Week 3 – Making Changes
January 27, 2011 by Kait
Filed under Kait's Personal Story, Motivation, Personal Stories
It’s hard to believe it’s already nearing the end of week 3. I’ve made some changes this week. A really good friend of mine, who happens to be a great personal trainer, gave me some sample meal plans so this week I started a new “diet” to help me throughout my Body Transformation Contests. I’m [...]
Weak workout, no progress
January 26, 2011 by Mary
Filed under Mary's Personal Story
Today I had a pretty tough time working out. I hit about 10 minutes on the elliptical and didn’t know how I was going to get to 20 minutes. I was tired and felt like I just couldn’t do it. I managed to crank out 45 minutes in the end, and went about 2.64 miles… [...]
How do you Wii?
January 24, 2011 by Mary
Filed under Mary's Personal Story, Motivation
Sounds like a personal question, but hey, we got it like that don’t we? While I was Wii-ing today …hmm, lemme try that again. While I was playing Wii Tennis today, I was thinking about the first time I ‘did’ the Wii Gold’s Gym Dance Workout DVD. I wanted to see what the dance was [...]
METs – more than just a crappy NY baseball team.
January 23, 2011 by Mary
Filed under Cardio Training, Fat Loss Methods, Mary's Personal Story
METS (Metabolic Equivalents) are used in Nintendo Wii to measure the intensity of an activity. Wii Fit gives the example that it it takes 1 MET to sit still, and 4 METs to go on a light walk, or to golf. According to American Heart Association guidelines, a MET is a ratio that compares a [...]
Wii Workout Wednesday
January 20, 2011 by Mary
Filed under Cardio Training, Fat Loss Methods, Mary's Personal Story
For various and sundry reasons I am not at liberty to discuss (unless you have level 12 security clearance from the government of Namibia), I had to forego using the elliptical Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Instead, I worked out some of my frustrations over a non-paying client, among other things stress by playing our [...]
Taking a Chance
January 18, 2011 by Kait
Filed under Kait's Personal Story, Motivation, Personal Stories
This is the first in a series of posts I will be doing over the next few months. I really can’t believe how far I’ve come both physically and mentally. To be perfectly honest, when I first started my weight loss journey, I was doing it just to get healthy. Seeing the scales hit 240 [...]
8 cents, bre!
January 17, 2011 by Mary
Filed under Mary's Personal Story, Motivation
Today was a rainy, dreary, yucky January day. Since Goran and I work out of our home office, I get plenty of chances to look out the window while washing dishes, fixing food, or just wandering about taking a break from the computer. After a bla-bla day of work, I hit my blogs and Adsense [...]
Find the cute freckle
January 16, 2011 by Mary
Filed under Mary's Personal Story, Motivation
As I was making my Lean Cuisine Chicken Carbonara, (which I’m totally addicted to) for breakfast this … afternoon (hey, it’s Sunday), I spied the bowl I set out on the counter for dumping it into, once it finished cooking, and realized it’s the one with the ‘freckle’. When we first got this set of [...]
Day 5 – nice & easy – not my style!
January 15, 2011 by Mary
Filed under Mary's Personal Story, Personal Stories
Almost missed today – feeling frustrated with my quest to become an internet mega millionaire through various quests and didn’t really want to get off my bumkis to get on the elliptical. I did, though! After about 10 minutes in, I got a little too taken by the music on my iPod, and started working [...]
Weight loss – ‘Magic’ protein shake
January 14, 2011 by Mary
Filed under Fat Loss Diet, Healthy Recipes, Mary's Personal Story, Nutritional Food, Personal Stories
Although I’m overweight, a big part of my challenge is consuming enough calories (without getting it from crappy food) to keep my body nourished. Your body needs at least 1200 calories per day for basic body functions – breathing, heart beat, all that good stuff. That’s why if you go on a crazy grapefruit or [...]