Commit to Get Fit and Lean - October

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Wow, I'm starting the thread?!!!
Belinda, were you up moving around? TG things are ok w/mammogram. That must have been frightening. Listen to your dh and sit. What a sweetie he is.
Amelia, how's the new boss? And your co-workers?
Melissa, its so hard to remember one thing at a time, when you feel like you're drowning. Wish you could have met w/your mentor - that would have been great support for you.
Kristin, your dad really came thru for you. You certainly have a lot going on, work and personal. Think you're going to have a very interesting sil. I think Deb is right, you'll have more fun as a guest.
Deb, Thursday you're off! Lucky you. Are either of your boys going with you?
My kids all went back to their homes, but it was really good to see them. My mother just was beyond thrilled that ds went to visit her. Funny, she's never that excited by me... Did D2S again this morning. New Cathe's arrived today. I'm going to try to wait a bit to try them out.
Cookie
 
Hey everyone. More stress today, lol. I went to a union meeting to voice my concerns about the unfairness of uneven class sizes, the fact that my team ended up with all 9 leftback students from last year, and how somehow five of them ended up in the same class together (genius scheduling at its best). On my way out, my AP and lead evaluator called me over. He wants me to be a facilitator for Superintendent's Conference day, which is one month away. He wants me to offer a course on using the SMARTboard. Ugh. As flattered as I am, I am overwhelmed right now trying to learn and implement the new state module, which is thicker than the Holy Bible and keep my head above water with my maxed out classes and now this. I cannot say no, I mean, that would be soooo stupid on my part. So I said yes. I swear, I might end up an alcoholic before the year is through. Not sure if I can do this for another 19 years.

Anyway, I decided to scrap STS. I just needed to change things up. Today I did Xtrain D2, bis and tris, just cause. I will do legs and D1 later this week. then next week. . . who knows. I think this month I will do whatever I feel like so long as I do 5-6 workouts a week. That is my goal. I think I will have to fly by the seat of my pants to keep myself motivated and going.

Cookie- which of the new dvds will you try first? I really want the X10 and Flextrain but I cannot afford to spend any money right now. This job is killing me this year. The morale in the building is so low. It is awful. Tomorrow is BEDs day, more added pressure. Another mundane task. . . Ugh.

Deb- I will probably have more fun as a guest. At least now I don't have to take a sick day! I probably could use a sick day though, lol.

Belinda- hope you are still resting that foot.

Melissa- hang in there. Christmas break will be here before you know it. At least that is what I keep telling myself, lol.

Amelia- hey girl!

Okay, I will be back tomorrow.
 
Hi,

I did a set-up at BJ's wholesale would so rather work at Macy's only. It was for a fixture I needed to put together it took 3 1/2 hours & one big headache:mad: They gave us 2 hours to do it & I'm sure they will be getting a million calls with all the issues on how the fixture was made, crappy!

So no workout to report & cannot wait for vacation.

Belinda - I hope you are ok.

Kristin - Do you think you will get extra pay for the extra work? You sure do deserve it! I think it is great that you addressed the issues of your concerns:)

Cookie - Thanks for starting the thread, but worried that Belinda didn't start it. It will be just me & DH school & work for the boys, but it will be nice:) My new Cathe's came yesterday, will have to put them aside for now.

Waves hi to Amelia & Melissa

Goodnight:)
 
'Morning!
Belinda, hope you're doing okay. Are you resting?
Kristin, how flattering to be asked. You'll do well. Probably its just another thing to now have to prepare for so that a stress. I went into a building and was met by a teacher going to her car in tears. Spent two hours after school with another one in similar situation. Good idea just doing what you feel like for workouts for now. I'm trying to make a commitment to doing them (like our thread title) b/c w/o them I'm feeling overwhelmed.
Deb, you're sounding stressed also! Bet you'll get in lots of beach walking soon. The dvds will wait, and sometimes I like to deal the joy of new ones by spreading them out.
Did D2S this morning. While I like this series, the lack of variety is getting rather boring, but I like how it is compound exercises.
Off to earn bucks!
Waves hi to everyone!
Cookie
 
Good morning,

Cookie, thanks for starting us off this month!

My family doctor(he is an internal medicine doctor) called me yesterday. He asked me to come in and looked me over. He did not believe that it was my back only as my Podiatrist thought. He a He quickly decided that my back was part of the problem and he believed that my foot is also still messed up. The bottom of my foot is killing me, I can hardly walk on it. He gave me two injections directly into my lower lumbar (L5-S1).

He has referred me to Neurology to have a nerve test conducted to determine exactly which disk and whatever else may be wrong. He is also scheduling me for an MRI. I have to wait for the MRI, since I got the cortisone injections. It will show a wrong reading on the MRI. I hope they will figure out soon what's wrong with my foot/back.

He gave me 5 exercises I can do to relieve the pressure in my back/leg. After asking him 5 times if I could do some sort of workouts, he told me I could take a short walk. He said, don't do a power walk, marathon or go for a folks march:p Funny guy! Of course, as long as my foot can handle it. My butt hurt from sitting so much, all I want to do is eat junk. He also gave my strong pain killers. I slept like a baby last night.

Cookie - thanks for starting us off this month. What is D2S? Let us know, how you like the new dvds.

Kirstin - sorry about the stress at work. I agree, with Debbie! If you can a little I am sure Cathe's new dvds will go on sale. College videos. com just sold XTrain for $74. That's less than we paid!

Debbie - sorry you having lots of stress too. You vacation is coming soon. I am ready for one.

Waving Hi to everyone. BBL!
 
Hard Strikes all done! I am feeling better getting my workouts in. It makes a difference. Took Baxter for a follow up appointment and he is all cleared. He is okay to go for walks and run around like a maniac again. I have been taking him for short walks, but now we can get back to normal.

Work is crazy. The science teacher on my team has lost his ever-loving mind. He sent a very nasty email to a parent and CC'd all the teachers on the team (math, social studies and English). I am embarrassed to be associated with him. Crazy people!

Cookie- that is it. . having something else to prepare for. I am trying to learn the module and the Odell crap and now I have to put this together? Crazy! I have seen a few teachers crying. I have been on the brink myself, lol. What really irks the crap out of me is that some teachers don't care at all about teaching or how they are rated. Yet the end up getting effective. They are sucky teachers, like the science teacher on my team. . . he is truly a loose cannon! He made effective. Then I am busting my butt because I am worried all the time. I wish I taught a subject that didn't have a state assessment. Maybe then I would be able to relax a little bit!

Deb- I would get a small stipend, which would be nice. Where are you going on vacation? I missed that post. I am so jealous of all your travelling. I would love to get outta here!

Belinda- oh I am so sorry that you are in so much pain. I hope you get to the bottom of all this soon. Rest up.

Waving hi to Melissa and Amelia.

Kristin
 
Hi,

I've been running around like crazy today but happy to be going to Florida. It seems like the weather is going to be summer like here too:) Wondering if Kristin & Melissa will be at the beach this weekend!

Belinda - It sounds like your Dr. is really looking into everything for you which is great. Sometimes it's hard to get a Dr. that will take time with you.

Kristin - Baxter could have kept Belinda company. I can't imagine how you were able to get a puppy not to run around.

Cookie - Your always up so early but that's a good thing:)

Waves hi to Amelia & Melissa

Goodnight will check in soon:)
 
'Morning!
Belinda, good thing you have a dr who is so thorough. Hope he's an excellent detective and can find the source of the problem and rectify it. D2S is Drop Two Sizes by Rachel Cosgrove. I like it. However, it is two strength workouts and two meta w/o which you alternate for four weeks, and that's a little too repetitive for my taste.
Kristin, honestly, don't you wonder how some folks get away w/things? And would they want their children/themselves treated in a similar fashion? Okay, here's a bad thought I often have: males get way more leeway in teaching than females ever do. Glad Baxter is doing better.
Deb, happy and safe travels today. Show off those yoga-toned arms!
Did some stretching this morning, and it felt good. Broke a tooth at the root and today have an appt w/specialist about it. Between that and the interimittent foot pain, and sore shoulders from lugging work stuff, I'm feeling really old at times.
Waving hi to Amelia and Melissa.
Cookie
 
Morning girls,

I can't believe its already October :confused: where did September go?

The last few days I've been getting in walks and more walks, its the only thing I can bring myself to do at the moment:eek:. I got in some strength training last week but none this week. Yesterday we went on a 60 minute hike over rough terrain and boy was I sweating!! Afterwards I felt very strange, Just aching all over and had a bad headache at the back of my head? :( DH said I got over heated...I dunno. I think I got bite by a spider or something. I feel fine this morning though :)

So the new job is going good - I guess - I've only worked 6 hours so far and I got hired on the 17th of September. The manager told me she was leaving for a week for vacation and that when she returned I would start working. Monday I did Orientation for 4 hours and thats all she had me scheduled for this week due to cutbacks on hours:confused:. Hopefully I will have more hours on the next schedule. During the interview I was guaranteed 24 hours a week - I plan on holding her to that guarantee.

Its kinda frustrating because I had another job offer yesterday, it was hard to say no to this one but the hours weren't great 3-11:30 at night - when would I see the kids?:confused: I had to turn it down. It was 2$ more an hour too and full time...but my babies come first.

Kristin- I just came from reading Septembers thread ((hugs)) glad your doing better. I agree with everyone else, you can handle it!

Belinda-Glad your getting in some sleep now, Hopefully they will figure out whats wrong with your foot/back soon.

Deb-Have a fabulous time on your vacation girl! Have a margarita for me;)

Melissa-How did your test go? How is your mentoring (sp?) going? Great job on your workouts!!

Cookie-Sorry to hear about your tooth, hope your doing better today. I had some PF pain yesterday afternoon after our hike, guess its time for some new sneakers....
 
Hey girls! My morning workouts have been slacking. I find it easy to get up at the start of the week but by day 2/3, I'm too lazy and pick sleep over working out. I have been pretty good with doing later workouts though, although yesterday I needed a rest day. I was just so overwhelmed with everything between school and money, and I just crashed after class: wound up passing out at 930 :confused: thank God today is our Friday and I can sleep in tomorrow! We also have a presentation to give this afternoon (it kills me because this is a useless 1 credit BS class and we have to do community service, group presentations, etc...as if we don't have enough crap to do!!). Oh yeah I wound up getting an A on my exam tues, woohoo!!!

Tonight I'm planning on doing STS D11 and some abs. Hopefully :p

Kristin, OMG this wedding sounds absolutely ridiculous. I would be so mad!!! It sounds like one nightmare after another. Are you close with your brother? Does he know about everything his future wife is pulling? Not cool. Glad to hear Baxter is ok. Oh yeah, I can't imagine anyone opting to go into teaching with the way things are now. It's so sad what is happening to our educational system and it makes me angry. Things shouldn't be the way they are, especially since I think this is hurting our kids even more and making us fall further behind everyone else. UGH.

Deb, do you do displays for a bunch of different stores besides Macy's and BJ's? LOL ill probably be locked in the PT lab all weekend so I doubt the beach will be in the plan unfortunately :(

Belinda, good luck with your MRI! And now you got the clearance to walk so tha is good too.

Cookie, oh no!! Feel better! Tooth problems are no fun.

Amelia, walking is better than nothing! I'm sorry to hear about your job. That stinks. Hopefully you can get more hours; hang in there! I've been so busy this week with school stuff that I haven't been able to mentor which blows :(. Hopefully next week will be better ( though we have 2 practical exams and a written one so I dunno about that lol). As much as it stinks that we are slow this month, I'm kinda glad I don't have to work because I feel like I have a lot of stuff to do!
 
'Morning!
Yesterday as I was posting, my dh was moving our internet modem and router to a different location. Of course, we weren't paying attention to what the other was doing and so no post appeared!
Belinda, any news from the mri? Hope you're resting.
Amelia, its great that you have so many offers. It must be challenging to discern what is the best.
Melissa, good job at keeping your eyes on the prize: your schooling. It's hard to keep that focus some times, but it will pay off.
Kristin, did the wedding occur? How did things go?
Deb, hope you're having great weather in Florida. Its been raining since you've been gone.
Went to hockey game last night and then out with some friends of dh. Sluggish start to my day! If the weather clears up, I'd love to take a walk. Otherwise, it will be a hiit workout. Lots of house and workmax on the agenda for today.
Cookie
 
Hey girls, yesterday was a walk and some upper body and today was just a walk. Both about 40 mins

I will bb in the morning with personals.:)
 
Hi guys. So I worked out four times last week instead of my goal, which was 5-6 times. Getting better though, at least I was close. The weekend was a bit rough. Thursday I was too exhausted to work out and I had a ton of grading to finish up on, so I never got a workout in. Friday was my brother's wedding, which was a disaster. Okay, so the wedding was for 100 people, but because they never sent out invitations. . . 40 showed up and out of the 40 maybe 12 showed up for the ceremony. Yea. . . then everyone was asking why I wasn't in the wedding, hahahaha. What else? I had to sit with my crazy sister and bro-in-law and they were really rude to our waitress so I was disgusted by that. . . I ended up doing one too many tequila shots, lol. Therefore, I was hungover on Saturday and no workout.

Today I did Supercuts. I am beyond bloated and feel gross. I really hope I can stick to 6 days working out this week. My neighbor next door (the one with the full grown boxer) invited me over Friday night for a girls game night. I am excited about that. Oh, and I got picked to go to training for new curriculum materials by a company called Odell, so I am getting paid for the training and it is during school. I am missing Thursday and Friday. I am welcoming the change, lol. Last year I would have been upset to be taken out of class. This year I am happy about it. Anyway. . .

Belinda- I hope the MRI went well.

Amelia- hopefully once you are trained and get situated the hours will pick up. Then you'll be needing a day off, lol.

Melissa- I used to be close to my brother when we were kids. When I got married he distanced himself from me. I always thought it was because he felt I left him. I realized later on that it was because I wasn't buying him stuff anymore. When we were kids I'd pay for him to go to the movies with me and stuff. He didn't want to be bothered when the free ride was over. I am over it now. The wedding was a joke.

Deb- rainy weather today and I couldn't really enjoy the weather yesterday as I was a hungover mess. Hope you are enjoying Florida.

Cookie- I am going to Odell training Thursday and Friday. I am then going to be the turnkey person for my building. I hate speaking in front of my peers, so I guess I will have to get over it. It is funny how I can teach in front of 30 kids, but I get tongue-twisted in front of adults.

Okay, off to rest up.

Kristin
 
'Morning!
Belinda, hope you're ok.
Amelia, good job getting in your walks.
Melissa, you must have good time management skills.
Kristin, your four workouts are more than most folks! So a three-day week for you with kiddos and colleagues! Hope you enjoy the training. You probably needed the shots to make it thru the wedding.
Deb, hope you're enjoying Florida.
So, I've been up since 2 to get ready for today and tomorrow! Last night a colleague sent out an email that she would do the pd this afternoon - the one I spent four hours preparing for! Ughh, and earlier she had not wanted to even do it, then we were to do it together. Wish I had that time back so I could have slept this morning, but instead still had to get ready for another workshop. Want to get in a D2S strength wo this morning in a couple of minutes to relieve my stress, so I don't say something I might regret later today.
Forgot to mention it is neuropathy that is causing my foot problems.
Cookie
 
Hey guys. I just finished my workout. I did 4DS HIS, cardio only, plus my own abs workout. Progress reports are due on Wednesday. Hard to believe we are halfway through the first quarter. I wish I could book a vacation for this year, but we just cannot afford it. Maybe we will do a weekend getaway this summer. I am even looking at Virginia beach, pet friendly rentals, lol.

Cookie- I did need the shots. I am looking forward to the training. I need a break from all the negativity. . .

Waving hello to everyone else!

Kristin
 
Morning girls

I plan on getting in a more intense workout today besides walking. Maybe some Cathe. I've been following MFP agian, today is day 4 for me. Feeling good about it :)

So yesterday was my first full day of work and it went good :) , this job will be fine until I can find something else - I just wish they paid more an hour:eek: I got two days this week and noticed next week I have 3 days :D

Cookie-How was your day yesterday? Ugh on the co-workers email, thats frustrating :(, I will have to google neuropathy, not sure what that is? Sounds painful though.

Kristin-Great job with your workout yesterday! I hear ya on being broke, we usually go on a little get-away during November but not his year :( oh well, I'll survive lOL

Belinda-How was the MRI? Sending you get better vibes and ((hugs))

Melissa-Congrats on your A the other day! Thats awesome! Hopefully things will slow down for you soon.

Deb-How is your vacation going? Hope you having a great time!!!

ok ladies, I will check in later after my workout :)
 
Good morning everyone,

Sorry for not checking in, I have a nasty cold:confused: Got the results this morning, my MRI didn't show anything wrong with my back:D Which is good news! My foot on the other hand still hurts:confused: I think, something happened when I got the 3rd cortisone shot in my foot for my PF/heal spur. Right after I got the shot, I experience all this pain my my foot?

I am not sure, if I should start STS again. This week would be M3 Week 1? I only missed Meso 2, week 4? Or should I start Meso 2 again?

I will be back later and catch up on personals.
 
Hallo again,

I am still not clear to work out wishful thinking! So no heavy weight training until they figure out what's wrong with my foot I decided to do Jessica's Breath, Stretch and Relax. I guess, I will keep things easy, lot's of stretching and abs. Woke up with a nasty cold this morning. :( I don't get a break!

Cookie - what did they say about your foot problem? I still have to make an appointment with the Neurology clinic, thought I didn't had to go to the pain. Oh well!

Amelia - I started doing MFP again too. My eating is out of control. The holiday's are just around the corners. Have fun with Cathe today.

Melissa - congrats on the A! That's fantastic! Hope your load with lighten up soon. Hang in there!

Debbie - have fun on your vacation. I need one soon. LOL!

Kirstin - have you checked out Groupon? They have a lot of nice weekend getaway for cheap. Nice job with your workout yesterday.



I will be back in the morning. Have a wonderful day, everyone.
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