Friday, February 16, 2007

Friday

Shew....

Speech, produce co-op, fielding calls for both co-ops, answering order questions for Shop Natural co-op....CLASS....SAM'S CLUB....phone call from Bre...

Details?

Produce co-op: Ruth, one of our members, took ALL the boxes this week with her. This will save me a trip to the recycling center. It REALLY made my day. Julie, another member, says her dh can buy bags by the thousands and she'll buy a roll or whatever they come in for us. Things went fairly well today...we do keep being 2 Romaine Lettuce short....hmmm....

Class: Exercise was the topic today! It was great! I now have THE FORMULA to be able to figure out how many calories any given activity will burn...from making a piece of toast to running a marathon! I really learned a lot at this class. Best yet.....they gave lots of hand-outs which means that I can revisit the info until I REMEMBER it. ::snort:: I realized that my step into fitness step video burns about 160 more calories a day than my 40 minute bike rides. LOL I asked about the elliptical machine and he said they are good machines but that I'm burning way more calories with my video than I would doing the same amount of time on the elliptical...guess that machine isn't going to be my "salvation". LOL

Circuit training is the big thing these days. He gave us a handout about that...and is willing to take us through the gym and show us how to use all the machines there...but that doesn't work for me. He also said that the machines are easier than free weights for circuit training - this is what I discovered - but the circuit Jamin made for me was right on the money...just hard to keep the heart rate up when you have to change weights, towers etc.... Another light bulb moment when I began to suspect and then asked...and he confirmed... that Curves is a circuit training workout.

I stopped by Curves on my way home. It's close to home. I could do it...I just had a hard time believing that I could burn many calories....but maybe. I'm debating. I'd love to hear your experience with Curves, if you've had any. I think the method is solid...cardio and strength...it's the craze! One of the $4 books I picked up at Sam's was about Curves...so I'll read it and do the math.... They have a 30% off the enrollment fee this month. I'm brazen. I asked when they'd have the next "free enrollment" month. She said in March you can bring a sack of groceries in and they'll waive the enrollment fee (Which is over $100). I can wait until March. LOL

That's about it for the day. I'm wanting to buy the little Weight Watcher point counter books so that I can get this calorie thing down quicker. I don't like wasting so much time analysing food...but it's only for a season.

I've been on the increased calorie "diet" for a month now. It seems to be working....I've lost 6 lbs. LOL Gary, the fitness program manager, said that building muscles speeds metabolism...frankly...the weight isn't the issue for me any longer...it's getting that dead metabolism to kick in again ....energy....I'd really like my body temp to go up to at least 98* too. LOL

TRUE CONFESSIONS

 WHY I SHOULDN'T SHOP AT SAM'S ALONE

I went in for a tracfone annual card for Krista and some bubble wrap - I spent over $200. I didn't want to go to walmart and so I decided to go for the big box of bubble wrap. I need to wrap a hard drive. ::snort:: THEN I had to buy some darling shirts and a long distance card for each of the girls.... and THEN....
they had the cutest little, white haired lady passing out samples. No one was buying. I felt bad for her. She asked if I'd like a sample. She was visibly crushed when I didn't. SO I BOUGHT HER PRODUCT!!! Then I was hoping someone I knew would come along and take it and put it back in the freezer. This made me think how much we've changed our eating in 11 months. We used to have these sorts of dinners all the time - but we don't EAT these things with um...preservatives and ingredients I can't pronounce and BACON in them....but I now have a family size box of bacon, cheese and eggs hot pockets. The boys were thrilled. I think they sense they won a skirmish in the Bacon Revolt or what did Jared call it? The Organo fast food civil war....