[Becca]

The first day of Spring was yesterday! Was it warm where you live? Did you get out for a walk? Come tell us all about it!

It's Monday, and a rest day on my ChaLEAN Extreme workout. It's raining this morning, so that means hitting the treadmill today. Eeeewwwwww.... it's so hard to get back on there after being outside in the warmer weather, isn't it?

[Becca]

Two miles done on the treadmill this morning. That's probably it for me today.

[tiza126]

It's beautiful weather here! Supposed to get up to 80 today.

Not sure how or when, but I messed up my ankle. It's not swollen or discolored, but I have discomfort when I walk on it. It almost feels out-of-alignment, or maybe a strained muscle? So I'm going to try and take it easy for a couple days - maybe focus on some ab & arm workouts instead. Just watch, by the time my ankle feels better, it will be rainy & cold again.

[tiza126]

Becca, on 21 March 2011 - 09:19 AM, said:

Two miles done on the treadmill this morning. That's probably it for me today.

2 miles is good!!

[April Showers]

Yesterday I did about three miles and mixed walking and running. It isn't so nice outside today, so I'll be heading to the gym.

[angleigh]

Got my 5 miles in today, will do the bowflex in a bit

[tiza126]

WTG Angie!

[regulargal]

I got my 2mi walking workout in this evening. Its too cold here yet to walk outside - I need it nice and warm. It's hard for me to get outside to walk as dd wants to tag alone and I can't power walk with her in tow - so I like the treadmill and these walking videos best.

Tiza, hope your ankle gets better soon! WTG ladies!

[Becca]

Tonya,

I took my 7-year old with me the other day. I told her that she must be quiet the entire walk or she'd never come with me again. And she had to keep up. She did pretty well, too! At the end she said to me, "Good thing we stopped Mommy. My heart was hurting from beating so fast."

[angleigh]

After 2 days of 5 mile walks, and practicing baseball with the boys for a few hours each night I think it's finally caught up with my. My thighs were so sore today, I could only get a little over 2 miles in today before I gave up. Did get my bowflex in, before my walk. Hopefully I'll be able to talk the boys into going out tonight for another mile or two.

[Sara Arell]

Woo-Hoo! I'm back on track again! I've been going with dh when he goes to the gym and speed-walking (well, for me it's speedy! LOL) in the lovely neighborhood near the gym. Today I walked for a whole hour - not sure how much distance I covered.......but I feel good about it!

I just can't get into the gym thing - it bores me - as hard as I've tried, I just can't commit to it. But I am loving every minute of walking with nature!

[SarahBat]

Great going ladies! Did 3 plus miles today.

[tiza126]

I got in 3.5 miles on my stationary bike tonight

[Sara Arell]

tiza126, on 22 March 2011 - 08:16 PM, said:

I got in 3.5 miles on my stationary bike tonight

Now that's one piece of equipment I love, Tiza! I can ride and ride and ride as long as I can watch tv or read or something. Good going, Tiza!

[Becca]

How's that ankle, Tiz?

Sara, I don't like the gym either. It's a meat market for single people I think. Not my thing at all - even when I was single and skinny. LOL!

Angie, you amaze me, girlfriend! Are you finding yourself hungrier on the days you really get a good Bowflex workout in? Since starting ChaLEAN last week, I'm getting stomach-growling hungry by meal time and snack time. It's been a challenge to balance the right amount of good food to eat each meal or snack.

Sarah, do you have snow this morning? We do!

I haven't been walking much this week, because of ChaLEAN and some other things going on. I should jump on the treadmill today, since it's a CE rest day for me.

But I'm a bundle of nerves right now, waiting to hear if DH will be laid off today or not. It's been very stressful in our house these last few days with the not-knowing, but good possibility that he'll be job-less by the end of today's workday.

[regulargal]

I got in more than 2mi last night. dh is home now from work (2 weeks, last week and this week) and I find I my eating habits when he's home are horrible. He likes to cook fatty, greasy meals and we eat out more often. So I need to find time for extra walking when he's home! I'm doing better this time tho - I'm controlling my portions and keeping up the walking.

Becca - hope you get good news today. I've been there and it is very stressful. Thinking of you and your family and hope it all works out!

[Becca]

Thanks, Tonya.

Unfortunately, we already heard back and the news is not good. He lost his job.

[tiza126]

Sorry to hear that, Becca


My ankle is pretty much back to normal. I think I must have strained a muscle during some exercise or walk over the weekend. One of my chores this week/weekend is to go to a running store and get some high-quality, good support walking shoes.

[SarahBat]

Becca I'm sorry! Praying about the situation.

[angleigh]

Sorry to hear about that Becca!

I find myself hungry all the time...LOL More now that i'm doing 5 miles on a regular basis. I try to time it though that i've eaten breakfast and by the time I get back it's almost lunch time. Then I grab a handful of nuts or a cheese stick when I get done to hold me over.

5 miles done today...it was nice to get back out there and that mini break that I took yesterday must of been perfect because my thighs felt fine today.

[angleigh]

As the boys ran on the treadmill tonight I got my Bowflex workout in...now off to find dinner

[Becca]

Thanks for your prayers and well wishes, everyone! Yesterday was an incredibly rough day as you can imagine. But my husband and I are hitting this situation head-on with an action plan and we're keeping our heads up.

Angie, sounds like we snack on the same things! Cheese sticks and I love those cocoa-roasted almonds. In the morning, I indulge in one of the protein bar things. I try to find the ones that have as much protein as possible. Because after my workout in the morning, I'm usually starving. And I've even started eating a bigger breakfast to compensate for that. Adding an egg or so with my bowl of cereal each day.

I love that your boys are working out with you! That's awesome! My daughter joined me for the yoga part of ChaLEAN last Sunday, and I told her we now have a standing date with that every week.

Tiza, have fun shoe shopping! I just did that myself a couple of weeks ago and it makes a world of difference.

No walking again for me today, but it's Thursday. So that means Burn Circuit 2 with ChaLEAN and then ballet class tonight.

[tiza126]

I took a short walk yesterday after work. It was sunny, but VERY windy. That was added resistance, right? I'm also slowly building up my jogging ability. Of the 1.8 miles I walked, I had quite a few short jogging bits

[regulargal]

Becca - it's so nice to hear your positive attitude! I'm sure things will work out!

Tiza, I've been trying - and failing - to jog. So I've been sticking to brisk walking.

I got only 1mi in yesterday evening. It was "that kind" of evening and I just vegged out.

[Becca]

I had a truly fabulous ChaLEAN workout this morning. The kind when you're done and say to yourself "WOW! I am actually doing this!" It was such a wonderful feeling.

Tonya, thank you - I've learned a lot with this walking threads these last few weeks. You're going to have good days, you're going to have bad days. I kind of look at the situation with DH's job in the same way. It was out of our control and the best we can do is move forward from it. Action sure beats standing still, even if it's baby steps.

That's not to say I didn't break down and cry a few times yesterday. I did. I got angry and wanted to scream, too. But today's a new day, and DH is about to walk out the door to a job interview. So it's all good.

Tiz and Tonya, I'm trying to jog/run a bit more. I'm not having much success when I'm outside, but I do OK on the treadmill. I'm a lot like you two... sometimes I just walk briskly, other times I jog in short bursts. It's not easy.

I'm thinking of looking into one of the Couch to 5K programs sometime when the weather is a bit warmer and more "stable" (as in no snow surprises.) Has anyone ever done one of those?

[tiza126]

Tonya, I am a bad jogger! What I do now is a brisk walk, and will periodically do some short periods of jogging. I try to test myself on either how long I can make it in one jogging spurt (about a minute), or I try to see how many short jogging spurts (20-30 seconds) can I work in to my walk. I can already see a tiny bit of progress. I was joking last night that at the rate I'm going, I might actually jog a 5k by this time next year

Becca, I have the C-5k app on my Android phone - it will give me the spoken cues as to when to jog and when to walk. But it doesn't include any music (like the downloadable podcasts), so I can listen to my own tunes. I haven't used it yet, though, because even their "novice day 1" is too much for me.

[angleigh]

Oh I so do not job (at least not in public...lol) I watched my boys run a lap on the treadmill at 5.3 last night and got tired just watching them. I would love to get into it, slowly but surly though.

Off for my walk today...3 miles is on the agenda. I SOOOO do not want to do this today. I just told Gary what I would rather do right now is go to Sonic and get a fish sandwich (love them..and they are back for a bit) and tots. I'm going to be good though and go walk and dream of what my lunch will be today.

[tiza126]

Mmmmmm I really like Sonic tots. Good thing there isn't a Sonic near me

Way to push yourself to go walking, Angie! If it's as cold & blustery there as it is here, I wouldn't want to walk today either.

[Becca]

LOL, I was thinking the same thing! Glad there's no Sonic anywhere near me! It's their drinks that would undue me!

[angleigh]

I told my husband, what if I walked to Sonic and back...that would be close to my 5 miles (it's torture it only being a couple of miles from me) But instead I did the full 5 miles and getting ready to eat some scrambled eggs. I'll just have to imagine it's tots...lol