Workin' It 12/7

Another crazy insane week - seriously, whose idea was it to sell our house before Christmas with a toddler and a busy home business!? Oh wait...

Anyway, welcome back!

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This past week, on Wednesday to be exact, I only got to the gym once. I did a fast round of cardio though, and was pretty pleased with myself since I went home all sweaty and gross!

1 mile treadmill
4 miles bike
1 mile treadmill

6 miles

SIX!

And in only about 25minutes, so I was going at a pretty good clip! I think i got to about 80rpm on the bike? I felt like jello when I was done! While it's hard to find time to go to the gym after a long day, when i get there I just feel....free. Like...Supermom!

I want to talk today about snacking - something that I feel needs me to approach it headon, especially with the holidays around the corner.

To the point, I'm busy. I eat what's left on Owen's plate far too often (which usually isn't alot! Have you seen my kid!?) and I snack...all day...and on whatever's in the kitchen. Bananas are a constant go to (good) but so are gingerbread cookies (bad) and buttercream frosting (bad-er!)

How do you snack healthy? Do you choose things that will help boost your metabolism? I found this on Mrs07c's Pinterest board and thought I'd share it!



I mean...how east would it be to make a soymilk smoothie with apples and cinnamon? Or maybe just snack on some broccoli? A breakfast of grapefruit, almonds and a green tea? It's such a no brainer...but why aren't I doing it?

Habit. Pure and simple...habit. I need to change it and step one is getting some of the items from the list above to make it easier for me to change it here at home. It's been difficult, since we never know when we'll have a showing, so we can't really cook and dirty up the whole kitchen but it needs to change and FAST.

Then I figure once the habit is there, it'll be easier to avoid temptation while we're gone for 3 weeks on vacation.

Workin' It 11/30

Good morning ladies!!! I'm a little late posting this, I do apologize, but life has been relatively insane for us over the past week (hence no Steppin' Out post last Saturday, even though I looked super cute when GodMomma and I went Christmas shopping!)

Here we go....

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How're you all doing with your Workin' It goals?? I got my booty into the gym once this past week (and once so far this week, which has been even more insane with baptisms, house showings {two of them!! Same family too!!}, a craft show tomorrow night, C's staff holiday party Friday, I have a massage {much needed!} Saturday morning and then I'm off to style a photo shoot...oh and we might start moving on the weekend!! ahhhhh) and aside from tidying, cleaning and running around like a chicken with my head cutoff, I've been trying to focus on Nutrition.

I've been doing some baking, but have been doing some healthy baking. Oatmeal cherry bars are my favourite snack right now - with little to no sugar! I've been trying to make healthier choices with salads, getting more protein, getting veggies into my body to feed and fuel it. It's hard though when you're a mom!! Remembering to eat when I'm so busy is seriously a challenge (and a topic for next week).

Last Wednesday's workout was:

Walk 5mins

Then 4 sets of:

• 15 leg presses at 75lbs (definitely can do more than that, but getting back at that one slowly)
• 15 thrusters at 10lbs
• 15 bentover rows at 25lbs
• 15 sunups (situps on a bosu ball)

Then 15mins of cardio on the elliptical...at 6.3mph!

Now, you might be wondering about some of my fitness jargon, and you can totally do almost all of the circut exercises that I do...but from home!

Today, I'll explain what a thruster is.

{note: I came home from the gym that night and our Personal Trainer pal was over. I told him what I had done at the gym and he was super impressed that I was doing thrusters, since they're such a great exercise for your core, back, arms and legs. Full body, baby!}

Grab a couple of weights (soup cans, jars of peanut butter, your baby..whatever your have handy) and hold them at your shoulders

Do a squat

As you come out of the squat, push your arms up to the sky and then bring them back to your shoulders

Repeat

I'm not going to lie, they're hard...and they make you hurt if you kick up the weight (next week/routine when I do them, I'll be kicking up to 12.5lbs) but they are so incredibly worth it!

And here's some inspiration to get moving this week!

Workin' It 11/23

Welcome back! Are you ready for week two?

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I'll be the first to admit...last week wasn't a super good one. I only got to the gym once, and that was on Sunday before the madness of cleaning and home staging started.

Sunday's workout was a doozie though!

5 minute readmill warm up
4 sets of:

• 15 bar pushups
• 500m row (2:30mins)
• 10 tricep dips at 50lbs
• 20 weighted squats at 15lbs

15 minutes cardio on the eliptical

It had me pooped for sure!

Then Monday came when I cleaned from morning until bedtime, followed by more cleaning and homestaging on Tuesday and Wednesday. I literally have not climbed so many stairs in my life, or mopped all of our floors (kitchen, 3 bathrooms, 2 entry ways and a laundry room) all in one day, or vacuumed and dusted every surface (2.5 storey home!), washed walls, lifted and carried boxes, boxsprings, bedframes, cleaned tubs and showers....in the matter of two and a half days!

So...keep in mind that while going to the gym is fantastic, there are tonnes of things that you can do around the house to stay active!

I even weighed myself at one of the houses that we went to see on Saturday, and I am very happy to report that I've lost 4lbs!

Here's some motivation to keep moving this week!

Link up your Workin' It Wednesday post!