Had my "eat what you want" meal last night -- pizza and wine. It was great! Better than I anticipated.
Today hubby and I went on our first bike ride of the year. A little over 20 miles in 1:45. The wind killed me. I know I slowed him down, but he was very patient. I was shutting for a relaxing ride because it was the first, but wanted to run about 11 mph. My speed fluctuated between 10-11 mph on the way to NLR. About 13-15 mph on the ride back.
The ride didn't bother me at all (okay, maybe the saddle) except for the hills. They weren't even that big, but because I worked legs on Thursday and Friday at the gym -- and I'm out of shape on my bike -- I struggled on the hills. My thighs were burning.
I tried to tell myself "Don't look ahead." I was repeating things like: "You do this in the gym every single day" and "You can do this easily." I didn't want to look toward the crest of the hill, but just far enough to make sure I wasn't going to run into anyone. Twice I stopped (on two different hills). Once I was so close to the top but ran into a ton of people coming and going and knew I would have to really slow down. I quit. I shouldn't have.
The last 7 miles I performed much better and felt good. It's like it too me 13 miles to get up for it. It helped that we were coming back and the wind was more to our back. It just seemed to go faster on the way back.
I'm sure hoping we can make the bike rides a really regular part of our routine. I would love to ride at least twice a week. I'm not sure we can, but we will see. Maybe I need to go without hubby one day a week. It's just better knowing he's watching out for me.
Feeling great!
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
What a great week I've had!! I am pumped!
I have worked out hard every day this week except Tuesday. I have enjoyed 10 Fitness and the equipment the past year, but I'm really excited about their new equipment.
Wade and I have learned this week that we work out harder when we can see each other across the room. I'm not sure why, but it sure helps me to have him there. The only exception was today. I went alone and I worked out harder and longer. I was thinking about how I felt and that scale on Monday.
I'm changing up my workout. Nothing's the same everyday. Okay, I do warm up on the bike everyday.
I love the bike.
But I vary my time, my speed, my resistance.
Then I move from exercise to exercise. If it's cardio, I spend at least 10 minutes there. Sometimes treadmill - walking on a steep (10-12 degree) incline at a good pace (3.5 mph). Sometimes the stair climber. I can't yet do 10 full minutes on this one. I'm doing level 6-7 for 7 minutes right now. But I've also fallen in love with the new rowing machine. They have two new ones in the gym now and I do it almost every time I'm there. Different levels of difficulty, different goals (meters, time, etc). It's a full body workout and since I've usually been on the bike, my thighs are killing me by the end of this.
In the weights, I am trying to do exercises that work two parts of the body at once one day. That's why I love kettle bells. I can squat and upright row in one simple exercise. Then the other days, I pick a particular body part and just work that. Like today was arms. Loving it. Feeling it.
And the ropes! Yes, the gym finally has ropes like on BL and I love them. Okay, I don't love them, but I love the way they make me feel.
My favorite time of the work out: The last 15-20 minutes of ab work, planks, then stretching. Once the stretching hits, it's off with Dave Ramsey and on with Enya. Total relaxation right before walking out the door.
And right as I walk out the door, the gym has a nice hot cup of coffee for me. :)
One of my biggest victories this week: my food intake. I have spent this week eating really well. And I feel great! Lots of raw fruit, veggies, fish, salads, no sugar, no white flour, no white pasta, very little dairy. My kids had Chickfila in the car with me twice this week. I had to smell it, but I didn't eat it. I also found myself in front of cookies, Doritos, potato chips and onion dip at discipleship yesterday, but I had water. VICTORY!
My biggest victory of all this week: I have not stepped on the scale. I am a daily weigh-er. But not this week. Wade and I made Mondays our weigh-in day, but after weighing Monday, I put the scale in the bottom of my closet. Yes, I've been tempted to weigh in at the girls' locker room at the gym, but I've resisted. I want to be surprised -- I only hope it's a good surprise. :)
Today I had my "cheat" or what I'd like to call my less restrictive food day. Still nothing sweet, but I ate organic cheese nips and regular peanut butter. :) I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
Greatest thing I've learned this week: I don't work out so that in a couple of months I will weigh less. I work out so that I feel great TODAY!
I have worked out hard every day this week except Tuesday. I have enjoyed 10 Fitness and the equipment the past year, but I'm really excited about their new equipment.
Wade and I have learned this week that we work out harder when we can see each other across the room. I'm not sure why, but it sure helps me to have him there. The only exception was today. I went alone and I worked out harder and longer. I was thinking about how I felt and that scale on Monday.
I'm changing up my workout. Nothing's the same everyday. Okay, I do warm up on the bike everyday.
I love the bike.
But I vary my time, my speed, my resistance.
Then I move from exercise to exercise. If it's cardio, I spend at least 10 minutes there. Sometimes treadmill - walking on a steep (10-12 degree) incline at a good pace (3.5 mph). Sometimes the stair climber. I can't yet do 10 full minutes on this one. I'm doing level 6-7 for 7 minutes right now. But I've also fallen in love with the new rowing machine. They have two new ones in the gym now and I do it almost every time I'm there. Different levels of difficulty, different goals (meters, time, etc). It's a full body workout and since I've usually been on the bike, my thighs are killing me by the end of this.
In the weights, I am trying to do exercises that work two parts of the body at once one day. That's why I love kettle bells. I can squat and upright row in one simple exercise. Then the other days, I pick a particular body part and just work that. Like today was arms. Loving it. Feeling it.
And the ropes! Yes, the gym finally has ropes like on BL and I love them. Okay, I don't love them, but I love the way they make me feel.
My favorite time of the work out: The last 15-20 minutes of ab work, planks, then stretching. Once the stretching hits, it's off with Dave Ramsey and on with Enya. Total relaxation right before walking out the door.
And right as I walk out the door, the gym has a nice hot cup of coffee for me. :)
One of my biggest victories this week: my food intake. I have spent this week eating really well. And I feel great! Lots of raw fruit, veggies, fish, salads, no sugar, no white flour, no white pasta, very little dairy. My kids had Chickfila in the car with me twice this week. I had to smell it, but I didn't eat it. I also found myself in front of cookies, Doritos, potato chips and onion dip at discipleship yesterday, but I had water. VICTORY!
My biggest victory of all this week: I have not stepped on the scale. I am a daily weigh-er. But not this week. Wade and I made Mondays our weigh-in day, but after weighing Monday, I put the scale in the bottom of my closet. Yes, I've been tempted to weigh in at the girls' locker room at the gym, but I've resisted. I want to be surprised -- I only hope it's a good surprise. :)
Today I had my "cheat" or what I'd like to call my less restrictive food day. Still nothing sweet, but I ate organic cheese nips and regular peanut butter. :) I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
Greatest thing I've learned this week: I don't work out so that in a couple of months I will weigh less. I work out so that I feel great TODAY!
Monday, March 4, 2013
Great day today! I was awake by 4am in order to spend time with the Lord AND work out early. My alarm was set to go off at 4:30, but I was wide awake at 4. So I just got up.
I left the house by 5:10am to work out. The workout was weird today. The cardio killed me, but the other stuff was a breeze. I got on the bike, stair climber and rowing machine. The bike and the row machine was really hard. The stair climber I was able to do one minute longer, 2 levels higher. That machine makes me sweat immediately!
The plank and the ab work was easy today. That helps.
Today I was in town running errands. While out, I picked up Jillian's Shred with Weights DVD. I was looking for Jillian's 30 Day Shred, but they didn't have it, so I picked this one up thinking it would kill me. The first thing I did when I got home was put on my workout clothes and put that DVD in.
I did it! There was only one exercise I couldn't do the whole time she did it. The exercises move quickly. She has you move from one thing to the next fairly quickly. That makes it easier and gets my heart rate up quickly. It's like burst/surge training. I did need a kettle bell. I did the workout with a hand-held weight. One of her girls did it with a hand-held, too, so it was fine. But I would like to get a kettle bell. I use them in the gym and they give a better workout.
My eating has been pretty good today. I was running all day long, so I did have two Clif bars at different times today since I didn't prepare well. But it was fine.
Breakfast: Coffee (black)/Clif Bar
Lunch: half slice of organic pumpernickle bread with cut up avocado, cilantro, garlic, sprinkled with lime
Dinner: ground chicken meatballs (Clean Eating recipe)/green beans with onions/brown rice
Lots and lots of water!
The best part of my day was using my birthday present that Wade gave me -- an hour and a half massage. Oh yes! I'm blogging about that on my other blog.
Wade did well, too. He worked out and was tempted to binge today at lunch (because he skipped breakfast -- shame on him!), but through calls and texting, I held him accountable. He got a lean Subway sandwich instead. :) Love that man!
I left the house by 5:10am to work out. The workout was weird today. The cardio killed me, but the other stuff was a breeze. I got on the bike, stair climber and rowing machine. The bike and the row machine was really hard. The stair climber I was able to do one minute longer, 2 levels higher. That machine makes me sweat immediately!
The plank and the ab work was easy today. That helps.
Today I was in town running errands. While out, I picked up Jillian's Shred with Weights DVD. I was looking for Jillian's 30 Day Shred, but they didn't have it, so I picked this one up thinking it would kill me. The first thing I did when I got home was put on my workout clothes and put that DVD in.
I did it! There was only one exercise I couldn't do the whole time she did it. The exercises move quickly. She has you move from one thing to the next fairly quickly. That makes it easier and gets my heart rate up quickly. It's like burst/surge training. I did need a kettle bell. I did the workout with a hand-held weight. One of her girls did it with a hand-held, too, so it was fine. But I would like to get a kettle bell. I use them in the gym and they give a better workout.
My eating has been pretty good today. I was running all day long, so I did have two Clif bars at different times today since I didn't prepare well. But it was fine.
Breakfast: Coffee (black)/Clif Bar
Lunch: half slice of organic pumpernickle bread with cut up avocado, cilantro, garlic, sprinkled with lime
Dinner: ground chicken meatballs (Clean Eating recipe)/green beans with onions/brown rice
Lots and lots of water!
The best part of my day was using my birthday present that Wade gave me -- an hour and a half massage. Oh yes! I'm blogging about that on my other blog.
Wade did well, too. He worked out and was tempted to binge today at lunch (because he skipped breakfast -- shame on him!), but through calls and texting, I held him accountable. He got a lean Subway sandwich instead. :) Love that man!
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Wow, it has been so very long since I've written here. In the time since I have written, Wade and I have tried several things in our health -- vegetarian, vegan, juicing. We have juiced some for better health. We enjoy the juice, but it's not a lifestyle we can maintain. We are eating more raw and real foods. We love that!
But then basketball season and the holidays hit. We couldn't seem to recover and we found ourselves back to some of our old habits. Not all of them, but some.
So now that we are done with basketball and our schedules have slowed down, we are ready to begin again and go to the next level. We both need to lose weight and need some motivation.
We are back to working out, but need to commit to 4-5 days/week. Working out helps keep me motivated about what I put into my mouth.
We will be keeping food journals just to stay accountable.
I also am working on some motivation boards for us to see every single day. This will probably hang in our closets/dressing area so we can see it each day as we get dressed.
All or nothing. This is how we will have to do this. We talked about putting it all on the table. Getting everyone on board in the family. I need to build my self-denial muscle, my self-discipline.
We want to get off of sugar and white foods.......white flour, white sugar, white pasta, etc.
We enjoy eating vegan plus fish. I do deal with low iron most of the time so when I cut my meat out, I struggle. But I have some prescription iron to take and I am trying to get more protein through greens and beans.
I hope to update this blog more often, keeping track of how we are doing with food, exercise and overall health.
But then basketball season and the holidays hit. We couldn't seem to recover and we found ourselves back to some of our old habits. Not all of them, but some.
So now that we are done with basketball and our schedules have slowed down, we are ready to begin again and go to the next level. We both need to lose weight and need some motivation.
We are back to working out, but need to commit to 4-5 days/week. Working out helps keep me motivated about what I put into my mouth.
We will be keeping food journals just to stay accountable.
I also am working on some motivation boards for us to see every single day. This will probably hang in our closets/dressing area so we can see it each day as we get dressed.
All or nothing. This is how we will have to do this. We talked about putting it all on the table. Getting everyone on board in the family. I need to build my self-denial muscle, my self-discipline.
We want to get off of sugar and white foods.......white flour, white sugar, white pasta, etc.
We enjoy eating vegan plus fish. I do deal with low iron most of the time so when I cut my meat out, I struggle. But I have some prescription iron to take and I am trying to get more protein through greens and beans.
I hope to update this blog more often, keeping track of how we are doing with food, exercise and overall health.
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