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Saturday, June 23, 2012

I've spent the last two days cleaning like a madwoman (with DH helping a LOT!) and baking last minute stuff for the bake sale. We brought out all of the PartyLite product and sent a few Facebook reminders out preparing for the day. I knew my mom was coming and my sister said she would stop by. I had 8 people attending according to Facebook but I knew one person wouldn't be able to come because there was Black Belt testing today. I never know what's going to happen since it's a Saturday in summer and it's nice outside. There is a church festival and a Hispanic festival going on in town, too.

Got everything set and the kids set up outside with the bake sale items. I figured they would at least get some foot traffic from the neighborhood people walking/driving by. They sold some stuff and my youngest was in his glory being the "boss" of the bake sale.

My mom came and bought a couple of things and then we sat. And we sat. And we sat some more. Then one friend came and got a bunch of products for $40. YAY! She always comes to my open houses/parties and I appreciate her. :) My mom texted my niece who just got married and she and my sister came over. I didn't expect my sister to get anything because she needs to raise her own money for the walk. :) So I let my niece get a bunch of stuff but made her donate $5 to the fundraiser. Hee hee! She was adorable when I gave her three boxes of stuff - one of them full of candles. She said she couldn't decide so I just gave her all of the ones she said she really liked. She's moving sometime this summer to Alaska and they will be setting up their new apartment so I figured she could keep warm with some candles. :)

The kids got bored of the bake sale and nobody else came. Total money raised.......wait for it........$70! Oh wait! My mom said she wanted to donate another $10 so she'll give it to me later. And SHE is the one with MS!

I'm so grateful for my family and I fully realize that there were a LOT of other things going on today but still a little sad about the bad turnout.

Good thing today was my rest day! Since I torched a bunch of calories cleaning and making snacks.

Tomorrow's schedule is to walk 10 miles so my sister and I are going to walk but she's staying overnight about 50 miles away and isn't sure what time she'll get home so we'll see what time we go. I figure it will take us about 2.5-3 hours so I don't want to walk much later than 4:00 since we start Girl Scout Day Camp on Monday for 5 days of fun and sun.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

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Walk Training Progress

Saturday, June 09, 2012

The last three weeks have been a challenge and also a great change for me. I LOVE walking outside in the spring and summer! This week it was 4 miles Tuesday, 4 miles Thursday (which I did yesterday in two 2-mile increments due to time constraints this week), 3 miles today (DONE!) and 6 miles tomorrow. Tomorrow it's supposed to be HOT and a little more humid so I'm determined to wake myself and my sister up around 6:30-7 a.m. to get it done before it gets too hot. Laurie - GET READY! I'm coming to your house to get your butt out the door if you're not up yet!!!!!!!! (hopefully she'll read this since she's on Spark too).

It's going well but this week my knee started hurting. I think it's a tendon because sometimes it feels like something is moving out of place and then going back, it hurts for a step or two, then stops hurting. Weird! I'm stretching more and not walking as fast. I'm hoping it's just my joints getting used to walking more.

Anyway, things are going well and I've still been able to get other workouts and a rest day in each week and I'm burning MORE calories during my walks than during other, hard workouts. AND I'm down 3 pounds so far this week with my weekly weigh in tomorrow morning and a graduation party tonight. Wish me luck!

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Move Over Insanity - I'm Training For a WALK!

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

I made the decision yesterday to stop doing the Insanity program and focus on my walking training for the MS Challenge Walk. I need to walk 4 days a week from 3-20 miles so that will take up way too much time to continue to do Insanity well and I'm not really in love with the program anyway. I'm a little bored and spoiled with the huge amount of variety I have with my other workouts. So the plan is to do my walking on my walk training days and do something else the other days. I usually use Sunday as my rest days but that is the day the walking schedule has for the really long walks so I'll have to schedule my rest day another day of the week. Maybe Mondays - who knows. I will decide as I go.

I REALLY miss the Bob Harper workout videos so I think I'll do some of those although tonight I was short on time so I did two of the three 20-minute workouts in the Jillian MIchael's Kickboxing Fast Fix DVD and that was plenty. Tomorrow I'm scheduled to walk 4 miles but was supposed to do 3 yesterday and did 4 instead so I'll shoot for 3 tomorrow. My daughter has a band concert at the middle school so I'll plan on walking there since it's 3 miles round trip. If it's not raining. It's supposed to rain and I'm not happy but maybe I'll make a stop at the gym and do the 5K loop on the treadmill instead. Time will tell.

Anyway, I'm also planning on testing for my next level of black belt (1st degree, 2nd tick) the week after my challenge walk so I'll need to train for that and then will most likely do a P90X/Insanity hybrid routine since the complaint I have for P90X is that there's not enough cardio and the complaint I have for Insanity is there's not enough strength training so it will be the best of both worlds. I'll wait until October for that. Priorities you know!

Hope everyone is having a great week! Spark on! I'm going to bed now. 'Night!

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MS Challenge Walk 2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012

I have seen this walk advertised on the National MS Society website and wanted to sign up last year but didn't have anyone who wanted to join me and I was really not in the right shape or mindset to do it. Fast forward to this year. I told my sister about it and that I wanted to do it this year and she said she would do it with me! Her sister-in-law (her DH's brother's wife) also has a mom with MS and she asked her to join us and she said yes too! ACK! So we signed up!!!!!!!

HOLY CRAP!!!!!! I signed up to walk 50 miles in three days and raise a minimum of $1,500 to do it! Am I CRAZY????????? I think so! But I'm so excited and ready to do this. Now this weekend I need to go get shoes. I'm going to a store that specializes in running shoes and fitting your feet with the right shoes so I can be comfortable. And of course, I'll need two pairs for sure so I can rest my feet so that will be an extra $100 minimum. One pair at a time. I'm planning on starting my training next week on Monday so let's go! I'm ready!

Another challenge is going to be fitting in my Insanity workouts with my walks but I think I can do it. I've been walking and doing my Insanity workouts already so it shouldn't be THAT bad but we'll see!

I don't know if I'm allowed to post a fundraising link on SparkPeople so I won't post it here, but if anyone wants the link I can send it in a personal e-mail. Just let me know personally. that way I'm not breaking any rules.

Wish us luck!!!!!!!!!

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My Mother's Day

Monday, May 14, 2012

Got to sleep in yesterday and logged my 3 pounds weight gain in without really sweating it. I wasn't happy, but really took it in stride better than I would have even a couple of months ago since I still got two dresses - both in size 8 - shopping on Saturday so I didn't even care as much.

Got my presents - a pull up bar (with no real good place to put it but we're working on that), a 15 pound kettlebell and a new fitness mat that is really cushy and feels awesome! I also got the new Carrie Underwood CD so I think I made out pretty well! It's nice that my family has embraced my new lifestyle and accepts it now as normal - especially my workouts.

Got ready for the day and started laundry. Puttered around a bit and then DH, Son #2 and I went for a LONG walk. Went to visit my mom and gave her her gifts. Then onto DH's brother's house for dinner with the in-laws. We were asked to bring fruit, which I LOVE! So we got a couple of yellow mangos, a pineapple, some strawberries, cantaloupe, watermelon, grapes and kiwis. DH cut that all up and we were all set including a chocolate fruit dip, which was AWESOME! :) (Had a little). I took along two turkey burgers and my own buns because I knew they would probably not have whole grain or low fat stuff there.

SURPRISE! My brother-in-law got a thick cajun turkey breast slice for me for dinner! WOO HOO! I still used my buns (only ate 1) but loved the turkey. I was pleasantly surprised! Had cheesy potatoes with it but the turkey, whole grain roll and fruit were really healthy. Dessert was Angel Food cake (bonus!) with strawberries and cool whip but I just had the cake. Did REALLY well with food except for going to get a second helping of fruit and potatoes so I could have done better but as a whole, did great. I had an Herbalife smoothie for lunch before we went and there were no snacks so i was just fine, thank you.

I'm really pleased that the people around are being so considerate with my lifestyle change. It's AWESOME to have such a great support system! :) Really great day. Hope everyone else had a great day too!

Today I have off, so I dropped the kids off at school, went to Wal-Mart for a few things and then came home and did my Insanity Cardio Power Resistance workout. Went to lunch at Son #2's elementary school with him and have been doing laundry today. I'm going to walk to the middle school to get the older two, then walk to the elementary school for the third one and then we're all walking home so I'll get in a good 3+ mile walk today.

Happy Monday!

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