When I first started on my exercise regimen back in late August, I pined for the day I would actually notice the results of all that work. It's half a year later, and I'm not the only one noticing the results of all that work.<\/p>\n
I've gotten past the plateau that plagued me in December, but ever since then, my rate of loss has slowed dramatically. I got too accustomed to losing two pounds a week that now one pound a week feels glacial. I could probably afford to cut a few more calories, but … I want to live a little, you know?<\/p>\n
Still, a 30-pound drop is not an achievement to dismiss. I'm almost at the point where I need to tighten the belt one more notch. The loss is noticeable to people who don't see me day-to-day.<\/p>\n
Back in December, I changed my daily 40-minute treadmill walk to a full-hour session with weightlifting and cardio, four times a week. My first goal when I started was to shed a few pounds, although I did want to build some muskell<\/em> (ne: muscle). But I didn't want to muddy my focus, so I decided to wait till I reached a plateau to add the weightlifting. I'm starting to see more results there, but I'm going to wait a few more weeks before I declare a change has really happened.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, I had a bit of a setback two weeks ago. I ate something one night that didn't agree with my gall bladder-less body, and the next morning, I had to use the bathroom really badly. I ended up fainting and managed to strain some muscles in my back and neck. A few days after, I did my usual weightlifting routine, and that didn't really improve matters. So I'm taking some muscle relaxants and staying away from the weights till I feel no more tension in my back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I first started on my exercise regimen back in late August, I pined for the day I would actually notice the results of all that work. It's half a year later, and I'm not the only one noticing the results of all that work. I've gotten past the plateau that plagued me in December, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkgj-L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}