Day Two - Now for the Exercise
As described in My Weight Loss Plan, one of the keys to successful weight loss is exercise. So, today, some exercise.
I have exercised before in my life, and one lesson I have learned is this: don’t over-do it. There is no point in trying to go out and run 10K on day one; you only succeed in injuring yourself, so that you can’t exercise for a month, which defeats the purpose.
So I started slowly. I got up early and got on my Precor 9.33 treadmill.
I set the timer for 20 minutes (which means 25 minutes because there is an automatic 5 minute warm down at the end), and walked at a reasonably slow pace. In 25 minutes I covered 1.7 km (just over a mile), and burned 153 calories. Then I did two sets of 15 situps on my work-out ball, and two sets of 15 pushups.
I finished with some stretching, and that was it. Simple, not strenuous, and no injuries, which is the simple way to start an exercise program.