Our First Fitness Group...

...was a total success!

Thanks to those who came!
I got a lot of good feedback from nearly all of you! I hope that you enjoyed working out with other friends and that you feel the slight burn tomorrow! {Please let me know and others know by commenting if you came!} You all pushed yourselves hard and that's what I wanted. That's what makes me smile. Next week feel free to bring a friend if you want so we can completely fill up. We had about half a dozen tonight and I know more are coming next week for sure! None of you'd better flake on me... speaking of...

MEESA!!
I'm calling you out! Where were you!? I'd better see you next Tuesday!
PS- Tiera says that she misses your guts too!

So, for all those who are interested you are more than welcome to come join. Just shoot me a comment, text message, e-mail {tomkinsontraining@gmail.com}, or phone call so I can get a head count. I would love to see you all and I'm not kidding either! This is just a fun, free way to get together and work out.

See you all in one week!

Update!

This past Saturday my husband and I went trail running.
We got a late start (10:30am) and got worn out quickly from the heat. I'm glad I have a husband to run with though, because he keeps me going and vice-versa {I don't think I really pushed him too much though}. We finished our run about 11:40am.
It was one fun, but difficult run. Next time we go, we definitely need to go out earlier. The whole heat thing just sucked the energy out of me. I'm guessing we did about 3.5-4 miles total. (I walked some, we did lots of small hills and one really big one, and stopped to get stuff out of shoes once or twice.) I think my husband called the trail "Bobcat" trail although I never saw a sign that said "Bobcat" trail anywhere. That's another reason I am glad he came... navigation.

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I'm going to be doing a training class on Tuesday nights at my house/yard (initially). Tomorrow's will begin at 6pm and end at 7pm promptly. If you want to come and do a weekly weigh-in, arrive a few minutes early so we can get started on-time and make the most of our full hour. I plan on working ya good! Text, e-mail, or message me if you want to come and/or need directions. This is a free class for the time being as well! :) Just come ready to push yourself and do your personal best.

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Thanks for the encouragement I get from everyone and for checking up on me. I do enjoy the verbal affirmations I hear, even though the rest of the blogging world doesn't hear it. Thank you family, friends, and visitors for keeping me heading in the right direction.

Personal Weigh-In: 133.6lbs.
(Not much change so far... pretty consistent still. I need to get a move on with it!)

Back to it

I finally got to go running again last night. I haven't ran for-ev-ver!
I ran with two good friends in my ward. I loved it.

It was the first time I didn't run with an MP3 player, timer, heart rate monitor, or my do-dah that tells me how far I go and my pace. {Yeah, I usually run with all of those!}
No machines, just my body moving.

I just kept running and ended up going a little over 5 miles! (One of my running partners figured that out.) For the first time out running in several weeks, that's not bad at all.

It just felt good to run uninhibited and just listen to my body; my body and the sounds around me. My mind was able to get lost in thoughts. It may have just been because I haven't done it in so long, but running is definitely something I can't live without for too long.

No sore knees today either. I think I'm just going to get my shoe inserts re-done. {8 years are a bit long to go on the same foot-molded inserts.} I've got one sore toe-nail, that's it.

I'm back to it and have never felt better.

Heroes makes me fat

You heard me. Heroes (awesome NBC show on Monday nights) totally makes me fat.

I know you are skeptical but it is true!

I think I have finally made a break thru on my fatness.
(I italicized it to make it look pretty -that is how I deal with being 30 lbs over weight!)

It is time to connect the dots.

Why am I so lame at watching my calories? I do great all day then about 3pm, I just lose it. I totally eat whatever I can get my hands on and I don't even feel that hungry!?! I think I might have figured it out.
I was really awful on Tuesday. So I decided to stop and think about it. I was totally exhausted on Tuesday because I had stayed up late to watch one of my favorite shows Premire night episodes. (It was so good. I love Heroes!) So when I woke up the next morning at 2am (yes you read that correctly) I had a really hard time. Well next thing I know I am eating my way thru the day. (I did eat salad instead of cereal one time in effort to do better but by evening I wasn't even trying anymore).

My body needed the energy

because I had not taken care of it. By staying up late I had not given my body the chance to recharge so it required more fuel. (read: chocolate)

I KNOW that watching calories is 80% of weight loss. I need to have more will power
OR maybe it is time to think outside of the box.
To not just feel discouraged and disappointed with myself.
But actually DO something about it. Make some changes.

Connect the dots

Staying up late makes you fat!!

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healty and wealthy and wise.
(read: DUH!!!) Obviously I have heard this before but never really internalized it (or just needed to be reminded.)

*Only getting 4 hours of sleep means
*YOU ARE GOING TO BE SLEEPY!
*Which means your body will tell you EAT
*which means the three pounds you lost last week from working your booty off in aerobics was all in VAIN!

Those are the dots they are connected.

I am so glad for DVR. My new weightloss weapon!

Day 12, 13, & 14

Day 12- Legs & Back and Ab Ripper X
Day 13- Didn't do... I know I'm a slacker.
Day 14- Rest/Stretch Day

Legs & Back was done in the evening and I didn't use any weights because I was in a hurry to get it done, sad as that sounds. Also I'm going to be making a few changes to benefit me more.

I had to take an extra day off because I'm getting a bit too overwhelmed between Graduate school and forcing myself to do an hour+ of working out everyday. I may back down a bit with P90X and do it only every other day and incorporate more of the YMCA, running, etc. into my workouts to relieve more stress for me. (I need to start running somehow again... it's my release.)

In addition to that, I really want to do my training again with a few of my friends. We are going to be doing a workout/circuit group on Tuesday Nights. I'm excited for this. I can only do so much working out in one day and shouldn't dread it. If it is bringing me more stress than joy, I need to step back. I still plan on working out intensely daily, but I just want to do what I WANT TO DO each day. Is that bad?

I also want to begin just eating "clean". My sister in law is great with this, but I have a much harder time at it. No preservatives, food colorings, additives, etc. to foods. I eat like this most of the time anyway, but I need to do it regularly.

I'm continuously improving and working to be better each day! I can do this!

Oh- and I forgot to weigh in this morning... I'm ok with that though. Ha ha!

The Official Day 1

Hello all, I didn't realize how nerve racking this really is. Ok I have a short term goal...its to fit into my older sister's wedding dress. Not a good picture of it I know, but you get the point. My husband and I will be taking wedding pics so I don't really want to look at those a couple years from now and be like "YIKES!" My eventual goal is just to change my eating habits and daily habits. A couple months ago, my mom was diagnosed with diabetes, which put me in a scare but even worse that it comes from both sides of my family. So, I really want to avoid all of that. I just don't want to living my entire life regretting that "if I would have just exercised when I was younger." So my plan is to eat healthy, be active, and motivate those around me!

Expanding the Blog

I decided to add some new authors to help them with motivation and accountability.
They'll be introducing themselves soon I'm sure!

If you want to be added as an author..
(Leah? Mom? Kathe? Holly?... anyone else?)
just let me know
{via e-mail: TomkinsonTraining@gmail.com
or commenting}
and I'll add you.

Remember to keep the posts on here fitness, exercise, nutrition, progress, etc. related.
It's not a personal/family blog {although I'll add links for those if you want too}, but a blog to keep us focused and motivated!

ALSO...
make the label for your posts your name/nickname {the same for every one} so that all your posts can be reached by one click on the link.


Here we go team!