Happy Birthday

Happy Canada Day! It's also my son's 11th birthday. I can't believe how the time has flown, it seems like it wasn't that long ago he was a toddler. This only reinforces my belief that I MUST be aging! LOL! It's going to be a busy weekend - we started with a grade 3 graduation party (10 little girls screaming through the house for three hours!), birthday sleep over with the twins last night, friends BBQ tonight, hockey birthday party tomorrow, and family BBQ on Sunday! I might need a rest after the weekend, but I will definitely need the workouts come Monday : )

I'm just going to warn everyone, it's going to be a weekend of beer. I will TRY to stay away from the cake and chips, but I MUST have a beer on a sunny holiday weekend. This is life. I'm not going to feel guilty - beside I'm burning some calories as I work in the garden removing shrubs and planting grass, etc.

Back out to the sunshine! Happy Birthday Canada!

Emotional Eating

At least I'm owning it, but already today I've eaten one chocolate bar, thought hard about the bag of chips and ditched the noon hour workout.

Its been a difficult 2 weeks - the sewer back up, a death in the family, dealing with the insurance company, and then today we had to put our 18 year old cat down (he'd been hit by a car). The insurance company is only able to cover a VERY SMALL portion of the replacement costs of the carpet in the basement. We are hemorrhaging money at the moment, and the blood flow is down to a trickle.

Sooo, I'm going to allow myself to wallow - just for today. Hell, tonight's on too, I'm already thinking about my good friend the Captain Morgan : )

Tomorrow, I'll be too busy with kids parties, and preparation. It's also pay day, so tomorrow I vow to do some seriously healthy grocery shopping!

Later!

Seriously...I'm back!

Ok, Due to some events out of my control (like sewer back ups in my basement) I've been out of commission. And, lets face it stress makes me eat. Sooooo, eating has been HORRIBLE (lots of emotional eating) and working out has been non existent.

BUT, that was the last few weeks. Yesterday I started eating healthy...and today I found my old friend the TRX...

this is an older pic of my on the TRX

Tomorrow I'm going to try out another old friend - the Kettlebell.....

This is another old pic, I highly doubt I will be swinging more than a 25 Lb'er tomorrow!

 

 

 

 

 So...lets see how I make it through the night. As this is a day of reuniting, I might even start using My Daily Plate again too.

If I'm a really good girl, I get out and take those doggies of mine for a nice long walk....we'll see : )

Later - and cross your fingers for me, the contractors have started rebuilding my basement today - I hope it doesn't send me off into a fit of potatoe chip eating! ; )

Resurection

I feel like I'm making up with a long lost friend. I know I've been gone a long while, but I'm back and promise not to leave you like that again....forgiven?

So first we should play catch-up? I've been gone since last August, and what have I done with myself you ask? We'll clearly not what I should be. Working out and staying fit/health was going great until just after Christmas where there was sickness compounded with bad weather - I'm sad to say I fell of the wagon. The early spring didn't really improve either. However, its funny what tight pants will do for ones motivation. Hell, tight pants was what got me into this in the first place wasn't it? Well, now the size 9's don't fit and the size 11's are getting uncomfortable...sssssooooooooo, it's time to get back at it!

Really, my largest problem isn't staying active. I'm actually pretty good at that, my real problem is what I'm putting in my body and HOW MUCH of it I'm putting in. Eating too much of healthy foods really isn't much better than eating too much of unhealthy food - when you boil it right down, it's all about caloric intake. You MUST burn off more than you take in, and lets be honest: lately that's not been happening for me.

So what now? Now I go back to using the Daily Plate to track input and output. Making an effort to get an extra workout in a week - and this might mean the home gym! Or, taking the whole family to the Canada Games Center to which we recently got a family membership. It might be a tad harder at first, but maybe if I can get everyone working together it might workout??

Lets end with a photo montage inspiration the first time:

 

TRX Thursday!

I did NOT want to workout today. I wanted to snuggle down with my book (Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan - fictional piece about Frank Lloyd Wright, architect) and eat a chocolate bar. To make matters worse, Laurissa is away for a few days so it was CARLY DAY (read: Carly makes me work REALLY hard and pushes me). BUT, thanks to the Jen's that I workout with I went. Sadly, Carly is leaving Core - Carly has been accepted to the United Nations University in Costa Rica for her Masters- how amazing is that! She assures us that she will be back and forth - we have not seen the end of her. We are holding her to that and a few Hustle classes in December!


Carly combined the TRX with the Tobata (20 seconds work, 10 second rest)-  had lined up for us:

• tobata: of Plyo jumps/ Y's
• tobata: mountain climbers/pike
• tobata: hamstring curls/swing throughs
• tobata: rows
• tobata: single leg squat with a plyo jump
• tobata: push up/bicep curl
• tobata: (on the ground) knees in, knees to left, knees to right, pike, push up (continue until you expire OR the 20 second is up)
• tobata: single arm pulls (for the obliques)

I was good an tired, but not sore and not exhausted. A few hours later I was just in that nice happy-tired place where the world can go on around me and doesn't piss me off! The true test will be how I feel tomorrow when I try to crawl out of bed!

A rest tomorrow, but I'm gonna get a home TRX workout in this weekend - promise!

Back at it!

Well, I'm back from vacation and back to the TRX! I have to say how amazing it is to see the change a week can make - I was low on energy today! Phew! I worked slow and steady through the exercises and "got 'er done"!

It was a great workout, a combination of TRX and non-TRX exercise that were really strength moves using body weight. While I was really tired afterwards, I was feeling much more relaxed - a good thing for today as I have a long night ahead of me working (3 presentations in camera to our Regional Council).

Ok, off to Council......then a beer!!

Later!

3 n' 30

So, I'm on vacation this week - means no structured Core workouts : ( It is, however, a good chance for me to show myself that I can also workout on my own! Therefore, this morning was skipping with a hint of TRX at the end. I used my Gymboss and set out a 3 minute skip followed by a 30 second bootstrap  - this was done 7 rounds! Here is my blurry action shot:

I was pooped by the end of it, but as hubby was just finishing on the TRX so I did a little upper body (fly's, push ups, rows, I-T-Y's, tricep curls).

Then we were off to the beach for the afternoon, home before supper so I got a little more yardwork done - I trimmed 30+ feet trimming the rear hedge (which hadn't been done last year to it was REALLY woody!)..tomorrow I'll finish the other 30 feet, unless it rains....now, I sit sipping a 'Dark & Stormy (ginger beer and rum)..mmmmmmmm!

Should be able to get those pesky kids in bed soon and maybe watch a movie with hubby!

Day one of vacation - check! Four more to go!!!

Later!