Shrinking Violets Check-in for February 11-17, 2007

BelovedHeather

BelovedHeather

Cathlete
Good morning, Violets! It is a brand new week and time for a new check-in. Train hard this week. Eat clean. Drink plenty of water. Bless your body with restful sleep.

Yesterday was a great day. I had fun with Kick, Punch, & Crunch. After 3 weeks, I am ready for a new kickboxing workout. I decided to return to Cardio Kicks this week. It appears that 3 weeks is my limit for a rotation. I did the Kickbox planks and abs yesterday to wrap up my workout.

I had a hair appointment yesterday afternoon. My hairstylist told me that she is impressed by how healthy my hair is now. I credit clean eating and exercise. It is down to my shoulders, and I have never been able to wear it this long. It is very full and healthy looking.

I have not consumed any meat (including chicken) since New Year’s Eve. I was craving chili, and my first attempt at meatless chili was a success. It was incredibly tasty and satisfying. The Spice Hunter chili powder blend is yummy. It contains chile pepper, onion, garlic, cocoa powder, oregano, cayenne, cumin, cinnamon, and cloves. I bought it because it is the only brand I could find that is free of salt, MSG, and other additives. I am very impressed with the flavor.

I bounced on my rebounder last night.

I need to go to the grocery store after church because I did not get around to that yesterday. I want to fix a pot of chili beans too because they will be a good alternative topping for my baked potatoes instead of cottage cheese all the time. I bought some whole wheat tortillas, and I can make burritos with them too.

Hugs to Wendy, Jean, Maeghan, Kali, Kim, and Sunny too if you are still reading our check-in.

Blessings,
Heather B.

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1 NIV).
 
Good Morning Heather and ALL the Violets! I'm still here. So sorry I haven't been around.
Heather, you're chili sounds delicious! I'm sure your hair looks beautiful! Isn't it a great feeling when people notice things like that about us? It's so gratifying to know we're doing something good!

I am doing the Fat Burning and Definition rotation. I have major DOMS in my legs from a powerwalk and LL's yesterday. I have MIC today and just don't see it happening. I hate that one. I'd rather do SB or RS twice!!! I think I may just be walking today as I really am sore. (not that I mind tho) ;);)

Missed you guys. Feels good to be here again. I'll keep the butt glue handy this time!

Have a good day! BBL!

Kali

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Kali!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome back! Hey, are we still on for our GTG? :)

Hey Heather!:D

Today is my rest day.

I am going to be bad. I am going out for a pancake breakfast with DH. DS is at his grannie's house so we are taking the opportunity to indulge a bit. :9

Tomorrow it's back to business as I begin week 6 of the X!!!}( }( }(
 
HI Wendy!! YES we are still on for our GTG! :D:D
So how was breakfast? Hope you enjoy your rest day sounds like you've been working pretty hard there Girlfriend! I can't wait to see your results. Wish I could say I've had some good results. I have results but not in the good way. x( No biggie tho. I'm doing good now.

Well I want to lay down and croak, but I GOT THRU MIC! :7:7 I kept it down a notch on some of it, but I made it thru. Now we have to go visit DD at the hospital, he had a bout w/ pnemonia and is getting PT now to help him get his strength back. He's 86 so when he gets sick it takes a lot out of him. Then we have to go see the DFIL for his BD that we missed this past week. All I want to do is take a nap after that HATEFUL HORRID workout tho! LOL! I don't think I'm going to be able to walk tomorrow and I have ME on my rotation. YIKIES!! :eek:

Well I'm off to get cleaned up and out of here.

I'll talk to you soon Wendy!
Hi to everyone else!

Kali

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MIC is no joke, Kali! Congrats on makin' it through!!!!!

Okay, I think I am just going to plan on coming up saturday morning. DH bowls friday night so we'd have to get a sitter if I wanted to come fri night and we already need a sitter for 2-3 additional weekends in the next month to month and a half!:eek: Don't want to push our luck! ;)
 
That sounds good to me Wendy. I hear ya on the babysitter thing. We'll be able to relax and hang out and chat and then we'll do something Saturday night. It'll be "Kali & Tig's Night Out II" LOL!

I'll talk to you soon!

Kali

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So what's on the menu? Has your DH planned it yet? He hasn't forgotten that he promised to pre-prepare our meals for us, has he? ;)
 
Good Morning Violets.

CS&T/ARX is on tap for me today. I have a busy day ahead so you may not see me again until later tonight/tomorrow....

Have a great day!:)
 
Hi Guys.

Everything ok Meg? Sometimes I just get so caught up in stuff I don't get a chance to sit down and read the personals and check in. Always feel better when I do tho.

Wendy, hope you're having a good "not too busy" day. Yes DH remembers he's going to cook for us before he goes. He wants to know what you'd like. Anything special?

I worked 4 hours today and still have to workout. I'm supposed to do ME but don't think my legs can take it. I have MAJOR freaking DOMS in my quads. I really want to stick to this rotation tho. Maybe I'll just do legs with very little weights. I just want to be able to walk tomorrow. Actually tomorrow is a walk/run and abs. Maybe I should flip flop. I'll decide by the time I get the boys home. Speaking of which it's that time already.

Enjoy the rest of the afternoon ladies. Talk to you guys later.

Kali

www.PictureTrail.com/kkali
 
Meg, Good to see you here. Hope your "stuff" wasn't the bad kind!

Kali, Good to see you too girl! There's a lot of stuff I like...how about I tell ya what I'm not fond of-lol! Eggs, steak, pork, most all fish but white-that I like, all shell fish. I think that covers my not gonna eat it list for the most part.:p Does that help any? LOL Let us know what work out you do. Have you started that new job? Do you like it?

Well I just finished CS&T and PH abs. I fried! Time for a shower and then off to mom's for a visit.

TTYL!:)
 
Good evening. Late check in for me. I did get up and did 30 mins on the TM. I think tomorrow will be ME and maybe a spin class> I have a dentist appointment after work so I don't know if I will make the spin class, but I want to.

Jean
 
Shrinking Violets Check-in

“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” would be an appropriate title for this update. It has been a Monday all day long. I did not get to sleep until 2:00 a.m. Do not even ask why. I have no earthly idea. I dragged my butt out of bed at 6:00 a.m. just in time for my morning workout. I should have skipped my workout and done my Bible study instead. I have been backsliding in that area, and my flesh is rising up like yeast bread as a direct result.

I had fun with IMAX2. I am really glad I did it because it was the only good thing about my day. I had to modify the genie hops because I am still too heavy to hop on one leg, but the rest of the workout does not feel all that intense anymore. My endurance has obviously greatly improved because this was a real challenge for me a year ago. Now for the bad and the ugly.

My morning started with a heartbreaking e-mail from a precious friend. She is morbidly obese and totally addicted to food. Her sister did an intervention of sorts last year. My friend stayed with her sister last summer and lost 16 pounds the first week by having her sister cook for her. She loves Weight Watchers and successfully lost a huge chunk of weight by simply eating less food. She weighs over 400 pounds, gets a pile of points at her size, and does not need to exercise to see results. She can barely walk, so exercise is not really an option. She regained all her weight and then some and wrote to confess that she needs to buy a bigger SUV with leather seats so she can slide under the steering wheel. She asked me to pray that God will provide the money for her to make this purchase because she is in deep debt. Because I understand this battle all too well, I called her during my lunch hour and had a “reality check” talk with her. I told her that she does not need money for a bigger SUV. She needs to take some action and get her butt back to Weight Watchers before it is too late. She is not able to walk from her living room to her bathroom without getting winded. It is so sad. Her blood pressure is out of control, her knees are giving out under her weight, and she can barely move. I wish I could inspire her to change her life. All I can do is pray from a distance while she kills herself one bite at a time. She lives in South Carolina, so there is not much I can do in a practical way to help her. I am not good with tough love, but I was compelled to lovingly confront her with tough truth today.

I did not get my grocery shopping done yesterday, so I went to the grocery store after an exhausting day at work. I only bought a few items and could not find one of them in my bag when I got home. I was so frustrated that I drove to a small grocery store around the corner, bought a small package of cream cheese, returned home, and inhaled 2 pieces of toasted cinnamon raisin Ezekiel bread with an ounce of cream cheese. It has been a long time since that old Heather has surfaced. I am so disappointed in myself. It does not exactly qualify as a binge at less than 300 calories because I would have eaten that much for dinner anyway, but I still hate it when I act like that. I know better. I know how to deal with frustration and sad emotions without comfort eating. I should have prayed or put on some praise music and danced or poured out my feelings in my journal. But I was not thinking clearly. I was tired. I have not been getting enough sleep at night. I have not been reading my Bible every day. Not to mention, I have a fierce case of PMS. Those things are a recipe for disaster that created a ticking time bomb, and the heavenly peace I have been experiencing this year was blown to hell tonight.

I am still frustrated and anxious tonight. I feel like I am about to fly to pieces. I am typing this update to keep myself out of the kitchen. I am not even going to pack my meals and snacks tonight. I do not trust myself near food at this moment. I have such an overwhelming tendency to self-destruct. God help me because I am a danger to myself at times like this. I fly high and fall hard.

I will be fine in the morning. I just need to make it through the night. I am going to put on some praise music and bounce on my rebounder, enjoy a soothing bubble bath, try to relax, and curl up with my Bible. I keep reminding myself that I have not done any permanent damage. How I react to this stumble will determine ultimate success or failure. I had a momentary lapse in self-control, but it does not have to turn into a relapse and ultimately a total collapse. I am still in the race, my vision is still clear, and my focus is still on the finish line. As my pastor reminds me, God did not promise that we would be ahead at the half. He just promised that we will win in the end. Amen!

Blessings,
Heather B.

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1 NIV).
 
RE: Shrinking Violets Check-in

I did not WO yesterday, but I did spend an hour in the barn shoveling crap, among other things. Just cleaning the barn up before we are pounded with the snow. I should be able to get a good WO in today. I went grocery shopping and stocked up on the good stuff.

Heather- I think you did fine alst night. After all that frustration, fatigue, and PMS, you did amazingly well! Be proud of that.


Maeghan AKA megadoo


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RE: Shrinking Violets Check-in

I'm going for the DM lower body premix thingie today...I forget what it's called! I had deemed tuesdays as leg day for phase 2 of the X but I need a cardio boost due to a weekend of bad eating so I'm doing a circuit to make sure I get it all in today! }(

Sorry no personals right now but I'll be back!:)
 
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I'm done! I did the DM cardio/leg blast premix and then went back and did all of the lower body exercises again! Talk about a leg burner as well as a great cardio work out!}(

Gotta wash the sweat off now!:p
 
RE: Shrinking Violets Check-in

I just did my own WO. I wanted to watch my soaps, so I freestyled it.

I did a full body WO. I used high reps, moderate weight.
LB- squat/lunge combo
one legged squats
leg presses
static lunges
squats
inner thigh lifts with ankle weights
ball squeezes
plie squats
hamstring presses
leg extensions
hamstring roll ins
glute squeezes
fire walkers

UB- chest flies (both DB positions)
chest presses
shoulder press
shoulder press with twist
rear delt flies
side lateral raises
bent over rows
pullovers
tricep kickbacks
dips on the ball
tricep extensions
bicep curls
hammer curls
concentratin curls

Then I did abs and stretch from B&G

I feel good about this WO. I hope to do cardio later, but that's alright if I don't. I bought that Whey protien powder vanilla from Walmart and am enjoying a nice smoothy now.

Great job Wendy!! I am sure you will feel that one. Isn't DM alot of fun!


Maeghan AKA megadoo


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Shrinking Violets Check-in

This was a better day. It was not perfect, but it was much better than yesterday. I did get some sleep last night. I was feeling tired and lethargic when I woke up this morning, but I read the encouraging messages here and in my Ya Ya’s journal and got inspired to keep pressing on. I did not have enough energy to take on Muscle Endurance this morning, so I pulled out some fun workouts. I did the Timesaver 4 cardio (from Kick, Punch, & Crunch) followed by Supersets. After punching and kicking away my frustration, Supersets just plain made me happy. I love this workout. It is the only total body weight workout that I would hate to lose. Supersets is one of the first workouts I would replace if I lost my Cathe collection for any reason.

My little run-in with food last night is an indication of the amazing progress I have made. A few years ago, I would have binged on 3,000 calories after a little stumble like that. I have learned to fall with grace and bounce back with resilience instead of sliding down a slippery slope. No more believing the lie that I might as well wallow in sin and eat everything in sight while I am down on the ground. I am very pleased that I got back on track right away instead of succumbing to those dangerous all-or-nothing feelings of failure.

I talked to Rebecca this afternoon. You will not believe this, but she indulged in cinnamon raisin Ezekiel bread with butter and cream cheese last night. We are so much alike. At least I did not add butter too! Rebecca and I are hoping to jog in the pool after work tomorrow. I bounced on my rebounder tonight.

I am ready to start wrapping up this day so I can relax and get to sleep early tonight. My eating was not as good as it could have been today because I did not pack my meals and snacks ahead of time, but I did okay considering I was flying by the seat of my pants. I ate a bowl of chili beans tonight with a tiny portion of Cabot extra sharp white cheddar cheese. I am done with cheese for a season. I will share more about that tomorrow. It is time to relax in a warm bubble bath and curl up under my favorite quilt.

Y’all are the best. You “own” a little piece of my success. Thank you for the love, hugs, encouragement, pep talks, and kicks in the butt! I appreciate the time you invest in my journey.

Blessings,
Heather B.

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1 NIV).
 
RE: Shrinking Violets Check-in

Good evening.

Well, I didn't sleep well last night so I did not get a work out in this morning. I did manage to get to the spin class after the dentist. I really love spinning. I feel so invigorated afterwards. During is a different story, but once I finish, I just feel so good.

Heather, glad to hear you are feeling better. Very proud of you for controlling your indulgence. That does say alot about how far you have come with your journey. Keep up the great work and you will reap the benefits. Again I need to use you as an example for myslef and try to model your control. Yesterday at the office we received a gift canister from a vendor that was filled with all kinds of goodies. I started splurging on some chocolate covered nuts. I made so many trips back to the canister that my boss(who knows how I want to eat better) decided to intervene. Since I was the only one eating the chocolates, she first covered them with liquid hand soap and then put them it the trash to make sure I wouldn't eat any more. I was rolling on the floor laughing. I did assure her that although I can be compulsive about certain foods, I have never taken food out of the trash to eat.
Today was better. I managed to passed on the brownies that came with our lunch.



Maeghan and Wendy, nice workouts. You girls rock.

Kali, how's your week going? How are you liking the data entry job?

Sunnydelite and Kim, hope you are well.


My above confession brought this question to mind. Are there certain foods that you feel cause you to loose control? What do you do to avoid over indulging them? I really need suggestions. I can eat very healthy, but then blow it all with candy or cookies (or anything sweet) without even being hungry for that item. I think it is getting worse with age.

Gotta get to bed. See ya tomorrow.

Jean
 
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