Every day cardio

I've been doing cardio every day, during my lunch break for the last 6 days.

I'm switching it up between the elliptical machine, treadmill, stationary bike, and swimming. It's incredible how each day feels very different, and each day I'm a lot stronger than the last.

You think you have to run for a long time before you get good at it, or strong enough for it but each day has had leaps of improvement.

I did notice that my lower back gets compressed, so I have to do some good long stretches afterwards. Even a basic forward fold, and half-lift feels like an extreme stretch. I spend about 5 minutes stretching before the run, and 10-15 minutes after the run.

I don't generally care about weight, but I am using it as a basic guideline to see where I am in my improvement for now.

The first day, I weighed myself after a 45 minute run. The scale at Planet Granite told me 144.8.
The second day, I wasn't feeling as well so I only ran 30 minutes. I weighed in at 144.2.
The third day, 143.4.
The fourth day, 142.6
The fifth day, 141.8
Today, 140.2

I was losing between .6-.8 each day, except between yesterday and today I lost double! Which is crazy ironic because I ate a shit-ton of carbs yesterday; about double my daily serving size. I had some bread, and then I had rice noodles later as well. I do recall being told that carbs are fuel for runners, so I was trying to control the intake and figure out if it was best for me to have carbs before or after my run. (I'm still figuring out what works best for me.)

After I drop some more of my excess weight (I heard some people refer to it as "water weight"). I'll be doing some weight lifting.

I have absolutely no experience in this field so I'll be reading a lot, and texting my friends who do lift.

I really like the circuit based work-outs. Mostly because they are full-body workouts, instead of focusing on one main muscle group. It's a good pair with my yoga, since Nikki's taught us to cycle through the whole body. So maybe I'll play around with that.

In other news, veganism has been going great. I'm sure that's what is contributing a whole lot to my weight loss. I'm burning what fat I do have, and I'm not consuming massive amounts of animal fats. My god, it must sound so cliché, but I feel so damn clean. Healthy, happy, and so very pure.

Oh! Also, I noticed that the compression in my lower back is because I'm weaker in the shoulders. I switch up my strides to put the focus on different parts of my body. When I lean forward a little, and tuck my tailbone (disengaging my lower back), I feel a lot more tension in my shoulders and back. And since that's where I'm weaker, I have a harder time running in that way. I'll have to work on that.

Any tips or suggestions would be cool, of course.