I got up at 4:30 today, thinking I need to be back for DQ to go to work. It is 6:10 AM and he is still in bed! UGH! Tomorrow I will sleep until 5:00!
Good workout today, but my hip is hurting again. It started last night. I will call the PT today, although I am not sure how I will squeeze this in! Maybe the athletic trainer at my school can help me once school gets started. Hmmm...maybe I can tell her what the PT has been doing and she can do it!
I ate fairly well yesterday. I did have TWO things of trail mix. During teachers meetings we have food everywhere. It is a far healthier fare than in the past, and I am sure one bag of trail mix wouldn't be too bad, but two??!! They were good though!
I have pictures to post - just need to download them to the computer. It was the boys first day of school yesterday. I actually like how I look for once!
Til tomorrow -
Mummy Q.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
4:30 AM comes early!
It is the big joke in the Q family - Mr. Q, my father in law, always says "5:30 AM comes early" as he heads off to bed. So this morning, when I was up at 4:10 AM, I thought to myself "4:30 AM comes early!" I wasn't going to get up until 4:50 but I was tossing and turning since midnight so I thought I might as well get up. I have meeting all day today - back to work - let's hope I am able to stay up!
I have come up with every reason possible not to go to the gym for the last week or so. My main reason is that the show I am watching on my ipod hasn't been downloading properly. BUMMER! What did we do before ipods?!!! Heaven forbid I actually listen to music when I wake up!! So I finally picked a new show to download - Mad Men. Today I watched the first episode of Season One (season two started this week I think.) It is a good show! I biked for a little over 50 minutes. Went about 10 miles and burned over 250 calories. I am not burning as many calories as when I ran/walked, but my back is still bothering me. I finally went to the doctor last week and he is sending me to PT. I am SO excited. It is bad then you have to get off the treadmill because your back hurts.
I am back to work today and that should help my eating get back on track. I always do well with structure, and being back at work provides that structure. I eat breakfast at 6:30 AM, snack at 9:30ish, lunch after 12 noon, another snack at 2:30 PM and dinner at 6:00 PM. Works for me!
I hope you have a great day. My boys go back to school today too. I will try to post pics!
Til tomorrow -
Mummy Q.
I have come up with every reason possible not to go to the gym for the last week or so. My main reason is that the show I am watching on my ipod hasn't been downloading properly. BUMMER! What did we do before ipods?!!! Heaven forbid I actually listen to music when I wake up!! So I finally picked a new show to download - Mad Men. Today I watched the first episode of Season One (season two started this week I think.) It is a good show! I biked for a little over 50 minutes. Went about 10 miles and burned over 250 calories. I am not burning as many calories as when I ran/walked, but my back is still bothering me. I finally went to the doctor last week and he is sending me to PT. I am SO excited. It is bad then you have to get off the treadmill because your back hurts.
I am back to work today and that should help my eating get back on track. I always do well with structure, and being back at work provides that structure. I eat breakfast at 6:30 AM, snack at 9:30ish, lunch after 12 noon, another snack at 2:30 PM and dinner at 6:00 PM. Works for me!
I hope you have a great day. My boys go back to school today too. I will try to post pics!
Til tomorrow -
Mummy Q.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
New school year, new goals
We still have two more weeks, maybe a little less, before teachers have to be back at school. I have started thinking about my physical goals and how to achieve these goals. I didn't do so well on my summer goals, but I am OK with that. I didn't gain any weight, even on my cruise. I may not be as thin as I had hoped to be but people at school are noticing and at least I didn't gain any back!
This is going to be a year of change for me. The first and most obvious change is my dorm duties. Over the past two years DQ and I have split the dorm duties; this year it will be just me! That means I will have to do put to bed for two nights, not just once. So I have decided that I am going to try to work out M,W,F,Sa,Su. I think I have duty Monday and Wednesday nights, so I will take the morning after off. I don't think I will be able to get up and out. I guess if my internal clock has me up on Tu and Th mornings I will go to the gym.
As I look to the start of the school year my new goals will be to workout five days a week, continue to eat well, and find a balance between personal, professional and academic lives. I start a new class on September 3. YIKES!
I have only worked out twice this week, Monday and today. If I work out tomorrow and then the weekend I will be back on track. I have been eating OK. DQ and I went out to lunch on Monday and I ordered a salad. But while I was waiting for the salad I inhaled bread and butter. I need to learn to ask them NOT to bring it to the table. But I LOVE butter!!!!!!!!! Today I am skipping breakfast (NOT good, I know) because at 9:30 AM I am going to a cake tasting with a friend. She is getting married in two months and I am doing wedding stuff with her all day. So cake for breakfast! Yum Yum! Then she is taking me to a Mexican restaurant for lunch. I LOVE Mexican. Bring on the chips and dip. LOVE IT! Wish me luck!
Til tomorrow -
Mummy Q.
This is going to be a year of change for me. The first and most obvious change is my dorm duties. Over the past two years DQ and I have split the dorm duties; this year it will be just me! That means I will have to do put to bed for two nights, not just once. So I have decided that I am going to try to work out M,W,F,Sa,Su. I think I have duty Monday and Wednesday nights, so I will take the morning after off. I don't think I will be able to get up and out. I guess if my internal clock has me up on Tu and Th mornings I will go to the gym.
As I look to the start of the school year my new goals will be to workout five days a week, continue to eat well, and find a balance between personal, professional and academic lives. I start a new class on September 3. YIKES!
I have only worked out twice this week, Monday and today. If I work out tomorrow and then the weekend I will be back on track. I have been eating OK. DQ and I went out to lunch on Monday and I ordered a salad. But while I was waiting for the salad I inhaled bread and butter. I need to learn to ask them NOT to bring it to the table. But I LOVE butter!!!!!!!!! Today I am skipping breakfast (NOT good, I know) because at 9:30 AM I am going to a cake tasting with a friend. She is getting married in two months and I am doing wedding stuff with her all day. So cake for breakfast! Yum Yum! Then she is taking me to a Mexican restaurant for lunch. I LOVE Mexican. Bring on the chips and dip. LOVE IT! Wish me luck!
Til tomorrow -
Mummy Q.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Getting back on the wagon.
Well, needless to say the last few weeks have not gone as well as I had plan. Someone once said “prior planning prevents poor performance” but I think that only works if you have the will power to make it work. I had a plan laid out but thing didn’t go according to my plan.
While I was in VA I didn’t work out once. Not once. Nobody’s fault but my own. I could have walked the neighborhood but I just didn’t. I ate OK. Breakfast was almost always good. Lunch was OK. Dinner was OK. Nobody made me eat the things I ate. My parents had I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, but I chose the real deal. One positive is that I only ate at Chik-Fil-A twice. Normally I am there almost everyday.
The following week, last week, I flip flopped from what I did in VA. I worked out everyday but Friday for 45 minutes. I guess I didn’t eat too badly, but I did enjoy cream based soups, Double-stuf Oreo’s and a dessert one night. I tried to eat well at lunch – it was provided at the conference I was at. Oh yea – did I mention I was at a conference all week? I was staying in a hotel and had to eat out all three meals. But did I mention I exercised Mon – Thur?
I was back in MA Friday night and went to the gym, my gym, on Saturday. I didn’t go today, Sunday. We were part of a multi-family yard sale from early in the morning until lunch-time. Once we got back to the house Holden and I had a nice long nap.
Now that I am home for the duration of the summer it is time to really get back on track. I didn’t lose nearly as much weight as I had hoped this summer, but I am OK with that. Well, kind of OK with that. What can I do at this point but move forward. DQ is back at work so I need to figure out a work out plan, but I will be getting up early in the AM again. My biggest challenge will be that I am at home all day. All day – for the next three weeks. Food everywhere. I just need to get my head back in the game.
Wish me luck –
Til tomorrow –
Mummy Q.
While I was in VA I didn’t work out once. Not once. Nobody’s fault but my own. I could have walked the neighborhood but I just didn’t. I ate OK. Breakfast was almost always good. Lunch was OK. Dinner was OK. Nobody made me eat the things I ate. My parents had I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, but I chose the real deal. One positive is that I only ate at Chik-Fil-A twice. Normally I am there almost everyday.
The following week, last week, I flip flopped from what I did in VA. I worked out everyday but Friday for 45 minutes. I guess I didn’t eat too badly, but I did enjoy cream based soups, Double-stuf Oreo’s and a dessert one night. I tried to eat well at lunch – it was provided at the conference I was at. Oh yea – did I mention I was at a conference all week? I was staying in a hotel and had to eat out all three meals. But did I mention I exercised Mon – Thur?
I was back in MA Friday night and went to the gym, my gym, on Saturday. I didn’t go today, Sunday. We were part of a multi-family yard sale from early in the morning until lunch-time. Once we got back to the house Holden and I had a nice long nap.
Now that I am home for the duration of the summer it is time to really get back on track. I didn’t lose nearly as much weight as I had hoped this summer, but I am OK with that. Well, kind of OK with that. What can I do at this point but move forward. DQ is back at work so I need to figure out a work out plan, but I will be getting up early in the AM again. My biggest challenge will be that I am at home all day. All day – for the next three weeks. Food everywhere. I just need to get my head back in the game.
Wish me luck –
Til tomorrow –
Mummy Q.
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