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Fitness Notes

Achieving Weight Loss and Fitness Personal Blog

Pushing on, another 3 pounds lost

This is not getting easier though, sigh. I am having some cravings today, going around the house with chocolate on my mind. I haven’t touched any in 3 months, I think. We had this gourmet chocolate bar at home, and everyone had some except me. We went to a birthday party on the weekend, I [...]

Back to Working Out - with Results!

Great news this week - my last Cortisol test came back just fine. Not very low, but well within the normal range, so that’s good. I took it as a sign to get back to working out, although I am still being a tad more careful, making sure I don’t run or do weight training [...]

1lbs lost this week

And I guess I should be real happy about that one pound too, being as it was a rest week, with almost no exercise. Well, I did run once, and I did walk almost every other day, but no intense workouts whatsoever. Reason being that I’m waiting to do another Cortisol test and see if [...]

Another 3lbs lost and a setback…

I’ll start with the good news - I’ve lost another 3lbs over the past week. Now to the not so good news. Due to elevated levels of Cortisol in a 24hrs urine collection test that I’ve had, my gym instructor, as well as my physician strongly recommend taking it easy with the training regime for [...]