Well, I'm officially, this morning, in the 170's! I actually made it Friday morning (179.4), but then was worried as Friday night and Saturday night I had alcohol AND dessert. So, even after a weekend "off" of the diet, I still managed to lose weight! I really think that Body Pump is working. It's good to know that if I'm really good during the week that I can splurge a bit on the weekends and not lose my progress.
I have a 1.2 mile swim coming up on Saturday. I'm excited to find out how long it takes me. If it takes me too long swimming breast stroke, then I think I'll take a Master's Swim class to get tips on how to do freestyle without panicking.
I'm hoping to get to Body Pump tonight so that I don't have to go at 5:30am tomorrow. We have school pictures for our students tonight, though, so it will depend on when I can leave today. If I can't make it, then I'll be going at 5:30 am tomorrow! I want to start going every Monday and Wednesday evening. I just signed the kids up to go to Kid's Club. Emma went with me last week and loves it, so now Gibson wants to go, too. It's the perfect thing to do when David has hockey and a great way for Emma to have fun since she can't go to swim lessons with her broken arm. It makes me feel way less guilty about going to the gym if I can bring the kids with me.
So, to begin this week, so far so good! Of course, I just tried roasted beets for lunch and almost hurled. At least the tomatoes from my garden and fresh mozarella were still good :-)
Monday, August 29, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
A Committment to Myself
I have just re-posted my calendar to this blog. It is my way of committing to myself, and to be held accountable by my readers, my workout schedule. Everything is there. That way, I can see how working out fits into my daily routine despite being quite busy. Seeing as how my week-to-week schedule really doesn't change that much, neither should my workout schedule.
I have also committed, since yesterday, to really focus on the diet thing. It's better than committing effective tomorrow when tomorrow never comes. I am committing to low-fat proteins, veggies, fruit, and occasionally brown rice. Lunch is my splurge of fresh mozzarella cheese with tomatoes (from my garden :-) or squash, and avocado. I'll mix it up with whatever we get from our farm deliveries each Wednesday. We get veggies, fruit, organic cheese, and bread from the farm each week. Most of the time the bread is for the family, but this week it's sourdough bread. Sourdough is one of the best breads, apparently. So, I may actually get to have a piece in the morning! I also treat myself to about a quarter-cup of nuts at work as a snack.
I will post my weight each week to stay accountable, too. It would be alot easier to improve my times in triathlons if I had less weight to carry with me :-) Not to mention, looking good for Christmas pictures and my cousin's wedding would be awesome!
I have also committed, since yesterday, to really focus on the diet thing. It's better than committing effective tomorrow when tomorrow never comes. I am committing to low-fat proteins, veggies, fruit, and occasionally brown rice. Lunch is my splurge of fresh mozzarella cheese with tomatoes (from my garden :-) or squash, and avocado. I'll mix it up with whatever we get from our farm deliveries each Wednesday. We get veggies, fruit, organic cheese, and bread from the farm each week. Most of the time the bread is for the family, but this week it's sourdough bread. Sourdough is one of the best breads, apparently. So, I may actually get to have a piece in the morning! I also treat myself to about a quarter-cup of nuts at work as a snack.
I will post my weight each week to stay accountable, too. It would be alot easier to improve my times in triathlons if I had less weight to carry with me :-) Not to mention, looking good for Christmas pictures and my cousin's wedding would be awesome!
Saturday, August 20, 2011
2 More Races!
I just signed up for 2 more races! In 2 weeks I'll be doing a 1.2 mile swim in Boulder Reservoir. I'm very excited for that one. I want to see how long it takes me to do Breast Stroke for 1.2 miles. If it takes me right around a hour, then I won't have to switch strokes for the Cedar Point race that I really want to do in 2012 or 2013. It will be a great workout regardless, and I love to swim.
Two weeks later, September 17th, I'm doing an actual triathlon! There aren't any good length aquabikes left in Colorado the rest of the season, so I asked my colleague who does alot of triathlons if it is ok to walk the run portion of this triathlon that is at Cherry Creek Reservoir. She said absolutely. I also looked at last year's results and saw that there were about 5 people who ran 20 minute miles, which means they probably walked it. So, I signed up for the Crescent Moon Race on September 17th.
I just walked a 5k, which is the distance of the run portion of the race, in the mountains this morning. I did it in an hour. The dogs went with me and we had a great time. We jogged about half a mile of the route. I'm planning on walking/jogging with them twice a week, swimming twice a week, biking once or twice a week, and doing Body Pump once a week. Yes, that's all 7 days in the week, but two days are just walking, so they're sort of recovery days. We'll see if it actually happens, this schedule. It's much more difficult when David has hockey, I teach 3 hours via Skype-type-thing from 6-9pm two nights a week, we're at the school from 10am-3:30pm Mondays and Wednesday, 10am-7pm Tuesdays and Thursday, 8am-noon Fridays, get two children to get to and from 2 different schools, cook dinner, do homework, and get the kids to bed. Oh yeah, and swim lessons on Wednesday and soccer on Saturdays.
I know, pretty much everyone's schedule looks like this, but just not sure how the workouts are going to fit in. I may have to start getting up at 4:45 every morning to make it work. Yuck! I am the opposite of an early morning person. I'm one of those parents who can still sleep until 10 or 11am when it's my morning to sleep in! Plus, if I'm working until 9pm two nights a week, which are school nights, and it takes me at least an hour after to settle down for sleep (usually more), that's not even 7 hours of sleep a night! It hurts my head to try and figure it out. Anyone want to schedule my life for me? Now that's a helper I would hire! Forget a house-cleaner or shrink, I just need a scheduler :-) Oh yeah, and someone to fix my brain so I don't crave sweets anymore.
Well hey, at least I know 2 days in the next month that I will get exercise...RACE DAYS!
Two weeks later, September 17th, I'm doing an actual triathlon! There aren't any good length aquabikes left in Colorado the rest of the season, so I asked my colleague who does alot of triathlons if it is ok to walk the run portion of this triathlon that is at Cherry Creek Reservoir. She said absolutely. I also looked at last year's results and saw that there were about 5 people who ran 20 minute miles, which means they probably walked it. So, I signed up for the Crescent Moon Race on September 17th.
I just walked a 5k, which is the distance of the run portion of the race, in the mountains this morning. I did it in an hour. The dogs went with me and we had a great time. We jogged about half a mile of the route. I'm planning on walking/jogging with them twice a week, swimming twice a week, biking once or twice a week, and doing Body Pump once a week. Yes, that's all 7 days in the week, but two days are just walking, so they're sort of recovery days. We'll see if it actually happens, this schedule. It's much more difficult when David has hockey, I teach 3 hours via Skype-type-thing from 6-9pm two nights a week, we're at the school from 10am-3:30pm Mondays and Wednesday, 10am-7pm Tuesdays and Thursday, 8am-noon Fridays, get two children to get to and from 2 different schools, cook dinner, do homework, and get the kids to bed. Oh yeah, and swim lessons on Wednesday and soccer on Saturdays.
I know, pretty much everyone's schedule looks like this, but just not sure how the workouts are going to fit in. I may have to start getting up at 4:45 every morning to make it work. Yuck! I am the opposite of an early morning person. I'm one of those parents who can still sleep until 10 or 11am when it's my morning to sleep in! Plus, if I'm working until 9pm two nights a week, which are school nights, and it takes me at least an hour after to settle down for sleep (usually more), that's not even 7 hours of sleep a night! It hurts my head to try and figure it out. Anyone want to schedule my life for me? Now that's a helper I would hire! Forget a house-cleaner or shrink, I just need a scheduler :-) Oh yeah, and someone to fix my brain so I don't crave sweets anymore.
Well hey, at least I know 2 days in the next month that I will get exercise...RACE DAYS!
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