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Posted by uromastyx on Sep 07, 2008 10:47 PM

Just did BL High Intensity! We've got friends coming for dinner, and I know I've only got four more days before my weigh in, so decided to get one in today. (I WILL exercise on Friday, but it won't be reflected on my weigh in. Then I won't do BL on Saturday or Sunday, but I WILL take at least one long walk/hike.)

So I hope your Sunday is going really well. Still, I guess, since I just wrote you a couple hours ago. Enjoy the journey!

Posted by uromastyx on Sep 07, 2008 01:00 PM

Ugh, you're right! I haven't posted a comment since Thursday! But I only didn't TRY yesterday. Our wireless internet connection is a little sketchy, and sometimes it just doesn't fly. I write so many things that just get lost when the connection goes down that I can't believe how icky it is!

So I lost only three tenths of a pound. That's okay, because I didn't drink ANY water yesterday, and that always tends to make me hold onto stuff a little more. Plus, I'm just trying to stay diplomatic about the whole thing. I exercised FIVE TIMES last week! And that's just dedicated exercise. We also went to the park a couple times and the zoo. So I'm definitely getting better habits.

Our house can't sell because of the market right now. It would only be able to LIST for twenty grand below what we bought it for seven years ago, without taking into account the eventual lowering of the price and any seller concessions we might have to make. When you factor in the agents' commissions and closing fees, we'd have to PAY about sixteen thousand just to sell our house. That's NOT going to happen! Anyway, we're making peace with that as well, and God is working on MY heart in particular about being absolutely in love with our home again. So it's all going to work out fine.

I'll weigh in again on Friday before I go. Luckily, this is killer workout week, and I think I can definitely lose a couple/few more pounds if I can stay totally on track with my eating. That's easier said than done! But I've got watermelon out the wazoo, and I'm going to eat it whenever I feel like going crazy. (So, two watermelons a day times five days... I'm gonna need to buy a watermelon patch.) Oh, and all the fruit last week doesn't help my sugar binges when I MAKE COOKIES! What the heck was I thinking?! It was rainy, so we couldn't play outside, and I got the bright idea to make train cutout cookies with Caleb. He rolled (with help) cut out, put them on the pan, frosted, then decorated all on his own. Of course, the six cookies in two days that found themselves in my stomach had nothing to do with him!

Happy Sunday, sweetness. I hope there will be no funerals in your world this week... Wait, that sounded incredibly morbid! Okay, I hope you have no temptations to overeat while surrounded by grieving people this week. Not much better, but you know what I mean. HAPPY DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE! REJOICE!

Posted by Lori2 on Sep 06, 2008 11:02 PM

I have heard about your horrendus winters up there in the wild north. Amazing that is all I can say. We will not even get a flake of snow some years. If we do get some, it will only last a day or two. What we get is rain and it usually starts sometime in October and lasts until the following June some years. Enjoy that wonderful fall full of color and hope. I love that we have such great seasons.

You are doing so well on your chart! Look at it going down, down, down! It is amazing how long we have been working at this. I am working at getting past this weight/mind platuea. My leg is much much better and I have started walking on it again. I will wait until Tuesday before I try a run. I was such a klutz the other day. After doing a strength training workout I tripped on my free weight of all things and badly brused my middle toe! Lol. I am sure glad I was not part of a class or something with others watching me. How embarassing. It is all black and blue but has stopped hurting finally.

Went through my closet today to assemble clothes to wear to work and was pleasantly surprised to find some of my old things fit again. I have quite a few more that will fit if I could just lose 5 to 10 more pounds. Should be good motivation. It is a bit like Christmas when you can wear an outfit again. = )

Have a wonderful weekend.

Posted by cassondraragan on Sep 06, 2008 03:55 PM

Also, about those winters....HOW do you do it??? My sister has been in Minnesota for 3 years now and I still can't believe how COLD it is! She moved in the spring and was raving about how beautiful it was...then it snowed in SEPTEMBER and the snow didn't go away until APRIL! We tennessee gals don't do so well in the cold. It was a shock to her system needless to say!

Posted by cassondraragan on Sep 06, 2008 03:25 PM

Linde! Yes, things are so much better. I've been enjoying the treadmill but the weather is so nice right now. I went for a walk with my son yesterday! Big victory for me :) Becoming more active has been one of my bigger struggles lately. WW has been a blessing. Its been years since I tried. Did it in college, but college is a hard time when you are living in dorms and can't really cook for yourself... so it didn't really work. But I have been enjoying the WW. It has given me some structure that i was lacking. I had a camp out with some women from church last night and it was a wonderful time of prayer and fellowship and I was able to stay within my points. I had to give God the glory for that one! I mean, there were some awesome looking brownies and they were calling my name! Anyway, it sounds like you are being consistent with your exercise. That is my ultimate goal. I just want to be active on a daily basis. One small victory at a time I guess :) Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Posted by Lori2 on Sep 06, 2008 01:25 AM

Found a job. I know it is a good fit and just right. I am sure that it is where God wants me. Yea! Today was a training/inservice day. Working in a dayschool. I haven't been working around kids for 7 or 8 years so it was really great to be around them again. I think I am really going to love doing this again. Thanks for your prayers.

Posted by Lori2 on Sep 04, 2008 07:48 PM

Hi Lovely Linde. Hope your day is just amazing. Don't you just love the fall? Do you get the changes in the seasons up there? We get such beautiful colors in the fall and there is always this brisk cold in the am and this just, well, lovely scent in the air and,.... I guess I am having a better day! Yea!! Getting my mind right and focused on God. Eating better, making better choices and my leg doesn't even hurt today! Still, I am going to rest it another few days and ride the bike then introduce running slowly again and carefully. But maybe it is healing and I will get to run my race in a few weeks! Yea! Have an amazing day Princess Linde and may God fill your heart with joy and peace so much that it overflows.

Posted by uromastyx on Sep 04, 2008 03:21 PM

Good morning, sweet teacher lady! I'm so glad you're doing well this week and are seeing those horrible weekend pounds being obliterated! Looking forward to the weigh in on Sunday, are we?

I actually was up yesterday morning, most likely just a holdover from my Sunday excesses, but I'm continuing to work to make sure I show a loss this week. It would do my heart good to have at least a pound loss just to show that it's possible to go down a little more steadily than I have been.

Oh, and I DO have other sugar in my house, just not that I'm tempted by. Caleb only gets sugary snacks that I don't like. The Veggie Tales fruit snacks are a great compromise for us - he loves 'em, but I think they taste icky. Most fruit snacks aren't safe in my presence, but most of the VT ones are a weird non-flavor green. And Jonathan is all about the ice-cream, but I keep it in the deep-freeze where I would have to be truly desperate to claw it out. I'm not strong enough to scoop it out when it's kept in there. If I were really desperate, I'd have to set it out to thaw, and by the time it was soft enough for me to scoop, I usually have control of myself again. So I guess I should have said "the only easily accessible and desireable sugar in the house."

So I'm done with my workout for the morning! It was weights, and even though I've been doing this for what feels like forever, it doesn't seem to be getting any easier. On the other hand, I think I'm probably working harder now. On things like the reverse crunches, my chubby tummy and thighs keeps me from working too hard, but now that some of that chub is waning, I'm getting a little more work into it. So maybe the fact that it's not getting any easier is good for me!

I'm going to have a week after our six weeks of BL is done before I get my next workout tape. (I asked for a dance workout video for my b-day! And I'm really hoping my folks can find it, because it's by one of the choreographers on my dance show that I'm all obsessed with.) So I'm not sure if I'll just try to do the high intensity BL week again or one of my other videos that are stashed in my entertainment shelf. Any suggestions?

How GREAT is our God! Small groups started again at church last night, and I really enjoyed getting back into some fellowship outside of Sunday mornings. We're also starting a moms group, so we'll do that about once a month, and then my MOPS group starts in two tiny weeks! Ohmigoodness, it's SO good to have the summer over! Although it's kind of stinky because there isn't going to be another day warm enough to go to the pool this week, the last week that it's open. Grr. I miss summer already! Although it makes it nice to be a little cooler, too, because we can go to the park at any time of the day, not just in the cool of pre-dawn!

Holy crow I'm a babble monster! I need to aim these efforts at my blog! I've been so into WLW and phone conversations that I haven't paid any attention to my website! And I have cute stuff to post, too.

We're on our way to the zoo this morning. Jonny has the camera in Kentucky which is why I haven't posted your giraffe pics. I'll make him get them off as soon as he gets home, okay? Happy Thursday, the third day of school!

Posted by Lori2 on Sep 03, 2008 11:31 PM

Hey girl. How wonderful to be back in the swing of school. I miss getting ready and starting a school year. I always remember this time of year all of my favorite things about teaching and kids and getting a classroom ready and a curriculum ready. Umph. Wow, you must be excited about your new year and exhausted from all of the getting ready and day to day schedule. But we all do better with schedules even us big kids. = ) I have been applying for a new job in a daycare. It will be wonderful to work with kids again. I found one school today that I am praying for. The director said that they did not have an opening though but she witnessed about her faith and I have such a good feeling about them. I am just praying that God will lead me to the perfect place he has for me and that I would know what that is. Please pray for me.

I think I am having shin splints. I looked up my pain description on the internet and am trying to do the stretching and icing it suggested. Resting my leg is not fun. I love, love, love my runs and hate to ride the bike. I can do three times the workout in a run and only can stand 20 mins. on the bike and that is pushing myself beyond belief. But if I rest the leg it will heal and I will push through and do the bike and strength training until then.

So sorry to hear about your hip. Sounds painful, do the CD workouts irritate it? How do you find time to workout and teach too? You are some kind of wonderwoman!

Posted by uromastyx on Sep 03, 2008 09:31 PM

Okay, this is being posted to Cassondra, Linde, Lori and my mum, Becky. I would do a journal entry, but I don’t want to kooky spiritualize on anyone who randomly reads the Adventures should it post there…

This afternoon, after having done a booty-kicking job with my workout, my water and my eating choices, I reached the point that is so often a danger for me: FREE TIME. So I ate my tiny allotment of ice cream that I portioned out yesterday, but I was still jonesing for a sugar binge. So I went the only place I keep sugar in my house anymore – the PEANUT BUTTER. As I’m reaching for it, hidden behind the corn starch on the highest shelf in my house, I thought: “All I have to do is ask Jesus for his help to turn away from this and he’ll give me the strength.” Then I thought, “But I don’t WANT to turn away, so I won’t ask.” But it was too late – I had thought about asking for help, and he extended the grace to put that *&$# peanut butter back on the shelf. I couldn’t MAKE myself eat any!

How’s that for a change going on in my life? If nothing else, I know that I’m starting to recognize the spiritual struggle I deal with. It’s not just a physical addiction or a mental weakness. This really isn’t flesh and blood I’m fighting against – it’s a spiritual stronghold that can’t be dealt with by willpower. (Even if I had it!) God’s getting ahold of me…I just have to step back and let him. Tougher said than done!