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

The Ellis Family

Wade Ellis

These photos were all taken by Anna Belew.

Life's a beach

Mustang Island Summer of 2010

We had a great vacation this summer. We went to Rockport & Port Aransas again. Our girls love the beach. It was really nice to just sit on the beach and read while they played and picked up shells.

I just had to check in and let you know I am still alive. ha ha. I have been writing!!! very excited about this new project.

Gotta Run!

wow what a busy month

I can't believe it has been nearly a month since I last signed on to this blog.
Where has the time gone??? I have been so busy trying to keep up with the kids & the house that I haven't sat down to write anything!
One big thing that has been consuming our time lately is our yard. It seems like we are spending more time out side than ever. Wade has done a such a fabulous job on the yard and new patio area that I want to live out there.

Another time consuming event is the fact that I am so into genealogy again.
I want to be looking up people and dates all the time. This past weekend I found another CSA Veteran in my direct line 3rd Great Grandfather David D Anderson.
On my mothers side there is GW Harrison (Currier for General Sterling Price), & John B Bratcher (19th Tenn Infantry company D).
On Daddy's side William Burl Leatherman (Don't have much pension, application to prove he served) & David D. Anderson (Border's Regt Texas Cav CSA)
I haven't even began to delve into the Ellis side for the girls. My next step is to find all of the proof.

Maybe I will find out some cool information this weekend at the Leatherman Reunion or the next at the Hudson.