A personal training & food journal. Read about our weight loss progress at Train With Ron in Chicago, our nutritional habits and the life changes we're making to get in shape and stay healthy!
October 23rdSo, I know what you’re thinking. What is this chick talking about? Why is she being so mean? Well, I’m not trying to be mean, just a little real I guess. I’ve had a big spoonful of my own medicine this week and I am stronger for it. Hopefully!
Let’s start with the fact that I felt like a huge whiner this week. Even while starting to write about this I think, why? Why should I document this week’s emotional and physical roller coaster? Well, as with a lot of what I share with you, it’s meant to help or inspire. At the least give you the feeling that if you’ve gone through this, you are not alone.
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October 18thOh Sweet! I get to burn calories again!! That had to be toughest of all through these last 3 weeks. I got so used to burning 500-700 calories per workout that keeping an eye on my nutrition was THE toughest part of this “time off”. I am so happy to report that I didn’t gain any weight. I didn’t lose any either and I just feel less toned. I am not sad about any of this though, not letting it affect me. It’s just something I had to deal with and now I’m back.
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October 11thThis past Saturday I took part in my first Train With Ron Charity Hill Run event near Soldier Field. The run benefits the Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society, an animal shelter in downtown Chicago. Coincidentally, Monika and I got our fine four legged family member Brady at this very shelter! (It worked out amazingly well, she is a dream doggie!) When the announcement about the Hill Run was made, I shot my mouth off on Facebook and told everyone I would be running for $.50 per hill or a flat donation of $30.00 – this was before I had ever seen the hill and I wasn’t aware that we had only 60 minutes to do it… I thought we’d be able to run until we hit our goal! Monika is still on the 15-Day Disabled List / Injured Reserve so she was there to support all the runners and take pictures. She wanted to run very badly and can’t wait to get back into her workout routine. We were members of the gym last year, but opted not to be a part of the hill run because we were so new. As I looked at that hill last Saturday and remembered the kind of shape I was in this time last year, I doubted whether I could have made it up 5 times… never mind 60.
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October 5thToday marks a full year that Dan and I have been on this journey, working out at Train With Ron. My tally for the year is: lost 53lbs, 16% body fat and dropped 10.5 dress sizes. These last couple of months I’ve really pushed hard trying to meet my ultimate goal (lose 75lbs) by the anniversary but instead I am dealing with this muscle strain.
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October 2ndThis workout was singularly responsible for a crabby mood for me for nearly a week.
It’s quite simplistic in its grueling design: row 3000 meters, Airdyne bike 3 miles, 20 “walls” (forty yard shuttles) with 35 pounds, 200 push-ups, 200 low-bar sit ups, and 200 squats with 35 pounds, complete within one hour. Version 1.0 (harder) permits you to mix/break up the moves however you want (do 25 of something, do 500m of the row, do 25 of something else, etc.) In Version 2.0, you have to do ALL of the move before moving on to the next one. The only reason 1.0 is harder is because of the tendency to break between moves means you have to do the moves faster to finish.
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