TIRED!

This morning was rough!!!  Both of my boys have always been and are still pretty good sleepers.  They have their nights where they aren't too.  Well this morning was Ryan's!  He woke up at 4am and didn't go back to sleep until almost 6am.  We bounced from his bed to mine and I was one crabby Mommy!!!  I am not good at co-sleeping, I love my space!  So when either one of the boys is in our bed or vice versa, I don't sleep.  So my mind kept racing.  Then I heard Jim getting ready for work, then I heard him leave, had to turn on the fan for white noise...you get the idea.

Pink lines are awake times.

My breakfast the past few days.  Two baked eggs, double fiber english muffin and WW  cheese wedge.

I did not want to go to the gym.  I wanted to take Zack to school and come home and sleep!  Instead, I got my workout clothes on and headed to the gym after drop off.  I started with the elliptical and did 38 min.  I did 5 min (and 50 calories) then tried to pause the machine while I fixed the blinds on the window but it didn't pause so I had to restart my workout.

I couldn't decide what to do next so I did the bike for 20 minutes on the manual setting.

Since I was suffering from lack of sleep I decided to get the Energizer smoothie to see if it would help.  It was pretty darn good but I haven't seen a boost in energy yet.  :/

I was really trying to aim for M-F workouts.  However, I forgot that I have a facial scheduled for tomorrow morning so I'll miss tomorrow.  I am kind of bummed but proud of myself for going 4 days in a row this week!!!  Next week I have a hair appt on Wed so I might do M,T,Th, F.

Now I seriously might try to take a nap!  

Bam!

I made it to the gym for the third day in a row.  Bam!  However, I'm feeling it now!  My legs are sore and I don't want to move!!!

I started out with the elliptical again and did the weight loss work out for 33 min.

I decided to skip the stair machine and opted to run a bit on the treadmill.  My legs were stiff as a board and I didn't have the stamina that I wanted.  I had to repeat to myself that I could do it, I am blessed with legs that work...use them!  I did 25 min with an average pace of 3.6 and I did more walking than running but that's ok.

I then did the krank machine for 10 minutes and seem to be getting the hang of it a bit more.

Now I'm home and want to take a nap!  I'm planning on hitting the gym tomorrow and Friday too.  Then I will for sure be taking Saturday and Sunday off!!

Shark week has arrived and hopefully all this cardio will keep the pounds off this week.

Say what?!

We didn't have anything planned today so I decided to head to the gym again today.  Say what?!?!!?

Love this breakfast, two bananas with PB

I did the weight loss program on the elliptical for 33 minutes.

Then I decided to tackle the stairmaster machine again.  Today I did 14 minutes!  I even side stepped like I have seen others do, it was fun.  It says I did 35 floors but my fitbit doesn't reflect that (hmm?!)  I went at 40 steps/min again because that's what I'm comfortable with right now.  Burning 100 calories in 14 min, not too bad!  I felt every single one.  I was a hot sweaty mess after doing both machines, holy cow!

Like yesterday, I moved on to the krankcycle machine.  I watched some videos online about it and felt more confident when using it today.  I did a total of 10 minutes on it, alternating one arm to both arms.  I then switched it around and kranked backwards.  

It felt great getting to the gym on a day I don't normally go.  I thought of going M-F this week since we don't have any plans.  Wonder if I could do it?!

New machines

I started today's workout with 35 min on the Elliptical doing the intervals again.

I was going to do the bike again but all of them were taken.  So I decided to try the stairmaster machine!  I've been wanting to try it for a while but have been too nervous that I would fall off!  Well, I didn't fall off but I only did 10 min because it kept making a weird clunking noise and felt like it was going to break.  I was not about to have it break while I was on it!!  I did 41 steps/min (I think).  It was slow but I definitely got a work out, phew!  It said I only burned 91.5 calories but it felt like a lot more!!!

Since I didn't get a very long workout in and my arms were feeling a little neglected, I decided to try krankcycle machine.  I thought this one was similar to the one I used to do at PT but this is much different.  I did 8 min on it and my arms felt like jello!  I kinda liked it!

Preoccupied

Batman came to the gym with me

I started with the elliptical and killed all 35 minutes of my workout.  I kept my SPM up over 130 almost the entire time and even saw 150 a few times!  I was preoccupied and when I was finished I forgot to look at my distance so I have no idea how far I went.  Grr

I got on the bike and did 25 more min.  I don't know if I sweat more today or if you could just see it more because I was in a lighter color shirt.  It felt good though and now I'm all set to go out for date night and meet friends for beers.  We're trying out a new brewery in town and we're pretty stoked.  Happy Friday!

I make pillow case dresses and this lady is making a killing off of them because she went on Shark Tank.  Why didn't I think of that?!

Dilemma...

So, I weighed myself this afternoon after lunch and weighed in at 234.2 lbs.  Originally when I weighed this morning that's the number I saw.  Then I weighed myself several more times and saw the 235.2, yes I have a problem with weighing myself over and over to make sure I have the right weight.  So I was thrown off when I saw the 234.2 again.  Which one should I go with?!

Weigh in

I stepped on the scale as soon as I woke up, anxious to see if the number went down.  Thankfully it did, 235 (-1.2)  I'll take it!!

Off to the gym this morning then the boys are staying at my parents house for the night.  Jim and I are going on a date night.  He's leaving for Seattle to visit his uncle bright and early on Saturday so before my baby shower I might try to make it to the gym to burn off the beer that I'll be drinking tonight.  ha!