A-Maze-zing!

I love Love LOVE the house. it looks perfect. can't wait to see it!

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Monday's Report--Amy

Successful day one! I did a dvd in the morning. Although I had to stop to wake up the boys for school a couple times and I had Owen climbing on top of me while doing sit ups and crawling under me for push ups. Adds a little challenge to the work out. I ate perfect and am working on day two now. Also, I vowed never to eat the food at Applebee's. But they do give you a free meal your first three days of work since you don't get tips during training. I have one more day of training and I will pass up the meal.
Ben--You're house is AMAZING!! Love the appliances, too! :) Hope you are enjoying the house. Can we see furnished pictures now?

Good Luck

I mean "good luck" without sarcasm. I sincerely hope you (Amy) can recommit like you say you need to do. It would be a good example for me. I'm like 5 months pregnant as well. It may be an extra challenge that you will now have cheap eats at Applebee's. Bad timing!

I am riding my bike to work every day now. It's not grueling at all, it's an easy 1.5 mile flat ride both ways so it's not really exercise, but it definitely has to be better than driving, so it's something.

Here's some pics of the house. A before, then a matching after from the same part of the house...

Recommitting!

I am TOTALLY recommitting this time! And this time, I MEAN IT! I have to mean it this time. It's not even funny. Without sucking in my gut I look five months pregnant and mom is a witness to that. No joke. So here is what I have to do: Totally eat right and workout six days a week. That's what I was doing before when my gut wasn't so big after Jaxon. It's going to be hard, but it has to be done. I am recommitting to the blog so I can report. I would like to see more of you all as well. But here is my schedule so I can follow it daily:
Monday--Strength Training DVD
Tuesday--Running
Wednesday--Strength Training DVD
Thursday--Aerobics video (high impact)
Friday--Strength Training DVD
Saturday--Running

Those might get moved around from day to day but that is the planned schedule.

My menu:

Breakfast:
Bowl of granola with skim milk
piece of fruit

Snack:
Almonds
Yogurt

Lunch:
Wrap with lettuce, tomato and lunch meat and if I have a cheese it needs to be a white cheese or fat free cheese
Side of veggies

Snack: Apple or some other fruit

Dinner:
Whatever is on our menu but healthy foods and smaller portions

Early to bed

If I need a snack before bed I'll keep it to fat free jell-o or 100 calorie pack of popcorn

How is that? Does anyone have any more good suggestions for me?

This is my new post Thanksgiving goal. Nothing has really changed but I wasn't committed before. I need to be now.

Anyone else going to join me? I know Anna is doing a lot of running so it looks like she has recommitted also. Awesome. Maybe someday we can run a race together.

Ben, where are you?

Post Turkey Day Posting

Great job Anna! I'm planning to walk tomorrow for about 45 min. round trip to Happy Valley, but it doesn't hold the proverbial candle to you runner girls. I'm going to the school to print my lesson for Sunday. I really need to find someone who can make my computer recognize my printer again.
Anna, how was turkey day? Did you go to Black Angus?

Personal best!

I'm running again! what's the deal? I ran for 25 minutes straight! I have NEVER been able to do that. must be the turkey and cherry cobbler that I'm using for fuel ;)

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Run, Run, Run!

Anna, maybe you will become a runner after all. I think it's the fastest, most effective way of exercising. In the colder months down there you should find some trails, it's much better than a treadmill. I can't go running today or yesterday because it's WAY TOO COLD for Owen to hang out in a stroller for an hour or so. But I did do an hour of high impact aerobics on Monday and plan on doing a dvd today as well. I haven't lost any weight since we started this thing. But I won't give up.

Have a great Thanksgiving and Ben, a great birthday on the 27th!

Great week!

I'm back on the treadmill trying to duplicate last week...I lost 5 pounds! woo hoo!

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Yikes! it's cold here!

Another arctic icy morning. It's now 15, with wind chill we're at -3. I think I'll try out my Yak Tracks today to get from car to school across the parking lot.- those shoe gripper things I bought a couple of weeks ago. A parent yelled at me on the phone yesterday because we hadn't removed the ice on the sidewalk by the bus loading area. Our big plastic snow shovels were useless . A couple of dads came with metal shovels to break up the ice on the stairway and it took all their time and effort just to do that. We're one of the only school districts to be on regular schedule today - All Seattle, Tacoma schools and surrounding areas closed. A lot of horror stories on the freeways in Seattle with people stranded for hours in the cold.

I actually lost 3 lbs. last week. I passed up a box of doughnuts/pastries brought in to the office by a parent yesterday. Such slow going. Exercising has dwindled this past week.

Hang in there everyone. No guilt allowed on Thursday.
I love you all.

I'm still here!--Amy

I wish I could be as strong as Anna. And I will at some point. I know I can because I've done it before. I just can't seem to get serious about things even when I want to get rid of the gut so badly! Ok, I decided that I will be good until Thursday. That's a small goal, but I think that's what I need right now. Small goals in order to meet a larger goal. I will check in and I expect to see everyone here on Friday rededicating themselves with new goals or renewing old ones! We need to revive this thing!

Didn't eat it!

Offered brownies at school...I was strong :)

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I'm on the treadmill!

Right now!!! I ran a mile and now I'm hoofin it uphill at a 10% incline and writing this right now is keeping me from being bored!

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Mom the Thriller

Mom was telling me about her Halloween thriller event so I looked it up and found a picture of it that I will share with you to show how much of party animal mom is. Unfortunately Mom wasn't in it (unless she's in costume).

So, I'm hoping this week will bring the loss of an lb or two.

Thanks
Ben

1/2 Marathon--Amy

So I signed up for another half marathon for December 31! So I have to get my butt in gear now. I know it will be no problem to run it if I just get going on the running again. So this is the week I do it. This is the same half marathon that Dave and I ran last year with our friends. This year there will be no Dave. His knees hurt too much after he was done last year. But a bunch more of my Bellingham friends will be there this year to run. It will be fun to do. I just need to train for it.

Ben, good to see you back on here! We hope to see more of you! As well as the rest of you, too.

Amy

Post Halloween, Pre Thanksgiving rededication

Like Ben, I'm putting on a push to get my groove back. This past week was good - I exercised 4 times, ate pretty well, lost 2 lbs. Whoop ti do. But some progress is better than none.
Welcome back Benj.

It's Not Thankgiving YET!

Ok, I'm trying to arise from the dust of non-exercise and semi-undisciplined eating. Our official end date is still Thanksgiving, right? So I'm thinking I have 3 weeks to get into gear. That's the way I roll...slack till the end then bust my tail to get it done. It's not a good way!!

Given the above statement, what I'm about to say may not make much sense, but I just canceled my gym membership. It was just way too expensive for the amount of times I was going. I simply need to get more creative about workouts. Now that we're in the house, I'm riding my bike to work again (it's flat and easy...but it's better than nothin)

See Ya! It's good to be back.