SO my eating has been sub par. I can say that I haven't really over indulged I just haven't eaten as well as I should be to actually lose weight. I did however try a new class last night that was so much fun. I went to a Yoga Sculpt class. It was in a heated room which I love because for some reason I never break a sweat when I workout I just get really hot. This makes me feel great when I finally do actually start having beads of sweat dripping off me. It was challenging and fun and I am pretty sore today but plan on going again tonight.
This morning I weighed myself when I woke up and it said 128.2 and I was like DANG!! Then I went to the bathroom and decided to weigh myself again. Guess what it said and I kind of laughed at myself. It said 126.6!! haha I weighed myself 3 times to make sure that it was right. Guess I needed to release some toxins. :)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
I feel GREAT!
Hey girls!
So I am right back into my diet and exercise routine and I have to say I've never felt better! Beth, your workout Saturday inspired me SO much and it kicked my ass even though I was a little whimp......(ok a HUGE whimp in my mind!)
Yesterday and Sunday were awesome workout days for me! Saturday of course was the girls workout and my legs still hurt yesterday from that!
Sunday was walk/sprint alternates on the treadmill paired with a circuit focused on my arms/shoulders/back muscles. I can't remember exactly what I ate Sunday but started right back up with livestrong.com yesterday.
Mondays workout was awesome too! I did a 10 minute warm up on the treadmill then did almost the exact same circuit that we did Saturday for a great leg work out paired with three 2 minute ab crunch power minutes where I did as many crunches on the exercise ball as I could for 2 minutes straight! Killer! My abs feel it today and its awesome!
Here was my menu for yesterday, and I need to tell you, Shane was SO excited and LOVED what I made for dinner!
Breakfast: Fiber one Key Lime Pie Yogurt
Morning snack: Archer Farms Strawberry Fruit Bar
Lunch: Turkey wrap made with Joseph's roll up cream cheese and turkey
Afternoon Snack: 15 Archer Farms Blue Corn Tortilla Chips (love em!), 1 slice sharp cheddar cheese
Dinner: Chicken Alfredo Pizza! It was awesome! Take Joseph's Flax seed oat and bran roll ups (ehem.....only 4 NET CARBS PER SERVING which is half of the roll up, they are huge!) Spread 1/2 cup Alfredo sauce on the roll up (only 3 NET CARBS PER SERVING which is 1/4 cup but I was making two servings of pizza). I cooked a whole chicken breast on the stove and put that on the sauce and roll up, then spread mozzarella cheese on top. Guys, it was AWESOME! Shane said it was hands down one of the best meals I've ever created for us! WOW! And there are only 8-9 NET CARBS in the whole meal!
Evening Snack/Dessert: 1 100 Calorie NutBar from Little Debbie (only 10 net carbs and 100 calories! They used to be an addiction of mine when I was young and I love to have them as a treat!)
There you go, my fabulous eating from yesterday! I went to bed last night feeling happy and satisfied with my diet and exercise and I want to go to bed feeling that way every night! Tis my goal :)
Love you all!
I can't wait for the work out this weekend. We can do it early here too if you want, I'm game for that! I'm excited to do the kickboxing class!
Gretch, I'll miss you again :( We will have a great work out next week at our meeting in SC!
Talk soon
Jen
So I am right back into my diet and exercise routine and I have to say I've never felt better! Beth, your workout Saturday inspired me SO much and it kicked my ass even though I was a little whimp......(ok a HUGE whimp in my mind!)
Yesterday and Sunday were awesome workout days for me! Saturday of course was the girls workout and my legs still hurt yesterday from that!
Sunday was walk/sprint alternates on the treadmill paired with a circuit focused on my arms/shoulders/back muscles. I can't remember exactly what I ate Sunday but started right back up with livestrong.com yesterday.
Mondays workout was awesome too! I did a 10 minute warm up on the treadmill then did almost the exact same circuit that we did Saturday for a great leg work out paired with three 2 minute ab crunch power minutes where I did as many crunches on the exercise ball as I could for 2 minutes straight! Killer! My abs feel it today and its awesome!
Here was my menu for yesterday, and I need to tell you, Shane was SO excited and LOVED what I made for dinner!
Breakfast: Fiber one Key Lime Pie Yogurt
Morning snack: Archer Farms Strawberry Fruit Bar
Lunch: Turkey wrap made with Joseph's roll up cream cheese and turkey
Afternoon Snack: 15 Archer Farms Blue Corn Tortilla Chips (love em!), 1 slice sharp cheddar cheese
Dinner: Chicken Alfredo Pizza! It was awesome! Take Joseph's Flax seed oat and bran roll ups (ehem.....only 4 NET CARBS PER SERVING which is half of the roll up, they are huge!) Spread 1/2 cup Alfredo sauce on the roll up (only 3 NET CARBS PER SERVING which is 1/4 cup but I was making two servings of pizza). I cooked a whole chicken breast on the stove and put that on the sauce and roll up, then spread mozzarella cheese on top. Guys, it was AWESOME! Shane said it was hands down one of the best meals I've ever created for us! WOW! And there are only 8-9 NET CARBS in the whole meal!
Evening Snack/Dessert: 1 100 Calorie NutBar from Little Debbie (only 10 net carbs and 100 calories! They used to be an addiction of mine when I was young and I love to have them as a treat!)
There you go, my fabulous eating from yesterday! I went to bed last night feeling happy and satisfied with my diet and exercise and I want to go to bed feeling that way every night! Tis my goal :)
Love you all!
I can't wait for the work out this weekend. We can do it early here too if you want, I'm game for that! I'm excited to do the kickboxing class!
Gretch, I'll miss you again :( We will have a great work out next week at our meeting in SC!
Talk soon
Jen
Monday, January 4, 2010
monday monday
Hello,
So I woke up early on MOnday to go to the gym, because I had no hot water at my house, still. I ran 3 miles and it felt great and then went to take my nice hot shower and as I was trying all the showers because they were freezing cold and I was sure there had to be a hot one somewhere, an announcement was made that there is no hot water in the showers! YEah, so I had a freezing cold shower to wake me up, but a nice run.
To eat I had
banana
piece of apple caramel bread with almond butter
salad
slim fast bar
chocolate soy milk
3 chocolates from the teachers lounge
cheddar cheese slices probably like 4
some mustard pretzels
then I went with my friend lisa to the gym, we were supposed to lift, but she was feeling stressed for time so we went for another run. The gym was packed. I always think that's so funny, but so great that people make the new resolution to get the gym and work out on the first of the year, the funny part is, by feb. it usually dies down into nothing. but at least they got that one month in. It's better than nothing, and really good intentions. Let's take note all of us and not be February drop-outs. So I ran another 3 miles.
At home I ate some grapes, a bowl of cereal and a bowl of noodles. I don't know, I have been craving weird combos lately (but don't get any ideas, I have always been a weird combo person, just more lately)
topped off with a chai tea.
It's tuesday morning for me and I was going to go to the gym again but mike had a morning flight so I am taking care of doggie business. I should have done jillian video, but I was tired from staying up late dealing with a student loan silliness, I hate dealing with that stuff from so far away.
My new idea is to order all these dancing with the stars workout videos. ha ha I have a huge music room with a lot of space and a big screen so I am going to see if I can talk some people into learning how to dance and doing dance workouts on the weekends with me, just for a little added extra. I always imagine I am on dancing with the stars while running, ha ha ha a song will come on with a fun beat and I start trying to picture what the dance could look like and then what the outfit could look like and then I have to remember that I would have all this chubby squishing out so I would have to make sure the outfit would cover those areas until I got a fit body like all of the other women who start out jiggly and firm up on that show! ha ha You should try it sometime, it really makes the time fly while running! Imaginations are fun~
love you
Jen
So I woke up early on MOnday to go to the gym, because I had no hot water at my house, still. I ran 3 miles and it felt great and then went to take my nice hot shower and as I was trying all the showers because they were freezing cold and I was sure there had to be a hot one somewhere, an announcement was made that there is no hot water in the showers! YEah, so I had a freezing cold shower to wake me up, but a nice run.
To eat I had
banana
piece of apple caramel bread with almond butter
salad
slim fast bar
chocolate soy milk
3 chocolates from the teachers lounge
cheddar cheese slices probably like 4
some mustard pretzels
then I went with my friend lisa to the gym, we were supposed to lift, but she was feeling stressed for time so we went for another run. The gym was packed. I always think that's so funny, but so great that people make the new resolution to get the gym and work out on the first of the year, the funny part is, by feb. it usually dies down into nothing. but at least they got that one month in. It's better than nothing, and really good intentions. Let's take note all of us and not be February drop-outs. So I ran another 3 miles.
At home I ate some grapes, a bowl of cereal and a bowl of noodles. I don't know, I have been craving weird combos lately (but don't get any ideas, I have always been a weird combo person, just more lately)
topped off with a chai tea.
It's tuesday morning for me and I was going to go to the gym again but mike had a morning flight so I am taking care of doggie business. I should have done jillian video, but I was tired from staying up late dealing with a student loan silliness, I hate dealing with that stuff from so far away.
My new idea is to order all these dancing with the stars workout videos. ha ha I have a huge music room with a lot of space and a big screen so I am going to see if I can talk some people into learning how to dance and doing dance workouts on the weekends with me, just for a little added extra. I always imagine I am on dancing with the stars while running, ha ha ha a song will come on with a fun beat and I start trying to picture what the dance could look like and then what the outfit could look like and then I have to remember that I would have all this chubby squishing out so I would have to make sure the outfit would cover those areas until I got a fit body like all of the other women who start out jiggly and firm up on that show! ha ha You should try it sometime, it really makes the time fly while running! Imaginations are fun~
love you
Jen
working out better pay off! :-)
Hello all.
I am so very sore from my recent workouts. I hadn't been doing much and so the kick-boxing class on Friday combined with Beths circuit training on Sat kicked my legs ass! I also did that 20 minutes Jillian Michaels video on Sun (which was really hard for me becuase of the condition of my legs and the fact that she made me do jumping jacks...no modification aloud). Today I did a strength Yoga class. My legs say OUCH! And I am sooo sooo tired! But this is a good thing as it just HAS to start paying off soon.
I have eaten pretty well as well. Here is what I've eaten today:
Breakfast: Fiber One Bar
Lunch: Flat Wrap Pizza and 1 cup strawberries
Snack: Clementine and 7 almonds
Snack before workout class: Light English Muffin with PB and tea
Late Dinner: 4 cooked carrots, 1/2 of a Yukon Gold potatoe, and 4 oz pork.
I also joined the Rockford Community center today. So now I have a workout area!! Whoo hooo. The membership was 249.00 per year for the whole family! Can you believe that! It also includes most of the classes if you want to take them. So next Tuesday a Tues/Thurs 5 am 'get-up-and-go' class starts. So I'll start doing that. I've done it before, and besides the waking up early (which sucks) it's great!
Love to all!
-Kara
I am so very sore from my recent workouts. I hadn't been doing much and so the kick-boxing class on Friday combined with Beths circuit training on Sat kicked my legs ass! I also did that 20 minutes Jillian Michaels video on Sun (which was really hard for me becuase of the condition of my legs and the fact that she made me do jumping jacks...no modification aloud). Today I did a strength Yoga class. My legs say OUCH! And I am sooo sooo tired! But this is a good thing as it just HAS to start paying off soon.
I have eaten pretty well as well. Here is what I've eaten today:
Breakfast: Fiber One Bar
Lunch: Flat Wrap Pizza and 1 cup strawberries
Snack: Clementine and 7 almonds
Snack before workout class: Light English Muffin with PB and tea
Late Dinner: 4 cooked carrots, 1/2 of a Yukon Gold potatoe, and 4 oz pork.
I also joined the Rockford Community center today. So now I have a workout area!! Whoo hooo. The membership was 249.00 per year for the whole family! Can you believe that! It also includes most of the classes if you want to take them. So next Tuesday a Tues/Thurs 5 am 'get-up-and-go' class starts. So I'll start doing that. I've done it before, and besides the waking up early (which sucks) it's great!
Love to all!
-Kara
Sunday, January 3, 2010
I really am alive!!!
Hey everyone I am back from a week of skiing in Deadwood with the family!!!! Over the week I ate a ton of really yummy cookies, cake,etc. I didn't work out once while we were there but skiied a lot!!! I came home Friday night and weighed myslef and figured I must be back to where was when we started this due to my terrible eating habits!! Well, the weird thing was I actually lost another pound!!! Yippee!!!! I Live Stronged the skiing activity and you actually burn a ton of calories skiing especially if you fall a low which I did!!! Well, today was the start of living back to my normal healthy lifestyle. So here is what I ate tiday:
Breakfast- Oatmeal with cinnamon and splenda
Morning snack- skipped because we ate late because we slept in
Lunch- Pita ham sandwich with pepperjack cheese and dijon mustard, 20 pretzels, and homemade wild rice soup
Mid afternoon snack- string cheese and chocolate animal crackers
Dinner- rotesserie chicken, cottage cheese, and broccoli/cauliflower salad
After dinner snack- fat free chocolate pudding
I worked out and ran 3 miles. I burned 352 calories.
Well, I need to get back to doing all my laundry from work but thought I would let you all know that I am still alive and will get back to my healthy lifestyle.
Also, I currently have weighed in at 146!!! I still have a lot of work to do to get to my 140 goal weight!!! But we still have a month and 1/2 to go!!!!!
I also started my marathon training for May!!!! Alright ladies, love you all and I will be in touch soon!! Love g
Breakfast- Oatmeal with cinnamon and splenda
Morning snack- skipped because we ate late because we slept in
Lunch- Pita ham sandwich with pepperjack cheese and dijon mustard, 20 pretzels, and homemade wild rice soup
Mid afternoon snack- string cheese and chocolate animal crackers
Dinner- rotesserie chicken, cottage cheese, and broccoli/cauliflower salad
After dinner snack- fat free chocolate pudding
I worked out and ran 3 miles. I burned 352 calories.
Well, I need to get back to doing all my laundry from work but thought I would let you all know that I am still alive and will get back to my healthy lifestyle.
Also, I currently have weighed in at 146!!! I still have a lot of work to do to get to my 140 goal weight!!! But we still have a month and 1/2 to go!!!!!
I also started my marathon training for May!!!! Alright ladies, love you all and I will be in touch soon!! Love g
New Year, New Me
After a bad NYE (we all did it, don't deny or feel bad!)I am recommitting.
Saturday:
Over my calories, but I double worked out. Felt great to do that and am pretty proud of my stamina. Also ate pretty well - here is the report.
Workout:
Spin class in the morning
Circuits in the later morning with you chicas.
Total Calorie Burn: 930. Pretty good!
Food:
Breakfast - 1/2 banana, english muffin with pb, energy granola bar, americano
Lunch - 1 cup turkey chili, weight watchers bagel, 2 clementines (thanks Kara!)
Snack - 1 serving baked ruffles (oops), low fat ice cream sandwich (double oops)
Dinner - Chicken Stir Fry with 1 cup white rice, 1 1/2 glasses red wine, one oatmeal cookie (thanks Michelle!)
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. I'm going to start entering things into Livestrong again too, I really like knowing what the breakout is.
Sunday:
Here is my report so far, it's really been a good day. I'm kind of bored right now and don't want to do my laundry, so I broke down and had a snack, but a healthy one! Microwave light popcorn! :)
Workout:
1 hour 15 minutes of various cardio (uphill walking, elliptical, stairclimber, running laps)
30 Day Shred video for 20 minutes (doing circuits)
Total Calorie Burn: 775
Food:
Breakfast - 1/2 granola bar, skinny hazelnut latte, banana
Lunch - Wrap(turkey, lettuce, tomato, avocado, fat free mayo,flat out wrap), 1 cup fresh pineapple, steamed broccoli with 1 tsp fat free cheese, 5 chocolate animal crackers
Snack - clementine, 3 cups light microwave popcorn, weight watcher peanut butter bar
Dinner - TBD, but I'm thinking some kind of pasta with chicken.
Pretty solid effort for the weekend. I'm going to keep it up!
Saturday:
Over my calories, but I double worked out. Felt great to do that and am pretty proud of my stamina. Also ate pretty well - here is the report.
Workout:
Spin class in the morning
Circuits in the later morning with you chicas.
Total Calorie Burn: 930. Pretty good!
Food:
Breakfast - 1/2 banana, english muffin with pb, energy granola bar, americano
Lunch - 1 cup turkey chili, weight watchers bagel, 2 clementines (thanks Kara!)
Snack - 1 serving baked ruffles (oops), low fat ice cream sandwich (double oops)
Dinner - Chicken Stir Fry with 1 cup white rice, 1 1/2 glasses red wine, one oatmeal cookie (thanks Michelle!)
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. I'm going to start entering things into Livestrong again too, I really like knowing what the breakout is.
Sunday:
Here is my report so far, it's really been a good day. I'm kind of bored right now and don't want to do my laundry, so I broke down and had a snack, but a healthy one! Microwave light popcorn! :)
Workout:
1 hour 15 minutes of various cardio (uphill walking, elliptical, stairclimber, running laps)
30 Day Shred video for 20 minutes (doing circuits)
Total Calorie Burn: 775
Food:
Breakfast - 1/2 granola bar, skinny hazelnut latte, banana
Lunch - Wrap(turkey, lettuce, tomato, avocado, fat free mayo,flat out wrap), 1 cup fresh pineapple, steamed broccoli with 1 tsp fat free cheese, 5 chocolate animal crackers
Snack - clementine, 3 cups light microwave popcorn, weight watcher peanut butter bar
Dinner - TBD, but I'm thinking some kind of pasta with chicken.
Pretty solid effort for the weekend. I'm going to keep it up!
Bringing in the NEW YEAR!
Oh Yeah! 2010! So how has 2010 been treating me and my goals? How has it been treating your goals??????? hmmmmmmmmmm
Let's see where did I leave off. Tuesday I think. Wednesday I took the day off, so that would make sense that I didn't post it. I didn't work out and I didn't eat that well, but not that bad.
Thursday, New Years eve. That was another whoopsie on eating, but I did run 5.5 miles and I ran them pretty hard.
Then MIke and I went to a spanish tapas restaurant where I ate a bit more than I should have, but I didn't really eat THAT bad. I had grilled shrimp, and they even came with their eyeballs and legs and antennas on. I didn't eat those though. ha ha We had chicken skewers, salad, and this bread thing that had tomatoes, onions, spinach, and garlic on it, potent for the breath, but very yummy. I had some mushrooms. 2 glasses of white wine and then we went home and played board games into the new year. A lot of our friends went to Scotland for new years or were in the states so we had a quiet new years eve, but it was very nice. I drank orange champaign and ate homemade caramels and string cheese. I know I shoved more into my mouth at some point, but I can't remember what it is. I can't recall a lot of things these days, I think I am getting old or something.
Friday I took another rest day. I made a loaf of caramel apple bread and ate half of it. ha ha then I had a tuna melt and tomato soup and a hot chocolate for dessert.
Sat. I ran 9 miles! YEAH! I haven't run that far in a very long time. It feels good to be getting that long run in once a week again. It wasn't very fast, it wasn't too tiring for me, but I pushed it at the end and it was 1 hour and a half of constant cardio so I can't complain. It really helps that I have a friend Jen here who not only wants to lose weight, but signed up for a half marathon and has never been a runner so she is very dedicated to putting in all the runs. It makes me more dedicated.
I ate some oatmeal before the run. Had a gatorade after the run. Had some chocolate chex mix and a diet coke because I was ate school for 5 hours afterwards and I forgot to bring a water bottle and some food. Then I had a lean cuisine and some rye crisps with laughing cow cheese and for dessert I had some plain greek yogurt with strawberries. I know i kept under my calories today!
It's sunday and I am up early. Another form of motivation for me to make it to the gym is our hot water heater broke! ha ha and 4 days later the plumber still hasn't come. So to get a shower I go to the gym and if I am going to the gym I might as well work out. So today I am going into the gym to run and have a shower. Then I am off to church in Cambridge today and grocery shopping. Mike is still studying to be a counselor and he wants to try everything out that he can think of so he can relate to or at least say he knows what that feels like when people come in to talk with him. His latest is that he wants to go vegan (I can't spell this for some reason) for 3 months, so I said I would do it with him these last two months of biggest losers and think it might help me get the extra inches off.
I measured myself and I have lost 1.5 inches around my waist, but I think I gained .5 inches around my hips and thighs..........NOT WHAT I WANTED. I mean really, what is going on there, did the fat just sort of shimmy it's way down? Someone was like, oh maybe you just gain muscle because you started running, well how about I lose the fat first, then i can gain muscle, I would prefer that. Really I think I just need to be more conscious about what I am eating, like I have said over and over again. The busier I keep myself, the easier that is!
Hope you all had a great new years.
Did anyone make any resolutions? I'm not sure I even did this year. Maybe I'll think of some...
Love to you
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