ok, we are headed straight for march. what's getting in your way? what deserves a high-five? do share!!!

it was a body pump morning. i increased the weight amounts on the bar, so i am feleing the burn, definitely. good deal!

i also weighed myself. since the last time, i am 3 pounds down. i know the last time i weights, i was 5 down. so that makes 8 pounds since jan 1st. about less than 3 pounds per month. just the pace i enjoy. i think i would like to lose 4 more at this same pace.
moderation suits me well.

2 more days left to march! spring is here in the carolinas--very mild and nice, the flowers are blooming.

good cardio this morning--75 minutes on the elliptical, and a few core exercises. good deal!

oh sorry--i said Misty, didn't I? wasn't there a book about Misty the horse? sorry Missy--you are not a horse.

you mean...you women laying on the floor is NOT a signal to play?

i know what you mean!
i lay on the floor to so a few crunches, and the cat attacks me. oh oh oh ---moving target-must assume position of attack.

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Originally posted by iz:
alright sheri!

does misty also participate? i read this article once about yoga classes where you can bring your dog. very interesting!

Oh she participates alright...she was a pain in the patootie this morning cuz Jean and I were laying on the floor most of the time and Missy wanted to play.

alright sheri!

does misty also participate? i read this article once about yoga classes where you can bring your dog. very interesting!

Had my second at-home workout with my neighbor Jean this morning. We did 45-60 mins of Pilates (Pilates Conditioning for Weight Loss with Suzanne Deason).

BTW, it is pring break week for dd, so i get to Body Pump on wednesday morning also.

very excited about that!

the morning body pump has a totally different vibe than the friday evening one. less people. groggy. sleepy.

monday morning--started off right with more BODY PUMP!

Headed for April and still facing the same old, same old self-inflicted obstacles. ARGH.

friday's body pump was awesome. it is spring break for dd so i don't have to driver her to school whilch means i can do monday and wednesday morning body pump also! yipee!!

sat and sunday have been very good food and exercise days. i ran 7 miles saturday, and 5 miles sunday.

3.5 hours until body pump. i am pumped up!!!

can you believe --next thursday we will be starting the april challenges?

sheri, how awesome!

I let Jean choose from my DVD library yesterday for our first at-home workout. She chose upper arm weights from Tamilee Webb's I Want That Body! and the 3-mile Walk Away the Pounds by Leslie Sansone with stretchie bands. She wasn't able to make it through the entire 3 miles, so I fast forwarded through about 1/2 mile of the last mile.

WOW, what a great workout! Even though I walk daily and have been going to the gym for almost a year, I still felt that workout a lot!

As the universe's reward to me, I dropped (just barely) under 165 this morning for the first time since December 2008. Yay!

Congrats on the 20 pounds, Linda! Woohoo!!

Sheri,

That is similar to my getting a walking buddy (when I wasn't working). We helped each other and committed to getting those walks in.

I have missed walking since I went to work at the beginning of this year, but something is going right anyway. I've dropped almost 20# since I went to work. The doc said today that it could be the stress of having a job with nothing to do. Hmmmm.

Linda

i'll be leaving my office soon. just wanted to let you guys know how great it is that you share your ups and downs, and the daily rythms of your lives with me.

Hey Jill,
I totally understand. I was working on a huge project in January, February, and the first week of March. It got done, but most of the rest of my life didn't. I just couldn't balance the house, the health, and everything else with work. I don't know how people with kids do it. My best advice is ask for help. Can the BF help with pick up/drop off duties with your daughter? Could either or both of them help with menu planning/ cooking? Even if it is just until you finish with your dance recital, every little bit helps. Call merry maids, or put someone else on laundry duty. You won't always get the answer you would like, but hopefully your family can see how stressed you are and will want to help.

I threatened to go on a cooking/cleaning strike. It didn't help. I realized that if I didn't want to eat Cheerios for dinner every night I just had to do the cooking myself, and that made me kind of pissy and resulted in some poor choices on my part. Maybe a more productive choice would have been to just make sandwiches for dinner and tell the s.o. to suck it up.

I noticed that I have been stress eating more than usual in the last few months. I tried to just be aware of it, and when I could I would just get a drink, ( water, not a mojito...) and see if that would solve the problem. Mostly it was an avoidance thing. Getting water worked just as well as making a snack at putting off the task at hand.

You could see if one of your friends could bring you dinner one night. Or maybe try one of those places that you can make up dinners for the whole week. I haven't tried them, so I don't know how pricey they are, but it has to be better for you than fast food or pizzas all week.

I also think it's o.k. to just give yourself permission to let a few things slide while you are super stressed and know that you will take care of them when you have more time. I don't think that anyone can do all of the things you're doing and not stress out unless they have a little help. I know that I have let things slide on the exercise front and the food front. I knew that there would be consequences for that, but at the time I didn't care. Now all my pants are too tight. Boo. But that was the choice I made. Now I am right there with you struggling to get back on track. It's happening, but slowly. Just hang in there.

sheri, that sounds like a working plan. i used to invite friends over to do a core workout the morning of thanksgiving. i have balls and weights and stuff, but most of my friends have some kind of equipment to bring. strength in numbers!

jilly, i hear you girl. i think the reasoni am consistent is because the rhythm of my life does not change that often. every now and then, i have to travel for something, but i try to plan around that--hotel gym, or delay the workout for later in the day. i think, if my daily rhythm was irregular or jsut too packed, i would be facing the same dilemmas you are now facing.

i have been fighting allergies! for 2 weeks now--i cannot breath. my chest feels full of phlem. i am the phlem queen--what a title! i have missed one day of gym to rest. but other than that, i am plugging away in the mornings--but it makes cardio pretty hard when it is hard to breathe. tomorrow is body pump, and then next week, dd has spring break so i don't have to drive her to school. i plan to do body pump mon and wednesday, since i can go directly to work from the gym next week. yahoo!

I pitched an idea to a friend and neighbor the other day (the one I used to go to the gym with, until her membership elapsed and she couldn't afford to rejoin right then). She told me earlier this week that she can feel the difference in her body with not working out (she's in her 60s, so I know what she means).

Since she needed to get back to working out and I want to get back to doing some of my workout DVDs to supplement my gym workouts and walking to help with weight loss, I pitched the idea of her coming to my place twice a week and doing a DVD workout. I have 3 sets of weights, 2 balance balls, a set of 3 stretchies and a library of varied DVD workouts.

Our first workout is in less than an hour!