So week eight has been interesting , there has to be something said about persistence in anything you do whether it be dieting, work or exercise the more you put in to it the more you get out of it, so perseverance is half the battle, I have been eating some carbs lately and have not been as strict on my diet but I am starting to see not so much huge amounts of weight loss but I am getting comments from people of me looking thinner, plus my clothes are definitely fitting much looser.

Exercise

I must say this is all to do with  exercise, don’t get me wrong I am not eating fast food , no McDonalds or burger king just good quality food, fish chicken, lean beef. But now back to exercise, for about 2 months now II have been walking one day jogging the next, and since my business has slowed down a bit it gives me some free time in the afternoon, so I have been lifting weights, not heavy weights, just some light weights with lots of repetitions so for example I will take a barbell with 10 pounds and do 4 sets of 50 repetitions each or till I just can lift the bar, I have been doing this working different parts of the body and the results seem to be good, I am also going to start doing crunches which I have not done yet, but I am going to start with 100 a day and over a period of time my goal is to work my way up to 1000 a day.

One thing I do know it is helping tone my body considerably and I should hopefully start to see a snowball effect with dropping some more pounds, its getting a bit warmer now, so for breakfast I have been having a protein drink with a banana or some sliced papaya, mixing it with soy milk, at mid day I am having another protein drink no fruit just soy milk or lowfat milk . and then for dinner sticking with broiled chicken or fish with a green salad.

So the key here is to keep on going and dont give up, it feels really good when you begin to get compliments of how well you look, plus feeling better about yourself tends to give us better outlook on life a positive attitude plus you feel great, you should try it, the first month exercising and cutting out certain foods was really difficult, but after a while the benefits are totally worth it.