Tiffany's Progress Tracking
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I hope it works out with your daughter's studio! That sound like a very frustrating situation.0
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I usually walk outside during lunch time - 3.1 miles in 45 min and there are several big hills, so heart rate definitely up! It kind of amazes me that even after walking this route for years the danged hills just never get any easier - shouldn't I adapt and they should not make me pant and huff and puff every single time!
Friday just cube workouts and walking...picked up a crib, and a mattress, delivered to eldest son's appartement for this littlest girl...set up (badly, I think we may have put the side panels on wrong way round)...errands at wal-mart, youngest son wanted to buy himself a prepaid phone...didn't get home until late and went to bed...
Saturday started with yoga, so that's good!!!0 -
Saturday and Sunday - super busy with ballet and such, didn't have much time to eat, managed to get lots of walking and some other workouts in...someday life will slow down a bit!1
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Monday - felt terrible, didn't sleep well, headachy, spent all day on the couch doing pretty much nothing...no exercise, not even walking...got some books read!!!0
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Hope you're feeling better today! What books did you read?0
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The first 4 Quincy Harker books...I enjoyed them, but there are some continuity errors with regards to the current Renfield...and I started book 5 which introduces some continuity errors with regards to Glory...but still a fun read all the way around...0
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@tcunbeliever Continuity errors annoy the crap out of me, even so I checked them out. I put them on my reading list!0
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Renfield has a different back story and current age in each of the first 3 books - even though the interactions with other characters make it clear that the sequence of events is only a few months apart...I was starting to wonder if it was a deliberate chuckle from the author, like Kenny dying at the end of every South Park episode and then being alive again at the next one...there is no backstory for Renfield at all in book 4, however there is mention of Glory knowing Q 50+ years earlier...then in book 5 it's 7 years prior and they meet for the first time...so, I'm thinking the author has just lost track of a few things...I just started book 5, but it doesn't seem like it's the 1940's, however, a definitive time frame has not been set beyond "7 years ago" so I suppose it could just be out of sequence with the other books...
Continuity errors annoy me, but I enjoy the stories and so far Q is a fun character, so I'll finish reading the ones I have and probably pick up the rest too...it makes me a bit hesitant to dive into the other series from that author however...
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Yeah I guess it's possible to forget some details when your years and several books in. I would also be hesitant to read his other works as well.0
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Tuesday - did great on exercise...didn't log any food, but it was probably on point since it was my standard weekday lunch...yoga last night was soooo needed0
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Wednesday - left work early to attend kid's award ceremonies, so didn't get walking done, but after we got home I was epic and did 1/2 P90X3 yoga, then the full P90X3 pilates, then finished the second half of yoga - a full hour and it felt so good even though it was a huge challenge...food was a bit over on carbs because I just wanted mac & cheese and the rice pasta is super carby, however, it was worth every bite...0
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Sounds like you had a very active day with good food! Yay!0
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Thursday - totally rocked it in the exercise and food department - I was WAY OVER on protein, normally I barely get to minimum, and yesterday I did awesome...today will be another 'barely minimum' day, but if I can manage one day of awesome protein then sooner or later I will get another...got lots of walking plus extra walking plus some weights and stretching while on conference calls plus decelerator which was soooo hard...I had to skip the last minute of burpees because my wrists were killing me, but I survived all the rest and did it well!!! I can feel it today too, glutes and calves are sore, but not crippled sore!
Not sure how much I will be on since tonight is a crazy schedule of kid taxi, plus packing, plus leaving for the beach early in the morning, however, I will be mentally tracking even if I'm not on the app and I will be trying to keep the food and exercise on target!!!1 -
Friday was awesome, exercise was on point, food was not, I had a milkshake for lunch but it was delicious!!! Then taxi girl to ballet, taxi boy home from portsmouth, dinner was wendy's french fries...but I didn't eat them all, just until I wasn't hungry anymore, then had eggs when I got home - actual nutrition finally!!!
Saturday was travel to the beach and enjoy some chilly time there - plus shrimp for dinner with salad and fried potatoes, YUM!!! Watched Cadaverella - terribly horror flick, lots of fun and just my type of dreadful movie!
Sunday more beach time, briefly because we got rained out and then did touristy stuff around the island and blue crab and shrimp for dinner, didn't even eat any side dishes, just crab and shrimp, so delicious!!!. Watched another B horror movie about zombie miner children, it was fun!
Monday more beach time, still cold, but at least sunny, then ice cream for lunch, and Ledo's for dinner, gluten free pizza with tomato, basil, and a garlic sauce.
Tuesday it was too cold in the morning for the beach, so we packed up and headed home.
I didn't track food, but lunches were mostly tomato sandwiches and dinners were mostly seafood, so I think I was probably on target...may have been a bit over with the wine and ice cream, but not terribly so I don't think.
Today is back to leangains, and I have a haircut scheduled for tonight - yay!!!1 -
Yay for an awesome weekend!0
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Wednesday went well, food was mostly good, a bit over on carbs, but not terrible...exercise was mostly good, got in my cube workouts and my walking but missed my evening yoga/pilates because my daughter and I got haircuts and didn't get home until like 10pm...plus I was famished and ate a ton of food late at night, so I don't think I slept as well as usual and I'm a bit sleepy today.
Team picnic today, so I'll miss some walking, but I should be able to make it up while the girl is at dance tonight, and today is a strength training day so I get more food!!!1 -
Thursday - I am totally losing it in the P90X3 arena...walked a bit at the picnic, walked a lot while the girl was in dance, went and picked up a goat, then cooked dinner at 9:30 at night while hubby picked up the boy...then went to bed...so no evening workout...again.
Probably not working out tonight either...after work we are all headed to the state track competition to watch the boy run and then bring him home...since my eta is about 10pm and I have to be up early tomorrow for the girl to be assessed by a new dance studio, I'm guessing no workout tonight either...however, I'm going to try to fit in 3 rounds of desk workouts today instead of the usual 1, so at least I can do a little something to compensate!
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I am so tired of spending so much time in the car, every day this past week was 4-7 hours in the car and I'm so over it.
Friday - food was good, went to the state track meet after work which was a lot of driving but totally worth it to watch the boy run. Their team did ok, not super great, but since they barely qualified at all they did better than the stats anticipated.
Saturday - checked out a new ballet studio in the morning, I really like them, totally going to enroll her for the summer. Then took her to her regular ballet, then helped a friend move, move time in the car, but at least I got a great strength workout in, and they were moving in and out of 2 story houses, so lower body got a workout as well as upper body.
Sunday - ballet again, final practice, thank goodness...then treked down to costco to get some desperately needed shopping done...then I had 3 glasses of wine, and it was so nice and relaxing...
Food for the weekend was pretty scarce, I'm sure I didn't hit my protein since it was mostly on the go and gas station food, but I'm pretty equally sure my calories were not over, so not a total loss.0 -
Monday - it was soooo niiiice not to spend the whole freaking day in the car...just the standard drive to work and home and then not going anywhere. Very relaxing. So, I did kind of my standard cube workouts, got my walking done, and did some yoga before bed. I am skipping GoT this week since half of my week will be taken up with ballet recital - kind of excited not just to see the final product, but to have a few weeks of NOTHING and maybe be able to play in the garden a bit.0
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Tuesday - work, including cube workouts and walking, plus eccentric lower left my legs super jelly, so exercise was on point. Food, now that's another story. I planned out my food perfectly including an increase in protein which is tough because I have only just started getting the hang of 123g, and now I'm aiming for 176g. Then, I forgot to stop at the store on the way home so I couldn't eat exactly as planned. And I sure didn't feel like going out. So I improvised, and drank some wine. I'm a bit over on cals, but still mostly got my protein and the wine was totally delicious! Good thing the bottle is empty now, I don't need future temptation!0
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Wednesday - cube workouts and walking, had a retirement dinner for a friend after work, so jealous, and so much fun...food was good but not perfect, protein a bit low, carbs/cals a bit high, but it was delicious and worth celebrating - the Italian place had a gluten-free option, roasted potatoes in any of the pasta dishes instead of pasta, brilliant!!! I had stuffed flounder and potatoes instead of linguini, it was yum, and a glass of wine!!!
I am totally going to get back at it in a fierce manner once ballet recital is over, but since I know this weekend is going to be stress central, I'm going to take this week a little bit laid back...I'll get my strength workouts in, not going to fret the rest of the workouts!0 -
Thursday - cube workouts limited since I actually had to present at one of the meetings, but I got my walking done...packed good suitable foods for ballet, which my daughter mostly devoured, philadelphia roll which was made with a ton of dill and wasn't very good, dragon roll, strawberries & blueberries, mango & raspberry & blackberry, a whole pack of babybells, plus some pepperoni sticks...I had like 4 pieces of sushi and a couple babybells...we came home with about 1/4 pack of pepperoni and 2 of the babybells...she ate all the rest of it...she was a hungry girl...and I totally forgot to pack water, but she had 1 bottle in her bag and I was able to refill it at the water fountain which was nice and cold so we were good on the drink front...stopped at Krispy Kreme for fresh doughnuts on the way home, I didn't eat any, but she had several and the boys had bunches once we got them home...didn't get home until 10pm and was exhausted so no strength workout, just made me some eggs because I was so hungry by then, then showered and went to bed.
The food worked well for an evening, but she's going to need a lot more than that to get through an entire day of dance stuff, like triple that amount - we will need to leave the house around 10 am and probably won't be home until 10 pm...and I need to get the sushi from Kroger where it's normal SnowFox instead of Giant where they have weird flavors, even the dragon roll was not like I normally see, but at least it didn't have a ton of fresh dill worked into the rice, that philly roll was just way overpowering - you are supposed to taste the tuna dummies.0 -
I just read through the last couple months of your posts which I had missed. I just want to say that I am still in awe of your dedication to fitness. The fact that you have been able to stick with everything for as long as you have is great to see.
I am hoping to take a page out of your book for the next little while and crush multiple workouts each day. Keep up the great work.0 -
Nice to see you drop back in even if it's just for a bit!!! I think keeping the mostly daily diary helps keep me accountable and on track!!!
Friday went well, had a long dinner with a friend who is moving away, then went home and went to bed early in prep for the weekend. Food was over I'm sure since I had a sangria which was very mediocre and ate all of my huge plate of food, shrimp alfredo with gluten free pasta which was totally and completely delicious...then I had a cup of terrible coffee with half and half in it, but at least it perked me up, the carb crash was making me super sleepy and I had a long drive home.
Saturday was exhausting as expected. I'm sure my food was way way under since the dancer ate most of it and I was way too busy with sewing and herding kids to eat much anyway, but I did take all my vitamins, and ate at least a snack size portion of sushi twice during the day. It was a full 12 hour day of dance and all the last minute sewing that goes along with that. What the heck is wrong with people that they get a costume for their kid a month in advance and it needs straps or ribbons sewn and then they just don't do it and drop the poor kid off with an incomplete costume and leave it up to the room moms to try to get the kid in some kind of shape to perform with whatever they can scrounge up. I don't mind the emergency repairs when something breaks, that is always going to happen it's a hazard of the dance life, but just deliberately not having your costume together is not acceptable and the parents need a good whipping. Plus, kids are supposed to arrive with hair and makeup already done, but somehow that doesn't happen either so I had to get several kids hair up into a bun and my daughter ended up doing their makeup because she's way better at it than I am. I guess simple instructions will always be ignored and since the room mom's always come through parents will continue to rely on them. It seemed worse this year than most, like more and more of the parents are just lazy and leaving it to the room mom's to do the crap that is really the parents responsibility. At one point the kids didn't even have anywhere to sit because there were mom's hanging around taking up all the space, but they were kicked out, dressing rooms are for dancers, go find somewhere else to be. They weren't even helping, why are you even there if you aren't going to help, the room mom's could use the extra help, but we don't need the extra people just being in the way doing nothing. Grrrr, people!
Sunday was a bit less exhausting, kind of a cranky bitchy morning I was very snippish. I actually ate breakfast for a change, maybe that was a bad idea. We got more sushi for the dancer and she was set to go so we could watch the first show. Then we hung out with her between shows and she didn't have enough time to leave, but we did go pick her up some Starbucks and take it back to her so she could have a treat and I had an iced coffee, which I'm counting as lunch. Then we left her to do the second show on her own - first time for her being all on her own, so exciting and scary. I didn't room mom at all on Sunday, so I only had my dancer to deal with and she was set, hair, makeup, costumes all set out in order, even had an emergency repair on a fan for the spanish dance, but a paperclip and some packing tape fixed it right up. We let my son pick dinner location since with our crazy schedule we never got to take him out after the state competition, so we had dinner at Olive Garden. Other than drinking wine all day (4 glasses) my food was pretty good, OG was just a couple stuffed mushrooms and about 1/3 of my shrimp pesto with gluten free rotini...I just don't have much of an appetite when I'm stressed I guess.
Oh, got the new scale in, it says my body fat is 20.1% and it's been pretty consistent from day to day, so that's my new baseline and since 20% was my original goal, now I think it's time to pick a new goal. I'll have to look at some photos and crunch some numbers and see what I can come up with that's realistic and attainable.
I have 3 weeks until my trip to Nags Head with my family, so the plan is to hit the exercise hard for the last three weeks now that I should actually be able to have some time to myself!!!0 -
Monday totally kicked *kitten*! Started with abs, cube workouts, not as much walking because I left work early and didn't get a full lunch time, then triometrics in the evening. I was not good about keying my food, but it should have been pretty on target as I was too busy running errands to have time to eat much. Protein was probably low...grrrr...0
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@tcunbeliever Sounds like a decent start to your week!
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Tuesday was amazing on the exercise front, good on food, but I think I had some cheese and crackers I forgot to log - not terribly worried about it since I walked for almost 3 hours!!! Started the day with combat, cube workouts during meetings - more stretching than weights yesterday, then walking at lunch and breaks, then spent an hour in the garden pulling weeds and trimming the apple tree, then more walking while the boy was at CC conditioning, then I did my GoT workout last night instead of P90X3, but it was after 9 when I had dinner and I was too tired to stay up late enough to dinner to settle properly before working out so I couldn't manage X3 with food in my tummy it would have made me totally ill.0
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I haven't had a chance to read over all of your posts, but from what I can tell from the little bit I have read you seem really focused and solid in your routine. That's great!0
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Some days are better than others...I try to stay on track...I find the daily journal helps...if I don't enter for a few days then I'm much more likely to stray both in food and exercise.
I don't know why that is, it perplexes me that the simple act of writing down daily progress, good, bad, or otherwise, would have such a huge impact...however, for me it does, so I make my daily journal my primary goal and that seems to keep the rest of the goals on target as a side effect.
Weird, but true.0 -
It seems like a lot of us are learning the same thing. Daily check-ins help keep us accountable.0
