Big Fat Zero

I had a busy weekend but certainly didn’t take any time for me. I got an urgent text message on Friday morning asking to pick-up my grandson after school and keep him for the night. I have to drive about an hour or so from my work to go get him and then head back home. So right after work I headed straight out and picked him up. I hadn’t exercised on Friday as I was going to go to Yoga but this totally changed that plan. And that’s OK. I love having him around. I thought I’d go for a walk with him when we got home but he wore rubber boots rather than his shoes. His rubber boots are too small for his feet (as far as I’m concerned) and walking any distance would not have been good for him.  Turns out he has good running shoes but chooses to wear the rubber boots home from school as he doesn’t have to tie his shoe laces up. He’s already picking up a lazy trait (and he is only 7). So I decided that I’d take the night off from exercising.

Saturday, we got up and ate breakfast (and I showered) then we headed to the outdoor market to get some fresh veggies. I was planning on making mustard relish later in the day. So we picked up cucumbers, onions and red peppers. Of course, I grabbed other stuff as well and he had 3 honey sticks. He was extremely helpful as I needed green peppers and he went to the vendors himself and asked if they had any green peppers (all of them were out of green peppers). It was so cute as he was taking care of his Grandma and obviously isn’t shy (which is a really good thing I think). After that, I was to take him to his other grandparents for the rest of the day. And since I was close to the new Costco (they built one in this town outside of my city), I decided to take a look. Of course for me, that means buying stuff because really I still needed those green peppers (which turns out Costco didn’t have any either).

Well $400.00 later, I walked out with a FoodSaver device that will help with freezer burn and just overall storage of food (part of my HOT 100 goals is not to waste so much food). And we wanted one for all the goose/duck/pheasant breasts that Mr. Sandra has been bringing home. I also got a nice lovely jacket for the fall, Pjs for the grandson and then some other fresh veggies. I can never walk out of there with just what I went in for.

Then when I finally got home, it was 2:30 in the afternoon and I still had to go get those green onions. Mr. Sandra and YoungSon wanted to go to Walmart so we headed out to grab my peppers and a few other things. By the time we go home, I had a ton of veggies to cut up into small pieces to let it sit overnight. Dinner to make and so on. Can you see where I’m going with this? I didn’t exercise on Saturday either.

Sunday, I got up and cleaned jars, rinsed my veggies over and over again and let them drain, then headed out the door to go pick up my little granddaughter. My son and his GF were finally moving into their own place. They are still sharing a house with another couple but they are out of where they were living which was with her Mom. Now living with one’s Mom when you first have a baby is great as you have a lot of help and advice but it was time for them to get out and get on their own. So I watched little Lilyanna until about mid-afternoon when her other Grandma was going to take over. And during that time, I finished making my mustard relish and processed the jars. AND took a bunch of pictures of her – which I will have to post later as I don’t have my camera here at work.

I was actually free to do what I wanted at around 3:30 on Sunday. But guess what?? I didn’t exercise that day either because I still had a house to clean, laundry to do and put away and so on. So that’s three days in a row that I did not do any exercising. I’ve had to mark down in my 365 to 50 spreadsheet that I did ZERO exercising minutes. My goal is to do something every single day and for three days in a row, I sucked at it! J

So I’ve got to make up for that this week and put in some doubles. Yup, that’s what I’m going to do. Tonight is my strength training session so I’m going to add another 30 minute walk after . Tomorrow, I’m getting up at 4 and going to do an interval session on the treadmill along with lots of stretching. Knowing my PT she is going to work my legs tonight really hard and I will be sore tomorrow. So morning stretching will be a good thing to do. Wednesday night, I’ll be either going to YOGA or going for a long walk after work – not sure which yet as it depends on my work. Thursday will be a repeat of today and so on and so on…… not going to bore you with the details…..

Mr. Sandra is slowly getting into the habit of working out but he didn’t do much on Sunday or yesterday either. It hasn’t become something he enjoys yet but if I can get him interested in walking with me at night, then maybe he will change his mindset and start enjoying it. Besides it is getting dark out earlier now and having a man beside me walking is likely a better choice than walking alone.

Still working on eating right though (him, not me… I’m not having issues).

Well I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day!

Ttyl

Sandra