New mantra!

Ok so I'm not liking how my new mantra covers Gerry's face, but I saw this saying on a poster at the high school gym and liked it a lot. I find myself quoting it quite often when I think that doing the last set of pushups is going to kill me. Or doing the abs I feel a lot of pain so apparently I have a lot of weakness in my abs! The weightlifting has gotten a little harder and so it has kept the whole soreness thing going, but I do have a some extra hop in my step I have noticed. Now I can chase the kids around the playground without hyper ventilatiing at least :) I've decided I am not going to even touch or look at the scale until the 30th day because it is more frustrating then helpful at this point. I also got a lot of good cooking advice from fellow P90 peeps so I will be doign a lot grilling this weekend so that I will have good healthy food for the week. I have cafeteria duty this whole week and those ladies love to feed me so it will be good to have my own food and not be tempted by the food there. Yes, I admit it I love the food there!
Well this is a short post for me, but I am really excited to go to bed and sleep in! I've really learned to love and appreciate 8 hours of sleep since I have turned 30! Sleep is also a favorite past time along with eating and since I have to cut down on the one I don't thing it would be good to do the same with sleep!

Happy Friday Eve!

Ok so I think this blog might be a very good thing. I didn't post yesterday because I had a lot of homework to do (yes, procrastination might have had something to do with that!)and I'm a giant dork and Ghost Hunters was having a marathon so I did that instead and felt like a total slacker all night. I did exercise though! I did my normal early AM weightlift and then walked the 3.5 mile trail with my sister. I got jacked up on my Power 90 auto tracker so I to get back on track I skipped the sculpt for today. Yes, I am the queen of justification and justified my early morning weight lift session was good enough.
Today it was on again though. It is hard with school getting busier though and next week I will have night classes 3 times a week. I think this means I am going to have to buckle up and actually stay awake after my early AM weightlift and do Power 90 instead of my usual go back to bed routine :) I can do it I just need to get to bed earlier.
I wondered when I would get to see you blog my hartless friend! I have to say I wasn't sure who you were at first, then when I read the trapshooting commment I knew it was my buddy! Go you for starting a walking group! I would love to walk with you but you know me I would want to stop in all the yummy places on Center street!
My motivation for this month and to keep me pushing play is a the 5K a month from now for a friend I went to college with. I figure maybe if I keep setting small goals I'll keep on track.
My goal for next week is the eating. I really have to get it in check. I love food!! It loves me too unfortunately and doesn't want to leave my hips, stomache or thighs unfortunately. Well better get to bed. I'm going to give this early morning stuff a try.

Today I'm hurtin' for certain!

Ok so as I've mentioned I have been lifting in the morning as well as the Power 90 and boy howdy today's weight lifting session kicked my booty! We did a lot of legs which is good, but I'm definitely feelin it! I am so excited that my friend Rue is doing Power 90 with me now. We have a habit of encouraging each other in our bad habits so we'll see if we can use our powers for good this time! She has amazing low fat protein filled recipes and can cook like no other. She is also going to school to be a nutritionist. Once I get into my workout routine I am a freak and love to work out a lot. I would love to be a personal trainer or aerobics instructor so between the two of us we make quite a team. Hopefully we can stick through this!
I had a break in my classes this week and have been walking a 3.6 mile trail the past 2 days which has been great and quite theraputic. I'm hoping I can get up earlier in the morning and keep it up.
A girl that I went to EA with has a really bad brain tumor and very young kids to look after. Her family is going to have a 5k fun run/walk for her the beginning of April and I would love to show my support and jog it! So that is my motivation this month.

School days school days!

So I should have posted this one before my P90 but all well! So I am halfway through my spring semester of school! I finished up my lame teaching Social Studies to K-8 class which is good because it was pretty frustrating, but we bonded more together as a class over it which is always a plus. My other class that I have had and will continue to throughout the semester is Literature for Elem kids II. Let me tell you that I have done more crafty, artsy fartsy projects than I have ever done in my life, but it's been fun! We have a few in our cohort that think these projects are stupid and a waste of a good share of our time, but really they are things that we will be doing and can use in our classrooms. I have made my own ABC Book, Smith Family Smith Family Book (like Brown Bear Brown Bear), Halloween Big Book, and book trading cards. We are currently creating our own autobiographies, and Flat Stanly projects this semester. Our class is 4 hours long every Thursday so I personally look forward to days like the one we had last week. We got in groups and did author studies. We did got to make our own butter, decorate "thunder cupcakes" in the dark to thunder sounds (yes, that was mine!), and self portraits made out of tissue paper. It was a hoot! The pictures are of these fun activities! Go Future Teachers!

I've made it a week!

Ok so I used my two rest days for the weekend and boy was it great! I thought about doing a little work out or something, but cannot tell you how nice it was just to veg! I have a couple of extra days to do homework so I didn't even have to worry about that. I made the bad mistake on Friday though of waiting until 11PM to work out and boy was that dumb. I couldn't get myself to sleep until 3. It worked out nice thought because I got to talk to a friend on facebook who is deployed in the Middle East.
The message group I got into are really supportive too and login daily so it is nice to chat with them. I just really need to work on my eating. I haven't lost any weight and I know it's because of I'm eating way more than I'm working off. I am probably right at my max calorie count right now, and that is with the P90 cardio/abs I just did along with my early weight lift and 3 1/2 mile brisk walk I did. I'm starting to remember that it's not fun to work this hard to work off my calories so hopefully by the end of this week I will eat like a normal human and not have to work out just to keep at 1450 calories.
I actually enjoyed working out too go figure! I kept reminding myself this morning that I could go back to bed and I did! But I'm stoked because one of the moves we did apparently lifts and perks the "girls" up so wahoo for that! I also kept on my sweatpants while I did cardio so I sweat twice as much!! Well keepin this one short because I want to post about my school stuff too.