Prep and Landing

30 min bike

Make Me Over

I did the Make-Me-Over workout on Exercise tv tonight with Steve Maresca. I used to think the Biggest Loser workout was a tough one, but I would have to say this one was over the top.  Steve loves squats but I do not!  I worked out really hard, then my husband came home late, with dinner...pasta, lasagne, pasta, salad...and french choclate silk pie...  I was so hungry, and although I knew it was late (9:30 pm), I started with the pasta and green salad (good start, right?)...I went onto the lasagne, followed by more pasta, and a topper of chocolate pie.  I felt betrayed by myself and stupid.  Make me over...make me over, which way do you want to go????

Account Balance

How do you go through the holidays without attracting pounds?  We went to a Christmas Party tonight and I did not hold back, the food was incredible.  Prime rib, salmon, ham, caesar salad, seafood pasta salad, tuscan rolls, cheesy potatoes, asparagus, bread pudding, wine and coffee.  I did abstain from eating today, saving my calories for tonight. I would have to say I made a large deposit to the calorie bank!   I came home and did a 5 mile walk Leslie Sansone dvd hopefully my account will balance...

Breakin' A Sweat

Do people like to sweat?  Leslie S. does, on her walk dvd's she says she loves to sweat.  Personally, I do not like to sweat.  Does that put me in the minority or the majority?  I have never understood why people would put themselves in a sauna, or sweat lodge and sit and sweat.  I like the warmth and the heat but not to the point of sweating.  Sweating stinks, and is it really healthy to work yourself into a sweaty stink?  I guess the workout is the healthy part...the stink, not so much.  I did a sweaty stinky 3 mile walk tonite.

Rough Patch

I came home from work early today to finish cleaning the house.  We have a house guest coming to spend the weekend and I had to re-distribute all our "may need it someday" items out of the spare room and guess what I found?....I had a bed in there!  I knew once I got engrossed in the work it would be hard to stop and change my focus on a workout.  Here comes the rough patch...changing clothes.  I found some resistance in having to change from work clothes, into exercise clothes, and back again into errand clothes.  I don't know why kids get such a kick out of wearing ten outfits in one day...anyway, I changed, put in the Big Loser Cardio Max dvd and I stepped it up a notch and did levels one and two....I wanted to put extra emphasis into the fact that I had to change clothes...

From 0 to 60

Just a simple little workout tonight.  I started with a Factor 5 workout on exercise tv, it was good circut muscle toning, but not long enough in duration (it was about 20 min.) and not enough cardio.  After Factor 5, I tried for a cardio workout and gave Cardio Calorie Burn with Kendall Hogan a try and it was too complicated in its steps, so after about 15 min. I gave up and did Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred, which was 25 min.  I did a total time of one hour!  Thats a little crazy, considering 81 days ago I was doing zero minutes of exercise...

Mixed Messages

Waking up in the morning is a mixed message.  First, it is a pleasent surprise to wake up in the morning, open your eyes, see daylight, realize you are alive for another day.  The other message that gets mixed in....you realize you have to get up and go to work.  But, there is a third message, since I have started exercising,  I get excited when I wake up and move and I can feel sore muscles. It lets me know I worked out hard the day before and I know with soreness comes, burned calories, muscle toning, strength.  So, each day I make sure my thirty minutes will result in some morning stiffness,... pay off!  I did Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred and 6 Pack Ab Burn with Cindy Whitmarsh.