Family Camping & Exercising on Holidays

We had a great family weekend. There were 38 of us camping, 5 trailers and 7 tents. Lots of dogs for Katie to socialize with and she did fantastic. We looked like quite the little community with all our trailers in a C shape and all the tents behind. The river was too high, running too fast, and was pretty muddy so no swimming in it this year. Thursday night we weren’t too sure what the weather was going to be like as we had a fantastic lightening show for a couple of hours and then it rained through the night. Friday wasn’t too much better to wake up to, cloudy with some sprinkles and then later in the day it started to clear off and we had perfect weather. Hot and sunny for the next two days!

 

We had a HUGE water fight on Saturday with EVERYONE involved. It was a ton of fun! My grandson got right in there as he got to man one of the super soakers and was getting everyone wet. Once he got over the fact that they were going to get him wet back, he started to have a blast. It cooled us off really nice and everyone enjoyed it.

 

I ate OK all weekend. When the burgers came out, I had one without the bun and just a salad. It was all I felt like and I felt good afterwards too. Tummy didn’t get all yucky feeling. I can not eat pancakes and sausages though. I do not know what it is but something gives me a stomach ache. Not sure which culprit is giving it to me. I only had one of each though because I knew what it would do to me. You may ask yourself if I knew I wasn’t going to feel good after eating it, why did I eat it? Good question…. Because it tastes good is not a good enough answer but I have no other. It was a choice and I made it…. Got to figure out something to replace it when everyone else is eating it…. Mostly because I am the one making it for them. I ate mostly fruit for snacks because it was hot and I didn’t want to eat chips. Positive for me.

 

I walked Katie a couple of times a day for about 20-30 minutes each and other than running around in the water fight, didn’t get much more exercising done. I don’t go to my PT sessions this week as she is on vacation so I need to get my own plan together for tomorrow and Thursday night and go there and do my own thing. It’s really easy to just say “I’ll do it at home” and not go to the gym but if I do that, then something is going to come up and my plan will go south. So my plan for this week is to get out walking today, good ole Jillian Michaels Shred tomorrow morning, then to the gym after work to do the muscles I didn’t kill doing the shred. I’ll repeat that for Wednesday and Thursday.

 

Friday we are off for our two weeks of camping. I’ve got my little print outs of what workouts I am going to do with my bands and tubes so the key now is to make sure I do them at least 3 times a week. Otherwise, I will be doing a LOT of walking. I’ve only got 6 weeks left before I do the 100K walk in September and I want some endurance walking done before that. My daughter is coming camping with us and we plan on walking from the campground to the closest town and get Mr. Sandra to come pick us up if we need it. We plan on walking an hour out, hour back, then 2 hours out, 2 hours back, that sort of schedule. Work into 5-6 hours of walking. Problem is, is that it is kind of boring walking that long… but we need to do it. I guess that is why they call it a challenge.

 

I hope everyone is having a fantastic week!

Ttyl

Sandra