The emotional roller coaster seems to have eased off a bit over the last few days. Today the trainer did an evaluation of my 3 month goal of increasing everything (weight, reps, resistance) by 10% every three months. I am a bit surprised that not only have I achieved the 10% but in most exercises by 20-25%. I have gone from barely being able to do 15 leg presses at 160 to 20 repeats at 210 and still being able to finish the work out and do an hour on the elliptical or treadmill. Haven't lost much weight, only a pound, and the body fat (by caliper measurement) is still at 26.6 and by diameter measurements at 20.5% and I was hoping that that would go down a bit more. Still and all maybe the strength gain is also worth something.

Spent the hour of cardio endurance on the elliptical listening to some good driving hard pounding music chanting affirmations to keep the rhythm and feeling like a soldier in basic training except I wasn't doing it out loud.

In addition, the Sag guy has the week off which means it will be easier for him to come with me to the Dr. consultation on Thursday.

As everyone has constantly reminded me, day by day, step by step. So I am enjoying the upswing.