Working out is a pain in the butt. It's time consuming, results come slowly even to the most dedicated and it's not fun. But you feel pretty good about yourself after sticking to it for awhile and seeing real results. So imagine how sick to my stomach I was when, after I moved and got out of my routine for 5 weeks, that I had gained 17 pounds...
It's been awhile since I've talked about my workout regimen. At first it seemed like I lost a lot of weight. I was doing daily cardio at Billings Athletic Club and dropped 15 pounds (from 245 to 230) in my first 5 weeks. Over the next 3 months I dropped another 10 pounds despite adding a weightlifting program to my workout...
If you work in an office like we do here at Townsquare Media located at the top of the Crown Plaza in downtown Billings then you can relate to this. There is always someone who brings in donuts or cookies or has a candy jar.
I've been working out at Billings Athletic Club since early January. In the first 6 weeks I lost 23 pounds which I find incredible. Unfortunately it seems like for the last 3 weeks I haven't lost a pound. I've actually moved to an even more strenuous workout regimen and while I'm sure I've added a little muscle it's probably not enough to account for the lack of weight loss...
By analyzing the results of a 10-year longitudinal study of 474 people, researchers were able to determine that the participants who drank two or more diet sodas a day experienced a waist size increase 70 percent greater than those who stayed away from diet soda.
Dr. Martin P. Paulus, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, and an author of the study, offered this the