A 50 year old housewife’s tale of trashing her fat, getting fit and enjoying life on the lean side.
Yesterday I pretty well lost my head and I ate rather badly. Today, well, my meals weren't regular, but at least they were healthier. I'm not logging anything, no time for it, but I'm trying to eat more like normal and get some veggies and liquids in. I'm just taking things a day at a time and trying to make somewhat healthy choices. Best I can manage right now.
There'll be no weigh-in post tomorrow and no weigh-in next Monday. And there won't be a lot of posting (if any) this week. I'm getting ready for another road trip/event and I seriously don't have time to focus on my weight loss or much of anything else right now.
Anyway, workouts aren't happening, I've been on my feet WAY TOO MUCH over the weekend. I hope to wrap up the packing mostly by tomorrow, then concentrate on my paperwork. Healthy eating isn't happening all that much either. In fact, eating in general is sporadic. Likewise for water consumption. Though I need to get the liquids in and will try to do at least that tomorrow. Perhaps some healthier meals as well. At the least, I want to use up some of the veggies that are cramming the fridge before we go.
So there you have it... it's not particularly good habits on the weight loss front right now, but I've got to do this. And I will get to see some friends that I haven't seen in a good while.
I did take some pictures of one of my rose excavations. I've only got one rose left to dig by the retaining wall. I'll do the irises later this summer. So eventually, you'll get to see what kind of earth moving I did.
2 pounds lost for the week! Two good weeks in a row!
I didn't entirely stick my goals, I ate a few more calories on both Thursday and Friday. Other than that though, I made all my scheduled workouts, I drank my water and got my protein in. About as good a week as I could ask for. And the results showed it in spite of the massive free days I've been having on Monday.
I have a theory about that, I think my body is probably using more calories to recover from the exercise and this is why, even when exceeding my calories on a couple days didn't cause a problem.
The trick now will be to keep it up. And I'm not feeling confident about this week or next week, frankly. I've got another road trip to prepare for and those tend to stress me out and throw me off. But I am excited about my progress, so maybe this time I can keep on a more even keel than usual.
I had a heck of a Monday free day, I'm guessing 4000 calories easy, but I worked out hard, and I dug another big hole searching for rose roots.
Obviously, I haven't been posting them timely, so we'll just do a lump summary. All my workouts for the week happened. And I'm feeling good about that! In fact, most daily goals have been met, except I went over 1800 calories on both Thursday and Friday. My weight is down to 224.4 pounds, so I'm not sweating that. From the way I was feeling, I probably needed the calories. Even my cold symptoms were starting to return.
Thursday's Gilad/FitTV workout was one that I felt very tired and unenthusiastic about. I got through it, that's about the best I can say. Not a huge calorie burn. I did not do anything extra from the DVD. I figured if I was flagging that badly, I probably didn't need to push. No Nordic Track. So only a half hour of exercise as opposed to the usual hour.
Water aerobics on Friday was fine, but my arm was too sore to think about swimming and the pool was a bit warmer than it has been. So I headed home, ate, then went to the Farmer's Market. And ran out of money, sigh! But I brought home cherries, apriums, some more edible pod peas, asparagus and yellow crookneck squash. And a free mystery pepper plant. I walked by the health food store and picked up some more dried apricots, raw cashews and my Friday treat, a Prana Bar.
OK, I know, the Prana Bar is pretty much sugar/fat... but hey, the ingredients are organic, I actually recognize them, much of it is a raw food, and it's gotta be better than a candy bar. Tasty too! But it does explain why I went over my calories by a couple hundred on Friday. Doesn't seem to have hurt the weight loss efforts any, as far as I can see.
By yesterdays Gilad/FitTV workout, I was back to normal and it was a good one!
I think I have improved just a wee bit on balance and lunges and stuff. It's hard to quantify. Anyway, I burned some 390 calories in my 47 minute session yesterday. During the commercials, if Gilad left no directions, I did squats and lifts with my six pound medicine ball. Afterwards, I burnt another 215 calories on the Nordic Track, skiing away at an 80-85% heart rate for 15 minutes. (There is nothing wrong with the Nordic Track as it turns out... the workout on Tuesday was just tired legs as I thought.) My average pace was a wee bit higher than it has been at 4.8 mph.
Today, Sunday is a rest day. I'm going to putter around the house cleaning and probably cooking some starchy carbs to freeze. It's raining steadily outside, thus totally foiling my plans for a rose root dig this evening. Hubby is hoping it lets up soon, he had golf plans that may be ruined.
Yesterday was with Gilad/Fit TV... some lunges with shoulder presses, some other shoulder exercise plus biceps and triceps as it turned out. I added the Dynamic Moves segment from my DVD along and also the Strength & Balance segment. My balance hasn't improved much, it's still a struggle every time, so I really think I need the latter. So it was a slightly longer workout at around 50 minutes. During the commercials, I was keeping my heart rate up by doing some squats with my six pound medicine ball. My legs were good and tired and my 10 minutes on the Nordic Track turned into an utter slog. I don't know if I need to oil the rollers or if it was just that my legs were so tired that I kept screeching to a stop. I think it was my legs...
They certainly felt equally tired when I went to work on my rose digging project. That was mostly filling in the previous excavation, then digging out another rose. I did not go after the roots of that rose yet, that's where the digging gets serious. That's for tomorrow. Tonight, hubby and I have plans, so I'm taking a break from earth moving. Still, out of the eight roses I had to dig up by the retaining wall, there are only three to go!
Today was just water aerobics... and then I swam for a bit more than a quarter of a mile. Mostly crawl... it was going well, my knee wasn't objecting to my kicking and so I just swam until I was good and winded. And then I stretched out.
But I got a little weight heaving in at Wal-Mart... because I picked up a couple bags of compost and a bag of sand. HEAVY! I got them on the cart and that made pushing the cart about to the other side of the store a workout in itself. And then I had to heave them into the car. Next step is getting them up the hill to where I can put them on the soil I've been so furiously digging.
Right now is my little break... I'm sucking down water and tea. Well, first I sucked down a protein smoothie with green tea, yogurt, vanilla protein powder, fish oil, chia, spinach and dried apricots. Pool workouts really dehydrate me and that's even though I bring a huge water bottle and drink it all during the workout. I drink a couple cups after too, with some protein powder to hold me while I do errands. It is a good thing that grocery stores have bathrooms!
A 2.2 pound loss! YAY!
I hit water aerobics, my right arm was really sore, so I leg my legs do the talking there. I was lapping folks while we did our initial jogging back and forth. No swimming after, my right arm is bad today. And I still have digging to do. I did practice my lunge form a bit in the pool though before stretching some more and getting out.
It's my free day... I started off with three pancakes topped with butter, blueberries and a couple tablespoons of maple syrup. Then scrambled egg whites and Greens Plus powder, as I didn't feel like fixing veggies and I was running late. After water aerobics, I went to buy cat food and some gardening supplies, then hit Wendy's for a small chili and one of their new twisted Frosty desserts. Both were yum! I haven't been to Wendy's in years! Then I headed over to Rite-Aid on an errand and after that to go veggie shopping at Safeway, where I picked up my treat of Oikos Greek Yogurt - vanilla and a marionberry muffin. I also scored a likely smelling cantaloupe! I was tempted by watermelon, but the cantaloupe was half the price and I really like that too.
I'm waiting for the sun to get out of my digging spot and will probably go ice my arm for a bit first. I simply refuse to dig in sun... it's a hard enough chore to do without getting a sunburn and being hot and miserable at the same time. After that, I'm thinking about another spinach, chicken, strawberry salad over at Shari's, but we'll see. I have a single serving of Moose Tracks ice cream in the fridge for later as well. Anything goes on free day as long as I don't stuff myself at any one meal and don't eat the next until I'm hungry.
Tablet is requesting dinner for the kitties, so I must run. Besides, the dishwasher needs unloading.
Gilad and FitTV on Saturday. Plus Strength and Balance from my Gilad DVD for 40 minutes total. Gilad was in a lunging mood with several lunge type moves. And some squat type moves, mainly one that had you squat with a weight held to one side of your body and then you shifted it both up and to the other side of your body when you raised out of the squat. Then he hit us with a chest exercise with dumbbells, then pushups, then chest presses!
The HRM claimed I burnt 373 calories in those 40 minutes. Well, it was hard enough for me, so perhaps I did! My lunges were not so hot (nothing new there) and I was really having balance issues.
Afterwards was 10 minutes of Nordic Track and 30 minutes of stretching.
Later in the evening, when I went to dig roses, the lunges made themselves readily apparent. The plan was to try and dig out the remaining roots from the rose I had removed earlier in the week, before the thunderstorm. The hole was already fairly deep, over a foot and when I lowered my right leg and shovel in to go deeper, my left leg was too tired to pull me out again and I sat suddenly on my butt in the grass. From there I decided I could just push the shovel into the dirt with my legs and I dug that way until the hole was nearly two feet deep. I got out as much of the remaining large roots as I could and hopefully will not see any sprouts come back next year. I should've taken a picture of the hole before it got dark, but I didn't and I filled in after and turned the soil. Basically, each rose excavation is just about 2' x 2' x 18-24" deep.
The lunges were also apparent this morning, I was good and sore.
