A Little Bit Every Day

Yea!! I had today off!!  Maybe I'll actually get another day off this week too (I hoping for Wednesday).  We'll see.  I never know until I get back to work.

So I've been feeling bad (as you guys are aware) that I haven't been super active lately...so today I tried.  We went on a short ride today.  It would have been longer, but we woke up late and it was getting pretty warm outside.  We rode 4 miles in about an hour...not great, but considering I haven't really been on a bike in...I don't know how long...not awful.  Its nothing to what Kurt does...his 17 miles in 1.25 hrs with a ±600 foot elevation change (±1000 feet of climbing) but its at least something. He hates having to wait for me...but 1. I'm slower so deal with it and 2. he's on a road bike and I'm on a comfort bike...so again deal with it.

Tomorrow should be a relatively short day of work for me (and by that I mean 8 hours) so we are going to try to make it to the gym tomorrow night and then get up early for another bike ride on Wednesday (maybe a little longer.)

I'm am really feeling the need to be active again...and now that I'm getting better at my job (meaning it doesn't take me as long to edit photos as it did when I started)...I should be able to start working some more reasonable hours...and get back to what is really important.

Anyway...that's all for now.  We'll talk again later.

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Just a quick note...depending upon what time I am home this evening...we have 2 month (pushing 2 and 1/2 month now) weigh in results.  Part of me really wanted to wait as we gained a little bit back on our trip to Oregon...but we are ready to post.  So check back later tonight...or tomorrow morning...and there will be results and comparison pictures waiting ... no measurements though.  I'll explain why later.

Back to work.

Plugging along

Hello followers,

Candace and I are moving with our exercise program. We are spending around 75 minutes at the gym 4 days a week now as Candace mentioned in her last post. On Wednesday night, we went to the library to check out a few new books to supplement our activities. We also did some research on ideal heart rate while working out.

Candace has been concerned about keeping her heart rate at what the aerobics machine said was ideal for her. I also wondered if my heart rate was high enough to be doing me any real good or was I just going the motions. So Candace went the Mayo Clinic website and they have a tool called the target heart rate calculator which helped us determine what our ideal heart rate should be. Candace found out that her ideal heart rate is between 134-163 and I am between 130-152. This gave Candace some piece of mind in her exercise regime. At first she was trying to keep her heart rate at lower level and she felt like she was moving in slow motion on the elliptical machine, instead she can work out at faster speed. It helped me realize that I was actually being too easy on myself so now I work out a little harder.

We got quite a few books on healthy eating and living, we got the Volumetrics books that Amy recommended and so far we like what we are hearing from it. I can't say that I agree with everything that is being said, but then again we only got 25 pages into it. We will write a review on it once we finish it. We also got a diet book from Dr. Nancy Schnedierman (yes the same person from t.v.) and we really like what she has to saying about dieting and eating better. Again we will write a review on it once we finish it.

As many of you know, Candace got a job working as a real estate photographer assistant. This will could add an interesting challenge for us, going to the gym while at least one of us has a real job. It should be interesting for me since historically I gain weight when I have to work. I know, I know I am a part-time student getting money from unemployment, but I will be living Candace's schedule, so I am working vicariously.

Anyways, its late and I am sleepy, so until next time....