Week 4, Day 7, Nov 28

Well, the first four weeks is about over!

I haven’t seen a lot of change, but I know I feel better so I’m just going to keep going.  This next week is going to be a challenge because I have SOOOOO much to do in order to finish up this semester, but I’m going to try to keep it up.

Anyway, today I did 30 Day Shred, Level 1, first time I’d done that in a while and well first time I’d done more than a 10 minute workout since…Monday?  It was definitely a challenge.  I also have heavier weights this time.  Since Thor chewed up my 1.5 lb foamy walking weights I went and bought some 3 lb weights, so that definitely added a different level of challenge as well.

The good news is, the Wii Fit only said I gained 1 lb! If I only gained 1 after all I ate the past couple of days, then I am happy!!  So hopefully getting back into the working out every day will take care of that pound and then a couple more.  I’d like to see 249 soon on the scales.

I must get back to working on a presentation for class on Monday.  Trying to get everything except for my Spanish research paper finished this weekend so I can work on it everyday next week.

This is the long haul to the end of my first semester in grad school.  It may kick my butt but I will get through it somehow.

Also next week after I get back from my parents house I think I’m going to start a 28 day Tae-Bo rotation from the Get Amped series.  Those workouts are 45 mins to an hour but I’ll have time over Christmas break.  It’s 6 days a week and pretty intensive, but I’ve had it for a while and haven’t really used it so I’d like to at least give it a try for a week and see how it goes.  Definitely mix in some Slim in 6 workouts with that, maybe in the morning, then Tae-Bo in the evening, Slim in 6 pack on the Tae Bo days off. We’ll see.

For now, see you in Week 5 tomorrow!

Week 4, Day 6, Nov 27

I fell off the horse today…

I got back from Scotty’s families around 4:30, I had dropped him off at work and was going to go pick him back up at 9 because his boss needed him to come in earlier.  There were things to take care of around the house, and I decided to go ahead and start on some homework.  The leftovers from lunch had not been exactly agreeing with my stomach.  Anyway my plan was to exercise around 8, so I would be done in time to go get Scotty.  Well he called me around 7:45 and told me to come get him because the district manager called and said there was no reason to stay open.  So anyway, that put a kink in my plans.  We ended up eating b/c Scotty was hungry and the more I thought about it I was too, then the Monk series finale started, and then my head started hurting AGAIN.  I’ve been having these bad headaches again like I was back in the summer, not cool.  So anyway the living room was in shambles and I just decided I would jump back on the workout bandwagon the next day.

I guess if I miss 2 days in one month that’s not bad.  I should be giving myself a day off every week I guess.  I just don’t like how I feel on days I don’t workout.

For now.

Peace.

Week 4, Day 5, Nov 26

Happy Thanksgiving!!

No work-out today.  I’m at my more-than-likely future in-laws house and man, did I probably eat way too much.  In retrospect it’s not as much as I would have eaten on Thanksgiving and most of it was fruit or vegetable based and considering I had close to nothing else all day, I’m sure I stayed below my recommended caloric intake, I’m still not looking forward to weighing myself on Saturday morning though!!  Maybe it won’t be so bad.  My body was prepared this time, I hadn’t been depriving myself of calories up to this point, so I should be okay.  We shall see.

Can’t wait to jump back into working out again tomorrow evening after I return back to Columbia.

I think I will do 30 day shred then because I bought some new dumbbells since my dog decided to chew up the foamy ones I had last.   these are 3 lbs the last were 1.5 so we’ll see what a difference that makes.

Oh, side note.  Scotty was rubbing my shoulders today and said they seemed smaller.  I said to him, are you saying I had fat shoulders?  Which he found very amusing, but he said no they just seemed more trim.  So maybe I am getting somewhere.  Starting from outer areas and working my way to the core maybe?

For now, peace.

Week 4, Day 4, Nov 25

Right now, I’m going to do the 10 min abs workout.  I have a lot to get done before 3:30 when Scotty gets home and we go to his parents house for the next couple of days.  It being almost noon, because I slept in,  at least I can get a short workout in that targets the area that I need the most help in!

I won’t be blogging tomorrow because it’s Thanksgiving, I might do some crunches, but then again probably not.  Hoping since I’ve been eating more recently my weight won’t spike this time like last time.

For now, peace.

Week 4, Day 3, Nov 24

Okay, I didn’t work out today.  Woke up late, had to teach, didn’t have a lesson plan, had to record myself teaching, had to give a quiz that the students were unhappy about b/c it was the day before Thanksgiving Break and they had to come to class to take a quiz.  Stupid move on the syllabus writer’s part.

Anyway on a normal Tuesday I’m finished at 3.  Well I didn’t get finished until 5 because I had to put the recording onto a DVD in the lab which takes FOREVER.  Luckily I only had about 25 mins of teaching b/c of the quiz otherwise it would’ve taken 3 or so hours to do.  Then I had to go to the grocery store, bad mistake, forgot it was almost Thanksgiving.  Anyway by the time I got home it was 6, I had a splitting headache that wouldn’t go away, and I didn’t workout.  But I also had not eating from 10 a.m. until almost 6 p.m. because I hadn’t had time/had forgotten/wasn’t hungry so I guess with my lack of food intake yesterday, not working out was okay and probably the better thing to do.

For now.

Peace.

Week 4, Day 2, Nov 23rd

Well, today was really close to being a not motivated not working out day.  Very close.  Part of the reason I was dead tired all day.  I napped yesterday afternoon and as a result, went to bed around 3 oclock last night, after finishing some Spanish revisions and got up at 8 for class.

Anyway, I made myself workout.  It was an absolutely internal battle for me to get off the  couch and put my workout clothes on and pop in the DVDs.  I started with the Si6: Si6pack workout and by the time I finished that I was pretty alive so I popped in an 8 minute tae-bo so I wouldn’t overdo my already tired body.

I hadn’t lost any weight this morning but I hadn’t gained any either.  I’ve never had the same weight on the WiiFit before two days in a row, it’s always at least a tenth of a pound one way or the other.  I was glad there wasn’t any gain, a little disappointed by no loss but there was a 2 pound difference last week so I guess that’s okay.  After my weight spiked back up to 260, being back down at 257 is okay.

I think I had been starving myself before last weekend and then I went home and ate and my body hoarded the calories up if that’s even possible.  This week I’ve been eating more normally, eating what I want but in moderation.  I bought fudge pops, wonderful 40 calorie treats that they are to satisfy the chocolate cravings that hit me once a month.  I’m going to persevere and workout as much as I can in prep for not working out on Thursday.  luckily that will be the only day that I lose this week because I can work out Wed morn and Friday evening (going to the boyfriends family shindig).  I suppose I can work in some crunches Thursday sometime.  We’ll see.

Anyway that’s all for now.  It’s been a long day.  Class, service hours, class, lunch (which turned into a couple of hours) with a prospective MAT student  and I still haven’t done my lesson plan for tomorrow.  Who needs a lesson plan anyway? (except that I have to turn mine in for a grade)

I think I’ll play jeopardy with them for the professions vocabulary.  Better start working on some clues!! This might be too time-consuming at this point in the evening.  Hmmm, how to make professions fun, that is the question, and review for the quiz at the same time.

Off to think about that….

Peace.

Week 4, Day 1, Nov 22

Today starts week 4!  Wow, can’t believe I’m still going strong.  I weighed in today which was a little scary for me, because i hadn’t yesterday and I didn’t exercise yesterday and had a kind of bad day food wise on Friday (it was date night, we went to the movies, I’m a sucker for popcorn and would’ve been okay if we hadn’t decided to go out for sushi later and then to a friends bday downtown where I had beer-but only one).  I ate much healthier yesterday and exercised this morning (Tae-bo Basic old skool one).  Getting back on track at least and the weigh-in only jumped about 0.5 lb so given the weekend I’ve had, I’ll live with that.  I would really like to see it start falling though, and keep falling.

I need to go buy some more handweights since Thor decided to chew up one of them (the foamy kind meant for walking)  Maybe I’ll get some a little heavier than 1.5 pounds.  I want to get back to 30 day shred and I really enjoyed doing Slim in 6 with the added hand weights.

I may throw in the 10 minute abs later today.  I think I’ve seen about a 0.5″ changed in my upper wasit, maybe.  And if I hold the tape measure to the circumference it needs to be for the thickest parts of me it seems a little loser but no major changes yet and I feel like I didn’t take good beginning measurements, as I’ve mentioned before.  So we’ll see how I’m doing by the end of this week.  Trying to eat more cals (but good ones) than I was the first two weeks to see if that helps.  Don’t want to starve myself.  And yesterday when I was doing some laundry and Scotty walked up behind me and put his hands on my waist he remarked that I seemed more toned, so that’s good I guess!!

I also took some “before” pics today.  I know it’s 3 weeks in to working out but I’ve not seen a lot of change yet so it will be okay.  I don’t really want to post them until I have some definite after results to post too.

Anyway, off to do revisions on a Spanish paper and write another paper, oh boy.  I meant to have one of these done by today.

Only two days of class this week, one day I have class the other day I teach class, and my two least favorite classes are on Wed and Thurs and we’re off both of those days! Woot.

Peace.

Week 3, Day 7, Nov 21

Well, today I didn’t work out.  I figure in 21 days, perhaps I should take at least one day off.  I probably should’ve at least done the 10 min abs DVD but I feel like I got enough exercise today.

I didn’t work out in the morning because I woke up around 11 with a bit of a headache and we really needed to go get groceries.  I mean really I hardly had anything to fix for breakfast or lunch.  We had cereal but no milk, meat but no bread, and nothing for dinner, so after much debate Scotty and I end up leaving for the grocery store around 2, stop by Subway (yummy it’d been a while), go to BiLo and buy way too much stuff (given we will use it all) and come home.  By then it’s around 5, I had decided to make a meatloaf for dinner so I had to start that and by the time we ate dinner it was 7ish.

I had been wanting to rearrange the living room for quite some time so since Scotty was off we decided to do it.  MASSIVE FAILURE.  After we move (and clean under because with a dog and a cat underneath furniture gets nasty) the (heavy) entertainment center, end tables, coffee table, fully loaded bookshelves out of the living room and into the kitchen and get the sectional sofa moved to the other wall (not an easy task because we didn’t think it was going to fit and leave clearance for the door.  first indication this isn’t going to go well) we move the entertainment center back into place and find out that the cable service isn’t set up to run to the cable on the other side of the wall.  I mean really, why doesn’t it run to both sides of the room?  It’s off of the same line and who’s going to hook up 2 TVs in the same room.  Can that even be called stealing cable anyway?  I mean really.  By this time it’s after 10 and we have to move the furniture back to the way it was before.  We decided to take the (fully loaded) bookshelves up to the bedroom because the dog loves to chew up books and I’ve just been waiting for him to figure out he can pull the books off of those shelves.  So we do a slight bit of rearranging on the TV wall but that’s it.  By the time this is over it’s around 11:30 and I am dead tired and feel like I’ve done enough heavy lifting and moving today to count for my exercising.

So at least I have a decent excuse and it wasn’t like I was sitting around watching movies and eating junk all day.

For now, peace.

Week 3, Day 6, Nov 20

Wow, I cannot believe it’s the 20th of November already!!  20 days into my weightloss journey!  I’ve not gotten very far yet though, but still tweaking the diet.  Hopefully by the end of the month I’ll be seeing some definite changes.

Thanksgiving next week!!  I can’t wait.  Thanksgiving is my favorite food holiday, perhaps one of my favorite holidays in general, it’s up there with Halloween, but gets so looked over which makes me sad.  I love it because you get together with family and have a nice big homecooked meal (at least around my family anyway) but without the extra stress of buying gifts.  I mean really Thanksgiving is like Christmas without the gifts and I like it so much better.  Gift buying/giving just always annoys me, the entire process, the frenzy, the making sure your gift for someone is comparable to what they are giving you, etc.

And I also love thanksgiving because foods are turkey and veggies and things that don’t make me super anxious about killing my diet.  I’ve never been one to go back for 2nds or even 3rds on Thanksgiving anyway.  I hate that overstuffed, sick feeling that’s just not enjoyable.

Anyway, enough of that!

I almost put off working out this morning or called it a day of rest.  I probably overworked yesterday and I was starving when I woke up this morning but usually exercise before I eat breakfast because I’m in a rush and don’t have tmie to wait for the food to settle before working out, etc.  But, I knew if I didn’t now I probably wouldn’t get to it today, because I’m tutoring someone at 1:30 and after I take a shower I don’t really like to workout unless I know I’m going to be home the rest of the day.  So anyway, I made myself pop in a tape, the old school tae bo vid I did last night because it pushes me enough but isn’t as strenuous as some of the others.  I felt despite being hungry I could get through it and I did.

Plus I think either tonight or tomorrow Scotty and I are going on a dinner and a movie date night (New Moon yay!) or we’re going to go on a dinner date and then a movie date the next night.  I personally like that option because I prefer to skip dinner and eat popcorn (which will be without butter and a small or medium unlike the buttery large I normally do at the theatre.  Popcorn is my weakness. It’s a food group in my opinion. but by itself popcorn isn’t bad, it’s just the oil and butter we love to add to it that makes it horrible!!)

So anyway, I digress, I think it would’ve been bad had I not done a full workout today and then went on date night.  Last weekend I came back from my parents and my weight jumped up to 259!!  I’m back down to 256 now so I would hate to rollercoaster back up again because of date night and lack of exercise.

Anyway, we have some eggs in the fridge approaching use by date so I think I’m going to scramble up a couple with some fruit for brunch before getting my day rolling.

For now, peace.

Week 3, Day 5, Nov 19

Well, I’m getting close to being through week 3!!  Yay!

Today I went back to Slim in 6: Start it Up and added some 1.5 lb hand weights to the squats, lunges, etc, anything that used arms that wasn’t a warm up, which was nice.  Gave me a little more resistance, made me push a little harder at a DVD that’s pretty easy for me now but is a great workout for the time frame.

That’s it for now, for today.

Busy day ahead of me.  Eigh page paper to write before 5:30 tonight plus readings, oh goody!

Peace.

Let’s add a 15-20 min dog walking excursion that probably burned more calories than normal because I had to keep this 60-70 pound hunk of muscle from pulling me over the fence at these little yippie jack russells….*sigh*

Let’s also add that I was bored at 10:30 because the boy is at his parent’s house tonight because he had a gig out of town and it was super foggy when he got back so he didn’t want to drive back to Columbia.  Anyway, I was bored so I did an old-school Tae-Bo video, from back in the day, the first ones I ever owned from like high school.  It was high school when I got them anyway, they may be older than that so we’re talking at least 10 years ago.  The background music was great, like bad 70s porno music haha.  The workout was pretty great though, and I’m glad I went for working out since I’m bored instead of eating.  I guess I’m making myself feel better about the fact that I know I’m probably going on a dinner and a movie date night this weekend too.  But that’s all!

See you on the flip side.