Daily Maintenance Weigh In - Saturday 9/22

122.0
The good life!
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!
It really does feel better to be light on the feet.

134.5 this morning.

When I decided to have surgery, I made a list of all the reasons I wanted to do it. "Be strong" and "Be flexible" were at the top but #3 was "Have energy." Exercise gets me all three.

122.5-ish  (means it wiggles between 122.5 and 123). doing fine and exercising but don't like that extra pound. too much peanut butter.     diane

183

 

It used to be that mowing my yard counted as major exercise.  Now it doesn't even get my heart rate into the training zone.  I only burned 240 calories mowing the yard just now.  

It is funny how being able to do things now changes our personalities.  I get frustrated and feel deprived when I can't run like this past week.

I'm doing an arbor walk with DH tomorrow.  It turns out that the people coming to see the house didn't get here until 1.  So we wound up being house tied all morning - WAAAH.  I'm gonna bake some bread tonight (DH wants Pain Perdu for breakfast) so that it'll be properly stale for the morning then go for a walk.

The scones I baked for staging the house went over well.  Two people today told us that we should go into catering.  Thankfully we were able to give the rest away!  I had one - they had to go!  If they hadn't I'd probably have had another one.  

167.8 today.  Grrrrrr!  I am going to have to find some sort of exercise that my body and mind with all their problems will allow.  I live with chronic pain in most of my upper body due to 3 bulging discs in my neck as well as a botched shoulder surgery.  I am on a lot of pain medication which makes me tired and sluggish.  I wish I could say that my weight loss has given me a ton more energy, but I can't. 

The only thing I know for sure is that I can walk.  Unfortunately, we live in the country and our road is not safe to walk on.  I use the treadmill on occasion, but I really don't like it.  Its like going nowhere fast!  I thought of trying an elliptical.  Do you think that doing my workouts on an elliptical would be a little more interesting than walking on a treadmill?

I LOVE the elliptical, but if you think the treadmill is like going nowhere fast, I'm guessing you'll think the same thing of the elliptical. Once I have my heart rate up and running (between 130 and 138) I use the time on the elliptical or treadmill as "thinking time". I don't zone out listening to music or watching TV - I think. I plan meals, I create to-do lists, I plan lessons, consider the news I've heard that day, etc....
For me, the cardio portion of my workout is  "me" time. I've come to rely on that 30 or 60 minutes each weekday to unwind and regroup.