Time for a name change and an update for the MONTH, sorry it's a book!

First post... I decided to change the name of the blog, it's still kind of a mix of my life and posting about my addiction... exercise. I wanted to change it to something that was like my facebook group WE GOT THIS but that wasn't available and then I checked some others that weren't available either. Bummer

May has been a huge month for me and I wanted to post about it so that I can remember everything next year when it comes time to see if I decide to do all of this again. First of all, the weight has FINALLY started dropping off and as you can see by my ticker, I am finally down 19 lbs, 1 lb away from my goal. I actually think I might have made it to my goal but forgot to weigh myself until after the duathlon, I had eaten and had drank about 32 ounces of water by then and I was a half a pound from my goal. I am guessing I will probably be up again tomorrow due to swelling of the muscles and that I will eat a lot today since I burned a lot but either way, I'm almost there!

Indianapolis Mini Marathon
Okay, going to take a step back and write about the Indianapolis Mini Marathon I did on May 7th. This is a huge race as you can see on this photo on the website... http://www.500festival.com/, about 35,000 people participate in this race. I did it last year for the first time and finished in 2 hours and 28 minutes which was awesome considering I had no training and had just been ok'd to run by a foot Dr. and had just been released from a stress fracture. I really enjoyed the race and everything about it (well other than the weather) in 2010, in 2011, not as much. There are SO many people, I felt like I was dodging people the entire time, there were tons of potholes and I almost fell a couple of times. The first time running around the IMS (Indianpolis Motor Speedway) is a great experience and so exciting... you will see people get down and kiss the bricks (the finish line of the race) and people stopping to take it all in and take pictures of themselves on the track.... it's all that the first time, the 2nd time for me, it was the longest, most boring 2.5 miles of your life. After the IMS, you're going into mile 8 (I think), that was where I really started feeling it, my hips were getting sore (along with probably lots of other things). It was pretty cold again this year and started raining, first sprinkling lightly and then it rained pretty hard as I was finishing. I really didn't notice because I was so hot and because I had a visor on and just didn't feel it much on my face. Somewhere around mile 11, I start losing my mind, not remembering what mile I'm on and how much further I have to go, you start losing faith in yourself. I finished in 2 hours and 30 minutes but I finished. I was majorly disappointed with my finish time. Last year being my first time, I really just wanted to finish, this year, I wanted to beat my time and I couldn't believe that with no training last year, I did better. This year, the longest run I had done before this was 6 miles so I wasn't fully prepared and didn't even plan to run it but took my cousin's entry at the last minute. I had ridden downtown with some friends who were very supportive and made me feel so much better that I just finished, 13.1 miles is not easy and props to anyone who does it and finishes it, no matter what your time is!

Then, I had 2 weeks off from a race, of course I continued to workout and was not even really that sore from running the mini, last year was rough!

Geist Half Marathon
On to the Geist Half Marathon, personally, I like this name a lot better than MINI marathon because as Alan said, there is nothing MINI about running 13.1 miles! This one has far fewer participants but still a big race and a HARD race, there are lots of hills on this one. One of my spinning instructors has done the Boston Marathon and has said that this is harder than Boston. I still find that hard to believe it's harder than 26.2 miles but I'll go with it! Here is the course map and the elevation chart at the bottom of this page... www.geisthalf.com/course.asp I did this run in 2010 and it was the most I had run without stopping which was 8 miles, around 8 miles, there is a HUGE hill and I also wasn't prepared for all of the running downhill and ended up having to stop to get my knee wrapped and that made the rest of it really difficult to finish but I finished in 2 hours and 38 minutes, still not too shabby.

This year, I was supposed to run with a friend who wasn't able to and I basically MADE my husband take her entry, ha, it really wasn't that hard to talk him into it. He had only done the Indianapolis mini last year and really enjoyed this race, other than having run 8 miles the day before for a torch run he did for work purposes but the course of this race is very scenic, pretty homes, water views of Geist reservoir and lots of homeowners come out to cheer us on, play music, little kids giving your high fives, water, etc. It's just a fun all around race and it's in my neck of the woods and doesn't take me an hour and a half to get downtown and fight with all of the downtown traffic like it does the Indianapolis mini.

So on to the race, we got there much later than we had planned so we parked where ever we found which ended up being at the back of Hamilton Southeastern High School, we could have taken the shuttle to the start line but that's just not us so we really had to jog a mile to the start line, good warm up, right?! HA So we pretty much got to the start line and stretched for a minute and then we went! It took us 3 minutes to cross the start line (unlike the 10 minutes it took during the mini... okay, I'm seriously not trying to bash the mini, just point out some comparisons). I really don't remember how I felt for the first 4 miles so I assume I was feeling pretty good. I remember about mile 4, I was already starting to think I couldn't do it, my hips were already hurting, my knee was hurting and I had a blister on my toe from the mini that started hurting too. Fortunately, I had my husband with me to keep me going. I'm kidding, I would never quit unless I was injured and even then, I didn't quit the year before! I don't know why but I just have this mental block that makes me think I can't do these things so that's one of the reasons I wanted Brad to run with me. When we got between mile 7 and 8 and faced the HUGE hill, I thought there was no way I could run up that hill and most of the people around us didn't but my awesome husband kept telling me I could do it and I did, we ran up that horrible hill and were passing people left and right, it all seemed like a blur at the time and I felt like I was walking because I was going so slow but we did it! Again, around mile 11, I started losing it again and couldn't remember where I was, I had actually hit my wall around mile 10 but was really losing it by mile 11 and was thinking I can walk the rest of the way but thought there was no way that I could run the rest of it. We did walk for a short time because I was just out of breath and it was hot! Then came mile 12 and I thought We've GOT this! My husband was starting to cramp in the thighs and told me to go ahead but even though I felt like I was going, he was still right behind me. I started to sprint across the bridge and then felt like I was going to have a heart attack so I stopped and he yelled at me to RUN, I did. Again, I did the same until almost to the finish line and stopped and he yelled at me along with some other people and I (WE) finished. I finished in 2 hours and 26 minutes, that's 12 minutes faster than my time last year, 4 minutes better than my Indianapolis Mini time and 2 minutes than my personal best. It felt amazing, I was so proud of myself and HUGE thanks because I don't think I could have done it without my husband!

Energy2Action Duathlon
On to my next race, I was very sore from the Geist hills, I had to walk down the stairs in my house backwards for 2 days! WOW, I normally would be right back to working out on Monday but was really so sore that all I could do was take a long walk with my son. So, this one was a little different, a duathlon only 1 week after Geist. My friend Jen who lives in Colorado had done one and I have always wanted to do one (read about it here... http://jeepjenjen.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-race-i-did-it.html), she was already going to be home visiting family and friends for Memorial Day and found this race http://www.energy2action.com/, it was a 2 mile run, 16 mile bike (it says it's 15 on their website but the actual map shows it's 16) and then 2 mile run again. This was today so I can't say how I felt after the race yet, I worked out yesterday which was probablynot the smartest thing but oh well! It was pretty far for us but Brad and Wes got up and came with me, we got up at 6, left at 6:30 and it took us about an hour to get there. When I got there, I rode my bike up to the registration desk, got my number marked on my arms (yes, both) and my legs (yes, both) and had to pin my number on. I assume that because they don't use timing chips but keep track of this manually, that they had to have numbers everywhere to assure someone would see it and write it down. It's a pretty small race but I think that actually made it a little better. I was a little nervous when Jen said that the bike route wasn't marked at all but it actually was and there were people at every corner you turned to block traffic.

Initially when I got there and put my bike on the same rack as Jen and already had all of my things in my gym bag so it wasn't too hard to get to things but I put my helmet on my handle bars and set my bike shoes out. The running course was nice, fairly flat and it made it easy to run the full 2 miles, I felt pretty good but I think I drank a little too much fluid before the race since it was such a long drive and I had a protein shake before and nothing else so I was feeling a little like puking with everything sloshing around in me, ha. When I came back in to get my bike, the transition area was nice and smooth, changed my shoes quickly and hopped on my bike. Brad reminded me to put on my helmet so I started out trying to buckle my strap and ride. I felt great on the bike for the first several miles, there's a good size hill toward the beginning but it was pretty easy, it's an out and back course, I didn't feel the wind at my back but it was pretty chilly. Only 55 degrees, I think, then when we turned around to come back in, the wind hit us and it was tough, I need to get a new bike computer so I have no idea how fast I was going but I think Jen said she was at around 21 mph on the way out and around 16 mph on the way back so I assume I was similar, there were some fairly large potholes on the bike course but they had them marked well. When I came back into the transition area, it was smooth and nice to be able to ride to the end of the bike racks instead of having to run thru it like I did the Go Girl last year. I did have to run the length of the bike racks but it wasn't far. After 16 miles on the bike, the last 2 miles were a bit challenging, your legs feel a bit like jello. I ran next to another woman most of it as her and I were about the same pace at that point and we joked a couple of times about how we felt, etc. I'm just really thankful that I signed up for this one first before I signed up for an International Distance Duathlon though I am considering doing one later in the summer, I will definitely have to do a couple of bricks to work on the running after biking. So here are my results though I'm not sure if this will display properly...

Since I ran under my cousins name during the Indianapolis Mini, the sex and divisions aren't accurate.
NO FN LN DIVISION OVERALL DIVPL SEXPL 10M BRICKYARD BRICKYARDTOD GUNTIME TIME PACE
40172 Sean Reaves M3539 18056 1724/2165 10456/14275 1:53:59 1:26:59 9:10:55 2:40:35 2:30:13 11:28

Geist Half...
NO FN LN DIVISION OVERALL DIVPL SEXPL 5MILE RATE RANK 10MILE RATE RANK LAST5K RATE RANK TIME PACE
575 Brooke Arnold F 35-39 1763 158/257 730/1389 51:26 1018 1658 1:49:19 1056 1740 37:27 1205 1773 2:26:45 11:13

And I don't have the results from the duathlon yet but I will say that I did the first 2 miles at a 9 minute mile pace which is fast for me and I was super happy about that!

Oh and I have to say that my friend Jen rocked it, she ended up placing 2nd out of all the women! WAY TO GO, Jen! Someday maybe I can be like you! :)

V02 test

I really should be doing my weights right now but I have to blog about this before I forget everything! I redid my V02 test this morning which is testing to find out how my body utilizes oxygen, fat and calories. It's done by a system called New Leaf which tracks your oxygen and C02 thru a mask that looks like this...

You also wear a heart rate chest strap and all of this information is sent to the computer. I did this test in June of 2009 and the results were definitely NOT what I would have expected. I workout 6 days a week doing what I would call pretty intense cardio at times, such as spinning, turbo kick and running.

Before I get into the results, I will say that I really don't remember this test being as stressful as it was for me this time. I do not drink caffeine during the day but wasn't allowed to drink caffeine the day before and I had a massive headache and was so sleepy yesterday! Then this morning, had to get up pretty early on a dark, rainy morning to be there for my test at 8AM. Thankfully, my wonderful husband got up to get Wes dressed for me. I dropped Wes off at the daycare and ran upstairs, I was a few minutes late because of traffic so my heart was already pumping, ha ha. Shaun put the mask on me and got me all hooked up to the machine. The first few minutes are very easy, walking on a treadmill at a very easy pace, every couple of minutes, Shaun increased the incline, when I reached about 80% of my max, I told him I was becoming quite claustrophobic as it's getting more and more difficult to breathe thru your mouth, with that mask on, your breathing is definitely challenged! I really didn't think I was going to make it but I focused and Shaun kept increasing the incline, after 80%, it felt like forever! I got up to a 15% incline and still walking but at 94% it seemed like I was stuck and it took forever but then I was finished! If I would have had to jog, I think I might have passed out but thankfully I didn't have to. So for anyone that thinks about doing this, just an FYI, it's not a walk in the park! :) Thankfully, it only lasts about 15 minutes!

Onto my test results, as I said, I did this test in June of 2009, at that time, Wes was 9 months old and I had only been working out at home and was still having a difficult time with weight loss which is why I did the test. Now, after having worked of consistently for 2 years, I would have thought my results would have greatly improved and they have NOT, in fact, they have gotten worse.

In 2009, in zone 1, I was burning 7.2 calories per minute and 59% fat per minute which should be 50% fat or above.

Now, I am burning 7.7 calories per minute and 63% fat per minute which is great, I have improved in zone 1 but who works out in zone 1? Right, no one! Well some do but not me!

In 2009 in zone 2, I was burning 8.3 calories per minute and 43% fat, not great since again, should be at 50% fat or above.

Now, I am burning 8.9 calories per minute BUT I am only burning 29% fat, that is NOT GOOD! Again, it should be at 50% or above and this should have increased, not decreased!

In 2009, in zone 3, I was burning 11.3 calories per minute and 20% fat which should be at 30% fat or above.

Now, I am burning 10.8 calories per minute and only 19% fat. Again, that is NOT GOOD at all!

I actually thought that doing the RMR test a few weeks ago was going to give me more insight as to why I'm not losing weight but I actually think that this has given me more insight. My RMR is lower than it used to be so I should be eating less but I'm not effectively burning fat like I should be. They give you a 6 week training plan to help your body improve this so I am definitely going to follow it this time, I didn't do that the last time.

My V02 threshold is at 60% compared to others my age and gender which is good, I suppose but it could be better. Your V02 for those of you that don't know what this is is how much oxygen your body needs to burn fat. V02 stands for the volume of oxygen your body absorbs per minute while at rest and when you move. We measure Peak V02, which is the maximum amount of oxygen you used during this assessment. Your Peak V02 measure your heart and lung fitness and is considered the gold standard for determining your exercise potential.

The last thing the test measures is your recovery heart rate. As you increase your level of fitness, your heart gets stronger and recovers faster from exercise. Your heart, being as a muscle does get stronger with exercise. A stronger heart pumps more blood to your body each beat with less effort, giving you a lower resting heart rate. Well my heart rate dropped 21 beats per minute in the first minute and 32 beats per minute in the 2nd minute which is a great recovery rate. The only bad thing about having a fast recovering heart rate is that I don't get to rest for as long as others when I'm doing intervals, ha ha.

So the workouts that they give me are basically alternating heart rate zones always between zones 1 and 2, zones 2 and 3 or all 3 zones. This morning, I went to strike class as I normally do, we did have a different instructor so class was different and I also had to leave for a few minutes to go change a poopy diaper and come back so I didn't burn as many calories as I might have but also attribute that to Shaun having reset my zones on my heart rate monitor and maybe I just don't burn as many calories as I think I do. I obviously don't burn much fat! My body tends to burn more carbs before it burns fat so I guess that right now, I should really, really be watching my fat and I have been.

Shaun is going to continue to keep checking my body fat every couple of weeks and he is also going to look at my food journals from http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ and I also plan to definitely back off of the workouts a bit and start following this heart rate training plan that they gave me to do.

If anyone has any other questions about this, feel free to let me know!

A few articles that I have not read yet but plan to that are included with my test results are...
A better way to burn fat http://tinyurl.com/2GTQ2D
Maximize your metabolism http://tinyurl.com/2PLRJQ
The AT factor http://tinyurl.com/YT36A7

new 21 day challenge

So today is the beginning of a new challenge, it's going to be really hard for me to track my workouts beginning on a Tuesday but I'm willing to go for it. Julie created a new 21 day spring break challenge. I have to replace 1 meal a day with a protein shake (which I already do, breakfast is a protein shake), I have to do 4 days a week of cardio, 3 days of strength training and 2 days of yoga/pilates.

Since I did weights on Monday, Julie said that I could count that as one of my strength training days so I am including that and today, I did ashtanga yoga for an hour and 15 minutes and I also ran for about 20 minutes.

My goal is going to be cardio on Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, strength training will be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and yoga will be on Tuesday, Wednesday and maybe even Saturday too.

I am still also tracking my calories for the week too but am still going to count them from Sunday to Saturday. This past Sunday, I took the day off, Monday I did turbo and weight training and burned 1050 calories. Today, yoga and running and I burned 750 calories

So starting the new challenge, into week 1 have burned 1800 calories this week!

The end of the 6 week challenge

Well yesterday was the end of the 6 week challenge to burn 21,000 calories. In this time, I have lost 5 lbs and 1 inch off my waist.

My ending total for this week was 5,120 calories burned and here's the other 5 weeks...
Week 1 - 4,200
Week 2 - 3,500
Week 3 - 4,150
Week 4 - 6, 055
Week 5 - 4,850

So I burned 27,875 calories in 6 weeks. I plan to keep trying to burn 3,500 calories a week which I don't think should be a problem since I beat that goal every week except for the week that I had the stomach flu.

I think that I did great, however, I feel like I should have lost more weight than this and seem to have plateau'd recently. I have been tracking my fat and carbs and have done a great job of staying under my goal, I just am having a hard time eating more calories.

I am going to start a challenge next week to try to do 180 minutes of weights each week so stay tuned! I may need some motivation on this one! :)

Love Life. Do Good. Live Well.

Happy Friday, everyone! I had planned to have a really busy day today but my plans got changed by the 5" of snow that we got last night and I heard that the roads were terrible this morning. :( Boo We had planned to go to the gym for my favorite class of the week; strike and then we were going to go to lunch with some friends and then were going to go to a bounce place called Monkey Joe's. As it turns out, most of our friends that were going to go with us are sick so we're going to try to reschedule it for next week!

Since I updated last, on Tuesday, I did ashtanga (which is also another favorite class) and I ran a mile. I also have been speaking with a couple of instructors about becoming certified to teach some classes and just not really sure what I want to do, still giving it more thought. I really would love to teach but do I have the personality for it and will I make any money at it? If I'm doing something I love, money isn't a huge concern but it will be for my husband! :)

On Tuesday afternoon, we had a playdate with Quinton, Bradley and Barrett, all the boys had a good time and Wes was pooped after they left!

Wednesday, did my usual spinning and piyo. I guess I really can't say that strike is my favorite b/c I love ashtanga and piyo too! :) I don't think we did much Wednesday afternoon other tthan cleaning and laundry. OH, Wes did have speech therapy on Wednesday and he said a 3 word sentence, yay!!! He said Go Blue Car! yay Wes!

Thursday, I decided to get back into the pool because it has been forever since I swam. I spent a lot of the day procrastinating but we did finally make it to the gym. I took Wes swimming for a little while and he had a blast, when we first got there and I asked him if he wanted to go swimming, he said no but I took him out to the pool and showed him and when we went back to put our swimsuits on, he agreed to it. He ended up having so much fun splashing around, blowing bubbles and practice kicking. I decided that I think I'm going to do this every Thursday. Then I threw on a towel and a hoody and took him to childcare (well I got him dressed first) and then I came back and swam laps. I did quite a bit of freestyle with fins on and just upper body with a buoy between my legs. I am definitely not a great swimmer, at all but I feel like I did pretty well considering it has been since last August since I swam. I swam for about 45 minutes and then went to take a shower, I was definitely exhausted after swimming, it takes so much out of you!

Today, as I said, I'm stuck at home for the time being and I went out and shoveled snow already and burned 250 calories in 30 minutes, it's a heavy wet snow too so it was a great workout. I really just wanted to update the blog and see where I'm at for the week and then I'm going to go do the p90x kenpo. One thing I have been having a really hard time with is getting weights in. I'm really unmotivated to do it now so if anyone has any suggestions for me, let me know!

Here's my workout log for the week:
Sunday - weights for 45 minutes 100 calories burned
Monday - turbo for 60 minutes 750 calories burned
Tuesday - ashtanga and ran a mile for about 75 minutes 700 calories burned
Wednesday - spinning and piyo for about 110 minutes 1000 calories burned
Thursday - swimming for 45 minutes burned 345 calories (according to my fitness pal, I didn't wear my heart rate monitor)
Friday - (so far)... shoveling snow for 30 minutes burned 250 calories

So I have burned 3,945 calories this week.

Week 1 - 4,200 calories burned
Week 2 - 3,500 calories burned
Week 3 - 4,150 calories burned
Week 4 - 6,055 calories burned
Week 5 - 4,850 calories burned
Week 6 - 3,945 calories burned (so far)

"The greatest wealth is health."

I know I haven't updated since last Wednesday. Last Thursday, I had a terrible headache. I don't drink much caffeine (none in the morning at all, maybe a diet coke at night) but I had a terrible headache and was so tired. I wasn't able to workout OR have any caffeine because I was doing a resting metabolic rate test on Friday morning. The test went pretty well, for those of you that don't know about it, you wear a mask and probably look similar to Hannibal Lecter (even the personal trainer said I did, ha ha), you have to breathe in and out thru your mouth which is kind of a challenge (or just requires more thought on breathing!) and you basically just sit and relax for about 20 minutes. SO EASY! I did this test a couple of years ago and my RMR was 1450 calories a day, that's what I needed to eat to survive and not let my body go into starvation mode. I really wanted to redo this test since I found out that I have hypothyroidism because I knew that my RMR had changed since then and it did. My RMR is now about 1250 calories which when I first heard was kind of like being punched in the gut. If I didn't workout, that would be very little calories and going out to eat would be nearly impossible! Thankfully, I get to eat a little more calories since I workout. However, I still will probably need to play around with the calorie intake to lose some weight. I had lost 5 lbs in a month but then I plateau'd and haven't lost anything the last couple of weeks.

I did talk to Shaun, a personal trainer and the one who did the test for me and we talked about my fat, protein and carb consumption so I am watching that now and trying to not go above 40% fat and about 50% carbs and not way over on protein but pretty much what I want. I have been really watching this since I did the test on Friday and today when I was looking in the mirror, I thought my stomach already looked a little smaller. I still haven't lost any weight but I took my measurement of my waist and I have already lost an inch off my waist! WOOHOO!!! I took my measurements a few weeks ago and nothing had really changed so I know that this is a loss that has recently occurred. I didn't check my other measurements but will keep watching this. The belly is definitely an important place for me to lose it since I feel like I carry a lot of weight there!

If anyone I know around here is interested in doing this test, I highly recommend it and can answer any questions you have about it!

I'm not going to go into alot of detail about my workouts. Friday, after my test I did the usual strike and burned 650 calories, would have probably burned more but I had to leave to go get a diaper and change it in the middle of class.

Saturday- did spinning and 30 minutes of athletic yoga and burned 1000 calories. It was really nice here on Saturday so I went to the outlet mall with my mom and Wes and Alan and got some new things for him for summer and next winter, along with some jibbitz for his crocs and some Thomas PJ's which he was pretty excited about, we got to do a little more walking because of this trip too.

So for the week, that put me at 4,850 calories burned for the week!

Yesterday, I kinda took the day off, I did some abs and then I did p90x legs on my own without the video which doesn't take long. I burned about 100 calories. I had a nice visit with my friend Kathryn yesterday afternoon and got some cleaning done, Wes took a good long nap and Brad went to the office to do our taxes, uninterrupted!

Today, I went to the gym for turbo, I haven't done that class forever. I'm really not very coordinated but I can handle doing strike on Friday b/c it's not as dancy. I think my problem is that I lose my focus and I forget the moves or my count, plus I have never been one to be able to pat my belly and rub my head at the same time or however that goes, I might have that backwards, ha ha. A lot of the moves in this class require you to do things with your hands and feet at the same time. I don't feel like I looked completely stupid but I definitely was not the most coordinated person in the class. I just focused on keep moving and you'll still burn calories no matter how dumb I look! And, I burned 750 calories!

So here's my recap of my weekly challenge since I'm in the final week (although I plan to keep trying to burn 3500 calories a week for as long as I can keep it up!)...
Week 1-4200 calories burned
Week 2-3500 calories burned (stomach flu)
Week 3-4150 calories burned
Week 4-6055 calories burned (that's kinda crazy, hu?) As of this week, I had lost 5 lbs since the beginning of this challenge
Week 5-4850 calories burned
Week 6- 850 calories burned so far and as of the beginning of this week I have lost an inch off my waist!

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford

Well, I'm finally getting around to updating this from last week. It has been a busy week and I just haven't had the time to do it before now.

I'll start with last Friday, I did my usual strike class but Julie was in Chicago and Rachel was teaching. I don't know what happened that day but I thought I was going to throw up a couple of times. Great class! HA! I also did p90x weights at home that day and burned 990 calories that day. Wes and I also went to Recreation Unlimited in the afternoon with some friends and had a blast, he loved swinging on the big boy swings, going down the slide and he liked jumping on the trampoline too! That evening, we went over to a friends house for dinner and had pizza. That didn't help with my fat intake which I have to admit, I'm having a hard time keeping it low.

Saturday, I got up and went to spinning in the morning even though I was pretty tired that morning, I also tried to stay for yoga after that but Wes had a meltdown in the daycare because he was up late the night before and was tired so I had to leave about 20 minutes into it. I still managed to burn 915 calories. Mom and Alan came over that evening and Alan brought ribs and we had mac and cheese and baked potatoes, not the healthiest of meals but hey, it's the weekend, right?

Sunday, I did kenpo and burned 650 calories. We had another bad day, went to a friends for dinner and had strombolis that evening however in all of this, I never went over my calories, was probably just high on the of the fat which is not where I want to be!

As soon as the thaw began around here, my allergies started going crazy and I haven't felt fantastic this week but went to spinning on Monday, got there late and there was a different instructor (who I didn't care for), burned 650 calories.

Tuesday, I did my usual ashtanga yoga, I finally got back to running and did a mile and a half and then I came home and did weights at home too. So good calorie burning day this day. 950 calories burned, plus Wes and I went out and did some shopping and got him lots of spring/summer clothes so we are prepared for the warm temps, yay! Come on spring!

Wednesday, it's really nice out here today, the snow is melting and it's 60 degrees, though it's not helping my allergies. I went to spinning this morning and then piyo and burned 950 calories. I came home from the gym and vacuumed out my car and cleaned the grime off the windows and then I went to get my nails done. This evening, I'm going to a local cycling place for a ladies night that I'm kind of excited for, meeting 3 friends there and just looking forward to getting out of the house this evening, especially in this nice weather.

Tomorrow, it's supposed to be SUPER duper nice out. I HAVE to take the day off from working out because on Friday, I'm doing the resting metabolic rate test. I'm so excited to have this done and find out how much I should really be eating because I haven't had it done since before I had a throid problem. I will update everyone then!

Here's my workout log:

week 1 -4,200 calories burned
week 2 - 3,500 calories burned
week 3 - 4,150 calories burned
week 4 - 6,055 calories burned (I have to admit, that's kinda crazy!)
week 5 - 3,200 calories burned (need to burn at least 300 more this week!)