This Time I'm Doing It For Me!!!

[Verandah Man]

A few months back I was getting very depressed because of the condition I was in. I had gotten to the largest I had ever been in my life and my knees were suffering tremendously because of it. I read water meters for a living and I needed to lose this extra baggage because going to work every morning was becoming more and more difficult.

This past July 4th became "MY" new Independence Day. My DD17 asked me to take her to our local community center www.riverwinds.org so she could get her morning workout in. That morning, I decided to join her, and the look on her face as I got out of the car was priceless. She was smiling from ear to ear, because she didn't have to go in and workout alone. That was a little over 4 weeks ago, since that first morning of working out, I have only missed going to the gym two days. As of my weigh-in this past Friday morning I have lost 9 pounds.

I am able to get in a 45-50 minute workout in each weekday morning, and about a 90 minute workout in on the weekend mornings. My goal is to lose 50 pounds, and this time, keep it off.

Right now, I am using the treadmill, bike and elliptical machines each morning, and feeling the best I have felt in years, and I am feeling so proud of myself for sticking to it!!!

 

[wendylady36]

Aww, reading about your daughter smiling when you joined her was magical.

Keep up the great work!

 

[Verandah Man]

Aww, reading about your daughter smiling when you joined her was magical.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks!!! My DD and I will be leaving here shortly to head for our morning workout, after I wake her up that is!!!

 

[momof2minnies]

Hi Verandah Man,
It is so good to see you here.Great job so far.Keep it up.That is great your DD lets you work out with her-mine is 16 and I would love it if she ran with me but at this point this old lady may just blow her away and she's afraid-

All kidding aside you will find people here very motivating and inspiring.

I loved your info of the cruise boards when we went in 2005.

Linda

 

[Verandah Man]

Hi Linda--DD and I were doing side by side elliptical training this morning for a short while. DD is on the elliptical for 40 minutes, my limit is 10 minutes.....

But then again, I also do 30 minutes on the treadmill and 10-15 minutes on the bike. I like to spread out my workouts by using a few different machines.

 

[momof2minnies]

Great job keep it up!!!!!!!

Linda

 

[Verandah Man]

Just got home from my workout. Even with a few bad food choices this week, I did manage to lose 1/2 pound. This is good considering I was up a few pounds this past Tuesday. I went and did a second workout last evening after dinner(80 minutes) and just did a 50 minute workout this morning with my DD. I look at it this way, a loss for the week, is still better than a gain!!!!!


Gotta get ready for work now..

 

[Verandah Man]

Had another good 90 minute workout this morning where I got rid of 850 unwanted calories.......

Sitting here having a nice tossed salad with fat free dressing for a mid-morning snack, as my DW and DD are both still sound asleep.........

 

[momof2minnies]

Mid morning what time did you get up??????HA!HA!

 

[Verandah Man]

Mid morning what time did you get up??????HA!HA!

Between 4 and 5 most mornings, today was 4:20am...........

 

[momof2minnies]

OMG-You and the birds.I know when I have been up that early it is so peaceful outside.

Linda

 

[Verandah Man]

For someone who didn't feel motivated this morning, I kicked some major bootie at Riverwinds. It was my best workout to date burning off 875 calories and doing 100 tummy crunches, and I feel GREAT!!!!!

 

[Verandah Man]

Just arrived home from my morning workout and weekly weigh-in. This week I lost 1.5 pounds bringing my total weight loss to 11 pounds in the past 6 weeks!!!

Oh yeah, my work shorts are beginning to get very loose on me, I hope I don't loose them as I am walking around reading those nasty water meters speaking of which, I have to get ready for work now.....

 

[Verandah Man]

Really had a bad start this morning. Arrived at Riverwinds at 6:05am and first did 100 tummy crunches, then went on the treadmill and after about 3 minutes I had had enough. I was going to head home but decided to give the bike a try. I set the bike timer for 30 minutes, after 10 minutes, I called it quits. Went to the ellipitcal machine and thought I'd give that a 5 minute try. The minimum timer on the elliptical is 10 minutes, so I set the timer and started. I managed to get all 10 minutes in on the elliptical. By the time I got off the elliptical I started feeling like my old self and decided to give the treadmill another try. I set the timer at 15 minutes then kept increasing the time until I finally got it up to 60 minutes. All in all, I burned off 775 calories this morning, which was a whole lot more than I thought I was going to do after the first 10 minutes.

I know what the problem was. I stayed up until midnight to see the Michael Phelps/Mark Spitz interview on TV. I was so pumped up after watching win the 100 Butterfly that I had some trouble falling asleep so I took one of my Herbalife Sleep Now tablets. That's why I had such a hard time getting motivated and moving this morning. I was kind of still in a fog the first hour at Riverwinds this morning, I'm just glad I stuck it out and didn't come home at 6:15 like I almost did.

I'm now back home eating a nice tossed salad with fat free dressing!!!

 

[momof2minnies]

Hi Verandah Man,
Glad to see you are doing well and staying motivated.11 lbs WOOHOO!!!!!!! Good job.775 cals is nothing to sneeze at.I am glad to see once you got going there was nothing stopping you.

When is your next cruise?I am helping someone at work plan a Disney trip and told them about the cruise too.Can you believe they did not know about the Disney cruise- I had to check their pulse-HA!HA!

Linda

 

[Verandah Man]

Hi Verandah Man,
Glad to see you are doing well and staying motivated.11 lbs WOOHOO!!!!!!! Good job.775 cals is nothing to sneeze at.I am glad to see once you got going there was nothing stopping you.

When is your next cruise?I am helping someone at work plan a Disney trip and told them about the cruise too.Can you believe they did not know about the Disney cruise- I had to check their pulse-HA!HA!

Linda

Our next cruise is the B.O.B. (Bash On the Boat) Cruise on 10/24/09!!!

 

[Verandah Man]

Just had my best workout to date, I said good-bye to 950 calories this morning, and felt so much better than I did yesterday morning!!!

Oh yeah, I did 75 tummy crunches as well.

 

[Verandah Man]

I am happy to report, I had another good week, and lost 2 more pounds, 13 total lost in the past 7 weeks!!!

 

[momof2minnies]

That is awesome!!!!!!!!!Keep up the great work-your next cruise you are going to be skinny Minnie-Mickey I mean


Linda

 

[Verandah Man]

That is awesome!!!!!!!!!Keep up the great work-your next cruise you are going to be skinny Minnie-Mickey I mean


Linda

Thanks!!!