3/15/24

It's Green Beer Season

 

It’s GREEN beer season!

 

I love St. Patty’s Day and I am so excited to drink some green beer and eat some corned beef and cabbage.  I’ll be celebrating the Friday before at the Elks and I took Sunday off so my friends and I can enjoy some of the festive events around town. 

 



In the meantime, I picked up some Guinness Extra Stout which I don’t know if I’ve tried before but I am 100% loving! 

 

I love me a good Guinness draught and the extra stout provides so much more robust flavor.  It has been hard to talk myself if not drinking one each night.  I know Guinness season, similar to Oktoberfest season, is short so I’ll be soaking up all that I can in the meantime.






3/12/24

Weekly WI: My Resistance Muscle Has Boarded The Struggle Bus

I have been struggling.  It appears my resistance muscle has boarded the struggle bus and taken a comfy seat.  



My Weigh-In this week was not pretty and a gain was 100% expected.






The last month has been filled with ups and downs.  One minute I am on track and plugging along and the next, I’m eating with reckless abandon.  I also have been consuming a lot more alcohol with more social situations.  It all adds up.




My activity was off the charts last week!  I made time for intentional exercise everyday except yesterday.  I had planned to clean house today for my 32 minutes…but running errands took up too much time.  My plan this week is to keep the activity up and ramp it up even more where I can.


I am also going to work on better balance with my food and consistent tracking.  I will track for several days and then let it drop off.  When I saw two weeks of large losses, I was tracking 100% and being accountable to what I was eating.  I need to get back to that habit to continue to find success.  


It is never easy when you know what you need to do but don’t want to do.

3/9/24

The 10-Week Colonel’s PT Challenge Has Come To An End

 The 10-week Colonel’s PT Challenge has come to an end.  Here are the results of the last two weeks.

 


 

February 25 – Glorious outdoor walk before our weather turned on us.  I logged 22 minutes and 1.16 miles.

 

February 27 – 20-minute treadmill walk for 0.84 miles., 20 sit-ups, and 20 push-ups.

 

February 28 - 60-minute gym class and 25 push-ups.

 

February 29 - 28-minute treadmill walk and 20 sit-ups.

 

March 01, 02, and 03 were BUSY and I did not have time to squeeze in any activity.  Even when I thought I could, the winter weather wreaked havoc on us making work insanely busy.

 

 

I found my grove again and just celebrated a 7-day activity stretch.

 

March 04 – 30-minute bike/elliptical workout.

 

March 05 – 20-minutes treadmill for 0.92 miles, 10-minute bike elliptical workout, 20 sit-ups, 30 push-ups.

 

March 06 - 22-minute treadmill walk for 1.02 miles with an incline, 20 sit-ups, and 15 push-ups.

 

March 07 - 50-minute outdoor walk for 2.56 miles.

 

March 08 – Today, I had to get creative!  20-minute treadmill walk for 0.86 miles, 9 minutes on the big electric console bicycle at work, and 15 minutes bike/elliptical workout.


March 09 - 35 minutes bike/elliptical workout.

 

We still have until March 11, and I plan to do my weight-in on Monday to log my results.  When the challenge started out, I was hopeful I’d lose 5% of my weight but that won’t be the case.  Bummer.  I will keep working on bringing the scale down!

 

I surpassed my aerobic goal and let the sit-ups/push-ups lapse a bit.  Maybe next year…may not!