WOW — It’s Not You, It’s Us

Gather round, y’all; we need to have a little chat.

The past five months have been truly Awesome, but due to changing circumstances and schedules, Anna, Deidra, and I feel that it’s time for us to step down as leaders of Get active. Get AWESOME! Much as we have loved getting active and getting AWESOME, none of us has the time necessary to give GaGA the dedication and leadership it deserves. We will finish out the month of May, but that will be it for the three of us.

But! Just because we are short on time doesn’t mean GaGA has to come to an end. Would any of you awesome ladies be interested in taking over the operation? We’ll turn over this blog and the monday minutes email to anyone who wants it, and GaGA will be completely in your hands. I can’t speak for Anna and Deidra, but I know I would still love to participate in the challenge — just because I won’t be helping run the challenge any more doesn’t mean I’m going to stop being active. So if you’re interested, please leave a comment or send us an email!

If nobody is able to take over, thens May will be the last month of this exercise challenge. Of course we all hope that the challenge can continue in the coming months, but in case it doesn’t, we do have a back-up plan that will ensure that GaGA ends in the most Awesome way possible. So get as many awesome activity minutes in as you can next week and be sure to report them on Monday. I’ll post the Winners next Wednesday along with either an introduction of your new Awesome Leaders (hopefully!) or a final farewell.

Stay awesome, y’all!

–Audrey

WOW — Is it really Wednesday?

This week has been crazy busy for me, both at work and at home, and I find that I generally have no idea what day it is lately. I’m so scatterbrained that I actually sent out a work email requesting that elements of a design be moved from the left side of the page to the right side, only to have my boss come back and tell me, “No, it’s on the right side already. We want it moved to the left.” Nothing makes you feel quite as awesome as giving your boss the impression that you don’t know your left from your right.

You know what does make you feel awesome, though? Being uber productive at cleaning up your mess of a yard . . . and racking up a ton of activity minutes in the process! All the time I spent moving rocks last week, in addition to my normal weekly exercises, landed me in second place for the week.

And with that, let’s get on to the rankings.

In 5th place this week we have Suzanne, whose recent post on The Princess Bride made me wish I could skip work and spend some quality time with Wesley and Buttercup, with 385 minutes.

In 4th, Kat, who has some great recent additions on her art site, with 405. (You know the totals are high when the top 4 all have more than 400 minutes!)

In 3rd is the lovely OPH, whose last post had me craving garlic in a major way, with 445 minutes.

I landed myself in 2nd place with 545 hard-earned minutes.

And in 1st . . . y’all are not going to believe this number when I tell you, so brace yourselves . . . we have Heather with . . . are you ready? . . . 800 minutes! Holy guacamole! Heather says she’s been taking advantage of the nice weather with long hikes — lucky her! I think we may need a testimonial post from Heather, what do you think?

Congrats to everyone this week — everyone who reported in had very impressive totals. You are all incredibly awesome!

WOW – In Case You Didn’t Notice It’s Not Actually Wednesday

You’ll notice that it is not Wednesday.  In fact, it is almost Friday.  It is all my fault, all week long I’ve been one day behind.  I don’t want to keep you waiting any longer so I’ll make it short and sweet.

For the last week of April our top 5 were:

Erin – 225

OPH – 190

Heather – 150

Lindsey – 102

Kat and Me! – 90  (This is what happens when only 9 people send in minutes, I somehow manage to crack the top 5).

And for the entire month of April we have the following, from fifth to first:

Lindsey – 1237

Erin – 1395

Audrey – 1415

Kat - 1525

AND in first place for April is

OPH with 2245 minutes! 

Congrats!  We’ll be contacting you.

Flab to Fab – Maintaining

Wait, did I forget to mention that this is going to be a bi-weekly feature? No? Um, well I think it’s turning out that way.

I really, really wish I had great news to report, but unfortunately the scale has been stuck at 142 since my last weigh in. I seem to have weeks where I eat pretty well but don’t exercise or I get a lot of exercise and eat crap. Somehow I need to figure out how to do both simultaneously.

This week is a perfect example. I got decent workouts in four days in a row using the elliptical and hiking at the dog park. I even made a tasty stir fry for dinner on Monday night, but I also ate Chipotle on Wednesday and Wendy’s tonight. Ugh. I’ve been pretty lazy lately about cooking (as you can obviously tell) so this weekend I’m going to hit up the library for some healthy cookbooks and then do some major grocery shopping and meal planning on Sunday. If you have a favorite healthy recipe I’d love for you to share it! Also, healthy snack ideas would be great too.

Audrey had a down week too. Her dilemma? A freelance proofreading assignment that is taking up a lot of her evenings and weekends time leaving little time for her awesome husband Tim, let alone working out. I think we can all relate. Everyone is busy – how and when do you find the time to exercise? Tell us! Especially those of you GaGAs that seem to have huge numbers each week. Fortunately Audrey ate well this week so she maintained her number of 129.

Here’s to a productive and healthy week next week – or next two weeks!