Well if you can believe it I STILL need to finish my Total Body Circuit from Friday's double workout day. It just got so crazy busy that I didn't have a chance on Friday before my girls night. I didn't end up eating as healthy that night as I would have liked either but I brushed it off and made Saturday a good start...
I say it was a good start because despite how hard I tried to eat healthy and carve some time to workout it just didn't pan out. I got flooded with friends at all different hours, which is incredibly unusual. I woke up and had my oatmeal and then later had a banana. My friend arrived at 11:30am and stayed until 2pm. During our visit I had lunch which was 2 poached eggs, some cucumber and apple which basically bled into an afternoon snack since I just wasn't overly hungry after the eggs.
My first friend left at 2pm and moments later my second friend arrived and we had a nice visit until 3:30pm. My husband had just got back from working out of town all day, and about 5 minutes later we got our third wave of company -- which was friends we hadn't seen in a year! They ended up staying from 3:30pm-8:40pm and my planned supper which would have been that chicken cabbage stir fry ended up being home made pizzas, this was double disappointing because having them stay for dinner resulted in me ending up missing out on lane swimming with Joelene and well... pizza for supper after already having a pretty heavily "cheat" week and the night before cheating was not ideal. I wanted have something healthy. However life happens and today I have tried once again to make a better effort.
I got up at 5am to watch the hockey game so I had 2 over easy eggs with salsa and 2 pieces of toast with peanut butter and honey. I ended up going back to bed after the game for a couple hours and when I got up and showered and dressed I had a banana for my morning snack. We desperately needed groceries so I had to deal with what we had in the house for lunch after church as our toddler was napping (fell asleep in the van on the way home from church) and I was absolutely famished! So I had 2 mild beef burritos. Again, so not what I should have been eating, not ideal and not something I would ordinarily have.
After that I went lane swimming by myself. Joelene had totally blew our time out of the water last time, we did 20 lengths in 18.5 minutes. She informed me she did 20 in just over 15 minutes. So I thought I'd try. Could have been the not so healthy lunch, the lack of sleep or just pure exhaustion from the T25 but I found this one to be brutally hard. I did end up doing my 20 lengths in 15 minutes 10 seconds! However, she was able to rest for 15 secs which I so would have loved to do... I on the other hand didn't stop once! 20 lengths, no rest... one word: WOW! I was dizzy and felt a little sick afterwards. I got out of the lane pool (perhaps a bit too fast?) and I struggled to find my legs again, everything felt like jelly as I walked towards the hot tub. I felt a bit better after resting in the hot tub for 5 minutes but I didn't want to just sit there by myself so I got out earlier then I normally would have and those dizzy/sick feelings came back. I struggled to steady my feet while I dressed.
Maybe I pushed myself too hard but I really wanted to see if I could do it, and as it turns out I could! I struggled and it was damn hard but I did it. I doubt I will get any faster then this for awhile I have some weight to lose and some strength to build. I am pretty impressed with myself though because my friend is much thinner then I am and so far I am able to keep up with her even with all this weight to tow behind me! However if she gets much faster she will continue to blow me out of the water and be in a different heat on the triathlon. I really want to keep up with her because I want to do the triathlon together, but I can only do what I can do.
So after that exhausting lane swim workout I still need to push through my total body as mentioned above and also do a stretch video tonight. I'm sort of kicking myself for leaving everything till today.
We start our BETA cycle tomorrow so I have no wiggle room left. Today is the day and no matter how much my arms are screaming I need to keep pushing my body. I know I can do it. I've rested for a few hours and I don't plan to do the workout or stretch until this evening.
I plan to have a really healthy supper... well who am I kidding! I have been planning that for the last few days!! Tonight I am actually going to succeed though. I am making myself greek chicken souvlaki salad. It will have cucumber, red onion, peppers, avocado, feta cheese and of course the souvlaki chicken with a greek/feta and oregano dressing. I wanted to get a greek vinegrette that KRAFT is supposed to make but I guess Canada doesn't have that so next time I go cross border I will have to pick some up to try, this dressing will work though. I'm excited for it. I am actually trying to recreate the salad that Joelene and I get (well I get it in a form of a wrap when we go) from "The Chopped Leaf" restaurant here. It is so flavorful, healthy and just what I need tonight - a carb free supper!
On that note, I need to go deal with my supper stuff. Wish me luck on my remaining workouts tonight! I will blog after my first BETA exercise tomorrow, I have to admit I am nervous for this next level of the T25... it will be even more intense and I am already adding my own intensity with lane swimming (and soon running training and biking training!) ... ah well, toughen up body! Open the flood gates of exercise pain because I am not about to back down now!
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