@MissionEnforcer finished my squats today. And did videos 1 & 3 again today. I worked the squats into my lunch walk. I may do more of them on a regular basis. Definetely makes me feel the burn. I made up for being a slacker yesterday. Work is slow so I did laps around the warehouse all afternoon. Out of sight out of mind!! No one was the wiser. I have 2 more days of staying under to make the challenge points. I'm supposed to get together with my ladies for cards tomorrow night. Maybe I'll drink water!! or limit myself to just one. I'm not going to blow the challenge on a night of drinking.

Maybe a slower start to the week, team, but I'm sure we've got it in us to have a good end to it! Tomorrow is Friday already! And it's my birthday! For gifts, I will take you dedicated exercise minutes for the team

Today was busy at work so no chance to sneak anything in until after. I did my rajio taiso videos - those middle school students do a much more rigorous set than the everyday set. I'm trying to memorize the sequence and I don't quite have it yet. I did these with my pre-run stretches and added on 25 squats.

Challenge update: 4/7 days with the rajio taiso, 100/140 squats, and 3/7 days with being under calorie goals.

Speaking of being under calories, I had enough for a nice after-dinner treat which I just finished - it was pumpkin spice kettle corn! Delicious! I think I picked it up at Wegman's (grocery store) when it was displayed right by the checkouts and I was hungry. Turns out to be a tasty treat.

Have a great night everyone.

I exercised tonight by coming home to rake the yard with my hubby garbage gets picked up tomorrow with recycling so we wanted to get as much as we could out to the curb. Sad but we will be doing this for the next 8 weeks:( at least for 2 hours at a time. The leaves hold on for awhile with our trees but the neighbors blow into our yard. @MissionEnforcer I finished the whole week under my calorie goal so far and did the videos. I will be out of town camping the next few days but will post as I can

We've made it!

Happy Birthday @katharmonic

Happy birthday @katharmonic! Hope you have a great day! I still have some birthday cake here so I'll have a piece in your honor (and I'll dedicate my golf time to you!)

@celtikgirl -glad you like body pump! We have classes here but the times just don't work with my schedule so I've only been a couple of times. It's a good change of pace from my regular lifting and I like adding it occasionally.

@aenblehardt-we don't have fall down here like up north but in February all the live oaks dump their leaves (and pollen!) at the same time and it's crazy how many leaves (and pollen!!) there is. I don't envy you that workout but raking leaves IS most definitely a workout! I need to do some hard work this weekend and you'd better believe I'll be counting those minutes.

And speaking of DOMS, I lifted yesterday for the first time in a couple of weeks and holy cats! I need to do some videos a few times or I won't be able to swing a club! So @hawkins410 -can we go to a spa before clubbing tonight? I need a massage and a soak then I'll be able to dance!

I will finish 2 challenges tomorrow (videos and squats) I'm at 3 days on the videos and 110 squats.

Happy Friday team!

Love the spa!! Lots of leaf raking this weekend, so I will need it,

@katharmonic Happy Birthday!

@Mission Enforcer - Rajio is done today! I will have five days within my calorie limit tomorrow.

I wish one could make salad out of something less salady and still keep the calorie count down. I'm getting really tired of lettuce. I wish anything that was called salad actually counted - like macaroni salad, or fried chicken salad, or one of those marshmallow, jello and tub of cool whip concoctions. I would happily eat all of those!

My scale was evil this morning and I nearly tossed it out the window - but that isn't very satisfying when you live in a one story rancher. I am disappointed, but will just keep plowing forward.

Planning to sneak out of work a little early this afternoon to go pick up my race packet for Sunday. I was too cheap to have them mail my bib, somehow I figured it would be easy enough to run to Annapolis to pick it up. So, 100 mile round trip in rush hour should be a million times better than paying an extra $15. I have been told that this is a classic rookie mistake, along with reporting an honest estimate of my mile pace and getting put in the last wave. It will still be fun!

Ok, back to work.