I created this blog to hopefully help keep me accountable during my weight loss journey. I will be blogging about how I am doing it. Any recipes that I may like and my progress.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Beautiful Monday!
That's right! I said Beautiful Monday. Hard one for me, for sure. Not a good Monday person. However, TODAY I AM!!!! Was very disappointed last Monday when I went and got on the scale to find that I had not gone up or down. I was exactly the same. At least I had not gained. But what did I do wrong? I do tend to eat a little heavier when Dalton is home. So I had cooked him a roast that week. I ate pasta twice that week and I rarely eat pasta at all. I am sure I could have made better choices. Although I was still walking, I was also wondering if what my doctor said was true. At some point the walking won't be enough. So this past week, I really tried to pay attention to what was going into my body. I have started working out with Friend's Kerrie and Dave that have given me a lot of guidance and a lot of good tools to continue this journey. Even though I do have Just Dance 1 & 2, I did not know that in Just Dance 2 there is a section that is called Just Sweat. And trust me you work up a sweat. Because of Kerrie's work schedule she does 2500 sweats a day as opposed to 1000. So when I got home from work Saturday evening. I thought. Hmmm. That is going to be my cardio for today. After I had done about 1000 sweats and was working on quite a sweat myself, I thought I am going for the 2500 sweats. So I did. Takes about 5 songs and I reached 2493 sweats. I thought, WOW! I feel great! Let's do more! lol. So, now I turned on the Zumba for Wii. Have not tried it since the first night. Must have had the setting wrong because I quite enjoyed it this time. So, I did the easy workout for 20 minutes on Zumba. Easy or not. My calves were freaking killing me!!!! But I had quite a work out and felt great! So for future reference. If anyone tries this at home. (HA HA! The try it at home warning). I would suggest, even for me. To do 1000 sweats on Just dance 2, followed by 20 minutes of Zumba. That alone is quite the workout!!! And is about 40 minutes of good cardio. I have downloaded an app for my berry, LiveStrong.com to help track my calorie in take etc. Turns out when Dave told me to write down what I was having. Some days I was not taking in enough calories, which apparently cannot be good either. So the plan is to watch my calorie in take. Cardio everyday for 40 minutes and Resistance 3 times a week. After one week of this. I lost 4 pounds this week!!!! Woo Hoo!!!! Total now at 38 Pounds!!! My next goal on my journey is very close and I can't wait to get there. So Beautiful Monday to all of you and I'll update you soon!
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Hello Tammy,
ReplyDeleteGreat job, 38 pounds is simply amazing!! Had a good chuckle reading your post. I was talking to a very good friend and fellow Re/Max realtor Linda Miller (who says hello) about the fact that I quit smoking (21 days today yahoo) and how paranoid I am about gaining more weight as I'm about 25 pounds heavier that I'm comfortable with now. I was telling her that I started to work out this week and got my Zumba WII out that I got for Xmas from my daughter ... tried it once and put it back in the box .. lol .. I have always thought that I was not only a good dancer, but very co-ordinated as well ... NOT .. felt very challenged when I first attempted the Zumba WII, but after trying it this week I was actually doing pretty good and oh man, I was pooched after just doing the 20 min. easy .. I'm afraid of what the advanced will be like :0 Anyway Linda recommended I check out your blog and see your journey .. I enjoyed your posts and will check back. Keep it up, keep moving .. you can do it and so can I. Analia
Thank you Analia. I appreciate the comments. Zumba is very hard. Yes even on easy! I find the days that I do resistance training I cannot do Zumba. Zumba is for cardio days only. And don't worry if you don't have the moves down. I don't either and trust me that you are still getting a very good work out. Congratulations on quitting smoking! It's hard. I know. This July I will have quit 2 packs a day for 8 years now. I don't miss it. Just work on some sort of cardio 30 to 40 minutes every day and that will help you loose. Hope you keep following and keep me up on your progress as well.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Tell Linda hello from me. I'm glad she told you about my blog.
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