I absolutely love the premise of the Exposed movement: Get in your skivvies, snap a photo, write a few words, and then hit “Publish”. I started putting my “Exposed” post together almost 2 weeks ago and am just now able to hit “Publish.” Yes, it took me that long to finish this post, but since [...]
Bad News: It’s official; I have a stress fracture in my foot. Good News: It’s not a bad one and it’s already started to show signs of healing. Bad News: I can’t run for 4-6 weeks, Good News: I can still do upper body exercises and after 10-14 days I can bike. Bad News: This [...]
I weighed in this morning at 203.5 lbs which is a 4.4 lb gain for the week. This brings my total weight loss so far back down to 52.5 pounds. So at least now I know what to expect when I eat like crazy and don’t exercise for a week. Last week I used food to [...]
Let’s recap the weekend, shall we? Weekend Warrior Goal: Go grocery shopping. I have to say that the best part was embarrassing my daughter in the produce section: Weekend Warrior Goal: Workout for at least 110 minutes. I originally planned to do this Friday night, but I had so much left to do to get [...]
Today was such a whirlwind, I hardly know where to start. I showed up at the gym this morning with my list of exercises from my workout pledge ready to go. My sister was there to join me but what I didn’t know was that Michelle, the owner of the gym, would also be there [...]
So, here’s my final tally for tomorrow’s workout pledge: 13.5 minutes of running at 4.5 mph 1 minute walking at 3.5 mph 8 minutes on elliptical 40 crunches 80 squats 20 reps on weight machine 6 minutes on exercise bike 9 minutes on stairmaster I will also do a circuit of all of them (a [...]
If you missed my workout pledge, you can participate by clicking here. You can help determine my workout on Wednesday! So far, if I’ve tallied correctly, my routine is as follows: 100 squats 3 minutes stairmaster 40 crunches 4.5 minutes running (4.5 mph) 1 minute walking (3.5 mph) 1 minute elliptical 20 reps on weight [...]
Image by Pippa! Today marks the 100th day of the year, and as such the Perfect 10 challenge has come to an end. Here is my final Perfect 10 Update: Walk 100 miles over the course of the 10 weeks. This will help keep me on track to reach 500 for the year. You might [...]
We celebrated my mom’s birthday today and since I volunteered to make the cake, we had all sorts of sweet temptations lurking in my home all weekend…and I’m happy to report that I resisted it all. Well, I may or may not have had a lick or two of icing, but yeah. It was the [...]
Image by Pippa! Wow, it’s that time again for another Perfect 10 Update…can you believe we’re already done with Week 4?? Here were my Perfect 10 Goals and how I faired on each of them this week: Walk 100 miles over the course of the 10 weeks. This will help keep me on track to [...]