Lovers In Paris

I just finished watching a Korean drama called "Lovers in Paris." It's a modern day Cinderella story where a poor girl meets a rich man and they fall madly in love with each other. Of course there are villians who attempt to get in the way of the couple, which makes the story more interesting.

I started watching it on Sat and finished it a couple of hours ago. If anyone has watched an entire Korean drama, he/she would know how much time it consumes and how it could consume your mind. I think that's why it's so popular. It allows you to escape the dreadery of life for a brief moment (for me pretty much the entire weekend) like a drug.

I worked out afterwards. It feels so good to workout. I feel stronger and more confident already.

Rush

Today I went to workout during lunch time. I went to the 24 hour fitness in K-town. Boy, was that a mistake. There was traffic due to construction and people drive very poorly there. Luckily, I found metered parking that had almost two hours left.

I was doing weights, but rushed through it because I had to get back to work. I don't think that lunch time workouts are going to work for me, but I don't know how else I'm going to fit going to the gym six times a week. Perhaps I can do weights at home with resistance bands. I'm going to check that out.

I checked out another person's blog who is also doing Body For Life. I was amazed by her dedication. I'm inspired to change my diet to a more restrictive one because I'm eating like a pig compared to her. Sweets are my weakness.

Work Hard Work Out Not So Hard

I worked like a mad woman today cause I had so much to do. The work is never ending, especially because I have to document every single thing that I do for a client. If I answer the phone, I have to document the content of that conversation into a database.

I was actually looking forward to working out because I had been sitting all day at my cubicle. My fingers were getting a great workout, but my butt felt like it was becoming a pancake from sitting down all day.

Today, I did weights for the lower body. I forgot bring my lil cheat sheet with me so I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. I was thinking, "This is a cinch. Why didn't I try this workout program before?"

I read what I was supposed to do when I got home from the gym. I was supposed to do a lot more. Oops. Oh well, at least I did something.

My goal is to have a toned body. I was watching "Wife Swap" yesterday and the prettier mom had great legs. Her hamstrings were very defined, yet not bulky. I want that!

Natural High

Yesterday I went to get an eye exam and they dilated my pupils. The doc told me that I would be sensitive to light. I went outside and realized that all the lights were so much brighter and the colors more vivid. It was strangely familiar.

Then I went to go workout at the Hollywood 24 hour fitness where you have a nice view of the outside because the walls are made out of glass. I chose to do cardio. I was doing the elliptical machine while listening to dance music on my Ipod when I suddenly realized that the lights from across the way were bouncing up and down to the music. Dialated pupils + movement of the body + dance music + lights = fun!

Body For Life

I started this exercise program called Body for Life www.bodyforlife.com. It consists of doing cardio three times a week for 20 minutes and doing weight training three times a week on days when you don't do cardio. I like it because it's very structured and it tells you exactly what to do (I like being told what to do). The website has demonstrations of the weight training exercises that they recommend.

The program also incorporates healthy eating. It doesn't seem too extreme so I'm being hopeful. You have to eat six meals a day, combine protein and carb for every meal, eat appropriate portions (palm of the hand), drink 10 glasses of water, and don't eat right before or right after exercising.

There are some amazing before and after pics on the website. They also have this contest you can enter where you can win $50,000 for successfully completing the challenge. The challenge is to do this program for three months. It's crazy how some average everyday people took the challenge and after three months, they look like body builders or models.



Today I was trying to decide whether to do upper body weight training (which they recommend you start with) or cardio. I felt like doing cardio cause if I don't sweat like crazy, I don't feel like I really got a work out. I got to the gym and I still couldn't decide so I did both.

I don't usually like to do weights at the gym because the area's infested with men. I felt awkward and self-conscious. Hopefully I'll get the hang of it more as time goes by.