I Hate Cardio - Nov 24

August

August

Cathlete
Gobble gobble!

So I have to tell you the funny thing I heard at last night's dinner. I was telling everyone at the table the tale of the stupid sweet potato truck and how I can NEVER catch him...that I can just barely hear his sweet potato announcement from the loud-speaker on his truck, and by the time I get out of my apartment to the street, I see him zooming off at full speed.

Well, one person at the table is having the OPPOSITE problem! The truck comes and parks RIGHT outside his window and sits there for hours with his sweet potato announcement blaring from the loud-speaker LMAO.

So now I know where to go to get some sweet potatoes anyway.

Actually, you know, I confess - the day before yesterday out of pure desperation, I ended up finding them being sold frozen (slowly stone baked and frozen, that is) on the internet, so I ordered a bunch. :) So there, Mr. Sweet Potato Man. :)

Anyway, let's see. Today was Boot Camp. I have a bit of the dread factor when it comes to this workout, and it only makes it worse that this workout has so much "woo!" and "ohhh!" in it. But I pulled my pumpkin pie belly through it. It was supposed to be yesterday's workout, but since I was out alllll day, I just couldn't get to it.

Today's workout is supposed to be any non-step cardio, and it just happens that I have a meeting at a place that is about a 40-minute walk away. So I plan to walk there and back, and then I'll be all caught up with my workouts.

Ahhhh.

You all surviving that aftermath of festivities?
 
L&cryMAO!!!

I ended up taking only one photo of my Thanksgiving dinner, and it just happened that it turned out to be just about the worst photo of myself I've seen in a looooong time, so I wrote to everyone who was at the dinner how much the dinner was great and it was a fun evening, and that the waiter (who was very busy, but kindly stopped to take our photo) took just about the worst photo of me I had seen in years...

...and by mistake my work partner (who was also at the dinner and had recieved the photo by email) pushed the wrong button and forwarded the photo out to all our work associates!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: x( x( x( :eek: :eek: :eek:

My work partner wants to crawl under a rock!

And there better be a yummy sweet potato baking above that rock!!

Oh jeez, the joys of internet.
 
Hi,
Sounds like a nice dinner, cranberry gravy? Hmmmm.... I didn't have any gravy or mashed potatoes, but I did have a nice scoop of yam casserole :+ :+ :+ :+ and other goodies, plus 2 small pieces of pie (homemade chocolate cream and banana cream). Very nice meal and get together with my family.

Went on our traditional Thanksgiving morning bike ride. We had 9 riders and rode about 24 miles. Beautiful weather this morning and we were all just in a great mood.

I did tell the family the story about you and the sweet potato man and his Sanford and Son truck in downtown Tokyo. They laughed.

Sorry about the bad picture, it happens to all of us.

Boot Camp I haven't done for a while but need to. Will be a piece of cake (I'm thinking) since doing all of these other circuit workouts. I always say that and then when I do a workout, I forget how hard it really is. Think I will do Butts & Guts tomorrow. That sure is an effective burner, though it is long. I've kind of taken a rest from the November rotation as I got all freaked at the water weight gain, thinking I was doing too much cardio. I've been flushing with LOTS of water and the weight has gone down again. I just feel so out of control when it jumps up like that, wondering if I'll ever get a handle on it again.

Anyways, hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Hi to Dana, Diane, Michele too.

Jeanette
 
Goodmorning anti-cardio-ers. August, so sorry about the internet picture goof. But I'm glad the dinner was fun. I wonder if those internet-ordered sweet potatos can be shipped to the US of A?

Jeanette, the bike ride sounds lovely. I think I had my bike out all of 2 times last summer. Ah well, maybe next year.

I'm thinking of trying the cardio premix on Body Max 2 this afternoon. Shelley did it and liked it, so I may give it a try.

I'm happy to say I didn't overeat yesterday, although I had a little bit of everything, apple pie included. I made a point of not getting on the stupid scale today. I need to have my DH hide that thing again and only get it out once a week.

Have a great post-Thanksgiving Day everyone. Any exciting plans? I'm working today and the weekend, but it looks like it may be very quiet.
 
Jeanette - Ohhhhhh, yam yam yam yam yam. Pie pie pie pie pie pie pie. And then a nice bicycle ride to burn it off. How ideal. After my dinner, I waddled my way into a taxi. Haha, I got a kick to know that you told your family about the sweet potato truck. Glad to hear that the water thing is back under control!

Robin - Oh, wouldn't that be great if you could order and have those sweet potatoes shipped to the States? Post-Thanksgiving day plans? Yeah, working. I had a meeting today and had a nice walk there. While I was there, I was deep in conversation while trying to take my jacket off and before I knew it, my sweater sleeve was caught in my jacket sleeve and I dang near pulled my sweater off! LOL. I was so deep in talk that I didn't even react to it (I guess my whole shoulder and the whole bra strap came out), and then thinking about it on my walk home, I couldn't stop laughing imagining what it must have looked like.


http://store.yahoo.co.jp/ohako/fn-02.html

This is what the sweet pototoes look like...the yellow ones. If you look about halfway down on the page (there are a few photos of the yellow one, but further down, there's one where you can really see the inside), you can see that the inside of the yellow sweet potato is totally goo. Goo. Isn't that lovely?
 
Goo does indeed sound lovely. What are the purple things? Grape potatos?

LOL at you undressing for work. I don't think I've ever been quite that engrossed. However, I did notice when I was in the bathroom that the crotch of my uniform pants is torn. I checked the inseams this morning, since I hadn't worn these pants for a while, but I guess I didn't check close enough. My knee length lab coat should hide any flashes of undies. I don't expect any of my co-workers to be looking THERE anyway.
 
LMAO. Looooove finding holes in the crotch. It must be kind of exciting to think that you are going crotchless under your lab coat :* .

Heh, yeah, I'm not sure what the purple ones taste like. I got one bag of them, so I'll be able to tell you in the near future.
 
Hi there- bummer that I didn't get to workout yesterday-well back to it today-anyways your stories about flashing people at work reminded me of my own little story-in high school I worked at a pizza place and had gone into the bathroom and when I came out I was walking back up to the cash register and my manager gave me a funny look (luckily she was a girl) and looked down and saw that I had not only not buckled my belt but had left my pants unbuttoned and unzipped-just felt like crawling under the pizza oven- oh well-LOL--deb
 
Good post Turkey Day morning!!

UGH! I'm so fat. My DH had to roll me home last night. Who said they did not eat any mashed potatoes & gravy or dressing? :eek: That's what I live for--lol! I could not stop stuffing myself with stuffing and I made a total pig of myself, and THEN, my FIL, Mr. NN, sent me home with an entire casserole of cornbread and chestnut dressing. I think I may have to ask DH to hide it or dump it--just get it out of my sight before I devour the whole $&(^% thing. I only had one 1 slice of pie, though--a store bought pumpkin (one of my contributions because, unlike Robin, I can't bake pie). It's a good thing I did a heart pumping HIIT workout on Eli yesterday.

August, you need to give your partner the turkey baster treatment. It's a disciplinary device we use often in the <--- thread. I cannot believe he posted an unflattering picture of you! I'm completely paranoid of camera's and there are no pictures of me post 1985--lol! --Cranberry gravy!?!?!? That does not sound good. --I'm so glad you found a source for rock roasted, frozen sweet potatoes. Please, oh please, cook up a purple one and let us know what they taste like. And PUT YOUR SHIRT ON!!! LMAO!

Robin!!! Kitchen cardio--kitchardio! It seems we have a new word for Lexicon of Cathe Forum Speak--lol! --You didn't overeat yesterday? Well, why not? Am I the only one who stuffed herself to the gills? --I did one of the BMax 2 premixes but I can't remember which one. I seem to recall that it %(^(* near killed me. I'm laying off the new workouts for awhile. They are way above my abilities. --I'm sorry you have to work today. I've been thinking of you and how exhausted you must be. I wish you could stay home today and rest.

Jeanette, I love your tradition of a Thanksgiving morning bike ride. It's been about a year since DH and I have taken our bikes out. I'm askeered to ride on the road so we always go to a bike trail. This trail is about 70 or 80 miles long. It was an old railroad track that's been converted to a trail for bikes, in-line skating, and horseback riding. It runs along a river and is quite scenic and beautiful. You can rent canoes, too! I don't know how great of a workout it is because it's pretty flat. The farthest we've ever gone is about 30 miles round trip. Maybe we should do that today! It's a gorgeous day here. --I'm glad you enjoyed your yummy yam casserole!

Deb, I'm sorry I missed you yesterday. It was great that you started thread!! Feel free to start it any time. I went to my IL's yesterday and didn't get home until late. I fell asleep on the couch the minute I got home and never got around to posting. I hope you had a lovely holiday.

Heather!! I love it when you crash our thread. Crash away!! I think I'll pass on the scrambled eggs premix for now, thank you very much. I prefer my eggs on a plate--lol! I did one of the BMax 2 premixes and it darn near killed me. You're right about the water. I went through more than a quart:eek:. (OOPS! I accidentally posted before I was ready!). I admire your tenacity, Heather, and you deserved every bite of your Thanksgiving dinner. The new workouts are a too hard for me. I've given them a whirl but I have to modify them so much that it frustrates me. I'm going to keep them, though, and test them out every now and again until I can do them.

Dana, Jana, Diane, Ellen, Kate--I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.

DH is off today and we're going to a movie, Casino Royale. I have a family reunion tomorrow and will be up and out of here early so I may not have time to post before I go. I'll try to peek in here later this evening. Have a great day everyone!! :* :* :*
 
LMAO!! How the heck did your pants not fall down?! Too funny!

......and now I totally want to eat pizza. x(
 
LMAO again!

Sounds like you didn't let NN down! Good for you. And OMG, what's this about cornbread with chestnut dressing. Holy mother.

Oh, my poor work partner. I just spoke with him a half hour ago and he sounded so down, I kept asking if something had happened, and he finally told me that he's been in shock all day about having sent out our personal Thanksgiving photo out to all our work associates. Poor thing said he felt like throwing up all day about it! He sent out an apology to our associates afterwards, and I guess he's been getting funny responses to it...which is good...but he still feels awful about it. I kept telling him it was nothing to worry about and that I'm sure people were having a nice little laugh...oh, poor man! He feels so bad! He told me he'd forget about by tomorrow. :)

Yeah, the thing about the sweet potatoes is there is NO baking! You just take one out of the plastic bag in the freezer and pop it in the mircowave for a minute or two and woila! Goo!

All this talk about biking around has made me want to bike around. Fat chance of my doing that in the middle of downtown Tokyo unless I want to have a major accident.

I can't wait to try out the purple potatoes. I would right now, but I suppose that wouldn't make for the greatest midnight snack. Or morning rock. ;)

ETA : Those frozen potatoes are like 1/10 the size of the ones the sweet potato truck man has! :eek: They're totally Mini-Potatoes
 
*GASP* Mini potatoes!! Well he!!, have 2--LMAO!

Oh hey, give your partner a hug from me and tell him it's all right. He's lucky to have you for a partner. You're so easy going! I would probably go after him with a meat cleaver--LMAO! What can I say? It's that hot, Italian blood!

Deb--funny story:7

DH is waiting and I still haven't read any other threads. I'll see
 
Mini potato = min goo
No muss, no fuss, and less calories, right? That way you can eat 2 (or 3 or 4...)

Michele, enjoy your day with your DH. We have a rails-to-trails bike path around here too, but I've never been on it. I live about 1/2 mile from a state game lands that is crisscrossed with old roads, so that is where I do most of my biking. It's also great for cross country skiing.

LOL at Deb's undone pants story. I guess we are all a bunch of flashers at heart.
 
Good morning,

Just got done with Butts and Guts, using the stability ball ab work. Great workout and I love the firewalkers. May try to get in a Cardio Coach #5 (have never done that one) later today. Depends on what we are doing. DH is still in bed so I haven't consulted with him. Shopping will not be on the list as I'm not one to stand in lines. I swear, shopping and standing in lines is harder on my than any Cathe workout. My hips start hurting and I just get fatigued. Now how could that be?

Here's a story that happened about 10 years ago at work (remember I work at a State prison). I had this cute little skirt and jacket outfit on, pantyhose, the whole thing. I had a lunchtime choir practice (I was in an acapella choir and we sometimes practiced during our lunch hour as all the members worked at the prison too). I used the restroom, came out and walked over to another building, looked inside one of the meeting rooms to see if that was the practice area, walked into the lunch room, saw no singers there, walked over to another building (all the time passing staff and working inmates), and found our choir group. We sang for about 45 minutes, standing in a circle (there were 6 of us) so we could hear each other. When the practice ended, I was the first to leave. Our choir director, a guy who is a real character, pulled on the bottom of my skirt and said something. I turned around and my skirt was tucked into my pantyhose in the back. I was pretty embarrased. A couple of times in the afternoon, he would go past the window where I worked with the back of his long jacket tucked into his pants, just to give me a teasing. I lived through it.

Michele and Robin, we have a rail-trail path that gets used pretty good during good weather and x-country skiied on during the winters. We're fortunate to have it. I rode it a lot when I first got into biking. Michele, hope you get a bike ride in. The hardest part is toughening up your butt and it takes a little while to get that done (like a few weeks of riding). It's hard to just jump on the bike, do a ride that will be of benefit cardiovascularly because the butt just can't handle it, though the lungs probably could.

August, I'm really curious about the purple sweet taters. You've got to let us know what they are like. 1/10th the size. I'd have to eat 10 of them. I brought home the leftover yam casserole and will dole it out to myself for a while.

Hope everyone has a really fun day today, I'll check back later.

Jeanette
 
ROTFLMAO! Oh man, what is it with pantyhose?

I'm sure uh, nobody noticed. :*

But I hope you were wearing cute underwear to go with your cute little skirt. :)
 
I will definitely get back to you on the mini purple potatoes.

When I actually do catch the sweet potato guy and buy the giant potatoes, I have to cut them up, wrap them and freeze them, so actually these mini guys are saving me a lot of saran wrap. :D
 
Hey again- yes I am curious about those purple potaters too- thought the color might be off on my computer-purple is my favorite color-well I tried to work out this evening and my knee was croaking at me so I guess I'll have to do a cardio,GS back, shoulders, biceps AND GS Legs (help) tomorrow (Sat)-somebody stop me--deb
 
Hey Jeanette-I just took a look at your pictures-lookin good and your hubby is a cutie patootie as Rosie would say-anyways your horses are so pretty- I use to have a National Showhorse but I ended up giving him away to my best friend-she has ridden him alot more than I could and one more thing-the biking pictures remind me of my MIL- she does bike tours in different places and has even gone to Spain and Europe with her bike-talk to you later-deb
 
Thanks, Deb, for the compliments. I don't much about the National Show Horse, but I think I've seen pictures. Are they ridden saddle seat? I think they have a lot of flash! I've been into horses for about 23 years now. Got my first one about that time and many others since then. Started out riding western, then went to english, doing hunter-jumpers, eventing, foxhunting. After doing that for about 15 years, went to riding more western, helping a friend with their ranch and did a lot of gathering, team penning, reining, a little cutting and enjoyed all that too. Then got into doing dressage.

About 7 years ago, DH and I bought mtn. bikes and I fell in love all over again with biking. Got a road bike a couple years later and that is my passion now. I ride in a club here in town and also do organized metric century rides (62 miles), century rides (100 miles) and time trials. I just basically love riding.

Sadly, there just isn't enough time to do well at both sports, biking and horses, and I just needed a break from horses so I sold my QH in September. First time in 23 years I've been horseless. Not sure if I'll buy a colt next year or not. I'm kind of enjoying not being tied down and with winter coming, I don't have to worry about frozen water, wading thru the snow to the barn, etc. We'll see...

I would LOVE to do a bike tour in Italy or France. That is my dream. My DH would support it, but he's not a rider so I'll have to find a partner.

Thanks again, Deb, for the compliments.

Jeanette
 
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