WOW, for starters, congrats on the 10lbs down, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your doing something right my friend, that's for sure! COOL BEANS! Sounds like your weekend was a crazy one at work. WOW!! Glad your okay, and nothing is broke. Well, at least today is a new day and you can start fresh again! Good luck on eating and exercise this week. OH YEAH, did you get the ab roller yet??? I kept staring at mine all weekend, almost picked it up yesterday, but was to tired. LOL LOL I'm ready girlie, let me know when.
Kim
PS, I love sweat peas new avatar, that girl is so pretty!!

Thanks for the kudos on the 10 pounds.
And it was one crazy weekend.
Thankfully the boss will be back from vacation this friday so things should get back to normal.
I guess that the thing I was calling an ab roller is actually called an ab dolly. Did find a knock off version that I plan on using tomorrow. Sweatpea has an actual ab roller that she said I could use. We are getting together tomorrow to workout so I should be able to pick it up then. So lets plan on Wednesday being our start day. Besides that will give me one more day to recover from the super~fling!!!
And she is Bee~u~ta~ful isn't she!!
On the inside as well as out!!!
Keeping the pace
Bellaryna

I'm ready for WED!! OH YEAH!! Are you doing them at night before bed? Or in the morning?? Oh and I think your ab roller and mine are two different things. I think sweetpea's actually you lay on your back and roll up and down while holding those bars, right?? And the one you have you slide on this small platform forward and back is that right?? I'm going to find a pic of the one I have, I think sweetpeas looks like more what I would like to have. Let me see if I can locate a pic of the one I have at home,it's insane!

Found it!! This is what I have.

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:[ sorry to hear about what happened at work. That's really ickky! Hope you feel better soon miss!


xoxo

This is the one I would like to get but alas it is to expensive. I am unable to use the ones that put alot of weight on the wrists. I've sprained my wrists to many times and so it makes it impossible.
What I do have is nothing more than a scooter that my kids use at gym class. No padding just a platform and wheels.
I am planning on using it in the morning. And after getting back into the groove I will try to add some at night.
I'll let you know when I add the reps in at night.
Gotta go
Bellaryna

Awe, shuckS! Thanks!

Ok Bell, you know I love ya, and I'm so glad you're not hurt (too awfully bad.) But I just got tell ya, that I have this vision of you flying through the air and doing somersaults before landing on that icy cold floor and then your face mask freezing to it....

So I know it probably wasn't funny at the time, but somehow, I think you'll be laughing when you're telling it.
I think you're more related to your teeny-bopper than you know. JK!

I haven't exercised yet today and I probably won't either. No sleep last night, I woke up at 3 am and just couldn't get back to sleep. Then of course I got to sleep right before the boys woke up. I couldn't move to get up before Mr. M left, but I did manage to crawl out of bed to see C-man off.

Oh and I went and put in an app. to Barnes and Noble - they are hiring all sorts of positions (I guess they're building or adding on to the B&N at Glenbrook.)

They are going to call for a 2nd interview, so wish me luck!

Didn't weigh myself today so have to assume that I am still with-in range of my 220.
Woke up feeling a bit achy not as bad as Monday but definatley feeling it in the shoulders. Hurts kinds bad to lift one shoulder but that is the shoulder that forced me outta my last job position so that is no surprise there. Will take some time but will be back to normal soon enough.
Got the kiddos around for school, had a bowl of the Special K w/ strawberries and skim milk for breakfast. Dropped of dd at school only to realize 10 miles down the road that dd's lunch was sitting in the backseat of the car. Ds kept trying to tell me, but I was on the phone and not listening.........had I listened would have saved me a ton of time.......oh well.
So I turned around and dropped off her lunch to school. Turned back around to go visit the neighboring town. Come home and ds wants to go to the park. Get to the park and it's a muddy mess. Bribe him from going to the park to going to the library. Which we have a brand new one right next to the park. Imagine that?! LOL
Spend an hour there. Get an incrediable craving for McD's Chix selects sooooo ( I know bad bad bad!!!) head over and get a 3 pc. Go home scarf them down before I can talk myself out of them and go out and clean the garage. Took me nearly 3 hours!!
I keep telling myself that the cleaning of the garage burned off enough calories to offset those selects.
Go pick up dd from school and head back home. Start fixing dinner......Center cut pork loin roast 140 cals for 4oz. 1/4 cup sweet potatoes with maybe 3 sprays of I can't believe it's not butter, passed on the bread, and 7 cubes of the sargento snack cheese.
Then went for a 1 1/2-2 mile walk thru the woods. Tried to keep the pace up but my dd (7) and ds (4) were with me so couldn't go too fast. But more than anything I really enjoyed going for a walk with them. In the past, like it was so long ago....(disgust with myself for missing out on spending quality time with my kids), I wouldn't have even moved off of the couch. Ds was so tired that when I was singing his song to him he fell fast asleep before I was even done with it.
To top of the day had a treat.........a small white chocolate mocha from Star Bucks. Yum!! I don't do that very often because of the price. At least I got all my cravings out in one day!!! haha
Tomorrow I'll be getting back onto the elliptical and also begin using my ab scooter thingy. Now that I am just about back to normal. Also no more McD's.
Hope everyone else had a good day.
Keeping the Pace!!!
Bellaryna

Morning Bell!! Oh I love me my starbucks!!! "Mocha Frapuccino" I'm sure I didn't spell that correctly. LOL LOL I try to limit myself to one a month, okay maybe two if I'm lucky, those puppies are loaded in calories, YIKES! I'm going to use my ab roller tonight, I'm almost certain I'm going to strain something, that thing looks dangerous, but I'll keep my hubby close by just in case. LOL LOL Last night I went swimming with one of my sons, that was really nice, I haven't done that in a long time. Tonight it's the gym, ewwwwwwwww, I wish I could do morning gym classes, but I work to early. I like your food choices yesterday, yummy!! Well, I'm looking forward to seeing how you fair after your ab session today. Hopefully are arms are still working tomorrow so we can at least post are ab roller accomplishments. GOOD LUCK Today, and keep smiling!! Oh yeah, You take the best damn pictures, I love the new avatar!
Kim

[QUOTE=Miss Ladybug;313229]Morning Bell!! Oh I love me my starbucks!!! "Mocha Frapuccino" I'm sure I didn't spell that correctly. LOL LOL I try to limit myself to one a month, okay maybe two if I'm lucky, those puppies are loaded in calories, YIKES!

I usually don't have Star Bucks more than once a month as we don't have one in our town. But here lately I had one for 3 days in a row. But two of the days was Lattes with the sugar-free syrups and non-fat milk. So I wasn't too bad.....right? LOL

I'm going to use my ab roller tonight, I'm almost certain I'm going to strain something, that thing looks dangerous, but I'll keep my hubby close by just in case. LOL LOL

Your so brave!!! There is no way I am going to actually let anyone "watch" me on that thing.

Well, I'm looking forward to seeing how you fair after your ab session today. Hopefully are arms are still working tomorrow so we can at least post are ab roller accomplishments.

I can only imagine the pain I will be in!! LOL

Oh yeah, You take the best damn pictures, I love the new avatar! [QUOTE]

Thanks so much! I love love love taking pictures. It is rare that there is actually one with me in it since I am usually the person taking the photos!!Good Luck with the ab roller. I'll post back later about my "experiance"

Hey Bell!

I heard about your walk - your dh just happened to be in our neighborhood today.
Actually what I heard about was you chasing the young bucks off your road cause they think it's a NASCAR track out there.
WTG on the walk.

I tried to get dh to go for a bike ride with me this evening, but he hasn't felt well since yesterday - I drug him to go on the Raptor and ever since then he's been not feeling well. I feel bad for him so gave him a really nice back rub - even heard some cracking going on - hope it was the good kind and he's not paralyzed tomorrow. LOL

I went to starbucks and got a blueberry tea lemonade - it was tastey. Next time I will ask for it w/o ice because I got a lot of ice.

Sounds like you are doing great - I hear your garage is sparkling! I have not done so good - today I only walked to my MIL's and back then came and lied down on the couch and finally took a nap.

I guess I'm on "vacation" mode. Tomorrow dh and I are going to go out for breakfast and then to Pokagon for a hike. That ought to do us the rest of the way in. ;p

Later tater!

Oh forgot to mention, if you go to starbucks.com - they have all the nutritional values of their beverages.

Some will make you , but you can alter the drinks for less cals.

Vacation mode is okay. Not like you guys really ever get that much time to spend together. So enjoy it!
Now tomorrow just make sure that you climb up to Hell's Point and it will make up for any exercises that you feel you have neglected this week!!!!

Hello Everyone!!
Didn't actually count the cals today but I know that I didn't go over. Got up this morning and rode the beastie for 20 minutes. Super fast walked my dd to school and then came home to veg for a bit. Did the grocery shopping.........bought more than I thought I would but it was mostly all stuff that is so good for you that I couldn't help myself. LOL Besides since I work for Wal-Mart I get a 10% discount on all fresh fruit and vegetables. Can't very well be passing that up now can I?
Came home and put all the groceries away, wrestled with my youngest for about 15-20 minutes. Gave 'em a good wedgie too!!!! Oh I love doing that.......LOL!
Went and got the rest of my chili dogs (aka children) from school , came home and started to fix supper.
In the process my dh calls me outside to "speak" to me.
The neighbor, 3 houses down, daughter was killed yesterday in an awful car accident. She was only 19. I feel so awful. I didn't know her, they have only been in the neighborhood for about 1 1/2-2 years. And beings how she was older, she was your typical teenager. Didn't have time for anyone but herself and her friends. I did get to speak to her once when her puppy got loose and I helped her to catch him. She seemed like a really nice girl.
I feel even worse because last night as people (teenagers)were driving up and down our street (we live in a cul-de-sac) they were just zipping right thru (it's a regular thing ever since the girls moved in down the street) and I yelled at one of them to slow down (they were doing like 45mph when it is posted only to be 20mph). Ok I jumped out into the street and YELLED at them to slow down. All they were doing was going to her house to see her family. So now I feel like a heel. But at the same time I am still mad. My kids were playing in the front yard and I feel that had a friend of mine just been killed in a reckless driving accident I might be driving with a bit more care.
Anyhow supper was de-lish!!
We had baked halibut ala my style. Which basically means no recipe just doing whatever I felt like. Big fat salad with lots of veggies and steamed California blend. And just for the fun of it everyone got 2 chocolate dipped strawberries. Ooooh were they tasty!! That's the first chocolate that I have had in about a month and I have to say it was ok but not wonderful. I actually enjoyed the strawberry more.
Went for a super huge walk on a trail that I had never been on before. Took about 45 minutes. My (16) stepson went with me. We were just walking and walking when all of the sudden we pop out of the woods onto someones really nice lawn.
After we found our way back to the car (it was getting really dark) we decide to drive and see if we can find where those houses were that we saw. They were about a mile from my own house!!!!!! We did some serious hiking!! There were some pretty decent sized hills and you know had I tried that walk last month there would have been no way that I could have made it thru the whole hike.
I have come so far now!
Well normally my day isn't nearly as exciting as all this so sorry for the long post.
PS: Kim I was only able to do like 25 of the reps and I did them before bed.
Tomorrow I am going to shoot for 25 in the morning and 25 at night.
Good Night All!!