Perfect 10 Wk2

I took off the word verification and what do I get – a comment from William in the Happy post J (so I turned it back on again) - Thanks to everyone else that has been taking the time to comment – it truly is appreciated. I’m loving the support I am getting from all of you, it truly matters…

Thursday:

•  No time on the treadmill but I did walk outside for about 45 minutes. I’m going to work my butt off on the weekend.
• Food - ~ 1500 but it is hard to estimate as I had a Caesar salad (with Chicken) at the pub last night and I really don’t know how many calories are in it.
• No Alcohol J

Perfect 10 Week 2 Results:

Log my Food

I’m actually quite thankful that I am doing this. It has helped me determine that I am NOT eating enough and need to increase my calories. Because I kind of log it first thing in the morning, the stuff that I bring for the day, I know ahead of time how much I need to increase/decrease.

Lose 10 lbs

As of today I am down 3 lbs. But I have a goal starting tomorrow to not get back on the scale again until next Friday. This is going to be very hard for me to do so I must move the scale right out of the bathroom.

Exercise min 5x week

I did pretty good here. I did workout 6 days, but yesterday was only really just an outdoor walk. Since my hip hurt so much last Saturday, I didn’t walk on the treadmill. I rearranged my house for four hours but I’m not including that J I did make it to Yoga 3x and Walked 3x. It worked out to only 2.1 hours of Walking and 4.5 hours of Yoga.

Schedule 1 (ONE) Cheat day

My Saturday (9^th) was my cheat day but I really need to clean it up better. I will work on that this weekend. Otherwise, I have been right 100% on track all week. I’m proud of this.

Complete 1 "Modified" 7-day Total Cleanse

I’m getting closer to getting this scheduled. I am going to take a week in February and take it off of work and kind of have my own type of home retreat. Since I’m doing the hot yoga 3x a week, I will modify the Cleanse to include 7 sessions of hot yoga. It will be an interesting week to say the least.

As part of the challenge I have to tell you one thing you don’t know about me:

When we were in Little Cayman in 2008 we stayed at a resort that really catered to deep sea diving. We didn’t go there with that in mind, we went mostly for fishing the flats (which we did lots of). It was a very lovely place, and since I booked it kind of last minute, we ended up getting our own private cabin set away from all the other buildings, and for the same price as staying in one of the duplex’s. Anyway, I love to swim and while we were there I tried some snorkeling. I had issues with the fins at first because I didn’t feel in control (there’s that control thing again … stay tuned  it comes up again later), and really like to just swim with bare feet but I really needed to give them a chance so I did. I had an underwater camera and took as many pictures as I could of all the fish. Well a couple of days later, after sitting around the bar at the end of the day with all the daily divers, we decided to book in for a 2 hour pool training session and scheduled to do the dusk dive the same day. I managed well during the training in the pool, worked the fins very well. However I had a problem with flotation. I float… even when I wasn’t overweight, I floated. So he had to stick more weight on my belt to keep me at the bottom of the pool.  We passed and with trepidation I awaited the time to leave. At around 5:00 p.m., we went out with the dive master and a bunch of experienced divers and went out to a very nice and popular spot along the reef (I wish I could remember the name of it), and we went down 40 feet. I had some issues going down because again, I wasn’t in control. Thousands and thousands of pounds of water were in control of me. I was afraid and intimidated. Once I finally reached the bottom, I couldn’t stay down there, kept floating up. My dive master took weights from his belt and put them on mine and I was able to start floating horizontally. Once we went through our underwater testing (which I did well with but was scared shitless), we started to swim around. I wouldn’t let go of the dive master’s hand because I didn’t want to start floating up…. It was weird being a chicken like that. But what I saw down there was so peaceful and beautiful that it brought tears to my eyes. Which I immediately had to try to stop because there is nothing worse than having a runny nose wearing a diving mask 40 feet below water. It was a fantastic experience and one I would love to do again but after I have had proper training here in the city at some deep pool. Then get my certification at some tropical island. Certification here is in a mountain lake that you freeze your butt off in… no thank you.

I hope everyone else in the Perfect 10 Challenge had a successful week and that all of you have a FANTASTIC day!

Ttyl

Sandra