Day 3

So far so good. I haven' t been 100% on the 17 day but have done reallk good and feel good. No diet coke, cut back on coffee, and no grain with lots of veggies. Breakfast yogurt with strawberries, lunch turkey rolled in lettuce with cube cheese. Snack vita top and yogurt with strawberries. Dinner chicken and veggies and salad. Snack frozen frui bar. Biked 15 miles and played Pickleball. I played poorly again a nd got all upset again. I'm ready to quit. I'm not sure how to relax and just play without getting all bummed out. Anyway, I've got to play as often as I can and get better.

Day 1

Day 1 so far so good! Ate yogurt and grapefruit for breakfast and salad with tuna. Ice tea and water. Ran 5 mikes then biked about 10 and went to the pool to do about 25 laps. Felt great to swim after working out so hope to do that regularly. Also did some resistance excersies for upper body, flutes, hamstrings and abs.
Hope to bike again tonight for second workout. (yes I count this morning as only one!). We're waiting for our new patio to be completed. It's going to be really nice.. We've invited a couple of friends over so hopefully it'll be done. It's really hot out so may be to hot to sit out there anyway. Now we need a pergalo.
I did give in to my after lunch craving (habit) for a coffee but no sweet with it. Not sure what I will have for a snack. Dinner will be chicken and veggies! Maybe I'll freeze some Greek yogurt for desert! Or maybe ricotta. I could make something with that, yum!

17 Day Diet, Day 1! (again!)

Tomorrow is June 1st and I have decided to try the 17 Day Diet again. This time I have to be serious and PREPARED! Hopefully I am. I am not where I thought I would be by now with just running and working out so I have to take drastic measures!
As an added incentive (as if wanting to lose weight and feel and look better wasn't enough) one of my new Sun City friends is going to do a Tri with me! Yikes, she's very good and competitive. I know that I don't have to beat her and surely can't but I do want to be respectable and not drown! It's been so long since I've blogged I've pretty much forgotten how to do it but will figure it out eventually and make this a great blog like so many of the ones I follow have. I'd love to inspire others so that is what I will attempt to do and that should also help keep me on the straight and narrow!

What is the 17 Day diet you ask? That's a good question. It's pretty simple which is why I like it. It's basically a high protein carb diet however, you can have 2 fruits a day as well as yogurt and lots of veggies, chicken and fish. Green tea and hot lemon water are encouraged and what a great time of year to drink more water. I do plan on cutting back on my coffee consumption but cannot totally go without. My plan is to only drink the magic coffee potion in the morning. I also plan to "give up" diet Coke. That may be even tougher than my extra coffee. However for 17 days I can survive, right? That is why I want to post daily. I need to be held accountable and this is the best way I can think of to do that.

So here's the plan! I will focus on both cardio and resistance training and will cross train doing at least one exercise every day!!!! Even if it is only to walk, yes that is exercise although it's hard for me to think of it that way. I will definately need to do cross-training with a couple of tri's coming up! Now that we're getting settled I'll be able to dedicate more time to working out (or should I say playing?!) I will be posting everyday with my workouts and my food diary so keep my honest.

So off to Pickleball tonight and am looking forward to Day 1 tomorrow. I plan to run to the pool, swim 300 yards and then run home! I hope to run about 8 miles. When I get home I will do some resistance training from the fitfabulousforever.com website. She basicially recommends doing resistance training 6 days a week incorporating most muscles only once in that cycle. Tomorrow will be upper body, hams and glutes and abs. Not bad. It'll be fun! I will post the links that I'm using as soon as I can figure out how to do that!

Cameron in Sun City

 

The house has walls!

 

Here is the latest picture of the house being built. I will update the blog shortly with all the latest details!

Getting motivated!

Now that we/re getting more settled we've started branching out. Yesterday we went to Ballantyne NC to check out the Ymca. They have 2 branches, each within 10 miles from us. When you join one you get to use both. One is for adults only and has lots of yoga, the other is larger and has an outdoor pool (for this summer) as well as a huge spinning room. They also offer a Triathlon training program this spring that I want to sign up for. Here in Sun City they have a personal group training program that I started last night. It's an hour of personal training and I loved it. The trainer is great, very bubbly and friendly. I'll do that on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 5:00.
We're really looking forward to running around here. Saturday we plan on going to a greenway called Anne Springs Greenways and it has miles of trails. There are a couple of running groups that meet there but we're going to venture there by ourselves first.
I did well on another day of Eat to Live and hopefully the scale will reflect my efforts soon. In any case, I love eating so many fruits and veggies and I know I'll reap the rewards soon.
Today we're going to go to a local mall. This should be an adventure. I'm sure I'll be in shell shock. There is so much shopping around here I don't know where to begin so we're going to start at the closest mall.
We haven't gotten to Charlotte to see the baby yet cause now that we're pretty much settled, Frank has a cold and we don't want to expose him to Cameron. Hopefully next week we'll be able to get out there and then on a semi-regular basis after that. I can't wait to see him. He is a real cutie.
Time to get ready to go shopping!
Have a great day!

Back online!

The computer guy came to fix my computer today so I'm back online or at least in the process of getting back. They had to replace my hard drive so I lost all of my files. I managed to find my external hard drive so will be able to reinstall my pictures. Hopefully I can remember how to do it. Frank got me the Photoshop software for Christmas and I've been looking forward to learning how to use that while we're in-between houses so I'm glad I'll be able to do that. Fortunately I had all of my music on my Ipad so I could transfer all those files back to Itunes as well as my Apps. That was scary. I was pretty stressed out thinking I had lost everything but thankfully most everything can be recreated, I just have to get creative.
Frank went to get his eye examined today and ordered new glasses. He broke his glasses about a month ago and has been wearing his old ones and he couldn't really see all that good. I don't know how he could stand that for so long. Anyway, he'll look much more with it once he gets those. His are pretty geeky!
I didn't get to run today because I had to wait for the computer guy but hopefully today was the last day we have anything pressing to do so no more excuses! I hope to run about 8 in the morning.
My eating is going really well so far so I'm really pleased although it's not 100%. Today I had my green smoothie, (yum!) and then soup and broccoli for lunch, an apple with almond butter for a snack and veggie chili and a huge salad for dinner. I will have my nightly Edy's Frozen Fruit snack for dessert. Got to lose about 20 pounds to be in fighting shape so I'm committed! I still am not willing to give up my coffee with cream though. Hopefully I can at least cut down but that is tough for me cause it's something I really enjoy.
Time for Idol! Yes, I still am addicted to it! Gotta Run!