Weigh in Wednesday

Forgot about this yesterday.

I had an ok week considering I was pmsing and I lived off of cookies and chocolate.

But, thankfully, it has been a wonderfully warm spring week here in New England so I've been running all week long. I got 5.29 miles in on Sunday before my feet started to hurt. I need new running shoes badly, but as a stay at home mom, I'm going to have to save up for an expense like that. I want to get really good shoes to support me through my half marathon training and that'll cost me at least a hundred dollars. Blah..... Anyone wanna donate to my cause and buy mama new shoes? lol

Anyhoo, I weighed in at 208.5 yesterday so I lost 1/2 a pound. I'll take it! It wasn't much, but at least it moved in the right direction.

Weigh in Wednesday

I had a much better week this week!

I've stepped up my game quite a bit as far as work outs go. I've only been able to do the elliptical as we've gotten tons of snow here in New England, but instead of just going with the two 1/2 programs I use, I've been bumping up the resistance on them as often as possible and ending the workout with ten minutes on the hardest level.. which is insanely difficult and it nearly kills me.

Lastly, because of I have to take breaks from the elliptical to let my feet un-numb (common elliptical problem) I have added some crunches and stomach toning Pilate's moves to my breaks. I can feel my abs getting tighter already (under the baby flab of course).

Today I am down to 209. Only a 1 lb loss but considering the amount of strength training I'm doing, I'm not surprised... its also that time of the month again! gotta love it lol

Weigh in Wednesday

This week was a bust weight wise, I didn't gain nor lose.

I have been running a lot and generally when I start running I put on quite a bit of muscle so I'm going to chalk it up to that as well as the fact that I came down with a cold Monday have not worked out for the past few days.

Overall however I'm happy that I didn't gain anything and even happier that the weather has been so warm that I was able to get outside for some runs. I even did a nice long 4 mile run on Sunday which was incredibly awesome.

Of course, today, I woke up to this.... Ugh... queue New England Nor'easter to dash my running dreams against the rocks.





Ahh well, it'll melt soon hopefully. I plan to start throwing in some strength training days with my cardio days. I want to focus on my abs for sure to get rid of the baby jiggle I've had going on there for the past 4 years, and definitely some leg stuff to help with my running.

Anyone have any great programs you use that you'd like to pass on?

Wednesday Weigh In

Whew boy was last week a colossal failure! I'm so glad to be home, around familiar things and eating healthy again!

I did exercise last week which was nice, but I ate like a living vacuum so it was all for naught.

I did weigh about 216 when I got home Saturday.

Today I'm back down to 212 thank goodness!

I've been running all week too which has been fabulous, I've really missed it.

And.... DRUM ROLL PLEASE! I've registered for a half marathon August 28th, I'm starting a 12 week training plan on June 12th! Super excited about that! SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Sledding!

Barney had to do some online training today for work so I packed little Miss up in the truck, drove 3/4 of a mile down the road and we went sledding! There is a new church that was built a year go that is still partially under construction, and it just so happens to have an awesome hill in its field.

We had such so much fun! And since i'm an exercise-aholic climbing that hill over and over was easier for me than it was for the three year old! It felt nice to be able to keep up with her for a change.

After Daddy finished his work we snagged him and headed back over... it was a fabulously fun family afternoon!

Weight Loss Photo slide

I hit 35 pounds lost today... I've been struggling since Thanksgiving...so many yummy cookies and deserts to bake.... and so busy crafting gifts I haven't been exercising nearly as much as I should... but finally here I am... on to 40 pounds!

30 pounds!

I have one stubborn pound that won't come off, so technically I'm at a 29 lb weight loss. I recently went from running 3 miles a day to bumping up to 5 or 6 so I think I'm gaining in muscle again.

Either way I'm pretty excited to have lost so much.

In 2 weeks I'm running in a 10k in Portsmouth with the hubs who has also been running.

We're both pretty excited!