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I decided against posting daily since life is difficult enough as the mother of a little girl who is turning 5 y.o in just a few weeks, but toss in working 50hr weeks to make some bday money and a boyfriend who wants your attention too. But I did a pretty good job this week of making time for the exercise and eating clean hasnt been TOO difficult. Difficult but not as bad as trying to walk down the steps of my apartment after the Day 2 workout where I felt the need to prove that I wasn't a wimp and was good enough to do the workout 3 times like the Advanced people.
On another note I AM NOT ADVANCED!!!! That was my ego messing with me. I haven't done any strength training in a long time. I only do that if I visit a gym which means ATLEAST 6 months ago. I walk alot and enjoy jogging outside with my music on but that is it for enjoyable exercise. So doing that circuit of 150 squat, 120 lunges per leg, 90 sit ups, 60 wall crunches, and 30 jump around crawl down things. . . (Im bad with names. Sue me!) left me with the knowledge that I must have butter for thighs cause I still close my eyes when I walk down steps. I even pulled a chest muscle. Appearantly having fat on my chest doesn't mean that I can't pull that muscle too...
Can you image what a wierdo I looked like at work. Randomly bending over and trying to stretch out my legs so I can wlak without wincing. Or trying to coverly massage my chest muscle without looking like I am copping a feel. *sigh* I used icy hot each night at bed AFTER taking a long boiling hot bath and massaging the muscles... even with the stretching and gentle exercise my thighs are still outrageously sore.
okay maybe not outrageously, but still sore. So I gave into the horrible workout that I do NOT do because only wimps do this. . . yoga and pilates. After years of laughing though the DVD's and saying that the poses simply do NOTHING for me! I was on the floor stretching my legs because the muscles were so tight I was walking like an old lady. But the grab my toes deal just wasn't getting me loose. So I rolled over onto my hands and knees and immediately wailed- OMG it hurt but it was finally pulling the right muscle! I started gently rocking forward and then pushing back further until my butt reached my feet without pain and my forehead was on the floor. It felt so AMAZING that I pushed onto my toes and raised my butt- ah perfect stretch!
Thats when I realized. . . I was doing Yoga. So I am embarrassed and relieved. Nothing was helping but when I finished 30 minutes of gentle yoga I felt fabulous!!!!! So I will be making time for 20minutes of yoga each morning before work and 20 minutes at night before bed. I will also let the advanced people do the advanced workout.
My summary report for the last week. My armband doesn't give me an option for a 5 day summary report though. But even though I haven't had time to blog I have still been trying to stay on track. I used my cheat day today since I didn't have time to pack a lunch or eat breakfast today but since I have been burning more than 3000 calories per day I don't think one day will hurt. Haven't had time to go near a scale lately but I'm hoping to see a -4lbs on the scale on Monday or Tuesday.
Can't get results if I push too hard and injure myself. So I guess I need to work a little bit smarter and listen to my body more than my ego... :-) g'nite!
Love this post. You got me considering doing Yoga again. I liked it in the past but since I wanted to lose weight and the calorie lost wasnt high enough for me, I stopped. Now I'm reconsidering :-)
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