I have definitely moved into a whole new league with my workouts. Yesterday, after work, I did 3 solid hours of cardio at the gym. 1 hour on the bike, 1 hour on the treadmill, and 1 hour rowing. Only stopping to switch machines after each hour.

People are asking me how I could do it for that long. Honestly, I think most people could do 3 hours of exercise like that. You hear about people in the news that get stranded out in a forest or in the snow and they walk for hours and hours. You can do it regardless of the shape you are in. It's all in your head. It did make it a lot easier that I work out as much as I do. I have been building up my duration on each machine to where I knew I could do an hour on each of those machines because I had already been doing it. So, I just combined 3 machines together. They all used different muscles so I'm not really that sore today.

I became very aware of how far I can push my body last year when I ran the Wharf to Wharf without training for it. When I did run at the gym, it was for maybe 10-15 minutes and it wasn't often. But I just showed up and ran 6.2 miles. Well, I did walk when the nausea set in until it would pass and then run again.

Last night, I purposely did not eat dinner but I was thinking about what I ate during the day and realized I think I just barely reached 1000 calories. And I burned just over 1000 calories in my 3 hour workout. Plus the 45 minutes at lunch. So, that's not good. I know you're supposed to burn more than you take in but I know 1000 is too low if I'm working out that much. Plus, I didn't have a lot of carbs.

Guess what guys!!!

In the Biggest Loser Challenge, last week's results from Monday's weigh ins were posted in the paper and I'm in the top 5 women for total percentage lost from the beginning of the contest! I've lost 3.675% of my total body weight so far.

I weighed myself today in the locker room (they use the same scale for the weigh ins) and I've already lost 2 more pounds since Monday. So, if I can lose another pound or 2 by Monday, I'll be really happy. Still, 2 pounds is good. I really wanted to lose 20 by Cabo, but I guess I shouldn't push it.

I know I need to increase my calorie intake. Some days it's okay but most days I'm still doing about 800-1000 calories. I know I never get up to 1400 anymore. I am burning about half of that (the 800-100) in my daily workouts so it seems to be balancing out. If I increase my calories to a steady 1200 a day I should make myself work out an extra session each day to make up for it. I'm getting the nutrients because I drink my protein shake every morning.

The great added bonus is that people are constantly telling what a huge difference they see and how great I look. I had a meeting this morning with one of my clients I haven't seen for about a year and he was telling me how he could really tell I'd lost weight and that I look great. :)