5 posts tagged “exercise”

I just got done using my treadmill. I really love using it, especially knowing I have to increase levels to make it work me. I have now increased to level 3 in the basic iFit workout  and I love when I get to the run parts.
I don't love the sweat. I am DRENCHED! That really sucks. I do this up to 4 X a day though mostly only 2. Can you imagine? I am not about to take 4 showers a day. I'd be in the shower or on the treadmill the entire day.
Current workout is a walk, run, walk with increased incline up to 8%. 2 miles in 30 minutes, which doesn't sound too hard on the surface but it's the incline that kills. If I were young with healthier joints it might be easier but I'm not, damnit! I'm just grateful I got a treadmill I can adjust for joints. I do like the flexibility of the ifit program. I hadn't thought that a huge issue but I am not motivated enough to want to make up my own workout so having a program to do it is wonderful.

Weekends are not easy for me to update or post here or anywhere else. Too much has to be done and too many other commitments. In other words family. David is home from Thursday afternoon until Monday morning since he has only a 4 day school week. Ron came home as usual Friday afternoon and we  spent the weekend shopping in Terrace and also cleaning up the rest of the garden stuff.  Of course  the garden clean up happened after we got our first snow. We were big bums this year not getting around to it before snow. Still, the snow came a bit early so maybe we should have considered that could happen? I dunno.

I have decided to take a new position with regard to losing the extra weight. I have a 2 liter bottle of water. I will drink the whole thing daily and on top of that I am taking an herbal thing to do a cleanse of my system. If I see no improvements after 2 weeks I am going to head to the doctor and see if there is a hormonal thing going on. Not losing weight for an entire month even though I have upped the exercise regime as well as continued to eat cautiously means something is going on that I can't really know the answer to automatically. I will have to divide and conquer! HA
I do think giving it a little time and then making an appointment with the doctor is best. At least if there is something going on I'll be able to figure it out.

We watched the most bizarre movie on the weekend. An old-ish one with Robin Williams called "The Final Cut". Very dark and  strange. It is not a movie I would recommend to anyone either. Too weird.

I better go do my exercises. I am walking at 7 and hoping the bears have either gone to sleep or will be moved back to the bush for the day since to them it would be 8 still instead of 7. Usually before kids head off to school the bears are moved out of town. They do it all instinctively, I guess. I will just be so grateful when they are gone for winter. I hate them taking up my morning time and forcing me to walk later. It's like I delay my whole day just because they are here.

Later!

I know, I've looked at the posts, but here's the reality. I live in BFE Canada and we don't have a big name gym. We're lucky we have any kind of gym. I don't want to squawk but is that place just trying to inspire  members to join? Again it's not that it matters to me as I don't live anywhere close to it and I'm sure as hell not flying anywhere just to use a gym. The only reason I found them was because I was looking up weightloss posts and voila! There they were.

Here's what my day has in store for me and how I deal with my need to exercise:

Wake up 4:45, have a coffee with hubby, brush teeth and have breakfast, usually bran, fibre 1, oatmeal, get his lunch ready, kiss him and up until today I left the house for my walk with my urban poles. I walk hard for 30 minutes.
When I get home I turn the computer on, grab a cup of coffee and sit down to check email and do whatever else I might need to do prior to David getting up.  Once David is up I make beds, start laundry, get his breakfast after he's done with his shower or hair or whatever the bathroom time requires.
8:10 we go out of the house get in the car head for the school after a brief stop to pick up classmate J. Once they are dropped off I come home,  do crunches and stairs. I do 15 step ups to the second step and back down with each leg then go lie down doing 15 crunches then back for another shot at the stairs and then back to crunches. After I have completed this round I usually have my morning snack which consists of maybe a scoop of peanut butter and a pear or apple and if not that then I will have a half a pbj sandwich with unsweetened jam and natural peanut butter. I NEVER use more than a tblsp of pb and j. Ever. I also intermittently drink water as I pass through the kitchen I always try to grab a 8 ounce glass of it.
When this is done I usually go back to the computer and write here, I listen to podcasts, explore, basically I play and usually have a shower in one of these less regimented periods of time. After this it's time to pick David up for lunch.
Lunch is from 11:45-12:30 and usually consists of a sandwich of some sort, maybe meat like turkey, sometimes it's a half can of tuna and some lettuce or maybe it's just veggies. On occasion I will eat left overs from the night before, but only if it was fried rice which is hard to explain but it's not rice that's fried but veggies that are sort of in olive oil and it usually has half a pack of bacon with the fat cut off and drained for the rest, and when the veggies are cooked in the ginger and cayenne pepper the rice is added and it's done. OMG I'm hungry now! 
When I get home I fold laundry, vacuum, watch tv, maybe start prep work for dinner depending on what we are having and how many things have to be peeled, sliced, cut up etc. Ron usually arrives home at 2:45 and we talk briefly, he has a slurp of coffee, we have a quick snack of yogurt, maybe a granola bar, (quaker has some with 7 or less sugars) and we head out for walk #2 for my day. We get home just before David comes home from school with J's mom around 3:45-4:00. 
Now it's dinner prep time for instance a typical dinner would be spaghetti with meat sauce, lowfat because I use lean meat and drain it before adding the tomato sauce and seasonings, the pasta might also be whole grain though no one quite gets into it as much so just as likely it's regular pasta, we would also be having a salad, baby greens or something as well as a more traditional frozen veggie like corn or peas. David's fave is green beans, and of course we do have dressings with our salad. I make ranch dressing with no fat mayo, no fat sour cream, skim milk and uncle Dan's ranch dressing mix. We eat dinner typically around 5-5:30. After dinner we go over to Ron's parents to visit with them for an hour or so, usually home by 7:30. We now have just enough time to sit and watch a bit of tv, eat our bedtime snack and clean up the kitchen the rest of the way. Then it's headed to bed around 8:30 for teeth brush, snuggles and book on ipod  and sleep.

I don't know if this is normal. I don't even care if it is or not but I believe I do a lot of physical activity and yet I also enjoy my life. In other words it's balanced pretty well to suit me. I'd be curious to see what sorts of things others eat throughout the day and stuff. I love fruits and veggies so those are almost always on hand to munch. I have lost close to 50 pounds since the end of February so if this is what made it possible then I can continue doing it. It seems pretty responsible.

I always walk at first in the morning when Ron goes to work. I walk the second time when he comes home in the afternoon. He is with me then. This morning I decided I would change things up a bit and walk later on in the morning, doing my crunches first. Good thing I did.

Ron was getting ready to leave and I opened the front door. The cat went running out. Ron and I stood at the front door step saying good-bye like normal and then he went to his car. I yelled to watch out for bears. He got in, started it and began to pull out of the driveway. All of a sudden the cat turned tail and came running back in the house. Her tail was puffed up and I looked across the street to the playbush area and there was a big bear just ambling along, not a care in the world. Ron noticed it so he backed up and turned his headlights toward it.

This was the second bear I have seen since I started out my early morning walks, 7 weeks ago now I think. I had been a little scared off after running into the other one while I was out. Let's face it, at 6 in the morning there are not a lot of people out and about in a town of 10k.

When I ran into the first bear twice it kind of scared me. I sort of took a couple of days and went later on my walk. Soon enough I was back to my early morning walking. I have come to the conclusion I don't want to take those kind of chances though. I know it is unlikely the bears will come after me but I also know if one did I wouldn't stand a chance! I have no interest in being a long winters snack for any bear. Exercise be damned, I intend walking later. I think with my luck it might just be saving my life to wait. It would also appear that I may be making a good choice in changing up things. I can't seem to lose weight in my current state. Apparently, according to multiple sources, I need to change my routine up in order to get better weightloss results now. I hope this does it.

I still have not figured out what my blog should be, what it should represent, should it be completely who I am or more private? What is my purpose for writing here? What is the reason I participate here? I have yet to figure this out but it's coming. I promise.

On a personal note it is now 6 weeks since I quit smoking and suprisingly enough it feels no different today than it did 6 weeks ago. Well, other than the fact that I'm not so grumpy! I think everyone is happy about this change. I know David is.

I am still not losing any weight. I seem to go between 178 and 182. I don't know what makes my weight fluctuate so muchthough I assume it is water, but what prevents me from dropping below 180 and staying there is the thing that disturbs me most. I work hard everyday trying to lose weight. I eat around 1500 calories a day and exercise by morning poles, that means walking 30 minutes with my cross country ski poles, I then do a rotation of stair climbs and crunches. Late afternoon I do another 30 minute walk with poles. What is wrong with my routine? Why am I not losing weight?

I guess Christmas may not see me down to my target weight of 164. That makes me feel defeated even before I start!