The Garden Weigh

Yeah, I lapsed

Cynthia — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:31:34 +0000

Xmas season didn’t go as hoped. I lapsed into bad habits big time. I must get back on track. Started this morning with a weigh-in. Not pretty.

247.6 pounds.

And that’s all I got to say about that.

Have eaten a healthy breakfast.

47 push-ups yesterday

Cynthia — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:09:08 +0000

Yesterday I continued plodding on towards my goal of doing 100 counter push-ups at a whack. I’d hoped, after a two day rest break, to be able to do just a little more than my last week’s number, but it didn’t happen.

I did my little 5 minute cardio warm-up (which actually gets me huffing and puffing, it’s not that easy) and then I did push-up sets of 9, 9, 11, 10 and 8 at the kitchen counter and it was a strain.

Eating was well under control, and I actually fixed myself a large salad with a healthy low fat link of sausage in it for dinner. Perhaps I can drop back into good habits more easily than I thought. The funny thing, even doing just a tiny, bare minimum of exercise, I feel better about myself. And it leads to me making better decisions. So even teeny tiny victories or steps of progress contribute to success.

Well here I am

Cynthia — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:25:53 +0000

I’ve actually lost some weight this week, in spite of being mostly inactive except for my pushups and squats and a wee, tiny bit of cardio. I have been keeping my calories in check, between 1700-1800 a day, and that has probably been what has done it. The weather has been cold, with freezing fog and poor visibility, I wasn’t getting out in it at all. And it’s looking like more of the same today.

The rime ice is kind of pretty though.

If anyone is wondering why I suffer from SAD during the winter, it is because of the fog and clouds, there are times when I might not see sun for a couple months, December and January usually being like that. We had a great early December with sunny, clear, cold days, but now it is back to the norm. Which looks like this photo the National Weather Service here posted to their wall on Facebook.

Yeah. You look at that and you understand.

But the bright and shiny bit is that I have lost 2.2 pounds this week. I am telling myself every day that I can do this. January 1, 2012 will look better, not worse in terms of health and fitness. I will be a little bit thinner and a little bit stronger.

Stressful Wednesday!

Cynthia — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:04:07 +0000

Woke up to find that a dog had run all over our fresh green concrete, leaving tracks and skid marks. Fortunately the contractor was able to come out right away and they managed to smooth most of them down, though one set required heating up the concrete. I hope all will be OK. Our contractor says we will hardly notice a thing or may not even be able to see anything when the concrete is dry. I just hope he is correct about that, because it was really upsetting to see this happen, considering how much all this work is costing!

People who let dogs run lose are irresponsible idiots. It’s dangerous to the dogs, dangerous for drivers who have to avoid them on the street, dangerous for walkers and cyclists, dangerous for kids and potentially destructive of others property. There, had to get that off my chest!

I wanted to stress eat REALLY BADLY on Wednesday and didn’t. A small victory. And although I didn’t do it until late in the day, I did do my counter pushups, all 41 of them. When I get to 100, I’ll try kneeling pushups again.

I’m doing better now. They covered the drying concrete and I can’t see the spots that had to be re-worked and I therefore feel happier. I did my Thursday squats, 28 of them, and I’m going to work up to 100 on those. My legs feel like jelly, even a couple hours later. And now that I’m writing this on the late side, my legs are STILL REAL SORE and it’s Saturday. Clearly, I need to work on this! It was 4 sets, bodyweight only, 6 6 10 and 6.

So far, food has been under control all week. And my weight took a small plunge downward which was cheering, though it may have been dehydration more than anything. I hardly drank on Wednesday, I just felt sick over the messed up concrete. Rectifying that!

So I told

Cynthia — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:15:18 +0000

Just not in a post. But I got brave this morning and updated my weight on the sidebar.

I’ve also remembered why I stopped using my Bodymedia Fit. I just hate the feel of it on my arm. I like the interface and I think it’s a good tool, but I’m not sure that I will continue using it. Yesterday, after only having it on for a couple hours, I just ripped it off my arm when it started to bug me. I’m beginning to think something like a Fitbit might be more my speed.

I put a Fitbit on my Christmas list, but I don’t expect to actually get it, since I want a portable GPS unit for my car a lot more. The older I get, the harder it is to read the tiny text on maps.

While I was at it, I changed the wording on the old Nook Diet page to be the e-Reader diet. Not as catchy sounding, but I’m giving my Nook to a nephew, and am using Sony readers currently. Still love the e-reading experience, but I might have to re-think on rewards and incorporate some other ones as well, since I have managed to replace a lot of my paper books with ebooks.

Anyway, time to get up, move around, get some stuff done. Less time at the computer is sorely needed!

Long time no blog …

Cynthia — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:33:39 +0000

And yes, I’ve gained weight. Again. And I’m feeling it, I’m not liking it, and I’m starting back on a better path. Today. Charging up the Bodymedia Fit and we’ll see how it goes. The bad part is that I am kind of stuck at home most of the day right now, we are having our front porch and walkways and steps all redone out front, so I need to stick tight in case the workmen or the contractor needs me for any decision making. There’s been a lot of that, and it’s all a bit stressful, but I think we will like the end results and our walkways and porch will be safer, with handrails, finally. One thing good, access in and out of the house right now is through the garage only, so I’m getting more movement up and down the basement steps. My knee is complaining a bit about it though.

This morning, I did a short 5 minute round of basic cardio, walking in place, side to side, knee-ups, I tried mountain climbers, which didn’t go all that well, but I did some. Most of the cardio I had to fudge, because some of it required hops and jumping, which I can’t really do, but I got out of breath, so it was something.

For weight training, I did counter pushups, seems I haven’t totally lost strength there. I started a 100 pushups style program, will see how that goes. Next pushups happen Wednesday.

I’ve had a bowl of Kashi GoLean cereal, plus milk, almost a cup of blueberries, 7g walnuts, 15g protein powder and some greens powder so far today and that is keeping me feeling relatively full. Drinking a pot of mint green tea as well.

Oh, my weight. Yeah, I knew you’d want to hear about that. I’m not sure I feel like telling at the moment. I’m not even sure I want to blog again, but then again, maybe it is better that I do. But I’m not promising anything about that. I definitely have to take this one day at a time.

Argh! My June 18th race was cancelled!

Cynthia — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:44:25 +0000

I was just over at the site for the East Oregonian River Run, figuring it was about time to send in my registration, when I saw that they are no longer having the 1 mile walk race event. There is only a 5K and 15K run now. I was really looking forward to that, sigh. I had been looking forward to it since October, when I found the old site and realized that they normally had a 1 mile walk event. The change in events was made fairly recently, because I had seen the one mile event listed earlier this spring.

All is not lost… there is a one mile walk race event on July 9th at the Caledonian Games in Athena. Maybe I can even talk hubby into coming, though getting him up that early would be a challenge! The games are fun… so I think the energy would be great at this race. I DON’T think I’ll be signing up for the caber toss, however!