Heather's Journey - Week 3 (01/29/2009)

Weight - 130.2 (-4 overall)

A little better of a loss, but I did get another day of working out in. I am trying to do Yoga and walking/running on the track on Tuesdays, Zumba and working out with Tom on Thursdays. I am also setup to workout with my old trainer every other Wednesday with a group of people from A-O. On the odd weeks, I have Bible Study, so I need to find a way to get a workout in on a different day. So far Friday nights involve shopping, Saturdays involve cooking meals and items for the week as well as making salads for Sat-Mon, Sundays are my day of rest, Mondays I prepare all salads and snacks for the weekdays.

This week, Tom had us run a timed mile. I ran it in 9 mins 28 seconds. I was pretty excited it was that quick! I hadn't ran since before Thanksgiving. We then had to do as many modified push-ups in the CORRECT form (Not as easy done correctly as you would think). I did 30. Not too bad I guess. The biggest problem was that I did Tom's Go To Workout the night before and my arms were really barking. Not to mention I did a 1/2 hour of Zumba and ran a mile before this. THEN we had to do the Plank in the CORRECT form for as long as we possibly could. My arms were just a shaking after just 20 seconds. I know that I can easily do a minute on a good day, but this just wasn't going to be easy today. I got to 1 minute 15 seconds and had to drop. Not too bad! I am pretty happy with my progress! (The super news is that I got into my "skinny" jeans this week. They were WAY too tight previously. That makes me happy. May only be 4 lbs, but I can see results! I don't know when I will do measurements again. I like to think every 4 weeks, but knowing me, I will forget!

Detox...detox is going well. Not too difficult...last night I was feeling bitter about it. I just want pasta or pizza or peanut butter!!! All the healthy varieties of course! I just have 6 days to go counting today. Yeah...detox on Superbowl Sunday!!! YUCK! I can do it though.

Oh, other big news. One of my team members, Jason asked if I would be interested in making meals for him. He would of course pay me. He wants Lunch, Snacks, and Dinner 7 days a week. I am going to try it, but may say that I will just do weekdays. 7 days will be tough to get done with everything else! We'll see how it goes. I just have to be able to say it isn't working for me if it starts to become too much.

As I finish this, I am going to get dressed and head to the gym. Then home to cook. I have whole roasted chicken, venison bok choy and spanish rice on the agenda for today!