Today was good and bad...

OK, so first off, Zakk woke me up at 5:30am!!! So I only got 6 hours of sleep again last night. Instead of laying in bed trying to go back to sleep, I got up, started the coffee and what else... jumped on facebook to farm :) ha ha, I know wait for it... *eye roll... I did rather enjoy sitting in my front room with the blinds open and watching the sun rise, though. It was very serene. I was able to think and put myself in a fantastic mood. So I enjoyed 1 cup of coffee half filled thank you very much and less sugar this time. My goal for the month is to completely cut the sugar taste out and enjoy just the creamer. We will see how this goes. As I was making Chris's lunch, I noticed how badly my arms burned!! Which is great news because that means I did the weights just right. I turned on cartoons for Zakk and sent my husband off to work with a full lunch box and a protein shake. At 8am I took my shower and got dressed. Around 9:30a we made strawberry banana smoothies w/ fat free vanilla yogurt and 1 teaspoon of honey. OMG! It was soooo good!! You know when you buy a new set of glasses and they come w/ tall and short? Well I had a short glass and it was so filling. After that we went to the store and bought some more fruit, including the cut frozen bags for more smoothie options. Came home and went to Karen's to pick her up and get our names on the gym membership account. Karen is a wonderful woman and is so giving!! I love you ''MOM" :) Of course we get there and the owner is on a 3 hour lunch!!! lol , so we will have to do this another time. Came back home and had every intention of doing my laundry, but we all know how much i despise laundry! I did put one load in the washer though :D So as I sit here writing this, I am doing another because I put it off. GRRRR! So I piddled on facebook and watched a movie with my baby boy. Around 5pm I asked Zakk if he wanted to go outside and play since it has been soooo pretty the past few days. While he rode his bike, I walked up and down the street at a very slow pace. I think we stayed outside an hour. Came in ate dinner and watched my Greys Anatomy and Private Practice. Chris had to work late so going to the gym wasn't an option. I had it set in my head I wasn't going tonight so don't beat yourself up on something you cant control. Then as luck would have it, Allen started pestering me to go, ha ha. So, I went. Now I didn't want to go! But I made myself. Remember in my first post where I said, 3 months later I realized I had quit going to the gym!! Well, I am glad Allen ''made'' me go. So thank you Allen!! For that reason alone I did pretty awesome tonight.

Because it was 10pm, I was really nervous going up there by myself. I mean it's dangerous out there. Well that was the excuse I was giving myself. I started filling my head with crazy CSI thoughts!! LOL But when I got there, there was like 5 people in there and I felt better. So I jumped on the treadmill and set the pace at 2.0 and went to town... But the heart rate monitor was not liking that pace and kept telling me to GO SLOWER! PSH! I was like whatever!! How the hell am I going to break a sweat at 1.5 MPH???? So I took my arms off the bars and started swinging them. I heard somewhere it helps you burn more calories that way. I don't know if its true, but what the hell, right?? It cant hurt. So my intention was to warm up on the treadmill and move to the elliptical. Well I got in the zone, bumped my speed to 3.0 and kept going. When I looked down, (cuz I close my eyes and visualize the finish line) I had gone 22 minutes and burned 120 calories! I walked 0.85 miles. So I jumped off and went to the bike. A friend of mine told me I should try it. So I did. Lets just say the last time I tried a stationary bike, I did HORRIBLE! So I was nervous... I jumped on and started pedaling.. Well I don't know how long I was on there, because I couldn't figure out how to set my age weight and so on... I am going to guess 5 minutes. I jumped off and went to a bike I knew how to work. After I got it set up, I pushed my legs -- you know till you feel the burn?? Well come to find out, I was staying in the 70 range. Sometimes I would be at 79 RPM's and others on the hardest hill I would drop to like 69 RPM's.. Now I don't know if that is fast or not, but I do know that I went 3.67 miles in 10:12 minutes!!!!!!! And that was on random hill. WOO HOO!!! So in total I burned 180 calories and went 4.52 miles tonight! ( that I know of since I couldn't count the 1st bike) I didn't do weights because I left the gym at 11:20pm.

My arms still hurt and I am so glad I went to the gym.

Now here is the bad news. I HAVE GOT TO START EATING!!! If you noticed, I did not post anything about lunch. Why? Because I forgot to eat. I didn't even get hungry until 4pm. *face palm! After I added in my exercise, I only consumed 986 calories. I swear this is horrible! I am going to have to set a timer and eat when it goes off. I am just disappointed in myself. How do I expect to see results when I cant even consume the suggested amount 2100 for my weight??? I am going to down a bottle of water because its late and take my sleeping pill and go to bed. Please don't yell at me, I know what I am doing wrong!!! But I will always take advice and tips :)

PEGGY!!! THANK YOU FOR THE EMAIL :) You had a lot of good advice in there, my regular email is mystery7611@yahoo.com if you ever want to write me...

P.S. I know this is a super long post but I like to talk IN DETAIL!!! If you didn't already know that about me, well---- ya do now! LMAO