Dull

Sorry it's been so long.  With all the final exams and packing, I skipped a lot of gym time and calorie counting.  I don't want to say I'm giving up but that's just how it feels.  Right now I am back home and I will restart my weight-loss plan probably in a few days.  Tomorrow I need to unpack so much stuff and clean although I really do not want to. (and now my mother is yelling for me sighhhhh, be back in like an hour)

So I guess I will start working out on Thursday or Friday after I finish unpacking and hopefully getting a new container of SlimFast! and hopefully some vegetables.  I just want to get this weight off me now and when I think of how recently I've weighed more than I ever have, it's so depressing.  It's pretty bad: I don't feel like seeing any friends, doing much of anything or I don't know.  What do I have interesting going on?  What do I have to look forward to?  I eat, watch television, sleep and procrastinate on doing work.  Yeah so much fun.  It will be harder and more work to post the calorie counts because there were calorie amounts on the food at school.  I'll probably have to do more estimating especially for dinner meals.  And I should really stop eating so much chocolate.  Too bad I don't have a juicer to make vegetable juice.  By next month I want to be down between eight and twelve pounds.  It would be hard to lose more than twelve pounds within like two and a half weeks.  It would probably be hard to lose that much now that I think of how much time before the month ends.  Shoot this is really going to be a lot of work, guess I should start planning my exercise and eating plans.

But you guys probably aren't interested in all this stuff and I just need to stop this and get on with losing weight.  With summer coming up, are you all ready for swimsuit season?  

4/19/12 End-of-Day Cal Count

Breakfast    10:45 AM

Chocolate milk                            150 cal
Oatmeal w/ strawberries,             160 cal
raisins, walnuts

Lunch         1:25 PM
  
3 inch chicken salad sub
(wheat bread, cheddar,
lettuce, tomato)
1.5 TBS coleslaw
Green Apple                               50 cal
3 Oreos                                       135 cal
Multivitamin              

Dinner


Gym            11:18-12:45
Elliptical       2 hours 27 min     724 cal burned
Walking
Stairs: 10 down

Crunch Time

It's getting near the end of the semester and I have not lost the weight.  It really is CRUNCH TIME!  Can I lose ten pounds in what is now two weeks?  I should start doing more sit-ups and while lots of websites say that you cannot lose weight in specific spots, you should be able gain muscle. 

Your abs are made of muscles that are almost like a built in corset so strengthing those muscles is important.  I used to find that sit-ups strain my neck more than they work out my abs but the stronger your ab muscles, the less you'll have to rely on you neck.  Also if you keep your neck in a straight line with your back (it helps if you look straight ahead at the ceiling) your sit-ups or crunches should be more successful so I have started doing them.

You should also give reverse crunches a try.  There is virtually no neck-strain and supposedly they work the lower abs.  Cross crunches are also good for the sides although neck-strain is a possibility.  Whatever type I do, I do them 30 at a time.  I've found it to be a pretty decent number of repetitions.

What is your favorite type of crunch or sit-up?