Happy Leap Day!

It is February 29, 2012.  An extra day in the year.  I decided today was the day to try something new at the Fitness Center.  So I left for work at 9:30 hurried to the Fitness Center, changed into my gym clothes and hurried into the Cardio Room.  I had decided to try the TREADMILL CLASS.  WHAT A CLASS!?!
Wow - what a workout.  I only survived the first 30 minutes of the class, but I stayed for the rest of the class and just walked on the tradmill.  I didn't think I would be able to do  the running in the class, but I did!  I probably ran at a slower speed than the others in the class, but I did it.  I   learned that I can do more than I think.  I need to be stretching myself a little more expecially on the 5K training.

Becky, my trainer, worked me hard again this morning.  Lots of stuff in the weight room.  I asked her for a list of the things we need to do in the weight room when we are working on our own.   Starting next week we will only be meeting with our trainers one day a week, so I need instructions.


I weighed in a week ago today and decided I was ready to weigh in again. 
Weight - 207.8
Fat %  -  46.2
Fat to Lose - 43.4

So I have lost 5.8 pounds.
My fat % has gone up - which I don't understand.
And I have lost .2 pounds of fat.

Maybe I need to have someone explain the printout that I get from the weigh in.

Wish my scale showed as low as the one at the Fitness Center.  But I know I am slowly losing some weight, so it is okay.

My Legs Are Sore

It has been a hard day.  My legs are sore from yesterday's workout.  The trainers really put it to me.  Every time I got up from my desk, my legs hurt.  It made for a long day.  Once I got up and moving it was ok.  Hopefully they will feel better tomorrow morning, so the trainers can put it to me again.

By the time I got to the fitness center today, all of the ellipitcal machines were in use, so I used a treadmill for 45 minutes this morning.  I know that I was only going to get to the fitness center the one time this morning.  Too many people gone from work to take my normal lunch hour and try to go up to the gym and Rachael needed the car this evening. 

This has been the first day in over two weeks that I have not gotten at least 75 minutes of cardio in.  I will be back hard at it tomorrow.

It's A New Week

Here it is Monday again.  And me recommitting myself to my weight loss plans.  Tha alarm goes off early 4;42 am., but that is the time that works for me.  I got in 15 minutes on the ellipitcal before meeting my Biggest Loser group for an hour working in the weight room.  It is HARD work, and parts of me are feeling it tonight.  But I know that I have to do it to get the skinny me back out in the open. 

I went back to the gym this evening and did a little jogging and walking, getting realy for my 5K.  I am going to sleep well tonight.  I am sore and tired and deep down feel good about it!

My Weekends are Killing Me

Up TWO pounds from yesterday morning.  I really have got to find a way to have a weekend and not gain back everything I lost over the week.  It is discouraging, I feel like I am in a bit of a rut, I do really well during the week and lose a couple of pounds, then the weekend comes and I eat bad and gain back a couple of pounds, then I work hard during the week and lose a couple of pounds, the weekend arrives and a gain back what I worked all week to lose.  THIS MUST STOP!

Our church doesn't start until 11:30, so I bundled up and started my pedometer app and went for a walk.  I went from our house to the track at the High School and did 10 laps around the track and back home.  The pedometer said I had walked 3.3 miles in 62 minutes.  I was proud of myself, I have just walked a 5K.  I know that I will be able to do it, even if I have to walk.  But I will keep at the 5K training and increase the amount of jogging I do each week and hopefully I will do a lot of jogging when I really do the 5K at the end of March.  It felt good to walk this morning and I am already looking forward to doing it again next weekend. 

I WILL EAT BETTER NEXT WEEKEND!!!!!

My Intentions Were Good

I started the day off really well, up to the Fitness Center at 7:00 am for an hour on the ellipitical.  It felt great, since I have been to the Fitness Center 11 times in the past 6 days, I took it easy today, I did my hour, but I didn't work too hard. 

We came home and got our Saturday errands done, then things went bad or good depending on how your look at it.  I had planned to clean the house and go for a 5K walk at 1:00, but plans changed.  Off the three of went to FIVE GUYS for lunch.  I did have just a regular cheesburger and the three of us shared an order of fries.  Then off to the movie.  Rachael and I saw THE VOW, Richard didn't want to do the chick flick so he saw some MAN SHOW.  We decided before we went in to the theater that we weren't going to do popcorn, but as we sat in the theater waiting for the show to start we changed our minds and off we went to get popcorn.  So I have eaten a high caloric lunch, had popcorn at the movies and did not get my 5K walk in.  But family time is important.  Even more so now that Richard works from 12:30 to 9:00 p.m., we don't get much time together.

The morning weigh in was good - I am afraid of what tomorrow will show.

Fitness Center x 3

We have a new team member, Jayme, joined us today.

Today I think my trainers tried to kill me.  Jason put together a little circuit that we did.  Two minutes at each station and we had 4 stations.  We worked in teams of two at the stations, doing crazy eights, jumping jacks, jumping rope, a triceps exercise, and something called the bear crawl.  I was the only woman to do the bear crawl.  IT WAS HARD! but I felt good being able to do it. 

I went to the gym during lunch and did the run/walk 5K training.  Next week, I have to increase the distance that I run.  I have enjoyed the 30 minutes of run/walk better that I thought that I would.

With Richard working this evening, and Rachael going out with friends, I decided to go back to the gym and do some more time on the ellipitical.   So that makes three times at the Fitness Center Today.

 

Thanks, Rachael

Thank you,Rachael, for coming back to the gym with me this evening for my 30 minute walk for my 5K training.  It was fun to spend that time talking with you as we walked around the track.

Greek Yogurt

Another day with the trainers, today I took a notebook and tried to write down what we did.  I am hoping that I wrote good enough notes that I will be able to do some of the things on my own in a couple of weeks.  We worked with free weights and some of the weight equipment.  

Jessica and Eric told me about GREEK YOGURT.  I looked for some at the store today, A serving has 22 grams of protein, that is a lot of protein.  It is expensive yogurt, but sure tastes good.  I have been making my own yogart parfaits with it.  Cut up a banana, put in some frozen berries, the yogart and top it off with a little granola.  I have a yummy breakfast that I can take to work and eat, all for about 300 calories. 

Today I took my gym clothes with me and headed back to they gym at lunch time to do my 5K training.  It was another run/walk day,  today I ran for one lap and walked for 3 laps.  That worked good for me.

Today I had to do the OFFICIAL weigh in for the Biggest Loser Program.  They have this really cool scale at the Fitness Center.  You stand on it with bare feet and it does some sore of body analysis, it tells you your weight, fat content, what you need to weigh to be in the proper fat content range, etc.  So my official weigh in for the contest is 213.6.   My body fat is 45.9%.  It says I need to love 43.6 pounds of fat.

BRING IT ON! I am going to lose weight and get in better shape!

That's What I Want to See

I really have to be keeping track of what I eat now that I am working with the trainers.  Anne, from my team mentioned yesterday that she is using MY FITNESS PAL, to keep track of what she is eating and how much exercising she is doing.  I had registered on that site a few years ago, so today spent some time getting it set back up to use again.  I have updated the weigh in's with all of the weight's I have done since January 9th.  I filled in the food that I have eaten since last Friday when I started with the trainers.    Anything that motivates me to eat right, exercise right and lose weight is good.

Happy President's Day!

Rachael had the day off of school today, I decided to take the day off as well.  Richard also had the day off. 

I still had to be at the gym with the trainers at 5:30 this morning.  Another hard work out with the trainers, the sixth person on the team didn't come in again today,  but the rest of us worked HARD!

 

Later in the day, I had a text mail from Becky, asking if we wanted to do a 5K.  I have always thought about doing a 5K so I answered YES.  She sent an email from the Mayo Clinic, "Train for your 5K in 7 weeks".  Day 1 of the training says to run for 15 seconds, walk for 45, so I headed up to the gym again in the afternoon.  I ran for 100 steps, then walked for 300 steps.  It is hard to listen to my IPOD - books on CD- and still count steps, so I need to find a better way,  I don't really want to carry a stop watch to keep track of 15 seconds and 45 seconds. 

Trainers - Day 1

Driving home from the guard show last night, I had a phone call from my trainer, Jason,  I was confused, I thought my trainer was going to be a girl, named Becky.  But Jason told me that the team was meeting at 5:30 in the morning, so I headed to the gym first thing in the morning like I always do.  I did a quick 25 minutes on the ellipitical, then headed to the Fitness Center Lobby to start watching for Jason.  I didn't see anyone, so finally asked the lady at the counter, a couple of women over heard me and asked if I was Holly.  They were on my team, and watching for the rest of the group that they met last  night. 

We have two trainers, Becky and Jason.  We have 6 team members, Ann, Anne, Jessica, Eric, and myself, the other woman wasn't at the Kick Off meeting and didn't show up this morning. 

We headed downstairs for a work out in the weight room.  I had to be at the High School at 6:00 to fold the guard floor that we painted last night, so I only stayed for about 20 minutes.  Ann, Anne and I weigh within one pound of each other, so that will be a good contest among the three of us.  For the first two weeks of the contest we are going to meet on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  That sould give all of us a good base to learn some things we can do for the days we don't have the trainers with us.  Our normal day with the trainers will be Wednesday at 5:30.

Happy Valentines Day

Not exactly feeling the love with the scale this morning.  I really need to get better about the weekends.  It is so frustrating to do good all week, then blow it on the weekend.  

I must do better, I must do better, I must do better.

I did have some good news today, the BIGGEST LOSER program is back on they are going to do the KICK OFF on Thursday.  Bad day for me, I already have something going that day, Rachael's has a guard show that night.

Let's Keep it GOING!!!!

Doing the happy dance, as the number on the scale goes down again!!



DOWN AGAIN

Well I am writing down what I am eating, I am making a salad for lunch and look at that, the weight drops.  Deep down I know what I need to do to lose weight, but some times I wish it was easier.

When I write things down, and look up how many calories are in things, I eat better.  I am aware of how long it takes to work off 250 calories that are in a candy bar and can really think about if it is worth it.  Do I really want to eat that candy bar, knowing that it will be 30 minutes on the ellipitical to work it off. 

I want to keep that scale on a down ward trend.

Frustration!!!!!

I don't get it, I am getting to the gym 5 days a week and I am there for 45 minutes every morning.  Some evenings I have gone back for 30 to 45 minutes, and the weight has gone back up. 

I guess that I need to consider keeping track of what I am eating, there is always more to losing weight, than just doing some exercise.

Good News/Bad News

What do you want the Good News first or the Bad News? 

Ok - Good News first - My application for the Biggest Loser program got accepted.  I am so excited!

Now the Bad News - they haven't received enough application for the program, so they are putting it on hold until they have enough people.

My excitement quickly turned to a bit of disappointment.  I was ready to get going with the extra help of teammates, and a trainer.  But it will happen and until it does, I can get my self up and get to the gym and continue the process that I have been working on.

Up 1 pound, down 1 pound, up 1 pound, down 1 pound.  Why isn't the weight just going down?

HELLO February

The first month of 2012 is gone already.   Time seems to be going so fast.  The good news is that when I look back over the last few weeks, I am down 7 pounds.  I started my weight loss plan 3 1/2 weeks ago and have lost 7 pounds.  That makes me happy.  Putting weight on seems to happen so easily, but losing it takes time and patience, it is hard work.  Making sure that I get to the gym every day can be a challenge, but I am up for the challenge.  I will succeed!