Exercise, Food, & Old Friends

Today is Monday, December Fourteenth Two Thousand Oh Nine and I am kinda sore today. I started a exercise program two weeks ago and met with a personal trainer last tuesday. Personal trainers are pretty spendy at seventy-five dollars an hour but I decided that I needed someone to be accountable to. Also, since I dropped a check for seven hundred dollars for ten weeks of training I better well follow up and get my money's worth.

My trainer Nancy, has me starting off slowly for the first week. I do two sets of fifteen repetitions on four different machines and then ride the death cycle for twenty minutes. The cardio's mission is to get my heart rate up around 130 for twenty minutes and since I am a smoker with high blood pressure its pretty easy for my to obtain that goal. I meet with Nancy again tomorrow and I hope to increase the amount of weight on the machines I am doing as well as learning some new machines. Its important to me to do the exercises correctly so I don't screw up some part of myself. I lost about twenty pounds since I got sober but I seem to have gained it all back in the past few months. I am hoping that the exercise helps a bit.

I've started eating better as well and while I still drink at least one energy drink a day I now drink the sugar free ones. I also gave up sugar cereal with whole milk in favor of special K and lowfat milk. I just cannot drink skim milk, it sucks and reminds me of the powered milk my folks made my brother and I drink when we were kids. I am also eating oatmeal every morning and since I drink my coffee black I don't have to worry about cream and sugar in the beverage.

Since I began recovery I have discovered that two college friends of mine are also in recovery. They don't use AA like I do but have their own program but I think its important to realize that both of them are married with children. I am not saying that what they are doing is any easier but I think if I had children life would have a different perspective for me. I am just glad that they are taking responsibility for their life and moving forward rather than in reverse.

There isn't much to report today and I don't feel like traveling down memory lane. Its monday and I don't feel like writing much.