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E2E Challenge – Week 1 – Don’t Trust an Ancient Scale

Angela Pea4 Comments

Really.  There are some weeks when the scale just feels like a slap upside the head, a journey into the absurd, a lesson in ridiculous.

Seriously?  How does a person maintain through the holiday season and then gain five pounds in a week?  FIVE POUNDS??  Enough to make a person nuts, right? Right.  Except when the scale is a bazillion years old.

See, I peeked before my official weigh-in.  I went to WW, braced for the worst, that nasty five pound gain.  Then, THEN – Suprise!  Only a 1.3 pound gain per WW.  I wanted to hug the receptionist.

A gain though?  Perhaps my holiday indulgences finally caught up, right?  It’s okay.  It will be gone soon enough.  Here’s my weekly recap.

1. Item of clothing and a picture of me.  Nope, Not done yet.  I spent Saturday trail building – digging, swinging a pick axe, sawing trees and moving rocks.  Way more important than shopping, ‘kay?

2. Weight This Week: 159.3  Thank you once again, Christmas goodies!

3. Goal Recap

Shed Five Pounds:  Well, I sort of went the wrong direction this week.  However, I did stay within my weekly points, and earned 57 activity points biking, kettle bells, circuit training and elliptical.  It is what it is.

Do Five Pullups:  I accomplished ONE this week, and continue to work on the muscle building that will get me all the way to five.

Firm Up the Arms:  Yep.  Many reps of rows and lat pulls happened, as well as a hundred or more pushups. I’m going to count them this week.

4. Books

I did not start the The Smarter Science of Slim.  I did, however, dive back into Refuse to Regain.  I was too quick to brush her off last time around.

I did read along with Jenny at  A Minute Captured and dove into my Bible this year.

5.  Quote – posted.  In fact, I put it over in the sidebar where it will stay.

6. Catch up with the Challenge Buddy.  Hey Jo!! How’s it going

7. Visit Other Challengers:  I hit many of your blogs this week. Everyone is off to a great start!

8. I do hereby solemnly swear to NOT QUIT.  Amen.

Don’t trust a lousy scale. Keep the Faith.

EMail Anglea Pea

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BYOC…

Angela Pea3 Comments

I’m a huge fan of Just Me, Drazil and Sheniqua.  I need a Friday topic to keep me inspired for weekly blogging, so I’m playing along with her Bring Your Own Crazy. It’s five little questions you can answer in your own blog to give your blogging brain a break.

Copy, paste and enjoy!

This week’s topic?  The Holidays

1. How do you feel about NY resolutions? Do you make them? Do you forget about them quickly? Do they help you?

Love them.  I make them every year – at the beginning of December.  Just because I’m a type A personality. I don’t forget them quickly, and yes, they do help me stay focused.

2. Did you put up a Christmas tree? How many? Is it still up?

Of Course!  We have a ginormous Christmas tree in the living room. My living room ceiling is ten feet tall, and the angel’s halo brushes up against it.  There are thousands of ornaments, more than twenty-eight years worth of collecting and creating.  There’s also a small tree in the sun room.  They are both down and packed away – *sniff*.  It’s so sad to take them down every year.

3. How many total Christmases did you choose to have to attend outside of your home?

None!  Christmas to New Year is the Pea Family’s recharging time. We spend Christmas Eve with our most wonderful friends, then we come home, unplug from the world, tackle big house projects and enjoy each other’s company until after New Year’s Day.

4. What are you most looking forward to this year?

Goal Weight! Mountain Biking! Kitchen Remodel!  New Flooring!

5. Repeat question: Summarize your week in real life and in blogland this week.

Real life has been a bit draggy.  It’s hard to come back to work and concentrate after several weeks of celebrating the holidays.  The upside is that the weather has been spectacular – warm and sunny, perfect for getting some outdoor exercise! This week also ushered in the E2E Challenge, another fourteen week journey building healthy life habits.

Bring Your Own Crazy.  Keep the Faith.

EMail Anglea Pea

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How Tough Am I This Week?

Angela Pea3 Comments

Pretty Darn tough, if I do say so myself.

I rode the Marion Sansom Park mountain bike trail for the first time on Saturday.  It’s infamous among the local mountain bikers, and they either love it or hate it. Here’s why:

This is the view over the Dam Drop. Most local mountain bike trails are smooth dirt with a few roots or logs to climb over.  MSP?  Large portions of the trail look like this:

Yes, that’s caliche rock. Gravel. Hard if you fall, which, I did NOT do!  The Architect and Cherry Ames left me behind because I was going too slow.  HA!  They both emerged back at the trail head ten minutes ahead of me with scraped appendages. I got back all in one piece, a testament to my wimpiness superior common sense.

I’m not sure if I love it or hate Sansom Park. I’ll have to ride it a few more times before I decide.

 

We then high tailed it over to the Gateway trail  for a quick spin around.  After MSP it was a piece of cake!  Grand total of twelve miles on Saturday.

 

Tough enough yet?  Monday Mr. Pea decided we should take a ride on Mineral Wells Trailway.  It was another beautiful day, and thank goodness the sun was shining, because the wind was just a bit sharp against the skin. We took all the Pea kids plus a few extras, and made the run to the halfway point and back. The older boys made it all the way to the halfway point; the rest of us turned around a few miles shy because we were getting cold. Grand total of fifteen miles.  (That’s DirtBike ahead of me in the picture.)

 

But wait!  There’s more!  Kettle bell circuit training yesterday.  After that class, I was very, very glad that I kept up with working out over the Christmas holiday.  I was able to push through every rep, every squat and every swing.  Even when the guys were dropping out, I kept going. Whoot!  I am officially a Tonka Truck now.

Be tough. Keep the Faith.

EMail Anglea Pea