Week 17: My Health and Weight Loss Journey to Get Fit and Lose Weight!

Welcome to week 17 of my Health and Weight Loss Journey.

Workout wise, it was a pretty boring week. I just went for walks and did my personalized weight lifting routine. At least I did a lot better that last week (post linked here).

I continued to use the Pedometer App. which I am still loving!

It has been scorching hot and humid but I've been going for my walks again despite the heat.

I think it's good to sweat, it's an easy way to get rid of toxins.

What!?!?!

Baby Egret

One day, I saw something flying past me that looked VERY strange. It looked like a bird of some sort covered in fluff. I thought it's either got some disease or it's some very strange looking bird. In 40+ years, I have never seen a bird like this. I wasn't able to get a picture of it, but I googled it and found exactly what I saw. I wanted to share a picture of it, it's such a strange looking bird. It was a baby Egret. Never heard of them, but apparently they were almost extinct at one time.

Personalized Workout Chart

+ 15 reverse lunges, 15, reverse angled lunges, and 15 walking lunges.

Note: I'm still using 8lb weights for the above weight routine.

It was a slow start to the week but I finished strong.

Here are my workouts for the week:

Day 1- 

Day 2- 

Day 3- 

Day 4- 30 minute walk + weight routine above

Day 5- 30 minute walk

Day 6- 30 minute walk + weight routine above

Day 7- 30 minute yoga - 5 Day Fit Yoga DVD (Pm routine with Rod Stryker)

Weigh in :

Weight: down .5 lbs 

Fat: no change

Let me know what you're doing to stay in shape this summer!

See you next week!

Week 8: My Health and Weight Loss Journey to Get Fit and Lose Weight!

I wasn't able to keep up with my workouts again this week as I am still dealing with what the Dr's are calling injuries from a previous workout. If you saw my last post (linked here) you already know about this. Also, here is a link to the original post where I started this journey if you'd like to check it out.

This doesn't mean I am stopping this journey by any means, so I keep planning on doing updates every week. 

This week I did some gentle yoga, I used the yoga DVD pictured above as they are very gentle routines and mainly made up of stretching exercises. 

I also started doing something I've done for years- I do 2 minutes of squats once a day while I brush my teeth. This is my way of multi-tasking. I have done it for years but had stopped doing it and forgot about it for a while. But, because of my injuries, I am trying to find little ways to get a bit of any type of exercise in that isn't strenuous. I really want to heal and get back to being fully functional without worry of making my injuries worse.

See you next week! Hopefully with some better news.

Amy

xoxo