Beautiful Blues 03/19/2011

UltimateLover

Good Morning Blues,

Here's this week's chart.



What are everyone's goals for this week?

My goal is to start to log my food and exercise again. It'll be hard to get back into the habit but we'll try to get it done as much as possible this week.

debnu1

Same goal for me... Get this baby out! Keep up the great work everyone!

tamelab

Gotta log my food and exercise 3 days this week. Thanks for the chart!

thumper44

Hey Ladies,
OH MY, my legs were sore this weekend... hehehe, oh well, no pain no gain.
So I went out on sunday and started to walk, but couldn't just walk and got to a jog.

Question.
Do any of you have a belt/ouch/pack of some kind to hold a water bottle?
I was also thinking, I jog close to my house, so no keys, but if I want to drive to a park to jog around a track i have to bring keys with me. I can't just put them in my pocker, as I'd be afraid they would bounce out.

What do you use?
I know jogging room or stores of that sort have specially designed stuff, but just looking for something simply from walmart perhaps?

Thanks
Peter

MayLan

peter: I bought a belt that holds to jugs for running . I love it. I have the pic of it on my profile. For saving my keys, i bought running pants with a zipper. Works really great.

today I did Insanity Plyo cardio circuit and jogged outside on and off for 15 minutes. Catch you all tomorrow. Good night!

debnu1

Met my goal early this morning! I now have a beautiful baby boy!

tamelab

Met my goal early this morning! I now have a beautiful baby boy!

Congrats! Hope you are all doing well:flowerforyou:

MayLan

Debnu- congrats on your new baby boy. Wish you well and your family!

So here's my exercises for the day: did Insanity cardio recovery, jogged outside 15 minutes, and 40 minutes of weight training at the work gym. My body is sore!!

tamelab

My exercise today...Biggest Loser Cardio Max. It was a good workout and it felt good to be moving again. Physical therapy is helping the leg so maybe I can get back in gear.

UltimateLover

Congrats on the baby boy

MayLan

hey all buddies,


how are ya?

This was my day today:
Did p90x shoulders and arms then Ab ripper x. It was too cold outside to run, so skipped that. I was up at 4:00am this morning with my workout schedule before me. I'm super excited to be doing this. I'm headed now to my work gym during lunch to do some leg weight training.

Have a nice day all!!!!!!! And Keep pushing Play!

thumper44

Awesome Debnu.. Congratulations on a little baby boy.


Doing good today and the last few days. Made myself a nice egg white omelet yesterday morning and egg burrito's this morning.

It snowed a lot here today, so didn't get outside and did P90x Plyometrics today for a nice 950 calorie burn.

Have a great day everyone.

MayLan

It's snowed a bit where I live. Got some exercise in this morning and did Insanity Pure cardio, then during lunch I'll do weight training for my arms at the gym at work. Now I'm getting ready to head to work. Have a nice day all!

chrissyh

I do use a running belt. I've been looking at a new one the nathan with two small bottles I don't typically drink a lot when I run but for the longer runs and when it's hot. THe other I have is the nathan shadow it's just a pouch. I really like it. I am going to get the fuel belt single bottle that has a clip to clip it on to the shadow. Before the pockets stretched out, I had a big two bottle and used one of the bottle pockets for stuff.

My next purchase will the the nathan with two little bottles - be sure of the pocket size that it will fit your stuff.

UltimateLover

Hey blues,

Can you please send me your weigh ins?

hmo4

Bautiful Blues is still up and going? I'm so impressed guys! Way to go! I am back working this again- when I can get a chance to chart, but have to do something and have forgotten the LOWER portions I should be eating! Thanks goodness for this web sight. Hawaii trip is a huge motivation right now for me, but you guys too are truly inspirational! Let me know when a new challenge is starting, and keep up the great work! Kath:drinker:

msh0530

Well, it is the end of spring break. In celebration, we spent the day watching it snow. Our camping trip went great. The weather was even nice.
My mother continues with her health problems. She has been in the hospital since March 3rd with extreme pain. She can't even walk without falling over due to severe stenosis in her spine. They have scheduled her twice for surgery for the stenosis. The first time she ended up in ICU with aspiration pneumonia and sepsis before surgery day came around. The next time (this past Thursday) she had a heart attack while they were prepping her for surgery. She is back in cardiac ICU, and also has pneumonia again and a UTI. Tomorrow they plan to do a stress test and decide whether or not to do a heart cath. I did get to see her three times in the past week, but since she is several hours away, I can't get back for a while. Not to mention I can't afford the gas.

Debnu: Congratulations!!!

Almost forgot to tell you, while I was gone I got to spend some time with my grandson who will be three months old in a couple of days!

msh0530

Where are all my buddies?

thumper44

Hey mary, and blue team... I had a busy day, but it was nice out, and I looked forward to getting home so I could go out for a jog. I wanted to try and set some kind of standard so that I have a point of reference. ie.. Stick with a lap around the streets where I live and keep to that route (I've taken various).

The one I picked is 4kms. Today , first lap was 32 mins, so I did it twice. 65 mins, and burned 1110 calories.
woo hooo.

msh0530

Sounds great, Peter. Sometimes I wish that I could run, but arthritis tells me that would not be a good idea. I plan to hit the pool again this evening though! I have been working on turning around when I reach the end of a lap. I always had to stop, turn around and start again, but the last two times I swam, I was managing to do it in continuous motion. Small thing, but a victory for me!

Tomorrow, I am taking my high school students to a local park to do service work. The community is putting in a new playground, walking trail, and splash pad, and we are to do demolition/prep work. I hope I can keep up well enough to supervise the kids. Anyway, it should be a good workout for me.

Everyone have a great Thursday!

msh0530

I survived the day! The high school where I work took all of the students to a local park for a community service project today. We are putting in a new playground, splash pad, and walking trail. This is being done with all volunteer labor over the next month. We were the prep crew. We moved sand, dug out and moved railroad ties, painted, dug out the sprinkler system, poured cement, put up a construction fence, chipped cement out of cracks in the tennis court, raked out a shelter belt, put up a construction fence, and hauled away debris. Mostly I helped with the construction fence. The kids were amazing workers. There were over 250 of us there for 6 hours. They put up signs that say "Extreme Makeover - Park Edition."
And my best news of the day - my mother is slightly better, and was released from the hospital to rehab today! Hopefully she will improve enough to get a stint for her heart.

UltimateLover

Hey blues,

Sorry I've been mia this week quite a bit - too many birthday parties. I hope all has been good with you all.

I sent e-mails to people to remind me to send their weigh ins. I will post a board this week once I get more responses.

Have a great day.

tamelab

Hi all...I've been MIA for a while. My weight is slowly creeping back up since I'm having trouble exercising. I go tomorrow for an MRI of my back/leg. Physical therapy did not help much so I'm going to see what is actually wrong with it. I went for a walk with my son yesterday and my leg was pretty much numb the whole time. We went kayaking yesterday evening and had a great time. I can do the elliptical without too much pain but I hate it. I really miss P90X. It was my favorite. Praying to get rid of this pain so I can get back on my wagon again. Hope you all are well.

debnu1

Tammy I hope you start feeling better soon. My hubby had a back injury three years ago where his leg started to go numb. He ended up having a herniated disk. After a couple of injections it got much better and now only bugs him if he does too much ... Hopefully your injury won't be too serious on MRI.
Mary the extreme makeover sounds like it was fun with the kids. Hard work is therapeutic I think. I am glad your mom is doing better.

I will try to check in more often. I have been running on little sleep which doesn't bode well for my eating habits. I am officially at my prepregnant weight though so that is exciting. Now I just need to get back to work. I am awaiting the moment when I can exercise again. It's been a long time since I was exercising daily.

Have a great one!

chrissyh

Deb-is baby here?! Did I miss it?! I know I've been MIA I'm missing so much:sad:

Tammy-good luck I know how hard the back deal can be.

Ultimate-thank you for the weigh in reminders...I will weigh in this week.

Mary-that's a big step for your mom - yay!!

Hi Kathy-great to see you!
Hi Peter!!

Been running again. Did 4 miles sunday-going to walk tonight, run 3 tomorrow, run 4 sometime over the weekend (maybe at our hotel on the dreadmill) Been trying to do a bit of strenght each day - just random upper body stuff for now.

debnu1

Yes he's here! Born the 21st he's very healthy and growing like a weed. I am getting a little sleep. I can't complain though.
Keep up the running I'm looking forward to when I can exercise again!!

msh0530

Good to see everyone today! Hope all are doing well.

debnu1

We'll keep this board going, like the energizer bunny!

We should have a goal of checking in daily this week. What do you think?

chrissyh

Deb-congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Post pics!

I like the goal of a daily check in.

Yesterday-I did run 1/walk 3 but was still over about 300 calories....yesterday is done - moving forward today. Chinese food is KILLER!

debnu1

Ok Chrissy, you asked so heres a pic...

thumper44

Ok Chrissy, you asked so heres a pic...

Ahhhhhhhhhhh SO cute.

Pondering life.?