Exercise

Update:

Weight 251.2 lbs
Net Cal: -649 cal
Exercise: walk the dogs 10 min x2,

Well, I did not Wii last night.  I also agitated my knee with the jogging yesterday.  It is definitely sore with sharp pain when going up and down stairs. So, no jogging for me for awhile.  I'm kind of bummed about that.  It was interesting today though, I was watching a continuing education webinar on exercise and was impressed with the ways she presented some of the information.

The first thing that really struck me, why are you exercising?  I really had to stop and think about this one.  My first reaction is to look good for the wedding and my lover.  Then my motto, to look better naked.  Yet, my weight is not really changing, so what is keeping me engaged in exercising?  To be healthy, well sure, but I always want to be healthy, or at least that is my intention, doesn't always work. I feel better, that's for sure!  Right now I exercise because it allows me to be a more active and engaged partner and mother.  All that I do is keep that going.  Working to achieve a level of stability that is sustainable minus the regular "life" stuff.  Exercise doesn't give happiness, but it does give peace of mind in a stressful and crazy world.

Another fact I didn't think about is that the "motor" for our bodies are our muscles.  When we exercise, it increases our muscles demand for oxygen and this then tells our lungs to breath faster and our heart to pump faster.  If you aren't breathing hard and sweating, then your body isn't working.  Also by exercising, we empty the stored nutrients and leave room for the body to put new nutrients into the muscles.  Along with this was the idea that if you are weight training, that you use the weights before doing any cardio.  The rational is that weight training builds muscle, to build you need everything that your muscles have.  If you start with cardio, those nutrients have already been used and are not available to build muscle.  This is one reason why the muscles control metabolism.

The last thing that I took away was a validation of what my friend Dana told me, that to loose weight, 80% of the process is change in eating and diet and 20% is exercise. What I see is that a healthy diet that includes fats, carbs, and protein as well as making sure that I am eating few calories than my body wants, but enough to keep it running, then I will be successful.

Now how much of this do I believe?  I don't know, I haven't had a chance to really look into these ideas.  This webinar happended to have good timing.  Provided me with some ideas to mull over.

Successes: Walked at lunch, kept my eating down
Barriers: none