Saturday, July 31, 2010
Too, too hot for the big dam bridge. decided to do an exercise show on fit tv. the dude's name is gilad. today's show was probably not that difficult for non fluffy people. however for me, it required holding on to the husband for stability. we did things with and without weights. now gilad got down on the floor for part of it. I have one of those exercise ball deals in my closet. It has been there for about 7 years. I assume it will blow up. I think I read somewhere if you can't get to the floor you should use a ball to lean on????? Does anybody know???? Am all out of breathe. I want to take a class so bad but am horribly afraid my lack of rhythm and coordination will even be more evident. How do you become so fluid and artful in movement? I still clunk around. Will it ever happen??????
Worked this am. After work went to a big ladies store. I hate that place. Was going to get a couple of shirts. But I decided right then and there I am NEVER going to buy anything in there again. If I have to wear holes in the clothes I have, then I will. The next outfit I buy will NOT have a "Catherine's" price tag on it.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Ya'll I have loose jeans. in the leg area. I thought it was just the bag out after wearing them a while. But they are loose. At least I hope they are. I have been wearing the same jeans since Bill Clinton went to the White House, the first time.
Tomorrow I am going to the movies. I am NOT going to have popcorn and coke. I usually have a tub of corn with extra butter and a huge coke. NOT TOMORROW. I think I will put some grapes in a baggy and take in a bottle of water. Tonight we had hamburgers and I ate a cupcake.
At work the little gym sent out a notice about two FREE classes for August; Body Sculpting and Spinning. I asked April about Spinning. She said it is a bike, high up in the air, you are leaned over it and pedaling. We don't know what Body Sculpting is. I emailed the gym master and asked if a beginner with only 46 days of exercise history could do the spinning class. Will see what she says on Monday.
Tomorrow evening I am going back to the scene of the crime...The Big Dam Bridge. Can I make it all the way across? I think I hear my sister's voice screaming from St. Louis, she is saying I can do it.LOL
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Something I have always wanted to wear are boots. Funky, snazzy, pointy toe boots! Generally speaking boots are not fluffy people friendly. While in El Do I went to Shelley's Shoes on the square and found these two awesome boots. No, I didn't get them because I can't wear them YET! If you have never been to Shelley's you owe it to yourself to go. She has so many cute and eclectic things. I think the pink leather ($125) ones are to die for. The psych colorful pair are actually rubber rain boots ($40). My goal is to be able to buy and wear these in December.
Have been on exercise hiatus for two days. I am telling you the 1 hour walk and the Big Dam Bridge wore me out. Back to work tomorrow!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Sweat is running down my back into my pants down my leg and into my socks. I am about to pass totally out.
I go down to Lake Willastein in Maumelle. Going to walk the 1.1 mile portion of the track around the lake. Start out strong even tho the sun is blaring its 95 degree self. The city evidently thinks these goose or geese or whatever the crap they are supposed to be are an enhancement to the scenery. THEY ARE NOT. They are little squawking, pooping, annoying creatures. One section of the track was covered with poop. Not to mention it stinks to high heaven. I hold my breathe and get on with it.
Am walking into the full sun and start to lag, drink water and anticipate the shady part of the track. Some old geezer on a bike passes me. I go thru the shady part and get to the last 1/3 of the track only to find the city of Maumelle has barricaded the bridge which connects the two track sides that I want!!! I stopped and watched some other people to see if they would ignore the barricade. The goody two shoes that they are, they did not... they walked on. I wanted so bad to go over the barricade. I mean the bridge looked fine to me. But I was afraid it would break or something so I trudged on. Now I have to take an alternate path that makes the walk twice as long. I drink all of my water, and am one step away from filling my bottle up in the lake and drinking it.
It is at this point I know how people in the desert see mirages, I thought I saw my car 3 times. When I meet people on the track everybody feels obligated to say something to me. Like how's it going? hot ain't it? Now here's deal, when you see a fluffy woman trying to suck the last drop out of a water bottle that has collapsed from the pressure it is not likely she can respond to your banter.
All total, I walked for 1 solid hour. I finally get back to the car and tell my husband the saga and he says "well that's great! you got in some extra walking!" (insert your own answer here. I will let you imagine what I told him)
Monday, July 26, 2010
It's 8:39. I am in my hotel room. In 45 minutes I have to meet Sister and Niece in the lobby. I will have to crawl down there because right now people, I CAN BARELY LIFT MY FINGERS TO TYPE THIS BLOG POST. My legs hurt, my face hurts, my butt hurts, my arms hurt, basically it is a full body hurt going on here.
Sister just called my room. She has just come from the hotel workout room. She is informing me what they have down there. She is also telling me I made her sound AWFUL on yesterday's post. Somehow that makes it all worth it.LOL
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Well I slept with my cell phone in my hand because I didn't want to miss hearing the alarm for the 7:00 Big Dam Bridge workout with the St. Louis trainer nazi AKA my sister, Sherri. I wasn't about to be the one who wimped out, because I knew she would be the one banging on my door telling me to get it in gear! The alarm goes off and I sneak tippy toe into the living room and was estatic I didn't hear any sounds of life from the guest room. THE SISTER OVERSLEPT. Yippie Ki Yeah! No Big Dam Bridge workout!
Then she woke up.
And we strap on our smiley faces and tennis shoes and leave for the Big Dam Bridge. People, my sister does not have an "off" switch. She literally hits the ground running. I hit the ground, then stop, and think about how I am going to run, when I am going to run, and even if I am going to run!
We get to the bridge to which she informs me it is not a steep incline at all. I have to object here. I mean come on, I am practically going to be walking horizontally.
We start the walk. I am carrying my water bottle and my camera. I had already given Sister my car keys to carry for me. She says in 5 minutes we will stop and check my pulse. It has to be 20 beats per 10 seconds otherwise I am not burning fat. I thought this meant we would actually STOP. Oh no, trainer nazi meant we slow down and check our pulse while still going!!!!! My 1st check was at 18. "Ah Hah" she says. "This means you have to go faster!" Faster, crap I was already dragging and begging for mercy. I decide to lighten the load and gave Sister my water bottle to carry.
Second check was at 19. You guessed it, I have to go faster! We were fast approaching the middle way point where I might add they have nifty little benches, not that my butt got to sit on one. We paused for 3 seconds and then she commanded I had to keep going to the end of the flag line they had on the bridge. I had to lighten again, so I gave her my camera to carry. I would like to interject at this point I wanted to throw my sister off the Big Dam Bridge.
I trudge on. By this time she is carrying my car keys, my water bottle, and my camera. She is also walking, more like sprinting, backwards, watching me, telling me to pick up the pace, and TALKING ON THE PHONE. When the last flag is visible to me I wanted to turn around. NO NO She said, I have to go all the way to the flag. I have to be lined right up with the stinking flag. I then surmised the walk down the incline would be a piece of cake. But heck no. Sister says I have to walk even faster because now we are going down hill!!! I am now thinking Sister missed her calling as a drill sargeant in the Marines.
We get all the way off the bridge and I am thinking collapse time but oh no no no. Sister says we have to walk along the path by the river and then walk back up that. I am telling you this woman does not know the meaning of the word STOP. She's blathering on about heart rate and what I need to be doing and what if she lived here and we could do this every day. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
To put it lightly, if Sister lived in Little Rock and did the workout with me everyday...I would have already lost 50 lbs. I would be dead, but thinner. The scary thing is I know she is going to be calling me about this week's workout. I already hear her voice in my head saying "Faster, Faster, Faster." She's already planning my next weekend's walk all the way across the Big Dam Bridge. AGH!!!!!
P.S. I love you, Sister!
So we take my sister and niece and daughter out to eat mexican food. I was good and got the quesadia as planned. Then I said "Why don't we show ya'll the Big Dam Bridge, since I have blogged about it and all". So we go down there and the next thing I know my sister is saying "oh yeah we can come back here early in the morning and walk this thing, get the heart rate up, ya ya ya ya." THE WOMAN IS PLANNING A MARATHON ON THE BIG DAM BRIDGE ON SUNDAY MORNING AT 7:00 AM!!!!!" I said are you mental? I wasn't planning to walk this thing this weekend, I just wanted to show it to you. Well then she started telling me how we are going to check my heart rate while walking the Big Dam Bridge and how my heart rate has to be 25 beats per 10 seconds or some such CRAP. PEOPLE, I AM GOING TO BE ON THE BIG DAM BRIDGE AT 7:00 AM TOMORROW! I can assure you tomorrow's posting is going to be a doozy!
I am also going with her to El Do tomorrow evening to see our parents. Well then she starts saying "Oh yeah, the hotel has a treadmill we want to be sure and use that." I wouldn't be at all surprised if she didn't whip out a coach's whistle from her pocket. THE GYM VIRGIN IS STRESSING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, July 24, 2010
More and more things are amazing me. Used to I would circle a parking lot, sometimes up to 15 minutes trying to get a parking spot close to the store. Now I have started parking out away from the store and using that as an extra walking time. I have decided every little bit helps.
Today I planted flowers and cleaned the casa. My dear sister and my sweet niece are coming down tonight from St. Louis. April is coming over too! I have a chilled fruit tray and dip for when they get here. Somehow fruit tastes better now. I am not saying I eat totally healthy now, far from it. But I am starting to pay more attention to what I eat. I still have a love affair with ice cream. Every night I do have a bowl of ice cream. And this weekend we are going to eat mexican food. But instead of my usual chimichanga, I think I will order a quesadia or maybe taco salad. I don't know. All I really know for sure is this exercise thing has surprised the crap out of me.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
But today I have on a shirt that was too tight before. It is a summer sweater. And before it showed the rolls in the tummy area. I even thought about tossing it. Now it goes down pretty smoothly. I am definitely shocked.
Short day at gym. 22 minutes and 4.58 miles on bike. Then short walk downtown.
That's all folks!
Later!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Just got back from the workout. Goal for month two is 45 minutes each day. Today I did 2 minutes on the ellip, 15 minutes (3 miles) on the bike, two weight machines (30 reps each) and then I went to the track. Now the track is actually, much to my surprise, a floor of the building which they have taped off to resemble a track. It is really pretty cool because it twists and turns and you don't get bored. It is 1/20th of a mile around. I did 5 rounds. How much is that? Is that a mile? Is that part of a mile? I HATE NUMBERS AND ESPECIALLY DESPISE FRACTIONS. Somebody please do the math and let me know. Anyways all in all it was 45 minutes. I am so tired......
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