!!Health4life team Thread!!!

Ok all here for motivation!!!!  

Cardio minutes

KT-195

chris-160

sheila-45

val-180

its because we are deprived!!! im just glad i finished that queso dip so it wont be there anymore.

after lunch i will be at about 560 cals. thats good. my muscles are sore and i know im retaining water so my weight was a pound higher toda than yesterday. im going to punish my body again tonight so ill probably still retain tomorrow. so i have a tri on sun and i dont want to do it. im going to, but im not going to stress about time. im just going to do it. blah. thats how i feel about that!

good morning! im trying hard, but my weight has only gone down half a pound this week. i hope its from muscle repair and next week gives me results. im starving again today!!!

i hope you two have great days! come visit!

Good morning!  Yeah for being down a half pound!! 

I did that again last night.  I was totally munching when I got home.  I didn't even bother having a full dinner because I started munching and you know what happens when you start munching...it goes non-stop.  Damn!!  I feel like my stomach has suddenly become a black hole too...always wanting to eat.  Maybe it's the changing of the season?  Maybe our bodies are trying to store up extra fat for hibernation?  Lol  It sounds good, I'll go with that for now.  Lol!!!

How's Tarzan being with Robin?

gee val, u and i are messed up right now! i am just starving this week. i dont know what the deal is. im doing pretty good at resisting that urge to eat tho.

tarzan is still pissed, but hes a tiny bit better. robin keeps trying to play with batman but he would rather she just left him alone. he doesnt mind her being there tho. boy does she smell bad! tonight will be bathtime but its her farts that are killer. smelly cat smelly cat haha

Oooh, ooh!!!  I found a great find!!!  I went downstairs to Target to pick up a can of my trusty ole Campbell's Chuncky 98%ff, low sodium soup and as with many times, they were out.  D'oh!!  So there I was, in the soup aisle and noticed Campbell has a new line of "Select Harvest Light" soups.  I turned it around and saw it's fat free, the same amount of sodium as my usual (480g), and 50 cals for a half a can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yup, you guessed it, for a full freaking can...100 cals!!!  I bought 3 different kind:  Italian Style Vegetable, Chicken & Vegetables, and Southwestern style Vegetables.  I had the Italian style one today.  It is pretty darn good!!!  I was going to have a half can with my sandwich but at 100 cals, fudge that man!!!  Gotta feed the bottomless pit after all.

Smelly cat.  Lol  My Nimmy gets smelly farts when he gets into my laughing cow cheese wrappers.  And when I treat him with tuna, he treats me with smelly farts.  OMG, they're horrendous!!  I feel for ya Kt. 

oooo i need to stock up on soups too so that's awesome val! thanks!!!

and robin doens't smell quite as bad today lol. i just want everyone to calm down so we can have some peacehere!!!

ok, i don't understand why i have had such an aversion to cooking dinner this week!!! It's about 8pm and I have not had dinner. I'm definitely hungry, but dont' feel like cooking and I don't have muhc quick food here. I am just hungry lol.

I just had a gyros and baked some frozen fries.  I ran my 3 miles and since I had such low cals for lunch I still managed a good deficit.  I go through periods when I just don't want to cook.  You don't have the fixings for a sandwich or cereal? 

I am soooo sleepy and my legs are sore.  Ahh..I'm so glad tomorrow is Friday.  I have to start breaking down my garden.  It has to be ready for when the leaves fall.  When I was on my run I noticed a few trees are already shedding.  The dried leaves will do the garden good next season.

Time to stop fighting the sleep.

 

ok so "dinner" ended up being some sourdough bread w/ oil adn balsamic vinegar, 2 oreos, and chips and salsa. I seriously need to have a good dinner tomorrow. This is ridiculous!

I'm going to bed too. I'm definitely fighting beign tired. I'm like a little kid who's falling asleep but refuses to go to bed. yea thats me. bedtime!!!!

woohoo!!! the landlord is giving us a check for the rest of our deposit because we threatened to sue him!!!! im so happy!!!

Woohoo!!!  Now this is still over how he says you left the apartment, right?

yep. he charged us for stuff he couldnt legally charge us for. and since he didnt return our deposit within 21 days, we were entitled to the full return. if we had taken him to court we would have won additional damages too and he knew that. my fiance put together an amazing demand letter that i think scared the crap outta them. im soooo happy!

That's great!  I bet the money is so welcome!! 

So do you have any plans for today or the weekend?  Lil'V wants to go see Igor.  I've been reading the fan reviews and many are saying it is boring.  Kids at a boring movie is never any fun.  There aren't any other kid movies out right now so I'm debating on taking her.  We haven't been out with her in a while, I know she's anxious for something different.  Frankly, so am I.  We'll see!!!

no big plans today. we are going to go look at one local rose garden taht we might use for the wedding. It's literaly down the street so it's not like it will be a big ordeal to go check it out. then probably just do some cleaning and make sure the cats don't kill each other. they are getting along much better today. Batman and Robin are making the first signs of playing with each other and Tarzan is just managing to stay in teh same room w/ Robin w/o growling constantly. Tomorrow is my race. My fiance's dad is going to come watch so I guess I have to actually try now!

I hope you find something fun to do with Lil'V! Maybe you guys coudl go for a picnic at a park where she can feed some ducks or something. That could always be fun, and an opportunity for a nice nature walk!

sheila, what about you??? how was work?

That's cool, so how was it?  How was Tarzan today?  Hopefully he'll come around faster.  Good luck on tomorrow's race!!  That's great you'll have a nice cheering section!  It always feel better to have someone there. 

We ended up at Sears looking for workboots with Dh.  We were trying to find the most suitable so that this problem he had is less likely to reoccur.  Who knew there were so much of a selection of workboots!?!? 

I also did a workout on the treadmill, 70 minutes.  I did 3 miles wogging, then 20 minutes going backwards and then 15 minutes uphill.  I never went backward but always wanted to try.  It gave me such motion sickness.  You remember that feeling after doing your first few treadmill workouts??  Well, for me it was that but magnified.  I liked the actual workout though.  I could tell it worked different muscles. 

Well, we didn't end up going to the park. I guess we'll have to go tomorrow. I'm kinda excited for my race tomorrow but not really haha. I am just more anxious to get it done with. so my cousin agreed to do a 1/2 marathon with me in feb! That should be pretty cool, especially since I actually have someone to do it with me now.

that sounds like a killer treadmill workout, val! I've never gone backwards on teh treadmill either. I don't think I want to lol. any plans for tomorrow?

Hey ladies!!  Well I was sick as a dog all week... so no work... ... It was NOT a fun week!!!  I finally was feeling a little better on Friday... then a little more yesterday... which was good cause we finally went to the zoo yesterday... then afterwards we went to meet Leslie Nielson... we didn't stay to see a movie though cause I was completely wiped out!!!  That was a lot to do when I was still getting over being sick... I went to bed like right after we got home and ate dinner!

KT - sounds like your new kitty is fun!!  Let us know how your race goes/went!!!

Val - I've done the backwards and sideways on the treadmill... never had any motion sickness type thing... but I always feel unbalanced and have to hang on when I do it...

awww poor sheila. glad to hear you're feeling better though. did you at least have fun at the zoo or were you just dead teh whole time? I'm glad you're back and feeling better!

well the race was soooo brutal!!! we swam at folsom lake, which is incredibly low, so we had to run 3/4 mile from teh swim to the transitino area! it sucked. then teh bike had a lot of tough hills and turns. The run was just the worst thing someone could have thought up. It was a trail run! And not a nice trail, no it was evil. Lots of hills and narrow trail and just not good running. It was like 85 degrees on the run so I was dying. On the first mile I already felt too hot but managed to keep going. It was a long run and it took me a long time too. I think the entire race took about 2:50 or so. BUT...teh good news is that I got second in my age group and I got a plaque! I never stay for the awards but I'm glad I was here this time! so that was pretty cool.

I am sooo tired now. the fiance is pickign up lunch and i am starving. I think we are going out to dinner tonight too. I am gonna be eating!

WOW KT!!! 2ND place in such a rough race????  That's awesome!!!  You just keep kicking butt!!

I had a little fun at the zoo.... we got to sit and watch the gorillas for a long time cause those are my dad's fav... so that was fun AND I got to rest... lol!!!  

Well we took Quincy to Petsmart today... which of course he loves!!  They had a grand opening so a bunch of freebies and stuff which is always good!!  He got his picture taken and they put it on a button for you... the lady was raving about how cute the picture was and was calling everyone over to look at it... lol!!!  

And everyone was all impressed cause he had his Bears collar and leash and of course I'm wearing my Urlacher jersey for the game... lol!!!   

o thats good that you got to have some fun. and woohoo for petsmart! my fiance had to go to a petstore to buy deworming stuff for the kitten b/c she has worms. gross!!!!

and the 2nd place was just for my age group and there was probably less than 10 ppl in my age group, if even that many. I don't know exactly, but I think there were only 5 at the most. but hey, it doesn't say that on my plaque so i'll take it! lol

Congrats on the plaque Kt!!!  That run part just sounds so wrong.  Why make it more difficult with terrain like that.  I can see them doing something like that in a regular 5k or 10k but during a tri??  That is just wrong!  The time sounds pretty good though considering. 

Worms?  How do you know she has worms?  How can you tell?  It does sound gross though.

Hey Sheila!!  Sorry you weren't feeling well.  Just think of it this way...you got that out of the way nice and early in the season!  And WOOHOO for the Bears winning!!!  I didn't get to watch a lot of it but did have it on and kept catching parts of it.  Which zoo?  Brookfield is having a Halloween thing going on that I want to go to.  I think it's the weekends of the 18th and 25th. 

Well, my phone died.  I lost all the phone numbers I had in it that I didn't have in my actual phone book.  SHEILA, that means your number too!  So now I have to email whoever I can think of to pass their numbers to me again.  I'm so disappointed with myself; I'm usually much better organized/prepared for these things.  I'm leaving our current carrier and debating on which to switch to.  Ugh...I hate having to shop around for plans.  They can be so confusing!!  That's why I missed half the football game...dh and I were comparing plans.