Afternoon strolls

I went for a few walks this weekend. Let's count it as 15 minutes on both Friday and Saturday. I haven't been to the gym yet this weekend... maybe next week ;)

L'il bit o' walkin'

I snuck out of the house on xmas day. My little stroll shouldn't have taken more than 10-15 minutes, but the roads were covered in ice, so it was more like 20. It was good that way.... I needed the break.

Yesterday I walked about 2.5 miles. I think it took 45 minutes. I didn't check the time-- I was with a boy and thus distracted.

Exam Week

Went to the gym again last night. I like exam week cuz there's less people at the gym. So far this week I've jogged 4 miles and walked 1. We'll see if I am able to go on Friday too.

I'll be offline next week but I'll blog again the last week of the month. Happy Holidays!

Go me!

After a two week break due to a cold I went back to the gym and jogged 2 miles on the elliptical machine and then walked a half mile around the track. I like when the students are busy with exams so I can work out on the machines I like best.

Also, happy birthday Bethany!

Icky Sicky

My Sunday badminton match was canceled uz both Heather and I have sinuses full of goo. I think in the past few days I have been personally responsible for the destruction of a tree. My nose would love for me to stop blowing it. Hee. Anyway, here's hoping I have the energy to walk the track at the gym tomorrow-- curse the gym, the most likely place for me to have picked up this cold!

Grr, Argh

I rode the stationary bike for 20 minutes-- 22 including the cool down-- and it took me 3.5 imaginary miles. Then I took a few laps around the track (half a mile) until I finished my book. Go gym membership!

Not sure I'll make it back there before my Sunday badminton match...

Reading While Walking

I wasn't feeling it yesterday, but I went to the gym anyhow. I walked the track while reading The Alchemist. Btw, excellent book. And in between laps I lifted some arm weights and I feel much better today. Tonight I'll either have a knitting date or I'll do my leg routine... we'll see!

Eat Those Pounds Away!

I stepped on the scale today and discovered I've lost 8 pounds in the past few weeks. Woot! I've been trying to eat better--cut way down on the fast food (and trying to make good choices when I do it), bought some new cookbooks (two are vegan, and I have had some startlingly awesome food from them), and focusing on keeping my metabolism running all day, eating less at each meal but eating more frequently. It has been awesome.

Now to add exercise in somewhere...

Food food food

I haven't been to the gym lately, but I did sneak out of the house twice this weekend. I took a 15 minute hike on both Friday and Saturday. Not sure I'll keep up with playing outdoors now that we've got snow here. It's pretty outside!

Good Weekend

I was good this weekend and hit the gym twice. Once on my own to do a strength circuit (friday after work) and once with Heather to play badminton. I'm hoping our post-church racket game continues-- it'll be hard with the holidays and finals.

I had my first challenge this weekend of leading a soda-free lifestyle... I had to drink lemonade at the movie theater. Blech. But I lived (and so did Bella Swan).

Stair Master

I didn't gym it yesterday (knitting lesson and coffee date) and I won't gym it tonight (chiropractic appt. and choir) nor tomorrow (opening night of _Twilight_, hello!). So instead I give another of those optimistic exercise ideas for which we count on each other.

Fact: good exercise requires taking the longest route possible to get from one point to another. This means I have started using the bathroom downstairs, rather than either of the ones on the first floor of my office building. Not only cuz the downstairs bathroom has that awesome foaming hand soap (why bathrooms in the same building offer different soaps is beyond me) but also going down a floor means I'm hiking up and down a flight of stairs several times a day.

I like the additional time away from my desk, the sights (someone in the machine shop was wearing a Ron Paul Revolution t-shirt yesterday) and the sounds and smells (my dad managed a machine shop when I was wee, so the sensory experience of downstairs jump-starts my nostalgia on a daily basis).

Anyway, this post is all over the place, I know. But my point: take the long route. It feels good cuz it is good.

Gymin' it

Yesterday I managed to find my ID and get my butt to the gym. Did another strength circuit including a one mile hike around the indoor track.

Also, I haven't had drive-thru in 3 weeks, and I feel a lot better. My energy is up, a noticeable amount, and it is nice.