Metabolism revving up!

...and here we go again...starting into my 8th week ~ I won't lie, I had to look at the calender to calculate how long it has been so far.  Having my own business, working 60+ hours a week (insert violin playing here), add in extra training, added Christmas preparation for my store - one day blends into the next - I welcome Monday because it is the start of a NEW week and a completion of the one past.  :)

You are never to old to learn something - and we really should be learning something new every day.  I learned this past week that my metabolism is revving up and that is what we have been waiting for - unbeknownst to me.  It actually start late last week, without me knowing this - and I will get to that explanation.  For whatever reason I was feeling ravenous - almost EVERY 3 hours on the dot.  No clock watching, my stomach was telling me I was hungry.  Not craving anything in particular, just hungry.  Get out of my way hungry - I NEED to eat!!

Discussing this with my trainer, he explained this is what we had been waiting for my body to do.  Really??  As he put it - your body knows it is going to get the food, so it is letting you know, it is not holding on to everything as it knows you are going to feed it in 3 hours.  This also means the metabolism is firing up.  This is a good thing to help burn the fat as well.  He doesn't like to tell people that they are looking for this from their bodies, as then you get anxious and wonder if that is the feeling that you are expecting or not.  This is why the communication between the client and the trainer is so important - you need to be able to discuss what your body is doing and why.

It turns out your body almost works the same with water.  I thought I drank a lot of water before...yep - DEFINITELY I am in the bathroom more....geez!!  You'd think the amount I sweat during a workout, especially twice a day I wouldn't need to be in there as often.  I have a water jog that is approx. 1.3 liters.- I have been using this to monitor my water intake.  I am drinking 2 - 3 jugs a day now. (room temperature or warm water is better for you)  So - at this time the same analogy applies - the reason I am in the bathroom lots, regardless of my bladder being the size of a pea, is because my body knows it doesn't need to hang on to the water that I am giving it, it is going to get more.  The body knows there is more where that came from, so it actually can release the water more often.

The body is really an incredible machine.  Something else that I have noticed - which I have neglected to tell Blake is that any time I drink a beverage or eat my meal, I feel myself heating up.  Just a guess - could this be my metabolism firing up?  This I will google too.

I have to admit - I cheated yesterday with my food - well I had a home made chocolate chip cookie (slightly healthy as I knew the ingredients that I put in it) .  My reasoning was - I am NOT on a strict diet - YET...and it was a carb day which had not consisted of many carbs.  That sufficed - did I feel guilty?  A little - but one was good enough.  I did refrain from having an enchilda for dinner that I had made by special request, even tho my enchildas are a healthy version too. I stuck with my salmon and bok choy.

As for training this week, I did go to the place that is going to open as the new gym (same people/new location).  Due to permit issues, etc. they still do not have a definite date of opening.  The owner has told me that I can come and use the eliptical when she is there.  I tried this on Tuesday, I found that it wasn't balanced and it did this annoying shake during the time I used it.  It is not convenient to use it until the gym opens as her schedule conflicts with my times - so I will use the treadmill for now.  I am lucky I have the use of Roberta's treadmill - but as I mentioned before it is not one of my favorite things to do - I get bored.  I have started doing intervels of abs in between minutes of the treadmill to make it go faster.  I can't wait till the gym re-opens.  Rumor has it that there may be another gym opening in our mall - if this is the case, I will join there.

So until then...I continue feeling like a hamster on a wheel....run, run, run...