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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Day Fifty-Seven

Today we took the dogs for a walk on the beach and let them go swimming. Then it got kind of cold and windy so I went to the gym. I decided to add a little to my workout and ride my bike to the gym. It's exactly one mile to the gym from my house.


Today's Workout:
1 Hour on the Eliptical
2 Miles on my bike
3 x 15 squats
3 x 15 calf raises
3 x 15 chest press
100 crunches
50 lower ab - modified bicycle
25 pushups
Stretching

I felt really good after my workout. And it was fun to ride my bike too. I didn't weigh myself today because I'm pretty sure I've gained back like five of the ten pounds I had lost. So sad! I just need to keep going and be more dedicated and I'll be back on track!

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Day Fifty-Six

Today was so nice out and still sunny at 6:30 when I got home. I decided to just hurry, change my clothes and go running. So I ran about three miles in 24 minutes. And I'm so glad I did! Followed by 100 crunches and 20 push ups.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Day Fifty-Five

Oh how time flies. I can't believe it's the first day of Spring already! You know what that means, summer is right around the corner! Time to really kick it up a notch, I just need it to be April 15 so my life can get back to normal. It is quite a challenge to work 60 hours a week, prepare healthy dinners every night, keep a clean house, workout 5 days a week, try to squeeze in a shower (or two!), grocery shop, do the laundry, pay bills, and maintain any level of sanity! I'm about to loose it! I'm just completely worn out. One more month, I keep telling myself that. One more month. I have to force myself to go to the gym now. I do feel better after my workout, but all I can think about at the gym is everything else that I should be doing. It's impossible to do everything and having to pick out what I can do is very hard. It's like I can be successful at work and look good, while my housekeeping falls apart and relationships suffer, or I can be a good homemaker but gain 20 pounds and my work suffers. Where's the balance? I am at my breaking point. I don't know how much longer I can keep up like this. A month...feels like forever. And to make matters worse I am an emotional eater, don't know when that started but it's true. When I'm stressed I want food, don't care what kind or how much. And I'm exhausted which means more coffee and soda which means more sugar. I am basically going to the gym right now to maintain my weight which totally sucks. And since my workouts are typically much shorter than they were a month ago not much improvement is happening as far as toning and definition goes. Which makes working out discouraging because nothing is happening. So I get stressed about that, it's a sick cycle.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Day Fifty-Four

Lunch-Break Workout:
45 minutes on eliptical
100 crunches
20 pushups
Stretching
Not much, but better than nothing!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Day Fifty-Three

Where does the time go? I can't believe it's been a week already and I haven't worked out at all. I feel terrible about it. I was doing so good and I totally fell off the wagon. I have no excuse, well, actually I have tons of excuses; working a lot, I'm tired, I needed to clean house, want some kind of social life, nothing to wear, ipod is dead, I could go on. Time to reset the priorities, again! And today is going to be a rough workout, since I haven't gone in a week. Or did I, I may have gone Monday night, either way, it's been a long time! The good news is it's St. Patricks day, so hopefully the gym will be empty!

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Day Forty-Five

I am kind of sore today after surfing all day yesterday. But now I know what muscles I need to work on at the gym this week!

Today's Workout:
3 Mile run on the beach
Stairs

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Day Forty-Four

Today's workout was my favorite of all time! We spent the whole afternoon surfing. It is such an amazing workout, it looks so easy that you just don't realize how hard it really is. The waves are still very big so just swimming out past the breakers is a serious workout. By the time I get out there my arms are burning and I can definitely feel my heart rate going up. The reason today was my favorite workout is because when we got out past the breakers, we (me, James and our friend Ryan) were all sitting on our boards talking and an entire school of dolphins came swimming by! They were so close! Like 10-20 feet away! It was absolutely the most amazing this I've ever seen. They were pretty big, and all gray. After surfing for about an hour I noticed another school of dolphins swimming by. This school was even closer and all black, so close if I had been off my board I probably could have touched them. Just an amazing day! I decided that we need to get a waterproof digital camera for our surfing pictures and so we can hopefully get some of the dolphins we see too.


This is exactly what it looked like when we saw the dolphins, so close! I can't wait to go out again!

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Day Forty-Three

Lunch break workout.

45 Mins. on Eliptical
30 pushups
100 crunches
stretching
back to work

rushed!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Day Forty-Two

I love my new gym. I love that each piece of cardio equipment has a little tv on it. It is so nice to be able to catch up on my favorite shows and work out at the same time. It definitely makes the time fly by and it's a lot better than listening to the same crap on my ipod over and over. I need some new music, but it's so hard to find good stuf, especially something you can work out to. So tonight I did my cardio and watched one of my favorite shows ever 'What Not To Wear'. I love that show!! It's shorts weather here already so I did weight training on my legs tonight. And sit ups. No arms today.
Today's Workout
1 hour Eliptical
4x15 Hamstring Curl (30lbs)
4x15 Leg Extension (30lbs)
4x15 Squats (45lbs)
100 Bosu situps

Monday, March 3, 2008

Day Forty-One

Today I went to the gym during my lunch break. Last week when I would show up around 6:30 after work the place was just packed, and we all know if I go home after work I just can't make myself leave again to back. So I'm trying something new, I'm going at lunch for an hour and then working a little bit later at night, and if I'm up for it around 7 I'll try going back for an hour.

Today's Workout:
45 Minutes Eliptical
3/15 Chest Press
3x15 Tricep Extensions
3x15 Hamstring curls w/ 15lb weights

I decided to check in at the scale, I guess I was in a good mood or something. But I'm pretty stoked because I've lost 10 pounds!!

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Day Forty

Today was one of those perfect So. Cal days. Sunny and 70's. I went for a short run on the beach this morning and then to the gym after laying out and reading for a few hours.
Today's Workout
30 minutes Running
45 minutes Eliptical

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Day Thirty-Nine

Today's Workout
1 hour Eliptical
3x15 Chest Press
3x15 Tricep Pushups
100 crunches