Sue's Healthy Lifestyle

Crazy Week

Not sure where this week went but another Friday is here and it is a long weekend here in Canada, with Thanksgiving on Monday. I lost 2lbs this week and managed to get my walks in for all four days. It felt wonderful to walk again and the funny thing is I actually missed the walks, I figured I would even walk in the rain if I had too as long as it wasn’t pouring!

I added my stair climbing in too this week and have made it up to 60 times. Matt, my son, is showing me how to do proper sit ups and leg raises so I can attach my stomach area, I really want to lose the inches there!

Food wise I am trying to stay around 1200 calories and allow myself a bit more on the weekend if I need it. But am trying not to go over. I just made some Chowder with Scallops for dinner and this was very low in calories too. Monday we will have our Turkey and I plan on making lots of veggies, especially red cabbage and will watch the potatoes. I want to make an apple pie and use phyllo dough for the pastry so again this will help with the calories too.

Anyway off for my herbal tea with my husband.

Sue
Crazy Week

Monday Weigh In

It was time for my weekly weigh in and since I got my new scales I am down 8lbs to 230lbs. It was pouring with rain this morning so could not do my walk so made up for it tonight by using my exercise ball and stepper for 30 mins. It feels great once I am done and the ball is so much harder than it seems. I love it for effective sit-ups, I am up to 15 but boy do I feel it the next day! Sometimes I think it would be nice to know what my exact weight was, but then I think I would be mortified, I feel bad enough to be over 200lbs, I never gained that much when I was pregnant!

My husband brought home red wine to go with our home made beef stew tonight. So I counted all my calories, reduced my protein to 2oz and enjoyed one glass with dinner. I am currently keeping to 1200 calories per day, on the weekends I might go to 1300, but this seems to be getting me results with my exercises.

I also started walking up and down my basement stairs. I started at 50 reps and at 1 set on my next work out day, I am leaving one day in between for my muscles to recouperate. Again this takes me less than 10 minutes but the cardio is very effective and 500ml of water goes down with no efforts once I am done. I am currently at 54 reps and recovered much quicker last night, so I all ready see an improvement.

Off for my herbal tea for the evening.

Sue
Monday Weigh In