10 years is a long time...

Tonight we were told that, if one exercises on a regular basis, you can add 10 years of independence to your life.  That is 10 more years we don't have to depend on anyone to wipe our butts for us.

Yup, I don't want to have to depend on anyone to do that for me.  I am definitely going to keep this up when I get old(er).

Had a great night tonight.  It was fun. I pushed myself as much as I could.  The night went by really fast.  We got started and next thing you know, we were halfway through.  It didn't seem like too much longer after that we were warming up.

We are halfway through our challenge.  I didn't realize 6 weeks have gone by.  Midway weigh in is tomorrow night.  I am not expecting big results.  Maybe down 5lbs.  Which I know is better than gaining, but when I look back and this time last year, I was down 12.  Le Sigh... 

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"Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read." ~ g. burns

Good thing we didn't do anything stupid, like shoot it

I have officially started my "3 week cardio kick-start" from the EA Sports thing.  I did 2 high intensity workouts on Saturday and Sunday, but they weren't part of the program.  I have it set to coincide with training with Tom on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  I don't think I would be able to do 2 of those two night a week.  

I am glad I invested in this again.  I really enjoy it.  And I am also earning Willie trophies :)  There are quite a bit of in game goals. They make you feel good when you achieve them.

I would also like to thank my readers who came all the way from Germany and Russia.   I guess I am known world wide :)

Now I am off to watch me some walkers.

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"You see 11 condoms, I see 11 minutes of my life I'm not getting back." ~ Maggie - the walking dead

Six Naked Pigs

I've been a little neglectful lately.  With this, my house, family and most importantly; me.

I am getting in that funk again and I am not liking it.  I started off great.  Writing things down, doing this blog, and all of a sudden, it's like the whole world blew up and I didn't want to continue.  

But...  I am on the road to recovery. In lieu of spending money on a treadmill, I bought EA Sports 2 for the PS3.  I had it for the Wii before and I loved it.  The only thing I didn't like about it was you had to hold on to the wiimote while doing everything. It made it kind of difficult with some of the exercises.  Sports 2 comes with 3 sensors that you put on your arms and leg.  Don't have to hold on to anything.  And one of the sensors is a heart rate monitor.  I set everything up last night and by the looks of it, it seems like everything they do, is stuff we do at the gym I am going to for the Biggest Loser.  Squats, lunges, sit ups, push ups, jogging, resistance band, but I don't see jumping jacks.  Phew! With the 2 nights per week I go to the gym, I will get a little more in with this on off days.

I am going to try to start writing my food intake again.  I was doing well with that too, but on came the funk.  And like one of my team mates said, it is our own fault we are in this mess, we are the ones that have to get ourselves out of it.

Here's to a speedy recovery!

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"Once, in gr. 2, I wore my pajamas under my clothes to school. Now, I wear my pajamas AS clothes and never leave my house!" ~ d. digiovanni

Ps. the title for the blog's entry is the translation of "the full monty" movie in china... apparently

Tubthumping

Ugh.  Wasn't feeling it tonight.  I was very excited to get there, and had a good start.  But I just couldn't keep my motivation.  It's like it went "poof" a bit after I got there.

I think next time I am just going to count "Disney1, Disney2, Disney3" etc.  Maybe that will keep me going. 

The trainer is going to start a morning class too, but it's at 5:45 am.  I would like an extra day in there somewhere though.  I've been putting more thought into a punch pass at Yvon's.  Maybe go on saturday or sunday.  Or I could just work on the stuff I can't do a lot of there.  Like jumping jacks and planking.  I am really awesome at the medicine ball sit ups and getting much better at squats.  

Sigh... I dunno... I'm just having one of those days, I guess...

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"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up" ~ unknown

Big Red Wagon

and I fell off it.

I had a big juicy burger from Grant's and holy frig it was good.  But considering that and some toast are the only things I ate today, I don't see it as such a bad thing.  

I did, however, kinda make up for it by getting on my hands and knees and scrubbing my kitchen floor from one end to the other. I had intentions of practicing some of the stuff from Thursday night too, but I ended up going to my aunts and trying to set up her new internet account.  Gawd I hate doing stuff like that.  But a few phone calls later, we got her up and running.  

I was thinking about getting a punch pass for the gym.  So I can get a little extra in.  But I should be getting my treadmill this next weekend hopefully. I am still up in the air about that.

Well, off to catch up on the news.  

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"I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night." ~ b. hicks