It’s all up to me

Current weight: 229.5 (+.5 from Thursday)

Normally when I don’t post it’s b/c I am too busy stuffing food into my face to go online. But fortunately that wasn’t the case yesterday. I was just too busy! Here’s a recap:

Started the morning w/a short workout, about 30 minutes of TJ Cardio Party. I would have liked to have done more but my hubby slept a bit later than usual. I had an appt. during the mid-morning so I had to have enough time to shower and get ready.

After I got back from my appt. we had to go to Menards (I think this is local to the midwest, our version of Lowe’s or Home Depot) to buy deck lumber. We had planned to pay someone to pour a new patio and our contractor estimated it would be about $800. We were ok w/that, but it turns out we’d have to demolish an existing part of our patio and do a bunch of other stuff so the estimate came in at $1700. The guy who gave the estimate is a buddy of our builder and even the builder said that was way too high. It turns out that the decking lumber was on sale this week and even though it adds one more thing to my hubby’s to-do list he’s going to rebuild the deck himself. All told it will cost us about $200. Much better.

We heard from the bank and finally have a closing date for our construction loan, July 10th. We’re not happy about this, we’re already a month behind schedule and we haven’t even started building yet, but what can you do. Our builder said that he would be able to start right away so as long as we have a dry 2nd half of summer he should be able to get a lot of work done.

I was starting to feel rundown so I was going to skip the cardio at the gym yesterday but I had a snack and felt much better. I did the hour-long interval workout on the elliptical and it just about killed me. Sometimes I feel like I’m wasting my time on the elliptical b/c in an hour on that machine I only burn about 700 calories and an hour on the treadclimber is about 1200 and much easier. But I know I’m working different muscles and getting a harder cardiovascular workout. Plus, I need to vary my workouts.

Then we went out to dinner so I had to get home, shower again and get ready. I was really worried that I would cave and pig out so I decided to put on a pretty summer dress instead of regular shorts and shirt. I still ate more calories than I would have if we had stayed at home but everything I ate was a conscious choice. I also realized how much my regular veggies fill me up b/c after a salad, green beans and steak I was still truly hungry. Normally at home I have half a plate of cauliflower/broccoli/carrots, a tomato and 1/2 c of cottage cheese plus some lean protein or a frozen entree and I’m stuffed for about 450-500 calories. I’m guessing dinner last night was well over 1000 calories and I wasn’t full.

Got to to, I’ll check in w/you all later.

Progress toward workout goal: 47/300

Wow, just got back from a birthday party and didn’t eat anything!!!

I also forgot to write about my workout today. I did 30 minutes of pilates as a warmup and then did an old stretch workout by Karen Voight. Love it! Exactly what I needed to work out a few kinks.