Saturday

Worked out with Suzana today. I had not weighed myself since out last workout (1/19/09) now I am down to 207!!! I hit my 10 lb goal. Goal for Valentine's Day - Onederland!!!

lots of leg workouts today - I needed to kick start the legs again anyway.

The plan for this week - work out 4 days - 30 min X 2 days - 30 min before Suzana and 30 with her - then a 60 min class.

Thursday

Well, a solid foot of snow hit this area on Tuesday night - the roads were not cleared by Wednesday morning - when I skated to work, white knuckled the whole way. After fighting the same driving conditions to get home -I cancelled my appt with my trainer in favor of working on the snow in my driveway. The end result: I did not work out at the gym with the intense cardio for 2 days. I find this makes it harder on me when I go back to do my cardio. I did 30 min today (20 elliptical and 10 treadmill, + 2 on the exerbike, which I am not even counting) I did 15 reps X2 on the lat pulls. Did 5 reps X4 on one arm exercise and 10 reps X3 for another. I then did 25 regular crunches, 25 side-to-side crunches, 10 2-tier crunches, anther 25 regular and another 25 side to side - I feel like I have worked out better when I do the crunches on the floor instead of on the crunch slider thing. Feels like it's more intense on those muscles.

Plan for the rest of this week: Work out X 1 hour tomorrow, workout X1 hour on Sat (30 min of that will be with Suzane)

Monday

Workout today

• 15 min elliptical
• 60 min cardio in a spinning class with Suzanne.

Very tired today - I did not want to work out at all this evening, but I went and did the elliptical. Then I went to look for a treadmill and met Suzane (my trainer). She was teaching her first spinning class- "just 15 min", she said to me. So I went - did 40 min, was thinking about leaving. There was another spinning instructor in the class evaluating Suzane. Then 2 people left in front of me (the one girl seemed to have some leg problem that was exacerbated by the class) so after they left, I did not want to leave and make Suzanne look bad. Oh well. I got my workout in and more then I even intended. That's good.

Working out!

Workout list from the remainder of this week:

• Wednesday the 21st - 20 min elliptical, 20 min treadmill, 10 min bike - all cardio
• Thursday the 22nd - 15 min elliptical, 10 min treadmill, weights X 5 min or so - machines were cardio
• Friday - skipped - felt really bored and sad - had a 200 cal bag of cheetoes (not as satisfying as I thought they might be - probably because of the lack of fiber)
• Saturday the 24th - 20 min elliptical, 20 min treadmill, 10 min bike - all cardio then bicep curls X 10, rows (45 lbs) 18 reps X3, lat pull (45 lbs) 15 X3.

Not been keeping track of the dietary side of my work, but I have been working on eating healthier in general. I did have that one indulgence on Friday - perhaps because I was bored and did not work out that day - and had a 200 cal pack of cheetoes. I did think that was not too bad. I think I am going to have to badger Rosie into the food diary daily, again, because it does help us to keep up with the calorie counts and keeping us on track and without indulginces.

Anyway - My trainer and I rescheduled for Wednesday - I plan to keep working out between half an hour and an hour 4 times a week. At some point when I plateau, I will have to up that - but it is working for now.

I hit 5 lbs lost this week (it's ok - I don't want to find them again!) so now I am down to 212! YAY! It's small - but it's great to me!

Yest I went and did the fitness ride in the morning - 60 minutes... it was better this week than last week. That afternoon, I went and did another 30 min cardio (10 min elliptical, 10 min treadmill, 10 min bike) and did 30 min with Suzana (arms, pects)

I am happy. I am still trying to eat better, but I do not want to deny myself the things I enjoy. I am working to eat good things, but in moderation. I need to get back to calorie counting.

It's a good week. Gotta keep it going though.

Been a busy and emotionally draining day. Had 4 people to see.... the other part of my job was to keep Libby busy and away from certain areas at certain times. Her retirement party was today. Her family surprised her and came in from Georgia. She was soo surprised and happy they were there - She almost started crying but managed to hold it off. The party was great - we had 2 cakes and had to cut small pieces and we still barely had enough. TONS of people there to wish Libby off ( she has been in out hospital system for 40some years!) IT was good. Janel, my boss, even managed to find a pic of me to include in the photo display. I guess the party was a little hard on me because while I was happy for Libby, large groups of people make me very tired and also make me want to run away ( you should see me flee a wedding!) but I gave myself things to do (cutting the cake and assisting with the plating, etc)


after that, had a session with my trainer - worked on core things today so not too much sweating. only 25 jumping jacks today!!! :D I maintained my weight - but I am ok with that because I know I indulged too much this week and need to do better food-wise this week.... Talk to you all later. I think I am off to bed....

Moday Monday....

Was supposed to meet Beth for a spinning class this AM, but somehow we missed each other in passing. So I made it up there and did the class. It was good - At one point, we must have resembled gigantic chickens.... for, in addition to the up and down movement, we were supposed to move our heads up and down like we were bobbing for corn (our instructor said this was to build our cores... but I know the truth.... she wanted a laugh at our expense... LOL) so I made it. It was good - definitely easier than the one I did last week. The instructor did say that the faster you can bring up and bring down your heart rate, the better trained your cardiovascular system is. I only ever got down to the 130's during the workout, but I think that is better than I would have done the first week I went to the gym in December.

So food-wise - today was kinda a bust. Had a banana and yogurt for breakfast, Chicken with lowfat ranch and fries for lunch. and for dinner. ..... well,

it had 10 oz spinach
2 eggs,
1 cup cooked rice
and 2 slices cheese....

Aargh...

oh well.

Tomorrow is another day.

and I will again go to the gym and get this weight off.

THIS IS MY YEAR!!!

What a week!!

I updated my little slide thing on the bottom to reflect that I am down to 213.1!!!! That's almost the first 5 lbs!!!

So yesterday the exercise regimen was

25 min cardio on the treadmil
5 min cardio on the ellipticals
150 jumping jacks (in 25 jack alternating with upper body weights)
40 crunches

I think my trainer is trying to off me!

Today - got all the way to the hospital the agency set up for me (1 hour away) and they did not actually have me on the schedule!! This particular agency takes your times available and then does not tell you when they actually have shifts. "it's your responsibility to call in and make sure you are supposed to work" I am a little miffed - because this is different than the other agencies I have worked for and because I forgot (heck I interviewed there in late Nov!)

So today I went and tried to work it all out at the gym instead of being ticked.
I did

30 min cardio on the elliptical
180 crunches on the crunch slider thing.

I then negated all that work at Pizza hut with one budlight and a personal pan pizza (veggie lovers)

Oh well. Tomorrow is another day and I am getting my pics done with my trainer.

Taking it one day at a time

Yesterday I went and did my first spinning class... it was rough on me - mostly because I am so out of shape. 60 minutes is hard. I wanted to quit after 30 minutes... but I stuck it out, stopped comparing myself to the more fit members of the class and just did what I could. And I made it!!! After class, my tush hurt. (well, it started hurting in class, actually) Those seats were NOT made for comfort. The instructor was nice - he had to help me adjust the bike to my unique physical size. And (BONUS) my trainer was there working out on the treadmill and noted me coming out of class.

Today has been a little bit of a bust, esp in terms of discipline. It's been cold and grey here all day. Very unpleasant. I spent the day cleaning and sorting (WHERE did all these papers come from????) For dinner - I just wanted to get out of the house - I decided to use a gift card I got for Christmas( Thanks Mom) and went to Maggiano's - in my defense, I did have a salad. I also had the appetizer size mushroom ravioli with alfredo (appetizer has 5 ravioli, entree size has 9) and some bread and oil. I had a beer - I have been cutting down on the drinking as this seems to be slowing my weight loss. I had a glass of wine on Sunday and nothing yest. Today the beer and no other ETOH.

Tomorrow is my pictures with my trainer at the gym, and (sigh) we are going to see how fast I can run a mile - I look forward to getting the weight off and getting in shape, but things can be so discouraging when you see people who are already there and compare yourself. Comparison to others is not good - Comparison to where I was is ok.

So Taking it one day at a time - tomorrow will be better than today....

It's 2009 and the weight is coming off!

Step 1: Joined the gym early December

Step 2: Bought the bullet and hired a trainer (have had 3 sessions)

Step 3: WORK hard and get this weight off.

Ultimate goal: get back down to 145 lbs.

Start weight 217 lbs

Weight today 215.2 lbs.