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What a great week I have had. Eating really great foods this week. Lots of very yummy fresh fruits and vegetables. Lots of good stuff. That's normal these days. ; ) Now the good part. I have been working so hard to break this blasted plateau I have hit. In my effort to that I decided to really step up my activity level. I had worked my way from 10 minute walks to 40 minute walks. During which time I added working on the elliptical beginning at 5 minutes and finally reaching 40 minutes. Well I blew it all away this week. I used my morning walks for wake up and warm up. My husband I and got out and walked the dog every morning for 30 minutes. Just a nice warm up to my day. After my breakfast I got on my elliptical every day for 40 minutes without missing and again in the evening for 20 minutes. I played around with it all week. Took it kind of easy on Monday just to be sure I could do the 40 minutes. I really wanted to go the distance. Once I did that, I pushed myself for some intensity going hard, backing off, back and forth. So today is Friday, my last day to work hard this week. Here I will take a bow. I just got off my elliptical.....drum roll..... SEVENTY MINUTES!!!!!!! I am so empowered by that. I am celebrating!! Did I break that stinking plateau? LOL I don't even care!! I am so amazed by myself that I could actually stay on the elliptical for that length of time that I really do NOT care what that scale says. I will think about that another time. All I know now is that I am a fat burning machine! WOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! If I were a runner I would start training for my first 5K. Guess I can figure out what that would be on my elliptical. hmmmmmmmmmm
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I love the fruit-growing season. There are so many healthy snack opportunities!
23 Jul 10 by member: Runesinger
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Wow! 70 minutes on the elliptical? Way to go! When I used to have a gym membership, I remember thinking it was an accomplishment to do 30 minutes. So are you listening to an iPod or watching TV while you work out? Listening to music or podcasts was the only way I could endure it.
23 Jul 10 by member: cocobutt
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I was watching a movie. I am a huge fan of criminal drama. OMG have you seen Ordinary Citizen. It is an old one. Excellent. I was also running my sprinklers so I did have to stop to change things outside for about 5 minutes. I got a glass of water and went right back on. So it was 40 min 5 min break and 30 min more. No way am I going to be doing that every day, but it was awesome to find out that I could. My normal push is 40 min. I will build up slowly and occassionally push it hard.
24 Jul 10 by member: datadoll
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