KissmeKate

We decided to switch gyms and they have the Bodypump class.  I’m really worried about going to it, if I’ll be able to do it and just what it’s like.  Anybody have any experience?

Well, I hit two of my three goals yesterday.  I did walk after dinner, 1/2 mile with the hubby.  I also upped the intensity at aerobics.  Wednesdays are hard days anyway, and I felt great when I was done.  I also rode on the exercise bike for 20 mins or 4.7 miles.  So, in all I did about an hour and a half of exercise yesterday.  I ate close to 2200 calories, but for the amount of activity I think it was balanced out.  The goal I did not meet was only one serving of spaggetti. 

Today’s goals are:

1.  Do my first swim workout after aerobics tonight.

2.  Do 50 crunches tonight on commercial breaks of my favorite tv shows.

3.  Simplify my living room and get ready to sell stuff on Ebay (not really weight loss related, but something I’m trying to get accomplished.)

4.  Get to bed by 11.  I need to get up early and run tommorrow because we’ll be traveling in the evening to a wedding for the weekend.  I’ll be going to aerobics there on Saturday morning and I’ll be running on Sunday morning.  But if I miss getting some sort of exercise in a day, I’m not going to lie…I become a total b***h.  Exercising helps me control my emotions and keep my life in perspective.  It allows me a degree of control that I don’t feel when I don’t workout.  I guess it just balances me.

I’ve decided I need something to strive for exercise-wise.  I am thinking about training for a sprint triathlon.  They are usually a 400-500 yd swim, 9-15 mile bike ride, and 3.1 mile run.  I know I can do the swim pretty easily, the run will be a challenge and the bike will be a major challenge.  But I have plenty of time to get into it.  There is only one problem.

My husband and I do aerobics together every day for 45 mins.  I love doing it with him, but we both have felt like it’s not enough for us.  Anyway, I want to continue doing this with him everyday, and then get my training in at the gym (the swimming and biking portions, running I can do at home) right afterwards.  The problem is, we only  have one car so he would have to stay and wait.  I think I may ask him to either join me or to be my personal coach.  I’m going to talk to him about it this afternoon.

My husband works nights, so when he gets up at like 4pm he eats a little something, we go work out, and then we come back and make my dinner/his breakfast.  By the time we’re done working out he’s literally starving to death.  I jsut can’t get him to eat anything more beforehand and I’m afraid he’ll be pissy if I want to stay afterwards and train.

Ok, totally rambling. 

I’m going to be honest, I didn’t achieve one of my goals yesterday.  Totally my fault, and I’ll do better today.  I lost .2 lbs yesterday though.  We didn’t do step class, but I did work hard at our aerobics class.  I didn’t have a chance to limit my spagetti b/c we had panera bread.  I had 1/2 chicken salad sandwhich (340 cal), 1/2 garden salad (90 cal) and 1/2 a cookie (205 cal) which put me right at 2000 cals for the day.  According to my scale, I need 2003 to maintain and I worked out for 45 mins yesterday.  The one thing I didn’t do that I should have was I didn’t walk after dinner.  But I’ll do better tonight.

My three goals for today:

1.  Only have one cup helping of spagetti tonight. (we MUST eat in tonight…we are getting so bad)

2.  Walk after dinner

3.  Up my intensity in aerobics tonight.

And I’ll report in tommorrow how I did.  I’ve been stuck at 60 pounds lost for almost the entire summer.  It’s time to get going again.  I have given up smoking during that time, so that’s an excuse I use.  But I need to either step up my exercise or cut down on my calories.  Anyway, three goals for today:

1.  Only have one helping of spagetti for supper tonight (1 cup). 

2.  Walk for 30 mins after dinner.  This is in addition to my regular 1 hour workout before dinner.

3.  Try step class with my husband tonight.  I’ve been before and I like it, but he’s nervous about it and I’m nervous for him.  I don’t want him to be embarassed if he can’t get the steps right.  He can be sensitive and I can be overly protective.  But I want him to try it, since we’re sort of burnt out on our regular workouts.

Kate

I haven’t been on a while, but I have been reading other’s blogs pretty much everyday.  I’m down to 259, which is right at 60 pounds lost.  The past two months have really been hard.  I find when I’m not in control, I get frusterated and eat whatever is available.  We have been on vacation with my parents and then have stayed with my parents for about half of the last 8 weekends, and there I don’t work out or eat my normal food.  But I have about a month straight of just being home on weekends, so I’m hoping to take full advantage of it.

I gave up smoking once and for all this weekend.  As of right now, I’ve gone 38 hours without one, which is a minor miracle and not something I’ve done for about 3 years.  So I’m pretty excited about that too.

My upper thighs are really sore from last night.  I am having a really hard time walking and lifting my legs, though they feel fine when I sit.  I’m debating about going to Aerobics tonight.  What do you guys think?

First of all, thanks for the comments yesterday.  I’m really trying to have a good attitude about trying new things.  We’ll see how it goes.

Yesterday, the hubby and i went to the gym but it closed in like 30 mins so I didn’t get a very good workout in.  After i cooked some dinner, I decided to try out a thing that the local amusement water park offers.  Basically, they shut down at 7pm and then the adults can pay 3 bucks to water walk in the lazy river pool (the one that goes round and round that you usually float in a tube on).  Well I met another younger couple who had never been their either and we kind of started going together.  Most of the older adults walked with the flow of the water but we started off walking against it.  Let me tell you, a LOT harder than it looks.  We had to hold hands for the first few meters and even then, the girl  had to stop and go the other way.

So after about 3 laps against the flow and 3 laps with the flow the guy and I decided to try one more lap against the flow.  He was behind me, and I have this Irish competitive streak in me, and would not stop untill he stopped.  Well, we got our lap in and were both panting and he goes “I refused to stop till you stopped”.  LOL  we laughed about that for a while.

Anyway, my groin/top of my thighs were killing when i got out and now this morning I literally didn’t think I could get out of bed.  I’m not sure if I could tell the difference from just being sore or from actually pulling my muscles.  I hope I didn’t pull anything.

On top of that, I woke up and started my period and my first day is always TERRIBLE.  I have had the worst cramps this morning and almost went home from work.  I took some Tylenol and have been feeling better, but I’m trying to not move for fear they’ll come back.

Have a good day everyone!

I got over the 50 lb mark last week which was really exciting.  I’m officially as small as I can ever remember being. 

Unfortunatley my accomplishment has been completely overshadowed by dissappointment.  As I’ve mentioned before, my hubby and I do an aqua aerobics class every day at our local gym.  It is the only exercise I have ever really loved (hate sweating, love the pool, etc.) and the only exercise my hubby has ever gotten into.  It is extrememly difficult for me to have any motivation whatsoever to exercise without this class.  In short, it has been life changing.

 Well, since last Tuesday the pool has been closed due to a mechanical failure and they don’t know when it will be back up.  I never ever thought I would be so depressed about not being able to work out.  It has been extremely frusterating, exaserbated by the fact that the gym people are not forthcoming about information (like when it will be back up).  The hubby has no exercised in a week.  I went to another pool and tried a different aquacise class (didn’t like it and it was a one time free thing, I’d have to pay for another gym membership to go again) and I also went to a regular aerobics class (I had been before and I like it, but it’s only offered Tues/Thurs) and I worked out on my own on Friday (30 mins on the bike, 10 running, 20 lifting weights).  Even though all 3 of those are probably even better workouts than the aqua aerobics, I didn’t walk away from any of them pumped up.  I guess I just have some kind of mental block and I’ve been really depressed.  I didn’t gain any weight this week without that exercise, but I only maintained.  It’s like I mentally have put the losing weight on hold till the pool is fixed.  I called the pool this morning and they said they still don’t know when it will be done.  I know I’m being whiney.  I just don’t feel like myself.

My husband works the night shift, 11PM to 7AM.  It ends up working out fine for us for the most part.  We see each other as much as any couple would, we just both are sleeping when the other is at work. 

The main problem I’m having is with his nutrition.  Normally, he wakes up around 3pm, we work out at 5pm (when I get home from work) and then come home and make dinner.  Before we work out, he’ll grab a bannana or something light.  Then, before he goes to work I make him a healthy meal for work (usually a ham sandwhich, pickles, and pretzels).  When he gets home in the morning he insists on having 2 peanut butter sandwiches before he goes to bed.  We work out the same amount (always together in our classes) and I make sure he takes his vitamins and such.  But he isn’t losing the weight that I’m losing.  He claims he wants to and I talked with him this morning about keeping a food journal for a few days.  He doesn’t like stuff like this (he can be lazy when he wants to-as most men can).  His job consists of very little movement, as he works at a desk in an office.

Anyway, I’m just at a loss of how to help him.  I don’t want to nag him but I also know that he is very overweight and needs some kind of motivation.  I know he’ll be happier without the weight, but I can’t lose it for him.  Our sex life is great, but at times he lacks the stamina for all-out sessions.  I know this bothers him, but I just can’t seem to muster up the motivation for him to take this seriously.

Anyone out there had a similar experience with a spouse?  Or any advice for a “night-shift widow”?