February 3rd, 2010
Sue
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Walking Around the Block
Today was not so cold out so after doing a good round of situps and pushups, off my stairs. Thank hubby for the good advice here. Makes it easier than trying to do them on my knees or full blown version, yet!
I braved the Canadian winter and took Skyla around the block. She is a really strong lab and loves to pull, so I had to devise a way so that she was not pulling me over in the snow. I ended up putting her leash across my shoulder blades so if she pulled I used my arm as a lever and shortened the leash. It was a tough hour and hard going but we made it around the 4.5 km back home for a nice bowl of Butternut squash and sweet potato soup.
Not sure who is going to be more sore, my shoulders or Skyla! Skyla is three now and if I don’t conquer her pulling when we walk it will be impossbile to do so in the future.
I am feeling really good right now and my stomach muscles are sore so that must be a good sign.
Calories burned for 60 minutes of walking with the dog 332.
Sue
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January 29th, 2010
Sue
photo credit: C-Ali Off To The Races!
Well I finally got back on track and am raring to go again. A lot of self talk and telling myself not to get disappointed about life. Things normally happen for a reason and my reason will become clearer as the days pass by.
My next goal is to lose 25 pounds. I started back with the 30 day shred again and this time went to level two. There is actually less jumping involved but it is very tough. I was sweating like crazy by the time I was finished and boy could I feel my arm and stomach muscles.
Now that I am not doing my course anymore I miss my walks. I had every intention of starting them up and taking Skyla for a walk around the block, about 4miles. I was just getting dressed to go yesterday morning when a snow squall came in with high, high winds. So needless to say we stayed inside. The storm raged all day here!
I spent some time looking through some cookbooks and picked a few recipes to try out that sound good and are low in fat and healthy. I am pretty much cooking for only the two of us right now, so I have to remember to make less. Especially when it comes to the potatoes! Unfortunately I do love my roasted and oven baked potato wedgies.
You can find part of the reason of how I got more motivated over at my other blog, Whoissuefleckenstein, take a peek and feel free to leave comments.
Sue
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January 18th, 2010
Sue
Motivation
Well I am going to be frankly honest and I seem to have lost my motivation right now. I was doing so well and I started back exercising after the holidays but today I missed my work out and feel bad about it. Not sure what is going on. I know that I have finished my business course and walking to class was how I got my walk in every day. I really miss that and taking the dogs out in the snow around my yard is not the same either. I miss the friends that I made and staying home for the last week has not been exciting. My job search has not resulted in anything positive either so maybe all these factors contribute to me just feeling blah! right now!
I know I can not keep this up or the pounds will creep back on. Someone told me to check out belly dancing, so tomorrow I think I will try and find something on Youtube to look at and try.
Let me know if anyone else is experiencing the winter blahs right now.
Sue
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January 3rd, 2010
Sue
Happy New Year
Well the New Year finally came and went and it is time to get back on track with life in general. I weighed myself this morning and only gained 1 pound over the holidays so I am very glad about that. I now have to get back on track with exercise, I have rested my foot so will see how it goes when I start up tomorrow.
I love the saying: It is not what you do between Christmas and New Year’s, it’s what you do between New Year’s and Christmas that counts!
It is very true a few days of extras is not going to hurt it’s when those few days turn into weeks and then months.
So for myself for getting back on track I purchased some digital food scales so I can really track what I eat, plus I opend a free account over at myfitnesspal so it will make it really easy to track my food, exercise and water intake. Plus meet others who are trying to lose weight and maybe get inspired, hey or even inspire someone myself!
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Why don’t you get your own tracker and join me in losing weight and making your own lifestyle more healthy?
Sue
Happy New Year
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December 8th, 2009
Sue
Tuesday/Weigh-In
Weighed myself in this morning and am down another 2lbs. It must be all the stacking and moving firewood and cleaning my walls in preparation for painting! Any exercise is good as long as you move. This week I have managed to walk 9kms so far, even though my foot is still sore, it seems to get better as it warms up and gets worked in.
Found some easy ways to burn calories:
For a 150-pound person, doing these exercises will burn about 150 calories.
Walking 1.5 km at a pace of 15 to 20 minutes per km
Swimming laps for 20 minutes
Bicycling for 30 minutes
Running 1.5 km at a pace of 10 minutes per km
Climbing stairs for 15 minutes
Raking leaves for 30 minutes
Playing basketball for 15 to 30 minutes
Playing volleyball for 45 to 60 minutes
Gardening for 30 to 45 minutes
Jumping rope for 15 minutes
Dancing for 30 minutes
Plus for those of us living in a snowy climate we can add snow shovelling to that list.
The more intense you work out, it will take less time to burn the calories, or the more calories you will burn in the same amount of time! Pick one and try it out today!
Sue
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