Happy Valentine's Day! What a challenging day to the folks that love chocolate, me being one of them! I got home from my work out to find a beautiful bouquet of roses, and a bottle of my favorite raspberry Verdi wine. Of course the wine will be enjoyed 4 to 6 ounces at a time...calories and all....( yeah right, wink, wink) I wouldn't want to over do it and drink it all at one time....Nope, not me. Any hoo....it was a nice surprise, and I sincerely appreciate them.
I have been writing down my food better since the last meeting and feel like it has been going better. I have been expanding my lunch menu to include vegetables, usually frozen, that I can heat up at work. I appreciate the variety too, and I got some of those 100 calorie bags of microwave popcorn to have for a snack. They can be tricky buggers to cook though, because they can burn so quickly, and isn't that a pleasant smell. I bought some sugar free Jello, and have been eating those as well. I don't care how old you are, Jello is fun to squish through your teeth, making your cheeks puff in and out. Come on...admit it...you do that too....
I had a work out at 6:00 tonight in the man gym. I got there about 15 minutes early so I climbed on the elliptical and did a quick 10 minute warm up. By the time I was done, the two guys from my team joined me, and we got started. Ron scares me when he has a list. He carries it around in his hand all folded up like an 8th graders note, all bent and crumpled, until he unfolds it to tell us what torture is next. We got started right away, and he had me sweating in about 5 minutes. We were doing sets of 20 of each starting with squats, lunges, squats, side lunges, push ups, squat hops, repeat that cycle, then we did the dreaded...WALK OUTS!!!! You remember those from the first day or so...I could do six before I started to feel faint...right before I pulled the excuse card. Here's a quick reminder, you start standing up then you lean down putting your palms down, and you walk out on your hands until you are straight, then you walk back in, and stand up! We alternated these with jumping jacks, 20 of each. Well, call the newspapers and guess what? I did three sets of 20...I did 60 walk outs without fainting! Sweat was flinging off my hair when I was walking out, but I didn't care. I can't believe the difference in a month. The next things we did were called "burpies". The way you do these awful things is from standing you put your hands on the floor, jump back with your feet, jump back in with your feet, and stand up. GAAAAAAAA!!! Absolutely cruel and exhausting. Thank goodness Ron didn't have us alternating with anything too strenuous, we had to do v-ups, then more burpies, 20 reps each. I tell you what, it was horrible, and at one point, I had to step one foot at a time backwards, but I finished. We moved over to our mats and did more ab exercises, before we were finally done. What a work out. It only took about 45 minutes so Ron told us that Tuesday was going to be tougher since we "breezed" through the work out...breezed...yeah right!!! Now I'm scared.
Tomorrow the work out is at 6:00.....I ate an apple on the way home, and sang Pink's new song "F....g Perfect" at the top of my lungs. Watch the video..it'll make you cry.
Kelly
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