Beating Chronic Fatigue to Lose Weight
In order to lose weight you must overcome your chronic fatique first.
In order to lose weight you must overcome your chronic fatique first.
I made the mistake of checking my email before my workout today… and before I knew it… Poof! An hour had passed and I was tight on time for my workout.
Doh! Managing time and sticking to it is paramount to being in control of your weight loss.
So I hit it hard. Replacing duration for intensity this makes for a good change in pace from the last few days to keep my body guessing.
Tuesday’s Time in the Gym 40 Minutes:
10 minutes of high intensity cardio (running not jogging) to get my blood moving.
Day 5 went as planned. Weekend off, though I still managed to walk the dog 2 miles on Sunday. It’s funny how having a pet makes you not just responsible, but you begin to regain the joy of the simple things in life. Well, I do anyway. Going for a walk makes the dog happy, which in turn makes me happy that I was able to give him what he wants. And it’s good for me too. Walking the dog is one of the simple pleasures of my life.
The weekend gave me some reprive to recover from last weeks intense workout so I hit it really hard to maximize my efforts to lose weight.
Today I skipped the gym altogether and ran out my door and them proceeded to push myself to complete failure running up and down the hills in the neighborhood I live it.
I absolutely hated it but I managed to ignore the boredom of running by focusing on pushing myself and I listened to the sound track from the Original 80′s version of “Transformers The Movie”.
It was actually very inspiring and made me feel young again…
Sunday’s workout was pretty light for me but I had a great little thought that will help you lose weight. As I was traveling to the gym, it was early and still dark.
Something very interesting happened… I saw a woman jogging. But this woman had a marked difference about her she was wearing a reflective orange vest and she was carrying a flashlight.
Strangely I had seen her many times before. But her outfit really got me thinking this morning.
She was lean and her stride was confident and strong… so what creates that?
So Saturday Ended up being a really lazy day for me. I did make it to the gym and did a light workout of running on the treadmill (Listening to Tim Ferris’s 4 Hour Work Week which is absolutely brilliant BTW).
Saturday’s workout:
45 Minutes of light jogging on the worlds most expensive hamster wheel (treadmill).
Listening to Tim’s book is one of the ways I find pleasure in things I just can’t stand doing (running is one of those things I have never seemed to like.)
Day 3 went as planned. I was awesome and excited all day. And I hiked 3 miles in Ice Box Canyon.
Day 4 is Saturday and it’s a rest day. I’ve decided that Saturday and Sunday will be my rest days, rather than coinciding my off days with my off work days. For me, when I have a day off work, I usually allow myself to sleep in. That starts my day pleasantly, but it also sets a loaf and lazy kind of mood for the day. Again, pleasant, but generally unrewarding. So I’ve decided that my workout rest days will follow my longest and latest work days. Saturday and Sunday.
Day 5 of the workout was not to workout… it was too rest. This is part of the free weight loss program that we introduce on our main page.
One thing to remember is that it is critical to give your body time to repair so my day 5 was rest.
I slept it (I woke at 6:30 instead of 4:30) and the extra 2 hours was awesome!. I moved at a leisurely pace all day.
Once you have gotten into a good workout pattern, it is interesting on your rest days… You tend to feel like something is missing…