thanks for shoveling

I just want to thank everyone in the neighborhood who shovels their sidewalks...it makes running in the snow so much easier! I ran 30 minutes.

sometimes this really hurts...weigh in

Last week: I missed last week
Monday: 165 lb.
Week 3 loss: +2.6 lb. (over 2 weeks)
Total weight loss: +4.8 lb.

Okay, so as you can see sometimes posting my weekly progress hurts! Better luck next week.

run

30 minute run that about did me in...I need to get back into this running thing!!

building muscle burns more fat...it's that simple!!!

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Weigh in

Last week: 163.4 lb.
Monday: 162.4 lb.
Week 1 loss: 1 lb.
Total weight loss: 1

I went on vacation this past weekend, and my eating got a little out of hand, but life moves foreword. After I started working out last week, I really hit the weights pretty hard...it felt good, but I noticed a huge jump on the scale, luckily it has slowly decreased. More muscle burns more fat and slow is better than fast in my book!

light workout

I did 30 minutes of light elliptical.

weigh in...starting from scratch

Last weigh in: 160.2 lb.
Monday: 163.4 lb.
Loss: + 3.2 lb.
Total weight loss: + 3.2

Okay, so you can probably tell why I have been reluctant to post my progress by my stats above, but I need to be honest about this journey...good or bad. As I have expressed in a recent post I really feel that my goal was made at the wrong time, but I am setting that goal again today and I will re-adjust my starting weight to the 163.4 lb. with this past Monday as my starting date, because lets be realistic this is where I'm starting from and yes I will be getting my hair done next month! I am very excited about next weeks weigh in because I can say that I am already seeing progress as long as my weekend doesn't totally blow me out of the water...I'll explain that at a later date. I am really excited because I am building muscle and seeing weight loss results, meaning that I am definitely loosing body fat...yay!!! Today I had a great workout, I did a 40 minute run and upper body weights. I know that I just did upper body the other day, but I'm trying to get on the same schedule as my husband so that we can train together...I'm so excited!!!

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Time Crunch

I only got 10 minutes of running in this morning and I can't see another break in my schedule today to add to that. I guess 10 minutes is better than nothing.

feeling great!

First of all can I just say that I love my husband, he's the best support anyone could ask for. Today he and I went to the gym together, we were unable to workout together because his focus was lower body while I was on upper body. I had a very intense upper body workout with a 30 minute cardio session. I feel great!!!

Motivation

Okay, so I've put on a couple of pounds since this picture was taken at 155 lb. I am starting to get back on track but I feel that I need to see what I've accomplished and know that I can do it again!! On my sidebar I have put up 2 photos of me, the one from 2007 is after I had Ethan (I know why would anyone post a picture of themselves like that...I'm hoping that it will help me to stay on track and hopefully be inspirational in some way). The other is a similar photo to this one, it was taken at the same time in 2008 after my half-marathon. February starts training for the Teton Dam Marathon...yay!!!

Workout

40 minute cardio and an ab workout.

t.v. is good for something

This morning I went to the gym and climbed onto the elliptical planning on about 40 minutes...well that 40 minutes turned into 65 because of t.v., see we don't have t.v. at our house and we LOVE that decision! Sure we're out of the loop when our friends start in on their favorite series that they watch religiously, but that's okay with us. Anyway the ellipticals at the gym have t.v. screens and you can flip through and watch what you wish, I was glued to it and kept pushing 5 more minutes on my workout time not realizing how long I had been on, I guess t.v. is good for something!!!