Hey Eryn…
5 bucks says you’re unpacked before we are! My husband may never unpack his stuff, after all & I refuse, REFUSE, to unpack the last boxes he packed (without me) cause they’re randomly packed boxes that carried lawn mowers in a former life…can fit a large adult human very comfortably.
Hey, scratch my “I’m holding steady at 170″ remark from the other day. My bathroom scale sucks…slide it two inches in any direction & you get a minimum of 5 pd difference, a maximum of a 10 pds difference. & I refuse to believe any of the lower numbers, although it’s always nice to see them & imagine that one day soon….Whatever, the high number keeps me honest & I just make sure it stays steady all week long.
So the only scale I trust now is the one at the Y. Yesterday I did my weekly weigh in & I’m 2 pds to 2.5 pds lighter this week (can’t remember exactly what I was at last week, but I know I lost at least 2). So that rocks. It’s confusing since I haven’t been counting calories or paying much attention to what’s on my plate, but maybe the SWAT muscles are starting to pull their weight & burn those calories! Yay!
Yesterday was “fight gone bad” day. I sorta like this workout. First the warm up, then once around the track, then a series of lifting, pushing, pulling exercises (most with weights) that you do as many reps of in 1 minute, then move on. The first time we did this one, I was sure I’d die after the first round, & I was shocked, shocked I tell you!, when she made us do two more rounds. This time it just felt really hard, but in a way my body finally seems to understand. Poor fat body…eventually it figures out that there will be no rest & it starts behaving. & since I knew we were only expected to do once around the track for each round, I really pushed myself for the runs, which felt good.
Oh, last week I thought of you speed trainers out there. After our usual tabata, she had us do a running tabata: set the treadmill on 6 (that was my speed, everyone else did 6.5 & above), jump on & sprint for 20 seconds, jump off for 10 seconds, & repeat 8 times. I think I could’ve gone faster if we’d done this first, rather than as an add-on to the already brutal hour. But it was fun, & reminded me of the fact that running actually can be fun.
Okay, I guess this has turned into an exercise journal for today…Hey Eryn! Hurry up with that unpacking & then come help me instead. We can hit the Y after that 
We have been in our house for 6 years and still haven’t unpacked. I was going to go through them over the summer but then realized that we’ll probably move again w/i 2 years so I’ll wait until then. I’m sure what will happen is that we’ll just move the whole box and it will stay in my basement forever. Someday my son can go through them after I’m long gone
BTW, the workout sounds tough but fun. It’s great when exercise is fun.
Well, I posted an ad on craigslist yesterday that we are having a garage sale this weekend so we can clean out the garage. See, when we were packing to move we created this HUGE “garage sale” pile that took up 1/2 our dining room. So we have to be mostly unpacked by Saturday. I really feel like just selling everything that isn’t unpacked by then! My poor kids… they have 1 toy unpacked and it’s a train set that my grandparents brought over to sell in the garage sale!! Thank goodness the tv is set up and they can watch Noggin!!
Wow, found you again. I need a seeing blog dog! LOL Hey are you doing CrossFit? You talk suspiciously like a CFer. You are doing so GREAT! I gotta make sure I’ve got you where I can find you again… =) BTW, I did a 5k last night and ran (very loosely defined) more than I have in years. Yea for us! Delita
Oh, you ARE doing CF!! WooHoo! And, you are in Atlanta! I lived in Atlanta twice - my son was born there. This means I get to come visit your affiliate, right? I’m hoping to join one in Colorado Springs while I’m there. Delitaagain (true to name)