My locker at the gym today. My workouts are going well or maybe just ok, I'm learning about it. I mean, I have smoked for years and had little to no exercise during those years, and of course, weight gain. I have lost quite a bit, but I think my workouts will only improve with more weight loss. I need that lift, because today, and I check it every day, I'm just not bouncy yet, even though I have lost weight which I can see and feel and am happy about.
I want to start running, and right now, I don't know if it's the weights or the weight, but i'm just not springy enough to do it. i don't know, I have not had this feeling before. But I have been playing around with my workouts and today I added some start jumps, 25, to try and address my problem. I remember in my youth responding quite well to this. When I did them today though, I was like, wow yeah i'm just really kind of as without shock absorbers or something like that, if one was a car or a mountain bike. So I will do these every day. And I think, as I have added a very few reps to most of my sets, that I will leave it here for some time, because I just want to not be so leaden in my motions and ability. I think weights can do that if you don't cross train somehow, so I'm just going to try this. I also added some floor exercises today because I don't want to do the hip abductors every day though I absolutely love them. I think on balance, I'm not going to push the weights as hard as the yoga because I really need a deep stretch and yoga builds strength too. I'm just going on and on about this because it's part of my new idea to try and ... get well... or whatever is possible in that way. Weight loss, fitness, mind training, I really like this as a way of dealing with schizophrenia. I'm also looking at my diet, since weight loss is on my mind. I eat Weight Watchers and Lean Cuisines every day, and sometimes some Amy's Vegetarian thrown in. It's more expensive, like twice as expensive, but it is just really good food. Anyway, I checked the fat grams and I'm on about 900 calories a day and I'm only having 7 grams of fat today, according to the nutrition panel. So I don't have to change what I'm doing, but I am interested in pushing myself to try more of a variety of things, as a mental and creative exercise. I'm doing smoothies in the morning, at least today I did, and it has 0 fat. And on other days I have had avocado on toast, which is tons of fat, but apparently it's the "good kind", whatever that is all about. And i'm going to try some Ayervedic things from my reading next week. I am happy to be doing all of this because really, I have been so entrenched in cigarettes, tea or coffee, two frozens a day instead of just one as I'm doing now. I was such a creature of habit and really I did it so that I would have more of a chance to stay out of the hospital. If I had a kind of strict habit or routine, it would give some focus when I have episodes. But really, I think trying new things is even better as an idea, and it's less about maintenance and more about healing that way. I know so many people who can't deal with the word healing, but really I just you know, embrace it I mean I want out, you know?
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