Gym day.  Did Body Attack class tonight and about 10 minutes of jogging on the treadmill before it started.  Even though the class has a stretch period at the end I was still feeling tight when I got home.  I stretched again when I got home, especially my back and then took a hot bath with Epsom salts.  I wonder if it will ever get easier?  I signed up for an 8 week boot camp class at the gym that starts Monday night....I'm such a glutton for punishment.   

The picture was taken at the lodge that we rented over Christmas.  We played rounds of Cribbage and drank a lot of Bailey's.  The moose over the fireplace is not real, it's a stuffed toy.  The whole moose theme was a little overwhelming, especially when you consider that there are no moose in NC.

Did a little mall walking today.  The rest of the week looks like a wash out for outside walks...in the 40's and rainy.  ICK! 
First day back to work UGH!  and tomorrow proves to be even busier than today.  Still it was great to be back and to see my co-workers after such a long break.

I've logged my food on Spark for 3 days in a row.  It's a start.

Gym day. I walked/jogged on the treadmill and came in at around a 14 minute mile.  Not very fast but the hardest I'd worked in a while.  My heart rate got up over 172 which seemed a little scary....then I did some squats, push ups and stuff.  A good days work.  I have work tomorrow for the first time since the 19th...WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!  Okay, I'm over it. I'm grateful to be employed. Really I am. I'm just having trouble switching gears.  I am such an early to bed person but I've been staying up past 11 and this morning I slept until 8.  I NEVER sleep that late.  Back to the real world.
Picture is of DH walking the lot.  We were looking for a yellow bellied sap sucker.  Pretty bird.

I really wanted to hit 10,000 steps but I sat so long at the computer that Iit was past 11 when I went to bed and I just wasn't getting up again. 

I can't believe I forgot to post last night too!  Sheesh!

I'm sure everyone is sick to death of Goodies but I couldn't help but post my mother's swedish ginger cookies.  It's actually my GranNan's recipe.  I love family tradition!

So far.......

LOL!  That's probably it for the night unless I walk downstairs to get ice cream. 

It was gym day for me for the first time since 12/19.  I loved every minute of it but boy am I beat!!  I downloaded some music to my new Walkman.  I had a 30 minute  strength session and then did about 50 minutes of elliptical/treadmill.

Remember when a Walkman was actually a tape player, then a CD player.  Four years ago I was still lugging around a CD player to the gym....all those iPod users were laughing at the old lady for sure.  But Now I'm working on getting the drift of the MP3 technology.   I can load the music on easily enough, but it's figuring out how to play it through the way I'd like..........Old dog, New tricks....I'll figure it out. 

The picture is My husband, son, son's gf, brother &  SIL picnicking on our lot in the mountains.  It was a pretty cool and windy day.  Good sports one and all.

finally uploaded all days I had left on my pedometer before the battery died.  Estimated the rest, on the low side no doubt, but hated to let the diligence score suffer.  I'll be working on bringing up my step average anyway.  I want to really work on consistancy this year.

Happy New Year!

No steps to add quite yet as I'm still waking up!!!.  I've been without a functioning pedometer since Christmas day.  We just got back to civilization yesterday, I managed to get a new battery put in last night and can start with a clean slate for 2009. 

It has taken me several months to convince #2 son that I needed Windows OS (not just Linux) on my computer. So after 4 months of not being able to upload steps from Omron, I loaded the software on last night. HOORAY!  Hopefully this well enable me to repair my tragic diligence score.  Photo and steps later

There is some serious holiday damage to my weight and fitness, but still I'm miles ahead of where I was last time at this year, at least I think so.....I'll be throwing myself on the mercy of the scales for the first time since the 20th of December.  11 days of gluttony and sloth. *sigh*

It's a new year and a new day.  I'm ready.