fit_filly

Misery made beautiful

2008-07-04T18:02:54Z

Tuesday: 162 stairs
Thursday: 1.5 miles walked
Friday: 2 miles walked

I'm back!

2008-06-28T18:16:46Z

Trying, anyway.

Distance Walked: 1.5 miles

Oy'm a good gel, Oi am

2008-05-18T04:02:12Z

Walked: 1.5 miles
Urges to walk to grocery store and buy chocolate: at least 3
Urges conquered: at least 3 (no chocolate obtained)

Catching up

2008-05-17T04:49:30Z

Last Sunday: 2.25 miles
Monday: .75 miles
Thursday: .75 miles
Today: 2 miles

Not too bad, but my eating habits need improvement. If the weather would just warm up consistently, I know I'd be craving healthy fruits and stuff. Instead, we've been having chilly, overcast weather week after week with only about one warm, sunny day a week. I'm having a hard time breaking out of hibernation mode.

And I'm burnin' I'm burnin' I'm burnin' for me

2008-05-05T22:53:44Z

Between an excursion yesterday morning to get the newspapers for my racing scrapbook and a later walk with the boy, I did about 2 miles.

Today, I was going to walk the track, but the track team was hogging it, so I made a big loop around several blocks. I was just starting lap 2 when my bra broke... So I ended up with about .8 of a mile walked (according to Yahoo maps) and 100 stairs climbed (once I got home).

I am sore.

So tired

2008-05-03T03:17:33Z

I didn't do much exercising over the course of this last week due to bad weather and PMS, but I made up for it a bit today by walking 2 miles at a good clip. My calves were burning big time. But it's a good burn. :)

More walkies...

2008-04-25T01:29:53Z

The boy and I did about 2 miles again yesterday, though we stopped halfway through to dink around in the OI. No walking today because it's raining, and I'm on day 3 of weird PMS. I'm really tired of it, let me tell ya. I just want to get my monthly curse and get it over with already.

::pant pant::

2008-04-23T01:29:36Z

Distance Walked: 2+ miles

I went for a nice ramble around campus and the neighborhood with kilted_kelt this evening. We weren't booking it, but he walks faster than I usually do, so I got a good workout. :) I feel pleasantly tired. I think I am going to curl up with a book now.

If you were a pair of bike shorts...

2008-04-22T15:07:08Z

...where would you be?

I didn't get my walk yesterday after all. I could not for the life of me find my bike shorts, the boy insisted I go with him to the grocery store, and then I had PMSy feelings all evening. Sigh. I did climb my 86 stairs though (from the lobby at the library to the 5th (top) floor). My calves ache a bit, but I was pleased to find that I wasn't horribly out of breath.

More stairs today as we're supposed to have thunderstorms this afternoon. I do plan to tear the apartment apart to find my damn shorts though. I found my riding breeches, the shorts I never wear, and my bathing suit, but no bike shorts...

Back on the wagon!

2008-04-21T14:59:40Z

As I approached my 30th birthday earlier this month, I was feeling decidedly wigged and depressed about it. Once I hit it though, those feelings morphed into a determination to quit being a lazy, fat, out-of-shape cow, and to really try to do something about my weight. Soooo, I have been doing a bit of stair climbing on and off for the last week, and I decided to make yesterday my kick-off day (again). The stats:

Weight on 4/20/08: 200 lbs
Goal: 140-150 lbs

Stairs climbed: 200
Distance Walked: 1.5 miles
Rooms vacuumed using hose attachment: 3 (and that's hard, calorie-burning work, let me tell ya)

Unfortunately, said mile and half walk was to and from Edwardo's Pizza... I blame kilted_kelt.

Anyhoo, since the weather looks like it will be mostly nice from here on out (knock on wood), I plan to try to walk at least a mile every afternoon after work, starting today. I would love to drop around 8-10 pounds a month. If I could be down to 170 by Breyerfest, that would rock.

Stiff

2007-10-25T16:45:30Z

I did wash the kitchen floor last week. Hell of a workout, far more than I thought it would be. I was stiff the next day. :D

I have been ultra busy lately and ultra tired, and I just haven't been able to muster up any motivation to exercise. Or to do much besides go to work each day. I haven't painted since last week. I haven't cross stitched. All I've been doing is hanging out on the computer or reading. At least what I have been doing on the computer is mostly useful and will maybe generate some cashola eventually. But I've just been feeling so run down lately---tired, restless, and just flat out down. It's definitely SAD hitting me hard, harder than usual, I think. I've been doing some reading about it, and apparantly exercise and being outdoors are great for counter-acting the effects of seasonal depression. So with that in mind, I'm going to try to get my exercise mojo back. (And then I need to figure out how to move south again (never thought I'd say that) because the long winters and slanty light are *really* getting to me.)

I have been very good about my eating habits still. I've managed to get that routine in place, and I like the food I'm eating. Special K makes very tasty strawberry breakfast bars, and Yoplait yogurt is waaaaaaaaaay better than the Dannon stuff I've been eating for years. It's got more calories on average than Dannon---I had strawberry today which was 180 calories and 2.5 g of fat---but that's still far better than the vending machine crap I was eating. I am enamored of the peach and key lime pie varieties in particular. Yummy! The boy and I are trying to stick with our healthy dinners, too, and we're doing pretty well.

I am really amazed that I seem to have my chocolate cravings mostly under control. I have a pack of 4 chocolate covered mint Oreos in my drawer at work, and they've been sitting there untouched for 3 days. Three days! I've decided I will eat them after the Breeders Cup Classic on Saturday either as a victory toast or as a consolation in the face of defeat.

All that aside, I have found the perfect dessert for me: Skinny Cow ice cream cones. They're low fat, low calorie, and they taste divine! They taste just like sinfully fattening chocolate ice cream without all the sin. :D I allow myself one in the evenings, and that gets me through the day, knowing I have to behave if I'm going to have my dessert later. The ice cream bars they make are also really good. :)

Last rambling thought for the day... I'm going to make myself a daily check list so that I have to walk my stairs everyday, preferably twice. Lists seems to help keep me organized and motivated.

Housework is exercise!

2007-10-18T17:45:08Z

I climbed 160 stairs yesterday in the process of hauling 2 loads of heavy garbage and 2 loads of heavy glass recyclables out of my kitchen. Go me! I also vacuumed a bit. Today, I will be cleaning up my "studio" and washing the kitchen floor. And then shifting all sorts of crap to vacuum some more.

I've been a semi-bad girl

2007-10-15T15:08:12Z

Between allergies, cramps, a cleaning binge, and finishing up a horse for a customer, I didn't do any exercising at all last week (other than a few stairs). Unless using my carbide scraper to clean 10 years of burned on gunk off my stove counts. (For the record, the burned on gunk came with the apartment. Various cleaning products could not make a dent in it, and it only occurred to me recently that my super duper model horse prepping tool could be put to more good use in that department.)

I have, however, behaved myself rather well in the food department, and I find that I'm not craving chocolate and sweets quite as much as I used to. Still need to work on the pop consumption though.

So hot...

2007-10-07T18:31:16Z

I'm down to 196 today. It's a pound short of where I wanted to be, but I didn't behave quite so well as I ought to have this week. I ended up not walking again yesterday because it was 90 degrees out and utterly beastly. I was sweating just sitting still in front of the computer. It's going to be about the same again today, so I think I'll dust off my trusty cinder block and do a bunch of stairs in the air-conditioned bedroom later. :)

My health kick has rubbed off on kilted_kelt, and he's been eating bgetter and exercising, too. He probably only needs to lose 20 pounds to be svelte again, but I'm glad he's working on it. :)

Abnormally warm...

2007-10-05T22:42:57Z

...here for October, but I'll take it. It rather be sweating than freezing. :D

Distance Walked: 1 mile
Stairs Climbed: 212

Sboobedoo

2007-10-04T22:41:50Z

Distance Walked: 1 mile
Stairs Climbed: 212

Ahhh-chooooooo!

2007-10-04T03:52:32Z

Fucking allergies....

Distance Walked: 1.35 miles
Stairs Climbed: 132

Meh

2007-10-02T23:33:53Z

Didn't do anything yesterday as my allergies were giving me fits. Walked a box to FedEx today rather than begging for a ride. :D

Distance Walked: 1.4 miles
Stairs Climbed: 39

Staying on the wagon!

2007-09-30T21:43:10Z

::pant pant pant::

Distance Walked: 1 mile
Stairs Walked: 200

One Week Weigh In

2007-09-30T15:11:13Z

Before I get to the good (!!!!) news, I'm going to tally up the week's exercise.

Distance Walked: 5.75 miles
Stairs Climbed: 989

Not bad for the first week. :D I would love to average at least 7 miles a week and 1000 stairs from here on out. Anyhoo, without further ado, the weigh in!

Weight: 197.4 pounds
Waist: 38.5 inches (give or take)

YAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!! I really CAN lose weight!

One week down, at least 49 to go

2007-09-30T02:24:44Z

I had a very crappy day yesterday, so I didn't exercise at all, and I splurged on 4 chocolate covered mint Oreos. They are horribly, evily, mouth-wateringly delicious...

I am behind on all things internet and sort of dreading checking my email. I am way behind on LJ, too, but I did at least get my ass outside for my walk today. :)

Distance Walked: 1.5 miles
Stairs Climbed: 38

Tomorrow morning will be my first weigh in.

Feeling a little stiff today

2007-09-27T22:58:28Z

Hence a less rigorous workout.

Distance Walked: 1 mile
Stairs Climbed: 142

Hooray for cooler weather!

2007-09-27T00:08:08Z

Distance Walked: 1.5 miles
Stairs Walked: 106

Stairway to nowhere

2007-09-26T00:08:13Z

Since Mother Nature is threatening more rain and has been making good with the lightning, I opted to do stairs instead of walking today...

Distance Walked: 0 miles
Stairs Climbed: 500

It burnsssss

2007-09-24T22:55:54Z

My calves burn anyway. And my feet. And the sun. It was 90 something today. Hot hot hot walking with no shade! I'm meeting ladymedb in a few minutes, so I only managed a short workout today.

Distance Walked: .75 miles (quick pace)
Stairs Climbed: 165