Weight- 211.5
Exercise- 25 minute biggest loser weight training/20 minute stretching
Calories-670 so far
Today is the first day i have done the weight training part of the biggest loser exercise video. I am not sure how to explain it. Each individual move felt like it kicked my butt. I felt like each one was harder than anything I had ever done before. Then I got to the end of it and as a whole video I felt like "thats it?" It felt like there shoudl have been another 10-15 minutes. Of course each exercise has easier and harder modifications and maybe this is a sign that I should have been doing the harder modifications. I did the 20 minute aerobic workout on this same video friday and when it was over i felt like melting into a little pool of jello! That one I felt. The weight training portion I just felt like it wasn;t quite enough.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Starting Off on the Wrong Foot
Weight- 212
Exercise- 20 minute Biggest Loser cardio
Calories-270 and it's only 6 am
Total Calories for the day-1590
I love Mountain Dew. Adore it even. I "quit" drinking it 5 months ago. I put the quit in quotations because I have done anything but. Oh, I have definitely slowed down my intake. But if i have a rough morning I grab one. If I go to the movies I get one. If I get pulled over and am late to work(like I was this morning) I say that I deserve it, I've had a rough time. And my mind might deserve that little pick me up. My body doesn't. I am sitting here with an empty Dew bottle in front of me and realize that I just used 270 calories to drink sugar. It did make me feel better, that sweet nectar of the Gods running down my throat, but I am going to be mad at myself tonight when I make myself do an extra 20 minutes of cardio for drinking it.
Last night my friend Marie and I were trying to exercise and it seemed that fate was telling us we were just supposed to crash on the couches, watch tv, and pig out. I got the Biggest Loser workout in the mail yesterday so we were going to try it. It is nice to do something different sometimes. But the remote control for her DVD player stopped working. Because of the way the DVD is set up, we couldn't just hit play either because all we could watch were the interviews. She had a universal remote so we looked up the codes for her DVD player and tried to get the codes to work on it, but her remote would only accept three digits, and some of the codes had 4 digits. We never did get it to work.
So then we decided to go with a goodie but oldie. We love the Susan Powter Move it or Lose it tape so we decided to get out the steppers and go that route. The tape wouldn't play in the VCR. It just kept showing a bunch of static, and then it would show the intro like it was going to play but it was just a tease. At this point I would have given up, but I have to admire her tenacity. Her mom used to be an aerobics instructor so marie had an old audiotape made in the seventies that she knew all the exercise moves too. So we decided to go a little old school and do the cassette tape route. Her machine ate the tape! She did wind it back up and eventually we got to do the exercise, but it took up more time trying to find a way to exercise than we actually got to spend exercising!
But let me tell you, you have never truly exercised until you have done the country hop or cooled down to Olivia Newton John singing Hopelessly Devoted to You.
Exercise- 20 minute Biggest Loser cardio
Calories-270 and it's only 6 am
Total Calories for the day-1590
I love Mountain Dew. Adore it even. I "quit" drinking it 5 months ago. I put the quit in quotations because I have done anything but. Oh, I have definitely slowed down my intake. But if i have a rough morning I grab one. If I go to the movies I get one. If I get pulled over and am late to work(like I was this morning) I say that I deserve it, I've had a rough time. And my mind might deserve that little pick me up. My body doesn't. I am sitting here with an empty Dew bottle in front of me and realize that I just used 270 calories to drink sugar. It did make me feel better, that sweet nectar of the Gods running down my throat, but I am going to be mad at myself tonight when I make myself do an extra 20 minutes of cardio for drinking it.
Last night my friend Marie and I were trying to exercise and it seemed that fate was telling us we were just supposed to crash on the couches, watch tv, and pig out. I got the Biggest Loser workout in the mail yesterday so we were going to try it. It is nice to do something different sometimes. But the remote control for her DVD player stopped working. Because of the way the DVD is set up, we couldn't just hit play either because all we could watch were the interviews. She had a universal remote so we looked up the codes for her DVD player and tried to get the codes to work on it, but her remote would only accept three digits, and some of the codes had 4 digits. We never did get it to work.
So then we decided to go with a goodie but oldie. We love the Susan Powter Move it or Lose it tape so we decided to get out the steppers and go that route. The tape wouldn't play in the VCR. It just kept showing a bunch of static, and then it would show the intro like it was going to play but it was just a tease. At this point I would have given up, but I have to admire her tenacity. Her mom used to be an aerobics instructor so marie had an old audiotape made in the seventies that she knew all the exercise moves too. So we decided to go a little old school and do the cassette tape route. Her machine ate the tape! She did wind it back up and eventually we got to do the exercise, but it took up more time trying to find a way to exercise than we actually got to spend exercising!
But let me tell you, you have never truly exercised until you have done the country hop or cooled down to Olivia Newton John singing Hopelessly Devoted to You.
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