slimmersoon

I’ll admit it, I have an entire room of workout equipment.  I should be in awesome shape!  But so much gets all too frequently covered in dust.  I have decided to really, really use what I have and work out this body to get in shape.  I even bought some new gadgets and I’m loving them.  I need to get back to my treadmill but for the last two weeks I have focused more on strength exercises.  I have started using my stability ball and have been doing crunches like crazy.  So much so that it seems that ache in my abs is a constant now (and I love that).  I recently received one of those step box thingies for my birthday and decided to give it a real go.  Caution!!! If you are out of shape you should start slow and on the lowest level, good advice that I myself didn’t take.  I did 15 minutes non-stop at a rapid pace and for the next 3 days I was in so much pain.  I’m not kidding, everyone was laughing at me at work and at home because I was walking all goofy.  My calf muscles were screaming, it felt like constant charlie horses in my muscles.  Today finally being able to walk again, I gave it another go at a lower level and much slower pace, we will see tomorrow I guess.  Hopefully I can still walk or people at work are going to be wondering about me :)  Today I was at a sporting goods store and finally caved in and bought another gadget I had been eyeing, it’s one of those weighted bars.  I got the 12 pound one and I’m very excited about it, my arms definately need some shaping up.  I have seen different ways to use these in magazines I just need to figure out exactly how to do all of the different exercises.  I have been trying to sneak in more exercise when I can, it can be very hard on those days when I’m at work because I get up at 4:30am and then work all day then don’t get back home til 8pm.  I am getting more exercise and I need to start focusing more on my food, I was doing so good but slid a bit during and after my vacation.  But I’m gaining motivation and I am ready to see the numbers on that scale slide (down), so here goes! 

Well, I’ve been on vacation this past week and it was wonderful.  My boyfriend and I both celebrated our birthdays and our 12 year anniversary last Sunday by going away for a week in the Smoky Mountains.  It was our first real vacation together in all these years.  We rented a cabin up in the mountains and I had so much fun.  The leaves were changing and everything was so beautiful.  One day we went to Gatlinberg and did the tourist thing and then we discovered the National Park and everyday after that was spent there.  I got to see a bear.  We even got in some hiking, and oh did my body let me know I’m out of shape (I really appreciated that our cabin had a hot tub after that first hike).  By the last day of hiking I was loving it, being active and out in nature.  I felt inspired to start doing more active things outside back here at home.  Check out a few of our pictures from the trip.

Our vacation was beautiful, great, and much needed.  I can definately say I didn’t want it to end.  But while we were active and did not eat out as much as we could have.  I have seen a gain (I’ll admit I did have a caramel apple among other things).  We came home Friday night, then we had a huge family get together on Saturday with tons of good ole’ southern cooking then we ate out last night.  I had fried fish (bad, I know and full of salt.)  So today I was very nervous about getting on the scale with good reason.  I had over a 5 pound gain, granted some of it is probably all of the salt from last night, but no good.  I also have not been drinking water, we have no groceries here at home and it is time to restock.  I go back to work tomorrow and have made up my mind to get back to it.  I was doing really well and while I wouldn’t trade one second of my vacation I’m ready to get back in healthy mode.  I had DVR’d some episodes of Biggest Loser and watched them today while doing some situps and other exercises in my living room floor.  We were going to go biking but discovered one of the bikes needs repairs first.  I had a blast but know I have work to do.  I will be eating healthy and taking lunch to work, getting in exercise every chance I can and drinking lots of water.  So off to start a new week.  Hope its a great one for you guys too!