another week

Mike had 8 hrs and I had 35 min. Whenever the weather was decent, I was sitting around at work. Are we safely past the eaties now?

Weekly Report

Molly 45 min. Lance 90 min. I think. I could be lying but I had a busy week so I'll give myself the benefit of a doubt.

Checking In

It finally go nice here for a couple of days so we went for a walk twice! Dan and I walked 4.75ish miles and I worked out 1/2 hour too.

What Counts

The purpose of this program/game/trip/voyage/expedition/thing is to provide us with incentive to help us reach our personal fitness goals. Molly's goal and mine is to develop a habit of working out regularly. So for us we want to set aside a certain amount of time each day or every couple days to work out. Because that's our goal that is the time that we count. Because everybody in the family has different goals and things they want to achieve I would leave it up to the individual what they want to count.

If you're using Hawaii to motivate you to do more physical activity and improve your fitness I think you're on the right track. If you're trying to find time to count just for the "numbers" I think you will miss out on the overall benefit we are going for which is better fitness for everybody (at least I think that's our goal, right?)

I know it is a little vague but I think you need to decide what you need motivation or incentive to do and then use this trip to give you that incentive. In other words I think we each need to decide what we are going to count as progress towards our individual goals.

Mike and me

Mike had 8 hrs and I had 1 hr.

L & M let me know what your verdict is on me counting my walking miles for work. It might be ideal if we all had pedometers to count. But obviosly we don't have that now.

Progress

If any of you were wondering the monkey shows where we should be at the end of March. Guess we better get to work.

Invisible Bad Guys

I worked out 130 minutes last week and Molly did 100 (I think). Last night we did kickboxing from a video Mom left with us. It was pretty fun/intense. We beat up lots of invisible bad guys. If you come to our house the invisible bad guys won't mess with you cause we pretty much showed them who was boss. BAM BAM BAM!!!

Hurry up!!

Lance would like to point out that he's pretty close to his eatie home land. I think we should step it up and work fast this week or we will be stuck in eatie land forever. I don't know if that gives any one else motivation but it sure motivates me to get him out of there before he can do to much damage. :)

I decided to make the map BIG! Now you can actually see it.

Updated everybody's times. Hope I'm all caught up now. Are we counting Steph's clinicals. Did you jog in place everytime you stopped? Map's also up to date. If you have a big enough monitor and look really hard you can see a little blue square above the CA. That's where we are now. Got a long way to go still. I know the numbers from my house will be a lot better this week. Helps when everybody's not pukin'. Piece.

Checking in

Mike had 7 1/2 hrs last week. And I had ZERO! Yep. And I'm proud of that. I bet I can repeat that next week if I try real hard.
Rachel. I haven't heard from you in a while are you still with us?

Checking In

I did about an hour this week, and about 5 hours of walking for clinical does that count? I'm going to wear a pedometer tonight and see how much I actually walk. Hopefully I will do better this week.

Our Awesome Week

Molly and I fell off the bandwagon so on Monday we decided we would work hard this week and start catching up. On Monday we pulled out an exercise video Mom left with us and did step aerobics for about 15 minutes when we heard Mark crying. We paused the video to go get him settled down and saw that he had thrown up over everything so we decided we were probably done for the night. Tuesday I worked out for 30 min. Wednesday everybody was sick most of the day. Thursday we were all worn out. Friday we were busy packing up to go to Oregon (until Mark threw up AGAIN) and Saturday we played with Aunt Megan. So needless to say our "catching up" was not that successful. I would say we'll try again this coming week but after last week I'm a little scared :)

As far as bookkeeping I think I've got everybody's times back up to date as of today.

By the way, did you know that bookkeeper (and its relatives) is the only word with three consecutive sets of double letters. I think that's what my English teacher said.

checking in

Mike had 7 1/2 hrs and I had 80 min.

Mike wants some company on his trip. I'm sure with the weather getting better it will be easier for all of us to get doing a little more.  Let's all just keep plugging along.

I'm with Molly

I've been slacking too, and stressing about school. But I took my final today now it's just clinicals for about a month then two more test and I'm done.
I have done a little better this week, I think I worked 2 hours, and I'm going to try to do better this week. I'm still working on getting Dan to exercise, I think I'll be able to get him to go for walks with me when it gets warmer.

Motivating Myself

Wow, life has been kind of crazy the`last month or so! If it's not one thing it's another thing that's trying to keep me from exercising. I've got to just kick my own butt back into gear! I LOVE they way I feel after I've exercised, but it takes SO much effort to do it. Between crazy kids, a messy living room or just to dang tired to do it, it feels like it's been forever. Oh, wait it has! And my meal planning has slacked also. UGH! Ok, it's time to get back into gear. These pounds are not going to melt themselves away. And I'm not going to feel better about myself unless I do something. I guess I was just waiting for it to get a little easier or more convenient before I started back up but heck, it's part of life and who has yet to discover that life is convenient and easy? It's just one more thing that I have to decide to do and get determined to figure out a way to do it! Ok, here I go. A brand new week, a clean slate, I CAN DO IT!!!

Anyone else with me?

Oh, as for meals this week I have planned a veggie/fruit AND bread with every dinner. I'm still working on better breakfasts and lunches but I've got to master one before I move onto another. And I'm chugging the water, I've always been told that it boosts your metabolism so I'm trying to focus on my intake a little more. I feel sorry for all you anti-water drinkers it really does taste good. :) I didn't realize how many cups 8 cups really was. It's a good thing I like water.

Ok, enough go to bed and happy exercising!

fitness test result

Mike had 5 1/2 hours last week and I had 1 1/2.

And here is our report on the fitness test that I told you about. Mike did good. He got average on 2 tests and I got poor on all my tests. Guess that gives me a little room for improvement.