Legoland Videos (4-16-17)

We didn't take many videos at Legoland but here are the ones we did take!

2018 Goals Progress

I made a post with 2018 goals and I thought I would see how I'm doing.

For 2018, here are my exercise goals:

1. run 72 miles (that's 6 miles a month) with a reach goal of 100 miles * --- I ran 0 miles
2. complete 4 Beachbody programs - I completed Phase 1 of 80 day obsession 
3. Exercise in some form 208 times (that's 4x/week) - I exercised 30 times in January 

Random other goals related to exercise -- I haven't done anything there!

1. Have a photo shoot while running
2. Have a photo shoot while doing various forms of exercise
3. Combine random exercise files/videos to one spot on my computer

For inspiring others, I plan to -- I haven't done any yet but I knew I'd start the year being a part of 3 groups so I consider it good.

1. Run 6 free challenges
2. Run 3 month long challenge groups

Ella hurt my back on January 1 so I am pretty impressed with how much I did. 

80 Day Obsession Week 2

Week 2 - January 22- January 28

Day 8

Day 9: Booty
recording is 2/3 the workout.   Miles woke up a little less than 1/3 into it.


Day 10 - I went downstairs to do cardio core. After 25 min I finally got it to play enough after issues. but miles wasn't having it. I could have had it working right away but it wouldn't chrome cast. So I closed it to restart it which usually fixes it. It did not. So then I closed web browser and went to re-login and it would not do it. It wouldn't log in. So much fighting with it. Rebooting computer. Wouldn't log in. Like you click log in and it didn't work. Then eventually I try safari to see and that works. Also in that time I'm downloading it to my phone to see. But miles was losing patience so I was holding him. So I gave up and we came upstairs. I'm mad I just wasted all that time.

Cardio is tough. Coordination was bad on the frog things. I deleted my first video where I couldn’t move  the right way. I just couldn't make my knee open the right way. I have no idea why coordination was so far off today.

I did my PT core exercises at the end. And my abs were working!

Day 11 AAA

We all worked out via zoom call.

I wanted a bonus workout after and was going to do the Bonus workout for Insanity Max 30 that is 15 minutes long but it wouldn't play. So then I did Insanity Plyometrics Cardio Circuit. It was a 40 minute workout. It was GOOD.  It was tough.    I burned 256 calories.  I only burned 132 during 80DO cardio on Wednesday.

Day 12  I was surprised how Miles tolerated the entire long workout. He did bug me some but it wasn't bad. I noticed I was getting better at moves. I also did them with heavier weights.

Day 13

Inch worm killed my back. It still hurts hours later! I’m just not as flexible as I should be and I try to do it anyway and do it wrong so many times. 🙁

My back hasn’t hurt this bad in a week so I think next time I’ll cut out inch worm and do something else that is still a workout. 

Day 14 I didn't do stretch and release. I will add it in because I said I wouldn't miss a workout but I felt like I didn't need it. (I did do it later in week 3)

I just took measurements.
Down 3 inches from the start of this program.

2 of those are in my chest though 😀 I was nursing and just finishing up when I took the before measurements and now I'm not nursing.

My arms are bigger so I actually dropped more than 3 but then had to add in the arms too. Waist is .5 smaller.

Just compared to July . 15 1/2 smaller.

This week the Insanity workout made me more confident in my cardio endurance.  But my food was crap.  I really struggled just having a desire to eat so I barely ate any food. Then I did have some extra not on plan foods like one night I had peanut butter on a few graham crackers. As of that point I had 1 Red, 1 Green, and 3 Yellows. (protein, vegetable, and carb)That's it. So I had 4 teaspoons left but no carbs. But I still ate the graham crackers anyway. Graham crackers aren't even allowed except on refeed days.  My weight went back up near the end of the week. The lack of food is really worse. I just had no desire to eat. One night at dinner I was trying to force myself to eat and just managed a few bites. I hope Week 3 is better.

All pictures taken in the morning. Similar pose.
3 different bras. 2 or 3 different pairs of pants
So comparisons aren't exact.

This shows some improvement after just 1 week of single leg good mornings. My balance was better both weeks on my left leg. My right leg was more like week 1 during week 2. This is hard stuff! I take longer to get into position and complete the move than Autumn and the cast do but I am working on it. Progress!

80 Day Obsession Phase 1 Results

Phase 1 results. Down 3.5 inches and 3.8 lb. My arms actually increased from all this muscle I'm getting back! I'm not seeing it in these pictures. When I've taken selfies in the mirror in my sports bra, I've noticed more!

What these pictures don't show is that my core is so strong now compared to what it used to be! I never remember my core this strong. I love it!

My measurements are actually worse than a week ago. I barely ate most of the week from stress then yesterday ate a lot finally. Phase 2 will be even better than Phase 1! Nothing like pigging out the day before pictures. 

I also included a collage comparing July to now to show how that difference. (Before July I was even bigger but I just went back that far. Sorry the shorts are different. I used to always use the red shorts then one day I could not find them so I swapped to the tighter black ones.)  I'm surprised how much I've changed since July. Taking pictures every month or every 21 days you don't notice the small changes as much but then compare it to 7 months ago and wow!

Instastories 1-16-18

Every few weeks I use instastories. I kind of like them but just never use them.  Here's a compilation of ones from January 15 and 16.

80 Day Obsession Weeks 1-3

I'm behind with posting. When you make videos everyday it takes longer to compile them.   I made a quick video of weeks 1-3 using Quik so it picked what portions of the video to use.   Here you go!

Also I was looking for a list of all the Cardio Flow exercises and surprised I couldn't find one.  Sometimes I get ahead or behind so I like a list since I don't trust my memory.  I typed one up but might not have the names exactly right because there are no breaks in the workout to get time to type it.

Inch worm

Spider push-ups

Diamond jumps

Flamingos

Duck walk

Gorillas

Step through

Bear

crab

Mule kick to frog jump

Ella Misses Daddy

Dave was out of town for work. Ella said she missed him. He was out to dinner so I asked if she wanted to make him a video. She said OK then we started recording and this is what she did/said. I didn't know she was going to be SO sad.

Playing in the Rain Video

Ella and Miles were playing in the rain so I decided to take some pictures and videos. Well they were playing with the snow while it was raining. I never seem to post enough about these kids. They are so cute and fun and I take pictures and videos and then never do anything with them. I really want to try to post more and I just don't get my act together.

January 11, 2018

16 Month Comparison

Here are 2 collages. Ella and Miles were both 16 months old in them!

I used to think Ella looked like Dave.  Then I thought Miles looks like Dave.  But I'm not seeing how Ella and Miles look alike.

12.16.16

So I guess the "day" can start after I went to sleep a little after 11.  Well at 12:35, Dave woke me up because Ella was crying from under our bed. I was so so so so confused.  I thought he saw her walk into the room and go under or something.  We have no idea how long she was under there. Or why she went under.  I asked her if she wanted to come in bed with me. She cuddled and fell asleep on my arm.

Then at 1:15 Miles woke up.  Man was I tired.  I got him into his crib by 1:45 then I went to Ella's room and cleaned up all the toy food she had out to make room for her on the bed.  Then I carried her into her room and went back to sleep.

At 4:20, Miles woke up and I got all the way in there but he was back to sleep. So then I went back to bed yet again.

At 5:30 he actually woke up .  Then this is when the awfulness started. Surprising the rest of the night wasn't considered awful. ha!  So he'd fall back to sleep but then as soon as I put him in the crib he'd break out of the swaddle and wake up. He also wanted to nurse a lot while he slept.   I tried to get him to his crib twice. It just failed so I chilled in the chair holding him and slept. But he'd wake up every 45 min or so and nurse a bit.   It was so exhausting. But then we ended up in this pattern until after 8:30 so that was much later than my normal.

We woke Ella up close to 9 to get her to preschool.  I gave her a bath so she looked somewhat decent for her Christmas Concert.

Once Ella was at school, I meant to be productive but after being so tired it's so hard to be productive. Miles napped on me until 11 then I got him in his crib. I ate lunch/breakfast since he was asleep. (I had leftover pasta first then bagels next. ) Then he woke up and I nursed him again and he fell asleep but on me.  He slept a lot when I let him sleep on me and I just watched Netflix. Then we went to go pick up 2 things I bought on various facebook groups. Traffic was awful and that took forever.   Before I knew it, it was after 3 PM.

When Miles slept, I went through a little bit of stuff in the garage. But then he woke up before I got far enough for it to look like progress.

I left early to get to Preschool for the concert because I wanted plenty of time to calm Miles down before it started.

The concert was fun. (Separate post)

Once it was over, we had snacks with everyone. Santa was there but Ella didn't want to sit on his lap. It's funny because one of the older kids saw him and said "Hey that's not Santa, that's Paster Tim."

When we got home Ella was using the nativity scene stickers they gave. I asked if she wanted to read the directions or go with the flow. She responded "Go with the flow."  I'm surprised how well she did. She even had the face on randomly and took it off to actually assemble it.

Dave got home and we had Jersey Mikes. I got Miles to sleep.  Then I played Legos with Ella for 1.5 hours. Then she hid in all the pillows and kept having me find her.  It was after 10 PM before she was in her room winding down for bed.  I got so tired! Then I realized why. My sleep was crap!

Christmas Concert (12.16.16)

The first group that went was the oldest class. Then they worked their way to the youngest group.  Ella's group sang 2 songs. I didn't know either song.  Ella didn't see us at first. I couldn't see her from my seat so I moved to the aisle at one point to take a picture. Ella saw me and yelled "Ms. Dana, my mommy's here."  Dave and I looked at each other and laughed.  Then a minute later she saw Dave and said the same thing about him.  Once all 4 classrooms went individually they all sang together. Well Ella was back sitting with us at this point so she didn't sing with the group.  Ella didn't actually sing at all but was with her class at least.   She didn't flip out when she saw me so that's an improvement.  I was trying to use my fancy camera. Then I swapped to my phone. Both were difficult while holding Miles.

There was an agenda but I lost mine so I didn't know the song list after. I wanted to list it here.