Hello Tuesday!

How are you this fine day?

I am good.  I have been walking up a storm.  9kms or more per day broken down into 2 big walks and general walking around the day steps.

For about 2 weeks I have been walking 4.5kms to work most days and then 4.5km back to my car after work.  Takes more time but gets lots of activity in.  Considering 6 months ago I was paying to park my car everyday this is another bonus!  Works fine in summer.  Will be more challenging in butt chapping cold weather of fall and winter but hey, cross that bridge when I come to it.

Aaaaaaand... my Fibit died.  Still waiting for their support to contact me about the problem.  So while my Fitbit stats are really good right now (My 7 day average is 16,900 steps) they are about to nose dive because NO FITBIT.  But never fear, I will keep walking even though I will have no proof  :)

Please Fitbit Support... Answer my effin' email!!!  Grrrrrr.  2 business days my ASS!

I was just blog hopping right now and come across this Ikea hack.

If you have young kids who have a shitload tonne of stuffies, this is a fabulous idea!

It is made up of a cheap Ikea utility bookcase painted into kid colours and some fitness bands to hold the animals in their "Zoo".

http://www.ikeahackers.net/

Hello Monday

Ug.  I do dread Mondays!

So I just noticed that I just passed 1 million steps with my Fitbit.

My first full day of wearing it was April 17th.  Fitbit has recorded 728 kms and 1,667 flights of stairs.

I still like my Fitbit.  It still motivates me to move more and it gives me a pretty good picture of my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure).

Last week I forgot it at home one day so that day's reading is kinda low, but my average (daily) TDEE for last week was 2800 calories.  You can see why I might not feel so happy eating at 1200 calories?

My weight is not moving much but my pants (and bra) are fitting looser.

I am scheduled to have part of my Thyroid out in November.  It has non-cancerous "bumps" on it and has started to make me look like I have a small Adams apple.  Neither doctor has mentioned worrying about my hormone levels right now and it is totally my choice to take the bumpy part out.  I don't want it growing any bigger and apparently it can be harder to deal with at a bigger size.

Part of me wonders if my Thyroid hormones are A-OK or are they making it hard to lose weight (wishful thinking?).  I guess I could get a blood test but *meh* I'm sure they will monitor that after the surgery.

I went for a bike ride on the pathways on Saturday.  I rode 20kms and then turned around and went back for a total distance of 40kms.  I was kind of tired by the end.  I need to bike more this winter.

I read on a blog about an Aqua Bike in town.  Basically it was a half ironman without the run.  I think it was last weekend.  Sounds up my alley if I got my act together.  Hazel?  Is it up your alley?

T minus 6 weeks until kid's hockey season starts.  This year I have to keep my life under control and not be sucked in by the hockey vortex of doom.  My first plan is to skip the parent meetings for both teams.  If I'm not there... I can't volunteer to do anything right?  ;)  Heather who?

Radio Silence

Radio silence usually means one thing...  I am not doing so hot.

Well... this time it just means I have not started strength training (as I said I would in my last post).  I guess I don't have the cojones to take it up.   I have never been a master of strength training.  IT is still something I think I want to do... but I'm not driven enough right now?

I am still keeping myself moving.  Nothing hardcore.  Nothing a 70 year old grannie could not do...  But, it is more than I was doing this past winter.  I know I am more fit than I was 3 months ago (running for the bus, walking up several flights of stairs)  Still wearing my Fitbit unless I forget to put it on.  Somedays I change clothes and forget to move it to my new pants and then it looks like I fell into a coma at like 5pm.  Fitbit link is on the sidebar.

My weight is hovering.  Truly I have not made significant progress on that front but, I have not gone back up the 11 pounds or so to my "highest" either.  So that is some sort of small victory.

My husband is grumpy.  Work has been quite stressful since about January.  Hopefully that stress will resolve itself in some form or another eventually.  Until then the forecast calls for drama!  :)

I am really enjoying the non-winter weather.  Like as in Spring and now Summer.  I am not a winter person.  I don't like being really hot either, so I wouldn't like a place like Arizona but really,  I could do without living in winter.  It is just too long around here.

My kids have done 2 triathlons this summer already.   I would like to do a sprint where the swim is in a lake and the run is 5K or less.  That is my goal for next summer.  They have a family friendly triathlon in Okotoks at Crystal Shores in early July.  Who is with me for next year?  They have a tri a tri distance and a sprint and a kids of steel.

I talked about doing a 5k run this fall but so far I think that would be unwise.  Maybe I will walk the Run for the Cure though.  Anyone want to walk with me or run it and meet me at the end?  Maybe I should try a Learn to Run in January.

Sometimes my knee randomly does really weird things.  Running on it right now would be plain stupid.  I need to wait until I am 40 pounds lighter.  Easier said than done but not impossible.

Thanks for the comments on my last post.  

Fatinah... Blog more (like I can talk :)   Have you fallen under a table in a Stampede party tent?  Got any goals right now?

Nicole and Amber... how goes the training for Las Vegas?

Catherine... what are you doing?  Still doing personal training?  How are the knees behaving?

Seabreeze... Please post some photos of the coast for us land lubbers.

Lurkers... who are you and what's new with you?  :)

For anyone who knows me from the old YT days... a bunch of people have formed a Facebook page.  Search "Lose2Gain"