The Eighth Cycle

I'm going to pat myself on the back.  I really don't do this often enough, always blaming myself for what I didn't do.  I am proud that I've managed to keep an exercise regime going for seven cycles of half months.  Beginning in July, I've kept logs of exercise every half month, not counting the two weeks before I kept track where I began my meager movements.  Exercise would tire me out, and I couldn't follow most of the tapes I now move through with, if not total engagement, general skill and the development of muscle and tone.

This begins the eighth cycle.  I will have four more before the end of the year, during which I hope to lose more weight.  I had thought I would lose eight more pounds by the end of the year so that I would hover, if not enter, a new weight "bracket," but I'm not so sure that will happen.  If I can drop into the lower half of this weight bracket, where I now hover at the top of the top half, I will be happy.

My last half was the least amount of exercise per day.  I averaged 33 minutes per day, but only exercised about 9 out of 15 days.  Of course, I was sick, does that count?  Total minutes really dropped from the previous cycle and that was a drop from the cycle before that.  What it means is that I either have to watch better what I eat or increase the amount of exercise in order to continue to lose weight.

This week, I'm going to try to exercise at least half an hour every day.  Since I will exercise some days more than that (as I have today and will tomorrow at yoga), I will increase the average daily rate immediately, thus hopefully increasing the weight loss again.  Between now and Halloween:  2 more pounds so I'm getting toward the mid-range of this weight bracket.  Another 2 next month, another 2 in December.  That's not asking for much!!  And I can do it, YES I CAN!