Hot by holloween!

This evening I planned out every workout from now until the end of October. They are in my planner and all they need are the times which I will assign week by week so I can work things into my schedule. I'm hoping to have some time this weekend to move everything into my Google Calendar and set alarms for workouts....that should sync with my phone so that even if I don't have my planner with me (yes, I still keep a paper planner) I still know what to do!

One thing I've learned is that if I don't actually schedule (with a time!) a workout it won't necessarily happen.

That's a really good idea. I always look at the hours that MFP wants me to put in for exercise and stuff...but I never really plan to do it at certain times. I'm just like "oh, I'll go on the treadmill tomorrow", and that hardly ever works. Good for you...I should do the same. *Grabs calendar*

Hahaha woah. Yes, that's a lot of calendars. I have one above my desk and one on my iPod, but I don't use my iPod much except for exercise music. xD It sounds like a good idea then, cause you have calendars from all angles pretty much yelling at you to do your exercise. My schedules are really unpredictable, so I can never set a time, but I bet it would work if I had that many calendars. Teeheehee! But my exercises are kinda boring - treadmill or stationary bike. I have a tiny step climber thing, but I always tire of it really quickly. I gotta go biking outside sometime...

Well after everything that's happened recently and the fact that my operation was canceled on 8th June my October deadline is no longer valid really. I doubt there will be a holiday for me and my partner as soon as October now as I have to wait for more tests, the results and then another appointment for an operation.
I will still attempt to get to my goal wait by October though as life must go on!
Hope everyone's been having a great few weeks!

@Phoenix---How long before you can get another surgery date? Hope that the tests go well and they don't make you wait too long.

@Emalyn---That is an excellent loss, way to go!

Alright, Halloweenies....my hamstrings are SCREAMING! I've been upping the weight at the gym when I do my dead lifts the last few weeks and although I still feel like I could lift more at the time I can barely raise my foot behind me for days and days afterwords. Last week they were sore for a full five days! I took yesterday off from working out (I was scheduled to run for 30 min) but I was up and walking around until 2:00am so at least I wasn't sitting on the COUCH OF DOOM! I'll make up the run today before I visit with my trainer.

I was hoping to see the show that my husband's kids are doing today at the School of Rock where he works (he's been doing a summer camp all week) but I just got a call from a contractor at work that will finally (if he knows what's good for him) show up to work on the internet so I suppose that's out, which is a real bummer. It does work out in a way, my trainer couldn't reschedule for tomorrow morning so we can have our last appointment together at our regular time.

Given that I will have a little spare time on my hands here this afternoon I'm going to take my measurements. I know I should probably have done this when I started but it's such a pain in the butt that somehow I never get around to it. It would have been really nice to have measurements from five weeks ago before I started with my trainer to compare to, I'm much stronger and I haven't lost a huge amount of weight through this whole time so I'd like to pretend that something about me is improving.

I am checking in this week at 193.5. I have lost 1.5 pounds ~ I really do hope to be in the 160s by halloween and i know that this is possible for me !

So I bit the bullet last night and stepped on the scale and I’m back to the weight I originally started at so back to square one:mad: ! Oh and I also took some measurements as well so I gotta kick this in high gear if I want to look good on my cruise and be a belly danced on Halloween!! LET”S DO THIS!!!

I finally got around to taking measurements myself on Monday...or was that Tuesday?

We've been on hiatus at work for the last (almost) seven weeks so I've had it pretty easy in workout land. I started back two days ago and today was the full company back at work. I'm going to have to work super-extra hard to get my food and exercise in, I only managed to eat half of my salad at lunch (never made it to the tomato or potato) so now I have to eat those AND the rest of my food for the day before bedtime...which was five minutes ago. Hmmmmmmm......this work thing is going to take some getting used to!

I'm also thinking that I need to change up my settings and either up my average daily activity or lower my per week weight loss goal from 1.5 to 1.0 pounds per week. I've had a terrible time staying under my calories this week, and getting to the gym but early indicators are that I've lost almost 0.7 pounds....more in a single week than I've lost in the last seven weeks...perhaps I'm not eating enough? Somehow I see a lot of PB&J rice cakes in my future.

Went for a fantastic post work run this evening, which would explain why I'm still awake...I love endorphins! My husband's car took a turn for the worse yesterday (now leaking transmission fluid) and the mechanic down the street won't have time to look at it for another few days so I'm on my own as far as getting to work three miles away. I have a luggage rack on my bike for the non-rainy days (HA! This is Ohio!), I can walk, run or take the bus which picks up in front of my house and drops off in front of work...too easy! Looks like I'll have more activity than I will know what to do with the next few weeks!

While I access to my car today I have to run around like a crazy person pulling things together for vacation, we leave on Thursday night!

My biggest concern is the grocery shopping that needs to happen. We don't eat a lot of processed foods so I've got to get exactly the right amount of perishables to last four and a half days with no leftovers without having to resort to eating out, which we'll do plenty of on vacation. Trash day is Wednesday so that will help a little but boy, I don't want to come home to anything that has been in that fridge for 11 days! Official plans are a little murky, technically we'll be in Los Angeles for eleven days but the first weekend we're going to Vegas to celebrate our 30th birthdays. My husband and I along with our two best friends (also married) turned 30 within two months of each other this winter but work was so crazy for me that we couldn't celebrate then.

Yesterday I went to a spin class at the gym followed by a yoga class, followed by a two mile walk home (my husband has my car while his is being worked on). I ended up burning something like 1,000 calories or so which was tough to get back in entirely now that I've lowered my weekly weight loss goal to 1lb/week instead of 1.5. I noticed that the weeks when I had trouble tracking and ate more than I should have (but didn't go completely crazy) I was losing the most weight which got me to thinking that maybe I wasn't eating quite enough...we'll see how this works out. Making that change to the weekly weight loss upped the calories I already had trouble eating (with good food only) after exercise another 300 calories...this is going to be much harder, but I'll get used to it!

Hey, Happy, 30 minutes is better than most of the population gets in an entire week! Own it and be glad you even got out there!

I slept in this morning too, my husband um, ah, woke me up in the middle of the night and I was too tired to crawl out of bed let alone get out of bed early enough to bike to work. I really wish I had, today was the work day from hell and I could have really used the stress relief. Instead I went for an hour long run when I came home from an exhausting eleven hour work day and I feel so much better....seriously....so much better.

I'm in need of taking measurements again this week, I think it was two weeks ago and I know that I'll be too busy later in the week preparing for our vacation to do it then. Not sure if every two weeks is good timing but it's not like measuring will kill me, right?

I have lost 3 pounds since the last weigh in down to 190.5 . Going on vacation next week and i am hoping to do pretty good while i am gone !

Kris sounds like you are doing great and staying on track!! Cammons I hope you are having a great time on Vacation. My daughter will be home on leave from the Navy the end of July. Her ship the USS Barry is coming back from Spain so she will have a two week leave then has to be back to VA the second week in Aug so we are going to do a long weekend in Clearwater Beach so I'm going to try and drop 6 to 10 lb. this month so I can look half way decent in my bikini for the beach. Idk if will dare or not but we will see. I went over in everything yesterday but I was way under Sunday so i don’t feel too bad lol. I'm going to bump up my workouts and be real good with my eating. Take care you too and good luck on our way- in's next week!!

Emalyn what can we say but vacation happens lol. Glad to hear you’re back on track!! I gained a 1/2 lb. back this last week by not being very good. I'm going to weigh in next week as well and stay strict on my diet. I took on a waitressing job a couple nights a week on top of my full time desk job so I hope that will help with the weight loss with all that extra running around.

I have to work a 13 hr. day today and I only got 5 hrs. of sleep last night. I could not shut my brain up lol. I had a bad night eating to. My hubby made homemade calzone for dinner and of course you can’t have one without a few beers to wash it down lol. I went over by about 500 calories UGH!! Well with any luck I will have a busy night at the restaurant and run it off lol!!

Daytona beach with the family this weekend woohoo!!