Sistah Pat

Derby Day…Don’t even know who’s running today. Except me. I’m in the race. Back on Track. Feeling confident and ready to go.

Don’t know why. I stepped on the scale this morning and the damn thing showed me 185. I know I would have had a heart attack to see that a month ago but it doesn’t seem to bother me this morning because I know I’m going down. Way down. Having a perfect day yesterday felt good. It’s been a long time since I had one. I’ve had “okay” days but I haven’t felt especially good about them. Today, I’ve got the “Feeling Good” Lyrics running through my head.

Its a new dawn
Its a new day
Its a new life
For me
And I’m feeling good

I’m not thrilled with the food intake yesterday. A bit higher than I would have liked but I beat the munchies yesterday evening. I ate TWO Fit and Healthy frozen yogurt sandwiches when I’d only planned on one but I didn’t eat the whole package so I guess that’s good.

Think I’ll take a peek at my post from a year ago and see where I was.

9:15 - It’s kind of fun to look at a detailed account of where I was and what was going on a year ago. I weighed 185. Is that funny, or what? The difference is that I was thrilled to be down to 185 a year ago whereas I’m up to 185 today. I’d had a huge drop that day and was really excited. I did an hour on the treadmill a year ago and burned off 350 calories. I can do that…

I decided to meet my goal from last year by May 31st and jumped to that post. I weighed 181. Well, duh! I can beat that by a mile. Think I’ll set a goal of 180 by May 15th. The race is on….

10:00 _ I’m ready to hit the treadmill. Got all the kinks worked out yesterday. Unloaded all the boxes piled on it, found my MP3 and earphones and loaded it up with fully charged batteries. My goal is to meet last year’s activity. One hour and 350 calories. Wish I had a HRM. Phyllisann loaned me one for six months and I learned a lot from it. Learned that I burn a LOT more calories doing aerobics and step than the treadmill. The one she loaned me was a Nike Imara. It allowed you to enter your weight and height and then showed calories burned, percentage of maximum heart rate, and heart rate. The problem was that it was difficult and confusing to set. I reset my weight twice on it as I continued to lose and it took me almost an hour each time because I couldn’t figure out how to do it. I’m thinking I’ll go shopping for a new one today. Is it possible to find one that allows you to input gender, weight, and height and shows calories burned, percentage of maximum heart rate and current heart rate without spending a fortune. Anyone got a good suggestion? In the meantime, I’m off to the treadmill.

11:55- and the winner is…2009 Patty!  Beat 2008 Patty by at least 150 calories and her time by 5 minutes!  Completed 65 minutes of treadmill, aerobics, and step.  Kept the treadmill at 3.2 and spent most of the time at a 5% incline.  The treadmill showed that I burned 450 calories but I know from past experience that I burned a lot more than that.  The step aerobics really gets my heart rate up and I burn a lot more calories doing that than walking on the treadmill.  I spent most of the time doing step and kept the treadmill going.  Only jumped on it to check my heart rate and slow things down a bit.  Sure enough, I’d be pumping along at a heart rate of 130 or so and, if I spent a couple of minutes on the treadmill, I’d drop down to 115.  Gotta get a new monitor.

Sitting here cooling off with sweat trickling down my back, under my waistband and down my butt crack.  TMI?  Not to me.  I’m feelin GOOD!