Okay, at the end of my last note I said I was going to get up in the morning, and go to the gym. Guess what....I didn't. Lyndsie came into my room sometime between 5:30 and 5:45 am to wake me up and see if I wanted to still go......I didn't. So I made a sleepy, comfy, lazy promise to go today, after work, and before I came home, and i'll take my work out clothes to work...I promised her...then I fell back asleep until the regular "it's time to get up for work" alarm went off.
It is quite amazing to me that in a matter of hours, my good intentions went by the wayside, I did what I always do, and didn't go. I've thought about it alot today, thinking that exercise just isn't as important as my beauty sleep. If the truth were to be told, the beauty sleep hasn't helped my "beauty" very much at all, and too much of the beauty sleep has contributed to the mess i'm in. I follow a cycle that goes like this...I'm fat so I get depressed, when depressed or stressed, or mad, sad, glad, I eat....I sleep because I'm depressed, so I don't have energy to go work out. THEN....I get fatter, get more depressed, and eat more....do you see where this is going?
Food...that was the big hurdle this morning. What to eat....ummm...hmmmm...(she looks in the fridge, hopeful) well.....Huh....(she looks in the pantry).....I could cook an egg for breakfast, but I don't have time because I slept in. After some thought, I decided to eat what I did yesterday.
1 package of Instant Cream of Wheat, Yogurt, grapes, and a sandwich for lunch, and an apple for a snack. Okay..phew...not too bad. Did you catch the line above it when I said it was the same lunch as yesterday? Why did I think it was going to work today, if it hadn't been very good before? Curious.
There is a website called sparkpeople.com that we use to track our food, water, exercise, and other stuff. It is important because I need to know what I'm eating, calorie intake, nutritional value of foods, and all that. They (remember them?) will have us turn in the logs to our dietition on tuesdays ~ God bless e-mails ~ to see how we are progressing. NOW..back to the foods I took with me today. Strangely enough the foods I chose aren't bad foods, and by 2:00 today I had eaten approximately 600 calories, and drank about 8 cups of water. I peed a lot too!
If I was eating the same not so bad choices, and drinking my water, then why hasn't it worked in the past? Because I didn't...wait for it....EXERCISE!!!! TAAA DAAA!!!
So, I got off work, called Lyndsie and told her I was on my way to the gym, and did she still want to meet me there, and she did. We both walked, jogged, and jogged a little faster every once in awhile on the treadmill for 30 minutes plus cool down. I wobbled my way to 1.6 miles! Go me!Then we did a little arm work, then leg stuff, then dumbell stuff, and were there a total of 50 minutes. I would have done more but Caitlyn had a basketball game to cheer for. (Good job Caity)
After all was said and done, I think day 2 was a successful day. I'm tired from working out and peeing all day, and I feel good about my meal choices. Tomorrow is a crazy busy day, but I am meeting my team at the gym to work out with our trainer Ron. I might even take a Zumba class at 9:00...but I can't interrupt my beaty sleep, so we'll see.
Good night all,
Kelly
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