10 down!

Woo did my weigh in after tonight's workout and it said I weighed 165.  That's down 10 pounds from the start of the game.  I have heard the first 10 are the easiest to lose, but hey 10 is 10!  And throw in missing Saturday and Sunday's workouts and eating Six Flags foods and drinking Cokes I'd say that is pretty good :)
More about this weekend later.....

First,  I had missed workout 5...or so I had thought.  The next morning I loaded up the game and found out that i could do missed workouts and it counts.  So for workout 5 I lost 97.8 cals.  And come Thursday's workout # 7 I lost 96.4 cals.

Last week I think I posted about Mio and their water additive....no sugar, cals etc.  Well i went to the grocry store and purchased two additional flavors:  Strawberry Watermelon and Sweet Tea.  I LOVE both of them.  The Strawberry watermelon one is a nice light refreshing drink.  It's nice to have in the morning or afternoon.

  Sweet Tea is as good as my gallon sweet tea I always made with a lipton family size tea bag and a cup of sugar (mixed when the water is boiling).  It is that good.  Before I bought that Mio, I made some sweet tea with only a half a cup of sugar.   That was all I had left plus I was trying to cut my sugar intake.  It was NASTY.  I would rather have water.  Now I have my 20oz water bottl and 2 squirts of mio sweet tea and I'm good to go.  Can't wait to try more flavors!

Oh yes, Six Flags.  We went there on Sat.  It was hot (high was 94 I think).  Add in the heat to a lot of walking (it is a theme park) and there's a workout there.  Add in to going back to the hotel and going on their elliptical for 16 minutes and losing 120 cals. It would have been longer but Danielle was getting bored and wanted to play some shuffleboard.  So even though I "missed" Sat and Sun workouts, I kinda made up for it.  Danielle actually went on this spinning coaster ride.  She really surprised us!  And the huge Ferris Wheel?  I think we rode that 3 times.

Oh and tonight's workout (#10)?  Another 136.9 cals lost.  Doesn't make up for Arby's tonight, but my lunch was light.  Until next time!

Anybody but the Heat

1 down 3 to go.  Since the Mavs aren't playing tonight, I'm pulling for OKC.  Actually I didn't care if it was San Antonio or OKC as long as they beat the heat...not one or two but every time ;)

Well I would give you a 3 fer workout review but #5 was missed on Sunday.  Too much going on and most of it was not inside the house.  You can't move workout days on the schedule too.  oh well.  Will be missing one this Sat also but that's what happens when the summer rolls around.

Oh a bit of extra info.  In the game there are 4 cooldown activities.  During this time I also get 1 aggravation. CAT attack!  Every single day during cooldown patches just has to get right next to me on the floor and basically pester me for lovin.

So, onto workout 4.  And like the first program in which I went crazy and switched from easy to medium on workout 4 which is one of the hardest workouts of the program....I did it this time too.   What did I do?   More weights.....

Those are 5 pounds each.  My plan was to use the previous ones (2.5 max each) for my wrists and those for my ankles.  I figured 5 was too much to jump into so I removed 2 lbs.  At 3 lbs it was still pretty heavy....esp for this evil workout.

I slogged through it with a few breaks.  Workout 6 was not that bad.  Here's the stats for both.

4 ---> Time: 27:14, Cals: 129.4, Avg bpm: 142, Max 180

6 --->  time: 24:24, Cals: 108.9, Avg bpm: 132, Max 173

I compared the numbers to program 1 and they are very close.  I guess the cals burned are based more on the workout instead of  how hard you do it (ie extra weights).  Not sure how much bpm figures into the formula.  But I know I'm getting extra burn with the added 11 lbs of weights.  Good thing too...I might have worked off one or two throwed rolls from tonight ;)

Oh and real quick, I have been drinking more water too.  Yesterday I was listening to the camp dave fit segment on lex and terry and they were talking about Mio, a water additive.  No cals or sugars.  The nearby gas station had only one flavor (energy...has caffeine) but it's good.  I'll have to try a few other flavors at the grocery store next time.

Until next time!

Program 2 - Week 1

I started up a new workout program on Sunday.  For this program I switched the days to sun, tues, thurs, sat.  I set the difficulty on medium for this program.  The last one was on easy for the first three workouts then I switched to medium.    I think the game wanted me to choose the 9 week program instead of another 3 week, but I have a few trips coming up that i would have to miss some workouts.  I'll start that one up after the texas trip.

Overall thoughts after the first three this time on medium is they seem a bit easy.  Some of this may be I'm used to it, but most of it is not.  This makes me think based on the cals burned, it starts off easy and as you get further into the program the workouts get harder, longer, and burn more cals.  I remember the last workout of the first program was the hardest.

For example:  This program I lost 90.1, 96.6, and 81.0 cals.  The first on easy were: 86.6, 92.4, 73.1 cals.  

So the medium 1-3 were an increase of an avg of 5 cals.    So based on last time (135 cals) next workout will be a doozy....great....  Guess the cals wont fall off themselves.

Oh on another note,  I read on a few sites that cutting out cokes and drinking more water is a good way to lose weight.  Well I had already cut my consumption down at work the past month to where I was sometimes not even finishing one can for the whole work day.  Well Tuesday, I went cold turkey....and now for 3 days I have not had a coke...or anything similar.  I did have tea tues night at the chinese restaurant but it was unsweet and that's supposed to be a fine substitute.  You know how much water you're supposed to drink a day?  Well for me it says almost 2.5 liters.  That's a freaking lot of water.  That's close to 4 20oz bottles.  I figure if I can drink 2 at work (which I have almost done the past two days...still a lot of water) and then have water or tea during the evening it will get me close enough.  Makes me pee more that's for sure. ;)

Oh after doing workout #1 last sunday the weigh-in had me at 168 lbs.  Going the right direction.

Big red done stamp

3 week program 1 ->

And was it was Doooooozy.  I swear I thought it was on hard when I did the first half of the workout, but no it was on medium.  27 workouts I think but a huge jump in cals.  Luckily, no evil strides but there was plenty of leg work with foot fires, jump rope, running, and mountain boarding.  I had the weights on my wrists for about the first third, but then they came off.  Now I did do a "workout" at work today.  I had to reprogram and check out radios in 27 busses.  That includes carrying my service monitor from the shop up into the bus and back for over half of that because my watt meter cable went bad. So it was not like I was slacking.

So for the final stats for the workout: Time: 33:05, cals: 192.6 (not a typo), avg bpm: 134, max: 177.


Total cals burned with the three week program: 1440.




BTW this was done on Wed.  I would have updated the blog but for some reason our internet went down, but I got it sorta fixed yesterday.  Planning on starting up a new 3 weeker tomorrow.

Manic Monday

Getting close to the end of this 3 week workout plan and today was a rough workout.  But before that today was the last day of the memorial day weekend.

  Got a bad burn yesterday on my shoulder.  Guess none of the lotion made it that way.  So it hurt all last night and still today.  Was glad Danielle slept in and didn't want to go anywhere today.  She did get to play in her mini pool with a couple of her friends today.  Lunch was Qdoba today esp since they were having a BOGO deal.   They now have new wheat tortillas.  It was good.  Oh and this morning I added half a banana in the Cream of Wheat.  It tasted better.

Anyways, back to the workout.  Bleh.  Supposedly it said concentrating on upper body, but I swear they had 3 leg strides and 2 or 3 mountain climber (very similar) and some running.  BOOOO!  I got to knockout the workout a bit earlier since Jen was watching the girls outside.

Der staz: Time: 27:55, Cal: 126.9, Avg bpm: 135, Max: 169.  28 activities.

Heinz Tomato......Catch up!

Well I am a bit behind.  Sunday night and I'm watching the Coke 600....so I need to get the blog caught up.  It's been a busy extended Memorial Day weekend with one day left.  Start off with Thursday which I took off.  Danielle was very busy playing with all the neighboring kids.  Count em 6 including Danielle not the whole time but some of the time all together..and playing in and around her rinky dink pool.  But she had a good time.  Ended up playing with some of them for about 6 hours.  Also I installed a new kitchen faucet.  It looks nice esp compared to the old one that came with the house.

Friday was back to work but also a workout night.  And man the game thought it was funny and thew up a tough one with doing leg strides three different times. BLEH!  Concentrating mainly on lower body, it was a doozy esp since all my workouts since that day I changed are all on medium level.  Extra weights stayed on the wrists.  Stats: Time:  27:52, cals: 143.9, avg bpm: 138, max: 179.  28 tough activities in that workout.


Saturday what did we do yesterday?  We did have a family dinner with the inlaws and her brother at Famous Dave's BBQ.  Ya know BBQ is a part of the Texan diet :)    Did my Saturday workout that night.  A full body workout and no evil  strides!  WOO!  Weights went on the ankles.  It was still a workout, but it went smoother with less breaks during the workout.  Main things were foot fires and skipping (jump rope).  Stats: Time: 26:27, cals: 139.5, avg bpm: 128, max: 167.  25 workouts but it felt a lot better than Friday's workout.


  Oh yeah for breakfast I tried some Cream of Wheat Instant Healthy Grain.

I got it because it looked to be really healthy.  7g protein, 6g fiber, 0 sugars.

Zero taste :(  I ate it with water, but it was pretty rough.  That afternoon we had to do a bit of grocery shopping and I got some bananas.  It should taste better next time.

Sunday (today) was a day off workout, but it really wasn't.  We went to White Water (waterpark in Branson) and were down there for about 6 hours.  It was sunny, windy, and warm (high topped around 90).
Lots of walking and getting wet....a good time.  Danielle loved this ride.  She hadn't been on it before, but I think we went on it 5 times in a row before the park closed. (no that's not us) ;)

Well when I got home (we had BT Bones for dinner.  I had a pretty good steak), I loaded up Wii Fit to check my weight.  It said 169.5 pounds.  Going down :)  Prob not as fast as it could since I still eat some stuff that's not "diet food", but I am eating better and less.  Best thing is my main goal is feeling better...and that I am doing already!

Blade Runner - a8

As I start this blog tonight, Blade Runner is starting on 539.  Good movie.  But you know who's in this movie?  Duh of course "him"...but look at some of the other actors that are not the first couple of names:  Edward James Olmos and Daryl Hannah.  And it starts out....3 years ago.  Made 30 years ago...now you feel old.

As for EA workout #8, it was more than a coke workout. ???   Coke has 140 cals.  So far the most I have done in these workouts was 131.  It was going to concentrate on lower body so I knew it would be a doozy.  After looking through the 25 activity list, I didn't see the evil ones so on went the weights on the legs.  It was rough...but not evil.  Worked up a good sweat...which reminded me after it was over that I need to find the sweat band I bought.  Did some mountain boarding, sumo squats (no diaper needed), and some foot fires to name a few.

Stats: Time: 27:37, Cals: 149.7, Avg heart rate: 134, Max: 178.


Tomorrow Just Dance 3 goes back.  I'll do another workout with it before then.  Did the "Just Sweat" mode the night before and boy did I.  I picked the 80s group of songs and danced through them.  I think there were 5...maybe 6.  Funniest thing and it was ROFL funny was the way they choreographed the KISS song I was Made for Loving You.  They may have as well been a "happier" version of the cast from "Queer Eye"

Enjoy: