{"id":3754,"date":"2011-11-24T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2011-11-24T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:28:02","slug":"thanksgiving-with-mel-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/11\/24\/thanksgiving-with-mel-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving with Mel B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a burr in my butt and decided to break out Mel B yesterday.  It has been a while; figured it was time to get off my lazy bum and get some exercise going in time to prevent catastrophic holiday weight gain.  Or what I like to think of as exercising so I can eat and drink my way through Thanksgiving, Disney, three more Falcons tailgates, Christmas, and of course New Years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thanksgiving<\/b><br \/>\nI started off with a nice 20 minute Fitness 20 workout, good for 147 calories, which was good for a boots to Level 60.  Fitness seems to be the hardest Mel B category for me to increase.  Having a few tracking Move issues (too much sunlight) was detrimental to earning a higher score.<\/p>\n<p>Before throwing some Thanksgiving ribs and burgers on the grill, I followed up with a quickie 15 minute Combat workout, good for 93 calories.  Tracking issues did me in on at least one exercise, preventing me for earning a higher rating.<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday<\/b><br \/>\nToday was my first time back with Mel B in weeks (months?), so I decided to go fairly easy.  One 15 minute Fitness workout, which was good for 124 calories, followed by a 15 minute Step workout, which burned off another 116 calories.<\/p>\n<p>Before I started, I weighed in at 174 lbs; the last weight Mel B had on record was 176 lbs, so I feel good that I am not a total nincompoop.<\/p>\n<p><b>Future Days \u2026<\/b><br \/>\nI\u2019ll be at Disney this time next week, so my relationship with Mel B is going to be short lived; at least it will be start, stop, start, over the next 2-3 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m off my rocker, but I want to Trophy whore Mel B.  I\u2019m going after some of the repetition Trophies.  I would like to earn some of the <em>\u2018Complete 20 xyz exercises\u2019<\/em> Trophies before the end of 2011.  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