June 6 Comeback

Well, well, as you would have guessed it very well, I missed out on my objectives. For a zillion and one excuses I could give, but the fact remains, I missed it.

The hard, dark, stark, cold truth.

I should be extremely apologetic for not sticking to my regime, but I will not spent a lot of time wiping tears and feeling sorry for myself. It's important to come back stronger than from where you left the stuff incomplete.

I blundered. I took it easy. It's gonna be a tough thing to kill flab and I have to, have to, have to—kill it. It HAS to be done. There are no two ways about it!

So in the meanwhile, I have got for myself a renewed jest for working out and an even newer machine (yep, an elliptical machine) to kill all that flab.

I have been doing everything in rhythm for a little more than a few weeks now. Looks like the scale doesn't move as you and I expect it to, but it moved down a couple of kgs in the last week, and that excites me.

I have decided to not only keep burning all those calories, but also reduce, one way or the other, their consumption as well.

Let's see how things fall in place. Keep the good thing going and so will I. :)

The 15-minute lag

I kept looking at my cellphone for quite some time till it was 6:11am. In between, I kept going back to my dream world and kept plunging back into the real. It was at 6:12am that I decided that no self-sympathy is going to work. I should be out, and yes, I should be.

Some say that honey, and a half a lemon squeezed in warm water is a good thing to begin with in the morning. It helps streamline the digestive process, and in the long run, gives you that lean mean look. I did just that today. Squeezed half a lemon into a glassful of warm water, added a dollop of honey. It takes a while to get used to the somewhat weird taste early in the morning. It's a different taste altogether as compared to your morning chocolate or breakfast tea.

I maintained my pace for 45 minutes of brisk walking, including a patch of few seconds of jogging. I figured out that my leg aches only in the beginning. As it gets used to the grind, or should I say, as I get used to the pain, it does not bother much.

The mantra, they say, to successful weight loss is to consume less calories than what you expend. So, the more I walk, jog, stand and drink cold water, and the less I eat fatty foods, high-carb, dense, cheesy stuff, the faster I will achieve my goal.

Yippee! I am looking forward to the excitement of day two! Psst...It's been a while since I actually woke up this early, and that too, on two consecutive days!

And tomorrow, or eventually(isn't that a better word), I will get rid of the 15-minute lag, and will be out by exactly 6 O' Clock!

Well begun is half done

I looked up at my cellphone and it told me that it was 6:15am. Then I realized that I had already killed two alarms, one at 5:43am and another at 5:45am, and was still lounging in my bed.

Actually, I was trying to be a little too lenient towards myself for not being able to get good sleep the night before. But then, there are no excuses, pal! So, I got into the groove, and got out for a brisk walk to begin with. 6:30 am (or was it 6:35am?) was when I walked out, and I went on an on for close to 45 minutes.

Tomorrow, I'll make it a point to get out on the road exactly at 6! Promise.

I have settled in for a brisk walk coz' there's this teeny weeny itsy bitsy problem with my right foot, and it aches miserably. I will soon graduate to a full fledged soft-jogging routine. I should.

Okay, and for breakfast, I am going to have a bowl of cornflakes. No grease, no cheese, just good ol' low-carb flab-killin' cornflakes!