm-up/cool-down routine to finish. So I went into another room and noticed that there was a CD player. I LOVE CD players...especially when I'm exercising. So I opened it to see what was in it and there was a blank CD. So I put the player on "3" and waited for the music to start.

I did my cool-down routine to "The Final Countdown," giggling the whole time! I just watched "Good Grief" [Arrested Development, Season 2] and of course I couldn't help but remember Gob and that goofy song.

Today I'm a little sore, but less than I was expecting. I want to lose about 15-20 pounds [I'm just over the "overweight" line] and get back to the 130 pounds I should be [according to the National Heart and Lung Association's BMI calculator, which says I would be right up at the top of "Normal Weight," close to "Overweight"].

I'm not going on a diet. I'm going to cut a lot of snacks out [which are mostly carbs] as well as most meat. I'll eat it for protein but when I was a vegetarian I got LOTS of protein [peanut butter, rice and beans, TVP, etc.] and was still slender. I just want to be healthy. And I don't want to have to buy a lot of new big clothes.

I'm also trying to give my brain a workout - reading my 10 books, writing the research paper, and then writing my own manuscript based on my research will give me artistic license as well as practical knowledge and discipline. I'm hoping to finish up my first rough draft by the end of school. That gives me six weeks [after the paper is due] to write 30,000 words which is my goal. :)

So...hopefully my body and my mind get lots of workouts this semester.