Week 8 complete

Well, it has been two months of fitness. While some of it has gone the way I thought it might, it has taken a couple different directions from how I first thought.  For instance, I thought it would be all vegetarian food. I also thought that "cardio" would be a primary objective.

Instead, I've gone on an anti-sugar campaign, and I've found that weightlifting is more important to me than running. I am running, but as the weather gets nicer (and as we've had a bit of a rainless streak) I've turned more and more back to my original sporting love: skateboarding. When I do run, I'm doing much shorter sprint workouts rather than spending a long time jogging.  From what I understand, sprinting (more physical effort) helps boost the metabolism for a longer period thus helping to burn more calories.

So, how about the end of the second month physical changes?

original inspiration...belly fat and lack of muscular definition 

 End of month one:

end of four weeks

End of month 2:

end of 8 weeks

The physical changes have slowed down, but they started so fast they'd have to, I suppose. I continue to notice a little more fat disappearing, and a little more ab and obliques appearing. My hip bones have made an appearance again, and I've gotten much much stronger than I was two months ago.

What is next? Well, I'm taking an extra day off from working out this week. I have felt a little tired this week, and I think my body needs a little more rest. Plus, I've been skating so much that I'm a little banged up from falling.

Starting next week, rather than doing two full upper body workouts and one lower I'm going to do things a bit more like a body builder. I'm going to have a chest and arm day, a back and shoulder day, and a leg day. I'm going to continue doing sprints on my running day (about 20 minutes twice each week) and I'm going to keep skating as long as my body will let me.

Sugar is still off the menu, but I've not eaten quite as well as I should this week. I'm looking to add more high fiber foods next week, and less sugar alcohol protein bars. I want to eat ingredients more and products less.