Not Happening

Today's workout is just not happening. I got up and was dressed in my usual gear. I went out of my bedroom super quietly only to hear the pleading cry of my youngest son. I waited for a few minutes in the hall hoping that he would just lay down and go back to sleep. But he knew I was in the hallway. Every time I tried to inch my way down the stairs, he would start up again. I knew that my morning was hooped. So I got J out of his crib and layed in my bed and nursed him for like half and hour. I'm sad that I didn't treadmill but I'm much happier that I got to bind with my babe. After all he's only like this once. Tomorrow I hope is a little better in the way of exercising. Until then, stay cool!

Monday Morning

Hello Monday! I don't often get out of bed on time on Monday's to do my workout, but husband manages to get two extra days of this week so will be camping. I thought I should get up so I do at least four days of exercise this week. There goes my goals again! So I did my workout this morning. I tried the Pilates buns and thighs DVD today. My hips were so sore doing it. I thought maybe it was just my crappy hips but then the instructor said that we should really be feeling a burn in that place, so I guess it wasn't my crappy hips at all. All the data on my computer may be gone forever. Thankfully I did print most of the pics that I have, but it's nice to have the originals, you know? So if you pray, pray that apple will be able to retrieve all my data. It is making me quite anxious if I consider that they might not be able to. See you tomorrow.

Hard

I did my workout today. The Pilates DVD has completely kicked my ass. I'm hoping that as I continue and lose weight that it will become easier. This is hard. I need some encouragement no critiques please. Remind me why this is worth it.

Today

So today is Thursday. I had to have the alarm go off to get up today. Exercising is tiring. I think that if I had known how much better I slept when doing exercises, I think I might have been more likely to do it. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 right? I think that I may be down about seven pounds. I have been weighing myself every other day and seems that it's consistent. I am skeptically optimistic about it. I need to focus more on my diet and what actually goes into my body. How about you? How's your diet? Do you have any healthy websites that you use to help you along? What are they? See you all tomorrow!!

Teasers

So in the Pilates DVD they do something called teasers. It sounds interesting enough. Try googling it and then trying doing a few. They are ridiculously hard. To do them in the DVD will be one of my long term goals. I did the DVD up to the teasers. There is just no way I'll be able to do them until I lose some weight and gain some muscle. So anyways I got up again. Husband says go back to bed if your tired. Not quite the encouragement I needed. Oh well I still got up right? Today I am sweating good from this workout. Sweat is a big deal for me. I don't normally sweat too much. I npriced years ago when I was treadmilling before I got pregnant with J, there was like a breaking point for my sweat. I didn't sweat for the longest time and then one day it was like a dam broke and I couldn't stop sweating! When you are use to it, it's a little weird at first. Now I kinda like seeing the sweating glow after a workout. I can't wait for it to be like crazy sweat glow!! Well that's it for today!

Broken

So my computer is broken. Took it into future shop yesterday. It sucks not having a computer right now. I am amazed at how dependent I have become on it. Maybe that's a little sad. Anyways, this is far from easy writing this on an iPhone. I missed a week. I was just so incredibly tired so I took the extra sleep instead of working out. I thought though that I should get back into my rythym, so here I go. I tried a new Pilates DVD today. Ab sculpting. It is truly as scary as I sounds. I did most of the DVD, but some of the positions were so incredible that I can only hope to ine day execute them. I also turned up the incline on the treadmill today. Couldn't really tell. I liked that. I know that I have been slow going but I think there might be something to be said about this gradual increase of difficulty. Another thing, I sadly didn't achieve my small goals last week, so I will again be posting the same ones. Maybe with my computer gone there will be less distractions so that I can finish the menu board. I did take all be cooking magazines out an put them on a shelf in my kitchen so that they look me in the face everyday. Ok here they are: Small goal 1. Drink more water. Small goal 2. Finish menu board. Small goal 3. Workout 5 days consecutively. So that's it for today. Please share some of your small goals for the day or week, I would love to hear what you have planned.

Friday

Well usually I don't treadmill on the weekends, but since I didn't make my small goal of 5 consecutive days this week, I think that I will treadmill on Saturday and I think Sunday too.  It would probably be better to do that anyways seeing as how it's only 20 minutes.

I didn't do a very good job of my small goals this week.  I think that they will remain my small goals until I do get them.  Maybe I'll get tired of seeing them and actually finish them.

The weights felt heavier today.  My arms were really burning about 5 minutes in.  I carried them the whole 20 minutes though.

The Pilates DVD isn't getting easier, but I have found that I am able to go a little farther on some of the stretches.  Also I have had this knot in back for I don't know how long.  It used to be very painful to do the Pilates stretches, but I found that today it is hurting a lot less when I do the stretches.  I am glad for that.

The littlest one is crying and wants out, so I guess I better get going.  See y'all later!

A Week

It's been a week since I started my new work out regime.  I like it so far.  The only thing that I don't like is that I'm not recording my stats anymore.  I don't really have any to record though.  I think that once I get going a little faster that I will be able to record it all again.  I do like that I am tread milling without holding  on to anything.  It does feel more productive.  And I'm still sweating so that's good too.

I am seriously falling short of my small goals.  Today is Thursday and I am far from having my Menu Planner done.  I think that I will work on it seriously today.  I would like to have a menu for two weeks and that's flexible for whatever plans we have.

Ok, so that's it for today.  I will take pics of the Planner once it's all finished.  See you all tomorrow!

Lifting Weights

Today I added the weights to walking.  My arms are feeling it.  They are only 5 pound dumbbells, but swinging those babies for twenty minutes was good enough.  Holding them is so weird because when J was born he weighed ten pounds!  The dumbbells feel so much heavier.  I didn't just swing them either.  One of the songs I listened to was quite bouncy so I was lifting them over my head and out to the sides.

I did my Pilates and walking so I guess that's it for today.  It is getting easier to treadmill with no hands and I am glad for that.  I'm hoping that as I pick up the tempo and incline that I can continue not holding onto the handles.  I would really love to be able to do a whole half hour to an hour of running.  I think that along with weight loss that will be my other long term goal.  I can't wait to see in a year where I am.  I hope that it is still doing this blog and that I have reached or at the very least come close to my goals.  I think that I will have to think hard the next few days and see what some of my long term goals are.  You do the same, cause I wanna know what they are!

Tuesday

So I need to start my small goals again.  J was up a lot on Sunday night so I decided to skip the workout for Monday and sleep instead.  Not much sleep was had by him or I on Sunday, so I think it was a better choice.  I think he was overtired from Sunday.  We spent most of the day outside and J had no naps.  He loves being outside and tries to sneak out whenever a door is open.

I did my Pilates and tread milling for the day.  Sometimes I find listening to music a bit of a distraction when tread milling.  When it's a good song playing, I just want to dance.  Dancing and tread milling don't really go together.  I think that if I'm not very careful, I will fall right off and be really sorry.

We bought some 5 pound weights last week.  I think that I am going to start using them while tread milling.

Small goals for this week:
1. drink more water
2. get up everyday to exercise
3. to get my meal planning menu finished and hanging by Friday

How about you?  What small goals will you set for yourself this week?

Look Ma!! No Hands!!

These last two days that I have tread milled, I haven't had to hang onto the bars of the treadmill.  I have been told that this makes for a better workout.  I am hoping that by going slower like I have these past two days, will in the long wrong help me to have workout that has a little more impact.

I did the Pilates DVD again this morning.  In some places it feels like a joke.  The instructor keeps telling me to hold my ankles.  I can barely reach my calves, so I think it's kinda funny.  I can't wait though for the day that I can reach my ankles with no problems.

On another note, I have taken the scale out of the packaging.  It was scary but I did it.  It's not allowed in the bathroom.  I feel better about where it is.  It sits just outside the bathroom door.  I see it but I am not consumed by it.  Anyways I have stood on it.  It was kinda like a nightmare doing that.  I says that I have gained weight since the last time I weighed myself!  Which is sooo surprising!  It's surprising because all my clothes still fit.  I don't know about any of you, but I dread taking jeans out of the dryer and wearing them.  They are always tighter then when I put them in.  But, I haven't had that problem in the recent weeks.  The fit nicely when they come out of the dryer!  I don't really get what the heck is going on but whatever?

The guy that gave me the workout advice said that it could be from the exercise causing everything to get denser, which is a good thing I think.  My hope is that I will start to see some actually weight loss soon.

I have been working on my Menu Planner the last few days.  I want to have a months worth of ideas but next week.  I think that this will also help with the whole picture.  Eating better will help the weight loss and having a menu plan will help our budget.

I know that I have asked before but I'm gonna ask again.  What do you do for healthy meal plans?  What is your family's favourite meal?

Learning

Husband and I put the three boys into a martial arts class about three weeks ago.  I think they are learning something called jujitsu.  They all love it a lot and it poops them out a bit.  Last night when I took the boys to their class I started asking the guy who runs the dojo some questions about my workout regime.  I was actually asking for Husband.  He has been lifting weights for just about a year and was doing the whole protein shake thing but it was getting expensive with how much milk he was drinking for it.  So I asked this guy and he said that Husband should just eat a can of tuna because there is no fat or additives like sugar in a can of tuna.  Then I started asking him about the exercise that I was doing and he suggested that I change a few things.  Instead of trying to do the running that I have been doing, he thought that I should bring the pace and the length of the workout down.  He recommend that I do a ten minute walk at a pace of 3.5 for two weeks and after the two weeks to increase the incline.  He said that this will help with heart rate and stamina.

I felt like he made sense but not really at the same time.  I think in my head a work out should be painful and sweaty.  The weird thing about it all is that this workout wasn't painful but I was sweating.  Not a lot but still sweating.  And he explained the heart rate thing so that it made some sense too.  Not enough sense that I could explain it to you but I think I get it in my head.

Oh and as far as hydrating, I asked if 8 cups of water was accurate.  Guess what he said.  He told me that he recommends 8 LITRES of water.  That is the equivalent of two jugs of milk!!  It seems impossible.

Because I felt that doing only a twenty minute walk just didn't feel like very much of a workout, I add a Winsor Pilates DVD.  It was only 20 mins, but good grief!  What a joke!

See y'all tomorrow!!

Failure?

So yesterday I set a short term goal of staying hydrated through out the day.  I failed that goal early in the morning.  But is it a failure if I keep trying?  I don't think so.  Today is a new day and I am going to be carting a couple of bottles of water around with me today.  On the other hand today is day three of five consecutive days of exercise, so that's a good thing.

Today I went a distance of 2.97.  The treadmill said that I burnt 366 calories.  My heart rate topped out at 159 bpm's but it only hovered there and came back down and stayed around 145 so I'm happy with that.

Until tomorrow!

Small Goal

Ok so I got up today and tread milled.  I went a distance of 3.01kms (I think it's kilometres).  I burnt 369 cals and my heart rated topped out at 154 bpms.

Yesterday I had a horrible headache for half of the day.  I don't think that I am hydrating enough after doing this in the morning.  So I have decided to set some small goals for myself so that there are some small victories in all this.  Maybe I will feel a little less disappointed then.

Goal 1: To do 5 consecutive days for two weeks.
Goal 2: To drink more water during the day.

How about you?  What are your goals for the week?