so is it lots, or little?

[kareina]

I have been feeling like I am not being very good about doing my workout lately, so I just checked my exercise and counted how many days I have spent doing what activity recently (since switching from the summer program back to the normal program), to see if my perception is grounded in reality. The totals:

stats for the past 40 days:

activity # of days done
yoga 40
situps 40
trike 22
day one 6
day two 6
day three 6
day four 5
walk 5
dance 5
7 min hang 5
manual labour 4
meet trainer 3
acroyoga 3

so, if you count meetings with my personal trainer, I have done my assigned workout 26 of 40 days (or 65%, but only 57% if you don't count those meetings)

yoga and morning situps are daily

and other forms of physical activity happened on at least 44 other occasions*, so more than one thing a day, on the average, but sometimes it is several one day and none the next. (Note: when doing the counting, I only counted each type of activity on a given day, so riding my trike both to and from uni counts as once, not twice, in this summary)

In other words, I could be doing much better with the actual workouts, but I am reasonably active otherwise. Indeed, my exercise log for this month shows that this is my most active September since I started keeping records on the computer (2005, when I started my PhD program), with an average of 1.98 hours a day this month.

So I guess I shouldn't really be surprised that my food log is also running high, as is my weight--I am up to pretty much 57 kg (126 lbs), yet I am looking slimmer in the mirror than I remember looking this time last year (when I was 2 to 3 kg lighter)