As mentioned in yesterday's post, today begins a series of healthy eating and exercise related obstacles leading up to Christmas. Today Josh and I were driving all over town, meeting family and doing errands. The result? A McDonald's lunch. Now this one is going to go down in the history books as the first time I have ever attempted to eat healthy at McDonalds. I went with a hamburger Happy Meal replacing the fries with apple caramel dippers, with a diet Coke to drink. Calorie total: approx. 300. Fairly high fat and really high sodium. All things considered though, I thought it was a good compromise. I didn't feel gorged, but I did feel very satisfied. It's nice to know that I don't have to sacrifice the foods I love and substitute them all with salad.
Another average workout today. Neither here nor there really. To be honest, I'm a little bored with the regular 30 Day Shred video lately, especially with level 1, which I did last year for several weeks. I'm looking forward to switching things up with the BFBM video tomorrow.
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Day 7 - Half an Episode of Law and Order
Fighting C.P.S. - It's a Dangerous Disease
Day 7 almost didn't happen for me. I woke up late this morning and rushed out the door, so I didn't have time to do an AM workout. At work, I kept thinking, I'll just do it when I get home since I don't have anything going on tonight. Well, home came along, and then dinner (and you know you gotta let that settle). Then some new show called Human Target was on tv and it wasn't awful, so I watched that. That was followed by Hells Kitchen, and I just adore Gordon Ramsey and his fury and foul mouth. And then Law and Order Los Angeles, and who can pass up that ever compelling Terrance Howard? I know I can't.
Finally, enough was enough. A 30 Day Shred workout is only half an episode of Law and Order. I had to get off the couch.
Once I fought off couch potato syndrome (CPS), today's workout actually felt very reasonable. This only served to make me feel that much worse for putting off the workout until so late in the day. My only big issue today was this left knee that's been acting up. I was able to do all the exercises today without pain, which makes me wonder how I hurt that knee anyways. Yesterday the knee hurt when I straightened or bent my left leg all the way. Today it only hurts when bent. Mysterious.
Nutrition
On another note, today's jumping rope cardio portion served as a jiggly little reminder that I need to start eating better if this 30 Day Shred is really going to shred anything at all. When your tum tum does a petite flop with every jump, it's a sign that maybe all that bratwurst, McDonald's, fried plantains and coconut rice, taco and tostada, and bourguignon (yes I had to look up how to spell that) was not the choicest of nourishment. Those are indeed all items that were on my plate this week, and I think they need to disappear in the weeks to come.
One week, officially complete! Good for us for keeping at it!
Day 7 almost didn't happen for me. I woke up late this morning and rushed out the door, so I didn't have time to do an AM workout. At work, I kept thinking, I'll just do it when I get home since I don't have anything going on tonight. Well, home came along, and then dinner (and you know you gotta let that settle). Then some new show called Human Target was on tv and it wasn't awful, so I watched that. That was followed by Hells Kitchen, and I just adore Gordon Ramsey and his fury and foul mouth. And then Law and Order Los Angeles, and who can pass up that ever compelling Terrance Howard? I know I can't.
Finally, enough was enough. A 30 Day Shred workout is only half an episode of Law and Order. I had to get off the couch.
Once I fought off couch potato syndrome (CPS), today's workout actually felt very reasonable. This only served to make me feel that much worse for putting off the workout until so late in the day. My only big issue today was this left knee that's been acting up. I was able to do all the exercises today without pain, which makes me wonder how I hurt that knee anyways. Yesterday the knee hurt when I straightened or bent my left leg all the way. Today it only hurts when bent. Mysterious.
Nutrition
On another note, today's jumping rope cardio portion served as a jiggly little reminder that I need to start eating better if this 30 Day Shred is really going to shred anything at all. When your tum tum does a petite flop with every jump, it's a sign that maybe all that bratwurst, McDonald's, fried plantains and coconut rice, taco and tostada, and bourguignon (yes I had to look up how to spell that) was not the choicest of nourishment. Those are indeed all items that were on my plate this week, and I think they need to disappear in the weeks to come.
One week, officially complete! Good for us for keeping at it!
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