Well, I decided to start tracking my exercise daily, so that I can see where I am and how far I have come.

Today, I walked this morning for 3.75 miles in 1 hour 10 minutes. That is 10 minutes shorter than normal. I am going to be trying to add some jogging in there sometime.

My stats for this week:

Weight 213

Waist - 42
hips - 48
chest - 45
left thigh - 24
right thigh-24
left calf - 17
right calf - 17.5
left arm - 13
right arm - 13

Ewhhhhhhhhhh...I have never done my measurements before.....hope this changes soon.....*sigh*

I am wearing a size 18 in misses right now....I can get a 16 on, but they are still too tight.

I wear a pedometer all day, and will probably log my daily steps, but will not count the total as daily exercise. I will only count my daily walk and whatever I add to it, such as pilates or weights.

Since it is technically a new day, lol, I am going to post my total steps for the day.....now, this is with my 3.75 miles that I walked this morning.....all the walking that I did on the University campus for school.....and then all the walking I have done so far at work. I work a 12-hour night shift right now.

Grand total for steps for today...... 21,457 or 9.49 miles.

Resetting my pedometer now.....

Yesterday, I did 1 hour of Pilates. That is all I can handle of that so far

Total steps for the day.....according to the handy-dandy pedometer 13,320....5.89 miles. That is without actually walking for aerobic exercise, so I am not really counting it as exercise....it will be interesting to see how many steps that I actually take in a week.

Restarted exercising today....I have been sick and off program for a bit through the holidays, but it's time to get back to it!

I did my 30min abs and arms vid today...and boy am I feeling it!

So, from the depths of page 14......lmao

Almost exactly 1 year ago was the last time that I posted in here....let's see if I can do this better now. Most of my exercise will come from this game called Dance Dance Revolution....we have both the first one and the 2nd. Later, I will throw in some weights, because my son is going to play football at the high school in the fall and we are going to get a weight bench.

Haven't exercised yet today, but will when I get home. I will post what I do then.

Here's to a great new year!!

Yesterday, I did 1 hour of Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix....I was very surprised that I was able to go that long.....of course, my hubby and son were cheering me on, so that helped.

I think maybe this evening, I will do that and some toning. I need to find a good site that has stuff where you can see what you should do as a beginner and go from there.....all I am really worried about right now are my arms and abs. My legs get a good enough workout from the DDR....lol.

*wipes brow* Whew! I just did the DDR again.....I did it on workout mode...it doesn't let you pick your songs when you do it on there, and keeps you moving constantly. It tracks your total steps, calories according to your weight, etc....here is what I did this evening.

Miles .677
Pedometer 7106 steps
Calories 608.58

This was for right at an hour. I am really liking this....it will track my weight and such as I go down in weight....and the .677 mile may not look like a lot, but I was at my target heart rate for a good solid 50 mins.

Another hour of DDR tonight....for some reason, it gave me easier songs, so I had to go a lil over an hour to get about the same as last night:

Current miles .705
Overall miles 1.406 (1/4 to present)
Pedometer for tonight 7847 steps
Calories for tonight 632.96
Overall Callories 1263.43 (1/4 to present)

not too bad at all....I am getting better at some of the harder songs....I really like this game, and it changes all the time, so it's not like doing the same workout video over and over again.

And yet another evening with the X-Box lol

Current Miles .637
Overall (1/4 to 1/6) 2.046
Pedometer 7071
Current Calories Burned 574.41
Overall (1/4 to 1/6) 1837.847

Whooooooooooooooooooooooooohooooo...I almost didnt' even do this tonight cause I had such a crappy day at work...but I knew if I didn't do it, I would feel even worse, sooooo, I just did it

I wasn't gonna do the X box tonight because it was so late before I finally got home and got dinner done and such, but I did it anyway....

Current Miles .649
Overall (1/4 to 1/7) 2.694
Pedometer 7234
Current Calories Burned 585.439
Overall (1/4 to 1/7) 2423.286

Good Morning!

Ok, this is the first time that I did this in the am, and I was surprised. I did really well, even after I just did it at 9pm last night, lol. I wish I could do it in the morning every day, but I can't. I have to be at work at 6am and it takes right at about an hour to get there. But, evening is better than nothing, lol.

Current Miles .674
Overall (1/4 to 1/8) 3.368
Pedometer 7164
Current Calories Burned 607.719
Overall (1/4 to 1/8) 3031.005

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....I love Sundays....dont' have to run run run all day long..... *sigh*

Ok, did the DDR this morning!

Current Miles .634
Overall (1/4 to 1/9) 4.002
Pedometer 7003
Current Calories Burned 560.198
Overall (1/4 to 1/9) 3591.203

Might be going to get some weights this afternoon....we are going to look at some and see what we can see...I have 3 and 5 lb ones already, but my son needs some higher ones, as he wants to build his upper body. I just want to tone.

Is DDR the XBox equivalent of the Eye Toy? I've thought about getting a playstation 2 just for the eye toy as a workout - I agree with you, tapes get dull after you have done the same routine several days in a row!

Padruga...not sure....the X box version has a dance pad and you dance on the arrows as they go up the screen and you get a score and a grade for each song that you do. I am not sure how the eye toy works.....

Tonight, I did an hour, agian.....

Current Miles .647
Overall (1/4 to 1/10) 4.649
Pedometer 7110
Current Calories Burned 571.612
Overall (1/4 to 1/10) 4162.815

Gonna stop and look at weights tomorrow.....son is bugging me to death to...hopefully, I can find something we are both happy with.

Tonight, I did an hour, again.....

Current Miles .640
Overall (1/4 to 1/11) 5.289
Pedometer 6997
Current Calories Burned 565.441
Overall (1/4 to 1/11) 4728.256