9 lbs!

Wow, yesterday was all good. (Other than the problems with the left knee.)
I had surgery on the left knee in 1998 and it has been really giving me problems over the past week. It seems very weak and hurts as I work out. It could just be that I give in to it because it was the bad one for so long. I have an appointment set up for the 27th to have Dr. Binzer take a look at it.
I warmed up 5 minutes on the elliptical, by the end my knee was really shaking, so Bethany suggested I walk in a backward motion on the elliptical. That felt so much better on the knee, after that. We started off working the arms, shoulders and back for 20 minutes then we moved on to squats. After squats we played catch with "Bubba" a medicine ball. I had to throw it over this bar about 8 foot off the floor. Sometimes I could make it over, other times it would go to the top and fall back on my side. I had to make it over 15 times. Wow what a work out! It was fun though. I felt like I was back in kindergarten trying to make a basket in basketball.
Then it was on to the treadmill for a 5 minute cool down.
After the treadmill we had our weigh in. The scales I weighed on last week were not working so we had to use another set. They showed I had lost about 6 lbs. I told Bethany that my scales at home were showing 9 lbs so since they are the ones I use all the time we are going with that number.

I lost! Or maybe I won!

Today is weigh in, and measurement day.
I know I have lost I just don't know how much yet.
When I dressed this morning my blouse was loose around the middle. It hung straight down from my bust line it did not catch on my belly.

One time as my mother weighed and announced she lost. Rebecca wanted to weigh so she let her and told her it was 28 lbs. Then Becca said "I won, I won" 4 is such a fun age.

In this transformers contest to loose is to win. So I am ready for weigh in this afternoon so I can see the numbers.

Have a great day. I will post tonight.

Opps I forgot to post. Playing catch up

Sorry everyone I have been a little busy and forgot to post. Probably due to the lack of sugar and Caffeine. I had a coke on Thursday and haven't had one since.

Wednesday afternoon was the Body pump workout. WOW! I was thinking a 30 to 45 minute workout. WRONG! It was a full hour with a weight bar. I only had about 2lbs on there but it was enough. We were in a dark room with lots of mirrors. There was a little light coming through the door and there were neon lights across the front of the room but that was it. So you had this wonderful feeling that no one was watching you. And it was cool in there, lots of ceiling fans. If I'm gonna be sweating I want a fan!
There were lots of squats involved in this class and I could sure feel them on Thursday morning.

On Thursday afternoon it was time for my next workout with my trainer. This time we did squats, and we did small hand weights working my chest. We also used the big ball that you sit on or lay on with bar bells in hand. Lots of new experiences. After class I was so excited because I realized that I could do everything at home without some fancy expensive machine.

Friday morning I discovered that I have muscles that I didn't know existed. My underarms were so sore not to mention my thighs and belly. On Friday night while the family was hanging out watching TV, I went over to what my dad calls mom's playroom to workout. (Originally built for mom's treadmill. Then the table was put in there for scrap booking, then it became the jewelry making studio. Now there is also a deep freeze in there.) I walked a little over a mile as I was walking I alternated the incline up and down like you would if you were walking up a hill and then back to level. I learned this from my trainer it makes your heart rate rise and then go back down. Supposed to improve the workout. After my mile I did 35 squats, and some stretches. How strange that I just typed such a sentence. My Friday nights are usually spent watching a movie on lifetime while eating ice cream or cheese and crackers

Saturday morning YOGA. My first experience, with yoga was great very relaxing. I wanted to lay there in the floor and sleep for a couple of hours. Unfortunately I had to take a 4 year old to buy ballet shoes. After my mom spent a fortune on my girls at the shoe store we left the little one at home with Daddy, took the big one to meet a friend and Mom and I went to Fort Worth. While over there I bought one of those big exercise balls and a kettle bell weight. I plan on keeping them both in mom's play room away from children.

Sunday was is the Lord's day so I rested no workouts. Rested/overslept is there a difference?
After a wonderful worship service we rushed home fed the family then went to Wal-mart doing my part to help the Walton Family in business. Fixed a fruit salad to take to small group bible study (just in case there wasn't a healthy option). We had a wonderful bible study and one of the people we have been studying with decided to be baptized. So we went over to the Church building and had a baptism.
An awesome end to an awesome day!

Body Pump class

Yesterday was my first experience with the body pump class. Wow!

I will tell you all about it later. Right now it is time for me to go to my second work-out with Bethany. I am loving this. Who would have ever thought I would like it this much.

First Work out

Yesterday I was so excited and scared at the same time. I got off work and drove to the gym. When I arrived I said a little prayer asking for strength. Something I need a lot of.

Once I got in the Gym I found my trainer she put me on the treadmill for 5 minutes to see what I could do. While she read my food diary. Big surprise she said I was eating the wrong foods.
Then we moved to the other side of the building to a bunch of machines I don't even know the names of.
The first one was this thing that I stood on and spun this crank thing with my hands for like 30 seconds slow then 30 sec really fast and hard. Then I changed the direction and spun it toward myself with the same 30 fast and 30 slow. After about 5 minutes I thought I like this, but it is getting hard.

Then we moved on to the next torture device, um I mean machine. This one I got to sit on yea I can rest my spaghetti legs. Wrong this one was working the legs. I had to push these big pedals trying to use the heel more than the toe. By this time my shorts were just a little sweaty and I was slip sliding around like you wouldn't believe.

After 5 minutes we moved on to a thing that was sort of like a bike. More like a recumbent bike the pedals were in front of me rather than below. Again we did the fast and slow thing, for 5 minutes by this time my left knee was shaking really bad.

When I thought I was sure to throw up, we moved back to the evil crank thing for another 5 minutes. My only thought was at least I am not having to push with my legs. When I was on the verge of tears Bethany told me it was time to stop and go to another area. Yes, I get to get away from those torture devices!

Wrong we moved on to something I thought looked so cool when I saw them doing it on Biggest Looser. Well let me be perfectly clear the moving stairway is not cool. It is extremely scary. I just knew I was going to miss a step and fall to the floor. But I did survive my 5 minutes on the stair thing. My friend Carrie said that she only made it 3 minutes the first time on that machine so I do feel better to know I at least made the whole 5 minutes.

Then the scariest part of the day was when we went into the dressing room to measure me. I know I am fat. I know that I am lumpy and terribly out of shape but, I had no idea my waist and hips were that big around. I know that sounds silly but I don't measure myself that often so I was really shocked at the #'s. When she weighed me I weighed 4 lbs more than I did at home but, I was wearing clothes and shoes so I am assuming that is the 4 lbs.

This morning I woke up and stretched and got the surprise of my life. I am not sore! My body feels great. The only place I am slightly sore is in my left knee. The big surprise is that when I weighed at home this morning I had lost 2 lbs since yesterday morning. It was probably all sweat.

I am not supposed to meet with my trainer again until Thursday but she teaches a class this afternoon at 5:30. I have decided to go get that extra workout, wow I am volunteering for excises I may be possessed.

Have a wonderful day and be blessed.

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Sep 6th

As part of my work with my personal trainer, I am supposed to keep a diet diary this week.
I am supposed to write down everything that I eat and drink.
Therefore, I was good and wrote everything down on Friday & Saturday. Yesterday and today are on little slips of paper, because I have been a little scatterbrained, as soon as I find my journal I will catch it up.

I have done pretty well on my exercise. I walked a mile on Saturday morning, and then slept too late on Sunday. This morning I tried to walk but my 4-year-old kept needing things. "Momma I need paper to draw. Momma can I watch cartoons" I finally gave up at 3/4 a mile. That is why I need to be alone to get my work out.

I feel like I am planning the last supper for tonight. We are having a big old sirloin Wade cooked on the grill with cowboy potatoes. Cowboy potatoes are a wonderful concoction of potatoes baked in lots of butter with garlic, bacon and Jalapenos. They are as far from healthy as a potato can get.

About 5 years ago, Wade bought me a bright yellow mountain bike at a garage sale. I loved it, I rode it a lot that spring. We had a contest among the girls at work to see who could loose the most before a company-sponsored trip to New Orleans. My competitive spirit kicked in, and I quit drinking cokes and rode my bike. I lost 35lbs. Therefore, I know I can do this diet and exercise thing. Shortly after loosing the weight, I became pregnant with my youngest.

On Friday I had a brilliant idea to dig out my bicycle so that I could ride with the kids to get a little exercise. I knew right where my bike was parked behind the shed. It has been parked there since we came home from our Labor Day camping trip 5 years ago. Over the past 5 years it has sat there the chain getting very rusty. The seat is cracked and there was a tree growing up through it.
I took pictures and will have to post them for you all to see.

The Transformers

I am excited to announce that I have been selected to participate in "The Transformers".
The Transformers is a local version of a biggest looser type program. I will be working out with a personal trainer for the next 12 weeks. I am asking all of my friends to please pray for me over the next 12 weeks as I learn better dietary habits and the correct way to excises.
I got up an hour early this morning and walked on my mom's treadmill. It took me about 25 minutes to walk a mile at a "0" incline at a speed level of 2.5. I know that once I hit the gym on Tuesday I will have to up those #'s but I want to start out slow so my trainer doesn't kill me on Tuesday.

I just want to say thank you to Fit Now Fitness for offering this program. You will never know what this opportunity means to me.

I invite all of my friends and family to check in on my progress here on the blog.

Elizabeth & Rebecca