my own spring break

Well I've decided to take the last week and this week off. Easter and Spring Break just did a number on me and I need some time to regroup. Get my head into the game again. I just am feeling so depressed about weight loss right now. Maybe it's spring around the corner, and with that swimsuit season? Winter blues?
I'll be reading your blogs though, that is my strength so maybe I'll be back sooner. I should have time this weekend to think. :)
Thanks for understanding and the support!

Cues from an Ostridge

Sorry that I have been M.I.A. lately. I have been busy avoiding blogging to be honest. And I know this week will be just as bad so I am ducking my head into the sand and I'll be back next week. Tomorrow I'll update though. I promise.

WEEK THREE

Well week THREE is upon me and I have yet to meet fully any of my goals. And yet I do not feel totally discouraged. If nothing else I feel more motivated this week, then before. Yes it's taking me longer than I thought it would be to get back into the swing of things, but at least it is on my mind and I am trying. So I do feel like I am making progress, even if it is at the slowest possible rate. One day at a time...
SO lets do a little re-cap of the past week. and my goals for it.

• Cardio 5 times for 30 min, I did it 3 times for 30 min
• Strength 3 times, I did it 1 time
• Yoga 3 times, I did it 1 time
• Push/Sit ups 5 times, I did it twice.

Not terrible but a step in the right direction. I do not think that these goals are too off base and I am going to leave them for this week as well. But I am going to add 5 minutes onto the cardio workouts. And I am going to add drinking water daily. I'm not sure how much I need to drink a day, I've heard 8 glasses but what really is 8 glasses? I just wanted to add something that would be good for me that didn't only involve working out.

I also took some sound advice from a blogger and am going to go more by measurements vs. actual weight loss. I think if I switch my focus I might be happier with my progress than purely the numbers on the scale. While I was thinking about this I remembered all my cute summer clothes that I have, tons and tons of capri's and cute sundresses that are just too tight, if I can even get them up at all! And I'm just going to work toward getting back into those, instead of worrying about the numbers. I just really am sick of thinking of myself in pounds I am more than just a number on the scale and I need to remember that.

So here's to a new week!

Workout Buddy

I feel like I have found THE secret to working out hard. Shh promise to share with everyone you know? Okay good, here it goes, are you ready??? Work out with someone! I know world shaking stuff, okay so maybe it's not new news but like so many things that I have heard and read over and over it does help. Let me tell you why, I for the first time am flying with one girl "Ginger" ( her nickname from Gillian's Island aka the Movie Star) and I told her I needed to workout. So we made a pack, and so we help each other when we are on layovers to go and workout in the hotels gyms. No ifs, ands, or buts! Not only did we workout (yea me!) but it made me want to work out harder than she was, it was challenging to short of gauge yourself against someone else. And it's not social hour, we plug in our ipods and we go for it. Now I was a soul workout girl for at least the last 5 years, which is also when I put on a good bit of my weight. So just maybe does this little bit of info that we all hear is so good for us, to have someone to workout with really has it's merits. SO if you are a solo workout girl, give it a try. It could be a group class, the lady down the street, anyone! Really what do you have to lose but a few calories along the way?

Week 2 update

Well better a day late than never. And so gos the bad news, I gained .5lbs. Am I surprised? No. Will it happen this next week? No. I didn't even make all my exercise goals, as you can tell with the weight gain. It might be a little bit to do with T.O.M as well...


SO this next week I believe my goals are as follows:

• Workout 30 minutes 5 times


• Do 3 strength training days


• Do 3 yoga/pilate's
  
• Do sit ups and push ups for 5 days
• Lose 1.5 pounds

All is the same except the sit ups and push ups. Which I believe will be my March New Years Resolution. You see this year I decided to do something different as far as new years resolutions go, seeing how you always fail after January is over I decided that I would make a new N.Y.R. every month, and so far so good. It is much easier to think of only having to do this one thing for a month vs. all year long. And here is the kicker, after you do things for what is it 2 or 3 weeks it's a habit. So really this has been the best and easiest way so far to get my goals done. I'm going to just pick something new every month that I want to work on and give it a month, so for this month it is going to be 25 sit/push ups 5 days a week. If it's too hard or easy I'll adjust as necessary. So here it goes!