Where does the time go? I've been meaning to update this, and, of course, haven't. It's been a good five days, so I'm not sure why I've avoided writing here.

A recap: Friday - went to the gym in the morning for my elliptical workout. Felt good, pushed myself hard and had a great workout. That evening, instead of going out to the bar with my colleagues I went home to do my scheduled toning/yoga/cardio hour of exercise. And it felt fantastic. I've never chosen working out over a night at the bar, but I'm so glad I did. I needed to destress after the week I had last week.

Saturday I slept in so I missed my WW meeting. So I don't have an official weigh in for last week, but according to my home scales I'm down 50lbs even. wahoo. but I'll wait for the official word as I know my scales at home are notoriously innacurate (although, usually on the more heavy side than the less heavy...) I felt a little bad about missing the meeting, but I know I'll survive :) I also did the 3 mile WATP video in the afternoon. Finally - weekend exercise!

Sunday I did a quick 20 minute 1 mile WATP video before rushing out to accomplish all the shopping/cleaning we had to do to get ready to have Mike's parents over. But we got everything done in time, and I even got to sneak in a bubble bath. I'm loving bubble baths of late...

Monday, I did the elliptical in the morning (over 4800 steps! highest number yet in 33 minutes) and it felt, as always, faboo! Then monday night I did 20mins WW cardio dance video and the 20 mins upper body Kathy Smith Weights video. I really don't like her, but the WW toning video is too easy. And I need my arms looking good by August.

Today I woke up late again so I'm doing the 3 mile WATP video and the Yoga for Abs video tonight when I get home. Mike's at the theatre so I have the house to myself. I also have a bubble bath planned. Candles and music and all. mmmmmmm, decadance. :)

Today I managed to drag my butt out of bed and do the WATP Walk and Jog DVD with a fair bit of energy and some requisite enthusiasm. It wasn't horrible, by far. And it was much better than Tuesday morning when I attempted and failed to complete a 20 minute WW workout. (potential TMI alert: I was having the kind of cramps that radiate down into your upper thighs turning them into jello. So it made working out very difficult. And I'd been having cramps for days by that point. In fact, I'm still having cramps. And I'm beginning to think the pain 'down there' isn't so much cramps as something kidney related, or something else. eeep. Because this is day 5 of crampwatch. And the period is pretty much finished... There shouldn't be pain if the bleeding has stopped. And pain makes me cranky. God help me if ever I have real serious chronic pain. They might as well put me out to pasture...)

Anyway, Wednesday I was still feeling crappy and couldn't face the commute into work, so I decided to work from home (I need to do that more often - sleeping in AND time to do a post-work workout. This coming into the office to work is pretty much unnecessary...) I stayed in my pjs all day but still managed to do the 2-Mile WATP and the WW toning/strength video in the evening. In between running up to the kitchen to make/check on dinner. Fun! But it felt faboo.

So this exercise thing? It's pretty much engrained now. Which is great - where I want it to be. Now I just need to focus on the chocolate consumption. Because it's high. And really much higher than it should be...Much higher than is probably healthy considering my tendancies towards insulin resistance... And even though I know what it does to me, why it's bad for me, all of that, I still eat it... I love it, I don't want to deny myself chocolate and sugar indefinately, but I need to find a happy medium. And if I can't, then I have to consider that I may not be able to eat chocolate much anymore...

Yeah, like that's gonna happen...

Friday I did a different setting on the eliptical - but it didn't feel as hard or as good as the usual weightloss setting.

I didn't manage to do anything athletic really on the weekend, so today I added the evening workout to my day. I did the 33min weight loss course on the eliptical at the gym this morning and then tonight I did the 1 mile WATP, the WW strength training video and the Abs in 10. It was good - it helped my headache and my cramps.

So, my exercise is going well, but my eating? not so much... Lots of chocolate... I know part of it is the time of year - I'm self-medicating somewhat to get past the grey, winter blahs. chocolate makes me happy, hence I eat them. But at the same time I know that really, the chocolate isn't helping anything. it's only a temporary happiness. I don't understand why I have so much trouble breaking the chocolate habit...

I did another evening workout yesterday on top of the 33 mins on the eliptical at the gym yesterday morning. I got home tired, cranky and feeling gross (as there was, yet again, chocolate at the office. Why can't I resist chocolate?) but forced myself into my workout wear and trudged downstairs to the basement to do the Cardio dance video, the strength training video and the abs in 10 video. Three videos - 50+ minutes of exercise. I felt friggin' fantastic when it was all done :) I'm soooo adding exercise when I get home from stressful/bad eating days at work. It made the evening that much better. Seriously. The only negative is that it was 8 p.m. by the time I was done. Mike wasn't home last night, so I didn't have him waiting to watch tv or eat because I was working out, but on nights when he's home, this might be harder to do. We'll see...