Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 55 & thoughts on reward meals.

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 55

Got home from the hospital last night after 11 pm.  I went right to bed, so tired!  Then got up at 6 am to get my son out of bed and off to work.  So proud of him.  I headed to Team Fitness for our Trio workout this morning.  It was awesome.  Wesley had us do the equivalent number of stairs as climbing the Empire State Building.  OMG!  Katherine and I followed the workout with 30 more minutes on the treadmill, incline 6.  I really felt like I worked out walking out of there today. 

I have a choice to make about my meal plan.  I have been given the opportunity to add a "reward" meal on the weekend on the weeks I lose more than 2 lbs.  To have it or not to have it that is the question.  I don't mind the meal plan as it is.  Adding foods too it increase my cravings for other things and talking to Katherine she had her reward meal last weekend and this week lost only 1lb.  I think I am staying as is for now, at least until I reach "one" derland.  Those of you who watch Biggest Loser will know what that is.

Doing the treadmill torture was much easier having Katherine to talk to during the 30 minutes. We both agree we would likely still be at our top weight sitting at home wondering how we would lose the weight if we hadn't been picked to participate in this TF+ Challenge.  Team Fitness you have given me my life back and maybe even saved it.  Thank you.

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 54

Welcome to my Personal Fitness Challenge Day 54

Well this evening's post comes to you via my iPad at Lionsgate hospital.

All is ok, no worries.  Hubby is getting some pain checked out.  

I had a good day today.  Confined Space training all day followed by coffee with my girl friend.

I feel kind of guilty that I didn't workout in some fashion but I did register and pay for Zumba on Tuesday's with Glenda.  Does that count?  Oh well I will make up for it over the weekend.

Now for the really cool story.  I got to use my mandoline slicer on a sweet potato.  I wanted to start dehydrating it but I have no parchment paper.  It was awesome to use.  Now I want to slice up everything I can get my hands on, lol.

Looking forward to the workout tomorrow at team Fitness, that is if I get enough sleep tonight!

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 53

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 53

 

 

Well we had an interesting workout tonight at TF+ with Sarah.  Most of it was great, some of the stations were not a fit for me.  Maybe when I get stronger and lighter but not now.  The sit up stand up from the bosu ball was interesting.  Once my feet came of the ground and I almost toppled onto my head and another time when I sat up I got so dizzy.  I wasn't doing it right.  On the second round it was much better.

 

I also attempted the stair climbing challenge.  I really gave it and did 4.5 flights in 1.29 minutes.  At the top I think I almost passed out.  Who knew I could push myself that hard.  Now I have a point at which I know I can do better.  Faster than 1.29 minutes next week?

 

I can feel my muscles talking to me now so I should be pretty stiff tomorrow.  That is ok, it my addiction now to feel that way.  It looks like I might have an exercise date every day of the week except Friday.  Oh well even God needed a day to rest,  lol.

 

People keep asking me how I can be so discipline.  I just say I want this and because I want this so bad I got it, I am going to do it.

 

Thank you Team Fitness and thank you to the other TF+ teammates.  I think you all play an important role in my success!  Looking forward to Saturday. 

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 52

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 52

 

 

My most excellent week ever! I introduced my son to a colleagues of mine and when he found out he was 18 years old he looked at me and said you don't look old enough to have an 18 year old son!  Woot.  So cool.  I was also rewarded by my little metal box again, down another half pound.

 

The other exciting news is that Glenda and I have signed up for Tuesday night Zumba and we encourage the other TF+ team members to join us!  It's on Tuesday nights.  Yes another way to sweat the weight away and get our sexy back. Thanks for finding that class for us Glenda!

 

Wow, I am tired tonight.  This is going to be a short post.  I just want to end by saying I am having a lot of positive changes happen in my life in the last couple of months.  I have started to find myself again and I have made a few more friends.   Thank you Team Fitness!

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 51

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 51

Well today was a wonderful day in my Fitness Challenge.  I woke up this morning feeling pretty good.  I have to say the pain of doing the treadmill at an incline of 6 after an intense 1 hour workout was so worth it.  I would have felt guilty x 10 if I hadn't done it.  I woke up thinking I feel thinner today!  I love that feeling.  Sorry Leanne!  I weighed myself this morning and yeah!! down another pound.

I was walking in the hall at work today and one of the managers stopped me and said "your weight loss is really showing"  followed by "No offense but your the biggest loser"  I walked away with a big smile on my face :-)  If that wasn't enough I was at the Fire Hall and when I walked in the admin manager say's wow your shrinking.  The I spoke at a crew meeting this afternoon and after the meeting one of the gal's came up to me and said your really shrinking.  I was grinning from ear to ear I am sure.  When I told my husband the story he said to me "I really noticed it a lot in your face today"  Almost week 8 and everyone is noticing!  I love it! It is so inspiring me to keep going, to work that much harder.

Thank you Team Fitness... Oh and "Bring it!"

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 50

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 50

Another successful day on my Team Fitness + fitness challenge.  Started out by rushing out the door at 6:30 am to get to the training center to get confined space training set up and going, then headed up to the Hall to conduct new employee training.  I didn't grab breakfast so I had only had a few almonds and an apple before lunch.so when I got home and had my turkey chili I really enjoyed it!  

My afternoon snack was interesting to..  Hmmm  Is this good karma or bad karma?  I am suppose to have 10 almonds and an apple.  I have my 10 almonds and decide I want just a couple more.  After chewing the last one I inhaled a little too soon and the bits left in my mouth went down my wind pipe and it sounded like I was choking to death before I got control of it.  OMG   I get the message 10 only!  LOL

The workout was great tonight, it is getting progressively harder.  I lost steam about half way through the 2nd round of the circuit but I kept going.  Leanne asked me to do 20 minutes on the treadmill at an incline of 6 after the workout.  I normally feel like I could keep going for another round but tonight I just felt spent.  I got on the treadmill anyway.  Twenty minutes, incline 6, speed 2.8 calories burned 200.  I talked to Glenda and the time went by.  It felt good when I was done.  Glad I went the extra mile. Glenda and I talked about trying Zumba.  Well she has done it, I have not.  Sounds like a fun way to burn calories.  I'll keep you posted.

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 49

Welcome to My Personal Fitness Challenge Day 49

Today was a good day food wise.  Started by going to Tim Horton's for our weekly family get together.  Very used to black coffee now.  I am pretty sure I will keep drinking black coffee from now on.  I was saying to my husband that black is guilt free.  No fat, no sugar, no calories.  Two cream, one sugar was just loaded with fat and calories that had to take away from the amount of good healthy food I could eat.

I am very disappointed that I did not get to go to the gym today.  I had to dedicate most of my day to doing my Supervisor Skills assignment.  My fault for leaving it until the last weekend to get it done.  But it is done now.  I cooked up a few different squashes today and went grocery shopping to set up and prepare for the week ahead.  

Funny when I read Katherine's post and looked at her virtual before and after pictures I thought to myself yes I want that too.  I want to move from the fat girl club to the healthy girl club.  I was at Superstore tonight and there were a lot of large women there.  Every time I went past one I thought about Katherine's before and after and it gave me even more motivation to keep working away at getting in shape.  Yes that is what I really want.

On that note I found a few pairs of pants in my closet I decided to try on.  They both actually hung really weird on me but did fit!  They are going in the recycle bin though.  I found a pair of jeans that seemed ok on so I am wearing those today.  They are actually a bit too big and keep slipping down.  Not sure these are going to last long either.  My son Zach noticed I had different jeans on and actually said "I can notice a really difference in you Mom"  It's really cool when your 18 year old son not only notices but says something positive to you.  Thanks Zach!

I am looking forward my check in / workout tomorrow night at Team Fitness.  It feels good to workout now.

Thank you Team Fitness.