Friday WI

Morning all.

Another Friday WI and actually a loss to report!! Hurrah! Down 3lbs this week to bring me to 203.6. Thats the lowest I've been in a while, so I'm excited to see it once again. I'm hoping to hit 201 (or even sub 200) which would bring me to 10lbs down (finally!).

I've had a fantastic week since last updating, both foodwise, exercise wise and social wise.

Last Friday, FH and I drove up to my Alma Matter for the wedding of two of our closest friends. I've known him since High School (hes actually a high school boyfriend!), met her in first year and they've been together since fourth year. They now live upstairs from us in our apartment building so we spend lots of time together. It was a beautiful wedding, obvious that they are completely totally in love with each other. The only draw back was that it was the hottest weekend of the summer so we were sweltering. Poor FH in his dress clothes :(

We had a ball though, it was nice to be back on Campus (6 years later) and to see how much the university, and the town have changed. Was great to see some old friends that I rarely ever get to see and some that I haven't seen in years!

Table 10 -- the most fun (and most talkative!) table at the wedding


Needless to say, wedding weekend = bad eating and lots of drinking. I got back on track on Monday though and tracked my food religiously for the rest of the week in
Sparkpeople. I've managed to hit my calorie goal every day this week, never going over, which for me is pretty impressive.

Exercise has been great as well. FH dragged me to the workout from hell again on Wednesday at Citadel Hill (I meant to take pictures, but forgot my camera), then we met the same friends last night for Crossfit workout at the The Tower .

Wednesday's workout was tough - its called "Tabata Something Else" and consisted of the following:
Complete 32 intervals of 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest where the first 8 intervals are sprawls, the next 8 are pushups, the next 8 are sit ups and the last 8 intervals are squats. In addition, during the 10 second rest portion of the squats, hold yourself in the squatting position for 10 seconds instead of resting.

After that workout, I really didn't want to go to the workout at the tower. I was already extremely sore. Also, I'm really trying hard to get back into exercise, but I am hesitant to workout with extremely fit people as my self esteem takes a beating. This was really important to FH though, so I stuck it out and went with him.

What a blast - I loved it! Our friends, Andrew and Sarah, who teach the Wednesday class, did some coaching with us and gave us a workout to do. They are both so motivating and inspiring. They just received their Level 1 Crossfit certification, and are extremely excited to share their knowledge with everyone. During the running part of my workout yesterday, Sarah ran with me, when I walked she talked to me about how great I was doing, pushed me to run harder and her and Andrew and FH all ran my last lap with me.

I think what I love about the Crossfit Workouts, is that even though your doing them often with other people, the focus is really on pushing yourself to exhaustion and getting your own personal best. So even though FH finished his round in 8 minutes and I finished mine in 13 minutes 22 seconds. I still finished and for me it was a personal record (having never done the workout before). Next time we do the same workout in a few weeks, I'll focus on cutting seconds off my own time.

Yesterday's workout was the following:
10 deadlifts at 80lbs
20 kettleball swings at 25lbs
400 m run on the SMU track
x 2 rounds.

I was physically exhausted at the end. Yes I had to walk the majority of the run, but you know what, I finished! I'm proud that I stuck to it and didn't give up again. Seeing the results on the scale this morning definitely made it all worthwhile.

We're off to PEI this weekend to visit the future inlaws. Hopefully we'll get back on Sunday -- but we are taking the ferry back, so if Hurricane Bill hits us early....who knows.

Have a great weekend all :)