SBF2 Reboot Boogaloo Aug. 2, 2010

Hi!
Bobbie, thanks for starting the thread!
Mummsy, good to see you again!

I am tired and it's only 11:45. I've been scrubbing the upstairs for two hours: walls, baseboards, bathroom. I'm not even done yet. I hope I can find the energy to finish and still get my work out in. I may put off my work out until tomorrow and clean some more and maybe walk for about 30 minutes. One thing about doing a thorough cleaning like this, it has made realize I want to simplify and get rid of things, so I don't have so much to move around!
I had a fun weekend but it wasn't the greatest for exercise and eating. I need to do better when I buy food this week and get more fruits and veggies.
Happy Monday!
MM

MM: My baseboards need to be cleaned SO desperately. I just can't seem to get down there, stay down there and do it. Good for you. I bet you are getting a fantastic workout with your cleaning today.

Wandering: I find it hard to stick to good choices when someone else comes up with a better one myself... ie... pizza on friday and Reeses pieces my mom bought for the "kids" I need to work on this one for sure.

Just weighed in. Down 4.8. Woot. Need 3 more down to hit 30. I can do it!

Update: four hours of cleaning. I'm done. My house isn't, but I am. The baseboards were pretty dirty, and I got a few squats in when I cleaned the door frames as well. My pastor's wife told me to have one heavy cleaning day once a week, and the rest of the week maintain. She said I should be able to "deep clean" my whole house in 3-4 hours. :noway: I'm on my 7th hour and 2nd day. And I've only done about 3/4 of the things on the suggestion list. She also has four teenage daughters to help her.
WL,I wish I had a HRM to check cals burned. This site says 4 hours is 700 cals for light cleaning. Don't know if that's right, but I know I am exhausted, and I've been hungry all day! :laugh: I have the same probably with other people's food suggestions. DH asked last night if I wanted to go get ice cream. Of course! I didn't need it but it tasted good. I should have said no. I would have impressed him. :laugh:
Mummsy, great job on your weight loss!
V, nice of you to pop in! I'm glad you are enjoying your down time. Makes me want to go on a retreat.
I'm chatty today. I need to get off of here!
MM

I followed MM's lead and got both of my upstairs bathrooms cleaned while my 9 year old worked with his tutor. I even used the magic eraser on the baseboards. Woo hoo...... Now for the rest of the house.... maybe another time!

I grew up in St. Louis but transferred with my job to Jefferson City about a year and a half ago. SO, I am REALLY close to Columbia! How funny! I hope you got some rest. Yesterday evening and night sounds like one problem after another. Here's to looser pants! Have a great day!

Hi All!

I love a good cleaning frenzy! I'm inspired to get out my own Magic Eraser and go to town!

For the Emmys...we are up against Deadliest Catch, a History Channel show called "America: The Story of Us," a PBS show and another Discovery Channel show. Eeep!

I never got in a workout yesterday -- I'm with you, CP. Life just got in the way and I'm thinking going to bed earlier might be a way to solve it. I need to make it a priority and focus on making the workouts count instead of phoning it in. We did walk last night for 90 minutes so it wasn't a total loss but then that led to eating dinner at 10pm and well, that's not so smart either :happy:

Okay, that being said, I'm off to the gym shortly for a 500 calorie burn. I also need to start logging my foods more. Been slacking off on that too.

Keep it clean, y'all!!!!

Hi everyone! So good to see everyone checking in! :happy:

Mummsy, I am really liking the C25k program. Did you finish the whole program? I'm just on week three. Week 4 looks intimidating. lol. I can tell a difference even in the tone of my arms by doing the program. I guess I am swinging my arms enough give my shoulders a work out.
I'm trying to decide if doing lower body strength training on the days I don't do C25k will hurt me or help me. I don't want to be too sore to run the next day. But skipping days altogether isn't helping me either. I am debating on walking on the treadmill for 30 minutes and doing abs for 30 minutes, OR doing lower body strength training for 45 minutes and abs for 30 minutes. Decisions, decisions! I wish I could do all three. But considering it's almost 2pm, I don't really have time to do all three.
I'd better finish up my computer time and get some kind of exercise.
Wednesdays are busy boogaloo!
MM

Good morning,

Thanks for the tips Mummsy.

I ended up doing lower body and abs yesterday. I'm a bit sore today. I have a lot to try to get done today. I hope I have the energy to do it all. Grocery shopping (gotta finish a list first. I just haven't had an appetite so nothing sounds good.), general cleaning, laundry, and walking/running. I also NEED to find some time to do some things with Alex. He's already said he wants to paint this morning. It's good to see him making decisions and hearing what he wants to do.
Steve just left for work and I noticed he looks different. He looks taller (but I know he hasn't grown :laugh: :laugh: ) so he must be thinner. Not that he had much fat to lose anywhere. He's a pole anyway. But I think walking on the treadmill is making him look different. Wonder when I will notice. :grumble:
Can't think of anything else to say so I'd better get to work.
Healthy foods=better moods boogaloo!
MM

Hi Pebbs,

Just checking in....managed to get a work out of some sort in every day this week so far, despite a crazy cukoo schedule here at jazz camp (I'm auditing, and running around doing stuff for my husband, who's playing for ensembles).

Also, I've developed a rule for the trip (probably a good rule in general) eat half of whatever's put in front of you. I've only broken it a couple of times. The food choices haven't been good. So far iceberg lettuce is the only vegetable I've seen (blergh). No wonder I got fat when I lived here. I hate to harp on like a foreigner, but I have really been trained to expect smaller portions of everything living outside the states.

Running around crazy, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

It is good to be home.

MM - I was never good at the 1/2 a plate thing or sharing my entree. At nice chain restaurants, I usually order side dishes anyway. I get funny looks when I say I just want veggies, no sauce.
V - hope you're having fun!
CP - hope your new job works out for you - and you get to work out with your new job
Welcome back, Mumsy
Hope all is going well Bobbie.
WL - I was staying at the hotel next to the Staples center during my LA layover on Tuesday night. Wish I had know WW was nominated for an Emmy. I would have looked at the place differently. As it was, there was a fitness conference going on. I couldn't figure out at first why everyone was in workout clothes and buff.

I weigh the same as when I left, though I haven't checked the home scale yet, so that's good. I got exercise everyday, but very little yoga in. At the first hotel, I went to a yoga class, only to have it be mostly breath work :grumble: I did one session on my own on Wednesday morning - but that was it. Oh, except for a brief period on the train. So we are at a station stop. We are running early (oddly enough). After my mom and I get our walk in, we still have some time. I said I would like to do some yoga, but I felt self-conscious doing it on the train platform. My mom encouraged me to go ahead - so I did. Then had two people join me - how cool is that! So I taught a little class on the platform. The train attendant doing yoga with me wanted to sign up for my class and was disappointed I didn't teach in LA.
Oh, if you ever decide you must go on a train - the one between Seattle and LA is the best one I've ever been on. The staff, the amenities, and the view were great. You have to pay for a sleeper though, or it's just not as good.

Food in Seattle was good and cheap - an odd combo. I loved Pike Place Market. I saw a drug deal and plenty of seediness though. Vancouver was awesome as always - oh, and in case I was thinking about moving there - found out the average price of a single family home in Vancouver - 1 million - most people live in apartments, but still, wow. One of our credit cards was compromised, so that sucked - but we don't think it was by someone on our vacation, since we only used it three times.

Today - yoga for sure. I will try to get yoga in all weekend - hard teacher is teaching nearby. A walk as well. AT&T is coming to work on our land line - between 1-5 - never understood this, only knowing your schedule with 4 hour blocks. Ridiculous.

Back home, boogaloo!

HI Pebbs,

I'm officially cranky and homesick and road weary now. I had an interesting experience yesterday, as I checked into a hotel and then immediately checked right back out of it. Literally the skeeviest place I'd ever been in, and I will remind you ladies that I lived in Detroit for almost a year, and I'm not a tender flower. I got hassled in the parking lot by some possible residents of the hotel as soon as I got out of the car, in a very creepy "do you need help with your bags" little lady? sort of way. The room had literally not been cleaned, well, I'm guessing EVER. Nasty. So, that was fun. I managed to control my mini-panic attack in five minutes in the "room" before I went back to the lobby to say "credit my card. I'm not staying here." I used to drive across country from Orlando to Seattle and stay off the highway (so only stay in old-school roadside hotels or even sleep in my car) so I'm used to interesting accommodations, but this place was a pit.

I wish that I had signed up for this seminar/camp thingee instead of just being allowed to audit a few things. It's just depressing to watch other people take lessons from world class singers after the first day or two. (I thought it was a camp, like for kids...but there are professional caliber singers from as far away as South Africa, France and Japan....gah!) Kicking myself for not researching more before I left. Also, my husband has been working solidly from about 8 am to 10/11 pm, so he's cranky and I'm lonely. Ah well, I have read four trashy books, so that's something. I studied once. I think my brain needs the refreshment, frankly, so I'm letting it have it.

I've been doing OK with goals, eating half (this is really working out, I think, and the encouraging thing is I don't even have to try.) I didn't work out yesterday, so I have to get something in today. It may be yoga. From all the not-so-great food choices and not my own bed/routine, I'm getting muscle sore and cranky and I think yoga might help. Hey, couldn't hurt, right? Yesterday, I ordered a sandwich (with a huge bread roll) it came with a side of potatoes (carb) and corn (carb). It's a carb-stravaganza! I miss vegetables and my gym...the fitness equipment at these hotels is pretty bleak. :laugh:

I would love to find someone randomly teaching a yoga class on the train platform!

Doughy blues, boogaloo.:flowerforyou:

Howdy pebbles.

I just printed out my registration form for my next bike ride - yeah! October seems so far away, but I'm sure it will surprise me when it gets here. There's also a ride at the end of September that I plan on doing as well, as long as it cools off by then. I have a workshop every month from now until November and at least two bike rides - I think I'll be pretty busy! It would be funny if yoga workshops gave out t-shirts like the bike rides do: "I'll stand on my head for breast cancer" - or something like that.

I'm up early to teach yoga. I feel like I'm still on Pacific time, but I think I'm just staying up to late and getting used to the cats again. I've been coughing since I got home - of all the things to be allergic to :grumble:

Didn't get that walk in yesterday, will do so today.

Go away cough, boogaloo

Mary, you should have a shirt made that says that! I bet you'd sell a lot of them.
Bobbie, your day sounded fun! I need/want a day like that.

It's a day off, though I should burn calories just from sweating so much. It's SO hot! I'm ready for September to get here. It's been over 100 everyday for two weeks or so and it looks to be staying that way for at least another week.
I have heard so many of my friends say they've lost so many pounds just by doing this or that, and it's getting frustrating for me. A friend told me last night that I need to focus on my health and not on the weight. He said I do look healthier now. I feel healthier for the most part. It's just discouraging when my clothes are still tight or tighter than a month ago. I don't get it.
I plan to drink a lot of water today. We are meeting with friends tonight to go to a different airport, and Alex might get to go up in a plane again, so he will be excited about that if he can go. Tomorrow my busy week starts. Doing something everyday, and inlaws coming in on Wednesday through possibly Friday. The goals for the week are to drink a lot of water and C25k, which will probably be week 3 again. I have been struggling to run 3 minutes at a time so I don't think 5 minutes is going to happen. lol. I'm pathetic. One of my other friends just ran 9 miles on Saturday. I might be able to run 1/4. :ohwell: I would also like to get some taebo in next week.
That's it for now. Off to practice my guitar!
MM

New week mummsy, so we are now here:

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