2011 challenge

Alright to all my friends, relatives, people who read this, friends of people who read this acquaintances . . . basically any one who wants to . . .

1000 Mile Challenge 

 Sometimes in order to get yourself moving you need a goal set for yourself . . . I'm setting that goal for myself, and you should set it for yourself as well. And a little competition never hurt anyone :)

Whats the goal ????  . . . to walk/run/bike 1000  miles through the 2011 year. This a not a resolution you can fail the first week of the year (and be honest, most of us fail at being consistent with our resolutions). I really highly encourage people to participate in this . . . its not difficult . . . just walk, go to the gym, take a bike ride . . . simple right. Just track what you do . . . . make it a goal to reach 1000 miles within the year (that's 20 miles a week . . . which seems a lot . . . but its not :) )

There are 4 people I want to do this with  me . . . I'm not gonna say names but you better believe I'm gonna ask you if you read this.
Theres one person I think should pass this along to others . . . again no names ;)

Doing this does not mean that you have to workout and kill yourself everyday, it just means you gotta put a little effort towards getting a little bit of workout in your day . . .



Believe me some days I feel like this . . .

 . . . the second I get out to workout.

However . . . 

If I wanna look like this . . . 

. . . I better get my booty going ;)

I love . . .

Things I love . . .

1. Being able to post in this that I accomplished a mission (which I did . . . read on and I'll explain)
2. Knee High Socks . . . I love them, I love how they keep you warm, I love how they look with my workout pants, I love them :)
3. My puppy and how hes so excited when I come home, probably more to go to the bathroom than to see me, but I"ll take what I can get
4. Home cooked meals, having enough food in the fridge or cabinets in order to make something (right now chili is cookin)
5. Baking and then giving what I made to others . . . I just like the activity, I dont so much like having the sweets all over my apartment. 
6. Compliments . . . whether its someone tellin me I did a good job, or saying I look good, telling me my baked goods are awesome, or whatever . . . compliments directed towards me are things I love.

Just felt the need to focus on the simple pleasures of my life today.

Soooo accomplishment . . . this is from Dec. 1
"Tonight my trainer gave me a decent cardio plan . . . something that he honestly thinks I can do (if i can really do it . . . we'll see), I've decided to make it my goal . . . mark my words by Dec. 31 I will be completing this goal

Run 1600 meters ( 1 mile)
Rest 3 minutes
Run 1200 meters (.75 mile)
Rest 2 minutes
Run 800 meters (.5 mile)
Rest 1 minute
Run 400 meters (.25 mile)"

Today is Dec. 28th and I was able to accomplish this mission . . . :) Smile for me . . . I added my own little twist, but alas I ran the 2.5 miles required for this act :)

What I did . . . 
Jog 1 mile @ 5.0
Rest 5 min walk @ 3.3
Jog .75  mile @ 5.0
Rest 5 min walk @ 3.3
Jog .5 mile @ 5.0
Rest 5 min walk @ 3.3
Jog .25 mile @ 5.0
This got me to about 3.3 miles . . .
The remaining mile uphill downhill @ 3.6
Calories burned: 775

What I ate . . . 
Hand full of dark chocolate
cheese sandwhich
protein bar
oodles of water
(i'm about to go eat me some chips and chili . . . yummmm)

I KNOW I didnt eat enough today b/c at like 6:30p I felt like I was going to pass out I even told my mother who's comment was "wanna get some fries" . . . I would have, but I have chili cookin at home and i LOVE my chili. :)

I did it :)

Well sorta . . .

10:30 this AM i debated over going to Lifetime . . . this is what happened in my mind . .

I should go to Lifetime, I wonder what time they close, maybe they close at like 1, if they close at 1 then theres not really that much time for me to go. I'll call . . . . oh they close at 3, thats cool that they open tmr at 3. I was pretty sure they wouldnt open again until Sunday. That means I could work out tomorrow. MMMM my body is sore from the last two days, I sorta need a day off . . . but will I really workout Christmas night, its not like I'll be at my parents all night. Well maybe I'll be at my parents all day Christmas. Man I really dont want to workout today. However, if I go in today, then I dont have to go in again until Sunday. Bah! Nope I"m going in before 11.

Then some huge drama happened that lasted for about 20 minutes and that really motivated me to go in.

I'm pretty proud of myself, I was able to jog a whole mile. I havent done that since Aug. so . . . go me!
What I did . . . 
2.5 miles jog/walk
- 1 mile jog @ 5.0 then 4 min walk @ 3.3
- 5 min jog @ 5.0 then 3 min walk @ 3.3
- 3 min jog then 3 min walk
- 3 min jog then 3 min walk
1 mile uphill/downhill walk @ 3.6
35 min elliptical
total calories burned: 950
(If you've been keeping track that makes 3500 calories burned this week)

Alright I'm off to go celebrate the holidays . . . .

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all that read this blog :)

Just the facts

Boring post today but i'm only posting the facts.


What I did . . . 
2 mile jog/walk (a little run, a little walk, a little jog)
30 minute bike
35 minute elliptical
total calories burned: 950

What I ate . . . 
2 bagels
fries
veggie corn dogs
ravioli

I'm super tired and annoyed with snow and men, i'm saying good night!

Productive!!!!

Yesterday was way not productive, I think I took like 3 naps, woke up late in the day, convinced myself not to go workout and then ate whatever I felt like.

Today however was productive . . . my deeds today
1. Worked out
2. Christmas shopping
3. Wrapped Christmas gifts
4. Made butter cookies
5. Attempting to convince myself to make hockey pucks

Ok so #5 hasnt occured yet . . . but still those 4 are tedious things and to accomplish them between the hours of 10:45 and 7pm is a big task.

I bought myself a cookie press today and made butter cookies, I'm pretty proud of them so I'm going to display some picturage.

cookies before

new cookie press

cookies after . . . delicious!

cookies prior baking

What I did . . .
10 minute elliptical
training (totally need to try doing what I did today once this weekend )
2 mile jog/walk (5.0/3.3)
- 9 min jog/3 min walk
- 6 min jog/2 min walk
- 3 min jog/ 2 min walk
1 mile uphill/downhill walk @ 3.5

I need to get to the jogging goal I had . . . I have about two weeks . . . eeek

What I ate . . .
Lucky Charms (they were so good)
Wendy's Fries (these were not good)
Chips and Dip

I didnt eat well today at all . . . I dont know when I'm gonna get back to eating regular. We'll see if that'll happen soon :)

5 things

Today is my first day of vacation. I can tell ya that its 4:30pm and I'm already bored . . . I dont do well with unstructured time and sometimes I go off the deep end and do stupid stuff.

Heres what I did today . . .

1. I worked out. I woke up and my ankle hurt badly when I walked so I avoided running, however I still made myself do a decent workout.
What I did . . . 
30 min bike (7.5 miles)
40 minutes elliptical (2.5 miles)

2. I had a new protein bar. It had the brand snickers on it so i assumed it was going to be good.

Not bad . . . the bar was really thick and fudgy . . . took me about 20 minutes to eat it. I bought a 6 pack so I'll be eating them again :)

3. I called it off with a guy. I was going down a track that Paul had laid awhile back and it just dawned on me today that I was going down that track again . . . as much as I think it'll work with this guy, I cant let myself go down that track again. You cant start to like someone based just on phone conversations, at some point you actually have to follow through with a date. I'm just tired to being the one walked all over and dealing with the cancellations. So I decided to take charge and say . . . "no, this isn't happening, have a good life" . . . its taken all my will not to call and try to justify my reasons.

4. I spent hours on the phone with a best friend trying to figure out how to change my life and trying to get her to not be so pessimistic . . . . shes still pessimistic but I'm still gonna work on her to turn it down ;)

5. Took a shower. I dont really have a 5th, theres a few things I should do . . . go shopping, help my folks shovel, make hockey pucks . . . however I'm not entirely up to doing any of that :) I kind of want to go workout again, however I think I'll be doing lots of that this week.

What I ate . . . 
protein bar (280 - 21)
3 giant onion rings (no idea)

I'm not really hungry today. Hopefully that keeps up these next two weeks and i'll have lost the 10lbs this month that I wanted to lose (I'm about 4lbs done ;) )

5 am

I'm pretty proud of myself. This morning I woke up at 4:35 in order to get in a 5am workout. It wasn't all that hard :)

What I did . . .
2.5 mile jog/walk (3.6/5.0 2min/6min)
1 mile uphill/downhill walk @ 3.6
Total Calories burned: 600

I entered myself in a 12 week Biggest Loser deal at work back in the fall. Today is the last weigh in and I'm pretty sure throughout the 12 weeks I've lost 4 big ones . . . not a significant loss :(
Theres talk about doing it again in the spring . . . but not sure if i want to invest $20 again to lose a small amount of weight . . . . we'll see.