SBF Reboot Boogaloo, June 21st

Just woke up after sleeping for thirteen hours. What? I'm not really sure what's up with me lately. Yesterday during zumba I had to sit down for part of a song, as my HRM said "106%" and I felt dizzy. That can't be good, right?

Anyway, today is finishing what I hope is at least the second to the last draft of the resume, then boxing at 7. That will probably be it today, I think. I would rather go to boxing five times today than look at my resume once. I think I have issues.

Other than that, just apparent leisure. After this resume business is finished (tomorrow is my "audition/interview") then it's back to the academic project. First up there, emailing my committee to try to set a date/give myself a deadline. Blergh.

Unpleasant tasks, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

Can you believe it's already this close to the end of June? I'm glad but where did it go?
Mary, yes, the heat. :grumble: I have two reasons I am looking forward to fall: cooler weather and hopefully 3 Russia trips. So September can't get here fast enough. I hope your yoga goes well over the next couple of weeks!
V, hope you are feeling okay today!
v and WL good for you trying to get all the "nasty-no-fun" stuff out of the way!
I am not motivated to work out today. I don't know why. I'm just not. I didn't do the third day of push ups last week, but I will start with a new week today. I cleaned for about an hour. Feeling really convicted about being a slob. I still need to clean a little more upstairs, but the house does look a lot better. Doing laundry and some kind of work out today. Not sure what.
Failed at logging food over the weekend, and Saturday was my cheat day. Didn't do too badly yesterday. Went swimming too.

Back to cleaning boogaloo!
MM

Happy Tuesday!
CP, so glad you were able to get yesterday behind you and get some relief. :flowerforyou:
Things are kind of blah around here again. We decided against going to Colorado in September. The money just isn't there. And more and more we are feeling the need to get out of debt. We have really watched our budget and strangely enough we've been able to get out and do more on the weekends. :huh: We might be going to San Antonio over July 4th weekend, even though we'd really rather be going somewhere cooler. It's actually 5 degrees cooler down there than up here over the next two weeks. It really stinks when both people in a marriage are fighting disappointment and depression. I really thought we'd be able to shake this by now. DH "vented" this morning (not angrily, just what's weighing on him) so he left it behind and now it's weighing on me. I need some cheering up.
My girly is about here, so I'm a bloatation device again and feeling frustrated that my weight is not changing. Trying not to give up.
On a good note I was able to do week 3 level one of push ups yesterday! I am not getting down as far as I'd like so I will probably stay here for another week or so. I also lowered my calories yesterday to see if that would help speed things up. I'm thinking stress and sadness are keeping the pounds on. :grumble: It seems like weight loss is getting harder for me. I know I've hit plateaus before but I don't remember it taking 4 months or more to see a change.
Vent over. Tumbling class, cleaning, and work out today.
Need something to get excited about boogaloo!
MM

Wow, pebbles, we are officially in turmoil. Or at least transition.

I just finished what will now be known as the cranky ladies zumba class. there's a group that comes and just keeps huffing in a dissatisfied manner whenever they get confused, it's actually little kid like, with arms folded and the stinkeye and everything. I find it hard not to be a jerk and say, "Well, if you're confused, it's best just to stand there and pout!" I actually crashed/bumped into one of said ladies today because she just stopped dead. It is hard to remember that I too was once the worst dancer in a class. For me, it's really more about the "I give up!" attitude than the lack of skills. There's another lady who's a total klutz, but she has a blast and just moves all the time. That's much better for the atmosphere.

The resume is as finished as it's going to get, so it's just checking for commas and printing it onto fancy paper. I still can't figure out what time slot they want me to come to for my interview which I've discovered is actually an audition (I have to lead a few pieces I've never seen before), so a phone call will be in order. I'm all muddled up about it. It's practically no money, but could be a good resume builder, foot in the door sort of thing (and could be actually fun to do) so I'm conflicted.:ohwell: Best not to count any chickens before they're even in the coop, though.

No chicken tallying, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

Morning pebbs,

The audition went (I think...you never know) well. I got a "we are taking a little time to muddle it over" email this a.m., so that's a good sign. Better than an immediate "no", anyways. It turns out that they thought/meant to send me the music, so I was reading it cold as an extra level of difficulty, and the other candidates had prep time with it. It wasn't my strongest work, but I think I acquitted myself well. It's always a challenge to work with a group you don't know much about. We'll just have to see. I have let the chickens out to run around for a bit, lest I start counting them.

Other stuff for the day: a shopping trip, then my weights class/zumba weds. night double. In between, I have to do some unpleasant tasks (HOP idea stolen, Wandering ) that I will power through despite my desire to go find a place to walk barefoot.

Other goals for the day: drink lots of water. I've been hitting the sodium a bit hard, I think...I feel puffy.

Shoo, chickens, shoo, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

Howdy!

I was contemplating a day off, but I ate too much for lunch, and DH mentioned getting ice cream after church tonight. I haven't logged the last two days. Just been kind of busy. Will try to get back at it again tomorrow when things aren't as chaotic.
Even though I haven't seen a change or felt a change in my clothes, my legs are a lot more solid so that's encouraging. I can also tell my endurance has gone up. Trying to remind myself that it's not ALL about being skinny. At least not for me. I don't want to be just thin. I want to be muscular as well. DH told me about a month ago that he doesn't think I have what it takes to be who I want to be. I know he didn't mean it in a way to put me down, so I haven't harped on it, but I know he's right. I don't have it in me. I need to rely on Someone Else because I will fail. I fail everyday, but it doesn't have to keep me down. I want to stick it out and get the results I want. But I can't do it alone. It's just not going to happen. Also trying to remind myself that I do feel better as well.
So today goal is to get lunch behind me and my work out before me. Hopefully 55 minutes of Taebo, if my legs will hold out (did lower body yesterday), push ups and crunches. Lady time is starting any day so I'll try to get in whatever I can and save my day off for a bad day.
Pushing through small results for bigger ones boogaloo!
MM

Hey, CP...could you feel the earthquake on your side of the lake?

That was my first earthquake ever. Freaky-deeky.

I vote for backbends/front of body stretches and hip openers. I'm all about backwards from my other activities when it comes to yoga lately. Camel pose (which I used to actually despise) and pigeon lunge are my favorites right now.

I was just coming to check on you V. I wondered if you felt the earthquake. Glad you are okay. Was there any damage in your area? It wasn't far from you was it?
:flowerforyou:
MM

No damage that I know of...epicentre was about two hours north of here, and it wasn't that serious even up there, I'm told. It was mostly just freaky. We had one picture come off the wall, and spent a few minutes going "what was that?" My husband spent time in LA, so he was pretty sure what it was...but I got the news mostly from all my friend's facebook status updates saying "was that an earthquake?". Drama.

A lot of people here felt the earthquake, especially if they weren't on the ground floor - but somehow I missed it! I am trying figure out exactly what I was doing at the time; I think I was either walking down the hall to go outside, or actually outside on my walk. I don't understand how I didn't manage to feel it. But a lot of other folks in the building missed it, too. Everyone in my husband's office on the east side of town felt it, though, and there were actually cracks in the outer (decorative) facade of his building.

I remember there was a very mild earthquake early in the morning a few years back (maybe 6?), but I was asleep and missed that one, too. Oh well!

Hiya. Earthquakes...pffffft. Give me nice big winter snowstorm any day! I miss those out here in California. I have no sense of fear about earthquakes whatsoever. Slept right through the Northridge one years ago -- they are over so quickly compared to other Mother Nature issues I grew up with on the east coast!

MM I love hearing that your hubby compliments you on being toned!

Viv I'm back into logging as well and am loving the options to track Fiber and Sugar. It's been pretty eye-opening for me. I'm still trying for a month of limited sugar (staying within MFP limits) and went off track last night. Back on track today. I'm baking a blackberry sour cream coffee cake for my boyfriend who returns from Libya today -- he's been over there fighting a campaign to save bluefin tuna. It's pretty disgusting how rapacious our appetite is for a fish that will be extinct by 2012. It makes me crazy especially because their campaign was SO dangerous -- diving and freeing 800 tuna in Libyan waters right under the eyes of the fishermen. They were firing flares at his helicopter

So. I'm glad he'll be home safe. Today's plan is a 500 calorie workout and I'm heading to the gym right now to get it done. My other goal is to keep on trekking with the limited sugar. We'll have champagne tonight and I'm budgeting it in, but no room for coffee cake!

Self Control Boogalooo!

Good morning,

V, I have the same old stupid questions running through my mind too, so you are not alone. I also struggle with fatigue as well as other issues that I can't seem to find answers for. I hope one day we will find them.
Mary, what's the name of the town close to San Antonio?
WL, glad your boyfriend is safe and sound again.
CP, where are you? We miss you!

I was not feeling well yesterday; nausea and dizziness. I managed to get shopping done and a work out in. AF came for her visit and is not being nice at all! I don't feel well this morning either. But the goal is to push through and work out anyway. I think I may have to take a nap as well. I have some laundry and cleaning to do too. I think I am going to try to work out this morning so I can nap later. I literally feel sick, which is not that typical of me when girl time is here. I always feel bad but not like this.

Pushing through boogaloo!
MM

Mary, what's the name of the town close to San Antonio?

Boerne - and for those that aren't from around here, that's pronounced "Bernie" - not kidding - there are tons of towns around Texas that have their own phonics. Boerne I got wrong - no one knew where I was talking about, "ooooh, you mean bernie" - um yeah.

hope you feel better soon, mm

Ah yes, Bernie! I lived out there for a year. Nice country out there. Don't waste you time on Cascade Caverns. lol. Nice cave, bad guide. At the end of every sentence she said, "So like yeah." Not that you would go there, just saying.

Seemed to wake up a little so may not need a nap after all. Gonna do upper body today for about 30 minutes and I'm done. Going out to the in laws tomorrow for the day so I need to work out today: feel like it or not!

Tae bo or bust boogaloo!
MM

Morning, pebbs...

So, today is the 177th day of the year, and since the new year, I've been tracking some things on a "goals" calendar that tallies my checks for some things. So far,

activity: 167
sugar (a negative check):21 (hooray! this feels like a major victory!)
"skerred to" (something I didn't want to do because I was nervous/scared/trying to find a way out of it):119 (this also feels like a major victory, because I feel I've really been challenging my comfort zone for the first time, well, ever.)

and,
"current priority: school": 79.

Uh-oh...so, I see what I should work on more, and all is revealed as to why this degree is going slower than it could. Now, in fairness to me, I'm at the "incubation" stage for a few projects, where things are percolating beneath the surface, and just had an "a-ha" last week, which has led to more quantifiable work. Still, it seems like a lot more actual physical work could be being done.:blushing: The problem is, there is nothing right now that is what my friend would call "monkey work" stuff you can do without having an "a-ha" moment...so I'm working on finding some monkey work that will help (classifying things into categories, outlining possible proposals, reading books that I've been avoiding that might provide said "a-ha" moments, that sort of thing.)

Yesterday, I ended up doing the new class at the studio, which turned out to be an actual salsa dance class (there were lots of non-partnered ladies) so, that was fun, and I signed up to do an "active recovery" day. It was a good class, and I did get a fair calorie burn, but it didn't feel as intense as other things. (still about 400 calories). There is a whole feminist dance studies paper on the first thing the instructor said when he danced with me "no, the man controls everything! I will give you the signal, and then you perform." whoa. Still, fun!

Today is a massage (yay!) and then if I have energy and I'm not too beat up by the massage (she's great, but brutal) this eve. I'll do weights + cardio at home or the gym. (should be deserted, as is most of the city due to the G20...those with the means to do so have fled.):laugh: Meanwhile, I am enjoying the quiet (I'm well north of the center of things and my husband is on tour again).

Holy novella, batman, boogaloo:flowerforyou: