What an awesome and intense workout tonight! I feel SO PROUD of myself (yet again)
Tonight we decided to do the double workout with each other instead of doing it Friday because Joelene may not be able to workout on Friday, and since it is a tough one it is always nice to have someone push you through it.
So our workout tonight was 25min of lower body and 25min of abs. I seriously felt like I was dying after half way through the second workout. I mean the first workout was difficult, which is usually all we ever do and trust me, it is more then enough! I was sweating so much, it was dripping off me! I am so glad I decided to bring a towel tonight. My legs are like cement again and my abs hurt.
We were supposed to do our ab challenge too tonight but clearly after an hour of non-stop working out, that would have been over doing it! I hate double days though. You really have to bring your A game and dig deep because you know Shaun T is going to completely take you to a whole new level of pain and discomfort!
I had a very trying day so I actually was not wanting to workout at all. I felt so emotionally and physically exhausted as my 2 year old still is recovering from being sick, he is incredibly clingy and wants me to carry him everywhere, then my 7 month old is also starting to get a cold so she is incredibly clingy! Packing two littles around was really hard on my arms especially after last nights workout.
I often dread working out (not always, because sometimes I do look forward to it and get excited!) but I am addicted to the high afterwards! I just feel so cleansed and pure and happy after working out, it is hard work and I am suffering during it and I hate every minute while I am working out but afterwards -- wow! I just feel so accomplished. Like I ended up sitting on my couch most of today holding my babes and at least doing this makes me feel like I did something today.
I still maintained eating today, however dinner was quite the rush. I couldn't very well cook while holding both kids so I needed to wait till my husband got home. Fish was on the menu tonight and I literally felt like I just wanted to curl up in bed with a glass of wine and I felt like I couldn't come up with a delicious sauce for the fish (that would also be healthy!) in time.
Then I remembered I bought this "Jerk Marinade" from Margaritaville from Costco last summer. I quickly googled it and discovered they did actually have a salmon recipe, so I pulled it up and it said I was supposed to marinade the fish in the sauce for 8 hours then grill it. Grr... I didn't have 8 MINUTES to wait let alone 8 hours, so I just dumped the sauce on anyway and added some pineapple juice (I didn't like the sourness of the sauce without some sweet to balance it) popped it in the oven and it was great.
So this is what my dinner looked like when it was all said and done:
It's actually interesting because I cooked rice yet again for my husband and thought, "hey it's been awhile since I had carbs for supper I might try some" -- so I tasted the rice and it was disgusting! I was quite happy without it. So many little changes are taking place in me since I started changing the foods I put in my mouth.
For instance, I know I mentioned yesterday that I had oatmeal for breakfast and only did 2 tbsp of brown sugar, today I made oatmeal and only did 1 tbsp of brown sugar! It was just sweet enough for me and it tasted so great, I sprinkled some cinnamon on and it was the best. This is coming from someone who #1 usually hates oatmeal, and #2 if I ever eat it I pile about 1/4 cup of brown sugar on there and still struggle to enjoy it, so the fact that I was able to only use 1 tbsp and some cinnamon and actually really enjoy it -- what a long way I've come!
So I know I shared with you all that I absolutely love my PB shake, but discovered it was pretty high calorie. I worried if I didn't use the same amount of PB then it just wouldn't taste very good.
Well last night I made my peanut butter shake but I only used 2 tbsp of PB instead of the 1/4 cup and only 1 banana instead of 2, and I used almond milk (1 1/2 cups) instead of the 2 cups of 2% milk and I completely took out the honey, it doesn't need anymore sweetness! Actually it's funny, I used to be such a sweet tooth person and I have been noticing that since I have been clean eating for 4 weeks I can actually taste sugar in things like I never used to.
Also, I have actually come to really like Almond milk, the thought of drinking it before made me gag because it isn't actually "milk" in the sense that I am used to thinking.
Outside of food and taste I have noticed having more energy in the morning! I have never been a morning person but lately I can't seem to sleep past 7:30am on weekdays and when my husband lets me rest on the weekend I am up, and ready for the day by 8:45/9am. I think partly because my body is waking me up for food but also the food I am putting in my body is making a good kind of energy for me.
I think I mentioned yesterday how I am swimming in a shirt that used to fit me? Well tonight I decided to see just HOW baggy it was to share with everyone. I asked my husband to crawl inside it while I was wearing it and it fit both of us (obviously with NO stretch room but still).
The neck part wasn't big enough but the rest was. Too funny.
I also was able to wear this Tinkerbell shirt today my Mom brought me back from Disney World last year. It is a smaller fitting shirt and I wasn't able to really pull it past my breasts without it completely restricting my movement, and the arms, specifically in the armpit area would chafe! Well I wore it today with no issues at all, it could stand to be a little looser still but it isn't anything I can't deal with.
All of this amazing change has occurred in only 4 short weeks. The FocusT25 program is a 15 week program altogether, I am beyond excited to see what more changes await in my near future!
Alright that's all the news for now.
~Toodles!
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