MysticRealm
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Thanks. I'm not a runner but it's coming along.
164.2 this morning.
164.2 this morning.
Time's a Wastin, and I'm Still Fat.
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Little John
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Funny you hate the circuit - I love lifting, wish I had a better setup at home, just don't have the space for it. I hate to admit that I like checking out my shoulders and arms the morning after a good session, and you better believe I flex for my wife! Juvenile? You betcha!
dudeitstime
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You've got quite the adventure going every time I read this, I love it! A small suggestion for bed time, maybe take thirty minutes to read (a book though, since computers/devices put out light that stimulates brain activity for some people) before checking out to sleep. Can be a good activity to downsize. I'm sure you'll figure out something though and sleep soundless through. You're doing great with mixing up your exercising and staying active. The scale can be deceiving! You're doing awesome though, keep it up.
MysticRealm
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Lifting you be FAR better than circuit training. I would pay money for someone else to do my circuit training while I did their weight training!
That's good advice, but the problem I have with reading is once I start readin a book, I have a VERY hard time putting it down. So I tend to read for hours and hours at a time. I have stayed up and read till 4:30am when I had to be up for work 3 hours later!!
MysticRealm
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You aren't lazy! With all your working at the golf club and golfing and gardening and wood chopping!
I feel a bit guilty today. I only had 2 dogs to groom this morning, but my groomer had a relatively full day. One of her dogs couldn't be picked up till 4:30. I was planning on working a half day since she didn't work the day before and we weren't sure if we would have enough dogs for her to work tomorrow so I was trying to get her some hours. We had someone else call to book an appointment for today so my groomer asked me if I could take another dog. I agreed, but then I thought that it might be best if she took the dog, because I wasn't sure she'd have enough dogs to take her till 4:30 and I can' really pay her for her to just sit around and wait for a dog to be picked up. However when I asked her if she could I had forgotten about one of her dogs so thought her day was easier than it actually would be. I did realize it before I left and went back and double checked that she thought she would be ok. She thought for a while and again said that she thought she'd be ok. I told her ok, I was going to go to the barn and ride and do some grocery shopping but that I would be done that by 2, so if the poop was hitting the fan she should call me and I could come back in. I didn't actually get out of the shop till an hour later than I planned so wasn't totally done till 3, but I didn't hear from her. I did text her to ask if things were ok but again didn't hear back so I assumed she was busy, but that she was gonna finish ok. I texted her a couple hours ago and asked her how the day went and apparently she worked till 5:30. So about a 9.5 hour day (not sure if she had/took the time for her half hour lunch). So I felt guilty about giving her that other dog. If I hadn't she probably would have finished grooming around 4:15-4:30. Well, what's done is done, and I did ask her to make sure she thought she could get it done, ran through her list of dogs with her, and told her to let me know if things were running behind so it's not all on my shoulders but I still feel bad.
Anyways, I left work and went to the barn to ride. I carried my riding crop and my horse wasn't please. Was pretty tense the whole ride but got some good stuff, just gotta carry it every ride now so he calms down and doesn't focus on it. I used to carry it virtually every time I jumped years ago. Always better to be prepared, but then I started to not carry it, probably after he came back from his injury and was all hyper, so then I would only pick up the crop when I needed to actually use it. This meant that when he saw I had the crop that he was likely to be disciplined with it, leading to him being nervous about me carrying it. So now I just gotta remind him that the crop is only used during a disobedience and that most of the time it's just hanging out not doing anything.
Went grocery shopping. Bought cookies, mini cream eggs, and kinder chocolate bars. Haha, yum yum. The cookies were decent, nothing crazy amazing but for 60 cals each not bad. the mini cream eggs were delicious! 5 for 200 cals.
Only got home around 3. I was initially thinking I would be off work earlier (like by 10 instead of 12) so I may even do a workout as well as go to hot yoga, but when I only got home at 3 that kinda took that off the table. I would have had time I guess, but would have been exhausted, hot, and sweaty before I even made it to yoga. So just chilled till it was time for yoga.
Walked to and from yoga. What I thought was a 15 min walk actually ended up being only 8-9 mins. I think there and back would probably be a bit under 1 mile. Let's say 0.75 miles to be safe (have to add this to my March Madness Miles challenge). I didn't LOVE hot yoga today, despite having had this instructor before. I think since I took a couple Flow classes that I might prefer that to the Foundation classes, or maybe it was just a one off. It wasn't bad, and I actually was able to do a type of hand stand (knees on back of upper arms, leaning forward and letting your feet lift off the ground. Like this, but much less graceful)
I had put barriers up (chairs mostly) to prevent my dogs from going onto my carpeted area since they have been having issues peeing in my house. I was in a hurry to leave and when I pulled my shoe rack over to cover the hole between the chair and the wall it got stuck on a cord. I thought that it was far enough that the dogs wouldn't go through the hole. I was wrong. I came home to pee on my carpet, and then when I was in the shower, he peed again on my carpet. Sigh. I wanted to eat and relax too much to deal with it so just put my chairs over top of the pee spots so I won't step in them.
I bought shrimp today so was able to make the shrimp I had wanted to the other day.
Lunch: Tim Horton's Ham and Swiss Sandwich (I got a giftcard for their for my birthday back in the middle of January and have only used it twice. Still have 15 bucks on it. You use such things far less when you are trying to lose weight, despite the fact that I allow myself to eat 'junk' food everyday)
Supper: Miracle Whip Honey Shrimp, grilled cheese
Snack: 2 cookies, white cheddar popcorn, 5 mini cream eggs.
I feel a bit guilty today. I only had 2 dogs to groom this morning, but my groomer had a relatively full day. One of her dogs couldn't be picked up till 4:30. I was planning on working a half day since she didn't work the day before and we weren't sure if we would have enough dogs for her to work tomorrow so I was trying to get her some hours. We had someone else call to book an appointment for today so my groomer asked me if I could take another dog. I agreed, but then I thought that it might be best if she took the dog, because I wasn't sure she'd have enough dogs to take her till 4:30 and I can' really pay her for her to just sit around and wait for a dog to be picked up. However when I asked her if she could I had forgotten about one of her dogs so thought her day was easier than it actually would be. I did realize it before I left and went back and double checked that she thought she would be ok. She thought for a while and again said that she thought she'd be ok. I told her ok, I was going to go to the barn and ride and do some grocery shopping but that I would be done that by 2, so if the poop was hitting the fan she should call me and I could come back in. I didn't actually get out of the shop till an hour later than I planned so wasn't totally done till 3, but I didn't hear from her. I did text her to ask if things were ok but again didn't hear back so I assumed she was busy, but that she was gonna finish ok. I texted her a couple hours ago and asked her how the day went and apparently she worked till 5:30. So about a 9.5 hour day (not sure if she had/took the time for her half hour lunch). So I felt guilty about giving her that other dog. If I hadn't she probably would have finished grooming around 4:15-4:30. Well, what's done is done, and I did ask her to make sure she thought she could get it done, ran through her list of dogs with her, and told her to let me know if things were running behind so it's not all on my shoulders but I still feel bad.
Anyways, I left work and went to the barn to ride. I carried my riding crop and my horse wasn't please. Was pretty tense the whole ride but got some good stuff, just gotta carry it every ride now so he calms down and doesn't focus on it. I used to carry it virtually every time I jumped years ago. Always better to be prepared, but then I started to not carry it, probably after he came back from his injury and was all hyper, so then I would only pick up the crop when I needed to actually use it. This meant that when he saw I had the crop that he was likely to be disciplined with it, leading to him being nervous about me carrying it. So now I just gotta remind him that the crop is only used during a disobedience and that most of the time it's just hanging out not doing anything.
Went grocery shopping. Bought cookies, mini cream eggs, and kinder chocolate bars. Haha, yum yum. The cookies were decent, nothing crazy amazing but for 60 cals each not bad. the mini cream eggs were delicious! 5 for 200 cals.
Only got home around 3. I was initially thinking I would be off work earlier (like by 10 instead of 12) so I may even do a workout as well as go to hot yoga, but when I only got home at 3 that kinda took that off the table. I would have had time I guess, but would have been exhausted, hot, and sweaty before I even made it to yoga. So just chilled till it was time for yoga.
Walked to and from yoga. What I thought was a 15 min walk actually ended up being only 8-9 mins. I think there and back would probably be a bit under 1 mile. Let's say 0.75 miles to be safe (have to add this to my March Madness Miles challenge). I didn't LOVE hot yoga today, despite having had this instructor before. I think since I took a couple Flow classes that I might prefer that to the Foundation classes, or maybe it was just a one off. It wasn't bad, and I actually was able to do a type of hand stand (knees on back of upper arms, leaning forward and letting your feet lift off the ground. Like this, but much less graceful)
I had put barriers up (chairs mostly) to prevent my dogs from going onto my carpeted area since they have been having issues peeing in my house. I was in a hurry to leave and when I pulled my shoe rack over to cover the hole between the chair and the wall it got stuck on a cord. I thought that it was far enough that the dogs wouldn't go through the hole. I was wrong. I came home to pee on my carpet, and then when I was in the shower, he peed again on my carpet. Sigh. I wanted to eat and relax too much to deal with it so just put my chairs over top of the pee spots so I won't step in them.
I bought shrimp today so was able to make the shrimp I had wanted to the other day.
Lunch: Tim Horton's Ham and Swiss Sandwich (I got a giftcard for their for my birthday back in the middle of January and have only used it twice. Still have 15 bucks on it. You use such things far less when you are trying to lose weight, despite the fact that I allow myself to eat 'junk' food everyday)
Supper: Miracle Whip Honey Shrimp, grilled cheese
Snack: 2 cookies, white cheddar popcorn, 5 mini cream eggs.
MysticRealm
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A couple random things I'm noticing:
My work pants are definitely more comfortable and looser. For a while when I was really up there in weight they would keep sliding down beneath my 'front butt' (that super gross flabby lower belly pooch, which when it gets real big looks like a butt in the front) which was terribly uncomfortable for me. Every time bent down to pick up a dropped brush or the dryer hose it would slip down and I would have to stop and pull it back over the butt again. I certainly do not have that problem anymore (still have a major pooch, but the pants fit better now). I feel totally comfy in my work clothes.
I notice yesterday looking in the mirror that my neck looked really long and elegant, which I think is partially due to losing some weight off my shoulders, but also due to yoga improving my posture, even when I'm not focusing on it in everyday life.
I'm also noticing that my riding pants are starting to fit better/looser.
Tomorrow is official weigh in day and I don't expect much loss on the scales judging by what I have seen this week. Which shouldn't be a shock after losing 19 pounds in 2 months, things do gotta slow down I suppose, but I would still like to lost 1-2 pounds a week till I lose another several pounds. I'm not SO light that I should be able to lose at that rate. It will make my goal on the March Madness weigh in challenge hard to make (though I think I should be able to make my mini goal for before the horse show at the end of March)
My work pants are definitely more comfortable and looser. For a while when I was really up there in weight they would keep sliding down beneath my 'front butt' (that super gross flabby lower belly pooch, which when it gets real big looks like a butt in the front) which was terribly uncomfortable for me. Every time bent down to pick up a dropped brush or the dryer hose it would slip down and I would have to stop and pull it back over the butt again. I certainly do not have that problem anymore (still have a major pooch, but the pants fit better now). I feel totally comfy in my work clothes.
I notice yesterday looking in the mirror that my neck looked really long and elegant, which I think is partially due to losing some weight off my shoulders, but also due to yoga improving my posture, even when I'm not focusing on it in everyday life.
I'm also noticing that my riding pants are starting to fit better/looser.
Tomorrow is official weigh in day and I don't expect much loss on the scales judging by what I have seen this week. Which shouldn't be a shock after losing 19 pounds in 2 months, things do gotta slow down I suppose, but I would still like to lost 1-2 pounds a week till I lose another several pounds. I'm not SO light that I should be able to lose at that rate. It will make my goal on the March Madness weigh in challenge hard to make (though I think I should be able to make my mini goal for before the horse show at the end of March)
MysticRealm
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Thanks. Had a nice drop on the scales today.
Starting weight: 183.5
Current Weight: 163.4 (-1)
First Mini Goal Weight: 160 by March 27
Second Mini Goal Weight: 144 by July 3
Final Goal Weigh: 125
Starting weight: 183.5
Current Weight: 163.4 (-1)
First Mini Goal Weight: 160 by March 27
Second Mini Goal Weight: 144 by July 3
Final Goal Weigh: 125
BugDude
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YaY!!! You're doing great!!! Down 20 and on track for your mini goals. Outstanding!!!!
YaY!!! You're doing great!!! Down 20 and on track for your mini goals. Outstanding!!!!
Little John
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Don't ask me how I know this term, cuz I really don't remember what drove it into my brain, but that "lower belly" that you hate has another name: FUPA (Fat upper pubic area).
Anyway, good to know yours is shrinking, along with the rest of you!
Anyway, good to know yours is shrinking, along with the rest of you!
MysticRealm
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and that makes it all the worse.
Work was ok today, then headed to the barn. My horse was quite good today so I kept his ride a little shorter.
Lazed and didn't do a workout today. Which isn't too terrible as I have done a workout mon-thursday, but I'm getting a bit lazy with my circuit training which isn't good. I'd like to do a work out tomorrow but not sure what time I'll have. My friend wants me to go to this weight loss talk thingie, which I really don't think I need or really want to go to, but it was hard to say no. She initially said it would only be about an hour, then after I agreed to go (thinking it would end at 11 so I could go ride and workout right after) she said it was actually 10-1! 3 hours! Holy poop! Don't know what the heck they will talk about for 3 hours! I imagine it will be a lot about smoothies and veggies and junk like that. I told her I didn't know if I had time to stay for the whole thing but I'd come for a bit. She never replied back, but hopefully it gives me a bit of an out.
I need to ride, but I would also like to get a run in, but I'm also picking up Chinese food tomorrow to bring to my brother's house as my siblings and their families are getting together for supper.
I picked up vietnamese for supper.
On Monday I made a facebook event inviting people to come with me on Sunday to either hike and/or hot yoga. So far ONE friend has responded and said she would go (and her fiance) to hiking (not the yoga). Not a single one of my other friends has even acknowledged the event period. It's a day away and 11 people have said absolutely nothing. And knowing the friend (same one as the weight loss talk thingie) that agreed to go, she's likely going to be 'sick' and not able to go. I knew not many, if any one, would go but I thought they'd acknowledge it 'oh sounds like fun but I can't make it' or at least to click the 'not going' button.
Lunch: 1/2 enchilada
Supper: Vietnamese
Snacks: 2 cookies, white cheddar popcorn, 5 mini cream eggs.
Total Cals: 1484
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Facebook events are weird things. I generally ignore them too, possibly because I dislike being plonked into an online group without wanting to be. I only ever reply if the person organizing it has spoken to me about it personally...
A three-hour weightloss talk sounds like a sales thing, but as long as it´s free it can´t hurt to look into it for an hour or so. Hope it´s interesting!
A three-hour weightloss talk sounds like a sales thing, but as long as it´s free it can´t hurt to look into it for an hour or so. Hope it´s interesting!
MysticRealm
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I only invited people from our close group. Not a mass party type thing. I would have even been happy if they just clicked 'not going' but every single other person has just ignored it completely. If it had been one of my other friends organizing the event most people would go, and the ones that couldn't go would have been like 'oh sounds great, can't make it though!' It's more of a discrepency between how my friends are with other friend in our group as apposed to me.
The weight loss thing is $5 and I do think there will be a decent amount of sales talk for supplements and crap. Really would have like to say no but was too hard to say no to my friend (not so hard for them to say no to me)
The weight loss thing is $5 and I do think there will be a decent amount of sales talk for supplements and crap. Really would have like to say no but was too hard to say no to my friend (not so hard for them to say no to me)
MysticRealm
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164 this morning. Apparently my body likes that weight. However I am wearing jeans for the first time in probably 8 months because they finally fit well enough for me to feel comfortable wearing them.
BugDude
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Yay!!! Celebrate the victories!!!!
MysticRealm
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Thanks, ya I was fairly happy with how I looked in my jeans today. They are still my 'fat jeans' but it's still a step in the right direction.
Today was long but fairly good.
Right when I got up I quickly put chairs down to block Bear from being able to go on the carpet then went to the bathroom. While in the bathroom I heard my 15 yr old dog JUMP the chairs. Came out of the bathroom to pee on my carpet. Grr.
Went to that 3 hour weight loss talk. Obviously a lot of trying to sell supplements. Don't count calories cause weight loss is all about hormones, detoxes, don't eat any sugar, etc etc. But it was ok, small bits of useful info. I was tired this morning so I mostly just sat there half out of it haha.
I thought I might try to be lazy and just head home after that, despite having my riding clothes along, but I headed straight to the barn, changed, and had a decent ride on my horse. He's overall getting calmer about me carrying the crop.
It was already getting pretty late in the day, I had to pick up the chinese food at 5:45 and it was after 3 when I got home. I had wanted to do some exercise today, but didn't really feel like it and it was getting quite late (and I had already done 4 days of exercise and am going hiking and to hot yoga tomorrow). However I somehow ended up in my workout gear and heading to the gym. I had no idea what kind of exercising I was going to do. However I left without my circuit training sheets, so I knew I wouldn't do that. Got on the treadmill and still didn't know what I was gonna do. Ended up deciding to do hill work.
Started off at an incline of 2.0 for the first few minutes, but then raise it to 2.5 incline. After my 2 min walk, I did 30 mins straight of running. 28 mins at a speed of 4.8 then did 2 mins at an incline of 6.5 at a speed of 5.0. Then walked for 8 mins to end off having done 40 mins. Cal burn on treadmill said 410 and distance was 2.98 miles (4.8kms)
Before I left to go get the chinese food I used double chairs at each entrance to the carpeting so he would not be able to jump them.
Had a good evening with my brother's and their families. We talked a bit about weight loss since everyone feels they could stand to lose a few pounds. Had some good laughs. Lots of yummy chinese food. Resisted the iced tea and just had water.
Got home and Bear had shoved the chairs out of the way and not only peed on my carpet, but pooped too. Grr.
I posted a note last night on my FB event about people not responding and finally had another couple respond. One couldn't go but the other I had apparently had guilted into coming not only for hiking but also hot yoga. Still no one else responded, even my best guy friend.
Today was long but fairly good.
Right when I got up I quickly put chairs down to block Bear from being able to go on the carpet then went to the bathroom. While in the bathroom I heard my 15 yr old dog JUMP the chairs. Came out of the bathroom to pee on my carpet. Grr.
Went to that 3 hour weight loss talk. Obviously a lot of trying to sell supplements. Don't count calories cause weight loss is all about hormones, detoxes, don't eat any sugar, etc etc. But it was ok, small bits of useful info. I was tired this morning so I mostly just sat there half out of it haha.
I thought I might try to be lazy and just head home after that, despite having my riding clothes along, but I headed straight to the barn, changed, and had a decent ride on my horse. He's overall getting calmer about me carrying the crop.
It was already getting pretty late in the day, I had to pick up the chinese food at 5:45 and it was after 3 when I got home. I had wanted to do some exercise today, but didn't really feel like it and it was getting quite late (and I had already done 4 days of exercise and am going hiking and to hot yoga tomorrow). However I somehow ended up in my workout gear and heading to the gym. I had no idea what kind of exercising I was going to do. However I left without my circuit training sheets, so I knew I wouldn't do that. Got on the treadmill and still didn't know what I was gonna do. Ended up deciding to do hill work.
Started off at an incline of 2.0 for the first few minutes, but then raise it to 2.5 incline. After my 2 min walk, I did 30 mins straight of running. 28 mins at a speed of 4.8 then did 2 mins at an incline of 6.5 at a speed of 5.0. Then walked for 8 mins to end off having done 40 mins. Cal burn on treadmill said 410 and distance was 2.98 miles (4.8kms)
Before I left to go get the chinese food I used double chairs at each entrance to the carpeting so he would not be able to jump them.
Had a good evening with my brother's and their families. We talked a bit about weight loss since everyone feels they could stand to lose a few pounds. Had some good laughs. Lots of yummy chinese food. Resisted the iced tea and just had water.
Got home and Bear had shoved the chairs out of the way and not only peed on my carpet, but pooped too. Grr.
I posted a note last night on my FB event about people not responding and finally had another couple respond. One couldn't go but the other I had apparently had guilted into coming not only for hiking but also hot yoga. Still no one else responded, even my best guy friend.
MysticRealm
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Thank you. 
164.8 this morning thanks to my chinese food yesterday.
Went on a hike today with 3 other friends. The hike was 8.6 km (5.34km's), it took 3 hours (including lunch) because they were much slower than I. I usually ended up a ways ahead, then had to stop and wait for them to catch up before continuing. It was super lovely weather, but that made for super muddy trails. I wore my barn shoes because I didn't want my running shoes to get muddy since they are my only running shoe and I need them for going to workout in the gym. Unfortunately they are not very 'water/mud proof' so my feet/socks got quite gross. Since it took a longer than I was expecting we really had to rush to make Hot Yoga at 4. Only one of my friends came to that, but it was a good time. It's amazing how quickly the time flies during yoga.
Then just relaxed for the rest of the day.
Lunch: 2 peanut 'granola' bars, 2 turkey pepperoni sticks, cheese string, fruit to go snack
Supper: Salsa chicken, bagel with peanut buter
Snacks: 2 cookies, white cheddar popcorn, 5 mini cream eggs
Total Cals: 1731
94 cals under my weekly goal.
164.8 this morning thanks to my chinese food yesterday.
Went on a hike today with 3 other friends. The hike was 8.6 km (5.34km's), it took 3 hours (including lunch) because they were much slower than I. I usually ended up a ways ahead, then had to stop and wait for them to catch up before continuing. It was super lovely weather, but that made for super muddy trails. I wore my barn shoes because I didn't want my running shoes to get muddy since they are my only running shoe and I need them for going to workout in the gym. Unfortunately they are not very 'water/mud proof' so my feet/socks got quite gross. Since it took a longer than I was expecting we really had to rush to make Hot Yoga at 4. Only one of my friends came to that, but it was a good time. It's amazing how quickly the time flies during yoga.
Then just relaxed for the rest of the day.
Lunch: 2 peanut 'granola' bars, 2 turkey pepperoni sticks, cheese string, fruit to go snack
Supper: Salsa chicken, bagel with peanut buter
Snacks: 2 cookies, white cheddar popcorn, 5 mini cream eggs
Total Cals: 1731
94 cals under my weekly goal.
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