Friday didn't work according to planned. I was fighting a horrible headache all day (likely from my over excessive girls night before and sodium over kill!) I did make an effort to workout though, as soon as I played my video the doorbell rang and I got a Valentine's day delivery.
From there the day was kiboshed, my husband came home earlier and spoiled me more by letting me nap - well I didn't wake up until 4:10pm (oops!), then it was a mad rush to get dressed and out the door because we wanted to go to Olive Garden for supper, and anyone who has been there knows it is always such a long wait (because it is the only one 300km!) well we did get there and they told us it would be a 1hr 45min wait, we opted to wait anyway as sometimes they are off and in this case they were, 40 minutes later we were seated.
I actually DID try to make good food choices when I was there, we ordered 1 drink each (the tiramisu so good!) and I only allowed myself 1 breadstick, and I filled up on garden salad. I ordered the "tour of Italy" which gives 3 three small portions of food (lasagna, fettuccine alfredo, and chicken parmaseana) because I had planned to take one portion home and make a salad for the lunch the next day. I found out later on that actually the salad from Olive Garden is horrible! It is filled with a lot of sodium. Very deceiving! One bowl of their salad has 750mg of sodium in it. They do saturate their salads with a lot of dressing and cheese and croutons though.
So when I had my leftover lasagna the next day I made a conscious effort to measure out my dressing (I did actually purchase a bottle of their dressing) and only had 1tbsp on a large bowl of salad which was more then enough. I had tea that morning with Joelene and we planned to go out lane swimming last night to train for the triathlon. We needed to do 20 lengths in 20 minutes which is the slowest time. I got myself a 1 year membership yesterday to the gym so I could go there as often as I want to train, as I will need to train for the 5K run too soon, and the 10K bike.
Let me tell you that swim last night was difficult! I had no idea how exhausting it would be to swim 20 laps. After two I was struggling and I still had 18 more to go at that point, but I did it! I still had to finish off a total body workout for the T25 that night too.
After our swimming we went to the chopped leaf and got some healthy suppers. Then home, from there I worked out right away so that the protein from my chicken wrap would count for my workout, haha... actually I'm not sure I'm supposed to do that, but it worked and I wasn't hungry afterwards.
My arms killed so badly during the workout from all those laps.
Today was a great day too, still need to power down on my water though, I'm not doing over well with that; however I do feel I am getting back on track with my eating, motivation and exercise. Last week was a bad week. A small blip in my journey is how I am choosing to look at it. Don't dwell on what you can't change, focus on what you can!
For breakfast today I had a chocolate protein shake because I didn't get up till 10AM, I really couldn't shut my brain off last night. I ended up not being able to fall asleep until 3AM or so. My baby was up A LOT nursing last night too. In short, it was not a restful night at all.
When I got home I had a greek chicken wrap, and now I need to quickly have a snack as supper will be very soon too. Really trying to squeeze in food today as best as I can. I was busy working out this afternoon, I managed to do my double workout today which means I am totally caught up for my Alpha week 4, today I did the speed 1.0 cardio and the abs, my loving husband did both right along side with me. Such an amazing supporter! I am totally ready to take on week 5 tomorrow!
They are running another biggest loser competition and I am debating joining again, I only have to weigh in every 2 weeks and they are also doing inches lost this time too. The prize money would definitely be awesome to buy all the new clothes I am going to have to buy anyway with all my training and working out I am doing. Still undecided though, I don't know if I can take anything that could discourage me right now. I have until March 2nd to decide.
I guess that's all I have to say for now! I hope I can continue to stay encouraged.
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