Saturday Trail Running 30 minutes

I was in a hurry to do Halloween stuff today, but I think I will try running for 45 minutes next time. Still no idea how far I'm running.

Thursday Strength Workout 30 minutes (arms, legs, abs)

Plus, I warmed up with 15 minutes of vacuuming. I'm also back up to 200 crunches. Yay!

Finally Reporting In

Sorry girls, I have been BAD about posting, but I'll do better. I'm not going to try to catch up on what I've done since the last post, but it's been about the norm. for me.

The bad news is that my weight is slowly creeping up. I have put on about 10 lbs, and I'm not happy about it. I now have a closet full of jeans that are tight. I REFUSE to give in and buy new ones!!!

So here's the plan:

1. Work out hard at least 4 times a week. (cardio)
2. Start doing weight training. Surely I can squeeze in 15-20 minutes a day right?
3. I'm counting calories / fat / protein. I'm going to try 2000 calories per day.
4. Since I don't want to do that whole diet roller coaster thing, I'm going to make a serious effort to eat more healthy things. For example, I'm trying to cut out on a lot of high fructose corn syrup, since this is BAD stuff. I'm switching to a whole grain bread with no bad HFCS. I'm switching to a healthy cereal with no HFCS. I'm V8 to my lunch and dinner menus.
5. I am staying AWAY from Halloween candy!
6. I am drinking 8 glasses of water a day.

Will this work? I hope so. Goals: Total: between 140 -145. By my birthday: 152. By Christmas: 147 Low 140s by the end of the first week in January. Today I weighed 156.5

I ran 8 miles this morning, and so far so good on the calorie counting. I intend to report in regularly to try to actually stay on track this time.

Wednesday Running 45 minutes (2 3/4 miles with BIG hills)

With the big hills, I just decided to be happy with 45 minutes (and almost 3 miles). Plus, I'm still SUPER sore from that Kickboxing Bootcamp. Ouch! I can't remember the last time I was this sore from an aerobics DVD workout.

Monday Kickboxing Bootcamp 50 minutes (with arm weights and ab work)

The DVD I did this time was Kickboxing Bootcamp with Jeanette Jenkins. Except for some annoying music, I really liked this DVD. It was really fast paced, and hard, and it integrated not only weight training (with 5 lb weights and push ups) but also ab/crunch work at the end. I can't remember the last time I was shaking that hard after a workout! She said she burned 700 calories (according to her heart/intensity monitor), and though I'm not sure I burned that many, I definitely burned more than any other kickboxing workout I've ever done.

Also- I scrubbed throw up stains out of carpet and washed all the bedding in the house today. This was why I did not feel up to doing all the things I needed to do to go swimming tonight. I will start swimming again SOON!

Saturday Trail Running 30 minutes

I think I ran about 2 miles. Trail running is hard. Dang! And it was hot today. Double dang!

Friday- I went to yard sales all day with three kids (about six hours) and then grocery shopped for 1 hour.

Wednesday (really slow) Running 45 minutes (3 miles with small hills)

My ankle was still acting like a big baby, but I really wanted that 3 miles back, so I just ran it slow enough so my ankle did not complain. I still count it as a victory since I lasted the whole 3 miles!