Whew!  I remember to post when I was done working out.  Today was legs/back and ab ripper.  Ugh.  I’m exhausted and my body hurts.  I did all of both DVD’s except the pull-ups.  I really can not do even a single pull-up.  I need to figure out the alternative version they give you (involves a band adhered to a stationairy object above your head – and no ceiling fan isn’t strong enough….)

and so far so good (I think) on the food.  I haven’t fished the Itouch out of the bottom of my purse yet this week so I haven’t been writing down everything I’ve eaten.  But I have looked at everything I’ve eaten and I haven’t been rummaging in the breakroom this week.  so yeah me!

Once again the weekend will prove to be a challenge.  I will again do Saturday’s workout on Friday morning and take Saturday as my day off.  Hopefully I will be home at a reasonable time on Sunday so that I can still get Sunday’s workout in.  Then back on track as of Monday…and on Monday I promise that I will start tracking again with the itouch.

I didn’t miss my day 11 workout yesterday – just forgot all about hopping online and letting you all know.  Don’t worry – I’m not skipping.  Anyways, I did the yoga DVD all 92 stinking minutes of it.  I had never really done the entire 92 minutes – I usually fastforwarded parts of it cuz I hate it so bad but in the last two days, two separate people challenged me to do the entire workout.  I accepted their challenge and did it…..all the while cursing both of them for the entire 92 minutes which seemed like 184 minutes. 

Will complete the day 12 workout when I get home tonight.

My new goals are now posted right in front of me at my desk. I have no option but to have them stare me in the face all day long. That helps.

I forgot my workout bag at home this morning. ARGH. That sucks because I will be attending a birthday party tonight and I really need to get in some sort of workout before I go. My revised workout plan will be to either do pilates or a quick 20 minutes on the treadmill RIGHT AWAY when I get home…people can wait for dinner for 30 minutes.

Also, I’m going to try to work more green tea into my diet because I keep reading about its massive health benefits. Lucky for me I like it (I have a friend that thinks it smelled like feet — but I don’t get that at all). AND, for every diet coke I drink per day (which I intend to limit) I am committed to drinking an equal amount of water (above and beyond the 8 glasses a day that each of us SHOULD have).

Breakfast was on the run today, which isn’t optimal. I chose as best I could at McDonald’s, which was a 300 calorie, 12 g fat Egg McMuffin.

I will run home for lunch and eat a Lean Cuisine (in the neighborhood of 200-300 calories and 4-6 g fat).

These choices will allow me 500 to 600 calories for dinner at Palm Garden.

I can do that.

I haven’t had any for a while…and, quite obviously, that hasn’t been a good thing. My weight has been bouncing between the ever-so-lumply 154 to 159 for months. So here we go.

March 26: 149 pounds. Period. I will accept no less (or, MORE).

April 9: 144 pounds

April 23: 139 pounds

May 14: 135 pounds

MAY 22: RUN FARGO MARATHON WITH ‘SOLE SISTERS’ RELAY TEAM

May 28: 132 pounds

June 11: 129 pounds (ATTEND MY UNCLE RICHARD’S 70TH BIRTHDAY IN KANSAS CITY)

July 1: 125 pounds

Looking at this plan out on paper…it looks so simple, so easy. I’m inspired right now. I’m not tempted by chocolate. I can’t smell pizza or pasta. There’s no fabulous aroma of baking bread to lure me into eating. My kids are driving me to eat.

I know it won’t be that simple. NOT. EVEN. CLOSE.

But dang it. I’m tired of this.

I’m ready to shut up and get the job done.

But first — WAHOOOOOO to Christi for nine days in a row of P90X!! That is a HUGE accomplishment. I need to follow in her footsteps. Badly.

The only real exercise I’ve had for four days falls under one of two categories: 1) cleaning up vomit or feces; or 2) operating a camcorder for youth wrestling matches.

Either way, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t enough cardio to make much of a difference.

The good news is that I ate well.

I’m ever-so-slowly reigning myself back in line. Thank goodness, because I found yet another reason to lose weight last night when I was on Web MD looking up heel pain — AGAIN. That little research project was REAAAAAAALLLLY depressing. It, of course, led me to Plantar fasciitis. Here is what that Web site had to say about it, with my inserted comments in brackets:

“Plantar fasciitis is common in middle-aged [CHECK, O.M.G.] people. It also occurs in younger people who are on their feet a lot, like athletes [Do my 2 marathons and 4 half marathons count me as an athlete? I'm honestly never sure.] or soldiers. It can happen in one foot or both feet.

What causes plantar fasciitis?
Plantar fasciitis is caused by straining the ligament that supports your arch. Repeated strain can cause tiny tears in the ligament. These can lead to pain and swelling. This is more likely to happen if:

Your feet roll inward too much when you walk (excessive pronation ).
You have high arches or flat feet. [CHECK, high arches]
You walk, stand, or run for long periods of time, especially on hard surfaces. [CHECK, never sit down at home and USED to run all the time]
You are overweight. [DOUBLE CHECK]
You wear shoes that don’t fit well or are worn out. [CHECK]
You have tight Achilles tendons or calf muscles. [CHECK]”

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO….
1) I’m OLD. I can’t really do anything about that, since I have not yet encountered the fountain of youth.
2) I’m FAT. I CAN do something about that. QUIT STRESS EATING (again) and START EXERCISING.
3) SHOES: I can save my money and buy a few decent, well-fitting pairs of shoes instead of buying what I think is cute and fits with a crowbar off the yellow-dot clearance rack at Herberger’s. And I can purchase new running shoes — haven’t done that since the marathon in October 2008.

Seriously. Weight loss has always been more of a vanity issue than a health issue to me. I’ve always been relatively healthy — no blood pressure or cholesterol issues at all. I’m a pretty healthy chick.

It truly rocked my world last night to realize I am having a health issue that is a DIRECT RESULT of being too heavy.

That SUCKS.

And it is amazing INCENTIVE.

Yesterday I made a mental review of my upcoming week and discovered that the only time I had available for working out today was getting my lazy bum out of bed and doing it at 6am.  I hate mornings.  I hate being up before the sun.  It isn’t human.  But I did it anyways….and you know, I actually feel pretty darn good about myself having my workout done and out of the way.  WWWAHHHHOOOO!!

I also packed my breakfast/lunches for the week at work so no excuses to go eat out quick because I’m in a hurry.  So hopefully this will be the week where diet and exercise combine for an actual weight loss.

Got the Cardio workout done for the day.  I do like that one much better than the rest – maybe because its only 43 minutes (about 20 minutes less than all the rest of the workouts!)

I did the workout for tomorrow today.  Today was supposed to be my day off – but with travel out of town tomorrow, I decided that I would get the Day 8 workout done today and make my day 7 of rest tomorrow.  Ya with me??

So, no more working out until Sunday.  WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!  Now to keep the food in check…oh and the adult beverages.  Yeah, I just couldn’t commit to that many changes at one time.  Diet, exercise and no adult beverages would make for a very crabby Christi, and a crabby Christi is a Christi nobody wants.

Have a great weekend everybody.

WRITE IT ALL DOWN. I have got to put an end to this vicious cycle of wrestling tournament travel-bad eating habit. Those calories add up SOOOOOOOO fast.

So, indulge me…I’ll blog when I can and I’ll bore you with my food intake.

Anything to get rid of my GIANT muffin-top.

It hurts so bad I can barely move.  Ugh.  Once I sit down it’s just sore – but then when I try to stand it hurts, hurts, hurts.  Then once I”m up and moving it is still sore and then trying to sit down again really hurts.  ugh.