I've done nothing, but I just had a baby niece this afternoon so I'm planning on spending my evening at the hospital!!!! Yay! I will get up in the morning and workout.

An hour of strength training at the gym, 3 walks with the dog. My Fitbit says that I have 6974 steps at 5:30. Looks like I'll be out an around the block quite a bit this evening to make my 10K goal steps for the day.

Uh oh... My diary is open... Today is certainly not my idea of a Day One. I'll flip in the exercise this evening... but man... I totally blew any idea of restraint or low carb today.. I would love to blame my stress and anxiety today with a two hour yelling session they like to call a meeting... But I will take ownership myself. I blew it.

it's okay, we all blow it once in a while. Just don't let it ruin your whole day...eat right the rest of the day and try and work off those extra carbs. Taking ownership is a good thing!

I did UBWO (upper body workout) today - lifting with free weights - and 35 mins on the treadmill this morning at the gym.

Fitbit says 5252 steps so far and 13 floors - my goal is 10,000 steps and 20 floors - so I guess I better go walk the stairs on my breaks, LOL....

damuchi- I can so relate! Some days I just can't fathom wanting to move. Maybe a simple walk would be a good way to start.

I really don't feel like doing any exercise today but then again I don't feel like being overwieght for too much longer either. SO which one will it be? do a workout or stay overweight? Descisions, descisions, descisions.

I hear ya, Damuchi. I did NOT want to get up an work out this morning, but I knew I wasn't going to get my lunch workout...so I had to get up and get moving. I just told myself 15 min then I'll do another work out later. But once I got started I went ahead and did 30 min and I felt so much better. Sometimes the hardest thing about working out is just starting it. Tell yourself, you'll do 5 min, then as you're exercising, add another 5 min...then before you know it you'll have talked yourself into 20 - 30 min! yay

I'm hoping to do a 30 min step class after work today as well....again, it's the motivation to actually get to the gym (or turn on my xbox and play a kinect game)

Don't give up!

--side note -- I just saw your message about the boot, I had to wear a boot for about 4 weeks then wear it while working out for another 2 weeks. I still did Zumba wearing the boot the entire time. (people thought I was crazy) I knew how far I could push my injury and when to ease up. I just did the modified moves, but KEPT MOVING. that's the key. I'm so glad I did. Because not working out would have really set me back (I gain weight really easily) Here's a picture of me Zumba'ing in the boot...

Didn't get up this morning to do the 30 day shred, so grabbed a couple of co-workers and we did 30DS during lunch today. It felt soooo good! I'll do another work out this evening, probably the Kinect Your Fitness Evolved...I'm addicted to it. So far today, I'm a little low on steps: 4142 and 3 flights of stairs. Gotta get to at least 10,000 steps today and I hope to get to 10 flights of stairs.

Didn't get quite to 10000 steps - 7900, but I did get 20 flights of stairs! Yay

Awesome, you doubled your goal on stairs! Sweet!

UBWO strength training with hubby this morning, and lunch-time cardio consisted of 40 mins on treadmill, 100 crunches on Ab Coaster, and 15 mins on recumbent bike. Pretty nice burn. Hopefully I'll start seeing some results soon, because I can tell ya, the scale just ain't budging, period.....

I did 45 minutes of water aerobics today. It felt great!

I got off the couch to eat and potty a few times today!

Fireswan - girl, you RAWK your workouts. I want to be you when I grow up - fitness-wise, that is, LOL!

Hubby and I did our LBWO today - managed to get in 3 sets of lunges, squats, deadlifts, step-ups, and calf raises. This was my very first lower body free weight workout, and I felt like a total dork trying to do these exercises I'm definitely not familiar with! I am sure I will feel more confident in my form as I get a bit fitter and more comfortable with the exercises themselves.

I did wear my weight belt to support my lower back - and I can tell it helped. There were a couple of times that I felt a slight "discrepancy" in my back, one that from experience I know would have turned into a major spasm episode if not for the support of the belt!

Won't have time for a lunch-time gym trip today, so will attempt to get my steps in doing incremental walks throughout the day at work - and climbing stairs one building over every time I have to go to the bathroom. I hope everyone has a wonderful active losing day!

Sorry I've been absent y'all-lots of work to do for my upcoming mission trip and for my Seminary application. But I"m back! Yesterday I moved! I did water aerobics for 45 minutes for about 350 calories burned! I LOVE WA to start my week!

Today I did 30 minutes on the elliptical and started weight lifting, too. Nothing major, just the 30 day shred level 1 weights, but done in order without the rest of the killer workout and after my cardio. Since my heart rate was up the whole time, I count it good! Total burn for both activities: 450!

I missed my strength training yesterday. I hate that, but I was sick and missed training altogether. Back to it today. I did water jogging for one full mile-45 minutes. My intent is to do my strength training either this afternoon or tomorrow.