Day 362 (day 5 / week 51)

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

I really am grateful for sparkpeople. For all of the tools it has given me, including the fitness tracker (which I am super grateful for now), nutrition tracker and all of the other bells and whistles that comes along w/ the free membership. I still can't believe it's FREE! If you haven't joined already, you should just poke around. It's free and has been a huge blessing in helping me with my 2009 resolution. I have learned so much, and there is SO MUCH support there out there in sparky land.

Anyway, I walked 1.5 miles in 25 minutes (getting better) and did some sissor kicks. I really need to start utilizing the quickfire challenges again, so I guess I will make that a goal for 2010 as well. I know it seems like I have been mentioning a lot of goals for 2010 but all they really are are just guidelines for me I guess...things that I know will help me to achieve my 2010 resolution--730 days of exercise (in a row) as well as some other stuff.

I have more goals in mind, some that I have been pushing away since they popped into my mind, but I keep going back to "no, that's ridiculous" because I really don't want to do it. It's not about want. It's about need. I need to do them, and I still keep saying "naw, not gonna happen." I was watching Joyce Meyer this morning, and she was talking about faith (my favorite subject). I was thinking about faith and my resolutions, and I decided to follow through w/ those goals, because plain and simple, faith without action is dead (James 2:17). She didn't say this, but it was one of those things that God put into my heart as I was listening to her, and I just have to do it. He will help me through it (if I let Him). Watching her put me in the place to "do what I gotta do," "make it count," and recieve His word.

I can totally do this. I AM a star!

Day 360 (day 3 / week 51)

Sunday, December 27, 2009

I was supposed to work today (normal work day) but I switched schedules with someone at work so she could go to a doctor's appointment.

My sparkpeople fitness log says that I walked 1.5 miles in 30 minutes (a little better). Even though I have been really bad at blogging, I am proud of myself for getting my fitness minutes into my tracker on sparkpeople. It just makes everything else so much easier. Maybe that's why I procrastinate with blogging, because I know I have that backup that I can crutch on. Interesting...

I decided for the new year that I am going to put a goal on my blogging and exercising. I am naming it so now I have to do it. I am going to get my exercise AND blogging done before 2pm, with the exception of my workdays. I need to think about how to do that, because at 2pm, I am at work and I still don't know my total steps for the day. Either way I need to make that a bonafide goal, or I will never do it lol.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 343 (day 7 / week 48)

Thursday December 10, 2009

I don't know why I let myself get so behind on my blogging. I didn't do much on Thursday. I walked 1.5 miles and did about 45 minutes of heavy cleaning. It must be a challenge for toddlers to see how messy they can get things, when they know someone is just going to clean it up.

I'm a little disappointed in myself that I have been doing the bare minimum with exercise and that I haven't been doing the 30 day shred. I have been talking to hubby about moving the Wii into my exercise room, now that it's clean, so that I can utilize it again, since that's what it is there for. I find myself not doing so much when he is around--I'd rather spend time w/ him, and I hate when he leaves the room when I exercise (I'd rather leave the room and go somewhere else to exercise lol--don't know what that's about). When I use that room, I find myself not caring if he is home or not to exercise. Now that it's clean again (yaay me) I need to use it.

I'm still a little sick but it's easy to ignore now. yaay :).

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 332 (day 3 / week 47)

Sunday Nov. 29, 2009

It was a scheduled workday that I got called off from. At around 5 am my work called me and canceled me. At 6:15am they called me again and asked if I could come back in. Do you think I went? Pssht. No, but mainly because when I saw my work calling the second time, I just rolled over and went back to bed. I checked my message at 7:30 and called and they had found a replacement by then.

I walked only about 1.5 miles that day and walked around to do more Christmas shopping. and I did some heavy lifting. I put our Christmas tree up. The monkey boy helped put some ornaments up. He put them all on top of each other and in the same spot lol. I left them like that. He thinks that the ornaments are all tiny drums so is always slapping them to hear the noise when it clangs against the wall, tree or another ornament. Thank goodness we got him a drum set for Christmas (doh!). I just hope my ornaments make it through till then lol.


Thank you guys so much for your comments and concerns with how I am doing with Pebbles being gone. I really appreciate you guys and I apologize that I haven't responded to the comments yet (I will, I promise!). I haven't been sleeping well because I am so worried about her in the cold. I still cry and I miss her :(. My hubby doesn't care or even notice how upset I am. If he does, he is ignoring it. That makes me angry, but what can I do? Gotta love marriage.

I am a bad girl. I haven't been making much of an effort to exercise as much. I have been doing the bare minimum, which I guess is better than nothing, because at this point I just want to do nothing at all. I've experienced a lot this year, and it's surprising to me that a dog sparked this reaction in me and not injuries, moving to a different state, finding a job and working or any of the other high stressers in my life. *shrugs*

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 322 (day 7 / week 45)

Today was my day off. I woke up with a work hangover and didn't want to do anything. I remembered the commitment I made to Erin to do the 30DS with her on my day's off, so I grabbed my video and put it in.

Not far into the video the Monkey Boy woke up so I had a difficult Day 1. He is very demanding of my time (aren't all toddlers?) so I couldn't focus 100% on the video.

After that I took him out to breakfast at IHop. I love the Blueberry Harvest Grain N' Nut Combo For Me with sugar free syrup. So yummy and only 570 calories for the entire combo (eggs, pancakes and bananas)!

After that we went to the store and came home. I walked 1.5 miles and then did some Wii Fit. I did a total of 76 minutes of exercise today.

Here is the selection of things I can do with the Wii Fit.



I also won a Sparkpeople exercise DVD on the sparkpeople points wheel this morning. How sweet is that? I will probably get it in the mail sometime next week.

Hope you had a great night. Make it count tomorrow!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 314 (day 6 / week 44)

Wednesday 11/11

Yesterday (Wed) I had my final ECG class. I remembered to wear my pedometer this time. I walked 1.5 miles with an estimated 10lb backpack (thank you Loree for the conversion website! :)). It was in about 45 minutes or so split up twice throughout the day, because other than the time we were walking, we were in class sitting on our buts until it was time to leave or switch rooms. The fun part about class yesterday was that it was my LAST class, and I took my final. I passed with a 98%--I sped through one strip that was Sinus Tach with a PAC at the very end, and I didn't catch it YAARRR! (my pirate lingo). That took 2 points off my exam, hense the 98% (that bugs me so much lol). Anyway that class is done and over with so now I just need to see what the director of our unit wants to do with my newfound knowledge. Yaay :).

A little bit of exercise, mixed into a whole lotta life...exactly what I expected to achieve on a busy day.

If I can find ways to do it, so can you. I promise it gets easier as the days go on. I've had 313 days of practice. Someone at the very beginning of the year commented on my blog when I was struggling with exercising daily. She said something along the lines that soon it won't be about the exercise part (having to do it) but will be about "what am I going to do today for exercise." (sorry that thought came out very choppy...I hope you understand the jist of that thought). Very, very true. I can honestly say that I am there.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your support and for all of the wonderful things that you guys say to me (in comments and emails) to encourage me and keep me going over the last 11 months. EVERYTHING you guys say sticks with me and I just want to thank you for helping to mold me into this new person who is more blessed, confident and active. You all have helped and blessed me more than you know!

Off to exercise for the day (Thursday).

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 269 (day 3 / week 38)

Today was a fun day. I went to the Walk From Obesity and saw two of my coworkers there and the director of our unit. It was nice to see someone there that I knew who didn't mind walking around--I love my hubby but he doesn't care for walking the way I do. . I also got to meet Dr Teng, whom I hear a lot about, but have never met before. We walked 2 laps, which I think was about 1.5 miles and then we walked around the activities part of it. We were there for 3 hours, but I only had my HRM running for 2 (the physical part until we slowed down to browse) burning 907 minutes.


The mayor of our city, Oscar Goodman, was there too. He is the one in the suit. I got a great picture of his back lol.


There was another event going on at the same time, and I think it was a Shred-It party. You could take your documents that needed to be shredded here and have it shredded for free. There was also a farmers market and I bought 6 herb plants: mother of thyme, oregano, italian parsley, golden lemon parsley, purple basil and italian basil and a planter and soil for 4 of them all for $20. We bought some homemade olive and oregano hummus and a sampler of 4 different olive oils and barrel-aged heirloom balsamic vinegar (SO delicious!). We also bought some fresh baked bread by a local baker (Bon Bakery) here as well, fetta batard and multigrain batard. They go very well with the oils and balsamic vinegar that we got.

There was a big jump house dinosaur there that The Monkey Boy and my MIL went in. He wasn't too sure about it at first, but when it was time to get out because he seemed so frightened, he didn't want to leave and had a meltdown when we did (Typical).


See? Exercise can be fun! You can easily trick yourself into exercising by hitting a farmers market and just walking all over the place with family and friends. You wont even know you're exercising because you are distracting yourself with conversation and a good time.

Be back tomorrow after I finished making it count. Hope you are having a great weekend!

I can do this. I am a star.