Doing Well

Hi all! i'm at my sister's house and so i figured i would post. i'm doing pretty well. Jeremy and i went for an hour walk yesterday and i decided that i actually like walking on my street. Granted there are no sidewalks or anything because i live in BFE but it's all up and down hill-ey and it's good to have the kind of variety. I've been drinking water and lots of it. Marlana and i are going to go for a walk after i get done fixing my Ipod here.

I went to bunco that my mom goes to last night (she's in Denver visiting my uncle so i went in her place) and i gotta tell you i wasn't all that good....but....that's okay.

Hope everyone's weekend goes okay.

Right now....

i don't really care! I'm having the most god-awful morning you could imagine. We're going to trial, we have nothing in stock, everyone is bitching at everyone. Its a horrible place to be. So I did the only logical thing I could think of. I went downstairs to CVS and bought a 20oz of Mt. Dew (like joanie puts it, its my heroine) and a 10-pack of mini Milky Ways. Which I did the right thing by buying the minis - so good on me for that! LOL!

But seriously its THAT's bad.

4-hour drive

so after i leave work today i'll be in the car for 4 hours driving to louisville. i'm planning to not stop during the drive - so i'm not drinking any water after noon because i'm hoping to leave by 2:30. i've already had a liter of water today ... but i'm looking at my empty water bottle feeling a little sad. and thirsty! i miss my water already.

giddy like a school girl!

i did it. i've been working at this weight-loss thing for 9 months. i did really well at first, then i kinda went lax for a couple months - i didn't really gain anything back, but i stopped losing. and now i'm back at it, and all is good. so good, in fact, that today i hit the 50 pound mark! i've lost 51 pounds since june. seriously, so excited i can't even talk about it. 51 pounds. i'm impressed with myself.

Bad Idea!

Ok, so this is so hard being a teacher and drinking this much water! I can't just say hey kids I have to pee! I have to keep getting teachers to come cover my room so I can go to the bathroom!

Conversations & Last Night

Our conversation this morning:

Me: "OUCH"
Boz: (calling up from the basement): "What happened?"
Me: "i sat down"

Just let me say, i had an INCREDIBLE workout last night! I'm so glad to be back into it! My focus last night was on my upper body. After completing that I was feeling really good (arms were SORE! but still good). So I decided to run. I ran a mile, like I did the night before. Only this time I knocked off about 2 minutes!! I ran the mile in 11:17. :o) GO ME! For whatever reason I figured I'd do some light work on my lower body. Apparently it must not have been as *light* as I thought. When i worked up this morning I was very much aware of my bum and the pain that was in it. ........ I was my own pain in the butt! LOL! I just came up with that. I'm a hoot. I must have pulled something, or came close to is as its still quite sore. When I told Boz this morning that "I sat down" he thought it was the funniest thing ever.

I might be taking it easy tonight!

My water intake is a little better than it has been. For breakfast I had a banana smoothie (home made), when I got to work I had my oatmeal. Around 11:30 I had a yogurt and a mini bag of baked potatoes chips. Lunch will be a lean cuisine b/c I didn't have time to make lunch. And who knows what's for dinner. We talked about doing chicken but unless Boz remembered to take it out of the freezer, we may not.

Getting Tripped up Already

Okay so, i was all gung ho starting out exercising more than i have been and stuff...then my kid gets sick and i can't do it tuesday and yesterday, Jeremy and i walked for 50 minutes (he was in the stroller) i figured, he's sick, i'll bundle him up and all he has to do is sit there. We actually had a good time. Jon and I also talked about it and i think i'm going to switch my off day to Wednesday because he would like to walk with Jeremy and i when he can and Saturday and Sunday are the only days he can...so i say, good for Jon!

Our First 5K!?!?

A few of us have been talking about running a 5k this year. i found one for us. And Manda you'll like it b/c it raises $$ for an INCREDIBLE cause - Breast Cancer! A cause which we all may (or may not) know is very dear to me and others here! I want to form a team. Once I get that all figured out I'll give you all a heads up, and we'll see if anyone is interested. It's on Mother's Day (May 13th) in Chicago. Its a 5k (3.1miles). Its in the morning (9:00am) so there's still plenty of time left in the day to get back home to our mothers.

http://www.y-me.org/

I'll post more on this at a later date. At the moment, would anyone be interested in running this with me? Like I said, I would like to form a team. If not, please let me know and I'll join my friend's team. I just thought it'd be great if we all did this together!

Thoughts??

Weight Watcher

I have been going to weight watchers for 9 weeks. I need it for the one on one accountability. I Love it! I feel that it has helped me immensely, especially during these winter months when I can't get outside! I have lost 16.2 pounds in 9 weeks, so to get rid of the baby weight is awesome! I am doing a boot camp (50 minutes) on Mon, Wed, Friday and a Biggest Loser DVD on Tues, Thurs, Sat. (45 minutes) Both are cardio and strenght training. Please let me know if you have any ideas!

P.S.

My water intake was so less than perfect yesterday! :0(

I DID IT!

I'm happy to say that I ran my mile last night! The best part, no knee pain whatsoever! Granted it was only a mile but that's still very exciting for me!! :o) It took me 13:38 minutes. Eventually I'll need to work on the speed but right now my focus is to cover the miles. I'll deal with the time later. So YAY!!

After that I had dinner - tacos. Then i headed downstairs to work on my lower body. I did lunges, squats, leg curls, calf & hammy work.... i know I'm forgetting stuff. But you get the idea. I spent about 45 minutes working on that. Then it was back upstairs to work on the abs. Which dare I say I see some improvement!?!?

There is definite definition in my legs and am starting to see a change in my arms and abs. Not a whole lot yet, but enough to keep me motivated!

I ate well yesterday - breakfast was oatmeal and a banana. Yogurt for a snack. Lunch was a turkey sandwhich, carotts & celery and string cheese. Afternoon snack was cottage cheese. On the way home I had an apple and had tacos for dinner. Doesn't really sound like much now that I wrote it out. Hmm...

This morning Boz made me a banana flavored protein shake and i had a cup of coffee on my way in this morning. I have my oatmeal in case I get hungry.

As of this morning I am only down 1 pound. *sigh* It'll come with time. Just need to add more cardio to my workout. Who knows its probably just turning to muscle! :o)

paying attention to food

alright, so you all posted what you ate yesterday ... and my yesterday was HORRIBLE with food. well, maybe not horrible. but not what i should've been doing. what can i say? i was in NEED of chocolate. so i ate 4 of the mini milky way bars. they're actually only 75 calories each. but then there was the big oatmeal chocolate chip cookie i got with my dinner - but i had a salad for dinner, so that was something. or course i drank an orangina with it, so that's like carbonated corn syup.

anyway - i'm rededicating myself to paying attention to what i eat. no more bags of chili-cheese fritos just because i don't have anything healthier to snack on! i had my oatmeal this morning, snacked on some graham crackers & peanut butter mid morning. had a ham sandwich, pickle & orange for lunch. some pretzels mid afternoon. a stale peep was eaten somewhere in there, too. and chicken & noodles for dinner. i didn't figure out the calories on the chicken & noodles - but the other stuff added up to 1111, so i should be good for the day. i'm aiming for 1500 - 1800 calories per day. it's my doctors recommendation, and it works for me. most days at least. :)

Tonight

Tonight I plan to run half a mile and work on my lower body. I'll let you know if it actually happens.

Help

I don't know what is wrong with me I have ate everything under the sun. Nothing horiable like sugar or anything but I made Emmalee's lunch of a corn dog she didn't eat it so I did. After eating my lunch of Slim Fast. Then Cody comes home and was eating celery sticks in Ranch so I ate that. So nothing really bad for me but right now I think I have ate way to much and I am sick to my stomach. UMMM.

Posting on Tuesday

Hi everyone! Since I only work and have the net on Tuesday thru Thursday, I'll be posting my stuff with my week starting on Tuesday. This is what i'm going to do for now:

Walk 60 minutes Monday, Friday and Saturday
Walk 45 minutes Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. I'll be able to do it at lunch so that's all i can do.

I also got a lot of 'Rabbit food' my husband calls it and i'm reading the Bob Greene book 'the Best Life' and i'm going to follow that plan when i get through reading the parts that i need to read to start that.

Late Posting

Hi everyone! I only have the net on Tuesday-Thursday....but I am still keeping up. This water thing is hard for me! I hate water! I worked out every day except for Sunday. I have 4 pounds to lose by March 28th.....that is my next weight watchers goal.

Drink Water then Pee

I drink the 2 liters of water and a soda yesterday. I was thinking during the day that I didn't pee alot like I thought I would. I think it stored in my body until bed time. I had to get up 6 times and Pee. Now that just works for me because I can't go back to sleep then. So maybe water isn't always good for you HEHE.
Today I have to clean, and babysit. So busy busy. I plan on doing the gazelle tonight after everyone is in bed.

Have you heard?

Have any of you heard of Michael Thurman's 6 Week Body Makeover Program? I heard about it a few years ago and I have really wanted it.. I still do. It sounds really cool, you answer questions to figure out what your body type is and it tells you what your eating problems are like not digesting some foods and what to stay away from and then it gives you exercises to do targeted to the results that you want. But is it worth the money? I was looking at some used ones cause I'm not going to pay $160+ for it, but I was wondering if anyone else had heard of it/seen it and had anything to say about it.

Workout Woe's

It is very hard to workout with a 3 year old she kept attempting to get on the treadmill with me. That could be dangerous. But I did about 45 minutes most slowly since Emmalee was on there with me, then when she got off I would go fast. I guess when you have kids you just have to conform to them. But it's better then nothing.
Low Cal diet is going great!! Day one though how hard can that be HEHE. I have biblestudy tonight so I am hoping the snacks aren't to great but I have some Calories left so that should be fine.
Cody started Akins today so that should help at least he won't be bringing junk into the house like he normally does.

Issues...

I asked mom weeks ago if I could borrow he treadmill and she said I could so I have been after Deric for 3 weeks now to get it for me and yesterday he finally got it! Now I just have to make sure I use it! I learned a few things though... It is really loud and you can't hear a baby crying (poor Brody!), you really shouldn't walk on it just in socks it will really REALLY make your feet hurt! (I think I got blisters or something, that's going to make it hard tomorrow!) Lastly it is really hard to drink out of a cup as you're walking without spilling!!

Now on the serious side... when ever I really get going the right side of my throat gets really, really cool and it is not a nice feeling. I know this sounds odd but it is kinda like when you chew mint gum outside in the winter and it is really cold and it hurts to breathe.. I get the sensation on the right side in my throat right where the jaw and neck meet, I got it when we were doing the video the other day and when on the treadmill, any suggestions what it is and why it is, and how to not have it?

What's On Your Plate!?

Unlike some of you who are eating only when you are hungry; I'm eating about 5-6 times a day.

Here's what I've got on my plate for today (this doesn't include dinner). I don't have them planned out into little meals yet, I'll see what I feel like at the time. Here goes:

Oatmeal
Carrot ts & Celery (big bag!)
F/F Cottage cheese (1)
Light n Fit Yogurt (2)
low fat cheese sticks (2)
Salad
f/f turkey sandwich
Blueberry tea & Water is what I'll be drowning in today.

Don't know what we're doing for dinner but i know it'll include asparagus (before it goes bad!). YUMMY!

What's on your plate?

Work Out

yeah, so i totally worked out this weekend!!

we moved couches, dressers, and mattresses! that to me is a dandy workout!

Water

I am so on board with this water thing totally craving a Diet Coke right now but I Thought I would blog instead.
Does the water count if you fill up your huge class set it down and next thing you know it's flying across the room from a certain 3 year old? Does that count as drinking it or excersie since you have to clean up a huge huge mess?
Also just to let you know I switched today's excersice to a treadmill I am at Mom's house to clean so I am going to use her Treadmill when I am done cleaning.

Sunday's Report

Boz and I are allowed 1 cheat day a week. Ours was yesterday and I miss it already. ;o) We actually didn't do too bad at all! I had a banana and i don't know what he did for breakfast. For lunch we grilled up some steak and made some garlic mashed potatoes. YUM! Topped that off with a glass of white wine and that was lunch. We watched a movie that afternoon and ended up munching on a bag of Conversation Hears. We learned that they are horribly addicting. :o( That was our only real downfall. I'm not even sure if we had dinner... i know we snacked on a bag of organic chips along with organic salsa that we picked up the night before.

Last night I didn't do any cardio but I did strength training for 40 minutes. Felt pretty good afterwards. I tried not to focus on any one major muscle. For whatever reason, my arms were dead. I seriously could not life anything. So weird.

seriously

can i just say that the photo in the sidebar scares the crap out of me?

Bethany's Plan!

Since I have no clue what I am doing. I will say I will do my Gazelle for 45 minutes mon-sat and Ab work and Weights for the arms.
Also I am starting a low cal diet tomorrow, and cutting out sugar.
Any Suggestions?