March 24, 2010

It is suprising but I am still loosing weight even without going to the gym. I opened a new company, Clean Up!. We go to peoples houses and help them organize their life plus work with Realtors getting homes ready to sell. Several of the jobs we have done so far include: helping a widow get rid of stuff that is holding her back (memories), seed & straw a lawn over a filled in swimming pool, cleaned a house for Realtor as a present to buyer prior to move in, unloaded moving truck for the same buyer.
I am excited to see the scale is at 188.4. Glad to see those 180s.
Been getting the garden ready. Planning on enlarging it this year to 67x87. Plus we have 8 new baby chicks and so far they have all lived. This time I have them in fish tanks with lamps keeping the temp at 80-85. Mark has plans to build a chicken house that is better than our own house. lol
Oh yes, I cut my hair. I had been growing it long for the past 3 years and it had gotten down to below my shoulder blades. I just could not stand it, I felt like it made me look older and at 49 older is not how I wanted to look.

Monday, Feb 1, 2010
I really stuck to low carbs this past weekend and the weight is falling off. I was shocked to not see as much inches lost when I measured on Sat. My weight on Sat morning 194.4, Sun morning 192. Monday morning 191. This is the smallest I have been since 12/08. Got to keep going. I slip everyonce in a while but I figure if I just keep on trucking I will make more progress than if I just give up. Last week I only worked out one day for 3 hrs. Mondays excuse was wanted to have blood pressure tested at dr visit on Tues, Wed did 3 hr workout, Fri excuse was it was going to start snowing and I had to get Bo kerosene.
This week I plan to workout Mon, Wed, Fri but only do 15 min on bike, 15 min treadmill 1 set of reps on each machine. I am looking for the perfect workout that is done in the min amount of time yet gives results.

3 Hour Workout

Yes, I worked out at the gym for 3 hours yesterday. It did not seem like it was that long. When I first got there I started on the bike. 10 minutes into my bike ride one of the ladies that comes everyday came in. She always uses the bike I was riding so, I got off and moved to the treadmill. I was just going to do 10-20 min. and then change machines. But once I got to going I just kept on. Final treadmill results: 65 min, distance 2.76. calories 354, Altitude 322, time in zone 41.26. Then I went back to the bike for 10 more min, the the elliptical 6 min. I thought I was going to have to stop about 3 min into the elliptical but just pushed on, when I got to 5 min Sherry and Gussy started cheering & encouraging me. They were so funny, I felt silly but it really helped. Sherry & I agreed to start a Facebook page for Benefit for Women.

I was down to 192.6 yesterday morning. I notice that the less carbs I eat the more I loose. I did eat more bread yesterday so I would have energy to workout. I had heard somewhere that I should eat carbs prior to working out. "Need to check on that" Plus last night had white beans and cornbread and an orange after working out. Weight this morning 194.0 I am starting to see a small change in my double chin the problem is I think I am getting jowls. Oh No! need to look up tighting cream. lol I also noticed I can see my belly button in the looking glass and the back rolls are going down. Yippee

Report Day for Mark & myself

Mark has lost 17lbs and 10 inches. I have lost 8 lbs and 3 inches. Since we started back a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving. We are taking the kids to Yellow River Game Ranch today for Jon & Blake's birthdays.

Buckle Down Now!

Mark is below 160. I am proud of him! I ate like a pig yesterday: hot dog tater tot casserole and a bowl of ceral prior to going to bed. I am at 194.8 this morning. That is a total loss of 8lbs. Which is good but I could have done better if I would just stick to what I should eat and eat when I should. I am working out at the gym 3 times per week 1.5 to 2 hrs at a time. I had gotten down to 193.something when I started to change my eating. Getting back into some bad habits. It does not take much to start putting the lbs back on.

January 21, 2010

Missed a few days posting to the blog. I almost gave up this week. Then I realized that is what I always do & continued on with my program. Because, I know if I quit now I will be mad at myself in a few months. The weight is slowly coming down. I still am not down to my lowest weight of 193.something. I should be there by weigh in on Sunday. It is strange, I will have an upset stomach and the weight will drop the next morning. But, then the next morning it is back up. Then I get frustrated and want to just say forget it. I am up to 5min on the elicp machine with hands. There are times when I think what have I done by telling everyone I would run in the marathon in May. I am not going to quit and I AM going to run/walk that marathon, Lord willing. I am not trying to be funny with the Lord willing part. We are not promised tomorrow or even the next minute.

Catching up.

Today is Thurs, Jan 14, 2010 I have missed blogging for the past few days. I went to the gym on Monday and worked out 20 min on bike, 20 min on treadmill doing hills on both. The treadmill does get my heart rate up better than the bike. I enjoy reading while riding the bike. On Monday I met several of the ladies that come at the same time I do. It really helps to have such a small gym we can all talk to each other no matter what machine we are using. Talking does make the time go by faster.
I missed going to the gym on Tues as our 14 yr old skipped school and I spent the morning tracking him down. Do not know what got into him he has never been one do things like that. It looks like we took a switch to him but he had hid from the police in a briar patch while wearing shorts. It was 16 degrees and all he had on was shorts, tshirt and a hoodie. He was not alone in his "escape" he had 2 other buddies with him. At the time we only knew about one of the other boys. My neighbor was the one to find them hiding in the woods. She told them "they better come on out of those woods, that if she had to come down there and get them they may not come back out." That was when we found out her son was with them.
Wed. did a hard workout. Bike 20 min Treadmill 20 min with hills then 3min 10 sec on elip. including hands "Yippe" I might figure that machine out yet. Did the heaviest weight on each machine I could sometimes dropping down to the lower weight for 2nd rep sometimes raising it for the 2nd reps. I am really sore today, Thurs.