I hurt my knee getting my son out of his car seat (on Thursday) and it still hurts. It hurts to bend it( not too bad to stand) but it really interferes with exercise. I know I should say OK let's do some upper body training or even just walking but I'm irritated and discouraged.
Wahhh!
Ok enough of that!
I skipped my saturday classes because of my hurt knee, but on the plus side I got to get some gardening done. I planted some morning glories along a fence and up by the house.I also planted a couple of climbing rose bushes and a new clematis. I also moved some of my perenials around. I still have more planting to do. I have some sunflower seeds I want to plant still . I also am planning on digging up some of my grass to make way for more planting space of perenials and other flowers. But I got a good start on the garden projects I want to accomplish.
When I turned on the water to my hose for this season the copper pipe sprung a leak(all over my basement). Luckily my son happened to notice and let me know. With dh working in Indianapolis he didn't get to fix it yet. So I am holding off on the rest of my projects for now til I can have my hose opperational. It was quite a pain to do watering can after watering can of trips to water what I did plant. Oh well, maybe he will get to it this weekend.
Awesome! I had an ok day yesterday. I still ate too much and I know it! I hate that! I didn't go to the gym again. My son had cub scouts and I didn't want to break his little heart by running to the gym instead of taking him to cub scouts. I know my getting fit is priority but my boy is bigger priority. He only has a few weeks left of cub scouts this year. If my dh would have been home he would have taken my ds to cub scouts but he wasn't so I did.
I haven't heard anything back from the pastor of the church I want to work with on letting me volunteer to teach my classes. We will see.
I do have 3 other nubers of possible places to hold classes. But I need hold off the start date to have time to advertise them.I will be doing some checking today.
I have a lot of stuff to get done today. I will try to post tomorrow.
You know what bugs me the most about my recent weight gain?
The fact that I will eat good for 2 days and the next day I mess up! I ate too much again yesterday! I even skipped the gym(which I was excited about it earlier in the day.) Although my upper body and lower body were still sore. They are still today even from Mon and Tues. It would have been fine to skip the gym if I had eaten good. But I did both skipped the gym and ate out of control. I don't know what the deal is. My emotions have been up and down. My food has been awful! I was staying away from fast food but lately I have been giving in to temptation daily! What is wrong with me. I do fine in the morning and by afternoon something upsets me and I run to food!
I know better. I need to turn to God. I have been praying but then I let life's ups and downs get to me and fill the void with food not God! I feel like such a dummy! I know better! I know what the problem is! It is not lack of physical activity. It is eating too much! eating for comfort!
Well so the story goes. As all days I have been eating nutritious food today so far. But truthfully I usually do good until evening.
I know I am depressing today! So mad at myself for messing up.
I was upset that the church did not want to let me hold classes there. I felt like it was supposed to fall into place. But yet it didn't. I know I need to trust God yet I was upset and what did I do EAT! Yes I prayed but I still ate everything in sight.
I got this idea later last night that I had been teaching the class at that church for free(not intentionalally but with what my old boss spent on advertising the class. I ended up teaching for free. The problem the church council had was that it was a non profit agency and they didn't want to hold the class there because I was looking for profit. So I thought if I taught at the church for free before why not do it for free? If it is non-profit maybe I can go ahead with the classes. Maybe God wants to see how serious I am about getting these classes going. You know my willingness to do this for Him without thinking about the $$$. So I have sent an email offering to teach this first session for free. I haven't heard anything back yet but hope that I get to teach them. With or without a pay check my heart has to be in the right place!
I will update when I hear back!
I am planning a trip to the gym tonight. Yes I am still a little sore but I don't want to skip another day.
I had fun at open mike night last night. My son thanked me for coming out.
I went to the gym for 2 hours before I went to watch my son play. I did Turbo kick for an hour then a weight training and ball class. The thing I like about this gym is they use the ball alot. I love the ball! It is such a small world. I actually knew the turbo kick instructor( She used to work for the same lady I just finished up teaching for). She no longer works for this lady either.
I have some bad news on my classes. I was getting ready to run my classes in May for the church I had been working with. The council says they don't want to allow profit based classes because they are a non-profit agency. I don't know where to go with this now! Community ed???? I have the numbers of two other churches that may be interested???? I was a little sad about it. Maybe I should just start in the fall??? I know I need to pray about it. I thought thins were falling right into place and now I don't have a location for May.
So far eating has been ok today! I am going to the gym tonight for a ball class. I ended up eating more than I wanted yesterday. According to daily plate I still burned more than I took in. But at this rate I will never start losing again. 3500 calories to burn 1 lb of fat. and I have burned only about 200 calories between the last 2 days.
Dh says he may be starting overtime soon(good for the finances but not for him coming home)! I am having a blue day but I will still go tothe gym :) and so far food is ok!
Yetserday I signed up for a free trial week at a gym.
I know other than the free week I won't probably join(it's about 15 mile from my house. And soon I will be teaching classes again.
But I did go last night and take a step and weight training class. The first half was step and the second half we did weight training on the ball. I enjoy taking other people's classes. It was fun. I am looking forward to going back tonight. My son has been playing an open mike night in the same town as this gym is in so I can get ready to go see my son and work out on the way! How convenient! Turbo kick is at 6:30 and a weight training class starts at 7:15. Open mike night doesn't start til 10 pm so that gives me plenty of time to enjoy my workout and have dinner afterwards.Then enjoy the music!
I did my taxes a couple of weeks ago but my dh didn't sign them til this weekend. So I was busy playing with taxes earlier today. Got them taken care of just have to mail them before 5 pm.
Food was OK yesyerday. It could have been better. On the plus side I had plenty of fresh fruit and some veggies. But I did eat a little higher fat than what I was aiming for. My calorie intake was higher than I wanted too but I at least I did exercise. And acording to daily plate I still burned more than I took in(Not much though)
First off I want to thank everyone for there comments and encouragement.
Yes I know I can do this! Thanks for the support!
My life has been such a whirlwind lately. It seem there is never enough time in the day! My weekend was busy. Saturday morning I wake up early and go to "Drum's Alive" class. I did that before breakfast. Then I just get home and go to breakfast with my dh(who only visits me on weekends).After breakfast it was time to go for my weekly Bellydance lesson. I was down there for 3 hours.It wasn't all exercise. I did some just listening to music to learn to choreograph and played finger cymbals.So I would say I actual only got in about 1 hr 15 minutes of dance. After I got back from dance class I picked my dh up from Belle tire(he had to get his tires rotated and didn't want to wait there) and went to watch the Red Wings play off game at the restaurant where I work. After the game we picked up my dh's car and I went home and showered to go see mt son play at a coffee shop. So I was on the go from the start of Saturday til the end of the day.
Sunday I worked a double at the restaurant. So today I am finally getting on the computer again!
My three year old has been a challenge today( and that's putting it mildly) Three year olds and grocery shopping are such a challenge. He likes those carts that look like cars and have the steering wheels. That was pretty cool for about the first five minutes. He can undo the buckles so he kept undoing it and trying to escape. Fun! I was pretty stressed by the time I left the store. Hey, I survived it. I think he wore himself out though, he's laying on the floor, looking mighty sleepy.
I have studied "Drum's Alive" through a home study course. I took a little quiz and passed it for continuing education credits. Which is great! But I have enjoyed the saturday morning class I have been taking. The instructor has such a great personality! I have been learning a bit from it. Even though I have passed the quiz I still need the hands on of the class. I have even better news. A live training for drums Alive(through NETA Fitness) is going to be coming to a gym 15 minutes from my home! I won't get any more credit because I already have taken the quiz but...... I get the hands on training! I just signed up for it today! I am excited. I will be specializing in Stability Ball workouts when I go out on my own in May. Which is perfect timing. Classes start May 5,6. The training is May3. I am also going to sign up for a bootcamp workhop on May 4. That is going to be another specialty area of mine. The timing of these are truly God's awesome timing! It's amazing!
Well it's time for brutal honesty on my part! I was down to 193.6 in December before the holidays. I had gone back up to 199 beginning of the year. I was holding it there for awhile but last week and this week I am now back up to 210. I am mortified and mad at my self I haven't lost all ground but I have slipped back so far I am majorly discouraged. And under attack. I am about to start my classes on my own for God in May. But I feel like such a failure.
I have so much good stuff going for me right now. These classes and getting out on my own could be such a blessing but yet I feel like I am unqualified because I am such a fatso. And other wonderful things are going for me. My son is a musician and I have been going to see him play. I am so proud of my son. He is so talented. And I love to sing and may even get up and sing with him. I have so much to be thankful for. And so much to look forward too but yet I feel like such a mess up.
I have got to snap out of this bad eating habits it's gaining on me and weighing me down again.
Thanks for all of your sweet comments. I appreciate them. I feel like I have let you all down. I was doing so good and know I am not quite back to square one but awful close.
Sorry for such a depressing post! I just had to be honest about the last 4 months.Thanks for being ! Shawn
Last week it was M,T,W I worked at the restaurant days and taught classes all three nights. Thursday I took the children and went to Indianapolis to visit my dh who has been working down there. I got in some swimming at the hotel. There fitness room was a joke though. I would have used it if it was not in such disrepair. The cable machine had no cables and no weights!!!! what good is a weight machine with no weight!!!! Oh well swimming was fun with my children and dh!
Today I got called in to work at the restaurant. I have to be there in 45 minutes! I still have to shower so this will be a short post. I just wanted to say hi to everyone and let ya's know I am fine (just not been on the computer much lately.) Shawn
Well normally I wouldn't be overjoyed that my classes didn't run but I am extremely overjoyed that the new spring session that was supposed to start this evening is not running!!!!
Why???? Because it was an hour from home to drive to these classes. OH the gas I am saving, the time away from home, It just wasn't worth it to me. I am now officially almost out on my own in this fitness business. And the best part I get to take my boy to cub scouts this evening. YAY!!!!
I have been listening to more of these sessions at the FitcomXpo I am hearing some awesome stuff. I just love it I am going to listen to one in about a minute about setting up and running bootcamps. The timimng of this is just so awesome! Just as I am stepping out on my own I get these wonderful tips and ideas.
I was covered under my bosses insurance. I will have to get my own insurance but that's a small price to pay for my piece of mind and being able to set my own schedules and creative formats. Shaped by Shawn is about to be launched!
I mentioned yesterday how I had been listening to some very interesting info on the web. I'm going to tell you a little more about it. This net Xpo was set up for fitness professional but anyone can sign up. It's not free! But being a group fitness instructor I think alot of the info is priceless.
Alicia if you are reading this, I know you are serious about becoming a trainer. This is a wealth of info and you don't have to already be a trainer to get in on this.
I didn't leave the web address yesterday. At least check it out
I have been eating great today! No exercise yet but I am learning some wonderful ideas to grow my new fitness business. So many ideas I am really excited about going out on my own into this fitness business.
Shawn
later last night that I had been teaching the class at that church for free(not intentionalally but with what my old boss spent on advertising the class. I ended up teaching for free. The problem the church council had was that it was a non profit agency and they didn't want to hold the class there because I was looking for profit. So I thought if I taught at the church for free before why not do it for free? If it is non-profit maybe I can go ahead with the classes. Maybe God wants to see how serious I am about getting these classes going. You know my willingness to do this for Him without thinking about the $$$. So I have sent an email offering to teach this first session for free. I haven't heard anything back yet but hope that I get to teach them. With or without a pay check my heart has to be in the right place!
Shawn
Shaped by Shawn is about to be launched!