Lost half a pound of lard this week........really busting my butt with the work outs at the gym........up to 1 to 2 hours of cardio then 3 times a week add the weights........maybe it's the age factor????? I turn 57 on the 15th and I really wanted 10 more pounds off by then...oh well..............at least an 80 year old man came up to me (as the sweat is dripping off my red face) and tells me that he's been watching me work out and I was doing real good..............WTF............so I said thank you and continued with my sweating..........I'll leave it at that.............
is getting closer! I have planned the Valentine dinner on recipes from Dorie Greenspan and Sarabeth...along with a food blogger. Click on their names to go to the sites. I have both (actually all of Dorie's cookbooks) and just got Sarabeth's ........wonderful...wonderful!!!! I am making crab bisque from the food blogger site.......she had as shrimp.....I will kick up the spice level a tad and add crab........... Hope to add pictures next week of the event. The dawling better enjoy.........the next day on to my holiday!
The roses were brought to me at work Saturday by the dawling.......he loves me..........or the guilt from wrongdoing is killing him.........................Off to burn 500 calories of lard......................................................
Went to my weigh in...... got on the cattle scales, and the damn thing did not move.......no gain.......no loss.....sigh................................. BUT, I have dropped another size...so am losing inches. Went to my PCP the other day and her scales had me down 2 pounds.......another sigh...........she told me I am concentrating too much on the scales........yeah...yeah.......I just want to lose 3 more pounds by the end of February........that's all just 3!! So, onward I trudge....The big Birthday for 57 years is looming close.......funny.......you look in the mirror and you think.......what the hell happened to you? Looks like ya got OLD.......although you still feel like 20 something. At work the other day a nurse thought I was in my late 40's.........I gave her a quarter.
See that Golden on the floor in our kitchen...yeah, that one......she turns 15 years old in April...........we let her do whatever she wants...one of my son's said that she has retired from being a dog......(still continent, which is a very good thing, just gets confused.......but so do I).
The picture was taken around 2pm, on our deck........it is now 10:30 pm and yours truly just dug out 3 cars in the driveway. Child #3 could not help with his "bad" arm..........close eyes if picture too graphic.........child #1 shoveled the deck and walkway....the dawling is down south enjoying his 60 degree weather and got to ride a Segway...yep, made sure he put a helmet on...he fell on his butt when he was getting off, that's my dawling.......(you know he doesn't know how to ride a bike, I tried to teach him once, but he needed a bike with very large training wheels).............back to the snow.....shoveling driveway...hell it burns calories...........so I became one with the shovel...........we got about 8 inches total....I was hoping for a blizzard..........sigh...........my brain is disjointed in this post....but somewhat interesting ? No???????
I get up early...it's weigh in day.....I missed last Wednesday ......working.....go do my workout thing....burn at least 400 calories....I've become very OCD about that......go to WW and SURPRISE....they were closed due to the weather......Now...picture this...try to anyway....sweaty, fat person in shorts and Tee shirt.....(it's what I weigh in people) freezing her behind off thinking the stupid door is stuck.....but NO! Big sign closed due to weather.......I didn't see it.......cause I was too busy shaking............BLAST! Now I wait another week and hope I haven't gained!
Well.....I will be working most of Wednesday...so, no weigh in this week......and no, I can't do it Thursday, or Friday, or Saturday, or Sunday.....working....cause I love my job.......soooooooo much.......but really love the dollars more.............
Today I did the Sumba hell, again..Maybe I should just blurt out I am a disoriented, uncoordinated, pathetic, reject 70's dancer? I'm telling you....it's sad watching me.......one poor person nearly choked on her water...I gave up and started doing the monkey, then the swim.....remember those???????? At least I had a sweat going.........
I always do the elliptical (it depends on my mood as to which torture machine I choose) either before weights or after......I can see the calories burning off (note it has a calorie thing in the corner)....which helps the brain go when the body says STOP! Now for extra credit.... every morning I do the weight crunch thing for the gut.....cause this fat waddle person wants the gut gone! (Please note when working out DO NOT let young, lithe ladies get beside you...you tend to look at their levels and barf)
My dawling just got back from taking our child #4 to college and guess what that "son of a gun" brought back to me? Oh yeah baby.....chocolate covered NY biscotti.......I have begged my #2 to eat them all within the next 24 hours.........
Maybe it's a good thing...I will be hitting the scales next Wednesday...the 26th........and I will get that dawling back.......
Started my gym membership in earnest this Monday...ww weigh in was today, Wednesday....... weight loss was one pound...two pounds more to go then can erase the blasted weight gain from the holidays.... and go from there! I am doing the weight lifting thing 3 times per week with the aerobic 5 times per week. I did the Zumba thing yesterday...I knew the instructor...she put the bells on "me" ass......I was very uh.....laughable......and most ridiculous looking........and not coordinating with my body parts.........lets blame that on brain neurons not firing.........tomorrow it will be either yoga for the dumb or the Zumba nightmare again.........at least the elliptical machines can't make me look too inept.........stay toned.......or tuned.........whichever........
