December 30, 2009: The end is near.

Well 2009 is almost over. The challenge is almost over...and well it wasn't as successful as I had hoped it would be. I guess it's documented proof that I tried. There's one more week left, I'll let you know if anything exciting happens.

Results

Week 9 Day 3
Weight: Batteries low.
Calories eaten: 1903
Calories burned: -86
Net Calories: 1817
Exercise: 2 dog walks (35 min)

December 29, 2009: Much better.

I'm back in to the groove again. I got two long doggy walks in an did a good job on what I ate. It's really easy to get off track...the key is to not stay off track! The eating splurges do add up over time. But if I can make more exercise splurges, one day, the scale should tip in my favor, right?

Results

Week 9 Day 2
Weight: No lo se.
Calories eaten: 1509
Calories burned: -135
Net calories: 1374
Exercise: 2 dog walks (55 min)

December 28, 2009: Oh the Snow!

Today is SNOWY. It snowed all day, on and off. 3+ inches. I did get my walks in, but they were not too long b/c it was freezing cold. I did shovel the driveway for 30 min! I vow to get back on my running schedule soon!

Results

Week 9 Day 1
Weight: Scale is covered with snow.
Calories eaten: 1879
Calories burned: -246
Net calories: 1632
Exercise: 2 dog walks (35 min)
               Driveway shoveling (30 min)

December 27, 2009: Finally caught up!

Yay, I have finally caught up with my blogging. Yay for me! I should really not get behind that much again. It's hard to remember what I was doing/thinking two weeks ago!

Results

Week 8 Day 7 
Weight: Too cold to weigh in
Calories eaten: 1630
Calories burned: -61
Net Calories: 1569
Exercise: 1 dog walk (25 min)

December 26, 2009: Only one more holiday to survive this year!

Day after Christmas, things start to slow down, right? Well they have. I'm done shopping and wrapping gifts. Now it's more of a regular eating/living/sleeping schedule. Who am I kidding! I'm still planning on doing a lot of sleeping, but hopefully I can squeeze a few trips into the gym in. I'm seriously considering just getting myself an elliptical.

Results

Week 8 Day 7
Weight: Ohio people are so fit, they don't need scales.
Calories eaten: 1688
Calories burned: 0
Net calories: 1688
Exercise: Opening a few more gifts. Don't worry though, the puppy got all her necessary walks, just not with me.

December 25, 2009: Santa brought lots of presents!

Santa stopped by last night. Lots great gifts and fun with the family...and of course, Lasagna! It was all so yummy and hard to resist. I have no problem with getting the exercising in, but we had cold freezing rain most of the day...not so desirable for outdoor exercising.

Feliz Navidad!

Results

Week 8 Day 5
Weight: Santa doesn't get weighed!
Calories eaten: 1315
Calories burned: -74
Net Calories: 1241
Exercise: 1 dog walk (30 min)

December 24, 2009: Santa is COMING!

And Santa needs his cookies! So I'll help him out by taste testing them to check for poison. ;) I did get my walks in today, but did eat them cookies. Maybe I should start thinking about another challenge for the new year.

Results

Week 8 Day 4
Weight: Like a bowl full of jelly!
Calories eaten: 1479 (I think I under estimated)
Calories burned: -98
Net Calories: 1381
Exercise: 2 dog walks (40 min)

December 23, 2009: Baking for the Holidays

These next few days will put me in close contact with baked goods and sweets! What a dangerous time of the year. I have no problems eating that stuff and working out more, I just have to remember to work out more. Maybe I should put an Elliptical machine in front of the TV, that way to get the best view, you have to work out! Needless to say, I don't yet have that Elliptical machine...so I pounded the cookies and didn't work out as much as needed.

Results

Week 8 Day 3
Weight: A bunch of cookie dough
Calories eaten: 2074
Calories burned: -86
Net calories: 1988 (holy moly! yummy cookies)
Exercise: 2 dog walks (35 min)

December 22, 2009: Now the craziness of the last minute shopping continues

Yay! I'm almost done with all my shopping for the season. Next step decorations, baking and gift wrappin!

Results

Week 8 Day 2
Weight: Who cares! It's almost Christmas Day!
Calories eaten: 2183
Calories burned: -123
Net calories: 2060 (whoopsies...overboard)
Exercise: 2 dog walks (50 min)

December 21, 2009: Time for last minute holiday shopping!

In the last few days before Christmas it's time to finish up all holiday shoppings. This means long check out lines and lots of walking in between and in stores! At least I'll be able to get some calories burned while looking for things to buy.

Results

Week 8 Day 1 (two more weeks to go)
Weight: All scales were sold out at the stores!
Calories eaten: 1630
Calories burned: -98
Net calories: 1531
Exercise: 2 dog walks (40 min)

December 20, 2009: Heading back home, the snows has stopped!

What a nice white winter wonderland. And I'm happy that the roads are dry and clear and made the drive north home good and easy.

Results

Week 7 Day 7
Weight: You shouldn't weigh and drive. It's against the law.
Calories eaten: 1707
Calories burned: 0
Net Calories: 1707
Exercise: Driving a car, does that burn enough calories to lose weight?

December 19, 2009: A weekend in Athens!

I just love my college town. It was the best four years of my life. Great food, great friends, great bars...always nice to go back and visit. And...it has been snowing constantly non-stop continuously all day! While this makes the scenery look super pretty, makes it difficult to get a workout in. C'est La Vie!

Results

Week 7 Day 6
Weight: Je nes sais pas!
Calories eaten: 1519
Calories burned: 0
Net calories: 1519
Exercise: Just trying to keep warm in the cold, or burning up by the fireplace!

December 18, 2009: Day 1 in Ohio

It's nice to be home in Ohio. Makes it feel like the holidays. It is quite chilly here though.

Results

Week 7 Day 5
Weight: Forgot my scale in Colorado
Calories eaten: 1803
Calories burned: -175
Net calories: 1628
Exercise: 1 dog walk (25 min)
               1 mile run (12 min)

December 17, 2009: Traveling again!

Today begins the second round of hectic travels in December. This time Bella and I are flying. Tim couldn't find me a parking spot so I had to check the dog and me in for our flight. It was quite the sight, lots of suitcases and bags, me holding the leash and trying to build a kennel all at once! Luckily Bella is the best dog ever! I just set up her bed and she laid on it, constantly wagging her tails, while I built her travel kennel. The Frontier agent said she was better behaved than most children they let on the plane. As we proceeded  to security for the dog, the second Frontier agent said she remembers Bella from last year...I guess my dog flies too often if people are able to recognizer her!

Results

Week 7 Day 4
Weight: DIA has banned all scales for humans, they only weigh dogs and suit cases!
Calories eaten: 1791
Calories burned: -86
Net calories: 1705
Exercise: 2 dog walks (35 min)

December 16, 2009: Looking good...but I'd like to see some results now

In terms of traking my food, I've done a pretty good job. I'd give myself a solid B+ for effort. I'm glad my iPhone has a calorie tracker to help me out. However, I'm not seeing much of any results. Maybe I need the 20 week challenge or the boot camp version.

Results
Week 7 Day 3
Weight: I crushed the scale, and it broke.
Calories eaten: 1413
Calories burned: -212
Net calories: 1200 (looking good!)
Exercise: 1 dog walk (40 min)
               1 mile run (12 min)

December 15, 2009: The whirlwind continues...

I'm doing better at staying close to target for my calories and doing my best at squeezing in my exercising. I need to make exercising a priority to make sure it happens. It's just difficult, no on said it would be easy. It was easy back in the day (when mom did the cooking)...if I could only get back to that same high school body!

Results

Week 7 Day 2
Weight: I have banned scales from my house!
Calories eaten: 1714
Calories burned: -61
Net calories: 1652 (sooo close)
Exercise: 1 dog walk (25 min)

December 14, 2009: Only a few days before christmas break!

Well back to the grind in Colorado! Only 3 days until I head home to Ohio for the Holidays. These next few days will be hetic, kind of like the entire month of December. Luckily I have my pooch to remind me that she needs to be walked!

Results

Week 7 Day 1
Weight: Too busy to find out
Calories eaten: 1649
Calories burned: -225
Net Calories: 1424
Exercise: 1 dog walk (45 min)
               1 mile run (12 min)

December 11-13, 2009: Finishing up the trip to Texas...not keeping track

Things have gotten complicated with this traveling and apartment hunting....just makes it super busy and hard to stay on track. I expected this and haven't done a good job at avoiding it. So I didn't write down what I ate during this trip, but I can safely assume that I was over budget and under exercised.

Results

Week 6 Day 5
Weight: ???
Calories eaten: A lot
Calories burned: Not much
Net Calories: More than I needed
Exercise: Walking

Week 6 Day 6
Weight: ???
Calories eaten: A lot
Calories burned: Not much
Net Calories: More than I needed
Exercise: Walking

Week 6 Day 7
Weight: ???
Calories eaten: A lot
Calories burned: Not much
Net Calories: More than I needed
Exercise: Walking

December 10, 2009: Day 1 Apartment Hunting...and It doesn't look good!

I had a physical this morning.I think it went well. They will mail me the results once they get them. They also concluded I was drunk or high during the test. Then I moved on to searching for an apartment. I was ready to not take this job after viewing a few sets of apartments....they were worse than undergraduate conditions and super expensive! This could be a super hard transitions.

Results

Week 6 Day 4
Weight: Texas doesn't have scales...they sold them to Colorado
Calories eaten: 1930
Calories burned: 0
Net Calories: 1930
Exercise: Walking around apartments...but that doesn't really count.

December 9, 2009: The Begining of Travels

Today I take off to Texas to try to find a place to live. With all this upcoming travels, things could get quite complicated. I will try my best.

Results

Week 6 Day 3
Weight: No scale on the plane
Calories eaten: 2039
Calories burned: -230
Net Calories: 1809
Exercise: 1 dog walk (45 min)
               1 mile run (12 min)

Time to catch up!

Well I've gotten behind on my posts. I'll be catching up shortly.


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December 8, 2009: Last day walking doggies!

Today was my last day volunteering at the Longmont Humane Society walking doggies, and boy was it chilly! Around 10 F in the morning. Brrrr! I did get in my long walk with Bella, but no running again. With temperature between -10 and 10 F, I just don't think it's the best idea to try to run outside. How many calories can you burn by shivering? Hopefully next week we'll be back up in the 40s, more reasonable for running.

Results

Week 6 Day 2
Weight: Not going to tell you
Calories eaten: 1421
Calories burned: -155
Net Calories: 1266
Exercise: 2 dog walks (60 min)

December 7, 2009: 7 F

So today I was determined to get my run in....and then the high for the day became 7 F...needless today, no running for me. I was able to get two dog walks in, so that was good! I even went to the gym....hehehe...just to buy my boyfriend a membership, not to work out. ;)

Results

Week 6 Day 1
Weight: Scale is already packed for the move
Calories eaten: 1504
Calories burned: -129
Net calories: 1375
Exercise: 2 dog walks (50 min)

December 6, 2009: Oh the weather outside is frightful

It appears to me that Weeks 4 and 5 have not been so sucessful. Today it snowed all day and was around 10 F...a little too chilly and icy to be running. A gym would be a good options, but seeing as I'm moving in a month, there is no point in joining for 30 days, when I should be packing! I hope things start to improve.

Results

Week 5 Day 7
Weight: Tooo cold to measure.
Calories eaten: 1104
Calories burned: 0
Net calories: 1104
Exercise: Shivering

December 5, 2009: It surely is winter time.

Brrr....motivation is low. Things aren't happening as planned. I guess this is the slump in the challenge.

Results

Week 5 Day 6
Weight: Who wants to know
Calories eaten: 1583
Calories burned: -65
Net Calories: 1519
Exercise:  1 dog walk (25 min)

December 4, 2009: iPod battery low

It's amazing how easy it is to skip a workout when the batteries are low on your iPod. While it's not a valid excuse, I took it as a good enough reason to not go run on ice and freezing weather. Not the best move, but it's done and over with. I'm considering spending a week at the Biggest Loser ranch...

Results

Week 5 Day 5
Weight: hmmmm
Calories eaten: 1469
Calories burned: -129
Net calories: 1340
Exercise: 1 dog walk (50 min)

December 3, 2009: Brrrr...chilly

Well today we had a high of 17 F....too cold for a run. I was able to get a good long walk in with the dog, so that was good!

Results

Week 5 Day 4
Weight: I'm avoiding the scale
Calories eaten: 1818
Calorie burned: -116
Net Calories: 1702
Exercise: 1 dog walk (45 min)

December 2, 2009: On the roll again.

Looks like things are continuing to get better. My daily food in-take is back under control and I've been able to keep up with my exercising. The weather is getting chillier, which might make it harder to get my runs in (i.e. hard to breathe), but it shouldn't be a problem for the walks. I'm considering buying the Bodybugg system to keep track of calories burned (once I get a job), but I think I need more help keeping track of what I eat not burn.

Results

Week 5 Day 3
Weight: Not sure.
Calories eaten: 1741
Calories burned: -243
Net Calories: 1497
Exercise: 2 dog walks (50 min)
              1 mile run (12 min)

December 1, 2009: Getting back on track

I'm back home, getting back to my usual schedule. It will take time to make up for last weeks splurges, I hope I start seeing some results that I like sometime soon. It's approaching the half-way point of the challenge.

Results

Week 5 Day 2
Weight: Ugh!
Calories eaten: 1349
Calories burned: -243
Net calories: 1106
Exercise: 2 dog walks (50 min)
              1 mile run (12 min)

November 29-30, 2009: Long drive Part 2

We began our trek back to Colorado. It's hard to eat healthy when you are trying to stay awake and drive for 27 hrs straight. So I didn't do that well. Not to mention, it's hard to excercise in a truck. You might call it all excuses, which they are, however, sometimes life just doesn't let you have it easy.

Results

Week 4 Day 7
Weight: I'd rather not know
Calories eaten: 2463 (whoa Culver's!)
Calories burned: -26
Net Calories: 2437
Exercise: 1 dog walk (10 min)

Week 5 Day 1
Weight: I think the alititude adds 10 lbs.
Calories eaten: 1483 ( I probably underestimated...I was tired)
Calories burned: -65 (at least the more you weigh, the more you burn ;) )
Net calories: 1418
Exercise: 1 dog walk (25 min)

November 28, 2009: The aftermath

Well, Thanksgiving put a kink in things...eating is just so much fun. Looks like I went over board and I'm going to need to change that.

Results

Week 4 Day 6
Weight: I don't want to know
Calories eaten: 1964
Calories burned: -90
Net calories: 1873
Exercise: 2 dog walks (35 min)