Working through the June Challenge

Happy Tuesday!!  Hope all is well with you all in blogger land.  I was going to post earlier today, but I decided to do it after my 2nd cardio workout of the day.  I feel I can hold myself more accountable if I post later.  

Well, my 2nd cardio workout of the day is done.  With my 45 minutes on the treadmill this morning and the 45 on the elliptical tonight, I burned a combined 525 calories. (I love my Polar FT4.)  I feel good and look forward to tomorrow's workouts.  My plan is to hit the weights then get in some inclining on the treadmill for 5o.  I'm actually excited.  Yay me!!

Since I haven't been blogging, I haven't been doing the Friend Making Monday's.  I thought I would do one that was posted last week or something like that.  LOL  Enjoy and join in.

And the summer cometh....June Goals

I haven't blogged in a while and seriously, my weight has been doing the cha-cha all over the place since I took an unexpected blogging break.  So, since I'm learning that accountability makes me do better, I'm back on this grind...  Listen, if you've never had a weight struggle, you just don't understand.  We take one day at a time.

Well, I have to give myself some goals for June.  They may be major to some, but I'm so damn competitive with myself that I will try to accomplish them.  I want to feel better and not the chubby girl that I feel right now...LOL

June Goals:

1. Gym 2 times a day at least 3 times a week.
2. Walk/Run 3 miles 3 times a week.
3. Shake bread/wheat for the month. (My tummy doesn't like it, but I still ingest it and suffer the consequences later.)
4. Try a couple of new classes.
5. Hit the pool twice a week.

Okay...this is a lot, but I need to get the gym in....and keep myself focused.

How's you're summer going??

Monday....Monday.....

I haven't blogged in a while, but I really needed to today.  I gave up potato chips for lent...and it's been difficult.  Seriously, difficult.  I hadn't planned to give anything up since I HAD to give up gluten (another post for another day) and I'm feeling deprived anyway due to my lack of bread.  Then I realized my consumption of potato chips was OUT OF HAND.  So...they have been given up.

And now...I lussssst after Lay's Honey Barbeque potato chips....*iWeep*.

Antywho...here's the Friend Making Monday.  I just love doing this.

Today's Comedy

Comedy and anger....

On Wednesday's in NYC we don't have alternate side parking.  (Alternate side parking is this pain in the butt thingy we do so the streets can be swept.) This is usually my day to head to the gym about an hour later...and just mosey through my day before practicing and Mid Week service at church.

Things didn't go that way.  I can't find my iPod. *crisis music thrown in right here* I'm at a loss for words.  I've been rushing so much and I've been so tired in the mix, I just can't figure it out.  Gaaaah!!!  I can't remember if the last time I saw it was in DC, in my mom's car or at the audition I did this past weekend. *weep*  Needless to say, my house is in extra disarray because I need to see it and know that it is around working. LOL

Antywho, so I hit the gym in anger forgetting my water bottle in my mom's car (who is off to BJ's by this point.).  Seriously can anything else get crazier??  Why yes.

So, I'm on the treadmill getting my C25K in and a commercial comes on for tomorrow's Scandal. (I'm such a Scandalista.)  Somewhere in that commercial I lose where I am on the walk run thingy.  ROFL!  The next thing I know I'm running for 90 secs and walking for 60.  That is NOT the way of week 1.  LOL  Oh well...I got it in and I feel good.

Now off to practice.  Have a great day!!

FMM: Getting to Know Each Other

Happy Monday All.  I haven't been here in a while and well..what's a good excuse?  I don't know.  LOL  Just a lapse.  Life has been busy, but good..with a little weight gain, but back on the game.

Last Thursday, I went to my regular WW meeting and I gained 4lbs over the holiday, and this year, I'm not mad.  Granted, if I had eaten a tad bit better and exercised at least 3 days a week, maybe those 4 wouldn't have happened.  *shrug*

Just know I'm back, around and will probably need this with the amount of music I need to learn.  Plus, I need to be more accountable while learning music and not eating tons of gummy bears.  LOL

Happy New Yeearrruuh!!!

LOL!!  I haven't been here since the start of the holiday season.  I fell off of 2 wagons, but I picked myself back up before 2012 ended and got back on my game.  I've been tracking points and tomorrow I will go and weigh - in (*wail, sigh and wail some more*).

I hope that everyone is having a great start to their new year.  I'm claiming victory in a lot of things in 2013...starting with the chub.  LOL

Happy New Year!!!

It's been a long time....Happy Early Turkey!!!

*sigh*  I haven't written in a while and God knows that I have missed it.  Heck...I miss my non reader/readers.  LOL  Things have been so intense in so many ways.  I was learning an opera that is more intense than intense.  Norma...it was I.N.T.E.N.S.E.  It is now done and I'm gearing up for  learning my next operas...Aida and Il Trovatore.  (I know some folks are like...hunh? LOL)  It's called...good music.  LOL

Anyway, due to some chronic back pain, I haven't been able to exercise like I like to.  I hurt.  I haven't slept well and honestly, I'm a little cranky about it and feeling a tad chubby.  I've decided to just go on a really clean way of eating.  Even more clean that normal.  My mom was watching a Dr. Oz show and a doctor mentioned that we should only eat foods with one name.  i.e. carrots, turkey, oranges, etc.  That's extremely clean for a potato chip and donut eater.  Bwaah.  I'm down cause I've GOTTA feel better.

So as with every Monday, I'm doing the Friend's Making Monday: Thanksgiving Edition