I was thinking about the 250 walks in 2010 this morning while I was driving to work. I realized that 250 walks doesn't meet with my pledge to go twice a day.

5 days in a week, 4 weeks in a month = 20 days * 2 walks a day is 40 walks a month. 40 walks a month * 12 months = 480.

Isn't it sad how I am math challenged? *sigh* Welcome to my world.

Amended Resolution #1 of 2010

I, Dinah The Human pledge to walk Scout the Dog twice a day 5 days a week, with the goal of 480 walks in 2010.

It's a big jump. 480 from 250...but I figure there's leeway in there. I could make up for lost days by going on weekends or some days going for 3 walks. It's doable. Now, I've gotta switch up my sidebars.

The Olympic Torch went through our neighborhood tonight after works so we took a little stroll (with the dog -- ahem, 1 walk down) to see it. It was over so fast and the flame was quite large. Andrew was super excited. It was a nice night for it, only minus 15.

I'm settling in for a nice night of Project Runway 2, tidying up the kichen, surfing the net, and relapsing.

cheers!

I don't post much about this anymore. If anyone has been really interested in Dinah they might have read my archives from 2006 and discovered that it was all I blogged about. It was my focus that year and I was obsessed about what I was buying, and what I was eating, and how much I moved and what the scale read and on and on and on. It was motivating at the time, but it was also all-encompassing and I felt like I was obsessed with THAT NUMBER ON THE GODDAMN SCALE. (Can you tell that me and the scale don't have a good relationship).

I've gained and lost 10 pounds so many times it makes me want to cry. I've made the promise to myself to eat well, exercise, and get fit about 36 500 times now and I've failed a good 30 000 times.

I realize that I need to do something different in 2010. I need to do something that works! But what?

Do Weight Watchers again? Try another diet plan? Try Atkins? Journal what I eat? Exercise every day? Take up a new sport? Have the goal to run a 5KM? Focus on exercise or focus on diet? Stop smoking? Do the couch to 5k? Take a running room clinic? Join a gym? Buy a treadmill? Buy an elliptical? Buy some work out dvds? Learn yoga? Aim to lose 10 pounds, 30 pounds, 50 pounds, 75 pounds, 100 pounds? Walk 5 miles, 10, 20, 30, 500?

See, there are too many choices. I never know what to focus on. & because there are so many options I flip back and forth between each one as it suits me. That is not good either.

Some facts ala Intro to Philosophy.

Fact #1 - Dinah The Human needs exercise.
Fact #2 - Scout The Dog needs walks.
Fact #3 - Humans get exercise from walks.

Therefore Dinah The Human needs to walk Scout the Dog for exercise.

Simple, eh?

I desperately need to pick something that I will succeed at, but is a step in the right direction and is ACTION (remember this is the year of ACTION for Dinah). I think something to do with the dog would be a good starting place as I want to see her be a successful part of this family.

RESOLUTION #1 OF 2010

I, Dinah The Human pledge to walk Scout the Dog twice a day 5 days a week, with the goal of 250 walks in 2010.

There are some caveats to this that I have decided I need to have:
1. If it is colder then -30 one walk is optional
2. A walk can consist of as short a distance of 5 houses and back.


I will make some kind of side bar thingy to keep me motivated and to keep me on track and for me to remember (cause I have a bad memory). I think it would be neat to have a ticker that counted how many walks I have done with her...some like a goal of 250 walks this year? Ooooh, I like how that sounds....(I adjusted the pledge up there in case there is confusion)

Dinah quickly hits publish and runs off to find a side bar she likes...

and i'm panicking already. i won't lose enough weight. i've gotta stop. i've gotta eat differently.

i weighed myself this morning and i was 275 pounds. bizarre, huh?

i've got to make a menu of some kind. i've got to make some decisions.

i figured out today that i'm eligible for 33 points on WW. but, i'm thinking like maybe i'd start with 40 points. that's still like only 2000 calories (maybe 2500?) It's still way less then I eat now (I mean now I gotta be at like 3000-4000 calories a day, i just don't want to think about it). It's still on the road for healthier living? it would just allow me more breathing room to um have some slip ups, y'know?

I'm fucking sore today.

I did squats and lunges yesterday and man they made me sore.

There is no gym class in this girls evening. I could hardly walk stairs today.

Tomorrow Night at 7:30 PM I am going to go to the Group Kick class at my gym.

I'm paying enough money for this membership, I'm going to do more then go on the treadmill and elliptical.

I've put this on in words on my Blog and now I must follow through with it.

When I worked at elementary schools the children often did these every Friday--This Week At School. It was always a fun thing for them to do and I loved reading what they wrote.

So, This Week At LIfe....

1. I ate not one but two chocolate bars on secretary's day. The problem is that they didn't even taste that good, but I still kept eating them. :(

2. We might be buying a house. We're going to put an offer in tonight.

3. I had a bad day at work yesterday. The other secretary wasn't there so I was on my own and for most of the morning it was standing room only in the office and there is nothing that gives me The Rage like teenagers that don't shut the fuck up when they've been sent to the office for misbehaving. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I'd say the high point was when I put one girl in the corner b/c she would not stop talking and then from the corner, a mere 2 feet from me, said quite loudly in a whiny whiny voice 'you guys suck, and I wish I could backhand you all' and then later on as I'm trying to explain to the vice what she said 'You don't know the whole fucking story why don't you just shut the fuck up'. (hmmm, the more I think about it the more I think it might have been 'why don't you just shut your mouth). Anyways, regardles, I don't like being sworn at especially in that whiny whiny voice. Ugh.

4. Needless to say b/c of standing room only morning I gorged on Rally Burgers at lunch.

5. I did exercise quite a bit this week. Twice at the gym and two times(maybe 3?) at home while watching the Biggest Loser.

6. I have to look at revamping my strength training. I am just not sore the next day. It hurts while I am lifting my 5 pound weights, but the next day--nada. Maybe it's time to move to 8 pounders?

7. My house is messy but I just seem to not be able to clean it. It's summer and my anxiety is definitely returning. I am afraid to clean because I am afraid I will find bugs. It's a vicious circle and it generally ends up with me screaming at my husband. :( Fuck I hate being like this. I wish that damn anxiety clinic would phone. I've been on the wait list for one year now. :(

8. We had tacos last night. They were yummy. I wish we had gone to Mongos though, but I had taken the beef out a couple days and I really wanted to make sure we used it.

9. Last night we went to our apartment buildings sauna for the first time. Yes folks, we've lived here 9 months and this is the first time. It was nice, nicer then I was expecting. We also sat out on our balcony for the firs time too. We picked this place largely b/c it had a balcony and we were all keen about sitting outside on it. It was chilly but nice.

10. We are having one of Steve's friends over tonight probably. I hope there will be more sauna and more sitting on the balcony, consuming the beverages. We will either be celebrating or comiserating.

Just a thought--I wonder how many people I can get to help move this time? It will be the sixth move in 5 years. I can't wait to tell my friends that there will be another moving day. HAH!

& I say rule loosely.

I'm currently downloading The Biggest Loser Australia (BLA). It's taken weeks to download and it's about 50 half hour episodes. With all this waiting I'm uber excited to watch the friggin' show. I've decided that while I watch BLA I have to be exercising. Even if it's just walking in place or doing side steps. Dammit, this show is about weight loss and getting active and moving around. It's not about sitting at home and becoming a coach potato, so I'm not going to be a coach potatoe while it's on.

I feel like I should also mention why I'm probably not going to make my gym goal this month. I was sick for a while, we went out of town, once the gym was closed when I wanted to go, and a couple days I was just plain lazy. I am going to make my goal of 12 workouts, but they just won't necessarily be at the gym is all. No worries. I'm not track with the exercise.

We're in Grand Forks this weekend, but I'm staying at the hotel while the baby has his nap so I'm just checking in and making a quick post.

1. We weighed ourselves yesterday. I was 263.5--so basically down 2 pounds from the last disaster of a weigh in.

2. The States is a fabulous place to shop for plus size clothes. I'm loving the selection, the price, and the fact that they're not in 'plus' size sections, they're just in amongst the regular clothes.

3. I tried to go to the gym yesterday (Good Friday) before we left, but the gym was closed. boo.

3. This morning me and my friend went to the little gym the hotel has and i did the eliptical and the treadmill and the recumbent bike for a little bit. Definitely not up to my normal standards or exercise, but good to get the blood moving. We went swimming yesterday and will go again today definitely.

4. Raquel I found the cool new template just by googling 'free blog skins' and going from there. There's a link to the site that I got it from on the side of the blog somewhere...I'm not sure I like this template. Kinda dark, kinda gloomy and it doesn't handle pictures well. I think I'd like to pick something more positive looking.

5. & Best of all...Steve went for an interview a few weeks back for the company that my uncle works for. It was for a shipper/receiver job. We never heard back and Steve felt the interview didn't go well so we just assumed he didn't get the job. I got him to phone my uncle and just ask 'what was up' cause I also know sometimes this comapny is just slow in hiring people. Well apparently they've given the shipper job to someone else, but the interviewer decided that Steve was more suited to another job (a Tech Support job) and has passed his name along for that department instead! My uncle said someone will most likely call sometime this week to proceed further. Pretty cool eh!?!

These last few posts are going to be my plan for tomorrow at the gym.

I'm also including:

- Calf raises on step
- Crunches on the ball
- Crunches to the side on the ball
- Lower leg Lift

Weight training is scary for me at the gym. I know what I'm supposed to do (an ex showed me years ago) but I get there and all I see is a sea of machines and I just don't know what to do. Hopefully this little guide will help.

zGah! Why do I do this to myself? I went to the gym this morning all gung ho to do the eliptical and the treadmill. I started going and then it happened....chafing. Ugh. My sweat pants had a hole on each inner thigh (because all my pants have holes there b/c my thighs rubtogether) and it rubbed. gah. my thighs are so sore now. i'm walking like a cowboy right now.

i'm going to throw everything with holes out now.

i've joined a gym. i feel pretty good about it. i've gone 3 times now. it's nice. i like the elliptical and the treadmill so far. they have classes and i'm thinking of going to one once a week. they have a weight lifting class that I think I would like to check out.