Increasing the Difficulty...

I admit it, I'm a fairly lazy person. Okay, I'm a very lazy person. I'm not always good at pushing myself. I will always take the easy route.

One of my challenges with using Yourself!Fitness was to be more honest with the difficulty level. So I upped it...

Well, Maya decided that small increments are for losers, so she bumped me up... way up!

I couldn't finish my 45 minute weight loss workout today. She pooped me out!

The good thing about this is that I get new exercises which makes it more interesting. It also gives me a great goal. I'll continue to shoot for 45 minutes at this difficulty and I'll have a great sense of accomplishment when I can hit it.

I know that it will be easier to do on the other concentration days, as the cardio sections on those only last 15-20 minutes (depending if I'm doing 1 hour or 45 minutes).

The weird thing is that yesterday I did the upper body concentration and the cardio section was definitely harder, but the upper body/weight training section wasn't. She hardly even used weights with me and the reps were low. So it's going to take some tweaking to get everything balanced to make it challenging for me.

In other challenges, I'm back to the food logs. One day of logging was a wake up call.

Yes, I'm keeping my calories around 1500 (which is my goal), but I see some major gaps in nutrition that I'm missing. Mainly fruit.

The sad thing is I like fruit, but I'm lazy and just don't always think of it. So I'm going to concentrate on getting my fruit servings in.

I've been debating about returning to the Weigh In Wednesdays. I don't think I'm going to do it. The scale is soooo evil that it depresses me. Maybe a once a month weigh in? Or maybe I just need to forget about the weight loss and concentrate on my workouts and my food. More of a healthy lifestyle, challenging myself rather than worrying about losing weight? Hmmm, something to ponder.

Today's Positive Reinforcement:
I can force myself to work harder, even if I can't accomplish my initial goal, I can see it as a challenge.