Day 48...and counting

Although I have not been faithful about posting lately, I want my readers to know that I have been exercising daily, and have been following the food restrictions. I had candy in my mouth at the Johnson's last week, chewed it for a few seconds, then spit it out remembering my diet. That was the only time I have been bad, and at least I caught myself.

So, what I've been doing to sweat lately has mostly been upper body. I need to get back into cardio - jogging, etc., but my ankle is still bothering me a little bit. Not enough to even matter when I'm walking or playing with my kids, but every once in a while there is a pain and so I have been wanting to rest it still. I know I can slowly get back into it now.

I've been doing pull-ups, push-ups, crunches, squats, and bicep curls. Lots of days I will do 100 squats (1X100), 100 push-ups (4X25) and 100 crunches (1X100). But I developed a new set that is quick and seems to work well for me. I set a stopwatch for 2 minutes. My rep takes 4 seconds (2 secs up, and 2 secs down) for each exercise, so although I am only doing 30 reps in the 2 minutes, they are very controlled with good form. Sometimes if I just try to crank 100 out, I get sloppy. This workout lasts 10 minutes because I do 2 minutes of each of the following:

• crunches
• push-ups
• squats
• bicep curls
• 2 minutes plank (hold it the whole time)

So, this may sound like a light workout, but at least it keeps me going, and is better than nothing. I like it because it's quick.

Hope to get back into some consistency with my posting.

You'll notice if you counted days, that I should be on day 49, not day 48. I did skip a day - my 10th wedding anniversary. Shame on me.