So today is the big WIN weigh in. I was going to get up and exercise, but then thought that might raise my blood pressure and I'd want to drink alot of water adding to my weight, so I decided I'd go after work. Then after work Jess texted that she was in the area and wanted to go to dinner. Went right away and chatted for a few hours, leaving me to get home after 8:30pm after a big dinner. Bill just came home also from being gone all week. I debated stopping by the work gym on the way home to workout but didn't really want to walk in the cold, change, exercise and get cold again, so I headed home.

I wanted to do an ExerciseTV routine for something different, but none would load--must be a problem with the channel. Arrrgh. I needed 20 minutes, but they didn't have to be too hard, right? So I loaded the BL CardioMax DVD and looked at the customize options. There was the 5 minute warmup, level 2 cardio for 10 min, then 5 minute stretch/cooldown. I've never done the level 2, but figured even if it was harder, it was only the 10 minutes. Did all that and actually like that level 2. It was high cardio, lots of jumping and running, but a good burst of a workout. After dinner, this was enough to break a sweat and get the heart up, without going too hard.

Since I only worked out once each of the last 2 days, and I have nothing planned tonight, I thought I'd try to get two workouts in. Did the 30 day shred in the morning to get a good combo of aerobic, weights, and abs. Then after work I did the Punch, Kick, Jam--which I've only done once before and found myself getting lost in the workout often. I need to do that alot more as I fell behind alot and had to stop to just watch for a second to figure out what we're doing. It's 50 minutes, though, so hard to do too often, but need to get better at it.

Got up to exercise, even changed, but just wasn't motivated. Went back and layed in bed with Breezy. Went to the gym after work and ran a mile, then walked out the rest of 20 minutes on the treadmill with an incline for about 5 minutes of that. Then did 20 more minutes on the bike.

Got up and wanted to just do cardio today after the workout last night. Did the Boot Camp. Thought I'd also go to the gym after work but got out of work late, so didn't.

So, I really want to get back down in weight, so with Bill gone, I'm going to try to step up my exercise a bit. Got up and did the TurboJam 20 this morning. Then had Anna tonight. I asked her to focus on abs a bit more as we've only done a bit of those in recent weeks. So we did a variety of ab/core exercises, in between shoulder push downs, lunges, pushups on the alternating arms on the medicine ball, rows while tilting forward and kicking a leg back, one arm alternating rows.

Melissa texted last night that she was looking to run at 7am on Sunday for an easy 4-5 miles and wondered if we'd join her. We had brunch with Mom, but we could do just the 4 or so. Met at Panera and ended up running 4.2 miles. I ran with Melissa the whole time which was nice to have conversation and keep moving, ending up with a 9:36 average mile---not too bad.

Planned on going running with the group today as we were doing a brand, new route--West Lawn cemetary and down 90th street into Sturtevant. Bill left early to get extra miles in, and...for some reason....the alarm never went back off for me. I woke up at 7am. I was really mad, but the TV was set right so I wasn't mad at anyone, just mad at the situation as I really was going to run today. I then decided I'd still go and just run by myself. I rushed around to get ready, still very upset, and drove to the parking spots. Arriving at 7:36am, I figured I'd run routes that the others probably weren't as I didn't want to deal with everyone heading back and I was just heading out and the questions that would go with that. I did West Lawn cemetary loop. There was a set of footsteps in the snow (it was flurrying, with about 1-1.5 inches already on the ground) so I just following those. I found out later that I did more than just the 'outside' loop as the footsteps curved in at one point, then back out, adding to the run. That was OK as it was peaceful to run in the cemetary. I came out and headed east on the frontage road, behind the retail areas and back out to the frontage road, turning around just east of Charcoal Grill just before Stuart Rd. As I headed back, I still felt good and so I did another loop, reverse, in the cemetary, ending the morning with 5.5 miles. Everyone was already gone to coffee, but Bill had driven through that last cemetary to say Hi, and Andy circled back as the lead for the 'committee for no runner left behind' to make sure I was OK. Then joined the group at Panera. Glad I did it as I felt good to do the run (although slow due to the snow) and it alleviated my anger.

Didn't get going this morning and figured I'd just walk at work. Unfortunately that never happened, so I went to the gym after work and just walked for 20 min on the treadmill at a 3.8 pace. Not really hard, but at least got the blood flowing.

Skipped the gym last night, so had to do it tonight. Ran 2 miles on the treadmill, with 2 quarter mile cardio bursts, then walked out the remainder of 30 minutes. Then did 15 minutes on the bike reading a magazine just to move the legs a bit, but relax also.

I brought clothes to work to workout in the gym after, but just wasn't in a treadmill mood. But did want to do some weights and not just cardio as I did weights Monday and only cardio on Tuesday. So I came home and decided to do the Biggest Loser CardioMax as I know that has lots of lunges, squats, and some free weight work. Did just a quick 1-2 minute warmup, then the 20 minute routine, and then the 5 minute cooldown.