Challenge - One Big Pile
What did you say? I'm a copy cat?
Guilty. I stole Leigh Peele's One Big Meal theme today, only I did it with leaves. Maple leaves. From our next door neighbor's gorgeous, but highly annoying maple tree. It's just uphill and it rains leaves upon our backyard every fall. Seeds too! (Every spring I pull up a bazillion hopeful seedlings.)
I could have made oodles of smaller piles but I just wanted to get the chore done and get back inside where my nose wouldn't be dripping steadily from the cold! So I banged the job out.
Training: Cardio: Vigorous leaf raking
It took me 30 minutes of fast raking to make the pile.
Training: Resistance: Bag and Drag
The remaining 45 minutes was devoted to putting a trash bag in the garbage can and then filling it full with heavy, somewhat sodden leaves. Once full... I dragged the can down the hill to the driveway and dumped the leaf bag out of the can. And so on and so forth until the pile was gone.
One hour and fifteen minutes.
Average HR = 55%. Max HR = 66%. 468 calories burned.
This couldn't be fat loss related, could it?
I've been listening to some of Leigh's podcasts lately and one thing she emphasizes is that one shouldn't stay in fat loss mode forever. One should focus and get it done. I've been shilly-shallying around all this past year, losing 10 or so pounds only to regain it and lose it again. Not exactly the progress I envisioned last January!
Yet I can lose fat when I focus! This challenge has proved that.
Still, sometimes it takes TIME to get all the marbles in place. Mine are coming together! My eating is healthier, I have fewer cravings for junk or fast food. I'm managing to exercise in spite of foot and other problems. So I'm going to keep my focus on progress.
Enough yo-yo!
I need to bang THIS job out!
Wow! Awesome job with the leaves!!! I'm glad I don't have a yard, but the inside of my townhouse looks like that
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That's a huge pile! I love your thoughts on the weight loss. You can do it!!
LOVE how you stole Leigh's idea and related it to your leaf pile LOL! Great attitude and success in the challenge... I'll look forward to keeping track of you in the months to come Cynthia! :)
Nice to hear you're doing good. Keep up the focus.
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I could've buried more than one body under that leaf pile, LOL! Technically, I still need to go around with the leaf blower and get some of the stuff out of the garden beds and crevices and also take the vac part of the blower and clean up the pool deck.
The weight loss has gone well this week, not so much on inches, but I suppose I can't expect that every week.
I was reminded by a thread on JPFitness forums that I could access some of my old data from Lifeform. And I realized that at 253 pounds, I had a waistline of 47"! Yikes! I suppose it was worse still at my top weight of 262 pounds.
So I feel like I've come a long way, but really want to keep going. It's been GOOD seeing the two-teens again!
Cynthia!
I have posted a thank you page on my blog but I want to stop by and say thank to you personally. Thank you! I don't know I could jump in and offer such a long and helpful advice for a weird and confusing girl without hesitation like you did. I admire your spirit for that and like Sinead said, we love your weight loss attitude!
I have calmed down already and began to form some good ideas. Life has to go on whatever the scale says. I will check back to let you know how things go.
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You are welcome!