Flattery Will Get You Everywhere

Monday, June 23, 2008
7w3d to pics--159# (There's that higher number I was expecting. It'll go down again quickly though.)
Work 6p-8a
Slept 6 hours.

Today has been a good day in a lot of ways. I checked my e-mail as I was eating dinner and got the wonderful comments everyone made to yesterday's post. I can't even begin to tell you how much I enjoy getting those (negative or positive), and today's were even better since they were so complimentary. Thank you! I did take Leslie's suggestions and changed my "About me" section. Even in my own mind, my thoughts of myself have shifted to ones of a "recovering" chubling, trying to fine tune what I have now and prepare myself for a life of healthy choices. Then shortly after I got to work one of the nurses who I don't see a lot came up to ask me about what I've been doing to make such changes. I've been getting the wonderful "You look great. You're getting so skinny!" comment a lot, but Harriet gave me my favorite compliment to date. "You look fabulous! You're so toned and healthy looking!" she said. Perfect. Just what I was going for! Every day brings me closer to my goal, and days like today make all the effort worthwhile--as no doubt the years of health will in the future.

WORKOUT :
Day 1 of the hundred pushup challenge.
Push-ups are my arch nemesis, so I'm looking forward to seeing where this takes me. My test yesterday yielded 10 toe-together good form pushups. Max out on the 5th round tonight was 7.

Then with the 16kg for 5 rounds ...
Row R 30 sec
Row L 30 sec
Rest 30 sec
Pushup 30 sec
Plank 30 sec
Rest 30 sec
Reverse Lunge R 30 sec
Reverse Lunge L 30 sec
Rest 30 sec

Double 12kg snatch 12 sets of 5 all started at the top of the minute, resting the remainder. Started each round with dead snatches as usual.