Swimming!

I have always loved to be in the water so today I decided that it was finally time to include water in my weight loss.  I first need to give a shout out to my friend Kendra at the gym who reads my blog!! It was nice seeing you today and thanks for weighing me!  I owe Kendra big time because she taught me about Basal metabolic rates and told me how they work which changed the direction of my diet.  I can eat more and lose more weight and it is just freaking awesome.  I saw her a couple of weeks ago and in that time between visits, I have lost 5 pounds!  I am so happy!!!!! Thanks Kendra, very helpful!  Today I had so much fun in the water.  I have realized that I am either a great big kid or at least I know how to have fun like a kid...it is one of the two I think.  I feel like a kid when I am in the water for some reason and that was what I was feeling today.  I started with some water aerobics and then swam some laps.  I must have looked like an idiot doing the aerobics I came up with but they worked and I hoped no one was looking under the water...LOL - I swam some laps and that really got my heart rate up so I know that was useful.  I am very buoyant for some reason so I can just lay on my back and do nothing and float with my face out of the water and my whole body in a line, crazy huh.  It is very relaxing.  After my laps, I went over to the water slide and I think that is where my inner kid came out.  I climbed the 3 stories to go down it with the intent of getting a workout and I sure did.  I climbed up 3 times and went down 3 times and it was sooooo fun!!  I can't imagine a funner thing than screaming down a water slide.  I guess that part of me will never grow up.  After spending 30 minutes in the water, I went up to run/walk a half a mile or 6 laps.  I alternated walking and running so I got 3 laps of each which felt sooo good!  I have noticed that my recovery after running is getting so much better and that makes me so happy!!  I was trying to do anaeorbic conditioning which makes you work hard and then recover in an effort to fool your body into burning more.  I will have to see how well I did with it on the scale this week.  I live by the greatest and best cooking neighbors ever and of course they brought grilled steak, hot dogs and homemade guac and salsa over tonight - diet be darned at that point, it was just too good to pass up.  I counted my calories after pigging out and I stood at 2125 for the whole day which is only slightly out of range.  I think I am still ok considering my good workout.  They also brought homemade empanadas which are just plain heaven and I had one of those too.  I need to get better at saying no LOL - but I can't when it comes to their food.  I am going to make them some banana bread tomorrow to get them back...hehe such fun!  I have said goodbye to 260, the 250s, the 240s and the 230s and that is such an overwhelmingly good feeling!!!! It is awesome!!! I was 210 when I got married so that big marker will feel so good when I get to it.  It is just amazing to be on this journey, not really a journey because it will have no destination.  It will be a lifelong endeavor but one of the most important I can work toward. Thanks for your support and love...see you on the scales!! Love you! xoxoxox