Chuggin' Along

Did my pushups and my run this morning. I finished day 1 of the running program. Feeling pretty good. On the way to doing well with my water too: almost finished with the first water bottle of the day!

Interestingly, I'm not nearly as hungry when I work out a lot. Andy says that it's completely normal, and happens because the blood moves to the extremities and away from the stomach. So I get to be less hungry. It's a great arrangement: I'm less hungry so I eat less, then I get to weigh less after a while!

Week 1 Day 3: 25 pushups.
Day 1: Run 1 Walk 2, x10.

Word of Wisdom Wednesday

Modern Molly Mormon is hosting a meme dealing with living the Word of Wisdom as a lifestyle choice. In introducing their meme they say "The Word of Wisdom is not just a set of guidelines, but also a lifestyle. We will have a monthly challenge, and I'll also post different topics for us to dive into it deeper." This seems to me to be very much what we are about on this blog, so I thought I'd do play along this week! The theme right now is walking and drinking water.

Although I know better, I've badly fallen off the water-drinking wagon. All my water-drinking habits were sedentary ones and I find that as the mother of an active two year old, I'm not terribly sedentary any more! I miss it. In addition to everything else that water does that's wonderful, it makes my skin and hair great and I haven't been very happy with either of them, of late. I guess that since I've been barely drinking anything that makes some sense. Several years ago my father-in-law (a chiropractor) told me that I should drink a quart for every 50 pounds I weigh. It's a lot of water, but it makes such an amazing difference when I do it!

So here's my resolution: to drink a gallon a day. It's going to be a while before I get down to a weight where I need less, even assuming that I do get some good momentum going and start loosing as quickly as I want to. And a little extra water isn't a problem, so I'm just going to aim for a nice round gallon. It's exactly what I need now, and as I start loosing a little extra can only be good for me.

As far as my running is going, I missed today. Andy was gone, and there wasn't enough nap time before my piano students got here to do running and a shower, so I was out of luck. But I did get my pushups in for the pushup challenge: 19 in total today, though not at all consecutively.

More water would help with the sore muscles. It would also help with the weight loss. Water's cool like that.

8 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, I admit that I've let the crazy stress of my life distract me slightly from the working out business. (though, not completely.. so I'll still fit in my dress) :) However, in looking at my calendar this week and realizing that tomorrow is my very last Thursday as a single woman, I've gotten a healthy dose of renewed diligence. So, Monday I went back to the gym for the first time in a little while and this morning I went back to my morning breakfast shake routine (which is ever so much healthier than a bagel lathered in cream cheese or peanut butter cap'n crunch) and I've been focusing on having healthier snacks.

However, for whatever reason, today I am STARVING!!! I generally have two snacks throughout the day and that's perfect, but it's an hour and a half until lunch I'm already on my second! First is almonds and craisons.. YUM! For the second, I snagged an apple and sliced it up and at work they've got this little personal portions of peanut butter that is perfect for dipping without going overboard. MMMMmmmm.. peanut butter.

Anyway, but today I'm hitting the gym again. Seriously, this wedding is an amazing motivator! I'll just have to be sure to not let myself stop once it is past and life calms down and the holidays set in. We'll have to be sure to keep cheering each other on!!!

Starting Again

It's been so long since I did any serious running or other exercise on any kind of regular basis that I'm going to just start new. So today Andy and I did the 100 pushups challenge. Day 1 isn't so bad. I'm off to start on Day 1 of the running program that I was doing before: Run 1 Walk 2.

I weighed myself yesterday and I'm 200 pounds.

These are my current measurements:

Over bust: 38 3/4
Bust: 43
Waist: 37 1/4
Hips: 44 1/2

And here's the link to the running program, so that I can find it again: my printed copy has disappeared.

How is everyone else doing?

100 Push-ups Program: Any Takers?

So, muscle burns more, looks better, and push-ups do a fine job of building not only the pectorals & triceps (chest & back of upper arms), but also the core: the belly & sides of your body. Plus, it should make it easier to lift heavy stuff. Not to mention the coolness factor of being able to say that you can do 100 push-ups!

So, I did the initial test today and barely made it into their "level 2" category doing some knee push-ups. (They also suggest several other varieties for those who can't do knee push-ups, up to and including wall push-ups.) And there was no nose scraping the ground here either: I don't generally manage to make a very deep push-up. But I did do 6 of them before I felt like I wasn't going to get any further without risk of suddenly introducing my nose to the ground.

So, now that I've taken my test, I can start the program. I'm debating on if I want to do level 1 or level 2, even though I technically did enough to "qualify" for level 2. But the worst case scenario is to re-do the first week, which wasn't a problem when I was doing the running! (Speaking of running, anyone want to start that with me again? I'm missing it, and more importantly, I'm missing the results it was getting me.)

So, I like the Monday-Wednesday-Friday idea they have for when to do the push-ups, and if I wait until Monday to do it, maybe someone will do it with me? Buddies are always nice. A built-in cheerleader. Anyone wanna play?

Strength Training

I'm thinking about doing this 100 Pushups thing. It's 6 weeks to 100 pushups. Anybody else want to do it with me?

Also, I'm starting to see downward movement on the scale again. Down about 3 pounds this week, but I like to think that 2 of those pounds are water weight, so then I don't count them.

Building Steam

I got up this morning and did some yoga. It was pretty nice! Didn't take too long, and I felt pretty good when it was done. I'll have to decide tomorrow if I'm going to do more yoga or if I'm going to make another effort at jumping back into running, but either way I'm starting to build up some steam again, which is really nice!

Taking my measurements again for the dress I'm making was pretty frustrating; I'd lost pretty much all the ground I gained when I was running. Plus, I haven't been drinking water, so I'm also up a couple pounds of water weight. At least, I hope it's water weight! That kind is so much easier to get rid of! In any case, I'm working on things again.

Early Class

Well today was the second week I went to the 5:30AM class at that gym. Dave thinks I'm crazy. He may be right. But it was much easier this week than last week. To get there and actually in the class. Although, there was one brief moment that I almost turned around and went back to bed. I looked at my clock and realized I was going to be 5 minutes late... again. I really didn't want to walk in late 2 weeks in a row. BUT! I did it! Had a good workout and rushed home and got ready for work. 

PS. I fell asleep at work. Oops. :)