Day 4!!

Day 4 of 7 in my Post-Thanksgiving Marathon!

Workout... Great!
Food... Great!

Waking up at 4:30 for AM Power Hour is NEVER easy!! But having the day off and knowing I could nap it out afterwards, I got up and went for Power Hour with Maggie (MISSED HER)!! It was all strength and Oh boy.. my wings hurt afterwards!!! (We refer to our chest/shoulders/biceps/triceps as our wings!!)

After a good long nap and a relaxing day... I hit up the gym for some training with Travis.. We ended our training with some crazy set on the rowing machine!!! Unfortunately, out time went way over for training, and I missed most of Turbo Kick, so decided to skip the rest of it and head to Hy-vee to get some awesome food for the rest of the week!! Luckily I was only 100 calories off of my goal calorie burn for the day! So it's all good!

Tomorrow, after morning training, I'm gonna try to play around with food and see what I come up with!! Definitely needing some new foods to keep me interested in the good stuff!!

Sooo half way thru the Post-Thanksgiving Marathon week and things are looking great! A couple more days of training and workouts, then Saturday (day 7) I've got the Jingle Bell Run!! My second 5K!! I can't wait! It's going to be FREEEZING and more than likely snowing... but it's going to be a great run with Team Postreven!!

Day 3!!

Day 3 of 7 in my Post-Thanksgiving Marathon!!!

Workout... AWESOME!!!
Food... Not so great!

Wasn't really feeling it in the morning, but still got in 5 miles on the bike, 2 miles on the elliptical, and 1 1/2 walking the track!! When I don't have a training session or Power Hour/Turbo Kick (On Saturday mornings), I really just use the morning time to get moving.. If it wasn't for that, I'd be chilling at TJ's house not burning many calories!!

Night time is really where its at! Power Hour with James tonight was a great workout... Not much cardio.. but loads of strength!! It feels like we've been doing tons of cardio all the time! It was kinda nice to take a break and work on some strength training, even tho my muscles are sore now! Then I got my sweat on in Turbo Kick!!

Overall, I will have burned over 4500 calories for the day..I won't know the exact number til midnight! And that just wont happen tonight, cause I've got Power Hour in the morning! You know you spend a lot of time at the gym when one of the trainers complains that she hasn't seen you lately! (Because she hasn't been there).. So I promised Maggie I would make it to the morning Power Hour... Its sooo early!

With the next 8 days off, I'm going to work on my food intake! Lots to do with that! Going to try ANYTHING that will help me eat healthy, but not take a ton of time to prep... cause if I leave anything to the morning, I usually end up running out of time before I have to leave for work!!

Here's to making Day 4 better!!

Day 2!!

Day 2 of my Post-Thanksgiving Marathon is in the books!!!

Power Hour in the morning focused mainly on strength by using the resistance bands and LOTS of push ups!! Oh.. and would it even be a PH with Dorian if we didn't do flutter kicks?!?

Finished up my workout day with some ass kicking Travis style! OMG... I know I say this all the time, but he might have tried to kill us today! Between running, jumping rope, and lifting weights, it was a killer workout! I thought at one point my chest muscles were just going to rip off my body!!

Today was my official weigh in day and I was DOWN 2 pounds from last week!! FINALLY.. Got thru a holiday without gaining weight! Watch out! Of course, Thanksgiving dinner wasn't nearly as good while I was eating just turkey and cous cous... but being closer to my goal weight feels so much better than Cheesy potatoes and green bean casserole taste!

Day 3 is coming up fast! On the workout itinerary is AM - Various Cardio.. and PM - Power Hour and Turbo Kick!! Let's see how many calories I can burn tomorrow!!!

Post-Thanksgiving Marathon!

So its the week after Thanksgiving! Now, I didn't splurge, but it does mean that there are only 5 more weeks till the end of 2010! So I've decided to institute a Post-Thanksgiving Marathon... But not in the 26.2 mile sense.. More like an event with greater than normal, length or duration or requiring exceptional endurance (Yeah, that's the definition out the dictionary)

The plan is between Trainings, Power Hour, and Turbo Kick, I'll have something to do at the gym everyday this week! (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday... I'll have multiple things to do!) I've got my meals planned out, so I have no option to eat crap! And I'm making a commitment to get at least 7 hours of sleep every night!

This is the week that I've been needing for a while! Burning some crazy calories, eating the best foods for my body, and relaxing enough so I don't get hurt!!

Started out this week with a CRAZY workout with Travis today... I was sweating like.. Uhhh.. Ummm... A really sweaty person?!? Let's just say it was a great workout!! I burned 780 calories in the hour I was with him!!

And even tho I said I wouldn't be going to Power Hour tomorrow morning at 5:45am... I think I will!! That will give me two awesome calorie burning workouts on Monday too!! YAY!

Thankful!

This Thanksgiving I have a lot to be thankful for, especially in my weight loss journey! Here are just a few of the many thank yous!!!

To my AMAZING trainers!
You push me farther than I ever thought I could go and you believe in me more than I believe in myself sometimes. To my current trainers: Travis, Dorian and James.. and to my past trainers: Kendel, Amanda, Ryan, Amber and Maggie!
THANK YOU!

To my Gymmies!
You guys make me look forward to going to the gym everyday! If people realized how much fun we had, working out would be a lot more popular! To the crazy old people in the mornings, my Biggest Loser girls, my Power Hour crew and my Turbo Kick family!
THANK YOU!

To all my friends!
You support and encourage me all the time and I'm very grateful! I love all the e-mails, messages and texts I get to tell me how proud I am making you. I hope I can continue to make you proud!

THANK YOU


THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
For everything you do for me! I love you all!

Opening up!

Sorry guys..

I seem to have slacked a bit on the "writing a new blog every day in November"... But I haven't slacked elsewhere!! I'm still losing weight!! YAY!! Up to 136lbs down... (That would be 314)

Its funny to me how open I am about this stuff!! Before, I would have NEVER told me weight, or my measurements, or my clothing size to ANYONE!! Heck, I didn't tell my size to my best friend for a VERY long time!

But now that its constantly changing for the better, I don't mind it at all!! I proudly tell everyone who asks that I've lost 136lbs so far! I have definitely become more open on lots of stuff...


Now its time to get that up to 150!! I'm getting SO close! I need to get back to a SUPER strict diet! I feel like I'm ALWAYS writing this on here.. but I'll do it for a couple days.. then have an OPPS day... A day where I don't feel like planning anything out, so I just fly by the seat of my pants, and just hope that everything is going ok!

With so much time off in December, I am going to try to come up with a system to put together meals and options to make it easier for myself! Maybe that includes making everything on Sunday and freezing it.. or simple options for fast and easy meal preparation!

Any ideas are more than welcome!!

1/4 Mile!!!

Great Food Day... Great Workout Day!!! GREAT DAY IN GENERAL!

When I started, the track was for walking!
During Biggest Loser, I started jogging the straights, walking the curves.
During Power Hour, I ran a full lap around the track for the first time!!
TODAY, training with Travis, I ran two full laps around the track for the first time!

That's a 1/4 of a mile people!! Soo happy about that one! My head told me I couldn't do it.. Travis told me I HAD to do it! And after I did it, I wondered if I could keep going..

Its a great feeling to accomplish something I never thought would be possible! Next on my radar is to get past these freaking 300's... I don't know when the last time I weighed under 300... All I know is I never want to see a 3 infront of my weight again!

I'll weigh in tomorrow and see how far I've got to go!!