200+ (Week 23) Shrinking into Summer begins!

Hi! Hope everyone had a good day. Thanks for making me feel welcome! I did well today with food and came in 78 calories under goal. One of my new favorite snacks is tropical trail mix. You don't get much (140 calories for 1/4 of a cup) but it's so yummy! I did not formally exercise today, but I was on my feet and making laps around our 32 bed ICU, so I figure that must count for something. I have a really hard time working for 12 hours, then coming home and exercising. Maybe I will be feeling it more as the weight comes off and the weather gets nicer. Hope everyone has a good tomorrow!:flowerforyou:

of course being on your feet for 12 hours counts! do you have a heart rate monitor? it would be very interesting to know exactly how many calories you burn at work every day.

This is true..it wuold be very cool to know how many cals you burn in a day. However, if this is your normal activity level then you can't really count those as extra burned cals I don't. Maybe I wrong, but I would personally just up my activity level instead. Thoughts anyone?

Most nurses that I know that work 12 hour shifts only do it 3 days a week. You could go either way with recording the activity. If you record life as sedentary then you can add the work as exercise. Or, you could count the work for activity in your daily activity level and call yourself active, lightly active, etc. If you don't have a HRM, do you have access to a pedometer? 2000 steps is a mile. A friend on another thread counts days working the floor as exercise but on her supervisory 12 hour days, she doesn't count it. Good luck and I don't think I'd workout on days I did a 12 hour shift running around on the floor.

So...I am totally doing the bad thing and skipping the gym tonight, BUT I can workout on the treadmill at home, PLUS my sister came into town with my nephews, and they aren't heading back out as early as expected and she really wants me to meet her at the mall and shop when I get off...so I think I can do that. It's an outside mall and my favorite stores are on opposite ends of each other, so I can speed walk from one to the other and that will help some. I haven't been shopping in a while, at least not for me...took my fiance last weekend. Sorry for the rambling...just excited to see my boys!!!

Pinbot...that would be a good job to have today, it is beautiful outside! I'm on my way out for a wallk...justw anted to say Hello to everyone...I'll catch up on posts when the sun goes down...hope your all well!!

Hope your feeling better Lacey...I had the sinus thing this week and I hated it...mornings were the worst! Hope it goes away!!!

ejm0306- Yah it does but i'm keepin up with it.



Just worked out on wii for a hour now i'm about to do some wii fit. wish me good luck tomorrow ladies. zi have to take my placement test so i can go back to school.

I am feeling all down for some reason this afternoon. All whimpy and whiny. I have the beginnings of a seasonal sinus headache that I am trying to ignore. However, the girls and I went to Starcucks and I got a shaken black tea lemonaide. For those of you who have never paid $3.25 for this iced tea, I highly recommend it. HIGHLY recommend it. It is the best iced tea I've ever got and it made me feel better immediately. ahh.....
Now to the gym. Yikes. I can do at least 30 minutes of cardio. I can do it...I can do it. Plus I want to try those planks on that half of an exercise ball thing again.

Hope everyone had a good day and good luck with the weigh in!

Oh and starbucks has this frozen strawberry lemonade that's not on the menu but it's so good.
I'll have to try that iced tea your talking about. I make tea at home must of the time and to mix it up a bit i add that POM juice to it. They have different floavors of it to ( strawberry, blueberry, mango , etc.) An on top of it being really good its healthy for you.


well off to do a mini workouton wii. maybe some yoga.

ejm0306- Yah it does but i'm keepin up with it.



Just worked out on wii for a hour now i'm about to do some wii fit. wish me good luck tomorrow ladies. zi have to take my placement test so i can go back to school.

Good luck on your tests! You can do it!
I went to college at the age of 25....and had to take the placement test. OMG. I knew I sucked major at math. Want to know how bad? I had to start out in Math 20!!! I can remember telling my geometry teacher my sophomore year in highschool in front of the whole class that I didn't care if I got it because I wasn't going to college "just give me a D so I can stop taking math!" I think is what I said. I ended up going clear through Math 225 or something... There is something to be said for WANTING to learn. Then you actually "get it" you know? You will do just fine!
Anyways, I ended up with a BA in Art History and a BA in Religious Studies and never looked back. College was amazing and I wish that I was really well off because all I would do is keep going to college and keep learning. Those 400 level classes are amazing. Super hard work, but amazing! I miss it each and every single day, and I graduated three years ago this June.
(And that last year I had a newborn, so it can be done! You will be fine.)