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Midweek – May 9 – Construction Update and Challenge Stats

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Remember this picture from my birthday ride last fall?

Love My Job!

There was a [brave] guy braced between the two halves about 30 feet off the ground, supporting his weight with his feet, bolting the sides of the form in place while it dangles from the crane over his head.  I went riding today, and this is what it looks like now.

Pretty amazing, isn’t it?

Goals? First, let’s talk about the overall goal:  the end number.  I have become increasingly frustrated with my ongoing efforts to lose the last few pounds.  I’ve maintained this weight plus or minus a few pounds for almost a year now.  I’m not willing to starve, let up on my exercise or give up weightlifting just to get down to the number that Weight Watchers says I am supposed to be without consideration of my age, fitness level and mental stability. I’m at my ‘goal’ dress pant size, and have been for a while.   Heck.  I even brought a note from my Doctor to WW stating that my body fat is in a good range, my bones are very dense (no osteoporosis for me!), that my muscle mass is in the high range and that my weight is Just Right Thank You Very Much.  The lady at weigh in basically said “That’s nice Sweetie.  You still have 10 pounds to go.”  So. I said goodbye to WW, and declared myself to be at goal.  I’m good with maintenance.

BTW, just in case you’re wondering, the American College of Sports Medicine suggests that the optimal body fat percentage is between 21.6 percent and 25.6 percent for a 50-year-old woman. In reality, the average body fat percentage for a 50-year-old American women is between 30.1 and 33.4. A body fat percentage above 32 percent is considered to be obese. My body fat is 23.7.

My goals are going to remain the same from now on.  I’ll just provide a weekly update!

  1. Weight loss – Persist and Maintain:  This is going well, as stated above.  I’m the size I want to be and haven’t gained or lost an ounce. I am going to focus a bit more on tracking actual calories instead of WW points.
  2. NSV – Eight Hours of Sleep minimum every night:  Ooooh.  This one was easy the past few weeks while Mr. Pea and I were under the weather.  I was basically crashing in a prone position the moment the last plate from dinner was washed and not waking up until the next morning.  Now that I’m feeling better, it’s easier to convince myself to stay up and do one more thing.  I need to rein in my enthusiasm.   
  3. Exercise – Four days of cardio and two days of weight training. Done. Lots of miles last week, weight training/CrossFit squeezed in as well as stretching and such.
  4. Nutrition – Eat more Veggies, Dump the Carbs:  Done.  Summer is easy, as there are plenty of veggie available.  I tried Massaged Kale salad, and it was YUM!!!
I’m linking up in the Ready for Summer Challenge – come join the fun!

Say Goodbye to things you need to say goodbye to.  Keep the Faith.

EMail Anglea Pea

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Midweek – May 2

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Why?

Why does the end of the school year mean an utterly insane lets-cram-every-project-test-paper-report-event-we-can-fest?  Seriously, Oh Teachers of my Children.  You have had them in your classrooms for ten months now. Why have you waited until there are only three weeks of school left to do a year’s worth of work?  And why, Great Biology Teacher, do you insist on the gathering of certain specific flower specimens for a field book when they are either a) not native to our harsh Texas environment; b) already well past their blooming season; and c) not even close to coming out of dormancy yet?  Seriously?  Aren’t you a  biology teacher?  With a passion for botany???

Of course, I’ve done my own share of overloading the Pea Family Calendar.  We have orthodontist appointments, dentist appointments, doctor appointments, optometrist appointments and the Fort Worth Mountain Bike Association Fat Tire Festival.  I’m the one who made all of those appointments and scribbled them onto the calendar.  Then there’s  Mr. Pea’s birthday celebration, that will include cake baking if I can get the contrary oven to function properly for more than ten minutes.  Let’s not forget Princess Pea’s graduation and all of the parties and gatherings that go with it, as well as the followup “let’s-move-to-college-hours-away-from-home-game which ensue shortly thereafter.  BTW – if any of you are close by and have any well-loved furniture that you would like to get out of your house, I know a couple of bright, beautiful young ladies who have just signed the leases for their first apartment and would be delighted to give it a good home.

The Crossfit Box

Mr. Pea and I are still feeling cruddy. Allergy season is particularly vicious this year.  I’ve used TWO humongous family sized boxes of tissues this week. I’m not letting it get to me, though.  I played “Death By Boxes” yesterday in Crossfit.  You start on the minute, flex your knees and jump up onto the top of a wood box, stand up straight, then step down.  My box was the – ahem – baby box.  A mere 15″ tall.  At minute two, you jump up and step down twice.  Three times at minute three, and so on through twenty minutes.  It’s deceptive.  At first you think to yourself, “Oh yeah.  I’m tough. I have this in a bag.”  By minute twelve, when you’re tired because you’ve already jumped up onto this stupid box 68 times, it seems to grow about a foot taller. Then, you realize that the ‘rest’ seconds between minutes have dwindled considerably and you’re jumping constantly without stopping.  Up to the top of a six-foot tall $#^* wooden box!

I made it to 17 minutes and 17 jumps.  I had to stop because I couldn’t finish 18 jumps in less than a minute.  Now I have a goal to kick out 20 minutes.  On a taller box.

 Jump to it.  Keep the Faith.

EMail Anglea Pea

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Note to Self – April 26, 2012

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Do not leave a tube of Bodyglide in your gym bag in the car when it’s 90 degrees outside.

It melts into a gooey mess and leaks out of the lid.  This is what is left of a practically new tube.  The rest is puddled (thankfully) inside the plastic bag that’s inside my gym bag. 

Keep your tubes cool.  Keep the Faith.

EMail Anglea Pea