Health & Fitness - 6/29

brandy327 WOW! You go girl! Your transformation is amazing! WTG! Have fun shopping!!! It's one thing I'm looking forward to this fall is getting some nice, new clothes for work. I've been wearing the same stuff for over 5 years now because I HATE clothes shopping with a passion of a thousand burning suns! Hopefully, come fall, I'll have more choices and I'll feel better about clothes shopping.

iamkristinl16 I totally hear ya on the pms. It's killing me this month! Hang in there--it will get better soon.

Just got back from dropping the boys off at CCD classes. Did a 6 a.m. boot camp class that kicked my behind! And I loved every minute of it! Love the people, love the instructor. So great and supportive.

I've decided to hold off on my walk today as I'm card runner again tonight for our swim meet. Between all the chores I have to do and that, I'm sure to get all my steps in. Not to mention when I went to the laundry room to grab the empty water bottles for delivery today I saw PILES and PILES of half dried laundry my boys left. I want to scream! Loads and loads of laundry to do that I hadn't planned and now the stuff I do need to get cleaned will have to wait. I swear it's a good thing they're cute and harming your children is illegal 'cause man!!!!!

Having some breakfast here. I'm seriously getting bored with my food...ugh! I'm having some fresh mozarella cheese over some toast and tomato with a nectarine and coffee. Always coffee!

Ok...off to check on laundry and start cleaning. Ugh!

Have a great day everyone!

I attempted to go out for a run last night, but it didn't go well. I had a limited amount of time, and spent much of it getting ready to run and then getting the dogs fed/pottied before I left. Still had time to get a few miles in, but I just couldn't get myself "into" the run. My knee was still bothering me a little and I did not put on my knee support. It just wasn't a good run, which was unfortunate because it was a beautiful night for a run. Ended up back at home with just under a mile recorded. I didn't even feel like going for a little longer so it would go to a mile.

Funny thing was that my limited time was due to having to go to an informational meeting about the half marathon training group which starts next week. I'm going to have my work cut out for me if I can't even make a mile right now. We have a five mile race coming up on Monday too. It's my first time running in it - it's one of the big ones in town each year. I'm hoping to find one of my running buddies to run with me, because I am not going to be able to complete it on my own.

Tonight I plan to ride my bike and also work my dog in agility. (Side note...did anyone see the border collie on AGT last night??? Amazing dog. Looks a little like my BC.)

Brandy- you look incredible!! You are such an inspiration to me- you have worked so hard and it shows! I was at Kohls last night and bought some dresses there. They were having a sale, so it worked out to be about the same price as the couple of dresses that I bought at Target last week.

Kristin- I hope that pms goes away fast!

Missfrenchjessica- Glad you enjoyed your boot camp class! And you breakfast sounds delicious to me

Patter- Glad you had a good trip!

Brab74- I hope you can find a good running buddy to train with. A half marathon is on my bucket list- I have a local friend who runs them, but I am just not at a point where I can train with her yet. Hopefully by next spring.

Thanks so much for the warm welcome yesterday. It was fun to get on the computer this morning and have notifications. I got out and did my walk this morning, but the stinking gps was all screwed up, so it thinks that I walked 3+ miles in 30 minutes. Not so much!! Dd has a flute lesson this afternoon and ice skating tonight so I will be on the go most of the day. Everyone have a great day!

brandy327 I love seeing your progress pics! You are killing it!!

I don't have a ton to report-- I am on day 10 of Whole30, which is the day that most people cheat, lol. I haven't expected that much out of my work outs since most of my energy has been on my eating but I've been pleasantly surprised at how good I feel. I went to a new Whole Foods Monday for a couple things and had to put my blinders on-- that place is incredible and there is so much prepared food you can stuff in your face! And places to sit while you do it! I got the three things I needed and bolted- which is better for my wallet too!

One unexpected and very minor issue is that I want to get on the scale. They want you to stay off the scale for 30 days and I intend to do my very best to follow the program, but I am curious! Generally I avoid the scale so I figured staying off would be a snap! I'm so complicated... Haha!

Have a great day everyone!!

p.s. I am a horrible abuser of exclamation points(!) I actually talk like that in real life. I'm working on it :-) But I really am that easily excited (!)

The last 2 weeks or so have been a disaster! We have had family birthday parties a wedding, a lake trip and family in town. I have had overnight guests the last 8 days. They are leaving today so hopefully things calm down. I haven't had any time to meal prep and I have only been getting in 3 workouts a week.

The scale has stayed within the same 1 or 2 pounds from where I was, so that is good!! This weekend I plan on getting back on track with food prep.

Lunchtime kickboxing today! I love that class!!

I have passed along that safety app to quite a few people - it's awesome. I have been using it here on vacation which is nice since I'm running in areas I really don't know. Makes DH feel much better about me going out in the am. 

I use the Nike+ app for my gps. I like that is tracks my shoe miles and I can add my treadmill runs manually. 

I use Map My Fitness, but I don't think it is the app- I have had gps issues off and on with my phone and dh has as well. I also have the RoadID app, but I haven't been walking alone so I have not used it yet. Typically I walk in the morning with dh, but once school starts in the fall that will probably have to change.

Hey everyone! I apologize, I haven't had a chance to read the posts yet but hope to check in tonight and read. brandy327, love seeing your pics! 

Today is going better than the chocolate milk and salami kind of night I had last night. Still incredibly busy with barely any down time, but I had a 20 minute hole here where I could eat the lunch I packed before a 4 hour marathon meeting that's about to start. I actually did end yesterday on track -- macros ended where I wanted them. Even though the dinner was an odd choice, I think there's something to be said for eating what sounds really good at the moment. I knew if I hadn't gotten that chocolate milk, I would have been scrounging for something that satisfied all night and probably today too. Obviously you can't just go with what sounds good all the time, but I can tell the difference between "Yeah, I'd like to eat that" and "OMG that is the only thing that sounds good and I won't be happy with anything else." When it's the later, I'm better off just eating it first, otherwise I eat 4 other things trying to be satisfied and usually end up eating the original thing anyway to make the craving go away. 

I didn't get in exercise as I planned yesterday but did get a good number of steps thanks to being at our corporate offices which are kind of spread out. I was so so so tired and overworked last night, I decided to give myself grace and just go to bed rather than trying to squeeze in a 15 minute workout I would have been miserable during. I don't regret that! I am going to exercise tonight though, and I'll do another day this week to make up for missing yesterday. 

I have been so busy with work lately that I haven't been very active on this thread-- (after just joining this thread about a month ago!) Trying to be more participatory.

brandy327 -- you look fantastic!! Hard work does pay off and you are proof of that.

I am still going to my Barre classes about 4-5x/week which is a big routine change for me. I bought a 3 month membership and am nearly at the end of the 3rd month and plan on renewing. This is the first time in forever that I have sustained a regular exercise routine and I actually enjoy it!! I turned 50 last week -- still trying to adjust my brain to that! I finished my most recent Whole30 eating plan just before my birthday (yeah I planned it that way ) but I didn't have much "scale success" this past time and that felt really discouraging since I didn't cheat, I followed the plan and I can barely tell a change (if I depend on the scale) but I can see a difference in my overall shape. (Though I tend to attribute that more to my exercise routine than the eating.) Anyhow, trying to get energized again to continue with positive changes with the eating plan.

I'm on a 4 day roll of eating well and exercising. Seems a little silly to celebrate just four days, but I know most of you will understand. The thing to remember is that good days tend to lead to more good days. I wake up excited because I feel good about these small successful days.

Ok so July 1 I an going to be trying this...

Great job on the whole30! Is your whole family doing it or just you? Any tips? I have researched it in the past and read the books but haven't actually taken the step to DO a whole 30.