Many challenges today....

Day 11

Last night went good, my first session of lane swimming. It was fun actually! I learned whip kicks, the proper way to breast stroke, and back stroke, butterfly kicks, it was exhausting but fun. We shall see what Monday brings as this last night class was spent doing a lot of explaining of the techniques so I got a few breaks in between, as time goes on there will be less and less of that and more and more swimming.
The butterfly kicks were REALLY exhausting in the calf's, wow talk about pressure there were other class members behind me and I needed to keep up the pace so they didn't bump into me.

I ate really clean last night until one of the students around 9pm wanted to make me some Korean (ichiban) instant noodle things. I didn't realize however that the sodium level was 1040mg per half the package! :O I just about crapped. I spent ALL day eating clean and keeping the sodium level down so that I can lose my water weight just to eat something that has SOOOO much sodium :-( :-( so disappointed. So today I want to try to drink more than 3L of water and keep that up over the weekend. So far i'm able to drink about 72oz of water a day but I'd like to add another 24oz or so more.

I was SO bagged today because P woke up every 3 hours to nurse last night. I wasn't sure HOW I would find the energy to even do my 30 day shred today. I laid on the couch for a bit and finally around 11:30 I decided to just do it after some encouraging comments on my facebook status from friends of mine :-) Well its done. 2 more days of level 1. I'm pushing through!

Have the farewell pot luck for my students tonight and I am making a vegetable chili so I think that's going to be a big challenge for me, seeing all the tasty dishes there and desserts. Temptation WILL be there, I am going to try and drink a bunch of water and eat a salad before I leave, I know what I put in my chili so I will also try to stick to that as well as i'm sure many of the dishes there will be full of sodium or other unhealthy things.
Am I ever allowed to eat like that again? Yes I will but right now I am only 11 days in on my life change journey and I don't want to allow myself any "cheat" opportunities because I know myself all too well and it will be a landslide mess. I would also like to visit my family in B.C. but again I haven't been at it that long and as you may have read I have had a few challenging days where I really had to push myself to work out so I don't want to allow myself to justify not exercising by saying something like: "Oh well i'll just start back up when I get home", or "I can skip today and do a bodyrock or something" but then never end up doing it because i'm too busy visiting; also the eating is a concern, the temptation will always be there but right now I need to be strong and again I can just hear myself: "I'll just have one pop", or "i'll just have a little mashed potatoes".... no, I need to stick to the plan.
Luckily I signed up for the swim classes so I have 6 more of those to keep me here as well as my weekly meetings with my nutritionist so I can't be away too long.

Everything in moderation. Best quote ever!

Anyway I should run, thanks for the support as always and reading my blog!

~Ciao