My love of the row...

I love the row machine. Our gym has a Concept 2 row machine that I just loooooooove! Not many people use it, I don't think they understand just how nice of an arm workout it is. I wanted to do 30 minutes of it yesterday but unfortunately time got away from me and I had to cut it to 20 minutes. I needed to pick up my sister and my kids.

I did get 50 minutes of riding on the recumbent bike though. I did a nice random hill workout and was able to crank out 9.12 miles. I'm going to aim for 10 miles next time. I'm trying to keep up with an every other day run and on my off days cross train using the bike or elliptical and the row machine.

Now if I can just keep on track with my eating today it'll be all good!

Tap Tap Tap...

Is this thing on? Ummm yeah, its been what...almost 3 years since I updated last. I am a very bad blogger. Since abandoning my blog I have lost the weight I wanted (and sadly gained it back), learned to run, ran numerous 5k's and a half marathon, gotten divorced and learned how to live on my on with my kiddos and the worst...losing my mom to brain cancer this summer.

I am getting my ass back on track with my running program. I have started over from the beginning. Since my mom passed away I have had a very hard time calming myself down enough to breath during a run. So now I am restarting the Couch to 5k program http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml (best learn to run program EVAH!) and just completed week 1. I try to run every other day and do cross training like a recumbent bike or elliptical and row machine on my off days.

I live in Northern MN and I am just not as strong as some people...I can NOT run in this -15 weather. I can't do it. I did run the Gobble Gallop on Thanksgiving, it was about 18 above with the windchill and my ass cheeks were numb for the entire day afterwards. I have moved my training indoors to Anytime Fitness. LOL

Lets see if I can keep my blog up this time. :)

I lost 2 WW points!

Woooooohoooooooooooooooo! I've been at 24pts for over a year now and I've finally lost 2pts. :D I haven't been able to workout on my bike for the past few days. Somehow my troublesome almost 3 year old managed to break a pedal on it. She weighs a whopping 34lbs I can't figure out how the hell she managed to break it?!?! Crazy child I tell ya!

So now I need to change my points reminder on my fridge! Happy day!

After some technical difficulties...

My blog seems to have came back to me. YAY! Yes, I am a dork.

Tonight I found new muscles in my inner thighs. I did 45 minutes on my stationary bike and every 10 minutes I did 1 1/2 - 2 minutes at 25mph (I usually do about 16-18mph). My thighs are DYING but feel soooooooooooo good.

When I stepped on the scale this morning I was down to 174.5lbs. Looks like my goal of 172lbs is attainable!

135/500 minutes 38.7 miles

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It'll Happen...Eventually [BLOGGER PREVIEW]

Oh yeah I think it's working!!! woooooohoooooooooooo!

It'll Happen...Eventually

It'll Happen...Eventually

Is this thing on?

YAY! WOOHOOOOO! HAPPY DAY'S ARE HERE AGAIN!

Nah, I'm not excited or anything. LOL First thing New Years morning I stepped on the scale and the scale was kind to me! My goal is to be about 172lbs by my birthday on February 1st, well I'm only 3.5lbs away from that! I think I may even be able to reach 170lbs by then. YAY ME!

I did 13.2 miles on my stationary bike in 45 minutes last night. Hopefully if I keep up on that at least 3 times a week I'll be doing much better this month. Damn, fitting in to my 12's again soon would be the best birthday present ever!

Only a .5lb away!

YAY!! Finally my water weight gain from the IV is almost gone! I'm very much satisfied with 179lbs right now since it's about the same weight I was last year at this time. I've flucuated so much over the past year...191.5lbs being the highest I've ever weighed (besides when I'm 9 months pregnant) and that was just in October. So since October I've been actively working on losing the weight and keeping up with my points and water and I've lost 12.5lbs. Not too bad since that equals to about a pound a week. :D

I'm not going to reach my goal of 500 minutes this month but I *know* I will next month. 441 is good enough for me this month.

Crap...

I started Jorge Cruise's 8 Minutes In The Morning workout on Dec. 4th. I was doing flipping rockstar until the 15th. That's when the tooth pain started to get to be too much and now I've completely FAILED at my 8 MIM workouts. I really did like it and since I am doing much better I will be restarting the 8 MIM on Jan. 2nd. I'm kinda feeling bad about not completing it but my tooth kinda overtook my life for 10 days or so. I'm just finally feeling better now. I find out later today how my liver is doing, if it's healing itself or not.

I took "before" pics on Dec. 6th and I just looked at them again...I have a flipping beer belly. I am *SO* done with beer. Granted I couldn't drink right now even if I wanted to thanks to overdosing on tylenol from tooth pain last week but still, no more beer anyways! I can't believe my belly. Ick Ick Ick!!!!