The Fitness Diary

So the last two months have been very bad as far as exercising goes. Working at a tech startup and exercise definitely do not go together. The last ten weeks or so have been ones of working to see my company’s next generation entertainment service brought to the world. Generally this meant working while I was awake, and time off when I was sleeping. I did get to go to gym, but nothing more than once maybe twice a week, which is better than nothing, but not nearly enough to lose weight, improve my cardiovascular condition or muscle tone.

Now the problem is that I’m heavier than when that picture was taken that’s in my first post, the picture that started this whole lifestyle change. So I’m five months into my life changing exercise program, and I’m actually fatter than when I started! I pretty sure you don’t need to do a google search to work out this isn’t going to work in the long run. Mind you I am my own worst enemy, because I’m back eating loads of chocolate during snack times, and drinking softdrinks. Probably the worst thing is back to not eating a proper breakfast before leaving the house. Generally this means I’m eating peanut M&Ms - which my company generally provides us free and in large quantities - by about mid morning.

If anything it’s good that I’ve got this blog going, because I can see now that without real effort, there won’t be any way that I’ll actually achieve my goal. I’ve decided to change the workout strategy, to shorten the amount of overall time it takes to complete. I’ll workout each weekday, doing 1 body part followed by 20 minutes of aerobic activity. Altogether it should take about 1 hour start to finish, which is doable.

Well that’s the plan, for starting a second time.

Andy.