Day 36

Well, I started my period yesterday, very unexpected. Usually it comes at the beginning of the month, but when I counted, yep right on target! I have one of those period headaches and dizziness. I did Pilate's today and walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes. I really walked fast today and my back is okay so far. I was sweating bullets and my heart was racing. When I stopped I felt soo light headed. I was fine while I was going though. I had some apple sauce to tie me through my shower until lunch. My face was beat red as well. Did I push my self too far? It felt good though. I listened to music on my iPod and it helped me to really get going. Sierra is doing a little better today, she ate on her own. She still has a fever though. Hopefully she'll get better this weekend and be back in school on Monday. I need to go pick up some work from the school for her to do so she doesn't fall behind. Off I go!

Day 35

I didn't feel very well today at all. But I forced my self to do my 30 minute aerobics and my 30 minute treadmill walk. I am happy I forced myself to do them both. I pushed myself a little harder on the treadmill and I feel a little soreness in my back, ugh! It's is elevated upward which my PT told me not to do! lol I don't think it goes straight though, or I don't know how. I don't have the book to it. I noticed a shape change in my middle half. It looks odd though, it looks like someone tied a belt tight around the bottom of my hips, top of my thighs, lol. Well, it's time to make dinner now. :)

Day 34

Day 34 of exercising, actually longer but I need to figure that out. I started exercising before I started blogging. I haven't kept up on my blogging. Maybe because I only have one person, my loyal friend Melissa, reading it. But then she's busy with her own blog so I feel like I'm obligating her to read and respond to mine and I don't want my blog to be a chore for someone else. I like to put down my progress, which I have made so much of it!! When I first started I could barely get through a yoga session, now yoga feels like a short stretching segment and not like exercise. I still have my routine of aerobics on Mon-Wed-Fri and Pilate's Tue-Thur and yoga on Saturday. But I have been going 30 min on the treadmill Monday through Friday. So I am up to an hour a day!!! YAY!

I was curious at my measurements on Saturday and did a sneak peek. I measured my left thigh. The first time it measured at 27", in Saturday it measured at 25 1/2" down and inch and a half!!!! I am waiting to measure everything else for a while though. I actually just started aerobics, what, two weeks ago? Before that it was all yoga and Pilate's. I'm so excited though! Brian has gotten better with my workouts. As soon as I put on a workout or step on the treadmill, he gets in the rocking chair or on the couch and watches me. When I do yoga or Pilate's he try's to do the moves with me! lol, it's so cute to watch his short chubby legs try to lift in the air!

It's been a bit better on my back, some of the exercises that hurt my back even last week, feel a lot better now. But I am still having a lot of back pain when I'm laying down in bed to sleep and it wakes me up. My PT said it's take a long time to heal completely, so I'm not going to doom my back gone forever. When I am done on the treadmill it feels like I have no legs or butt! LOL

The kids are sick. Sierra is really sick. She was out of school yesterday and today, she will be out tomorrow for sure and maybe the rest of the week. I took her to the Dr today and she has 2 virus's. She has soo many symptoms. The past two days she has been laying on the couch watching TV and sleeping. She doesn't want to eat either. The Dr said to keep her home from school until she doesn't have a fever any more. I'm frustrated with her though. She came in looked her over quickly, said she was fine and antibiotics wont help her, and pushed me out the door! She cut me off several times when I tried to ask her a question. I never got to ask how much Vitamin C I can safely give her to help her boost her immune system. I want a new Doctor!!!

Anyways, I'm not feeling so well so I am off to bed!

Day 32

So I totally skipped out on the treadmill last night :( I have no excuse for it either. But I DID get on it today. And it worked my leg muscles a whole lot. I was really sweaty too. I feel fine now. But I'm wondering if I'll feel sore in the morning. I hope I do. If I don't I hope I pushed myself enough. I can't push to much though, I have to watch my back. It felt good though. I did a whole hour of exercise today. 30 minute aerobics, and 30 minutes on the treadmill. I am proud of my hard work today!

Day 31

Day 31, already. I did my aerobics today and I was more sweaty than I usually am. I am pushing myself a little more, but watching it with my back. I want to bathe the kids and then hop on the treadmill for 30 minutes. I go to bed early when Sierra is in school, so I have to mention it before I do it, then write about it the next day. :) I am so excited to see more results as I pump up my routine and intensity!!

Update

I know, I haven't been posting! I have been really busy running to the mechanic the past few days to get my car fixed so I can smog it, which I will do today. I have been exercising as I have scheduled it. I also got my sisters treadmill over to my house finally, but I haven't been able to get on it yet. My back has been doing good, thank you for asking Melissa! :) I also got a little excited because my sister told me she noticed I lost a little bit of weight. A little bit is a lot better than nothing! That's all I needed to hear! :) I hope everyone else is doing great on their exercising.

Day 26

Today was a bad day. I wanted to work on my research project for school. I did, but then I found out I was doing it all wrong. *sigh* Then my mom called me saying she stayed home from work because one of her dogs (That she got when I was in 4th grade) was not doing well and she was taking her to the vet. An hour and a half later my mom calls me and she's crying, and I just knew, she had to put her to sleep. Now I am upset, really tired, frustrated (at my project) cold, and feel crappy. I have not exercised yet today. But I will. I am waiting for the kids to finish their dinner, they are having a bath, then I will exercise. It was getting late, so I decided to write here first. I promise I will exercise, and I will write about it in tomorrows blog.

Day 25

Yes, I am very VERY impatient! I am going to sit back, relax, and try not to think of my exercise as such an important thing and just as a feel good activity to help my back heal. I'm getting too ahead of myself. I have the thought in my head from calorie website; "you could be 120lbs by September 28th" well, that date is going further into the future since I'm not loosing 1 to 2 pounds a week! I know I've only strengthened my muscles and haven't lost anything. But why? I hear other people loose 1 to 2 pounds a week, while I sit at a stand still! *sigh* I hope in time I will start loosing weight, I'm not giving up!

Day 24

Wow, I almost didn't post today. I had to run to the store after picking up Sierra, so Brian was woke up early from his nap and he has been the crankiest little butt! I have a headache, a regular plain old headache, not a sinus headache. I can't get rid of it. I am sleeping really deep, I mean, I sleep through the alarm deep. I don't think I'm sleeping enough. I did the aerobics today. I want to do more, longer and more intense, but my back wont let me and it's so frustrating. I am trying not to give up. I think that's why I'm not seeing results, because I have to limit my exercise. I don't want to work for nothing, you know? I am so frustrated! I have limited my food intake to so I'm cutting calories, and making more healthier food and not boxed or canned food. But nothing happening!!! AAARRRHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!

Day 23

Today I did Pilate's. I am still feeling stronger every time I do them. I have been taking Hydroxy Cut and am noticing a difference. I am feeling full sooner and not wanting to finish all my food, when I usually eat all mine then finish everyone else's plate. (I hate wasting food, so I eat what's left, it's my downfall). My knees feel sore still, but not hurting anymore. My back is feeling good. As Melissa mentioned, I have a faster recovery time. When my back hurt as it did on Saturday, I felt the pain for at least a week. Saturday night I took some pain pills, and sat on an ice pack, the next morning, I felt fine! It amazed me that the pain went away so quickly. I'm happy though! Once my back is better, I can exercise more vigorously!! :O)

Day 22

Well, Fridays workout hurt my back. Yoga felt good on Saturday even though my back hurt. I really worked out on Friday and just did too much. Today I took it easy and when there was an option to do low impact I did the low impact instead of the high intensity option. I feel okay right now so hopefully I can keep it up and just take it easy. I have been watching myself on the lunges and making sure my knees don't go past my toes and it's helping a lot. Thank you Melissa!! My daughter Sierra noticed on Saturday that I was happy to be doing yoga. She asked me, "mommy, why are you smiling?" and I was thinking, "I am?" I guess I am really enjoying my workouts! :O)

Day 21

Ah, today was a good yoga day! It felt really good to stretch and relax my body. It helped ease my sore back and muscles as well. I could feel that I am a LOT stronger. I could feel it in my muscles and in the yoga moves I did today. Even when I physically squeeze my muscles, they are tight and hard instead of loose and flabby. I love this feeling, I never ever want to stop exercising again! I hope others will get into the routine to exercise at least 3-5 days a week. They will feel sooo much better! :o)

Day 20

Wow, my muscles are SORE! It feels so good to be sore! My back hurts a little too. But it is okay and I am going to love the yoga tomorrow. I need a good stretching and relaxing session. I'm hoping to see better results now that I am doing aerobics. I feel so strong and so much better, that my body doesn't look the way I feel. It is frustrating, but I know in time my body will reflect how I feel inside.

Day 19

OMG! Aerobics feels GREAT!!!! I dug out my VHS cleaner and used it in my player and my aerobic video worked! I am happy to have done them today. I was sweaty and huffing and puffing, and it felt soooo good!! My knees, especially my right knee, hurt when I did lunges. I am going to try and push through it and hope my knees strengthen up enough to keep them up. I also decided on a new routine. I am going to do aerobics on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Pilate's on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and yoga on Saturdays. I want to mix it up so I can have a variety of exercises, including Aerobics, muscles strengthening and stretching. My aerobics is interval training and has sculpting exercises and stretches near the end. So far my back is okay. I want to keep it up, it feels sooo good!!

Day 18

I did the Pilate's today. It was rather quite nice. I liked the feel of really using my muscles. I noticed today that the fat around my belly seems to have been pulled up and in some. It used to hang downward. I'm guessing my muscles are tightening up and pulling the fat along for the ride! lol I started today with Hydroxycut weight loss pills. I will see if they help me out any. My sister is going to try 100% pure Hoodia. It is expensive. If they work on her, I will probably try them out myself. We'll see how that goes. For now I am watching how much food I eat, and keeping up with my exercises.

Day 17

Wow, I actually feel like yesterdays workout did something for me. My arm muscles are a little sore, which I don't get at all, we moved our arms, but didn't use weights or anything. My calves are sore, and so is my back. My back isn't enough to stop me from exercising, but it is sore. I did do the pregnancy aerobics again today since I feel it did do something. I want to do Pilate's tomorrow and Saturday. When we do our grocery shopping on Sunday I will look for another workout DVD and try it next Monday. I forgot about it when we went in. It just really makes me wonder why I am sore when it feels like I barely did anything with that workout? At least it's doing something!

Day 16

Sierra started back in school today, after 6 weeks off! Boy am I tired! We reverted back to a later schedule, so this earlier schedule is going to take a toll for a few weeks. I wanted to start doing aerobics today. I have two of them on VHS. One is to intense for my back right now. The other, wont work for some reason. I ended up doing the aerobic workout from Denise Austin for pregnant women. She said it was "moderate" intensity. Although I did sweat a little and my heart rate rose a little, it felt like I cheated out on exercise today! I want more movement, more of a elevated heart, more panting. We've got an appointment to have our taxes done today. After that we're running into Wal-Mart real quick. I want to glance at the DVD's and see if I can pick up a aerobic workout that'll work my whole body, and better than the pregnancy aerobics. I'm hoping to find a good one!