carol524

I feel like I’ve been away forever.

This week feels like the 3 strike rule, I’ve done quite a few bad things this week, and I’ve had circumstances that have thrown me right off my path.

Let’s see Sunday was the superbowl, I think I did well, but I know I definitely ate more than if it were a normal  Sunday night.  I drank nothing but water, which was a good thing.

Monday and Tues I was at a conference, had no opportunity to eat my 5-6 mini meals, lunch was definitely planned by a man, very fatty cold cuts, thick cuts of bread and salads loaded with mayonaise…. didn’t eat the salads, drank just water, but my body was screaming for the mini meals.  By Wed. when I got home, my body was used to NOT eating for 4-5 hrs. at a shot, and I was so busy making up work at the office, I never took lunch. AKKKK…. AND ‘my friend’ came to call, so no matter what progress I’d made over the last couple of weeks, I feel all huge and bloated.

Oh, and while I’ve been gone from the site the past few days, I have not been charting food or exercise….

so anyway, today is a brand new day, my goals:

5-6 mini meals

60-100 oz of water

20 min turbo jam workout, 20 minute stability ball exercise using weights.

last ‘feeding time’ before 8:00pm

We’ll see how I do.

I will say, I am so not looking forward to weighing in tomorrow morning!

AKKKK….  I guess as long as I didn’t gain, I should be thankful!

Have a great day ladies.

I picked up my gunner peterson exercise ball dvd last night for the first time in a looooooooong time.  I did the give me 20 workout, I remember I used to like it b/c I used hand weights for upper body. anyway…. problem is, I can’t find anywhere how to calculate calories burned.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My workout yesterday looks lopsided! LOL

so after some great advice yesterday, I went back to my turbo jam and went through the “learn” trac on the dvd, it went through the proper foot placement, and slo-mo movement of each of the 11 core moves.  it was so helpful, Nancy is so right, with the moves that are done in this routine, knee injury is so easy unless you know how to do the moves correctly…. so after I went through the learn, there was a ‘burn’ that followed, a 15 minute workout that uses all 11 core moves to practice, and get the consumer ready for the longer work outs.   So I did that.  I was able to keep up, pop a sweat, and this morning I sure can feel the results.

Quite honestly I can feel a whole lot more ache than when I did the hip hop abs routine.  (Maybe I didn’t have the right form who knows)…. anyway, I’m sure feelin it today.

Yesterday I ate 1330 calories, in 5 mini meals, I did the turbo jam learn&burn and as mentioned before I tried one of the advanced routines and only made it 17 minutes, but that still counts as exercise.  I also had to shovel part of the driveway, it was all icy and heavy.  I think that might be part of the ouch too!  I haven’t charted that as exercise yet, but I was out there moving heavy snow for 1/2 hr.

I drank 74 oz of water, which is very good.

Never left the house, as in didn’t drive anywhere, so I never had my 1 dd coffee for the day!

I did however sit on the couch with hubby and indulge watching idol (and beyond)……

Today is a new day to try again.

Same food goals, exercise today will include a exercise ball 1/2 hr. exercise dvd, I’ll try the 15 minute burn routine for the turbo jam, and if I have time, which I don’t know if I will, I’ll do some yoga on the Wii fit.

Nancy you said keep switching it up so your body doesn’t get used to the same exercises right?

Well all my fellow buddyslimmers,

Have a great Thursday!

Can’t wait to read your blogs

based on what I’ve been reading on line about turbo jam and hip hop abs, I went on ebay (well hubby did) and bought both of them.  I tried the hip hop abs the other night, and I liked it.  I’ve never danced hip hop so the moves and the timing are going to take some getting used to but I’m ok with that…. this morning after my first blog of the day, I went and tried the turbo abs Jam party, it’s a 45 min workout.  17 minutes in I’m huffin and puffin, sweat is dripping down my back, I got a cramp inmy side cuz silly me stopped for 10 seconds and drank some ice cold water.

So here I was, since christmas when I got my Wii fit and the ddr, doing those daily or 2xx daily thinking I’m getting a good workout, and this turbo jam just totally ki8cked my but, I couldn’t even finish!  Akkkkkk…… send the couch potato police! 

You know what it did?  It M*O*T*I*V*A*T*E*D me!  I am determined to master taht tape….

For those of you who have been blogging about your zumba classes, and your hr. long kick box or step classes….. can I say WOW……. You have my respect AND my admiration……

>I want to be like them when I grow up<  LOL

Peace girls….. I’m going to drink some water, clean a little, and then take another stab at it.

and it’s supposed to snow all day long.

I decided when school was called off to stay home from work as well.  There have been too many days that I went in when the storm was starting and it was a mess trying to get home.  So I just stayed hom.

so already my eating is off.  it’s 9am, I just got up, coffee’s perking and I haven’t eaten yet.  My tummy is telling me it’s time, so I’ll make this quick.

ok, so coffee was done perking and while I was out there I put in a ww english muffin and some reduced fat peanutbutter.  so my 6 mini meals will be off… by now i’m already working on my second.  I’ll figure it out, as long as I get my 1200 in I’m ok.  It might just be 4 or 5 minis today.  One perk to staying home is that I get to do extra work out.  I’m excited about that, some days I can only squeeze in 1/2 hour in a whole day, other days I think I’m lucky when I can do 1/2 hr. cardio and 1/2 hr. strength training or yoga.

I read Nancy’s posts and I envy the 3 hrs. back to back of different classes, I would have to sacrifice all the kids activities to have that time in the evening.  I guess I had my time for that in my 20’s before I had kids.  now most of my free time is carting the kids around to their activities, when the weather’s nice and it’s at the soccerfield I do laps, but right now we’re in the gym ~ they both play basketball, and there’s no room for me to do anything.  Sometimes I drop them off and go home and squeeze in 1/2 hr. and then run back and get them.  but for the most part my nights are going to dance class, basketball practice, clarinet lessons, or gymnastics…. in the spring we trade basketball for softball (for the older one) and spring soccer (for the younger one)  and you know what, all too fast I’m going to wake up one morning and they’ll be grown and gone, so I’m going to cherish every second of mommy taxi because some day I know I’ll miss it horribly.  I can live with squeezing in a little exercise here and there for now….  Wow how did I end up on that tangent!  oh well…. you got to listen to me ramble.

Yesterday I did really well, I had 5 mini meals, drank 67 oz of water, did 1/2 hr. of my ddr then went to a 45min dance class.  I had 2 lt beers when I was on the couch later watching idol and then another show.  if I had traded even one of those for more water I would have been much happier with my progress.  That’s the goal for tonight….. to sit on the couch with water not a bud.  even if it’s a crystal lite flavored one.

so today my goals are:

to eat 5 mini meals (one is already out of the way)

drink 60-100oz of water 

to strength train, do yoga and cardio today (I have tapes and the strength training is mostly body resistance stuff and and and ankle weights. 

and not to drink those two beers tonight on the couch…. to drink water even if it’s flavored water (crystal lite)

I do want to make note that I was a Dunkin Donuts junkie, every time I left the house no matter where I went I would get a lg. dd coffee w/ cream.  the girls in the store would see me coming and already have it made by the time I got there, that’s how often I was there, didn’t matter what shift, they all knew me.  No I’m bringing water everywhere…. the only dd coffee I get is on my way to work in the morning. this habit change is huge for me. so even though I haven’t broken the two beer habit yet, I know I’m capable b/c I just broke the dd one,  it’s going to take practice but I know I can do it, I’m tackling one bad habit at a time.

So ladies, I’m going to plan my meals, eat my ww engl. muff and then go exercise…..

have a great day

Yesterday:

I ate: 

Breakfast:  fruit smoothie w/ light and fit yogurt, froz fruit, water and wheat germ; dunkin donuts coffee w/cr.

lunch:  oatmeal, naval orange and hot green tea

Dinner:  Salad with 1 oz of the taco meat the rest of the family was putting in their tacos.

Snacks included: 

1/4c corn chex dry, 1/4c sunmaid raisins, 10 raw almonds

 Hm, I thought I ate 2 more times, I guess I didn’t… bad me.  I had planned to have a yogurt light and fit with grape nuts mixed in in the afternoon between lunch and dinner, and I had planned to have a small pre packaged cottage cheese & slice of tomato on 1/2 of a ww engl muffin as my last food after dinner.

Exercise:

the hip hop abs arrived in the mail yesterday so I did the 30 min cardio workout. then I had to do housework and laundry. (that takes up so much time! LOL)

I did not reach my goal of drinking 60-100 oz of water yesterday I only did  52.  Then I finished the night with a glass of wine…. it should have been more water!  I’ll try again today with that one.

 Today I plan to do the same:

6 mini meals

60-100oz of water

dance class - hr

strength training - 45min

One thing I have noticed since I’ve been doing the mini meals is that my body is letting me know that it needs it’s next meal.  somewhere between 2-3 hrs. after the last time I ate, I get the grumblies.  It’s funny b/c before I could go 1/2 the day with out eating anything since the night before and not even be hungry.  There were times I’d skip breakfast and lunch and just eat dinner.

Now after I’ve been up for 2 hrs. if I haven’t eaten my body yells at me!  I love that.

As long as I keep making healthy choices when I eat that is.

this week I am looking forward to my weigh in.

Have a great day ladies and thanks for making me accountable.

I must admit I thought taking yesterday off from logging food and exercise would feel good, but I felt guilty.  I knew I wasn’t going to be able to keep track of my calories last night, and I deliberately didn’t eat dinner b/c I knew I’d be snacking, so I figured, you know what, since I’ve started I’ve logged every morsel that’s gone into my mouth, even the piece of hard candy that I popp in my mouth occassionally, so taking yesterday off should have just been a big ‘whew’  moment.

But it wasn’t, I didn’t exercise b/c right during the time I had budgeted to exercise this insane headache crept from the back of my head circled my ears and stayed there for a good 2 hrs.  The advil finally kicked in, but by then I had run out of time and had to move on to the next scheduled activity for the day.

So here I am today, back on track. 

My goals for the week are:

try to drink 60-100oz of water daily

continue with 6 mini meals a day

stay at 1200 calories per day

stop eating by 8:00pm (hubbies snack time is usually sometime between 9 and 10 and that is tough for me)

continue to do the wii fit strength training and yoga 4X this week and the DDR workout everyday for 40-60min.

Hope you all had a great weekend.  and May today be the first day of a great week!

~ Carol

I don’t remember who blogged about bracing.  But ever since, I’ve been bracing.  It’s awesome.  I can feel the difference, I know that it is causing me to sit up straighter at my desk, I’m walking taller, my shoulders are back.  It honestly gives a very confident appearance to my gate.  I’m a very self conscious person, and doing this makes me appear very sure of myself.  Call me crazy but it also seems as though the roll right under my underwires is smaller as a result.

To the poster who introducted bracing, I say a big huge THANK YOU (and if I could maneuver this site, I’d put some cute illustration here ~ just use your imaginations here girls!)

For those of you who missed the post, bracing is tightening your stomach muscles as though you were getting ready to receive a punch in the stomach. Do it frequently and for extended periods of time.

I have my official weigh in.

As I’ve been blogging, I’ve been trying to stay off the scales this week totally.  I haven’t even done a body test on my Wii fit.  Tomorrow will be the first since last friday.

I need to keep reminding myself that it’s not the pounds it’s the life style change ~ eventually the pounds will take care of themselves.

I don’t think I’ve dropped any weight, but my food habits continue to improve, and I have been pleased with my level of exercise.  It’s more than I’ve done consistently for a long time.  So the changes are good, and I consider this week a sucess no matter what the scale says (but I would really like it to say I lost something ) I’d throw a little bashful smily face in right now if I knew how!

Have a great day ladies….. I’ll cactch up with you later!

I was doing so well too.

I had eaten within the calorie range I was supposed to, I did 1hr of cardio, and then I went to my dance class with my daughter.  I drank tons of water, I was pretty pleased with myself. 

I was sitting watching the auditions for the new season of American Idol (major reality tv fan) and before I knew it I’m eating….. arg…. It was microwave popcorn, but still, I wasn’t even hungry!

Guess old habits die hard huh?  I’m not beating myself up over it.  It took me a long time to form this late night munchie habit, it’s going to take me a long time to break it.  I can find two positives out of it though.  Because I try so hard to see the bright side of things.

First, it WAS just popcorn, and it was the 94% fat free orville redinbaucker stuff, even though I ate the whole bag… it wasn’t as bad as eating a bag of chips, or my weakness cheese and crackers.  So if I was going to mindless munch, at least it was something that did not do that much damage. 

And the second positive, is that I’m still doing really good during the day.  If I had dumped the diet and exercise during the day AND splurged at night, it would have compounded a bad day.

Sooooo… the bright side is that I am keeping to my plan right up to and through dinner. When I am cheating I’m cheating with a decent snack.

Today is a new day, and a new opportunity to unlearn a bad habit.  go me….

On a side note, I have not gotten on the scale, which is huge for me, I’m usually on it multiple times a day, sometimes so obsessively I admit I go on before and after I use the bathroom sometimes to see if there’s weight loss when I poop.  How lame is that?  Anyway, I figured I wasn’t going to drive myself crazy by the daily fluctuation of weight, I was going to wait until my weigh in day, which is Friday.  Just 2 more days then I get to see how much my hard work is paying off.

I can say, that my clothes feel more comfortable.  If I haven’t lost any weight, at least I know it’s shifting, and I’m toning up.  I don’t have the awful overhang over my wastbands.  So that’s good.

This is so random, but my tummy is grumbling, and I know I’m not supposed to eat my next mini meal yet. Ever notice when you snack late at night you are hungrier earlier in the morning?  And for more food?

I brought some raisings to work, maybe I’ll eat those now.

Anyway ladies, I look forward to reading all of your blogs… Have an awesome day!