Back home and last day of spring break!

Today Todd went back to work and had duty (means he has to stay on the sub for 24 hours and then he works the next day as well ie he left home today and started work at 6am (mon) and will work till they get off Tuesday hopefully by 5pm).  So his alarm, which was some weird jedi star wars sound went off at 450 then mine went off at 5. I had decided since he had to be up so early I should hit the 530am bootcamp class. I went and sweated it out, I will try to get pics of the gym this week. Some of the exercises are more mental than physical for me, like jumping up on to a tire or jumping up on 2 steppers (one for each leg) that are 3 high and squatting before jumping back down. Once back home I put my garmin and ipod on and headed out for a 2 mile run. I need to get back into running!!! I need to crave running and have that desire to run faster with each week of training. Tomorrow I plan on getting all the kids to school and finally going in for my lab work. It is also small group night, which just started back up last week while we were gone. I host it so kinda exciting! I hope everyone had a GREAT day and exercised and completed their food log!

Hiking with new ladies!

I have been trying to meet more fitness minded people to work out with. I am in a couple weight loss groups on Facebook and this morning I asked if anyone wanted to go to Cowles and was invited to join some other submarine wives on Oak Canyon Trail in Mission Trails. It is very pretty, we did get a little lost, had 2 kiddos have peepee breaks in nature, a few falls, and one booboo! Overall we hiked for 2:08 and I burned 470 calories. Here is some of the scenery and me of course! I have done decent with calories today and glad to be back home tracking with my own kitchen. Todd goes back to work tomorrow so we are now lounging watching ridiculousness on MTV ouch!!
(forgive me this is me first time posting pics from my cell in my blog)

"vacation" weight gain

Well the scale is up 5 lbs since sub ball + " vacation" (not really a vacation since we went for the funeral but we made the most of the trip) I am headed out on a hike and plan on getting my haircut today if I have time :) its good to be home and I hope to jump right back into my weight loss routine!

Ready to get back home and in a routine!!!

Holy cow the food is soooo fattening and yummy in Oklahoma!!! I was good and worked out the first night we were here but no more :( we have ate out almost every meal but tomorrow's plan is pho! Yum and I will start counting calories again. I miss the Y :( we head back Friday but taking a detour through the grand canyon on the way home yay!!!

I should know better...

But we all go through it. On Tuesday afternoon I got the call, you know those calls that seem to usually come at night and you never forget them. My father in law passed away. I seem to always remember the calls. I remember my mother getting the call when her grandpa passed, I was so very young, maybe 5-7 years old. I heard her crying, so sad. I remember everything about the call I received when my sister died. Funny I can't remember the date but the time, what I was doing, everything else. Anyhow on top of still being stressed out about becoming an expert telemonitor reader, the death and arrangements for traveling for my FIL's funeral, and working all night wreaking havoc on my sleep I came home and binged!!! I took out the yummy sugar cookies and started eating, at 160 calories a cookie it really isn't a good thing to do. Anyhow today is just ONE day and I am taking it back! I will eat well on our road trip and try not to eat my grief.

I was supposed to go to bootcamp tonight but I think I am going to take the hubby out on a hike! I need to be close to him. I know I haven't finished fully greiving for my sister, it has been almost 7 years now. I may never recover from her death and burrying another family member just brings all those sad memories of her funeral back :(

Barre Blast

So today I made it to the new class at the Y, Barre Blast. It is a class based on using the ballet structures. OK I SUCK! And I only burned 275 calories in the hour. It was neat to try something new out though, oh and the instructor teaches spin as well. I was like I prefer spin, she just laughed.

Tried a new lunch recipe out today too, tuna burgers. I took a can of tuna, almost 1/2c oats, celery, onion, 2 egg whites and made two patties (Todd is home to share with me). They tasted pretty darn good. Well off to watch Eureka then nap for work!

Oh on a cool note, this is my 100th post!!! woot woot!  oh and I am totally loving my HRM!

back to bootcamp...

So today was my 2nd week of bootcamp classes, I had planned to do 4 last week and I did 2 hmph. I did get alot of work outs in but I paid for 6 weeks of this and I am trying to remember that. I have been having issues with wanting to puke during burpees but today I got up from sleeping around 330 and had a pear, premade dinner and hit the 5pm class. My new toy had me at a 500 calorie burn! YAY

Last week the owner taught the class and today it was the other trainer. I really like that you break up into teams of 4, I hate finding my team though. Once we are making rounds to all the stations that are 1 minute each you have a common bond, to get through the 60 seconds. Sometimes we are grunting through it and sometimes we are cheering each other on. After tonight, I really regretted not making it to all 4 sessions last week.

Tomorrow's challenge is to make it to a class at the Y with the younger two in two since the teens won't be home. Maybe I will hit the machines! Have a great week!