PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION: MARCH

[Stacy]

Looks like March 4th is better late than never starting a new thread

I worked and had company over all weekend. I was not able to workout as my guests were staying in my workout room/guest room.

Eating has really been pathetic lately, enough said.

Mondays are usually my rest days, so even though no workout today, I DEFINITELY can use this day (and any day!) to clean up my eating, so that is my goal today.

Tomorrow will be STS TB. I generally like doing splits better so we'll see how TB workouts will go, probably good to mix things up a bit.

Have a good Monday!

 

[andreadaile]

Stacy thanks for starting this! I want online much this weekend, not at all actually, just on my phone and i am not sure how to start a new thread on my phone

Well i had an awesome weekend! 2.5 mile dog walk each day, muscle Max on Saturday and Kick Max yesterday. I did skip the high intensity part of Kick Max, i don't think my Achilles needs that, and i got a great workout anyway. Eating wasn't too bad either and I was able to help Rich reframe the door to my workout room.

 

[patchworkpenguin]

Due to an overbooked flight, Hubby didn 't make it home until 11pm last night. Work was kind enough to give him today off. Humph!

Its warm and sunny so we took April to the park, Hubby's outside trying to fix his car which broke last week, the part came Friday right before he had to leave.

 

[Stacy]

Monday's Grade Card

Workout F
Clean Eating F-

Hoping for a better Tuesday

 

[andreadaile]

ugh...me too, i had pizza for lunch AND dinner! but up at 0430 t to do muscle max. yesterday was a rest day, did walk dogs 2.5 miles.

make today a great one!

 

[Stacy]

Per my rotation plan I was supposed to do STS TB today but wasnt feelin' that one. Instead I did XTrain Low Impact HiiT (floor, step and ab premix). It was a good, get back into the swing of things workout clocking in at 43 minutes total (including stretch/cool down).

Diet so far so good, only b/c I've been too lazy to make any food.

B--lower sugar maple&brown sugar oatmeal
L--leftover beef/tomato soup

D--?? (not knowing is my downfall!)

 

[Stacy]

I think I'm going to tweak "our" rotation, Andrea. I'm going to do the workouts for week 2 & 4 first and then instead of doing week 1 & 3 that include the Total Body workouts I'm going to do an upper body split. I dont think my knees will like being worked as much if doing TB twice a week. I will likely end up doing a week with a TB workout during my one weekend a month I work. I usually dont workout as many times a week that entire week.

This week will be

M--Rest
T--Cardio + abs
W--Upper Body
R--Lower Body + abs
F--Rest
S--Circuit
S--Cardio + abs

Alternate weeks (or doing each rotation for 2 weeks in a row and alternating the 2 week blocks, all depends on my "wonderful" work schedule!)

M--Rest
T--Circuit
W--Upper Body Split + abs
R--Lower Body
F--Rest
S--Cardio + abs
S--Upper body Split (and maybe a short leg workout, maybe floor legs or barre

 

[patchworkpenguin]

I did Althletic Training today. This is the workout where Cathe makes the comment about feeling like a penguin while wearing the firewalkers band. The comment always gets cheers from me!

Stacy, I got an F for the weekend also. When Hubby is gone I use that as an excuse to sit around and overeat. usually sweets. I need to snap out of that behavior.

 

[Stacy]

My trouble food is chips. I can have chocolate, ice cream, cake etc in the house and not be tempted at all. If chips are in the house I can eat the entire bag in one day.

 

[andreadaile]

mine is rich foods...comfort foods i guess, Mexican, pizza, creamy soups, spinach dip, that kind of thing. Chips and sweets i can pass up. chicken enchiladas or lasagna, I'm eating the whole pan

gotta walk the dogs now in 35mph wind and freezing temps....boo!

 

[Stacy]

Hey ladies, I'm going thru one of my depressive/unmotivated periods and I really have no reason for it. Depression runs in my family and I think I just have some down periods now and then. I know it will pass as always but I've been finding it hard to get motivated to workout which leads to bad eating and "what's the point", gain a few lbs, the downward spiral. Maybe I'm just expecting too much with all the hours I work and trying to eat clean with my IBS etc but then I think I see other people do it. I have a friend with 3 kids, an elderly mother, she works full time and is training for a marathon and a triathlon so I know it can be done.

I didnt workout yesterday, set my alarm to workout this morning and that didnt happen either.

What do you do to get yourself back into things? It seems like everytime this happens I allow myself to gain a few lbs that over the years are getting harder and harder to lose. I'm now 20 lbs overweight and just really bummed. Anyway I dont mean to bring you two down, just wanted to vent to some kind ears.

 

[andreadaile]

I'm sorry to hear that Stacy! I feel like I go through the same thing and it truly sucks. one thing I found to help lift my spirits (increase dopamine and motivation) during high stress/low energy times is to take 1000mg of L-Tyrosine first thing in the morning. I order it from Amazon, but i thing you can find it at GNC stores. Worth a try!

I had a horrible rotten no-good day yesterday. Inspection at work on top of it being incredibly busy, dentist appt after that, quick stop at home for a bite to eat and Nelson sat on my lap and wiped his poopy butt on my leg! Then a haircut and finally home at almost 9pm. So no workout, no dogwalk, and i wanted to cry from about 9am on :-(

Lots of cleaning on tap today, high step challenge and a dogwalk if my feet don't hurt too bad (that's another thing bugging me! metatarsalgia from a huge callus on my left foot!) and hopefully some timed to relax. This weekend at work is really going to suck :-( waaaaaaaah Tyrosine take me away!

 

[patchworkpenguin]

I spent the morning chasing kids at Bible Study. Then did 3 miles with Leslie.

Hubby came home sick yesterday and went straight to bed so no woekout for me.

We are planning a day trip this weekend down to Pontotoc, MS to put flowers on the graves of Hubby's Gma and GreatGma.

Stacy, I looked in the mirror this morning and wasn't happy with how I looked. It made me sad how much weight I've allowded myself to put back on after working so hard several years ago to take it off. But lately it seems like nothing has worked, then I get discouraged, give up, eat what I want with no exercise, then it starts again.

Andrea, I"m sorry you had such a bad day. Bad Nelson! I had a kid walk up and annouce that he had glue on his hands as he wiped them off on my favorite sweater! I was so mad I just yelled at him! Later he got mad when another kid got marker on his shirt, so I reminded him that he had wiped glue on me. Ha, sweet revenge! Now he knows what it feels like

 

[Stacy]

Thanks you two for keepin' it real

I know it wasnt funny to you at the time, but the poopy butt and the glue story made me crack a smile

Sometimes all it takes is a smile....and maybe some Tyrosine.....more vacation....a winning lottery ticket....you know, nothing majory

Someone called in sick for tomorrow already so I'll be working extra long hours, yay (ugh). But, I have the weekend off!

 

[andreadaile]

Peng, sorry about your sweater but I cracked up too at your story! I thought I was the only person who yelled at impressionable young children...lol ;-) once on an airplane a three year old kept kicking the back of my seat so i reached back really quick and grabbed his leg, turned my head around and glared at him and like a snake hissed "stop it!" He stopped it

no workout, but a 3.5 mile dogwalk. Hubby brought me some McDonalds...he messed up and got me a double quarter pounder so i had a half pound McDonalds burger for lunch... (it rocked)

 

[andreadaile]

oooookay I just drug myself out of bed about 20 minutes later than I had intended, struggled through the first two circuits of High Step Challenge, and I'm going to call that good for the day. At least I did something...wanted to sleep that extra hour but I knew if I got up and did SOMETHING it would make my whole day go better.

Have a good day everyone I shall try. Dog walk after work and then i shall have wine!

 

[Stacy]

I had intentions of doing a short workout this morning too, HOWEVER (ugh), I got 3 calls from work at 2:15 am, 3am and then 5:45 am, and seeing as how I have to work today from 8:30-6pm I didnt accomplish anything this morning except so far drinking one cup of coffee. Did I mention I went to bed at midnight? Such is my job/life on a weekly basis. It's a wonder I get any workouts done ever. (Sorry, yes I'm a bit grumpy!) To "cheer" myself up I weighed myself....all time new high of 137 lb (my feel good weight is 115-120 lb) so I was NOT happy with myself!

But, if Snooki can lose 42 lbs I'm sure I can lose a few too, right??!!

I just want to get thru this day and start fresh in the morning. I have to goto my nephew's fund raiser in the morning, a sports breakfast. Hoping there is something healthy I can eat there and not just things like bacon, hashbrowns, etc. I'm going to try not to eat much of anything but I dont want my nephew thinking I'm not having a good time, he'll notice something like that

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can....

Andrea, good job for getting up and doing something!!

Peng, hoping everyone is getting over their illnesses at your house!

 

[patchworkpenguin]

I weighed myself today also, but no change from the past few weeks. I'm not really surprised but just happy I didn't go up. Housecleaning and weights planned for today.

Stacy, sorry to hear you had such a lousy morning. Good plan to look for healthy breakfast.

Andrea, At least you got something done, even if it was shorter than usual.

 

[Stacy]

Life is throwing my hurdles this week, had a 3am wake up call Saturnday morning, family crisis....things are now okay but I had to meet family at the ER, didnt get home til almost 4pm. So, again was tired, no workout, hadnt even showered yet at that point, diet was horrible yesterday.

Move on this morning, we have sprung ahead and I'm using that as my theme. I'm springing into action. Having Spring around the corner reminds me that soon will be shorts (in my case capris) weather and also I'd love to feel more comfortable in a tank top. So with that in my mind even if it's just a walk, I am doing SOME sort of workout/exercise today!!

My diet will definitely be better today as well!

 

[Stacy]

I did a workout!! I did Body Max 2....warmup, step cardio power circuits and abs, had to pause a few times. I planned on doing the 20 min upper body segment too but was too tired and figured that was enough for one day. I didnt feel the 20 min segment would add much. I like to do longer, split upper body workouts anyways.