My trainer came back. Part of my body didn’t want him to and the other part did. Please tell me this gets easier? I know it will be worth it. Today was so hard. Painful. The worst part… I threw up. Half way through I was light headed and nauseous. I drank water. I sat still. I took deep breaths. Nothing was fighting that back. I felt terrible, not to mention embarrassed. Obviously nothing he hadn’t seen before. We rested and got back to it. Toward the end I started to feel sick again and he pretty much told me to go home.<\/p>\n
He’s not completely sure why I got sick today. Possibly that I did not have enough to eat today, and that my body is adjusting to this all-out beating it’s receiving. That snack I was supposed to eat before going to the gym? I missed that.<\/p>\n
It was a beautiful day outside, so instead of warming up on the treadmill we hit the jogging path. It’s just short of a mile and for today, it was long enough. Today’s routine was a little different that Monday:<\/p>\n
– Warm up with jog My post-gym snack today was a cheese stick and half an apple. He told me that especially on the days we work together, eat plenty of fruits (like bananas) and cheese makes a great post-snack because of the sodium and protein.<\/p>\n I’m going to continue posting this entire experience on my way to dropping some unneeded pounds. Keep up in between blog posts at the Diets In Review Twitter<\/a> page.<\/p>\n Miss my first exercise post, see it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My trainer came back. Part of my body didn’t want him to and the other part did. Please tell me this gets easier? I know it will be worth it. Today was so hard. Painful. The worst part… I threw … Continue reading
\n– 2 sets lunges
\n– 2 sets of 30 arm-pull things on weights
\n– 2 sets of 30 bench squats (rest arms on bench, bottom hanging off side, use arms to pull up)
\n– Run three flights of stairs, twice
\n– 2 sets of 30 leg lifts on weight machine (lie on stomach, weights rest of calves, pull up)
\n– 2 sets of 30 crunches<\/a>, 5 different ways (these are the most awful thing we do!)
\n– Lifting weights
\n– 2 sets of 20:
\n– Lifting legs, lying flat on back with legs extended, hands under bottom
\n– Flutter kicks- lying flat with hands under, alternate each leg up and down
\n– Scissor kicks- lying flat with hands under, legs criss-cross over one another<\/p>\n