staceinspace’s Focus BodyBlog

I have found that the combination of Tae Bo, running on the treadmill and heand weights and crunches on my ball are working well for me.  This year I plan to get my diet in line.  So hard when it is cold to eat light when you crave chili, and comfort foods that are basically no good fro you. 

I plan to forge ahead though and win!

Travel, illness, writing deadlines and a teen getting her street legal status have swamped me with the inability to have any time to workout.  Tomorrow I am back with a vengeance and moving forward.

I hate the advertisements that come with the new year and all of the high drama of the latest fads.  Tom Venutto put out his new book on Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle and I highly recommend that to anyone who wants to cut through all of the BS and keep it real.  He advocates for exercise, eating right and rotating calories and workouts so not to plateau and he is so money about it all.  Common sense in the end rules.

I caught a few epsiodes of a couple working out together to lose 50-70 pounds each on some show on television and that inspired me.  If someone who is over 3 bills can run up a flight of stairs than me who is close to breaking the 2 bills mark can work harder!  I am also a fan of Ruby for her own show as she is trying so hard.

I know we all think we are normal weight sometimes and then every so often, months or years flash by and we baloon up and realize we have no idea when we got so heavy.  Good news is that we can always do a u turn and go the right direction.  Every day is a choice and a new opportunity to eat right and try.

I also firmly believe in the no pain no gain creed as if I am not sweating or sore I have not done all I could have for that day.  Even if I am in a flare of pain I no longer use that as a reason to go easy on myself.  If there is anything I have learned in my life is that anything worth having is worth working your ass off for.

I am ready to get the rest of this weight off and start my summer looking like a new woman.  My goal is to be under 175 by June.  I can do it…

I love doing (or should I say trying to finnish) Billy Blank’s Tae Bo videos.  hey really challenge me and give me the flexibility in my workouts. I love trying to keep up with him.  I am off to Minnesota for a vacation this week and then I will be back on track to workout…2009 is gonna be great for me!

I rehabbed my knee bybabying it and began working out again slowly but steadily and I am rocking now!

I never thought I could manage to heal but I have!  Best advice I can give for others with knee pain and it giving out is to baby it and not to quit working out as this tends to make the situation worse.  I am working harder than ever to lose the rest of my weight and am glad to say I have not gained one pound!

2009 looks like it maybe a good year yet!

SO I went and did it now.  Tore up my ACL and my Meniscus or whatever.  Have to have knee surgery now.

I have no idea how long this recovery will take but I know that it will not stop me from working out after I do recover.  I am looking forward to not being in pain anymore and in having a diagnosis  after all these weeks of misery.  Iam now going to be more careful how I work out and baby my knees a bit more!

My weight has not gone up mercifully though, and I have not worked out in two weeks now.  It will be 3 more before I can start back up again anyway.

Well, what does not break me makes me stronger even if it is frustrating!

I had to walk and not run today for my knee’s sake.  Thanksgiving should prove a challenge tomorrow in staying in a decent caloric range.  I shall stick to the turkey and veggies and avoid bread, dessert and too much drinking.

I am looking forward to playing some goold old fashioned board games with my nieces and nephew and in laws.

I love to workout and miss it when my knee is all tore up.  Haveto baby it though.  I want to add a new stricter eatingpan for 2009 for me.  I have been eating way to much chocolate!

I feel thought that i have firmly implanted my new life choices and styles as healthy indicators of my success in changing from a couch potato who was sedentary who had given up to a driven healthy women who is aware of every calorie that goes into my body now.  I feel younger with every workout and hope to someday see a whole new me int he mirror so I can run and post it here in the community of my peers who understand how hard it is to lose weight and not eat poorly.

As a former emotional eater while typing my papers for school, I have now learned ot eat first and not eat and type!  I also unlearned poor college habits of eating and studying and make sure I am doing nothing but studying now.  Like some people smoke and drink and smoke only when they drink I was a typer and a snacker. No more.  I tried to substitute grapes for chips but eating too much calories is too easy while not paying attention.

A major change this former fattie has completed is to not eat without being aware of portion sizes.  Also, I have had to stay away from some binge eaters in the family who trigger my eating.  Although I never binged ate I snakced mindlessly.  Just as a smoker or drinker who is trying to quit must avoid other active users, i avoid people who eat poorly and try to surround myself with people who make healthier choices as it ieasier on me and my progress.

Well, off to bed to prepare for tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and good luck avoiding too much calories!  Sometimes and extra helping is great.  I plan to eat less in the morning to make up for a second helping of potatos and crnaberry dressing later on and to exercise hard the day after!  I also do not take home leftovers as it helps with the over eating.

3 sessions of 3-5 minutes on elliptical

1 mile on treadmill with HIIT

weights hand

100 crunches on ball

15-20 minutes of workout tape

step ups 30

good mornings 30

I need ot add new routines ot my workout.

My right knee is hurting me so bad I am going ot finally get it examined.  I loathe going to the doctor as I am already there enough but when it hurts for weeks..I guess I got to go.

My pants are getting loose again so i feel good about that.  I took another 4 day break to heal the knee from working out.  I have added Billy Blanks Tae Bo to my work out and man is he hard ot follow!  Especially with my knee.  Everything that guy does involves the knees.

I often want to give up and say..this is the best I can look, this is the best I got in me…but I know better.  I wanted to be a lot thinner by my birthday than I am but not quitting is more important than reaching a certain weight sometimes.

Thanks to all my friends here for their continued support especially knucklehead!  Your blogs keep me going!  It is nice to see so many other people like me not giving up either.

I will do what it is I do everyday..not give up and get up and keep moving.  sometimes keeping moving is all we have as people to keep us from going over the edge.

Thank you to everyone in this place who supported and encouraged me this last year!  I have lost weight, inches and depression with my pain!  I am so feeling it!  Feeling great and happy and loving working out all the time now!  What a change from couch potato!  I am 36 in two days and feel younger than ever!!!!
I even did Billy Blank’s Tae Bo today on top of my usual cardio and weights!  I am determined and dedicated to my family to lose all my weight and make 2009 the year of my new body!  Yeahhhhh!

Thank you to everyone in this place who supported and encouraged me this last year!  I have lost weight, inches and depression with my pain!  I am so feeling it!  Feeling great and happy and loving working out all the time now!  What a change from couch potato!

I even did Billy Blank’s Tae Bo today on top of my usual cardio and weights!  I am determined and dedicated to my family to lose all my weight and make 2009 the year of my new body!  Yeahhhhh!