Finally Resumed Exercise, and have lost 1.5 inches!

Since last Wednesday, with a longer waistline!!

No time to write later last week, but as it stands:

I just did:

• 30 each ac crunch exercises, with my Total Gym set on level 6
• 15, 10 none and 15 oblique crunches, each side on

Wed, Thur. Friday and Sunday, 4/18- 19 - 20 and 22

I started:

36 inch waist and 42.5 inch gut and am down to a

35.5-inch waist and a 41.5-inch gut

My eating habits are their usual bad.

The longer waistline is especially encouraging!

One morning, my waist actually measured 35 inches and a few inches down 36.5.

It used to be one smallest part, bulging directly, rather than gradually, up to my gut thickness, with not appreciable length of waist in-between!

Got to go, get in a few reps and get back to the rest of what needs to be done here.

This is encouraging!

Aiming to resumed exercise next week

Do we all say that from time to time?


It looks like things are settling down in our household.
Teddy dog, who injured a toe nail is off antibiotics
and one of our kitties will be off his, owing to a nasty bite he got out side, will be off his shortly.

Soon School will resume for my daughter
by then my eating habits will have stabilized.

Distracted by events, I have gone from roughly 7 packets of ring dings a week to 1.
I have cut out potato chips, and lunch meats all together, these days. I do not know how long that will last.

I can say I am down to a 36-inch waist without exercising, out side of walking Teddy dog.

As I intended to make a valid test of:

Shaping up using the Total Gym

• to the extent I could fit it into each week
• Without Dieting

I will give it until next week to restart the whole

• Do my best to fit in some each day
• and Inches Off Friday report

To see what it really does, with what little I can fit in, fitness wise.

If I do not resume exercise soon, my back will tell me about it!

I do know I can count on a few ab exercises on it several times a week to keep  my back feeling good. That I know already.
Can I really, EVER fit in enough to loose, then keep off inches?
We shall see!

2-inch gain after about a month of slacking

That is on just my waist, GULP!

Well there you go. Now the question is, how fast can I get back to a 35.5-inch waist, and then smaller?

Sadly, my slacking off from exercise came about at the same time I decided:

• I would do, abs, then abs and core exercises every other day
• Leg, then add, chest and shoulder, exercises on those other days

Well I still believe it is a sound plan
Let us see if I can just get around to it!

Greetings from the If it Can go Wrong, It Will Life

Well I have not managed to fit in any kind of exercise lately, except walking our Teddy pup.

He just had his winter coat cut off, (Picture the dog in the picture to your right, with 4 times as much fur). It takes a few days for him to recover. He gets timid. So we have not been walking much either.

Exactly as the title suggests, that is how it has been around here lately.

Fortunately for me, a friend of ours tuned me on to Gabriel Iglesias!

You can check out a bit of his comedy here!

If you are down, and even if you are not and just appreciate a good laugh, like exercise, his comedy is worth fitting into your week, or if you can do it, day!

Well hopefully things will get better soon, and I can resume exercise and writing about it.
If not, my back is going to kill me!

Fitness Simplified, Thank you Kasper V. Chistensen

Thank you Kasper for your kind comment to my Ab Crunch Exercises I Refer to in Inches Off Friday post. Though I seriously doubt you need much of the info provided here!

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If you have ever been remotely interested in diet and exercise, Kasper’s Fortius Fitness site is worth at least a good browse. You will no doubt learn something!

Thank you for the nice comment Kasper. I am glad it led me to your informative site!

Roadblocks to Exercise, great and small

Helps to remember I have still lost 3 inches off my waist and 1 inch off my gut since October of last year doing these few exercises in a fits-and-starts fashion.

Well sometimes things come up.
Sometimes we let things overwhelm us.

Some weeks it is both, which is what I had last week.

In an ordinary week, I would have tried to adhere to these guidelines I came up with in the last few months:
Try to Exercise

• When you are cold
• Before Breakfast
• When the browser, or program, of your choice is not responding
• Before opening an email, or otherwise hearing from one in your life who tends to be upsetting

As last week went, few of those guidelines would have gotten in a 10 reps of ab, oblique exercises, or plank presses. Well, OK, I did manage a few, but too few to mention.

No. There was driving other people to the doctor, to work and their car’s garage, and other things of that ilk all week.

Some weeks are going to be like that.
Will just have to get back to it ASAP!

Still not quitting!

Lost ½ off Waist and ¼ inch off Gut

Which may seem meager except
Especially if you compare them to my original, back in Oct 2011, actual Inches Off in one week

Except:
This time I am concentrating on consistently working this into my life.

I have managed consistency! For 10 days at least!

Reasons I think I can maintain this and why just a ¾ inch loss is just fine

Total Gym is weight lifting, I am:

1st making a point of not doing the same exercises two days in a row.

• Granted I am not quite able to Fit In different ones on the in-between days, 
• but am aiming to.

 2nd Doing my best to not overwhelm myself, so as to keep this up for the long run

IF I consider my eating habits:

• I lost over 3 inches off my waist, 1 off my gut, since starting this in October.
• I am not killing myself trying
• I sure do not diet!
• That I am just beginning to get consistent

Actually, considering:

• The way I eat, or rather what I eat
• It is miraculous that I have not ballooned up to 200 pounds
• With all the ill heath issues that can come with that at my age!

Also, if I loose just a ½ inch off my waist
And a ¼ inch off my gut
Every 10 days

I should be in pretty good shape by summer!

SO this is what I have been doing, with great consistency, these last 10 days.

1st, I got a separate agenda, desk calendar just for exercise. These notes did not really fit into my normal one. It also made it impossible to add more exercise, and its notes.

2nd In addition to my Total Gym workouts, such as they are so far, I have started using a resistance rubber band thing for arm exercises at my desk.
Mine looks like this, but is relatively small for arms, chest and back I guess…with grips instead of ankle cuffs, but the same basic round of rubber band.

I picked it up somewhere, maybe the Sports Authority, years ago.

This is perfect for when you have a few moments of waiting for something to load when you are at the computer!

So the upshot of this is

I did:
All at level 6 on my Total Gym, because I will not take time to change the level
Every Other Day

• 30, in sets of 10, plain Ab Crunches, using the attachment
• First just 5 each, but worked up to: 30, each side, sets of 10, Oblique Ab Crunches, using the attachment. This is especially grueling, at first, at level 6
• 30, in sets of 10, actual Plank Presses

I also did 30, in sets of 10 each, arm exercises I either made up or are recalling, (likely a combo of these two things), with my above-mentioned resistance band.

If I can find a picture for this, I will post it here.

So I did these things and lost 3/4 inch from my waist and gut!

More importantly, I think I hit on something I can do no matter what.
Those were a rough set of 10 days

• My favorite Aunt died
• My current hopes for my love life did a roller coaster maneuver
• Plus Technical difficulties throughout….

Though it all it helped to feel physically stronger and more energetic!
Worth the effort!