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Measure of Success

Sometimes it's challenging to feel good about working out and eating right.  Other people have such dramatic progress.  I worked out 5 days this week:

• Upper Body Weight Training
• HIIT Cardio (20 minutes high intensity interval training with a 5 minute warm up and 5 minute cool down)
• Lower Body Weight Training
• HIIT Cardio plus 7ish miles of target-rate cardio on the upright cycle
• Upper Body Weight Training followed by HIIT Cardio

The result is I gained 1.5 pounds.  But I know I've gotten stronger, and my scale measures body-fat percentage, and it's the lowest I've seen yet.  I'm also in that particularly feminine phase of the moon, and I fully expect that next week, I'll be a little lighter because I will no longer be retaining so much water and other assorted materials.

But I'm just so goal oriented.  It's getting harder and harder to lose weight.  I know I'm eating right, or at least I think I am.  According to HMM, the thing to do is join Sparkpeople.com.

So I've done it.  We'll see if it is a system I can work with. Click Here for my Sparkpeople page