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Good afternoon,
Yesterday was a decent day to be at the gym.  Except for the weather.  About 4-5 inches came down overnight.  I walked out and yelled/screamed in the driveway. Brushed my car and plowed out of there.  I went about 10:10am in the morning on Sunday.  I immediately went on the eliptical machine.  I need to figure out what I can do to make it more interesting and stay on the manual level.  What I did was I counted the dots.  This is what I did,  stayed on level 1, grade 1 for 3 dots, when it hit the 4th dot, I went up to Grade 3, grade 2 for 3 dots,  4th dot after that, grade 5, level 4 for 3 dots, 4th dot after that, I went to grade 7 level 5.  From there I went back down.  it was even by the time I was at the last 2 minutes of the workout.  I did an up/down method of the eliptical.  1 more week of 20 minute eliptical then on 3/21, I start doing 25 minutes.  I got on the treadmill and did my 30 minutes.  I did something similar to the eliptical but didn't change the grade but increased the speed.  I also started at the odd #  (3.3, 3.5, 3.6, 3.5, 3.3) I did extra 2 minutes at the top speed - so at 3.7 I did about 8 minutes.  On 3/21, I do 35 minute treadmill. 
Overall, it was a great workout and felt I got a lot accomplished.  Feeling good today.  Hopefully my back won't bother me.  I have to be careful with the ibruprofen due to my kidney disease process. 
I didn't increase the progress slider this week because I haven't started the biggest loser diet yet with the other hospital personnel.  No news about it yet, everyone keeps asking.  Not until april. 
I did manage to lose a 1 pound.  190!!  thats alittle bit of progress.  Any little thing helps.  I have been working on eating better by eating some fruits and veggies.  Having a 2pm fruit snack.  I bought those little mandarin oranges containers by delmonte that only has water in it.  Yumm...thats really good.  also, for dinner on Sat I made a chicken slovacki salad.  That was good too.  Trying to find fun things to eat, its not easy.
I will be checking in again on Wed.