two down

Seeing as things are not going poorly, I will give an update on the fitness and weight loss situation.

It has now been nine weeks—just over two months—since I started going to the gym. For those nine weeks, I’ve managed four workouts per week and have progressed from an hour on the treadmill to an hour on the elliptical trainer.

I’ve lost 13 pounds, which is an average of 1.44 pounds per week; so, if I continue at this pace, I will have lost 37 pounds by my birthday. I assume that I won’t be able to keep up this pace, especially as I approach my goal, but my original target still looks reasonable.

I have yet not dropped a pant size, but I have more room (and no muffin top) in my current size. The cruel and familiar irony of my fitness pursuit is that although I am almost exclusively training my lower body, at this point, I appear to be losing weight primarily from my upper body. I have yet to formulate a personally meaningful way to add strength training to my routine.

Someday, perhaps, I’ll say something about the alteration in my eating habits that has gone along with all of this. I will not say that I am dieting because I believe that to maintain any weight loss a fundamental change in my relationship with food has to occur.

No matter where I end up weight wise, I feel the best outcomes of this effort will be the regular exercise and dietary changes. I cannot deny that I have more energy and my mood is a little lighter.

Four months to go.