Well, I went and had a little workout.
My friend needed inspiration to go work out and asked me to go to the Y with her, so I did and walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes, 1.75 miles. I hate the treadmill but that's what she wanted to do so I'm glad I did it. Wasn't too bad, I did some intervals and broke a good sweat. So I got in a little extra workout today.

Gotta get ready for tomorrow...

Girlie

Sassy:
What do you do over night shift?
And what are the hours? So interesting, the hours!
It will be hard for you to get back after your vacation huh?


I didn't have a chance to update yesterday. I went to the gym and did my 60mins elliptical, 5.75 miles and stretched.

Today I'm going to go easy. I think I will use the stationery bike for 20, treadmill for 20 and then elliptical for 20. I dunno. I want to work on my thighs and if I pedal with my heels, that would give my thighs a good workout.

We're going "out of town" and spending the night at a newly opened hotel tonight...it's "homework" (I manage a hotel)...and then I'll check out their gym tomorrow before checkout.

I'm not sure if we're going to take the laptop, so if not, I won't be able to update until tomorrow.

Girlie

Girlie-Awesome on the exercising! Nice homework assignment, I need one of those.

Sassy-Sounds like your having a relaxing vaca.

Last night, some girls and I went out after work. It was very much needed and I do feel a little better after. I needed a break from the DH and kiddies. My back has really been bothering me lately, don't know if it's from using the mini-tramp or not. I've been laying off of it the past few days to see. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

I need to think of some goals for myself....even though September is almost over!

I have 10 days left in September so I would like to lose 3 more pounds before the month is over

Prepare more meals for myself instead of going out to eat. I was on a good trend with packing my lunches and dinners for school and work but I have slipped. Yesterday I had chicken nuggets and french fries...I was so ashamed of the french fries I gobbled them down without hardly tasting them to get them out of the way. I could have not ordered them or thrown them out but they smelled too good! =(

Try to exercise at least 4 days, an hour each time within the next 10 days (my biggest problem is not fitting exercise into my schedule!)

That should be good for now...wish me luck!

xraygirl:
I like going out after work with the girls. And now there are so many "good" alcoholic choices, like Michelob Ultra and Miller Chill, lower calorie beers. Nothin' wrong with a couple of those (as long as I exercised that day!).

Raye:
We're on the same threads ha ha.
I think 3 pounds is a good goal for the end of Sept. I always shoot high and never make my goals. As long as the scale goes down each month and not up! I have a hard time packing meals too. Sometimes I compromise - like yesterday, I grabbed a side salad at Wendy's and I took it back to work and had tuna and 0 calorie spray dressing in the fridge to go with it. Very low effort. Usually we have peanut butter sandwiches on double fiber bread, high fiber granola bars and applesauce cups (no sugar added). And then I munch on almonds too. At night I try to focus on veggies and meat. Ps where in Illinois are you?


I went to the gym this morning and just did 45 minutes on the elliptical, did about 4.75 miles today. It was fast, but it was tough today...end of the week my muscles are burning and ready for a rest. Tomorrow is my day off, but I will check out the gym at our hotel tonight and do a light workout or go to the pool. I plan to order something nice through room service for dessert to share with the husband.

Have a good night!

I am in the suburbs of Chicago...Geneva...how about you?

Raye-Sounds like good, realistic goals. I can definately relate with bringing lunches to work. I do really good for a while and then I quit. Usually, I need to run to the grocery store, but sometimes it's difficult to find the time to do even that.

Girlie-I forgot about the Miller Chill, I really do enjoy that one. I actually had some fancy mixed drink, but I only had one. I did eat some cheese fries with it, not so good. But, I haven't been out in sooooo long. I got right back on board the next day.

Sassy-The Amish Bakery sounds nice. I have always wanted to visit one. There really isn't nothing like that down here.

My mom's birthday is today. We are having a cookout. I can usually do fairly well at cookouts, hamburgers and hotdogs aren't really my thing. The cake, well that may be another story.

Raye - I'm in Peoria, so about 2.5 hours away.

xray - sounds like a good time out. we really need those sometimes. my weakness is the amazing onion rings at the bar where we go. how was the cookout?

Sassy - I worked in a call center for almost six years - fortunately, I never had to work on one of the 24hr accounts!

I'm headed to the gym now, thought I'd give an update before I go. I didn't exercise at the hotel yesterday, I usually take Sundays off and I didn't want to get burned out. Their equipment was blah. But we did take about a mile walk along the river front on Saturday night. Then we went back to the room and ordered chocolate cake through room service. It was OK, I had a few bites. If I'm going to go crazy off plan, it's gonna be for something really good.

Here's to starting a great week all. I hope to see some movement on the scale this week.

Girlie

Girlie-The cookout was okay. I did eat a cheeseburger and felt yucky the rest of the night. I did eat a couple bites of cake. My son ate the rest luckily.

I'm getting back on the mini-tramp tonight since my back is so much better. I caught a glimpse of myself last night in a window reflection. Ouch!!!!! You never really see it until you SEE IT!

Hello Ladies, how's it going?

Ah, sigh...another Monday is over with. Good news, I got new shoes that I ordered in the mail. They are a cute pair of mary janes by the brand softspots - "comfort" shoes, but they come in really cute styles now. I'm on my feet all day, seriously, I never sit in the office, I'm always running around in the hotel lobby taking care of something and I've had some bad issues with my feet. These are very cushioned inside and still about a 2 inch heel so stylish. If I have great luck with these this week, I'll order a pair in brown too.
I love heels but it's not worth the pain to me.

I did only 50 minutes this morning on the elliptical. I was grumpy this morning because some skinny girl was on my usual machine. I like to use the same machine so I can keep track of my stats and they'll be more accurate from day to day. So anyway I was really grumpy and my workout felt hard. so I did 50 minutes, 4.25 miles...the rpms were slower than usual. It was hard to stay above 200 steps per minute today. Oh well.

Talk to you guys tomorrow.

Girlie

Good Morning, all! Sorry I didn't update yesterday. Yesterday I did an hour on the elliptical but went a little easy from a headache, I did 5.64 miles. If I can get there on time, I want to do 60 minutes again.

Whoo Thursday! I have a half day tomorrow and a long-ish weekend ahead!

Sassy - happy birthday! And I love your icons! Yeah I worked for a large call center for almost 7 years and moved my way to the corporate office there. I learned a LOT. It was great.

Gotta run all - update soon!

Girlie