Day 190 + 191

Yesterday i worked my butt off cleaning.  I cleaned for probably a good 8 hours,  scrubbing walls and the floors in my hands and knees.  I vacuumed every square inch of carpet not once or twice, but 3 times and even our stairs twice. By the end of the day my arms were rubber. Im considering this my exercise bc i sweated way more doing this than an hour on my elliptical.

Tonight after work I did alternative bicep curls and overhead tricep extensions with my 8lb hand weights.  I was trying to figure out why it was so difficult compared to the last times, and then i remembered my rubber arms. Probably wasn't a smart move doing 2 arm days back to back.

I'm going to be making sime changes in the future,  but i need to get a better plan in place.  I'll articulate more on the subject on Monday.

One day at a time. One choice at a time.

I can do all things in Christ who gives me strength.

Day 54 (Wed 2/23/11)

Another Dance Dance Revolution day. I love this game.

64 minutes, 365 calories
40 minutes, 265 calories (heavy cleaning)

I can do all things in Christ who gives me strength! (Phil 4:13)

Day 46 (2/15/11)

I did 30 minutes of heavy cleaning and walked for 25 minutes. My pedometer reset itself and I only got 2471 steps out of it.

I can do all things in Christ who gives me strength! (Phil 4:13)

Day 43 (saturday)

Saturday I tried to catch up on some missed workouts on EA Sports Active 2. I did 2 of them. It was a great workout.


Before this, though, I did about 30 minutes of heavy cleaning. I also walked 4905 steps.

It was a good day for exercise. My goal was to do 60 minutes, and I surpassed that :).

I can do all things in Christ who gives me strength! (Phil 4:13)

Day 22

Today was a family day for us (weekends when I am off usually are). We walked all over today, for the most part window shopping. I forgot to wear my pedometer so I am not sure how far total (I walked more today than the average day.)

After getting home pretty late I did some speed heavy cleaning. Have you ever done that? It's fun. It was a completely conscious thing (doing it purposely) so I could totally feel my heart pumping as I was doing it. I also did some lunges and squats to pick things off of the floor. Monday was my son's birthday so it looks like a little Tasmanian Monkey Boy hit this place. It was nice to get this place in some sort of order again.

I guess I would call today a non-rest day, as I didn't pop in my EA Sports Active (it's a rest day there) and do my usually stereotypical exercises.

Off to bed.

I can do all things in Christ who gives me strength! (Phil 4:13)

Day 10 (a long time ago)

It feels like I exercised such a long time ago that it feels like I didn't exercise. It was only this morning, and I was done by 9am. Sweet.

I did EA Active Sports and burned 114 calories for 18 minutes. Later this afternoon I got into a cleaning frenzy and did some heavy cleaning for maybe 90 minutes. When hubby got home, he could tell because he said "wow, someone has been busy" lol. I guess that's a man's way of saying it looks nice :).

I had my ultrasound of my thyroid today (I thought it was Saturday but I guess I was wrong) but wont know any results until Jan 21st. Maybe.

Have to work tomorrow, so off to bed.

Have a good night!

I can do all things in Christ who gives me strength! (Phil 4:13)

Day 359 (day 2 / week 51)

I can't believe I let it go this long w/out posting something. tisk tisk. The time really did slip away from me. Thank goodness for my sparkpeople fitness tracker.

Saturday December 26, 2009

I really don't remember the day after Christmas. Again, thank goodness for my fitness tracker. I logged 2.5 miles in an hour. Man that's slow. I also did 30 minutes of heavy cleaning, which makes sense.

This year for Christmas I didn't get my weights. I got a food processor instead (which is nice). Having weights is a huge part of my goal set for 2010 so I will have to go get some before my birthday (Jan 23), when my hubby plans on getting them for me. It will be an early birthday present :).

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 356 (day 6 / week 50)

Today was a good day. I got a lot accomplished. My son went to Arizona with his Papa and Nana to do the Polar Express thing, which is why I got things accomplished today lol.

I got up and exercised for 40 minutes. Cardio and balance (I've been feeling a little off lately) and I also walked 3 miles. Man it's cold and windy today! After that I cleaned my kitchen for 30 minutes--spotless. Love it! Then I did some more errands, went shopping, made some Christmas cookies (thanks Erin!), dropped them off at work, picked my son up and then drove to the dealership to sign some more paperwork w/ my hubby. I got a lot done and got home late. Glad I took advantage of the morning, becuase it would have been hard to do anything at this point. Gotta make that time count, ya know?

I'm bushed and off to bed.

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. In my in-law's family, we do the Christmas thing on Christmas Eve (church/presents/dinner/etc). In my family we do it on Christmas day. Although I will be busy the next 2 days, I am going to make it a point to blog first thing, just so that I don't end up posting close to 11pm, like I am now. I still don't know why I procrastinate blogging. At least I am logging my minutes and stuff on Sparkpeople so that I don't have to remember what I did when I am blogging a few days in a row--I can just look at my log and type that in. *whew!* I heart that part of accountability. Kinda neat that I can look back on this entire year at any day and see what I did for exercise :).

Blessings to all of you throughout this holiday season! ((hugs))

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 342 (day 6 / week 48)

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

I looove me some days off, especially after a doozy the day before (who talks like that?? oh ya, me!). My inner voice lately has been redneckaliscious. I don't know what stemmed it, but I crack myself up. I really do. I'm High-larious.

Anyway I slept in b/c the Monkey Boy spent the night at Nana and Papa's house and I got A LOT accomplished. I did like 2-3 days worth of cleaning in 2 hours, split up into about an hour each time. Between that I did about 20 minutes on the Wii Fit focusing on strength training and my arms, and boy they are sore today! This just proves to myself that I don't really need weights to do strength training. I just really want them.

I also wrapped Christmas presents for over an hour on the pool table (that thing came in handy for something!). I assembled my son's mini drum set that we got him for Christmas and wrapped that. My hubby came home to me doing it and he said, "boy honey, getting creative w/ the wrapping?" I wrapped the tom-tom, snare and the cymbal all separately, attached to the set lol, and then wrapped the whole thing letting the wrapped cymbal stick out. I am going to have to video tape this Christmas, because it's the first one that The Monkey Boy has any sense of what's going on with and he REALLY loves drums. He wanted a Cars backpack too, and he is going to be SOO excited to see one. Christmas will be fun with him, but I can't wait until I can teach him about Jesus. I wish he could grasp who Jesus is. I don't even know if he understands what I say most of the time, so I don't know if he understands when I talk to him about God. I can't wait to tell him about his best friend and know that he gets it.

Anyway, that's it! I'm still sick but getting better. Yaay! Off to exercise for today :).

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 337 (day 1 / week 48)

I can't believe how fast this month is going by. I also can't believe that this year is practically gone. Next year I want to incorporate more strength training into my exercise. I hope Santa brings some weights, or my hubby gets them for my birthday (late January).

The Monkey Boy was even sicker today than he was yesterday. I feel bad because it's totally my fault. I should have just gotten on the treadmill. He almost went through an entire box of tissues today, all by himself (and he can't even blow his nose yet--any tips? lol). The poor thing keeps whining, "my nose, my nose!" It's cute, funny and sad all at the same time.

I tried to put my video on (30DS) and he whined. I was able to get the Wii Fit on, but only because he wanted to play too. I did 62 Wii Fit minutes, all spaced out throughout the day. I did some golf, yoga, cardio and balance games. I also cleaned the living room for about 20 minutes (you wouldn't know it looking at it now though lol). He hung on my leg for the majority of everything that I did today, and he refused to take a nap. I hope his cold passes soon, and that he doesn't get us sick.

Off to bed. I hope to get my measurements and picture taken for tomorrow. *fingers crossed*

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 336 (day 7 / week 47)

Thursday, December 3, 2009

I woke up this morning to a sick monkey boy. It's my fault too. The walk we went on the previous day wasn't a good idea and I guess I wasn't thinking he would get sick from it. We live in Vegas and it can get cold here. Not like snow cold, but it's dry and gets windy. When we went walking it was no more than 50F and it was windy that day. Anyway, he is sick.

When I wasn't comforting him, I was cleaning. I actually tackled my "room of doom." It's the Billiard Room which is really our storage room. It was a total mess. There was not a whole lot of walking room due to the boxes, and the table billiard table had stuff on it. Now it's beautiful. It was an all day effort because The Boy was sick, but I think it was about 2 hours of solid work. Man he was cranky/needy all day.

I did 3-5 minutes on the Wii Fit also (right before bed).

That's it I guess.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 335 (day 6 / week 47)

1) 95 minute walk w/ the Monkey Boy, 10,251 steps/4.85 miles

2) heavy cleaning, 63 minutes

3) 30DS, level 2, day 5.

I mapped my route today and got the same distance (off by .01 miles) that the pedometer/step website that I use got (thanks again Loree!). That somehow makes me feel a sense of freedom that my steps/numbers correlate with that site. That confirms work as exercise in my head (lol).

After I got home from the walk I did some heavy cleaning. My kitchen needed it. I even relining all the cupboards w/ grip it mats--a very frustrating task. I am glad this isn't our house. The cupboards aren't perfect squares (I'm very symmetrical and like my lines straight). They are crooked! I'm totally anal about this stuff, so I know it's the house and not me lol. I don't want to jinx anything, but there is some talk in the air that my in-laws may try to help us buy a house in the beginning months of next year. How exciting, but I don't want to get my hopes up in case it falls through (nothing good ever happens to my hubby, according to him--isn't that sweet of him to say?). I will not end up in a house like Lily and Marshall's apartment on How I Met Your Mother lol.

I promised Erin I would do the 30 Day Shred with her, and I will keep it, although it will be well passed 30 days when I actually complete it lol. I need heavier weights. I have 5lb hand weights but my son hid them at some point in the last week and I have no idea where they are(???). My hubby and I checked the most obvious hiding places, but can't find them. Maybe they are in the back yard? He started bringing things out there like Pebbles did not too long ago lol. On a side note I still miss her but it doesn't hurt so much--I'm very happy for her now :). So that being said (missing 5lbers) I had to use my 3lb hand weights. Not so effective with this workout. The Monkey Boy worked out with me, and used spoons for his weights. I might as well have used spoons also, because that's what it felt like anyway lol. He kept up with me until the 3rd set thingy (brain fart--can't remember what it's called).

My ankle is a little sore but I want to get on the Wii Fit. My hubby is cranky and needs his TV time. If I get on I will update, unless it's just a body test. I should probably just stick to that.

I met my protein goal for today and didn't throw everything else off terribly (only by like 100 calories!). 139 grams of protein. Stick a fork in me, I am done.

Have a great night!

I can do this. I am a star.

P.S. Hubby said he will help me with my picture/measurements on Saturday morning. Stay tuned for a horrible update! (lol)

Day 328 (day 6 / week 46)

Today was a sad/angry day for me. I don't talk about much of the drama because it's boring. I may touch on it but I don't think I ever led on to how bad it is. My hubby hates my dog Pebbles. He hates her so much that we fight about her. Everyday. I got her into training, but he still isn't happy. He doesn't have the patience to wait for the potential I see in her. I had to give her back :(. She deserves better. She's a good dog.

I have been bawling all day, and when I haven't been, I have been on the verge of tears. I am so angry at the same time that my head hurts. My son knows she isn't around, but he keeps calling for her like she is going to come running. She won't :(.

I did some heavy cleaning, gathering her things, to give to Friends For Life (the people adopted her from and have an agreement with, that if we ever can't keep her anymore we would give her back to them so they could guarantee her a good home) and packed it all up in the car along with Pebbles and The Monkey boy. I drove 40+ miles to Pahrump (where it's colder), and said my good byes (the boy was sleeping so he didn't get to, which is probably a good thing...he loved her so much--at night before bed he always says, "i love you mama, i love you dada, i love you pebbles."). They told me she would be in an outside kennel with the rest of the dog until she is adopted, which breaks my heart (she is an inside dog). They didn't even put her blanket down for her to lay on (the concrete is so cold).

I have no right to be upset. It's my fault. I should have known better with my hubby. He is just like that and will never change. I told him that we will never again get another pet, although I grew up with them all around me and love them so much, but I just wont do this again. It's not fair, and he doesn't even care. Besides, to give her up like that, makes me feel like we don't deserve another pet. Ever. I just pray that she goes to a better home. Not like this one. I miss her and see traces of her everywhere. :(

*waah* *waah* *waah*

I did only 20 mins on the Wii Fit and walked a mile. I am just not in the mood.

I forgot about the 30DS. Oh well. 30 days will still be done. Just not in a row.

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 309 (day 1 / week 44)

Thursday 11/5/09

I don't know how I forget to do something that has been apart of my life for over 300 days. I can remember to do the part 1 of it (exercising) but I often forget to do part 2. Last night we were up until 11 pm pulling everything out of the cupboards/cabinets for the bug man today. He is going to spray inside and out for us. I am VERY happy about this. I thought about blogging all day, and for some reason it just slipped my mind when I would have normally done it, mostly because I was busy doing something else.

Anyway, I woke up yesterday and my ankle was feeling great! I babied it the day before (Wed) with class and all because I knew that I wouldn't be able to stay off of it, so I did my best to use the tools I had available (rolling chairs, crutches) to stay off of it. Doing that made a world of a difference for me yesterday. I didn't walk with a limp or anything!

Because I was feeling so great, I decided to pull out the Wii Fit. I did 92 minutes worth (split up 55 minutes in the am, 37 in the pm when the monkey boy took his nap) and stayed away from the ones that I had to balance on one foot (like the yoga pose, "Tree").

I felt pretty good on the Wii and even got in a picture.

This is apart of the arm segment of the categories. It is a tricep extension. I do them with the Wii remote and a water bottle for a little added resistence.

You stabilize your elbow, and there is 2 whistles that you hear. The first whistle you pull your hand down your back, the 2nd whistle you extend, inside of the red bar that rolls along the top of your screen. The red bar turns yellow, if you do it when you are supposed to (the Wii remote/eye thingy on the top of the tv pick up the movement). If you go before the whistle or after, the segment won't turn yellow and you don't get as many points (100 points total, 50 for each arm). Sorry the pictures are a little fuzzy (I kept getting it on an extend, and not before that, but I wanted to share with you guys what it says to us during the exercise)...










See you guys in a few hours. Off to do some wii fit for today (Friday). Make it count! The sooner you get it over with, the better you'll feel all around!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 307 (day 6 / week 43)

Today was tough because I felt pretty limited with what I could do with my sprained ankle. I kept it wrapped all day, put ice on it and kept it elevated for most of the day.

I had to go to work to fill out more paperwork in HR this morning, and I used crutches so that I could give my ankle a rest, like the ER doctor told me to. Man, crutches are hard! You have to be careful not to put too much pressure directly under your armpit because there is nerves there that you can do a lot of permanent damage too. You are supposed to support your body in between your bicep and like the side of your chest, and put your weight on your hands. It's hard and my deltoids are sore now from the crutches. I'll be using them again tomorrow.

I wanted to do my Wii Fit, but didn't :(. Probably isn't a good idea right now. I rested most of the day, until about an hour ago, where I did some heavy cleaning. I leaned on my good foot and babied my left ankle. It was only about 30 minutes of cleaning and dusting (my hubby helped me too--such a sweetie). I didn't vacuum or mop--I will wait until the weekend, when hopefully my ankle won't be as tender as it is now and I can put more weight on it.

I think I am satisfied with what I did. I really didn't think crutches would be much of a workout but they are. I am calling this a (non)rest day, using heavy cleaning as my mode of exercise for the day. I wonder what I will do tomorrow. It'll be fun to see how I am going to maneuver the crutches and my backpack lol.

Thank you for your well wishes! My ankle feels differently than it did yesterday--not good or bad. It's more achy today and puffy if I leave it unwrapped, but I am not having the sharp pain like I was yesterday. The top of my foot hurts a little bit too but other than that, everything is great (even with that everything is great!).

Hope you all have a great night! Make tomorrow count. Be creative! I know I will have to be! There are so many things that count as exercise. You'd be surprised!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 280 (day 7 / week 39)

Today was a quickie day for exercise.

I did about 20 minutes of heavy cleaning (scrubbing/vacuuming furniture and rugs) and I did some strength training.

5 sets of 10 forearm curls (5lb hand weights)
2 sets of 25 bicep curls (5lb hand weights)

We are trying to improve our credit so we can buy a house sometime in the next year, and so we dusted off our old Kohls card (we don't use credit at all because it's a gateway drug for us lol) and bought the spiffy Dyson DC25 Ball Vacuum that I talked about a few weeks ago. Our friend brought over his Dyson Animal, and we ended up buying the same version, just without the extra attachment, so it's not considered "Animal," but everything else is the same though. Fun toy that we will have paid off in a few months. It was 10% off in the store, and we had a 30% coupon that expired today. Now that we have a dog, we need a better vacuum. This one is AWESOME.

Off to bed.

Hope you are having a ball! We sure are ;).

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 275 (day 2 / week 39)

Today was an alternative kind of day for exercise. I did some heavy cleaning (about 30 minutes) and heavy playing with the dog and monkey boy (also about 30 minutes). Having fun and getting things accomplished can be really great exercise.

I also did 1 set of 30 squats.

As far as the 1st of the month goes, I'll give the details tomorrow, but a sneak peek for now.

7.25.

What does that mean? Not sure, but you can find out tomorrow :).

Have a great night!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 262 (day 3 / week 37)

This morning I got out early, walked 3 miles and then did some stretching and a cool down afterward (65 minutes, 603 calories).

I had planned on only doing this, because I am over my calories burned for the week (9948/8500) but ended up cleaning up little puppy messes in our Nevada room. I was surprised with the calorie burn involved with that--45 minutes, 431 calories--great workout. I am excited about all this extra calorie burnage, but am kicking myself at the same time because I am not eating enough. I am trying, but it's just really hard to get up to 2K calories for the day. *shrugs* I guess it's just like eating healthy. It's not going to happen over night, but it's got to be something that I strive for everyday. It will happen eventually, I just need to lay off of the extra exercises, which is so hard to do, becuase I love knowing that I am burning calories (but hate eating the food to back it--im not starving myself, im getting in 1600-1800 calories, i just have to try harder). I was talking with my brother-in-law and I think I need to start drinking protein shakes or something, to get those calories in, because that's ridiculous. Where else am I going to get those calories if I am full all the time?

I'm tired and am going to go to sleep now. I hope you all are having a great weekend. I'm gonna say it again, if you want to eat a lot of food or "eat whatever you want," all you gotta do is exercise to back it. Seriously. Burning 10K calories a week lets you (me) eat 2300-2600 calories a day! A DAY! I'm struggling to do this, because it is A LOT of food, if you didn't know. A lot of healthy food :).

Good night!

I can do this. I am a star.

Day 256 (day 4 / week 37)

Today was a busy day. We had a lot of fun though.

I did a few different things for exercise, and lost track of time after 50 minutes.

We walked a lot today and then we did something that surprised the socks off of me.



Meet Pebbles. The newest addition to our family :). Isn't she the cutest thing ever??

We already love her so much, and the Monkey Boy is beyond happy. She is a member of our household, and stuck with us. The poor thing (we are a bunch of nerds).

Here's another picture:


She makes me exercise and I don't even realize it. She's 5 1/2 months old and a Corgi/Terrier mix (we think). We rescued her from a local shelter and she has completely stolen our hearts. She is going to make it easier for me to get up early to walk. I just need to train her to walk, cause she doesn't like her leash at this point :).

The Monkey Boy, Pebbles and I have been playing hard all day. That's great exercise, just in case you didn't know :).

The other thing that I did for exercise was my hubby's BFF came over with his spiff-o-matic Dyson ball vacuum thing, and I got to clean. Twice. That thing is different. I can feel my arms are a little tired/sore and that is awesome. We want one. It's expensive though. But it's worth it. Words can't describe the work it does. You have to see it for yourself. I swear that I could hear angels singing in a perfect octave when I was vacuuming. It is awesome.

Anyway gotta get to sleep for work in the AM. Have a great night! Make tomorrow count!

I can do this. I am a star.

The other thing that I did for