I'm Here

I am still here. I have been feeling bad this week and it just kept getting worst. So this morning the Hubby went into work late and I went to Urgent Care. I am not dying, thank God, I just have an upper respiratory infection. But I got some antibiotics so hopefully in a few days I will be as good as new. Yesterday I mopped my kitchen and by the time I finished my throat and chest burned so bad that I knew cardio was out of the question. I did lift a few weights but that was it. Today I doubt I do anything but rest. As for my appetite it is way down. I wish I had an appetite like this everyday, but then I wouldn’t be overweight would I? Oh well I will jump back on the healthy bandwagon when I can breath and not cough up a lung every few minutes.

I Did It!!

I woke up this morning and felt absolutely awful. My entire body ached and I was still coughing. My throat was raw. I lay there thinking about laying in bed until tomorrow. However, with a three year old and a fifteen month old I knew that wasn’t going to happen. So I dragged myself out of bed. I decided I would eat breakfast and then stay in my p.j.s all day. But this morning as I sat here I started reading blogs and got to thinking about yesterday. I felt bad yesterday but was so excited to give my elliptical another shot. After spending twenty minutes on it I felt better. After a little self motivation I went back to my room and jumped on. Twenty minutes later I was sweating and feeling proud. I did it, I got on sick and cranky and I did it!! I then decided to do some ST with my weights for my arms. Results are I feel better. I am still coughing but I have energy, I am not sitting here feeling sorry for myself, and I am hoping that maybe I sweated a little bit of this crud out of my body. Yeah, go me!! Looking forward to tomorrow’s cycle and weights.

Stride cycle

For a few days now I have been thinking about using some of our tax return for an elliptical. I have wanted a treadmill for about four years now but our house just doesn’t have room. So I started looking at ellipticals on-line. I found one at Academy that sounded really cool, and it was the price I was wanting to pay. However, when I got there they were sold out. I noticed they had one that was fifty dollars cheaper and could also be used like a stationary bike. I tried it out and loved it. I have never used one before so yesterday I took it pretty easy. I alternated between the elliptical/bike for twenty minutes at a resistance of one. I know, your thinking how lame. Like I said it is new to me and I am not in shape at all. Today I woke up feeling yucky but was dying to use my new toy. So I set the resistance for two and alternated every five minutes between the elliptical and bike for twenty minutes. I kept my speed over 10mph and manage to get in 4.46 miles. I was happy with my first official workout and hope that I shed some major pounds with my new workout equipment. :)

Sick Saturday

Being an active and fit Mommy was a total bust this weekend. My precious little boy had a stomach virus. So I spent all day Sat. cleaning up messes, doing a billion loads of laundry, and loving on and comforting a very miserable little guy. He is feeling much better today so after finishing laundry and going grocery shopping I am going to try and get in some kind of workout. I have a dry scratchy throat and he still isn’t at his best though. So if I don’t get one in I am not too worried about it. I know tomorrow will be a new day and I will def. get in a great workout then. My focus today will be not eating like a pig and making sure my little prince is taken care of. :)

Well here we go. The weekend is upon us and when my husband is home my bad habits are always there. From the time we dated and all of our married life we have always enjoyed eating out. We like fast food, restaurants, and everything in between. So today I woke up with a strong desire for Starbucks. Yeah I know ridiculous. The smallest white chocolate mocha, well over 300 calories. My plan was to go get the Hubby and babies donuts and I was going to eat oatmeal. I went and got the Hubby his usual cinnamon roll and the kids their donut holes. Then I headed to Starbucks for the coffee. I got the smallest mocha and came home. So far so good. That is when it went downhill. I couldn’t do it. I turned down the oatmeal and ate four donut holes. :P Total calories for breakfast 570. So not worth it. Now I am going to get in a killer cardio and will hopefully make better choices the rest of the day. :) Hope everyone has a super Saturday!!

Weekly Weigh-in

After talking to my cousin about the scale being stuck she suggested more cardio. So this week I have been sweating like crazy between my ST and cardio workouts. I just knew that today for weigh in I would have a loss. However, I was up this with a 0.4 lbs. I am totally ok with that though. Yesterday my college roommate was in town so we met up at Chilli’s for lunch. Then my grandma called and said one of my uncles was in town. There was NO way I was going to pass up Grandma’s home cooking. She lives an hour away so by the time I got home last night it was late. Needless to say I didn’t workout yesterday. I am thinking as small of a gain as it is that it was probably the the cinnamon roll or the brownie I had last night. Definetly going to get in a workout today and make healthy food choices this week.

Yesterday I was feeling really BLAH!! I didn’t sleep well the night before and my energy level was so low. However, it was absolutely gorgeous outside so I decided to take advantage of the weather. I dug the double stroller out of the closet and loaded the babies up. I put on my ankle weights and cranked up my MP3 player. I walked a few blocks and then went a few more. It felt great but I started getting thirsty so I headed back to the house. By the time I got back I checked my pedometer and I had walked 2 miles. Not a lot but with the stroller and 2.5 lb. weights on each leg it was plenty for me. It def. perked me up to get outside and get moving. By five o’ clock my leg muscles had a little bit of soreness so I think I did ok for the day. I am hoping today is as beautiful as yesterday so that the kids and I can hit the pavement again.

Look Both Ways

I have been trying to find fellow bloggers to follow. I have found a few that are really great. One of them is The Thin Within. Yesterday she said something in her blog that really hit home for me. She said, “that when you diet you really have to remember to look both ways. Don’t just look forward at how far you have to go but to also look back and think about how far you have come.” I got really comfortable at the progress I had made and realize that I have spent a lot of months looking back instead of looking forward. Instead of looking for new ideas and trying new things I kept looking at what I had done. I really think this is what has kept the scale in limbo. The scale stuck because I stuck. I have been eating the same things and doing the same workouts repeatedly. Today I am going to start focusing on looking forward. I am going to see what new foods I can find and what other act. I might like that I haven’t done in a while or maybe have never done. In my first post “The Cocoon” I said I wanted to find myself. I think trying new and diff. things will def. give me a better insight to finding out who I really am.

Wow am I feeling lazy today or what? It is a good lazy though. The kind of lazy where you know you will get up and get going before too long. Yesterday I jogged and did arm weights again. I am feeling a jog in my future for today. I know I will get some workout in today because my in-laws are headed this way and I may not get anything in tomorrow. There is NO way I am working out in front of them, lol. Tonight they are wanting to take us out to eat. I have done so well this week with my calories that I don’t want to screw up now. So my plan is to eat an early meal so that when we go out I will be to full to over indulge. I will have to let you know how that one works out. ;) Hope everyone has an awesome day!!