Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Biggest Loser and Me

Today was a challenging day. I woke up late, hungry and I forgot to bring another box of cereal so breakfast was light, which set the tone for the day. By 6 p.m., during my workout, I felt famished and was definitely ready for dinner. I became grouchy and gave up on some of the weight lifting toward the end out of frustration. Once dinner was ready, it took a lot of restraint to not shovel in my food and overeat. I managed to stay within my points today even with my splurge of one glass of champagne.

After dinner we watched last night’s episode of The Biggest Loser. I started watching The Biggest Loser this season and I was sucked in from the first five minutes. One contestant this season has lost over 100 pounds but started out at almost 500 pounds. Every week I am amazed with how much weight they lose and continue to push themselves to be healthy and live better lives.

While watching this week’s show I realized I don’t push myself like these guys do. I barely break a sweat in the gym and I definitely don’t sweat in my pilates class. Granted, I don’t need to lose 100+ pounds, just 15, but I do need to push myself harder in the gym. Do I need a Jillian Micheals trainer to yell and scream at me “LAST CHANCE WORKOUT!!!!” in order to really get moving on the elliptical and lift that extra 10 pounds? Maybe.

3 comments:

Nico said...

Maybe you need a trainer! You don't like it when I try "encourage" you to push harder! :p

Christy said...

Yes, a trainer would be great, or a higher-impact class.

Melinda D. said...

It's not that I don't like it when you "encourage" me, Nico. I just sometimes hate working out so I don't want to push myself.

Christy, I am thinking about signing up for a class at work, in addition to Pilates (gotta work off that beer gut!).

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