Well I'm back, finally. I have had probably the longest week in the history of the world. It is horrible to think that nearly an entire week has gone by and I didn't write a word. Not a single word. Remember my motto is "no excuses, or explanations necessary", but I still am in awe that time has passed such as it has. The good news is that God has blessed me with a brand new day and with that, the beginning of a new week.
I have had many...how can I put this....new challenges...this last week. I did not do very well with my food log..GIANT SURPRISE THERE...and the proof is in the pudding, or scale as the case may be. I weighed in on Thursday and lost another 1 lb. I know, at least I lost something, and that puts me at 212.8lbs, down 11 lbs in a month. Not too bad really, but I was hoping to get a bigger number, to see more of a "reward" for my hard work. I said earlier that I didn't keep a good food log, and believe it or not, most days I didn't eat 1200 - 1500 calories. I didn't eat junk food, I just didn't eat a whole lot of anything. It just goes to show that my metabolism is really out of whack, and I really need to work on getting it back in order.
The rest of my team did alright, one of the guys lost 6.2, another 4.8, the other dedicated gal lost 1.6, myself 1, and the two gals that rarely come work out lost 4, and .6 lbs each. I didn't want to hear the excuses and reasons from them, so I placed myself out of earshot, and concentrated on the meeting. I know that isn't right, and that we are a team and all, but too darn bad. Stop complaining and do something about it. As a team we dropped to 6th place. The dietitian talked about food choices again and about foods that get a bad rap because of the natural "sugar" content. She said no one every got fat eating carrots...and that's a fact.
I would love to go on, and on about some of the workouts we had this week, but I'm going to just give you a synopsis, of some of the highlights.
Sunday 6th- Group work out - There is an eight story parking garage across the street from the Wellness center and we had to run the stairs. The instructor said that it would be a perfect day to go outside and work out, so we grabbed some weights and off we went. Out to the grass, and then to the parking garage. We had to do all eight flights of stairs three times, up and down, then on the third trip up, we stopped and lunged the eighth floor parking ares, ran the length of it, then did up, down squat jumps, push ups, and then went down the stairs, and back up and down a fourth time. We went back to the wellness center and did weights, and more lunges and planks out on the grass which really was hard because of the uneven ground. Then back in for stomach exercises. I WAS BEAT when I finally got to go home.
Monday 7th - I left work at 4:00 today so I could go to the 4:30 Bands class taught by a guy named Todd. It turned out to be a real interesting class. I understand Ron a little better now with the circuit idea because that is what the bands are, you go to a station and do the exercise, then move on to the next, etc., doing each exercise for 30 seconds. It is a real fast class and it seemed the hour flew by. The bands are just that...big rubber bands! Big enough that you can slip them around yourself and do the exercises. At one station two bands were linked together, anchored to the wall, and we slipped the band around our waist. The ideas was you ran away from the wall, pulling with your legs, until you couldn't go anymore, then you would use resistance to keep yourself from flinging back into the wall. Seems pretty easy...it's not! Then at another station, you had to slip the rubber bands up your arms, and stand on the bottom of it, using the band in place of weights to do bicep curls. Not too hard on the girl arms, but my band was covered in pulle out arm hair from the poor guy ahead of me. It must have yanked it out by the roots. Man! All in all, it was a great work out, and I was tired.
Tuesday 8th & Wednesday 9th - These were the regular work outs in the man gym and up on the track. Nothing new there except that one of the other gals that rarely comes was there both nights. The work outs weren't new, but very tiring. On Wednesday we went up to the "crows nest" by the track. We did an exercise, then a lap on the track. I was real proud of myself because I was able to jog quite a bit on the track, when just last week I couldn't jog much at all. I knew that I needed to do more cardio on Wednesday night so I got on the treadmill after the workout and added another mile to the day.
Thursday 10th- I left work early again to take the bands class before the weigh in and meeting. Ron was teaching this class and he was brutal.....WAY harder than Todd.He was picking on the four of us from his team the worst. Both of the guys and the other regular gal were there and I think he was pretty happy. We did a variety of exercises, and he would count down the reps for us like" 10, 9, 8, 7,7,7,6, 5,5,5, 4, 3,3,3...." you get the idea,. I was sweating so bad that my hair was dripping sweat onto the floor as I did push ups. It was so bad one time that I had to go get my towel and dry off my face so my eyes would quit burning. I was using my shirt, but it was soaked and wouldn't dry anymore. At the end of the class Ron high fived me and said I did a good job! Yeah! Thank goodness I thought to bring a different shirt to change into, and I tried combing my wet hair into some sort of order before the meeting, but it didn't really help.
Friday 11th - I took this day off. I came home and after dinner went over to Brianna and Brad's house and stayed with Landree while they had an appointment. There is something special about a baby that makes even the worst week better. Plus, I feel like I'm burning out. I need to be committed to this adventure, but I can't let myself be so consumed with it that the rest of my life gets too far off balance, and that's how I feel. As I said before, I am discouraged by the number on my scale. It is just a number I know, but my head says something different all together. The difference with this burn out from the other times is that I'm not quitting, I am going to keep pushing forward, until the time comes for this adventure to end. This time will be different!
I have a 10:00 work out in the morning...and I'll be ready!
Kelly
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