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!

Real Ryder Friday

I missed my normal TRX Tuesday workout, and due to work restrictions the only day I could make up the class was today. So, Shanan and her daughter Kenzie joined me in a RealRyder class!!

Laurissa took us through 40 minutes of exercises - 30 second exercises that build upon each other.

• So, starting with a 30 second sprint, 30 second rest.
• Next was a 30 second sprint, then a 30 second seated climb, 30 second rest.
• 30 second sprint, then a 30 second seated climb, AND a 30 second standing climb, and 30 second rest.
• 30 second sprint, a 30 second seated climb, 30 second standing climb, 30 second hover, and 30 second rest.
• 30 second sprint, a 30 second seated climb, 30 second standing climb, 30 second hover, 30 second running, and 30 second rest.
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  30 second sprint, a 30 second seated climb, 30 second standing climb, 30 second hover, 30 second running, 30 second up and down out of the seat, and then 30 second rest.
• 30 second sprint, a 30 second seated climb, 30 second standing climb, 30 second hover, 30 second running, 30 second up and down out of the seat, 30 second cranking up the tension, and then 30 second rest.
• 30 second sprint, a 30 second seated climb, 30 second standing climb, 30 second hover, 30 second running, 30 second up and down out of the seat, 30 second cranking up the tension, 30 seconds working the tension back down, and then 30 second rest.
• 30 second sprint, a 30 second seated climb, 30 second standing climb, 30 second hover, 30 second running, 30 second up and down out of the seat, 30 second cranking up the tension, 30 seconds working the tension back down, 30 seconds cranking bike side to side, and then 30 second rest.

I'm spent. Its my last day in the office before a week's worth of vacation, so being tired is not the best way to spend your last day - I should be productive and be finishing up all sorts of little projects....but, I'M NOT! HA! They'll be there when I return, waiting for me!

Tonight I'm packing for the weekend camping trip with my old, dear friend Sara and her family!
LATER!