I had my physical exam with my PCP today.  She doesn't think that I should lose much more weight.  I agree with her.  I think about 15 to 20 pounds more and I'll be done.  My blood pressure was 112/68, pretty good.  I get my blood work results in 2 weeks.  I have my annual well woman's exam next week.  I still need to schedule my mammogram.  I didn't get one last year, so I need to make sure I get it done this year.

Tonight we did a rotation of different exercise.  I was surprised that I was able to finish it in the time allotted.  The men had to finish in 38 minutes, the ladies in 45 minutes.  

First, we jogged 2 laps.  Then we had to do 20 lunges, 20 squats, 20 push-ups, 30 crunches, and then jog 1 lap, walk 1 lap, then redo it 5 times.  I finished 4 out of 7.  Not too shabby for a former fat girl!  I'm on vacation out of town next week, so I'll exercise for 20 minutes a day.  My trainer said not to do more than that. 

This is how committed I am to this program:  I have shortened my vacation from 2 weeks to 1 week so that I don't miss out on too many sessions.  I also actually left my husband and Annie at the night clinic to go to my boot camp, then returned to pick them up after I finished.  Annie swallowed a nickel so we were there getting x-rays.  We got there at 5:30 when they opened, but we were still only #8 in line.  We finally left at 9:50 PM.  Thank God the nickel is in her large intestine and should within the day or two.  We're like archeologists searching for hidden treasure.  

I'll post soon.

We met last night to work on our upper bodies.  We started with jogging 4 laps.  Then we started our arm workouts.  We used 8 lb. weights.  We had to do 3 sets of 30 seconds each of each exercise.  Between exercises we had to jog 1 lap, walk 1 back.  The final exercise was us on the ground like for a push up, but bring your body down parallel to the ground, and hold it for 30 seconds.  PAIN!!  I felt like my insides were being ripped apart.  We had to do that exercise 3 times, then do a slowdown - 2 laps walking.    I woke up this morning with pain in my thighs, especially right above my inner knee.  I can feel the burn in my future 6 pack and my shoulders.  The biggest difference I've noticed is my upper arms.  The swimming followed by these workouts has really toned up my upper arms.  I'm even wearing sleeveless shirts!  That's how good they look.

I got my diet from the trainer yesterday.  It's basically similar to the diet I'm already on, except he gave me Wednesday as a cheat day.  I guess that he wanted to save me on shopping because the menus are pretty resrictive and contain the same foods.  I'm going to substitute fish for some of the chicken because chicken doesn't sit well sometimes.  Here it is:

Menu 1
Breakfast:  1 sl. Bread, whole wheat; 2 T.  peanut butter
Lunch:  1-1/2 cps. tossed salad; 4 oz. low fat turkey breast; 2 T. lite dressing
Snack:  1 orange
Snack: 1/2 cp. strawberries; Dannon Light Yogurt
Dinner: 1 Hamburger patty 8 0z. 

Menu 2
Breakfast:  1 Egg with 2 egg whites; 1 T. margarine; 1 sl. cheese
Snack:  Protein bar or shake
Lunch:  6 oz. tuna; 1 tsp. mayonnaise
Snack:  1 peach; Dannon Light Yogurt
Dinner:  4 oz. chicken; 1 T. margarine; 1/2 cp. cooked broccoli; 1 T. butter
Snack:  1/2 cantaloupe melon

Menu 3:
Breakfast: 1-1/4 cp. Cornflakes; 1 cp. skim milk
Snack: 1 orange
Lunch: 4 0z. chicken; 1 med. baked potato; 1 T. margarine
Dinner: 6 oz. tuna; 2 sl. whole wheat bread; 1 Tsp. mayonnaise
Snack:  Dannon light yogurt