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I'm still working out five days per week. Am I magically skinny yet? No! I have gained six pounds. Actually I gained them overnight, and now I am bloated, kind of depressed, and craving chocolate. So I think we all know what that means, and I need to just keep going to the gym and sucking it up and hopefully I will magically lose those pounds soon.
I'm up to 30 minutes minimum on the elliptical and have gone up to 40-45 minutes on many days. Which means that I need to make a new playlist, because my current one is now boring me and it's only 27 minutes long. I am going to miss my gym, have I said that enough times? They have trashy magazines and recently added Entertainment Weekly to the mix. I love that magazine and yesterday I read it cover to cover on the elliptical; when I was done, 40 minutes had elapsed without my really noticing it.
Then I went home and ate several cups of vanilla Jell-O sugar free pudding. Oh well. You can't win 'em all.
Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other
Working out has been going well. So far this week, minutes on the elliptical:
Sat: 35-ish
Sun: 0 (in Madison)
Mon: 40
Tues: 44
Wed: 0
Thurs: 30
Tomorrow I will go back to the gym, which puts me on a five days per week workout schedule, not bad! I would rather do six days a week for the next few weeks; I didn't go yesterday because I was having a party and I needed all day to prepare for it, because I'm insane. If I'd gone to the gym, there would have been an extra shower and hair madness and all kinds of crazy stuff. Oh, and I had a meeting in the morning that lasted two hours. So there was that.
Today's eating was, like, the worst ever. I had Oreos for breakfast. The problem was that I bought all this healthy stuff for the party (and did an awesome job of sticking to that all night) but I felt I should have some cookies so that people wouldn't be sad at the overly healthful nature of the party. Well nobody cared, and so all the Oreos were left over. Damn, damn, damn. Then after the gym, when I usually am feeling so virtuous, I went and had McDonald's (a Big Mac with no cheese and small fries, but the Big Mac was the really awesome part). I think the Oreos just set a terrible precedent. I'm surprised I don't have a pizza on the way right now!
Anyway, tomorrow is another day, and I will go back to the gym and go back to eating like a normal person.
Today's Workout
Thanks for responding to my showering-at-the-gym dilemma. I don't know what I'm going to do when I start my new job. I know I'm going to be walking a lot more because I'm commuting, and I'll be busy, which will make me far less inclined to go to the gym, I can tell you that right now. But I feel SO GOOD right now after my workout that my endorphins are fooling me into thinking that I'm doing to go.
I know I'm going to get a discount gym membership as one of my benefits, but I don't know what time of day I'm going to go in, or what I'm going to do about the showering issue. I guess if I go in the morning, I'll have to get used to showering at the gym. Which I will LOATHE and therefore probably will never go to the gym. See? Problem! I fantasize about just buying an elliptical machine and putting it in my house. That would solve this whole thing.
Today I had a delightful 40-minute workout. I've been stressed and tense, and damn it if working out doesn't help that feeling. I feel relaxed and all healthy and virtuous right now. Although I did eat a Subway veggie sandwich instead of a salad! My first time doing that since I started South Beach. I guess there are worse ways to fall off the wagon, though.
Am I Weird?
I did indeed go to the gym the day after posting the last entry. I skipped yesterday due to an incredibly bad hangover. Oops. But I went back today first thing in the morning and had a hell of a workout. I pictured myself sweating all of the toxins out of my body. Seemed to work!
But here's the thing. I always leave the gym and then go home and shower. I never shower at the gym. I want my home shower advantage, and it also seems like a lot of work and effort to bring a towel and shampoo and all that crap to the gym. Not to mention that taking a shower at the gym is kind of gross and weird. It adds a layer of distaste to the whole enterprise. Maybe I'm uptight, I don't know. People look at me funny though, when I walk out of the gym without showering there. Especially today, I was thinking, hell, it's Saturday! Why don't these people just drive home and take nice comfortable home showers? Why am I the only one who does this?
Am I weird for being totally opposed to showering at the gym?
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