My saviour or undoing?..

this new little gem was just delivered yesterday... LITTLE ..Hah!! the bloody thing is a BEAST!
- already we've had to move it over to Jamie's side of the bed because knowing me I'd trip over the damn thing in a second !

Now WHAT is it you ask.....ahhhh Yes that...
It's an Arc Trainer... again for some .. a "huh what'? Yea .. me too before we started doing our homework.

As some of you know & are probably bored to tears of hearing about I injured my ankle about ..hmmm -well almost 2 bloody yrs ago now... & even to this day running is pretty much out of the question unless I want to limp for the rest of the week. Yes all the specialist can estimate is that I did some pretty permanent ligament damage . Thanks! & Yiippee skip!
So needless to say .. cardio as I knew it is over ... can't just strap on the old shoes & take off anymore.. & my treadmill was gathering a serious layer of dust..
It now happily has found a home hopefully making my mother a little bit healthier out there living in the middle of nowhere!

Sooooo to cut this painfully long story short...( sorry I'm tired...~Lol~)
Jamie & I decided we needed something that we could still use here at home .. since his schedule does NOT allow time to go to a gym & I need something I can do here so there are NO excuses!
So this baby was & hopefully will be the answer to all our woes.. it supposedly is even more "joint friendly" than an elliptical & gives you an AWESOME & efficient work out !!

whooo hooo ! let's hope eh?

weekend &...

I'm sure you're all bored of looking at the kids & my sis & I so I guess I should post something else here!

The weekend was busy & typical of our recent bizarre B.C weather ... Sat we got all the way to the Lacrosse box in the POURING rain only to be sent home by the coach since they decided it was raining so hard it was going to be unsafe for the kids to practice & then yesterday .. we awoke to ...SUNSHINE!!!

So quick ...run out to the plant store buy the fruit trees we've been waiting for some half decent weather to plant & spend the day doing yard work ...quickly-- since really it seems lately if we get a whole 24hrs in row with out some sort of rain its STRANGE...
So now there are more trees in the backyard pretty flowers blooming in the front yard ... & everything is drying out ..

So far today is a great day for me ...Cardio done,eating clean, errands run , more summer bulbs to plant ..
Yep ...I just function SO much better in the Sunshine!

Have a good one all!

There & back again...a Hobbits tale

ok so I'm not reaaaally a Hobbit..but it just fit! ~ lol~

Anywho so we're back from the land of ice & snow...YUCK it was cold .. I have to say I would NEVER want to live somewhere that just going for a walk is not a given!

I tried to make sure that we got out at least some part of all the days we were there.
The one day was pretty mild - Jamie & I took everyone on a good 6 k walk to get a coffee.. found a reallly cute little cafe , bought the kids a treat for being so good about walkin & thinking we were going Nowhere... ( yea we're bad for teasing them..but it's kinda fun :P
but DAMN the one day that it dipped to -9 & add in the wind factor *BRRRRRRR*

I bundled up the kids & the baby & the dog ..yea we were a sight! --me , the dog,two kids bundled right up including badly fitting mis-matched borrowed toques.. baby in stroller with only his eyeballs showing ....looking at me like "Auntie...I thought you LIKED me?!" but damn it I was going to get a WALK in !

The 2 days we hit the West Edmonton Mall were better... got TONNES of walking in .. that place is HUGE!!
& the day that Jamie & I took kids to the Waterpark in the Mall ( yes it is IN the Mall!) we got a serious leg work out climbing up the stairs to do the water slides --Over & over & over again! Gotta love kids eh?
ahhh, who am I kidding ..we're just as bad!

So I never did get a proper workout in while we were gone...
Somehow 14 month olds just don't allow for that in the scheduling! ... but lifting 27lbs of him around all the time plus all the rest ...well I don't feel too bad. ;)

The eating could have been better.. but I'm blaming my sister & I both dealing with TOM at the same time talk about being co-dependant! ~lol~...( & no not you Tom if you see this! ~lol~) So now I'm home & Remarkably I am more than ready to get back to eating healthy & my workouts ! Yep-it's back to the real world-- just as soon as I climb out from under this pile of laundry!

Amen baby!

Soo I'm feelin MUCH better flying off with the kids & my darlin in the very EARLY AM to go see my sis & nephew in Alberta ( one provice over)

sooo we'll see ya'll on the flip side - middle of next week!
take care all!


tried desperately to upload the song by Nickelback "If Everyone Cared" from webrats..it JUST WON'T work !! So....

instead I'll say please- go find it! ...
or tell me please how to get the silly ass thing ON here! ~Lol~

damn..

I hate "hormonal Migraines"
... this is day 3.. someone pass the "good stuff " please..
the Tylenol, Ibuprophen & even Naproxen aren't keepin it in check for more than an hour or so at a time..
I'll catch up with you all when It doesn't hurt to read, move, breathe... you know..the basics

Xena meets her match..

So after half a work out where I was striding around feelin like this girl..headphones on .. in the Zone baby!

Yea intensity is what "coach" ordered... Intensity it was! HOOAAH!

then .... I met me new nemesis.. it's called a Pull-Up... ! HA!

There was NO UP thank you very much !
I don't know whether to call it "how to embarrass yourself in one easy lesson" or "horrible painful death".. OK so I exaggerate juuuust a little! ;P
I have to say honestly I've never really seriously tried to do one of these damn things simply because I figure I have too much stupid body weight to lift up.. & besides there's Always LOTS of other exercises to do instead! ~lol~
But now I'm gonna have to "buck up" & figure out how to work into doing at least 1 of them!
Bear in mind my gym is by no means a "girly Gym" & wouldn't think of having anything as fancy as one of those machines that help take up part of your body weight...Oh No...you're on your OWN sister!
So as instructed by 'coach' ...( who by this time I'm quietly cursing under my breath! )
I dragged a flat bench over in my best Xena style swagger... yea right eh? -
there is no way to look clever moving one of those things!
Any who bench in place I proceeded to perch myself on it & try to lift myself up using as little help from the one foot I was allowing myself to keep on the bench...
even then doing a few of these things are HARD!!
So for the time being ... I think the score is 1 zilch in favour of the stupid pull up...

But .. give me time.. I'm stubborn!

weekend done & on to the new Adventure..

Well I survived the weekend & considering it was nonstop Go Go Go with Gramma's b-day dinner on Friday & a big huge open house on Sat -then off with the Kids to a hockey game & a full day of spring cleaning in the yard on Sunday ..I am marking it as a success !
Not only did I have NONE of either of the cakes ( Jamie is a good scapegoat -I said I'd just eat some of his! ) but I got smart & had a protein shake before the dinner then just ate a bunch steamed veggies & left the rice on my plate.. yea I know sounds like a waste of money at a smorgasbord .. but really I just don't feel like getting into "why I'm not eating" at this particular time with the whole family there..
then I made some pretty good choices on Sat at the open house .. with a few "free day" treats & a bit of wine. & I even managed NOT to eat the popcorn that we got for the kids at the Hockey game! Funny what a different mind set can do .. usually lately I've come out of a weekend having wiped out any progress I might have made during the week.
-- NO MORE :)

So now today I've begun my first day of a New program ...Did weights today here at home so as to not embarrass myself
..& it was kinda funny to try & figure out what sort of weights I can still lift since I've been doing next to nothing with them for so damn long...
I also discovered that if I have a 90lb Olympic bar to move around the play room doing squats -I'd better be careful cause it'd be all too easy to put it through the wall! Oooops!
anywho I didn't go absolutely nuts & overboard- but I know now it's time to test my limits & figure out how to really push myself!
So we'll see how things unfold as I go along :)

Ok so here's a suggestion..

When you're feelin all Hyped & motivated ...which I am Thank-you!

& you're doing awesome with eating & working out every day ..
even when the world throws you the odd curve ball - like yesterday when my parents & sister insisted on taking up most of my morning confirming plans for the big 90th b-day party for my Gramma this weekend..

& (.. are you still with me? ~lol~)

when you 're feelin just great & are all excited about starting off fresh on a new direction & a new plan...with the help of a very special "coach" ;)

(yes this is a VERY long sentence...~lol~)

anywho..when you're all psyched about all this & think you'd like to save time by just putting up a really great kick-A$$ song to explain how AWESOME you're feeling...

It helps if you have ANY idea who any of the damn artists are or what songs are called!!!-
which I don't !!
Lyrics..great at them... names....I suck! Sooooo after ummm WAY to much wasted time last night for now ..you're stuck with boring words!

Bahaha! sorry!

have a great day any who!