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MHLAS #7

Well it is time for me to do my update for the Long Hot Active Summer Challenge and I must be quite honest here and say I do not want to do this because I have nothing to report.

My weight today is: 183.2
I lost/gained (start 181.9 - last week 183.5)   -.3lbs (+1.3 from start)
Minutes exercised June 16-22nd: 0 Yup you are reading that right. A big fat ZERO!

I started out last Wed/Thu/Friday not exercising due to whatever excuse I had last week. Then the weekend of camping came along, and other than strolling through the streets of the town were were staying in, and playing badminton, walking the dogs, I did NO exercising. Then come Monday I started to feel sick. I had full intentions of going to Hot Yoga after work but during the afternoon I started to not feel so good. It slowly hit me like a ton of bricks overnight and yesterday I spent the entire day in bed. And I am not exaggerating there. I know I'm sick when I sleep that much. But today I feel much better for it.

Camping was a LOT of fun.We went to a campsite that was actually on the edge of this small town east of my big city. About 2 hours away. Why the folks we were camping with picked this campground, I don't know but it had full service and I was happy about that. When you have a 7 year old who easily gets bored, having electricity helps. We camped in four spots quite close to each other, almost like a wagon circle, and were able to have all our tables together in between us all. There was a small playground quite close and I could let little Aiden go off on his own and I could still keep an eye on him. He made friends with a little girl that was camping right beside the park.  Our friends had a 9 and 12 yr old, so Cody (who is 11) had someone to hang with as well. The two older boys were hardly seen most of the weekend because they were off in the woods building forts and climbing trees.

Little Aiden was coughing a lot on Saturday and didn't look all that good. I got him some cough medicine and by Sunday morning he was much better. Because he wasn't feeling so good, Saturday night he wanted to just watch a movie and go to bed. Hence - electricity is nice.....

It was a very nice weekend as all four of us had never camped together before and we all got along quite well and have similar camping habits. They all had dogs as well, and little Katie and one of the dogs were best friends. We let them off leash a LOT and they played and rough housed around a lot. It was a great experience for Katie and getting her more socialized. She was one tired pup come Sunday night.

AND the weather was finally nice. After having a full week of rain, it was nice that it smartened up for the weekend.

As for me being sick, I'm now assuming that whatever Aiden had on Saturday I caught as well only I got it worse. My lungs were on fire yesterday, and as soon as it started to break up, it felt much better. It was extremely painful.  But I am better today.

I am leaving tomorrow night to go camping again, but this time out in the country, where there is no service. Not even any cell phone service. And we will be there for 10 days. I was saying to Mr. Sandra the other day that I don't think I will ever have one weekend this summer where it is just the two of us in that trailer and I'm kind of sad about that.  This weekend we have my daughter coming, she will sleep in her own tent, Cody (the 11yr old) who will sleep in the trailer, Mr. Sandra's son and his girlfriend from Japan - normally they sleep in the trailer but her father is here from Japan and so he will also be coming and will be staying in the trailer. Fortunately most of these folks will be gone by Tuesday so other than the Code Man, it will be less work for me.

As for exercising, I plan on walking every day. Can't walk far as this campground is in our foothills area along a trunk road and there are all kinds of wildlife out there. And I don't think it is all that safe for a woman to walk along a country gravel road in the middle of no where. You could disappear and no one would know which direction. So I know a complete walk around the campground, in a figure eight path, is about 1.25 miles. So I'll do that several times a day and get the mileage in. Parts of it are quite steep hills so it will add a bit of cardio in there. And I have bands in my trailer so I plan on getting in some strength training as well. I can't go 10 days without more exercising or I will be in trouble.

Because of the above, I will not be able to post any updates for the MHLAS challenge next Wednesday. But I will update as soon as I get back.
I hope everyone has a FANTASTIC day!
xxoo
Sandra

Lack of Exercising

I have not exercised for the last 3 days. Quite honestly I feel like crap. It is amazing how it affects how one feels when they stop exercising. I’ve been eating pretty good – well except last night at my step-daughters bridal shower I did have some lasagna, Caesar salad AND ½ piece of cheese cake from Costco. I do like cheese cake and only have it on special occasions…. And it must be very special. Anyway, I’ve had 3 late nights this week and getting up in the morning has been next to impossible. And I am so busy during the day that I can’t get out for a walk at lunch. I know it is only a kink in my routine but I still don’t like it and I don’t like how I feel.

Tonight we are rushing out of town again to go camping with some of my co-workers. There are four trailers in all and I am bringing along my grandson Aiden and of course we have Mr. Sandra’s youngest boy (who is 11). It looks like it will finally stop raining here in time for the weekend again so I am hoping we have a nice dry camping trip. Otherwise, I’m bringing videos for Aiden to watch in case he gets miserable… which he rarely does but he does get bored.

I’ve never been to where we are camping, my co-workers picked it and two of them left yesterday. I think it is a campground right inside a small town. Which means I will likely get lots of walking in this weekend.  I’m pretty positive these folks are not big drinkers and a lot more active than last weekend’s crew so I’m pretty sure I will get lots of exercising in.

This place is also about an hour and half away from a small town I grew up in and where my 97yr old Grandmother is still living. I plan on taking a couple of hours out of tomorrow to go to see her. I can’t get that close to her and not go visit. They put her in an assisted living quarters last year and I had visited her shortly after and she wasn’t happy about being there. She had lived in her home, alone for many many years – my grandfather passed away in 1980 or so, so she lived alone for almost 30 years. But it was time to move her out of her home for her safety and it turns out that she is much happier now and thriving. I think the company has done her good. We had a family wedding there while I was away in Mazatlan but my sister visited and gave me the scoop. Plus I’ve been talking with my family that still lives there in that town over the last year getting updates on how she has been doing.

Last night at the bridal shower, I got a chance to meet Rachael’s future MIL and all I can say is I really like that lady and her friends. They were very welcoming. My situation with Rachael and her upcoming wedding is a bit touchy and not normal. These people made me feel right at home and like one of the family. In fact, I was asked to sit with one of the couples during the ceremony as I am not welcome on the bride’s side.  I’ve kind of touched on my family drama in past posts and unfortunately it hasn’t gone away after all these years. However, Rach has only one month left until her wedding, she is extremely happy and excited and last night I realized how much I have been missing out because of the situation with her father. I really felt sad that I wasn’t more involved but oh so happy for her relationship with her future MIL as that lady will  and has been taking care of her.

I also met a lady and her daughter that are doing the Kidney March in September (well the Mother is walking). They had a very personal reason for meeting this challenge. The Mother gave one of her kidney’s to her daughter 2 years ago and she is doing great. The daughter is 8 now and looks healthy and very happy. We chatted about how much training we haven’t been doing because of all the rain around here, and how much both of us were looking forward to the walk. It was very nice to get to know someone personally that my fundraising is going to help.

Well I’ve yak’d enough for today, I hope you all have a FANTASTIC weekend!

Ttyl

Sandra

MLHAS #6

I can’t believe it is week 6 already since we started the Long Hot Active Summer Challenge. Time flies by when you keep busy J

So here are the stats (and I’m not happy but not surprised either).

My Weight today is: 183.5

I lost/gained (start 181.9 – last week 182.0)                      +1.5lbs (+1.6 from Start)

Minutes exercised  June 9^th -15^th:  445 (325 quality, 120 Walking)

I can do much better in the exercising department and this is what this entire challenge is for me. To keep my exercise minutes up high for the entire summer. High as in intense quality exercising, not just the walking. I’m not as worried about my weight, as long as it doesn’t go above +5lbs, but I MUST keep exercising. Maintaining is one thing but if I stop exercising then that number on the scale will increase and I can’t allow that to happen this summer. Besides, I feel so much better during and after I exercise.

Lately though, I haven’t been able to do as much as I have wanted to and quite honestly, at 4:00 in the morning (this week especially) when that alarm goes off, I can’t seem to drag this lazy butt out of the bed to get downstairs and do something vigorous. It sucks really. I feel like I need a “sick” day. A day where I can get a good full 8 hours of sleep and wake when my body feels like it. No disturbance at all. All this week, Mr. Sandra has made sleeping peacefully very difficult. He is constantly coughing (he is a smoker), snores extremely loudly or bounces around. Not sure what’s up with him but he is not making it easy to get enough good quality rest these days. He doesn’t have to work, he is retired and can sleep as long as he wants.  I’m just plain tired.

Last night, during my personal training session, she worked my legs again. I’ve decided that my legs are pretty weak. I thought they were strong, but I was wrong. They are just largeJ. By the end of the hour, I could hardly walk down the stairs, I felt like I had jello legs. So when we were done, I got back on the treadmill and walked at an incline, slowly (3.2) for 30 more minutes. My goal is to not get too sore so I like to walk the lactic acid out of my system before stopping and getting into my vehicle. Once I sit, and it pools in my legs, then I’ll be toast. With walking right after, I’ve been good lately and not gotten too sore. However, we will see around 5:00p.m. tonight on how that theory goes.

I hope everyone has a FANTASTIC DAY! And Good luck to all the LHAS challengers!

Ttyl

Sandra

Camping fun

I am amazed to see that I have 100 readers now. I still remember when I got my first follower, I just about freaked. Now I love it! – Thanks to you all and welcome to my new followers. I am not I write anything really insightful or worth reading but I truly appreciate everyone’s comments and helpful tips. Lately I hate not being about to blog as much as I would like to. However, I do like being very busy at work. Sometimes it cuts into my exercising time. I haven’t been able to go for walks at lunch (weather has something to do with it as well) and a couple of times now it is has been hard to get out of the office on time to get either to Hot Yoga or I’m pushing late for the Personal Training session. But it is what it is, and I’m working through it.

Again I think summer and camping is going to make losing weight a really hard thing for me. Every summer I maintain, and I really was hoping that this summer would be different. On Friday, I made it out to the campground just before my family because they did manage to spend all afternoon vacuuming and steam cleaning our trailer. I Hate MICE!  How they get it, I have no clue.  Last year I stuffed every crevice I could find with steel wool but they are smarter than me and have found another one that I haven’t found yet. When we got the trailer un-hooked and I directed the outside chores, all I had to do inside was put away everything in the bins and the groceries I had brought. It was much nicer than I anticipated.  Usually when we get to a campsite I’m so busy cleaning and putting things away, I get a bit crabby because everyone else is sitting around visiting. Not this time.

Mr. Sandra even came in a couple of times over the weekend and asked what he could do to help me so that I would go outside and relax instead of being inside and putting things away. 99% of the time I do everything by myself because I know where everything should go and I have my methods. If anyone helps me, I spend more time directing than just getting things done (I’m a bit of a control freak too I think). So it may have taken a couple of hours throughout the weekend to get it all put away but I did, and still was able to hang out. Hanging out to them is to just sit around and drink or snoozing. I like to keep busy doing stuff and when I am ready to do so, I’ll grab a book and sit in the sun and read.  

This particular campground is full of seasonal people. Just after my Dad passed, my Mom and I found this place to pull her trailer to and park it. Neither one of us wanted to pull the trailer around without my Dad, so we found a permanent home for it. She kept going there right up until she passed away. Her trailer is still there today and being used. Not in the same lot we had, but it is still there. The people that were camped beside us, came over the very first day and introduced themselves and we have been very close friends ever since. That was almost 20 years ago. It was her birthday this weekend and we have celebrated her birthday quite a bit over the years drinking our faces off. Now that we are older, things have changed and I don’t get out there as much (and the boozing is quite a bit less). But what staying at this campground is a lot of fun for me because I do know quite a few people and it is fun to get together and play games. Which is what we did Saturday afternoon. We played Washoes for a couple of tournaments. What the link shows is not exactly like the pits we were playing with but you get the idea.There were about 30 people playing or so and each of us brought something for a snack (we call it “Happy Hour”).

My concern here is that I still drank a lot on the weekend because a) I was very stressed at work on Thursday about something that greatly upset me. AND b) I was visiting with people I hadn’t seen in about 2 years, therefore Friday night, I had way too much to drink. Which meant Saturday I felt horrible. I didn’t want to exercise at all. I had great intentions of walking for a couple of hours, but all I managed to do was a couple of 30 minute walks with the dog. She got a lot of exercising swimming because we were fortunate to camp beside the lake and she got to retrieve a lot of dummies. But I did not. I’d say over the entire weekend, I walked 4 times for about 30 minutes each time– that’s it! I have to improve on this big time. To be fair to myself this was the very first weekend of camping for me and not all are going to be like this. 90% of them are much more active (fishing, walking) and less socializing.

But I still have to re-focus my little brain and decide what is going to be more important. I also need to find a way to have “fun” without drinking beer. I know a lot of you are probably shaking your head at me because you don’t drink and don’t see how this could be an issue but for me it is. When I get bored, I want to drink, when I visit with friends I haven’t seen in some time, I want to drink. Ok, even if I just saw them last weekend and we are visiting again, I could manage a beer or two. I’m a social drinker.  Summers equal lots of socializing. Therefore I have to fix this.

Well that’s all the news for today. I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day!

Ttyl

Sandra

Emotions

I had a rough day yesterday. I got to work at 6:30 and by 6:45 it started to go downhill. And at 8:00 something happened that upset me quite a bit. Probably more than it should have but it did and I couldn’t let it go. There may have been a bit of PMS’ng yesterday as well (without the M mind you) and that could be why I was set off so deeply.

And the thing I wanted the most was a bag of chips. Crunchy, salty, fatty bag of potato chips. I didn’t have any of course but that desire was there. I tried to analyze it but I didn’t come up with anything. I wanted comfort and chips are obviously my comfort. Fortunately I was at work with no easy access to any potato chips but had I been at home and there were chips there, I am unsure what would have happened. OKAY I KNOW I would have dug right into them.

I was also late getting to my strength training session (because of the load at work) and was rushed getting ready. I couldn’t do my pre-20 minute Arc Trainer warm-up so I had to do a quickie on the elliptical. Then she worked the heck out of my arms. I’m pretty sure I am going to be sore tonight. I’m a delayed 24 hour muscle soreness type of gal and around 5:30 tonight, if I am going to get sore, then that’s the time it will start showing up. I did get on the Arc Trainer for 20 after, and then another 30 on the treadmill doing a hill workout.

But even during my workouts, I couldn’t let my earlier day “crap” go. Well I could, but it was still on my mind.

After my workout, I was supposed to meet Mr. Sandra, the step son and his GF at the bar for a game of Golden-Tee and dinner. Of course in the mood I was in, for me that would have meant also drinking beer and likely lots of it. So I choose not to go. I was just crabby enough, that had I drank anything last night, if Mr. Sandra had done just one teensy tiny little thing wrong, I would have bit his head off. I pre thought this out… J and did not go. Why make myself feel worse than I already did.

So I went home instead. And what did I find there – a little puppy. Actually she wasn’t all that little but is only 3 months old. I let her out and my Katie and spent some time in the yard playing with them both. I had some alone time with loving free spirited little dogs and my mood just wiped itself away. It was very refreshing and the right choice for me last night.

Then when Mr. Sandra and the kids came home, which wasn’t all that late, we chatted about my day and he gave me a hug. It was then I realized I hadn’t eaten dinner yet and it was already 10:00 at night which is way too late for me to eat dinner. Oh well, I wasn’t hungry anyway.

Today, I didn’t get up to run like I wanted to. My legs are still sore and I think they need a rest, but I was also very tired. And now I’m hungry. When I got here to work, yesterday’s upset came backup because some things are still not resolved but I am in much better spirits to handle it today. Rather than be upset, I am a bit angry. I can handle the angry better than the upset because it is a different emotion for me and I handle them differently. I’m just weird.

But it is Friday, I am leaving work early today to go grocery shopping for our camping trip and then I am meeting everyone at the campground. If I am lucky, the Mr and the kids will have cleaned the trailer for me already and I’ll be able to relax right away.

I hope everyone has a FANTASTIC day and weekend.

Xxoo

Sandra

MLHAS #5

Week 4 completed of the My Long Hot Active Summer Challenge sponsored by the Lovely Exquisite Christine and here are my results:

My weight today is: 182.0

I lost/gained (start 181.9 – last week 183.6): -1.6lbs (+.1 since start).

Minutes exercising June 2-8^th:  505 minutes (365 Quality, 140 Walking)

It has been an interesting week and a very busy one. I haven’t been able to get away at lunch to go for a walk as I am so busy here at work. In fact, it is hard for me to get away from my desk at all. I seem to have a telephone stuck to my head because of the amount of meetings we have been having. First there was a phase of my new project that needed to get done by June 30^th because of a contract expiring from a third party vendor software we are giving up. We needed to implement our new technology and get it into place before turning off the switch to the other vendor. Then all of a sudden, the higher-ups decided we are selling off a part of our company and so then a bunch of us have 2.5 weeks to get them into a new domain, new user-id, email accounts and so and so on. You know how much pressure that is to try to deal with all at the same time…. It’s fun and I love it!

But it doesn’t leave any time for blogging or even thinking about eating for that matter.

I had a disastrous weekend. I went off plan like never before. Not sure why, other than we were kid free and went out a LOT on the weekend. I had Chinese food (talk about bloat), I had a hamburger (with the freakin bun), I had beer…. I only got one hour of structured exercising in. On Saturday morning Katie and I headed out and I planned on walking for a couple of hours but about half way through the first hour, it started to rain and we were getting soaked. She didn’t mind but I had a hoodie on and not a rain coat so I was getting pretty wet. So we headed back in early. On Sunday I was on my feet all day walking around a field. We took Katie to a Picnic Test for hunting dogs. It is where they are put through some tests and a judge will tell you where you need to improve. Well I absolutely love my little princess but Mr.Sandra really needs to work with her because she failed all the tests. But that’s OK, that is what that day was for. Reminded him he needs to work with her to get her to learn what her job is. And she LOVES it. One of the tests they have the dogs retrieve a duck from across the pond, and in the pond were decoys. Well she had to go sniff all the decoys to see what they were, THEN go get the duck she was supposed to retrieve. She never did bring it back across the water. So Mr. Sandra knows now what to work on.

Monday first thing in the morning I did a JM Trouble zones workout. I surrendered J I couldn’t do it with the weights above my head, I just got up and down from my knees. I think each time I do it, there will be improvement. After work I went to HOT Yoga and loved it again. It was very very hot in the room and fortunately I put my butt right by the door so when she opened it to bring the temp down every once in awhile, I got the blast of cooler air. Again I had tons of energy after so when I got home, I ate dinner and then Kim and I walked for an hour.  Weird thing though, I did not sleep all that well Monday night.

Yesterday, I slept in until 5 because since I didn’t sleep well that night, I think I feel into a good sleep around 3:30 and so when the 4:00 alarm went off, I ignored it. So afterwork I headed to the gym and did my 25 minutes of Arc Trainer, the 60 minutes with my New PT, then 25 more minutes walking backwards on a treadmill at 12% incline. I walked slow and steady and tried to work the glutes and hams.

I am going to enjoy this new trainer, I’m pretty sure she has a little more experience than my other one and will be challenging me more. She had me do stuff I have never done before last night and so I’m looking forward to working with her.

Then when I got home last night, I ate dinner then headed back outside to plant some flowers. We are so behind because of our yucky weather. It hasn’t been nice at all, and this week it has rained a lot. But if I don’t get them in, then I won’t have anything grow this year because our growing season is so short.

My square foot garden is starting to come up nicely though. I am so looking forward to eating my own grown veggies.

Well that’s all for today. Not sure when I can send another update as we are going camping this weekend but I’ll try to send something, if only just to say Hello!

I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day!

Ttyl

Sandra

I did it!

I’m losing my personal trainer – she is leaving the gym and is moving on to bigger and better things. I am going to miss her as we do get along really well. BUT I am also really into change, so I think changing PT’s is a good thing too. Everyone has different training methods so this could stir things up for me.  She made me do push-ups yesterday. I HATE pushups and the only reason is because they are so freakin hard for me. Which just tells me I need to do them more often. My first set I had my arms almost level with my shoulders, maybe a little below and it was very hard getting 12 reps in. The second and third set, I had them just ahead of my shoulders a bit and I found that much easier. I do not know which version is the right one but either way I’m still working muscles that are weak.

My Massage terrorist is leaving too! Which I am not really happy about because her location is very convenient to my work – it is only a block away. She has helped my hip/lower back/legs so much since I started seeing her in October. She knows my body. I really don’t want to have to go try out someone else. Fortunately she is going mobile which means she will come to my home. But my home won’t be the same. The only place I have that has enough room for a massage table with enough room for her to walk around would be in my basement family room. Rather open and cool. BUT I guess I can’t have everything I want. I want to keep her as my therapist so I have to bend in the location.  When I had my massage on Wednesday she really had to work on my calves and my upper back. It really hurt people. That’s why I call her my “terrorist”. She does not take it easy on me and really works those tight muscles. I told her we are going to have to focus on those two area’s for awhile rather than the hips because since she has helped work out the tightness in that area, she can certainly work on the tightness in my back/shoulders, calves. But MAN it hurts! …. It does feel better the next day though so that is why I get it done.

This morning I got on the treadmill with the intention of trying to make it a solid 20 minutes of running without stopping. Well I passed the 20 and thought, I WILL make it to the 28 minute mark. When it came along, I thought, what’s 2 more minutes. I ran 30 minutes folks – without stopping this morning. I am happy about that because of my dismal attempt on Tuesday having to stop a couple of times trying to get through the 28 minutes. I just kept running, and trying to breathe and not look at the clock. I can’t say it was easy, I’m not sure if running will ever be easy for me, but I can say I did it! So I guess this means I’m about to graduate from the C25K program J - never thought I’d reach this point.

This morning I am going to go see my Nutrionist and bet a biofeedback done. I want to know how my body is after this elimination diet which I didn’t 100% follow the last 8 days. I had some slip-ups but in general, I was on track. I’m ready to start re-introducing the eliminated foods back into my body and so we are testing it first, then this weekend I’ll start with the citrus foods. Almost every single clean-eating recipe that I want to try called for lemons. So last night I bought some and Saturday I’m preparing some good eats.

This weekend we are “kid” free so I know that means going out and socializing. With Mr. Sandra being housebound because of his various surgeries, he is more than ready to get out and enjoy himself a bit. We are heading out to a small town close to us and visiting with friends. I’ve got a lot of yard work to do as well since last weekend was so horrible with the snow and all. Ms. Katie leaves me presents that need to be disposed of and grass (the stuff that is actually growing), needs to be cut. My yard is not pretty thanks to that little girl.

And I’ve got to get out walking again. I miss it.

I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day!

Ttyl

Sandra

And I want to send out a BIG THANK YOU  to Roxie and Karen for supporting  me in my Kidney March endeavors! It is so appreciated. Thanks Ladies!

MLHAS #4

Well it’s been an interesting month and not one with a lot of progress in the weight loss area. But even with my Holidays in the beginning, I certainly did put in a LOT of exercise minutes. 2185 minutes or almost 37 hours of exercising. I’m good with that…. I am going to measure myself this Saturday to see if there are any inches lost. I suspect there is minimal overall but some in my core. Everything is fitting different these days.

So here it is Week 4 of the My Long Hot Active Summer Challenge sponsored by the Lovely Exquisite Christine and here are my results:

My weight today is: 183.6 L 

I lost/gained (Start 181.9 – last week 181.3):    + 2.3 (+1.7 from start)

Minutes exercising May 26th-June 1st:             440 minutes

I am not happy about the increase but I also think it is an inaccurate number …. I’m not going to give any details – let’s just say cause “I Know”. It still sucks though as I hate to disappoint my team members – sorry folks I will be much better next week…. I promise.

Chris made a valid comment last week with my minutes of exercising. Quality versus quantity. So I’m going to add a little twist to logging my minutes starting today. Since I am going to substantially increase my walking as training for the Kidney March I am going to do in September, I am going to rack up those minutes quite high and it will get higher as the weeks progress. So I’m going to list two different numbers – first one will contain the numbers that I count as quality workouts like Running, Circuit Training, Strength Training, and Hot Yoga. Then the next set of numbers will be the sessions I just walk- my lunch time, evening and weekend walks. It will be interesting to add them together but good to track the separately as well.

I just finished week 8 of the C25K program but I struggled yesterday morning and had to walk about minute 14 and then started up jogging again soon after. Rather than move on to Week 9 right away, I am going to keep running 28 minutes until it isn’t as hard for me. I think running will always be difficult.  It might have just been a bad morning yesterday when I didn’t have much energy but I struggled with it. I had made it to Hot Yoga Monday night so maybe my body was just tired. I also ended yesterday with my twice weekly session with the Arc Trainer (warm-up) and an hour strength training with my PT and then another 20 minutes at 15degree incline and slow speed. I didn’t make it to see her all last week so the workout kicked my butt.

This morning I got up and did another Jillian Michaels DVD that I have. This one is called “Banish Fat Boost Metabolism”. It was all cardio circuit training and I couldn’t finish it as I ran out of time. It is 50 minutes long, 5 warm-up, 40 minutes of 7 circuits, then a 5 minute cool down. Since I was running out of time and stretching is important to me, I skipped the last two circuits and did a stretching, foam roller session. Making my workout 40 minutes instead of 50. It was tough as it had Mountain Climbers and Burpees (yuk), and a bunch of kicking, punching etc. It was a good change up from running.

My food has been spot on this week so far and I can’t see any reason for it not to continue like that for the rest of the week. I am however, getting tired of this elimination thing and want to add stuff like banana’s, eggs and lemons back into my food choices. I don’t miss the dairy except my whey powder for protein. I must admit that hemp protein and rice protein are not a favorite of mine and I’m only using the hemp in as small as quantity as I possibly can just to use it up. It tastes gritty. I LOVE how I feel when eating clean versus making different choices. But I also want my clean eating choices to be more open. The elimination diet has a purpose but other than feeling great, I have not noticed any other differences. So I do think it is time to start adding things back in and see how I feel.

Anyway, I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day – looks like our weather is finally getting a bit warmer today. Yahoo!

Ttyl

Sandra

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