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Week 34 – Weigh-In

by Josie on May 24, 2010 · 22 comments

I weighed in this morning at 203.5 lbs which is a 4.4 lb gain for the week. This brings my total weight loss so far back down to 52.5 pounds.
So at least now I know what to expect when I eat like crazy and don’t exercise for a week. Last week I used food to [...]

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Weekend Warrior Recap

by Josie on May 2, 2010 · 14 comments

Let’s recap the weekend, shall we?
Weekend Warrior Goal: Go grocery shopping. I have to say that the best part was embarrassing my daughter in the produce section:

Weekend Warrior Goal: Workout for at least 110 minutes. I originally planned to do this Friday night, but I had so much left to do to get ready for [...]

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Today was such a whirlwind, I hardly know where to start.
I showed up at the gym this morning with my list of exercises from my workout pledge ready to go. My sister was there to join me but what I didn’t know was that Michelle, the owner of the gym, would also be there [...]

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Final Tally for Tomorrow

by Josie on March 16, 2010 · 13 comments

So, here’s my final tally for tomorrow’s workout pledge:
13.5 minutes of running at 4.5 mph
1 minute walking at 3.5 mph
8 minutes on elliptical
40 crunches
80 squats
20 reps on weight machine
6 minutes on exercise bike
9 minutes on stairmaster
I will also do a circuit of all of them (a minute of each) at Jody’s recommendation.
Thanks to everyone [...]

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Week 24 – Weigh-In

by Josie on March 15, 2010 · 17 comments

If you missed my workout pledge, you can participate by clicking here. You can help determine my workout on Wednesday! So far, if I’ve tallied correctly, my routine is as follows:
100 squats
3 minutes stairmaster
40 crunches
4.5 minutes running (4.5 mph)
1 minute walking (3.5 mph)
1 minute elliptical
20 reps on weight machines
3 minutes on the exercise bike
1 Circuit [...]

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Image by Pippa!
Today marks the 100th day of the year, and as such the Perfect 10 challenge has come to an end. Here is my final Perfect 10 Update:

Walk 100 miles over the course of the 10 weeks. This will help keep me on track to reach 500 for the year.
You might recall that [...]

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Sweet Temptations

by Josie on January 31, 2010 · 13 comments

We celebrated my mom’s birthday today and since I volunteered to make the cake, we had all sorts of sweet temptations lurking in my home all weekend…and I’m happy to report that I resisted it all. Well, I may or may not have had a lick or two of icing, but yeah.

It was [...]

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Perfect 10 Update – Week 4

by Josie on January 29, 2010 · 18 comments

Image by Pippa!
Wow, it’s that time again for another Perfect 10 Update…can you believe we’re already done with Week 4??
Here were my Perfect 10 Goals and how I faired on each of them this week:

Walk 100 miles over the course of the 10 weeks. This will help keep me on track to reach 500 [...]

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You all might remember when my plans got derailed and I couldn’t go to kickboxing last Thursday? Well, tonight I’m going and I am very excited! So I thought I’d focus today’s blog post on what all is involved in our kickboxing class.
Well, for starters we do a lot of kicking. Kicking to the front, [...]

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Rewards!

by Josie on January 26, 2010 · 21 comments

Well, the good news is that I went back to the gym last night which was a first for me to go twice in one day! Another first was my total mileage for the day – 6.4 miles! This brings my total so far for the year to 25.
The bad news is that am plum [...]

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