Future Motivational Speakers..

I was on the eliptical this morning and have been working on increasing both the incline and the resistance. I was up to 9 on both and was feeling it, when my 20 year old daughter walked into the room with her iPhone and played this adorable YouTube video for me. It was just what I needed to finish the workout! She had me laughing!! : (she and her roommates watched this over and over while studying for finals!)
Note: this is not my child..it's a Youtube video that went viral and the mom left up because it inspired so many people.


Then she showed me this one. This kid is going places! (same with this one..not my child :)



I had a wonderful Saturday. It blows my mind that it's JANUARY in New Hampshire and it was a *gorgeous*, sunny, 55 degree day. I actually got up early and hopped on the eliptical for 35 minutes. My husband agreed to take Emily to horseback and I went out to the woods for a 75 minute hike. The trail I chose today had several small hills (well, I guess it depends upon your definition of a hill. gradual inclines I guess?) I SO loved this. I could have kept going another 75 minutes except I had an appointment and had SO much water this morning that well, I just had to stop.

At this point I felt really good and energized. Stopped home for lunch and then was off and got to get my nails done. This evening I got my dinner at the Whole Foods Market salad bar. I came home and did another 30 minutes on the eliptical. I came in just shy of 1400 *good* calories today and got 2 hours 15 minutes of exercise today.

I've started using the LINK armband system by Bodymedia. It's kind of cool to see how many calories you've burned throughout the day. What is pissing me off is it did not detect the eliptical as "vigorous" activity. I busted my ass on that thing..twice today..and it's calling it "moderate"?? What the heck does it consider "vigorous"? I know my body pretty well and know when I'm working moderately or vigorously. I'll be interested to wear it running or when I'm at my kickboxing session. I realize it's just a tool and hopefully will be a decent source of info.

I had a LOT of good "clearing my head" time today and was able to calmly and peacefully think through a lot of things. I'm very grateful. Tomorrow is supposed to be another beautiful one! I am definitely hitting that trail again in the morning because I have some company coming over and let's just say I need to be very proactive with stress management tomorrow! :)