Wednesday

Happy Hump Day!

Just completed another 5k walk on the treadmill - working toward my operation fat buster goal! Tonight I managed to do the 5k in 61:39 - quite an improvement over Sunday's time....I need to work on pacing myself a little better though...I think I'm going to try the walk/jog intervals to mix things up a little bit - I really want to learn to jog the entire distance and know how to pace myself. Baby steps!

I'm sure looking forward to the long weekend coming up... I need a little break from the office boredom - summers are sure slow! Because it's a long weekend I think I'm going to weigh in on Friday at lunch hour rather than Saturday morning - so hopefully that won't affect my weight loss too much!

I've been doing really well lately at getting all of my fruit and veggie servings in each day. I'm almost having a hard time eating all of my ww points without turning to junk at the end of the day... I really need to work on incorporating the healthy oils into my daily routine/foods - that will add a couple more points, but if anyone has any other recommendations on how to eat all of my points without turning to junk, I'd love to hear them! I find with sweets and 'junk' food, once I start eating them it's really hard for me to stop, but if I never have it in the first place, I definitely don't crave it.

DH tempted me this week with a nice big container of Costco cookies....I've been very good so far and haven't had ANY of them...I'm very proud of myself! I think I deserve a gold star at my meeting this week for that one! :)

Well, off to package my lunch up for tomorrow and get ready for bed, nite all!

~Lindsay

Operation: Fat Blaster

As you have probably noticed in the blogroll on the side of my blog, I've joined Operation Fat Blaster - you should join too! My goal is to be able to run most of the 5K Canadian Breast Cancer 'Run for the cure' in October. I just completed a 5k walk tonight on the treadmill. It took me 65:14 for the 5k - averaging a little longer than a 20 minute mile. My goal is to shorten the time it takes to do the 5k - I'm going to actually strive to run the entire thing, which should be doable if I push myself and train for it, however, I do have a lot of work to do!

I'm going to post a weekly Operation Fat Buster challenge update and fill you in on my progress - wish me luck! :) Looking forward to it!

Lindsay

What a Weekend!!!

I must apologize for my absence the past few days...it turned out to be a busy week at the end of last week! I've got so many things to blog about!

I made an amazing 3D Spiderman birthday cake for my friend's son's 5th birthday party - it turned out great, but I spent 3 days making it!!!

I also applied for a new job - so fingers crossed that I will get an interview!

My weigh in on Saturday was pretty good - down just .6, but it is a loss nonetheless. My total lost is 9.2 so far. Long ways to go, but as long as the downward trend continues, I'm happy!

I just finished up an hour on the treadmill - my first 'real' exercise since last Wednesday. This week my goal is to try to workout each day, instead of the first few days of the week and then slack for the rest of the week...

Well, off to get ready for work tomorrow - Monday already!! At least next weekend is a long weekend!

Nite all!

Just an OK day today...

I've had one of 'those' days today, just not feeling up to much of anything...my hubby had to work late and by the time he got home and we had dinner, I really didn't feel like doing a big workout. We did end up taking it a little easier tonight - just took the dogs for about a 1/2 hour walk, rather than an hour-long treadmill session tonight, but I'll be back at it tomorrow! It is supposed to be a beautiful day here tomorrow so I may even get up early to take the dogs out before work!

I'd appreciate any tips on dragging my butt out of bed in the morning - I just love to stay in bed snoozing, but at the same time I really like getting my workout in first thing in the morning so it is out of the way!! When do you workout? This is something I'm still struggling with - and I amd working on getting it scheduled into my regular daily routine - just need to find the perfect fit!

Tomorrow is Wednesday....I'm going to convince hubby to help me move the treadmill from the back bedroom to the tv room so I will have no excuses not to be on it while watching tv. Need to get a new wheel for my elliptical too!

Have a great evening!

~Lindsay

Oops!

In my eagerness to torture myself yet again (LOL), I jumped on the elliptical again tonight to get another hour in...it was going well until I kinda broke it about 10 minutes in! Normally I would have said, "oh well, guess I'm done for tonight" - but this time I decided to dust off the treadmill and jumped on there for an hour. I was able to increase my calories burned from my hour workout yesterday...yesterday 660, today 700!! I am aiming to eventually burn 1000 calories in a workout, as Valerie and Kristen (and Lex, I think?) have all been recommending in their Blog posts.

So I'm kind of getting the hang of this blogging thing. I have lots of ideas of future blog posts - just need to get them all out of my head and into a post!

Now to drag hubby away from the PS3 and take the dogs to the park to play some ball! Nite all!

~Lindsay

I did it!

After reading Valerie's blog post this morning (http://valeriesaccountabilitypage.blogspot.com/), I was super motivated and determined to workout for an hour. I laced up my shoes, set up my fan (it's around 30 degrees celcius here today - and we don't have Air Conditioning!), grabbed my Ipod and bottle of water and jumped on the elliptical for a full 60 minutes! I am so proud of myself. I have never pushed myself like this before and I'm beaming with pride.

The entire time I was working out, wanting to quit, I kept saying to myself, if they can do it, I can too - I needed to push myself. I did and it felt great! I am going to continue to do this at least a few times per week!

Happy Sunday all!

~Lindsay

July 18th Weigh In....

Well, this weeks weigh in did not go as I had anticipated it to - I was up a couple of pounds. Normally I would feel frustrated, and annoyed, and I am somewhat, but I am starting to feel as if this is just a small stumbling block. After all, I've only just started incorporating exercise into my daily routine, so I feel like it is going to take a couple of weeks for my body to regulate and get used to it. I am going to keep my chin up, stay strong and motivated. Here's to a great week!

Lindsay