Faithful

I got to go outside today! I love to be outside doing anything--walking, yardwork, playing, watching my kids play at the park. I got outside for a walk today, and I'm about to go out to do a little tree trimming. Yardwork is just around the corner.

I love the kind of exercise that doesn't feel like exercise. I think that's why I like sports so much; it's easier to be in the moment giving it your all than when I'm on a machine and thinking of nothing other than not looking at my time until the next commercial break.

Yardwork is supposed to burn somewhere around 350 calories an hour. I can do yardwork all day. It's completely mentally consuming and at the end of it I get to look at my yard and see what I've done.

The challeng of yard work is that it's a sort of 'seize the day' activity around here because it's hit and miss with the wind that blows really hard in the spring and the summer afternoons. That makes it harder to schedule workouts because when the day is nice, I ditch EVERYTHING else and go outside to work on my yard.

So far I've been sticking with the workout routine I made for myself a couple of weeks ago. It's intense, but I like it for that reason, and my husband hitches a ride on some of my routines. Right now I 'm heading up to the 'The Shop' for my weight routine and the sauna.

To reach my prepregnancy weight by the end of the year, I have to lose an average of three pounds each month. To reach my goal weight, I have to lose an average of four pounds each month. That's one pound a week. Doesn't sound so bad when I think of it that way. I'm still determined to visit the scale as little as possible and just focus on how the workouts make me feel, but the weight loss goal is also driving me, always in the back of my mind.