I forgot to mention that Tuesday was Madisen's 18th birthday. Happy Birthday honey! Lyndise made a delicious Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting for her. We sang to her and enjoyed the cake and the non-blow out able candles. I don't care how many times we have those on a cake, they are funny. Lyndsie found a great recipe for the cake, but instead of using the oil in the batter, she substituted applesauce, and increased the amount of carrots. It was really delicious. When we grocery shopped this weekend, Lyndsie and I found Laughing Cow Spreadable cheese, it has 35 calories, and when paired with whole wheat crackers (I have Ritz - 5 = 70 calories), it makes an excellent snack.
I turned in my food log today to the nutritionist. I was supposed to drop it off at the wellness center last night, but since I didn't go there, I put it into an Excel format and e-mailed it. I know that Janis is serious about turn in the logs, or you're out of the program, so I made a HUGE effort to get it in. After I sent it I realized that I forgot to put the cake on it. Yikes!
The workout for today is at 6:45. I got to the gym and had enough time to do 30 minutes on the treadmill before going to the man gym. I have forgotten to bring my water bottle in with me again. That is one thing that Ron is a stickler about. He insists we stay hydrated while we work out. It used to make me feel nauseated to drink water while I worked out, but I sweat so much that I am real thirsty all the time, in fact the goal is for us to drink a gallon of water each day. Did you know that just drinking two glasses of ice cold water will rev up your metabolism for 4 hours? I didn't either! Your body has to work to cool the water, so SHAZAM...you burn calories. Thank goodness I had five quarters and could buy a bottle from the vending machine. They have the neatest drinking fountains because you can set your bottle on this pad, and the fountain will fill it up like a kitchen faucet. No more tipping the bottle sideways, and there is a counter on the fountain that says how many bottles of water were recycled by refilling. One of the fountains has 59,000+ bottles filled.....Makes you think doesn't it.
Once again I am the only one of my team to be there. There is the praying lady, one mentor, me and Ron. I find myself wondering again about the team. I was so stressed about missing the workout last night, but yet, none of my team make it to the "TEAM" work outs. Ron said we were going to use some of the machines to do out leg workout. He set us up for a cycle, 30 second intervals, three different work outs. We did leg extensions, squats with weights, then stiff leg dumbbell lifts. Ron was helping me put the foot covers on for the leg extension machine, so I said "thank you Prince Charming for helping me with my slipper"...He stared at me like I had lost my mind. I don't know what happens to me sometimes.... This cycle was fairly easy, so we moved over to the machine where you lay on your belly, and push your leg out straight behind you, and you kick back, then in, back, in, back, in...right until your butt cheeks burst into flames. I thought it was going to happen right there. That hurt so bad. Not in the broken leg kind of hurt, just the muscle burn kind of way. While one of us was doing that, the other was over doing the leg press. You sit in it like an astronaut then push your legs up at a vertical angle. It wouldn't have been too bad if it wasn't for the fat roll in the way. I said that out loud to Ron, and he said not to worry, that stomach was next. He was not kidding. We did all kinds of stomach exercises, leg lifts, toe taps, v-ups, side to side things, crunches, and at one point I was begging to stop. He just chuckled and had us do just 5 more. I really like him, but geeeeze!
We had a chance to talk a little after the work out, and I found out that while I thought I had 2.8lbs weight loss last week , it was only 1.8lbs. While I was on the scale, it was waffling between the numbers. I chose the 221and they recorded 222. Bummer. I have worked very hard this week, and I hope that it shows. Tomorrow will tell.
Weigh in at 5:30 - meeting at 6:00...wish me luck!
Kelly
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