Monday

169.8 lb in the evening after workout.
Workout tonight: 25 min elliptical (250 cal burned) + 15 minutes weight training (upper body)

Food for the day:

1 cup cheerioes, milk, banana, DP 16.9 oz

2 cup spaghetti with meat sauce, 2 tbsp parma, DP 16.9 oz

Theraflu

2 handfuls of peanut butter pretzels and 2 servings dried apricots

1 oz cheddar cheese, 1 large green apple. 2 glasses water.

still hungry. Got to be a little hungry I guess.

Saturday.

Am LOVING having a set schedule with Suzana. I think this is going to be fantastic for me!

Today I did 7 minutes on the stair climber (70 cal burned) 30 min with Suzana (arms, abs, mostly. Have a new hate-to-do exercise: the Mary Catherine), then 35 more minutes on the recumbent bike (230 cal burned)

Body feels good, Been working on house work today. Life is good. I just wish I saw some weight loss results from all the extra work the past 2 weeks have had.


PS Suzana reports the rude dude is no longer working at the gym after the Thursday incident. Wow - I am surprized, but not really. He was not into customer relations.

Thursday

Well, it was an eventful day at the gym!

Did 35 min on the elliptical and burned about 300 cal. One of the newer trainers came in and said I was not working hard enough. (I was sick and not working very hard so that I might be able to recover faster) When I said I could not hear him very well, he suggested that a qtip would take care of my hearing loss.

And the foot in mouth syndrome continued for him! He the went over to an asian girl and said, "look out for this Chinese girl. She's a ninja."
The girl gives him a hugely dirty look and reports, "I'm not Chinese."
He replies, "well your asian, so it doesn't really matter."

HAILE SELASSIE! What the heck is this guy thinking???

I complained to my trainer as the asian girl went to complain to management.

Suzana and I did an oblique, ab and plyo heavy workout so that I can continue to get better. Suzana does love the obliques! LOL

Need to get Robert in the gym to work out with me so as to avoid the jerk.

Tuesday

Workout: 25 min on the elliptical (250 cal) then 20 min of weights. I lost another lb of muscle in this last month. Gotta keep what I got.

Food:

2 slices bread (140 cal) with peanut butter on it.

lunch - chicken tetrazzini, peas,

snack - apple and cheese cracker (140 cal)

dinner - boca burger (210 cal) with ketchup and mustard, tomato cut up, with salt, pepper and fiesta lime mrs dash.

Wt this AM 169.4 lb
Wt after workout this evening 169.

Monday post weekend with Robert's mama

Had a weekend with Robert's mother. Ate a lot of bad food. Wt this evening pre-workout 169. Aargh.

Well, no beer and will be getting things back on track.

25 min on treadmill, 230 cal burned.

Food -

1/2 an omelette with cheese, 1/2 banana.

1 cup cottage cheese, whole banana

1/2 cup trail mix (peanuts and raisins)

dinner - 1 cup mac and cheese with mustard, 1 tomato, cut up with salt, pepper and chili powder, 1/2 cup applesauce.

No pop - trying to control intake well to make up for the weekend.

Life is good!

Sphincter Wink??

good day today.

Did 25 min on the stair climber - interval style. 200 cal burned. Then my workout with Suzana, lots of plyometrics. I think that might benefit me a LOT! I need to work on breaking through this plateau.

Breakfast - 1 serving multigrain cereal, with one apple

Mid workout - 1 serving whey protein (100 cal) and 3/4 cup frozen blueberries.

Lunch - 2 slices diet bread, 5 thin slices salami, 6 slices turkey (thin) mustard, 1 small tomato.

late snack - 1 bowl french onion soup from TGI friday's - 219 calories.
with one breadstick.

dinner - handful dried cherries, 1 small bowl of FF lentil soup. 2 bites Rosie's grilled cheese with bacon and tomato.

Gotta keep up the good work - gotta keep up the good work.

Had a good day @ Peyton's today. Early workout with Suzana tomorrow.

Have had SO much positive feedback about the mini! I LOVE being praised like that.

Food today:

2 slices diet bread with peanut butter
coffee with creamer.

1 fresco style taco with med sauce.
apple

1/2 tuna fish sandwich
1/4 cup dried cherries.

3/4 cup cottage cheese with 2 TBSP salsa
6 dried apricots.
1 cheddar cracker nabisco thing (130 cal)

3/4 cup blueberries with 1 scoop Jillian Michaels protein powder (100 cal)
1 maple instant oatmeal packet (160 cal)

Don't think I did too bad today.

Did 30 min HIIT on the elliptical, burned 350 calories. Got to as fast as 9 mph. :)

My First Mini!!

Robert and I both finished our first Half Marathon yesterday, the Monumental Marathon in Indianapolis, Indiana!

Robert finished in 2:20! (Hooray for him! He is a fast runner, but is sore today!)
I finished in 3:15:17, which was below the 15 minute mile mark I hoped for! (I also stopped because a car tried to get into the run route on Washington Blvd. Also during that mile on that street, a 2 car accident. I stopped because one of the driver's was hurt when her airbags deployed, and was laying, numb and shaking on the ground. When the cop got there, and the ambulance was on the way, and the chick seemed calm, I left to go on and finish. Robert tells me this behavior is remarkable, I just did what any responsible medical person would do, right?)

Anyway, I was happy with my finish. I need to work on the back half of my races. I did an avg 13:17 for the first 10K. Since my avg for the back end of the race was 14:55, there is some work to be done.

On the other hand, I can walk reasonable well today.

I am happy - I went out there - I proved that I could do it AND I finished upright and smiling! Life is good!

Next up....

The 500 Festival Mini Marathon in May!

I might have a marathon in me someday. I want to max out the Half Marathon first though!

Friends who showed up:
Matt H
Dan V
Jill V
Mandy E
Paula Z
Kate O (actually: stuck in traffic)
Holly (wanted to be there, car broke down)

JUN friends there in spirit!