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Ack! Hubby just informed me I have to buy lunch today...

Wonder what I'm gonna eat?

Anywho I'll bb in an hour

I need to pick up something for lunch too. I left my already prepared salad at home accidentally. Lack of sleep I suppose.

Hello? Tune in Tokyo?

Chellez: I got the book!! Woohoo....I am so excited to start reading it! I'm off ALL day tomorrow and I plan on spending a nice cozy day with herbal tea, your book and my pup .....on the couch. (after the gym of course! )

I was so scared my little baby book had gotten lost in the mail!

{Insert sigh of relief here}

I'm back online, chatting and invoicing at the same time.

Can it be Friday yet?

Guess what? I did it!....I worked out. Hubby and I went for two laps around the neighborhood. The hills almost got the best of me, but I pushed through. Any bets on how sore my thighs and butt will be tomorrow? The weather is absolutely beautiful today. It won't last long, but I'm enjoying it while it's here. We were talking about doing this everyday and changing our walk to the evening when it gets hotter. I love that guy! Now, I can relax because my exercise is complete for the day...unless I decide to do some resistance band work.

WAY TO GO RHONDA!

Awesome job this week, blue team

I have been working my butt off doing a big project in the flowerbeds with hubby. I've been literally covered in dirt the past two days. But, he went off to work yesterday and i can't do the rest of it myself, so I can be clean and online for a few days I spent the day researching some plants and I have a little list of what I am looking for now, and can't wait to find them and plant!

I considered my exercise to be the yardwork the past couple days...pushing (and balancing) wheelbarrows full of bricks, stacking bricks, raking and shoveling heeps of dirt (this took forever and worked my back very hard), laying mulch, etc. I am glad that's done, back to my Jillian DVDs today...I missed her.


Tee--I am the opposite of you, I usually will not exercise if I have to make myself leave the house to do it. So much easier to fit it in during the day whenever I have a chance, and that includes lots of little 10-15 workouts on the demand channel when I'm in full workout mode. I have tried to commit to walking on the track, even just the backyard, and can never manage to get it done

Rhonda--Sounds like an awesome workout! I bet walking with hubby was way better than walking with the neighborhood ladies, nice bonding time

Okay, going to get Jillian done before I have to pick up my daughter, feed them, hit the library, and get son to his Tball game. I can't wait for next week...SPRING BREAK!!!!

Not an outside run kind of day today. If I did go, it would have to be later in the day, with Meara in a snowsuit in the stroller. Not fun for anyone.

Grrr.

Hey is anyone else feeling especially motivated to win next week? I am feeling a burst of energy to kick these pounds out of my body. I know I didn't lose last week, but I am feeling strong and motivated to eat well and get moving for a strong finish for our team.

Anyone there with me? mentally/physically?

Cheers,
Ginger

Who is doing C25K, and how is it going??

Tee, are you trying for 3, or are you just really intune to your signs?

kinda, on the c25k.....i did it last year but hit a wall at week 3. I'm trying my own verion now, BUT.....and this was eyeopening! I've been doing my little 4 min fast walks (3.5) and one min sprints (5) for about 3 weeks. Yesterday I tried a TBL move and was going to go as hi as my tm would go (only 10, not 14!). I did 7, but by 8 I thought I was going to fly off the thing, so that was my little experiment. Even with all that fast running, I noticed that the calorie counter was actually LESS than when I used to do my HIIT walks of alternating incline and speeds. LESS. Same time spent exercising. What's up with that? So today, just for fun, I just did my old HIIT walk - speeds up to 3.8, inclines up to 6, in all variety of combos. Yep, higher calorie count - and I was DYING. Dying, I tell you. That is MUCH harder than the sprints I had been doing for the last 3 weeks. It appears I actually LOST some conditioning.

When I shared this breakthrough research with DH, he said that yes, when he was having his physical after leaving overseas, the dr. told him to stop trying to run and walk. He said, I can get a better read on your heart if you are trying to walk fast instead of running avg speed. I thought that was pretty amazing. Just my personal experience, I'm sure there will be those with other opinions.

I always get myself into these problems of being too nice, and I don't know why. I have been doing good, OP, haven't had any sugar in almost a week (which is why I'm OP and feeling so good), now my neighbor catches us when I get home from picking up my daughter and asks if we want to buy some chocolate bars from her grandson (she's raising him) for his school. The kids charge the fence screaming "YES!" and I end up buying 5...only because she is telling me how shy he is, and he is a very nice quiet boy we know well, and I want to help him out. Then, I offered to take him along with us to Tyler's Tball game tonight, so he could sell some more...they apparently misunderstand and pass the whole box over the fence, saying they hope I can sell some. Now I have an entire box of chocolate bars on my dining room table and I am MORE SHY than him, and I have to sell them myself I am too stupid to say "no, I meant you come with us and sell yourself" I just took them like an idiot and walked into the house frustrated with myself.

Why do I do this to myself...why can't I keep my big mouth shut and just let him worry about his own problems? I have to stop volunteering for things and learn to not be so nice...hubby is always telling me I am too nice for my own good, but when I have a good idea for someone I just can't keep quiet...and then I end up doing the work for them.

The chocolate hasn't been much of a temptation, but I am really nervous now about having to ask people to buy this stuff...and it's not even for me or my kids!

Didn't mean to leave you hanging on Yahoo... boss walked in and we had to get these invoices reviewed.