July goal review

I may or may not have had bbq chicken pizza for breakfast.

Coffee and pizza –> who know? delicious together! What? You have never had that for breakfast?  

I am currently trying to decide if I should go to the gym today or wait until tomorrow to do the New Rules of Lifting workout. I am pretty sore and tired from teaching aerobics twice yesterday. I don’t want to ‘take it easy’ with weight lifting, I want to be able to give 100%. ..

What would you do?

With the beginning of August yesterday, I totally forgot to review my goals for July and make some new ones for August.

Thanks to Becca and her morning post for reminding me about goals!  

Here were my July goals. . .

Goals for July!

1. Continue to try new things: quinoa and spinach in smoothies!
Spinach – check. . . quinoa – not yet!
2. Longer weekly runs – at least one run per week over 5 miles – check! 7 miles last week!
3. Commit to Shred/strength training 3x/week
Better since starting New Rules of Lifting for Women!

And now. . .

August Goals

Continue New Rules of Lifting for Women (2-3 times per week)
Continue to do longer weekly runs – 14 miles around the Lake on Labor Day weekend!
Continue to try new things: This month: quinoa!
Another attempt at the perfect cupcake!

What are your goals for August???

I totally agree with Becca – I feel so much better when I have goals written down that I am working towards!

The New Rules of Lifting

Happy Tuesday! Hope you had a great Monday night, like I did. . .

Started off the morning with a hot caramel skim latte – sometimes the AC is so cold!  

My morning snack was awesomeness. . . toast with maple almond butter and nectarine slices! Don’t worry, the extra nectarine didn’t go to waste!

Before lunch, I headed to the YMCA to start on Stage 1 of The New Rules of Lifting for Women!

Today: Stage 1: Workout A.

I did a quick 10 minute warm-up on the elliptical and then got into it!

The workout consisted of 5 moves:

• squats
• pushups
• seated row
• step ups
• prone jack knife

Overall it went well. I worked up a pretty good sweat and felt like my muscles were tired at the end. I wasn’t too sure of my starting weight for each move, but I felt like I was challenging myself, so I think that is the important part.

I had forgotten how much I like to lift weights. . . Body pump will still be my all time favorite!

I’ll keep you posted with how The New Rules of Lifting for Women is going!

Lunch was more leftovers: pineapple brat, red new potatoes = both with lots of ketchup, cottage cheese and watermelon chunks.

Abby was being extra cute! (and annoyed I was taking pictures!)

Not much excitement during the rest of the day. . . Scott, Abby and I went on a hot and humid 4 mile run on the Red Jacket trail after work. Lots of watermelon was consumed afterwards!

And dinner: another summer staple: corn on the cob!

It was definitely the highlight of dinner!

During dinner we watched Tangled. The super cute Disney movie – have you seen it?

Off to watch a little move TV and then head to bed! Hope you had a great Tuesday.

What screams summer to you??? For me it is watermelon and corn on the cob! Love them.

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What a great morning! The heat and humidity has finally dropped a little. So happy.

My morning started off with a caramel skim latte. Hot again due to the AC.  

A quick trip to the grocery store to pick up provisions for this afternoon’s baking project.

Egg white salad open faced sandwich and a few cherries for a snack.

And an awesome 20! mile bike ride. . . one step closer to my summer goals.

It was a beautiful 75 degrees and partly cloudy.

Abby was happy to see me when I got home.

Scott was home for lunch and we made a quick run to the Pita Pit.

Chicken pita with tzatziki sauce and veggies. Accompanied by Garden salsa Sun chips (love that flavor) and finished with cherries.

Now off to tackle my afternoon baking project!!!