DON'T DOUBLE DIP!

For crying out loud, if you go lift weights with a trainer at lunch, don't expect to go to your martial arts class and perform the way you should. You WILL get kicked directly on the chin....you'll take it like a man, but you WILL get kicked, just the same. It'll feel like you're trying to spar with lead weights in your pockets, and you WILL get schooled. Not saying I know from personal experience or anything...I'm just saying.

Oh, by the way, I dropped 4 pounds this week. Not too shabby!

FIRST WORKOUT

So it turns out the guy never rescheduled our trainer appointment, so they guy was booked today, and we rescheduled for tomorrow. Mel and I went ahead and worked out, and she was so funny because she was really worried about looking stupid/out of shape, which of course is silly since we were there to get IN shape. ANyway, we did a relatively easy circuit with free weights, and then cardio for about 20 minutes. It was fun, even if she was freakin out! More to come.

GETTING BACK ON TRACK

Been absent fromt he blog for a bit, and been absent from my life for a bit.... and I'm fed up. I passed my blue belt test a week ago, by the way, now I have just six weeks to prepare for my brown belt test.....YIKES! Also, I had been losing weight several months ago, beginning with a weight loss competition at work from April to June, and i lost 50 pounds (started at 399.6, check out picture to the left)......and that was pretty much that. I kept it off, withthe exception of the last few weeks, where I feel I may have re-gained 5 or 10. This weekend, Mel and I got hooked up at our local fitness center, meeting with a trainer tomorrow to get on a program, and we are committed to meeting at lunch time to work out. I was down to 349, probably more like 355-360 now, and I have a goal weight of 225 (picture ont he right is me at 235, my smallest...but not best shape)....give or take. I am putting these numbers here as a mile marker, a visual reminder of my goal, so I can look back on this in a year or more (130 lbs. from now), having met my goals (obtained or be in mid-terms for my black belt, have run a 5K, and be at or near 225, as my body will determine when I get there).