My weekend wrap up

I can't say I got everything done that I wanted to this weekend, but I can say that I accomplished more than I usually do. Typically if I can get to the grocery store and get to church in one weekend, I'm doing good. But since I've been scheduling things in my calendar, I'm actually getting some things done.

The only thing I'm not happy about is that I didn't workout at all. But at least Saturday, I don't think I stopped moving. I had to take my old table and chairs to good will, then I went grocery shopping. Then I took my sister in law out for lunch for her birthday and after we decided to go shopping at the mall. It was a lot of fun, but I didn't schedule enough time for it, so I was running behind the rest of the day.

Saturday night we had a ward potluck, and I planned on making a couple things to take. Well, my marshmellow brownie cupcakes were a failure, and I didn't have time to make the other thing I wanted, so I had to just make regular brownies and they weren't even that good. Lame. The pot luck was fun though, I tried "Ice Blocking" which I never had done before. I had the little 10 year old girls show me how to do it. Let's just say, that it would hurt less if there was more grass. It was fun but I only made it down 2/3rds of the hill before I completely fell off, losing a shoe and having my feet fly over my head. It was quite entertaining.

Saturday night when I got home I got started on the 5 loads of laundry I needed to do. Let me explain something about laundry. We live on the third floor of a 3 story apartment complex. And the laundry room is on the first floor on the opposite side of the building. So it's really quite a pain to do laundry, so I wait till I have a ton and just do it all at once.

While I was waiting for the laundry, I was cleaning my bathtub. And let's just say that my bathtub needed it in the worst way. But I can now say it pretty much sparkles with clean.

Sunday I went to church, came home put the rest of my laundry away, ate lunch, made the dessert to take to my in laws (which I do every Sunday). I had wanted to be able to tackle the bathroom floor but I didn't get to that. I wanted to get some breakfast sandwiches made for the freezer, but I didn't get to that either. I wanted to clean my kitchen, didn't get to that. But I can't say that I'm unhappy with my weekend, because I did get a lot of stuff done. Well, there's always room for improvement. So I hope to have even more progress to report next week.

Good week

So I wanted to give an update, I feel really good about this week. Monday night as mentioned, I had a dance lesson with my husband. But Tuesday I got down to business. I didn't do my 4 minute workout, but I did go for a walk on my lunch break and using an app on my phone called RunKeeper, it measured how far I walked. I walked 1.37 miles. Then I after work, I went to my friends house and we did our workout. I had gotten a new DVD, it has a great 20 minute workout and then some 10 minute bonus workouts to target specific areas. Like arms, abs and lower body. We did the 20 minute workout and then the arms and abs and it was HARD. I could only do the moves for a small part of the time, but I felt my triceps for a couple days, which makes me happy. Then my friends daughter Dominique and I did some stretches and it felt pretty good.

Wednesday, you should be proud of me, I started doing my 4 minute workout in the morning again. Then walked the same walk at lunch and then after work, I went to Zumba class.

Thursday, 4 minute workout in the morning, walk at lunch and workout with my friend. We did the same 20 minute workout but we did some different arms. FitSugar.com has some great 10 minute workouts. Here's one that we do fairly often to work on our arms.

This morning, I woke up and did my 4 minutes. I plan on doing my walk and I put Yoga on my schedule for tonight.

Another thing I've done, which worked really well last night is on my planner in my phone, I planned out my evening. How long to cook dinner and eat it, when to do dishes, when to relax. It actually worked so well I've planned the rest of the week that way. Let's just say my calendar is looking pretty full now, but I'm excited to see if it helps.

So tonight, after I make and eat dinner, but before I do the dishes, I am taking my measurements, that I never took last week, and maybe taking a "before" picture. Hopefully this is it, hopefully I have the motivation to do something about my life. Wish me luck!!

Best laid plans...

You know what they say about making plans, well life happens. At least that's what happened to me. I did my 4 minute workout for two days and then I got sick. Coughing, sneezing and lots of phlegm involved. Not fun. Also last night was so hot I couldn't sleep, and by the time I was ready to fall asleep I started coughing. I think I got around 3 or 4 hours. I need a nap, but that's not going to happen. Maybe I can take one on my lunch break. I hate to do that because I wanted to walk around my 1.3 mile long block on my lunch break, but I don't know if I'll be able to function if I don't take a nap. We'll see.

I have a dance lesson at 7 with my husband, but I suffer from Vertigo, and it gets worse when I'm tired, but I'll power through.

No more lazy!

Today, I'm at work. As I am every Monday through Friday. But when I get home, here's the plan. I'm going to weigh myself and take my measurements. I haven't done that in a really long time, and I've gained 10 lbs since then, so it's not going to be pretty. But I'm determined.

With traffic I get home between 5:30 pm and 6 pm. (On really bad days 6:30 pm, yuck!) And when I do get home, I'm so tired and in need to decompress I usually don't get anything done at all. Plus I'm lazy which really doesn't help the situation.

Monday I usually go home after work. Then we either have a dance lesson or a church activity night, or something.

Now Tuesdays and Thursdays I go over to my friends house which is much closer to my work, and we workout together. We've been doing this for about a year and a half and I've seen no results as yet, but she's fun and enjoy hanging out with her and her family.

Wednesday I usually get home from work, and at 7 pm I go to a zumba class. It's like a 2 minute walk from my house so there's no excuse not to go.

Friday, the goal is to go dancing. But a lot of the time we are just too tired from the week and just stay at home. This is another good opportunity to do something, that I don't take up because I'm tired and lazy. Isn't it frustrating?

So I'm going to set some goals. Obviously I can't seem to set weight loss goals, but I can set exercising goals.

I found this on Pinterest. It's a 4 minute "Tabata" type workout: 30 second Burpies, 10 seconds rest, 30 second Mountain climbers, 10 second rest, 30 high knees, 10 second rest, 30 jumping jacks. Repeat twice. I got this great app on my phone it's called A HIIT Interval. You can program different workouts on it and it beeps at you when it's time to change activities. Here is where I got the idea.

I am going to start doing this every morning. I did it for about 2 weeks last February and it was great. Then I once again got lazy. But no more. Tonight I measure, tomorrow I start this. I'll also do my regular workout with my friend.

It's been so hot here lately that all we've been able to do is go for a 2 mile walk and then I get in the pool with her 20 year old daughter who I'm also friends with. We usually try to do a workout video as well as a walk. Hopefully the weather will cool off soon.

Anyways, once I get this going, I'll add some more to my trying to be healthy plate.