Fitness Stat-urday – Week 4

Starting Statistics on 08/30/2014

• Weight:  155 Pounds (took 0.6 pounds off during my stabilizing week)
• Body Fat %:  25.1% (took 0.7% off during my stabilizing week)
• BMI:  24.3
• Predicted Weight from MyFit.nessP.al:  140 Pounds (targeting 1.5 pounds per week)

Goals for the Next 10 Weeks (Ending 11/08/2014)

• Weight:  142.6 Pounds
• Body Fat %:  22.1%
• BMI:  22.3
• Push-ups:  90
• Sit-ups:  53
• Mile Run Time:  7:26

Week Ending 10/04/2014

• Week 4 Statistics
  • Weight:  149 Pounds
  • Pounds Lost or Gained:  2 Pounds
  • Body Fat %:  24.4%
  • Body Fat % Lost or Gained:  0.0%
  • BMI: 23.3
  • Workout Days (goal is 6 days):  6 Days
  • Time Spent Being Active:  6 Hours  27 Minutes
  • Average Number of Steps Per Day:  13,728
• Food:  This will be a week of cooking dinners at home.  No travel for my husband means kitchen time for me!  We’ve got our favorites lined up this week!
  • Sunday – Greek chicken with homemade apple pie as dessert
  • Monday – Curry burgers
  • Tuesday – I’m too ashamed to log what I had for dinner.  We went to the Y for INSAN.ITY fit testing, which I thought would take 10-15 minutes.  The testing itself was quick, but then we were led through another 20 minutes of class, taking us to 6:50.  We then walked the track for 10 minutes and because we’re putting the kids to bed earlier these days, my hubs said, “DQ for dinner?”  And I agreed.  I had a kids cup of vanilla ice cream – and that was my dinner.  I put the frozen soup (homemade leftovers) back in the freezer for another time.
  • Wednesday – Curried pumpkin soup – This was excellent!  It needed a bit of something more in the way of spices, and we’re not sure what.  I think we’ll try coriander or nutmeg next time.  I subbed coconut oil for the canola oil and it worked out great.  I used low sodium broth which was a mistake – follow the recipe!
  • Thursday – Pear and Ground Pork Stuffed Winter Squash (we used carnival squash instead of acorn squash this time – and we prefer the acorn squash)
  • Friday – Chicken non-tortilla soup We took the boys bowling tonight and then out for hot dogs for them.  We ate oatmeal – it was the only healthier option there.  It was good!
  • Saturday – Date night!!!
• Exercise/Activity: I’ll be hitting it hard this week again – shooting for 7 hours of activity.  My goal is 2 4-mile runs (Mon, Tues, Fri), 3 INSAN,ITY and KB workouts in the garage, and a weights class at the YMCA.  I need to keep working hard at cardio but really like the garage workouts for strength and endurance training.
  • Sunday – Mowed the lawn (47 minutes) – 11,200 Steps
  • Monday – Morning run (45 minutes) – 14,500 Steps
  • Tuesday – INSAN.ITY and kickboxing (52 minutes), more INSAN.ITY (28 minutes), track walking (10 minutes) – 14,800 Steps
  • Wednesday – Rest day!- 9,100 Steps (so not proud of this)
  • Thursday – INSAN.ITY and kickboxing (70 minutes) – 13,000 Steps
  • Friday – Track walking (66 minutes), INSAN.ITY core and balance (15 minutes) – 16,000 Steps
  • Saturday – Afternoon run (48 minutes)- 17,500 Steps
• Notes and findings: 
  • I have a chest cold this week that doesn’t seem to be keeping me down, but it made me want to take a rest day.
  • Working out in the garage is… working out great!  I can’t believe how motivated I am to work out on my own.
  • I tried working out in the basement while the kids played and that proved to be difficult – I’ll keep working out while they nap!
  • We went to the Y on Friday morning to do nothing in particular other than give myself a parenting break.  My big kid was EXCITED to go and my little one couldn’t get to the toys soon enough.  I walked the track for an hour, watching my older son play with his friends in the gym just below.  It was fun – and I think I’ll do that every Friday that my little guy doesn’t nap in the morning!
  • I am done getting “egg white delig.ht” breakfast sandwiches from McDo.nalds.  I figured they weren’t great for me, but they are so tasty and thue “healthiest” option in the morning if I’m choosing to go there (and I go there Mon-Wed after preschool drop-off just for their Die.t Co.ke – which is just so good!).  I have known that they’d have to go at some point, so when I read all about how it’s made, I decided to ditch them.  I had one last one and that’s it – I’m done.  I’ve been there twice since saying “no more” and I’ve just gotten my Di.et Co.ke and I’m perfectly happy with that.
  • I met my exercise goals with the exception of a weights session.  😦