Thursday, what no gym!!

Yes, lazy is the word for it. I worked until 5:30, so I got home around 5:45. I thought that I would relax then head to the gym around 7ish. For some reason that did not happen. I know this. I should have came home, change and went right away, but instead I sat down and chose not to get up and go to the gym. No on to blame but myself. My feet were really sore, when you are on cement for 10.5 hours straight they hurt, no I was not sitting on my butt today, I was working admissions, so standing all day. I am going to try and get to body pump and the cardio kickboxing class tomorrow if I don't get stuck at work tomorrow. I would have to be off by 5 then RUSH as the class starts at 5:30. So we will see what tomorrow brings. By the sounds of things I will not be getting to the gym this weekend, it sounds like I will be spending 16 hour shifts at work both Saturday and Sunday!!!!!! oh for Fun!! I guess that means no super bowl munchies and beer for me on Sunday, if you want to look at it in a positive way!!!! Might help the pocket book but not the look of the back pocket on my jeans!!!!! I will keep you posted

Another Body Pump Wednesday

I did my new leaf workout before the Body pump class today. I had to keep my heart rate in 4 different zones for 2 minutes each, ranging from 139-176. It was really hard. The highest my heart rate went was up to 186. Your not suppose to go higher than 176 but when you get in your workout "mode" it is hard to keep track of that, for me anyway. My heart rate should have dropped back down to 139 after 8 minutes but it hardly ever did, it feels like you are hardly moving when it gets this low. Anyway, I finished that then went to the Body pump class. Another night with a good workout. I could have shoveled off the driveway when I got home but it was just to cold! Plus there wasn't that much snow!!! Just so you know I did not go to the gym on Tuesday.

2x Monday

I just got back from the gym again. I went with Pat when he got off work and finished my workout from this morning. Hold on for this. I DID MY WHOLE WEIGHT ROUTINE THAT STACEY SET UP FOR ME!!!! yes 4 exercises but I did them all. Plus a couple more, just for good measure. ( get it hope I have good measurements) haha humor gotta love it!!

Monday workout

I worked out today, it was a great workout, however I was short on time as I had to finish and get to the dentist. No wonder it was a great workout, I was trying to avoid going to the dentist.

Anyway, this will make you laugh, yesterday I weighed myself, I was so excited I lost 5lbs!! I thought could this really be right, I looked back down at the scale and it said ERROR!!!! WHAT YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME, THAT IS MEAN!!! I weighed again 2 more times and sure enough it was an ERROR it said the same number it always does.

Today I did my measurements: here they are Chest 38, waste 36 (yes I know I spelled this wrong but that is how I see it, all waste right in the waist) hips 40, left thigh 24, right thigh 23, left upper arm 13, right upper arm 12.5. I went off a picture I had as to where to put the tape and I did it by myself so it was kind of hard to get the tape tight but I will go with these numbers. Even though I HATE them.

This week I am not going to focus on the scale, I weighed today and I will not weigh until next Monday, if I can, I get kind of obsessed about this, but will try. I am not sure when I will measure again, are you suppose to do this weekly? I will have to find out more about this, don't want to scare myself off by not seeing results in inches the 1st week. It always seems to come off my chest first anyway , not my waste!!

"What is always speaking silently is the body". Nice quote but I think my body is screaming, "please don't even try and put those pants on". laugh you know that is funny.

Sunday = STUPIDITY

I did not go to the gym on Sunday. Instead I looked for furniture, drank 4 beers, ate nachos, brownies and turkey and gravy. Need I say more?

Saturday workout

Oh, can you feel my pain!!!! I had NO DESIRE to go the gym today, I HURT!!! Going up and down my stairs was enough of a work out for me!!! Suck it up!! I did go the gym. I went with Pat. I told him I would try and elliptical and if that hurt to bad that I would try and bike. He said he was going to walk first then bike. I told him when he got done walking to come and get me and I would bike with him. HE NEVER came!!! So I stayed on the elliptical the whole 45 minutes!! After the first 5 I couldn't feel my legs so why not just keep going!!! I'm glad I went but it SUCKED!!! Since I am posting this on Sunday, I am trying to decide if I should go to the gym today or not. My head tells me that I should but my body is really asking for a break. If I go today that would be 7 days in a row. Listen to me, I am trying to justify to myself why I shouldn't go, pretty impressive that I haven't said that it is 3 below out yet. I do tend to "overdo it" sometimes, but then I get it in my head if I take a day off I won't get back into it as hard or today especially it is my day off so I really don't have much to do, so if I go today then on a day when I work if I don't feel like going when I get off I don't have to feel so guilty. What to do? I will let you know on the next post what I decided!!!!

Friday Fitness

Wow, Friday what at day. I had to meet with my trainer at 10:30 so I decided that I would check out this "core class" it was for 20 minutes. It was a waste of time, it was right after a cycling class so most of those people stayed in there, the instructor was not welcoming at all and it was just sit ups, the plank and doing the bike movement on the floor. Thank- you but I can do all of that in my living room without anyone watching me!!!! Good to know for next time, not going again!!!



Then off to meet with Stacey, she worked out a plan where I only do arms one day, 4 machines, abs one day, 4 exercises and legs another 4 exercises. I had her break it down for me into little amounts that I could do each day, thus maybe I will do them. I think that I really can stick to this plan and follow it. I have a little "log book" to take with me to track my progress. I have not been taking this with me, that would be why I feel overwhelmed, as to what I am suppose to do. I trust that I will remember all the machines I need to do for one day and the weight I use for all of them and what their set ups are for me. NOT!!! So my handy dandy tracker with inspirational quotes is once again along for the ride!!!!!



I talked to Stacey about the New Leaf test that I did and told her that I want to be done with it and that I am frustrated in seeing no weight loss results, even though I admitted to her that I haven't been doing the strength training part, her advice was finish it, which I was going to anyway then retest and see the improvements that I've made. She said that just because I didn't see weight loss doesn't mean I didn't improve from where I started. When I retest it will kick out another plan to follow that will keep making me stronger and faster, or so she says. I always was going to retest but I don't know that I want to follow another plan, sometimes I just want to go to the gym jump on a machine and not have to think about where my heart rate is or how many minutes I am at that heart rate before I have to move to a higher or lower one. We will see!!



At 5:30 I went back to the gym and did the Body Pump class, it wasn't as packed as I thought it would be so it was good, I really like the instructor Mell, but she only teaches Friday nights so it is hard for me to get to her class unless I am off. Then right after that I went to the Cardio Kickboxing class!!! Yes I did!!! My friend Trevor and his wife Paula joined me!! Thanks guys!! This class was super fun, but really intense. I thought I was going to die!!! I swear I don't think I could do one more squat then kick in a row if I had to is 40 not enough!!!!! Very full, there were 67 people crammed in the studio. The instructor said she likes the studio vs the gym because of the mirrors. Of course you would!!! I am going to try and get to that class on Friday nights if I can, sometimes work screws my plans up.



One thing that made me mad about that class is this one lady, I am standing next to the wall before it starts filling up (this is the same room as body pump so I just stayed in there) waiting for Trevor. She puts a bottle of water on the floor next to her kid to save a spot for her husband. I should mention that we were in the back row right by the door. So as people start to show up and it starts getting fuller we start having to move forward. Just little steps for me, as you know I am not going to be in the front of the room. I hear her whisper to her friend "that lady keeps moving up, doesn't she know the water bottle is there for a reason". " What, I know you are talking about me". "Game on" I just keep moving up. The class starts and oh, her husband never does show up and the instructor moves the water bottle!!!!! She is so mad!! What does she expect. Before in body pump a few people came late so one guy grabs a mat and puts it down on an open spot on the floor then goes to get his weights "this is after we already started" when a regular lady shows up late and takes his spot, she says to her friend, "who is in my spot"? "not anymore". I was shocked, how rude. I hate it when people act like that.



Friday was a very good workout day, I should also mention that after the cardio class there was my husband at the gym!! He did 1 mile walking and 7 on the bike!!! Good Job!!!!!!

Here is the bad part, we get home and we are both starving!!!! You guessed it, we ate bad stuff!!! Actually I had two mozzarella sticks from TGI Fridays, made her at home 100 calories a piece, didn't look at the fat and a small piece of pizza. It was just a small pizza to start with so it only made 4 pieces so it really wasn't that big of a piece, then a skinny cow ice cream sandwhich. I know all that work, then crap!!!!!! That is what I do best. I can only seem to do one thing at a time but when it comes to putting it together I fail!!! Cardio, good, mixed with weights not happening, good day at gym, great, good eating habits that day, horrible!!! How do I find a way to put this all together? Why does my brain short circuit when it comes to this!!! I know what I need to do but can't put it all together? I swear the scale better move this week!!!!

Thursday Workout

Today was a rough day, I had a hard time getting out of bed!!! I had a really bad headache to start with so I slept until about 10:15, no I am not kidding!! I thought that I was going to get a call to go into work at 6am but didn't good thing I guess. So I did a few things and then watched Young and the Restless while eating a Lean Cuisine, Manicotti or something, not to bad but of course what did I have to have when I finished that, You got it. CHIPS!!!! not the baked ones either, the good thing is they didn't really taste good so I only had a few. Got eating them out of the way early in the day today!!!! Whatever!!

Off to the gym at 12:15, great just great, it actually felt ok, my head still hurt then there is my foot. It hurts!!! I don't know what I did to it. It hurts kind of like a shin splint hurt but in the bottom of the foot. Ha you thought I didn't work out, I finished. I did my new leaf thing on the treadmill, not bad. BUT!! my stupid heart rate monitor strap must not have been tight enough or something because at times it wouldn't' register so I would have to adjust it. Yes I know I gained weight but it is elastic so I can move the strap to get it to fit me, maybe I did stretch it out, oh silly get those thoughts out of your head!!! Anyway that frustrates me, explain to me how I can have the treadmill on a 7.0 incline and be running at a 5.0 (stop freaking out only for 1-2 minutes) and my heart rate is at 47, readjust the strap and yes it is now at 175!!!! Thank goodness, once again it proves I have a heart! Yes, I love to pull up my shirt a little to readjust it so that EVERYONE can see my fat, that will get them to focus on themselves!!! I ended up getting 3 miles and 400 calories in 40 minutes. This new leaf claims that these calories are all from fat, I don't believe this but whatever!! What is frustrating is before I started this I would push myself to the next mile or the next 100 calorie mark on the machine, so If I was done in 40 minutes but my miles were at 4.73 or something I would start again until I got to 5 miles. With this it suck so I just want to be done. I have 4 weeks of it left so I figured today if I go everyday from now until the 10th of February I will be done with it!!! That won't happen but I will be done in the middle of February with it.

When I finished the treadmill I really was going to go into the weight room but when I started to walk in there this stench over took me and I am not exaggerating!!!! Someone in there must not have washed their gym clothes in months!!!!!! I am sorry but I have this huge gag reflex to smells since I started working at the jail. I had to leave it was that bad, Excuse call it what you want but I couldn't take it. I did do some ab stuff on the mats, hated it then off to the locker room. Great 2 ladies taking about how you can have a baby up until you are 41, then another one horns in and says yes, if you want to be 65 when they are graduating. My thoughts SHUT UP!!! I was so mad, yes this is a very sensitive thing for me, I should have went back upstairs and worked out some more but I just left. Off to the tanning bed, maybe that will make me feel better, not really the radio didn't work in the room, when I told the girl when I left she says "oh I guess I need to hit the button" whatever blondie!!!

Home for a shower, then off to get the dry erase board to track the VEGETABLES!!!!!

Tomorrow I meet with Stacey, my trainer, she snuck up on me today while I was working out, asking if I was ready for tomorrow, I said yes, not that I am but we are going to work out a plan for my weight lifting, that hopefully I can stick to, I will let you know what we come up with!! So tomorrow this is what my day of working out is hopefully going to look like meet with Stacey at 10:30, I see there is a core class at 10:00-10:15 so maybe I will try that, but I like to sleep and that will mean my stomach will hurt for days, I know I am a baby. Then I hope to go to body pump at 5:30-6:30 then to the cardio kickboxing class at 6:40-7:40. I have to get Sydney at school at 3 and I already told Pat that I was going to try and go to these classes so that means my day off will be spent mostly at the gym, are you kidding me? Once again this works in my head will see if I actually do it. It is suppose to be cold out tomorrow!!!!!! I will keep you posted.

Body Pump

I went to Body Pump this morning!!! Good Job!!! Yes, I did have to drive around the parking lot to find a parking space, which irritates me to no end but I made it in time to elliptical for one mile then do the class!!!! I talked with the instructor that teaches the kick boxing class on Friday nights, she is so awsome, I asked how the class had been going as Friday will be the 3rd week of it and how big it has been. She said the 1st week 67 people and last week 58. WHAT!!!!! in that small studio!!!!! Oh she even added that alot were MEN!!! "What did you just say", MEN? 57 people. "oh don't worry it will be fun" "Oh I bet it will be" I really want to go but "are you kidding me" I was overwhelmed with the large numbers but MEN!!! Her last words were "I will see you Friday" So I really am going to try and go. I really think it will be a fun class, I just don't care for so many people in such a small space!!! Time to over come the fears, I just have to think of it this way, I am sure they are not "watching" me, coordination is not my friend. However when I get to work tonight hopefully my friend Trevor is still there and I can get him to go with. Have I ever told you about Trevor? He used to be "big" on some medications then one day he started exercising and lost a bunch of weight and got off all his meds I believe. He has since gained some back but he is no where near where he was when he started. He is a very motivating person. I wish his wife would go to the classes with us, but she is kind of shy, very nice lady. So since Trevor goes to the same gym that is why we do the class together. Well I am off to work, ick, I hope they don't have pizza to eat tonight, it is usually pretty good, but I will just keep in mind that it was made by inmates and who knows what they did to it, therefore making it way less appealing!!! Yogurt sounds great and a little sugar free jello

I AM HERE

Yes, I am here. I haven't blogged for awhile so does that mean that I haven't went to the gym? Well???? From the 3rd of January until the 9th I went everyday!! Good job, then came the bad week then I only went on the 11th and the 13th of the next week. I am so not motivated when it it is FREEZING out!!!! I was really going to go the bodypump class on Wednesday night, which I had that day off from work, that would be the reason I did not go to the gym in the morning, saving all my energy for the class. My friend called around noon to say he couldn't go. I thought that's ok I am still going to go. That would have been one of those really cold days so after shopping a little I got home about 4:30 and there was no way I was going out again for the class at 7:10. i know I am LAZY!!!!!, Why was I out shopping if it was so cold? does CLEARANCE ring a bell!!!! I called in sick for work on Friday because that place is driving me nuts, I know not really a good reason, but I internalize things and they just get worse so I decided to stay home, thus you can't go to the gym when you call in sick now can you? However you can leave for Fargo to go to the AC/DC concert right!!!! YES YOU CAN!!! Sheryl you said we would work out at the hotel, but I guess that didn't happen!!! It was a fun time. I ate alot of cookies with "Crackerjack" that I wasn't suppose to but in the end I didn't gain any weight so that is the good part!!!! Didn't lose any either!!! I have been to the gym both Monday and Tuesday this week and I am headed there after I finish this, I am hoping to get to the body pump class this morning!! I don't always like to go in the mornings, because there is always a bunch of regular "moms" there and they sort of act like you are invading their space if you are the "newbie. I have been there in the morning before so I am not the "newbie"!!!! I work 3-11 today, ick but hopefully it will go fast, and I will get to stay until 3am make a little overtime cash, then I start my 5 days in a row off!!!! lots of plans for those 5 days!!! I told Pat and Sydney last night that I am going to make a chart and that they are going to start eating a serving of vegetables with meals, yes I will put the measuring cup out on the counter and measure them out if that is what it takes to get them to eat them and yes, I will check them off on the chart!!! I also told them that I am going to start planning menu's and they are going to start trying different things!!! This is all going to work in my head, lets just see if it will work at meal time. I will let them pick what they want as long as it is something different or we haven't had it in awhile. Wow, we won't be eating hamburgers, spaghetti, pizza, sloppy joes, chicken strips or corn dogs for awhile. Yes, that is what we eat, stop laughing, you try getting these two to eat something different or mixed together and I will come up with some kind of reward for you!!!!! I really don't care if they like it but they need to try it and I guess if they don't like it they can make themselves something else. That would include cleaning up afterwards as well. They are still going to eat the vegetables. We will do it with fruit as well but we don't seem to have as hard of a time with that one!!!!! Iam not sure who is going to be harder Pat or Sydney? In the past if Pat says he doesn't like it then Sydney tends to be a follower!!! Maybe I have a hidden talent that we don't know about and I am a really good cook and they will LOVE all the stuff I make!!!! The next Rachael Ray or Paula Dean!!!!! Look for me on the Next Food Network Show, you do get that channel in those small towns you live in don't you? Don't worry it won't be anytime soon so if you don't have your DTV converter box yet you won't miss me!!! haha Oh most important thing!! I am meeting with my trainer on Friday, more on that later!!!!

I Made It

I am back!! That means I didn't die at the body pump class on Wednesday night!!!! I wasn't sore the next day, but Friday that was a different story!! My arms hurt. I guess that happens when you actually "lift weights". I really do like the class so my goal is to goal on Wednesday nights, however because of my work schedule I already know that I can't go on the 21st of January, this might not sound like a big deal but I hate it when I start something then my routine gets screwed up. I find it VERY easy to stop going if I miss one week. I do hope to do this class at least twice a week. I just need to figure out what other day I want/can go. I didn't go the gym this weekend. Saturday I decided to take the day off as I have been there everyday since last Sunday and today, well I went to work at 3am and worked until 3pm, needless to say I am drained of any energy I had!!! The other part to taking days off at the gym might sound weird but when I go everyday the scale doesn't MOVE, it is the days that I take off that I lose the weight. Can I tell you how FRUSTRATING that is!!! I wonder, why do I put myself through all of this when I know if I just relax at home the scale will go down, seriously this really happens!! Why? Why must I work out at all then????? Shouldn't I just be skinny then?? My goal for this week is to get my measurements done and post them on this site. Is the blog space big enough for those big numbers? I need to do it in the morning so I am guessing it will happen on Tuesday as that is my day off, no way I am going to try to do it before I go to work, I already get up at 6:05 am I am not getting up earlier to get this done!! Only when I get paid Overtime do I get up before 6:05 if I have to work. My other goal is to write down what I eat, depending on how embarassing it is I might just post it. Actually I do really good until I get home then look out!!! What I think happens is that I don't eat enough during the day so when I get home I am hungry, not starving just hungry so I grab whatever I can get my hands on. It is so stupid!!! I am sure I have to move the yogurt to get to the cheese to put on top of the crackers, which are behind the chips so I might as well put some of them on the plate as well!!!! Why do I do this stupid stuff, just eat the yogurt and call it good!!!! Another goal is to try not to drink Dt Mt Dew, this is a total trigger for me!!! If I have it I need to eat something. I can just have finished a huge meal but if I decide to grab a pop you can bet I am going to grab something to go with it, usually crackers. Are you kidding me!!! I have this love for carbohydrates that is so deep it is unbelievable!!!! For me to give them up would be like giving up my husband, it is that bad!! I try not to buy them but that lasts about a day, you can always find some sort of carbohydrate to eat. This is horrible but today at work, remember I went there at 3am and was there until 3pm I had 8 pieces of toast!!!!!!!!!! Yes I did, and I didn't go the gym today!!! I swear if that scale goes down tomorrow I am going to write the "all bread diet!!!!! The problem with today was 1) I was tired and 2) I was SUPER boared!!!!! On the plus side I ate half a grapefruit!!!!! Whatever, like it matters at this point!!!! Those are my goals for this week so I am going to try really hard to meet them!!!! I am off to the gym again tomorrow, that is if I don't go to work 3am, then I might have to take a nap then try to motivate myself to go!!!!! One more thing, I didn't make it to the kickboxing class on Friday, so I will try that again in 2 weeks, AC/DC next Saturday so leaving Friday!!!! I am shooting for Tuesday and thinking about trying a core strength class, as my friend Trevor just had to point out to me today it is only 20 minutes so in his words "it must be really intense". Thanks that makes me want to be the first in line. That is where I need it the most so hopefully I can get up the courage to go!!! I will let you know!!!

Body Pump

I am off to meet a co-worker at the Y for the Body Pump class. It is an hour long weight lifting class!!! Great, Just Great, I HATE LIFTING WEIGHTS!!! I would rather puke my guts out from attempting to run on the treadmill as to lift one weight!!! I used to go to this class pretty regularly but haven't been there since August. How bad is that. I probably wouldn't be going tonight if my co-worker Trevor, wouldn't push me, he wanted to go before the holidays but I was to busy, excuse, maybe but I was busy and had a messed up work schedule. So I told him that I would go after the holidays, so here we are and we are going!!! It may be a very long day at work tomorrow as I am sure I will be very sore!!! I will let you know!!!! The Y has added a cardio kick boxing class on Friday nights that I am going to try and go to. The instuctor is awsome, she just got instructor of the year for all the YMCA's in this region/area or something to that affect. She is in her 50's and a RN, she is amazing, I hope I am half of what she is when I am her age. That is if I make it through tonight!!!! haha I know I can do this, little self talk before I leave. I must go now and leave the warm comforts of home to brave the cold,get gas then head to the gym. Gotta get there early as I AM NOT STANDING IN THE FRONT oh, and I need the light weights!! I am hoping that the scale will at least move a little this week, and I don't mean from me moving it to clean my bathroom!!! Humor gotta love it!!!

First Post

Sheryl this is for you, I was going to name the blog She to Sher (Shelia to share with Sheryl) but your favorite brother-in law came up with something much better. Enjoy!!