16 and counting

Today's Weigh Day=Happy Day!!!  Down 2.5lbs more bringing the grand total to 16lbs gone!!  Asta la NEVA!!!  My goal was 20lbs by the 4th.  I have one more week, and 4lbs to go....doable....but we will see!!

The skinny on this weeks workout: Not only have a taken a liking to the eliptical, but I have been doing what I call "2 a days".  Its when you work out in the morning, then go to work and are in...

For another 3 hours.  Some of the moves that go with the music for these things are like a full body workout!  We get a complete arm, finger, thigh, and leg workout!!!  I have hoped, jumped, bounced, and shaken what my mama gave me more in the past week, than I think in the past year total!!  None the less, it has been fun, and though totally worth all of the efforts, very very exhausting!!

Can ya feel it??

Tomorrow is weigh day my friends...and well I am most excited about it!  I feel like I should be down.  If not, in the words of an awkward hispanic boy in high school that told me once "Your body is just changing".  No he wasn't referencing my workout efforts because at the time...I had none, but rather my acne!!  Who doesn't love high school???  So even if I'm not down, I feel my legs and stomach not jiggling so much!!

So anywho, tomorrow will be a good day, but as of now, I am down to 243.5, which is down 13.5!  Not too shabby.  I am feeling it more now than before and I hate to say it but I think it is in part due to the elyptical.  Key to being able to work my arse off on that machine....James Patterson.  As much as I would love to say its because we work out together and he tells wonderful stories, its his books!  I LOVE Jame Patterson.  Since I was getting bored on the eliptical, I one day took a book, and I get into the book so much I forget how long I have been on there.  It's a great feeling.

The skinny on today's workout:  I started the eliptical and did 1 1/2 miles, then went outside and ran 1/2 mile at the Y park, then went back inside to the track upstairs in the Y and ran a mile!!  This was my first time really really trying to run since I started the eliptical, and I felt myself going a little faster.  So that was nice!!!

New Food Finds:  Sadly....this has not been a priority this week, because I have been sooooooooo busy with work and VBS, cooking is a foreign language to me!!  However, Zaxby's house salad with Lite Ranch, is better than any fast food salad I have ever found.  Also, I have started something new....V8 juice.

It helps with the busy schedule to hold me over until dinner.  I wasn't so sure about it since I hate Gazpacho, because who really likes cold soup....but i can do the vegetable juice!!!

I would love to sit here and chat, but I must get on to more professional things like painting a panda costume, counting McDonald's toys, and practicing my dance moves before VBS!

Time Flies...

So I am trying to take Bump's advice, and not run as much as possible because of the ole' shin splints!!  Which has really not worked out to be too hard since this week I haven't had much time to workout!!  So I decided to do the cross trainer...eliptical...whatever you call it, and however you spell it...it looks like this...

I took a book with me today to give me something to do.  I hate straining my neck to look up at the tvs, I leave with a bigger crick in my neck than in my joints from exercising!!  So, anywho, I just hoped on and started the book.  I guess I got into it, because when I decided I was done reading for now, I had been on there 55 minutes.  I never knew time on a cross trainer could fly by so quickly!!  Bump would be proud...I don't so much mind the idea of doing something other than running if I can read and time flies like that!!!  I might be able to be a little more patient with my shins!!

Well, I'm off to do something for VBS I'm sure!!!

Weigh Day

So today being Friday, this morning I hoped on those scales and was pretty pleasantly surprised.  Down 2.5. For a total now of 12.5.  Not bad considering last weekend after working a show in Winston we splurged...or to put it more realistically....12 HOT Krispy Kreme doughnuts gone in less than 24 hours!!!  But that's okay, because the rest of the week I made myself stick to it!!!

Shin Splints....
I believe are from the devil.  And ironically the website I got his picture from had a quote I thought was cute "The road to heel is paved...Run trails"!  I always thought shin splints were a pain right on top of your shin bone...quite the contraire my friends!!  Some days I want to just stick my lower legs in buckets of ice water...actually that doesn't sound like such a bad idea!  I have taken advice from my sister (the runner) and a book she is reading, online, and 2 running stores...results after 6 weeks...nada!!  Trent and I went for an easy 1.5 mile run around the neighborhood this morning, but I had to stop twice because of my legs!!  So frustrating.  I have started cross training and doing the eliptical 2 times a week to ease the strain on my lower legs, so hopefully that will have some long term effects!!!  Any suggestions??

The "skinny" on this weeks workout:
Like I said I did start the cross training to ease off my lower legs.  Something I didn't know I liked about the eliptical machines at the Y are the arm things that move with your steps.  Its like a bonus workout without having to do something separate!!  I increased my speed on the treadmill this week, so I didn't last quite as long, but I know both are a slow progression.
MEN....when it comes to working out, they frustrate me!!!  So when I first took Trent to the Y with me, I thought I was going to impress him with my mad skills of running a mile without stopping, and who keeps up with me but his cute butt!!!!  For someone who hasn't really worked out in...lets just say a little while, he sure hoped right on that track like it was nothing!!  My sister signed her and her husband up for a 5k a few months ago, but he didn't get in the training he had hoped.  So I am thinking...oh no, I hope he doesn't overdo it...well he just hoped right in there and did the whole 5k without stopping.  Now, this is my goal of course, but I have been working 6-7 weeks and still couldn't do that yet!

New Food Finds:
Summer time means garden fresh veggies and a grill.  My in-laws have a garden every year, and I love getting stuff from them.  They have enough squash and zucchini for their neighborhood...well they don't really live in a neighborhood really more of just a street..."Happy Road" to be exact!  Anywho, it has been "How many ways can I cook it".  Grilled is our favorite, so to go with that I made some chicken tenderloins.  I decided to be adventurous and make my our BBQ sauce marinade for the first time.  And not to brag...but I think I could have a new profession.  It wasn't a thick one so it wouldn't be something I would dip, but pretty darn tasty!!!  Whats in it??  I thought you would want to know, so I do exactly measure, I just pour until it tastes right: White vinegar, worchsiosbegfau sause, ketchup, dijon mustard, brown sugar, chopped garlic, corriander seeds, ceyanne pepper for a little heat, and voila..... a tasty marinade!!!!

Stayin' in the grooove!

I think it is so cool when I wake up in the morning and get excited about getting to run and work out.  It isn't a "have to" kind of thing anymore.  Even though it is something I enjoy, this past week I haven't done as much as I had hoped.  I am ready to get this week back on track.

Despite not working out as often as I would have liked, Thursday I got Trent in the gym with me, and it was so much fun!!!  We did the track inside of the Y around the basketball court since it was so hot outside!!  20 times around is a mile.  Our goal was to do a mile together running, well we did that and I was so proud of him!!  He hasn't worked out much in a while, so I didn't know how far we would actually get...and he did it!! I think I was more proud than he was.  He acted like it was no big thing.  So we walked a couple of laps to regroup and I suggested we try another half mile.  So he was all for it, and he did the 10 laps, but for me once I go to 10, I wasn't ready to stop.  So I continued on to do 25.  Though we took a little break and walked a couple of laps that is a total of 2.25 miles jogging!!  Thats right, no walking...alllll joggin'!!!  I felt so good!!

I am headed back to the Y in a bit, and hope to not have lost much momentum since it has been a few days.

Better late than never!

So last Friday I finally broke my holding steady streak!  I hoped on and was down another 3 lbs.  So I am down 10 all together.  I was hoping for more than that in 4 weeks, but I can tell everything is fitting looser!  My only pair of jeans no longer have quite the muffin top they have had.  Just a little one now.  Trent and I have gone out on the lake with some friends a couple of times lately, and even my bathing suit bottoms came off after a good dump off of the tube!  Not a pretty picture....but a good problem in my book!

The skinny on this weeks workout:   Last Monday I hoped on the treadmill and just said to myself, I am going to just go until I can't go anymore...so for the first time I didn't just make it a mile, I did 1.4!!!  I know I looked like the biggest weirdo in that room with this big ole grin on my face for what seemed to everyone else no reason.  Anywho, even if the weight isn't just dropping off like I had originally hoped....this right here is motivation!!  So that 5K doesn't seem so far away after all.

New food finds:  Some things I just won't give up!!  For me, fried okra and rocky road are must haves.  Not every day, but I can't give them up for good.  However, summer veggies can still be delish when prepared in new ways.  So I put some squash and zucchini on the grill after putting a little EVOO, vegetable seasoning, and fresh parmesan cheese!  Trent fell in love with them as did I.  So something I recommend.