Guppie Lane

Well, I was feeling like a blue gil last week, but as of tonight, I think I'm back to Guppie. long hard week it was for me. Oh wait, week is not over until Sunday, crap. Bike brick for Saturday (need to start by 6:30...pretty early for Tri girl) and then a 9:45 date with a pilates class. The only way I can do all this tomorrow morning will just be knowing I will be sitting at Gronsky's by 11 eating the best breakfast in the world. will probably have to go for 3 eggs again, yum yum. Wonder how many points that breakfast is? I only get 20 a day. This evening, I only completed 3000 meters, about 2 miles. But I still ate 2 pieces of toast with PB when i got home. That was probalby like 8 points, yikes! Was going to stay up and watch State, at this point, no necessary, 30-50 at the half:(......this guppie is going night night

March Madness

Yes, it's madness for me because I'm on a strict training plan and it's killing me! I'm beat and I sleep at least 9 hours a night, but feel like I need more. So much for sleepness nights and waking up in the middle, that is non-existant for tri girl. By Friday, I'm exhausted and have to swim again Friday night, then, that's not all; Saturday is my hard, long day. I do longer bikes plus a run right after (call them bricks). Then Sunday is long run day. Thank god for Gronsky's (my favorite breakfast place). I'm a faithful customer and learn so much from the locals I sit with at the bar. didn't even really enjoy my Monday off this week because yoga was anything but relaxing for me! I guess meditation is for whimps, we are hard core, upside down, crazy positions I didn't know my body would put up with. Today I biked for 50 minutes, ran for 30, then did a 'butts n guts' class for another 45 min. tri girl has no more 'tri' left in her.
Basketball is distracting me tonight, games are great. Hope everyone is enjoying the points you are eating. If you have to count them, make the taste good!

Guilding Light

For all you soap opera watchers out there, check out the Guilding Light, it is being filmed in Peapack New Jersey as of late. All over town; I work in Peapack and Pfizer owns a large piece of property here, it's beautiful. I watch the show religously (I know, I'm 38 go figure), however, for abotu 2 weeks, the scenes have been all in Peapack and I keep trying to catch them on my lunch runs, but no luck. Then today, the head of facilities (a friend of mine...played on my softball team for years), told me he meets with them every week. I had to do the old 'get out' and push him like Elaine from Seinfeld; I was in shock. He said they filmed yesterday and he saw me running and thought I would run into them, no luck. I ran 8.5 miles all over Peapack, but do you think I can find them? no, the town is smaller than DeWitt, but with lots of mansions $$$. However, Pfizer owns lots of property here in Peapack and he knows when and where they are filming; now I have an in. Next time, I'm going to run my butt to the filming site and see who I can meet. Maybe I could even be an extra? wishful thinking....Tune into Guilding Light....CBS....10am in New Jersey, 3pm in DeWitt.

The scales is going down!

My trip to Weight watchers today showing the scales going down..Hurray! Seems like I have been stuck at the same weight for months....up a few pounds & than down a few pounds. It has been a very slow process but I have lost a total of 7.6 lbs. I'm celebrating by eating a very juicy piece of gum :) I think walking is helping. With the weather getting better (warmer) & lighter (sunny) outside there just isn't a good reason for me to NOT take some time for myself and WALK! Of course the knee scoping is slowing me down a bit but that will pass. The doctor told John to encourage me to walk a lot....so he is and I AM!:) This is the year for the Lusty family to get healthier! How is everyone else doing?

Sunny Days are here at last

I'm not sure how much snow all you have, but finally I can see the sun shine! High 40's and sun, sun, sun today (and yesterday :)). I heard there was a lot of food at the Lusty's yesterday, hope you all didn't overdo it! Mom said she can't eat until Wednesday. She said she just wrote down a made up point level for the day and called it good. I didn't eat so great, but I ran 5.5 miles in the am, then road biked with my girlfriend for little over an hour, better than nothing anyway. Today is my day off, so I decided to take yoga here at work. What was I thinking? The instructor gets in these pretzel positions, I mean really, I look more like a potato chip than a pretzel if you ask me. And boy was it hard. Apparently I need to stretch more and get some more upper body strength in order to attain the full 'pretzel' positions! Can't wait to get back to the bike where I'm a little more comfortable. Dogs are sad, I am back down to just the 2 and the pack is back to pair (for 2 weeks I dog sat Maggie) I must be attempting to be like Cesar, he is my hero.

Recovering!

Hi all, I'm recovering just great! The crutches are gone but I'm using a cane my husband made and it is just great! I walked outside yesterday but the 4 inches of snow we got last night makes me scared I might fall or slip. I'm doing great in the house and hope to go back to work on Tuesday. I don't have much pain, so hope that continues. Happy Easter to everyone. We are so blessed to have such a great family!

Loose Branch on the Spruce

The small blue spruce has a loose branch today. The surgery was successful and she is resting, doing great. Said it doesn't hurt anymore than before the surgery, wish everyone was that lucky post surgery. She will be back on her feet walking in no time I expect. I have weights and run on my list for today. Pool is closed for Good Friday, but I will get up and do a 7am swim tomorrow to make up for it (7 is extremely early for tri girl, I like it when the birds get the worm and tri girl gets to sleep). Worked from home today so I could catch more basketball, only had 3 bad picks, but I'm winning the upset pool so far. I have Duke going to finals and they had me sweating last night. So State though, they made me smile.

No Rain today

The rain has subsided for now in NJ, good thing I was going to have to take my guppie skills from the pool to my basement if it didn't stop! Last nights practice was so much better, I might have to move my status from guppie to blue gill. Swam about 3500meters and slept okay. Still went out for a Paul Bunion breakfast, but sadly I don't belong to the CPC today. Good for the waist though! Today I'm going to do my first brick workout (sounds heavy), 45 min on the bike, 15 min run right away; shouldn't be too difficult. How are the WW's girls doing? I don't think the bacon I ate this morning is recommend for WW....shhhhh....it was mighty tasty.
adios mis amigos para hoy

Singing in the rain...okay, maybe not

Rained all night, and all day, supposed to last another day:( Little princess Nikki doesn't like to go out in the rain too much, she stands up by the house with me; she is a princess for sure. Boy am I tired already and it's only Wednesday. Sprints again today, every Wednesday, its like ...'time to make the dognuts...' but it's a great workout. I have an hour and a half swim tonight, ugh, then tomorrow is my first 'brick' workout of the season. (brick is when you bike, then run right away, you have to get used to the transition of bike to running). At least it's a small brick, bike 45 min, run 15. My problem is getting through the swim, I'm a guppie swimming with Trout I swear. I burn about 1000 calories in one swim workout, crazy. Wish the sun would come out, rain rain go away.

Family affair

Can you believe it but we all walked last night together.....John, Jessie, Sophie & me! Just was just over a mile but it is becoming a family affair! We walked (instead of driving) up town to pick up a prescription. Saved gas! What a great stress reliever plus we caught up on each other's day. My breakfast this morning.....fruit smoothie with WW yogurt, frozen fruit & juice (about 6 points) but I have all my fruit in for the day & one milk! Also Hostess 100 calorie choc muffins..1 point but so worth it:) What are you all eating today?

Need a Plan

I had to do a new post to get us back on track of diet & exercise. I know those can be bad words at times, however, we can use them to our advantage! We have to have a plan, both for exercise and eating. When you have a diet plan, it takes the choice (or eat what I feel like) part out. Same with exercise, gotta have a plan. It's like saving money, can't just do what you feel like today, you gotta have that plan!
Me? I started a new 1/2 iron plan last week, so I have no choices, I know what I'm doing every day for a workout (and Monday is my new rest day, so nothing for me today!!). I will only have one rest day, so I need to make the most of it (worked on basketball pics at lunch and got some tips from Dad...as he would say, "better to be good for somethin' than good for nothin'")

Started playing Flag Football with the boys here at work on Friday's (40 boys, 4 girls...4 fields, 8 teams). What do they know anyway? I don't know the rules well, but I can run around that field with the best of them! All the injuries, men of course, 3 hammies and one broken finger (and that finger was good and broke in 3 places), ouch! The 4 girls that played, all injury free. I got one flag (highlight of the game for me), and my friend Kim scored 3 touchdowns on the field next to me. Lets here it for the girls!
Forrest is walking, trigirl is tri-ing, Sherquilter is quilting....what are the rest of you doing?

Another blogger has joined us!

Well...JK has join us! Amazing the computer youngsters aren't so good at the blog thing!:) You mean I figured it out before them??:) love it! I walked yesterday about 2 miles & I'm hoping to maybe walk today at lunch! Eating....well not so good! I'm enjoying way to much the cookies/pie & stuff I baked for JT this weekend! JT is back at Houghton & won't be home until May 3.:( Tri Girl....I talked to Our Dad yesterday about maybe getting a Lusty Reunion blog started. Might need your help. Everyone...keep moving! I'm not a Forest but a small blue spruce growing!:)

Grapevine

Heard through the grapevine that mother lost 4.4 pounds in her first week of Weight Watchers! Gold start for Mom this week. I heard she got to take the fish home, lucky girl she is. Oatmeal with PB for breakfast for me. I have 'flag football' on the lunchplate today, could be good or bad decision, not sure at this point. No injuries will make me very happy. I'm on the red team, and I hope that is no indication of blood shed:) Tonight I will spend yet another Friday night in the pool, won't find any dates there, but sure will get me in half iron shape:) I'm trying to move from a guppie to a trout I guess. I'll shoot for 30 miles on the bike tomorrow and hope the rain holds back in the afternoon. By now, I hope my family is getting the idea that you need an exercise plan and you don't just wait until you feel motivated to move. you have to plan it!!!! Make the time for it!!! go lusty's...(and Forrest:))

Eat, Rest, be merry..

I had such a hard day yesterday, that I could only bike for 10 min, stretched, did a 45 min Butts & Guts class, and called it a day. No long mileage for me today. However, yesterday, I did those cotton pick'n sprints and core and then, had the hardest swim workout I've ever done. Almost swam 4000 meters last night. I know, it would have been a drop in the bucket for my old flame Steve Shipps, but for this little guppie, it was extreme. Apparently I can't hang with the tiger sharks. I was so tired and hungry, that I went out to breakfast and ate a real Paul Bunion meal; eggs, potatoes, bacon, toast and I finished it all. I belong to the CPC now (clean plate club). This is probalby not inspring in the least bit, but then, no one is probably reading it anyway.

Exercise for the day?

What did you do today for exercise? I did sprints, quarter mile x 12 which makes 3 miles of total sprints. In between, I did all stomach exercises so 12 sets of stomach which makes over 150 sit ups of sorts. Yikes! Okay, is anyone else even walking? Am I killing myself and other just enjoying the view? hehe....kidding...just trying to motivate... I'm working on a six pack and I'm at about a 4 so far. Just need to drop some more fat and the last 2 will appear:)

Points, points, points....

Are you all counting your points honestly? and sticking to them? In an effort to support my family, I am going to start counting my points and do my best to stick to the same diet. I only get 20 points a day, yikes! I will just have to count my exercise along with it.

Best of luck everyone!

Surprised late last night!

Well at 9:30pm last night there was a knock at the front door. I figured it was a tax client picking up a return late & saw lights on in the house, so wanted to talk. Much to my surprise & Stacey, Brent & John.....it was JOHNNY! It was so great! He surprised us all except Jessie that he was coming home. We didn't think he was leaving until today! Jessica help get Stacey, Brent & Logan to the house, so we were all there! He looks great & will be home all next week. Johnny got to hold Logan right away...it is the best having the whole family home! We are warm, safe and so blessed! Today I'm going home early to get Johnny & head to the grocery store! Need to stock up for him:) Have you heard from Jessie about Sofie?? Well, Sofie reacted to a new medicine to help her stop itching so much....it was terrible. Sofie had huge bumps all over her body! I can understand why it was so hard on Jessica to see her....Sofie looked really bad. This morning the bumps have gone down a lot (Jessie & Sofie stayed overnight) , but I think Jessie will still be taking her to the vet. About the food thing....eat a lot yesterday too but today is another day! Love much

What's for Breakfast

My breakfast this morning was coffee with LF half & half, 1 glass of skim milk, egg (cooked in Olive oil), Light english muffin with spray butter! About 7 points for WW. If I have Oatmeal I like to add Spenda brown sugar!:)

Impressed

Can I say how impressed I am so far? Mom has joined weight watchers, Sherri walked, Stacey has time to post and lose weight too, unbelievable. What's for breakfast? Better be good, its the best meal of the day. Oatmeal for me again, with a little PB, yum yum.
Have sprints and weights planned. Sprint a 1/4 mile on treadmill, then lift one set, repeat 12 times and do 12 different weight exercises. Its a great workout.
Here to melting snow!

Walked last night!

I got a walk in last night & it felt great! About 2 miles in 30 minutes. Why is it I don't allow myself this time each night? I need to find a way to keep track of the miles/exercise somewhere...any suggestions? We didn't get any snow last night, so the sidewalks should still be good today. I hate the ice patches, so walking in the day light helps! Stacey...way to go with the weight loss! You look great & Logan is just the best! Grandpa & I got our "Logan" time last night, so we should be good for a few days!:) Love you all
Sher Quilter

Weight loss

I think I have you all beat.... I have lost a little over 30 pounds in the past two weeks!! Don't I wish it was always so easy to lose weight that fast. I have become obsessed with weighing myself every morning because so far I am still losing weight... its nice to see the scale going down, down, down. Anyways I don't know how often I will be contributing to this blog considering my life just got slightly more hectic recently, but I will try to post as often as possible. Love you all!!

Stace

I'm here finally!

Tri Girl & others
Well I have finally made it to the blog. Haven't walked any but only ran my fingers to set up an gmail account to get onto this blog! I really think this is a great idea & hopefully it will help me with my our exercise needs. So far at weight watchers I have lost 6.8 lbs & it has been very slow going...but I'm sticking to it! Love you all
Sher Quilter!:)

Day 2...Blogging 101

Apparently I didn't give my family 'author' privis, so I just sent that out and hopefully they will all have something intelligent to say. Can't wait...

Breakfast? Oatmeal with some brown sugar and peanut butter for protein, don't you just want the same thing? Its a great breakfast that will give me the energy I need to run the 9 miles I have planned at lunch. I was supposed to run it yesterday and bike, but we all know how that went. Went to neighbors, ended up having wine around 2pm....no more workout after that!
Looking forward to reading the next blog....guessing Dan will have something interesting to say.

Day One, March 2nd, 2008...pray, eat, love...

This is the first day I'm going to get my family moving. The blog idea came from a very good friend of mine (one of those old and new kind of friends), and I am hoping this will motivate my entire family to get moving and start losing pounds. I love them all the way they are, just as they have always loved me, however, I want all of them to stick around for many years to come and that means getting in better health. Who knows, maybe I will have kids someday? okay, maybe not...my clock is a tickin'....but they need to be around for me to have a full life for sure!
Here's to the Lusty family; I pray they will get motivated, I promise to eat healthy too, and I love every one of their quirky ways:)