Sunday, December 21, 2008

Soya Milk and Exercise

I just found out that during my early childhood I drank soy milk because I was allergic to cow milk. A lot of things have now made more sense. Sigh. This means I do have a lot more work to do to slim down. It's been almost a month since I recovered from a 5 month respiratory something and vomiting phlegm and acid reflux.

I have started exercising again. Before I got sick I was fat but during my sickness I got a lot fatter because I couldn't exercise and I ate 3 square meals a day while my work only entailed sitting in front of a computer. I've started exercising again right when I realized I have stopped coughing those small coughs from the mucusy drip at the back of my throat. I now jogg every weekday I can. Now I can finish 5 rounds around the block without the last 3 in excruciating pain and side stiches. I do pushups. A year ago I could do 20 at a time. When I started again I could only do 10 and it took me 3 days to recover. Now I can do 130-140 a day split into 4 20-rep sets in the morning and 3 20 reps at night. I can do the same number of bicep curls (too bad I couldn't take my dumbbells with me on vacation.) I can do 3 30-rep crunch sets although I can only do them when no one is in the staff house living room where I stay (but I'm hoping to catch up during my vacation.) I'm still fat but I don't have that really bad bloated feeling. Here's hoping I can sustain this streak indefinitely.

In order to have the energy to exercise in the morning I have cut back on my pc gaming time. I sleep at 10 in the evening so I can wake up early for my jog. I also try to eat only at breakfast and a cupcake sometime in the afternoon. I succeed maybe 80% of the time. I've felt great. I'm thinking I can do this but some days there's a wall. A wall where I can only do two sets of pushups and maybe just part of the second set. I step back and relax then try again tomorrow. Usually I can get back on the number of sets I usually do.

Not to be cheesy or anything but: Yes I can.

Side note. Cebu pacific charges Php 100 for every kilogram over the 15Kg alloted. WTF.