A healthy life: the struggle is real

Its been about five weeks since I have become more active. Every day I am either riding my bicycle or doing yoga. My shoulders are sore from the excessive down dogs and thanks to cycling my calf muscles feel more defined even under my layer of squishy. I should be happy with the progress made but I expected more.

A noticeable visible change like looser fitting clothing or an obvious deficit on the scale. I got neither. I weigh exactly the same and my clothing fits about the same most days. At the moment I weigh 147.3 that is what I weighed on September 17. Of course, I keep repeating to myself that it is not about the weight and that I should focus on how I feel. I feel disappointed. The scale I have measured body fat and muscle mass. There should be an obvious change there, right? NOPE. Only a difference of -.3% body fat and +.4% muscle mass.  

After this, I looked into my cycling stats. It appears that my average speed has not improved. I would have to ride either the exact same distance or time to really know if I’m getting better. There is nothing systematic about what I am doing. 

The question is do I need to become more systematic about working out? For example get a personal trainer, get a training plan, or participate in a fitness challenge. Or is the bigger issue changing the way I eat?

All of this started so that my body would respond better to stressful situations and I am just stressing myself out more. The only thing I figured out in this fitness rant is that I should probably meditate more. I would probably benefit from being a little more self-aware and a lot more patient.