Day Four

As usual i am a day behind and a dollar short. Don’t know where that saying came from but i have always loved it because i can relate! Anyway, this is how yesterday went:

Cleaner eating: was a disaster…maybe. I had a respectable bowl of cereal and half a cup of coffee. I tried reheating the coffee and having another cup but somehow managed to let that one go cold, too. Maybe i just don’t like my husband’s coffee…i don’t know. The rest of the afternoon was spent “grazing” from the fridge: 1/2 cup cottage cheese (low fat), a handful of wheat thin crackers (low sodium), a handful or raisins (plain), a few leaves of lettuce…nothing really substantial until dinner. Meatballs and whole wheat pasta.

Weight Training: Followed Merrill’s training from the Oxygen magazine and did a bunch of situps and calf raises. Overhead tricep presses with 8lb weights. Four sets of 12 for everything.

Cardio: Ran for 40 minutes on the treadmill. Got as far as 3.82 miles. That makes 6.31 miles so far this month. Yay.

Yoga: Wednesday is balancing month and i think i need help with nearly every move. That’s not entirely true but here are the ones that are giving me trouble: Tree pose (i want to get my leg higher – say thigh high and still balance strong. Right now i’m hovering at the calf level). Warrior III (i love the way the sequence goes from tree to warrior III but i don’t feel my W3 is strong enough). Half Moon (not nearly as pretty or as strong as i want it to be. i feel as though i am out of whack). Eagle pose (Cyndi doesn’t have me sitting into the pose but i think i would like to).
Here are the poses I feel best about: downward dog split (although i found myself lifting the wrong left and threading the needle instead), chair pose with twist (my ankles are getting stronger), side inclined plane (love, love, love this pose!)
It’s funny, but i was watching Namaste Yoga yesterday and they ran almost this exact same sequence. Of course they looked amazing!

Day Three

Every morning is like Groundhog day to me. I roll out of bed, bleary-eyed and somewhat disorientated (dreams take me for some whacked out rides & sometimes i forget where i am when i come to a stop). I slip in front of the computer to check email and see what the work-out calendar has in store for me. Then, it’s breakfast and coffee. Shower. Maybe make the moves on the calendar…More coffee at work and maybe a 2nd breakfast. I’m trying to eat every four hours so granola at 11am is the most appealing. I have grown to love Kashi’s orchard spice. The mountain whatever isn’t that bad, either. I usually always forget my lunch so i’m either buying something in the cafe or standing in front of the vending machine – usually the latter choice because it’s the cheaper of the two. Such is lunch today – sun chips from Mr. Vending. Dinner, as usual is healthy – because i try to cook healthy at all times. Salmon marinated in all things Asian with steamed veggies. Brown rice on the side. Such is clean(er) eating. Bad habit to break: not bringing something (anything!) for lunch!

Weight training: nada…unless you count a pilates session as “weight” training. Lots of stomach (core) exercises and a few inner/outer thigh moves. No arm exercises.

Cardio: zilch. Tomorrow will be a 45 minute session to make up for the fact that last night was only 25, a real quickie.

Yoga: Tuesday is all about standing poses. Nothing really bothers me about this sequence. It’s literally a variation of warrior poses and Sun Salutations. Seemed straightforward enough.

Day Two

Day Two sukked in terms of clean eating. For the billionth time i forgot my lunch on the kitchen counter & ended up eating a candy bar out out the vending machine. ugh. For dinner i made marinated pork and peas. Simple and to the point. Despite the nasty choice at lunch i was able to keep my portion down at dinner.

Cardio:
Got on the treadmill while the pork was cooking & ran 2.49 in 25 minutes. Not too shabby considering i warmed up at a 12 min mile to begin with.

yoga:
Monday is traditionally Sun Salutations. The pose that gives me the hardest time is plank – moving into coba. I would like to perform the push-up like move with strength & grace. My favorite move has got to be downward dog. I love the stretch in my calves.

Weight training:
Nothing with real weights. 30 squats, 90 sit-ups & 20 pushups (full leg).

All in all, a decent day (aside from the gawdawful candy bar). My pseudo trainer, Merrill, brought me more magazines and talked about techniques.

Day One

Clean(er) eating:
Breakfast ~ red pepper, red potato, vidalia onion, veggie sausage, sauteed with shots of balsamic & Tabasco, served with two eggs (one whole, one white), 1/2 slice dry wheat toast & coffee two cups).
Lunch ~ with a friend. Sacraficed healthy to hang out. 5 large chicken fingers with sauces & a glass of water.
Dinner ~ Oriental chicken salad from Friendly’s. Ate 1/3 of the salad without dressing. Water with lemon.

Weight training:
30 shoulder presses (the last set with calf raises)
60 sit-ups (lower abs)
15 sumo squats

Cardio:
None since I ran two days in a row (Friday and Saturday).

Yoga:
Three sets of Sun Salutations.

Because today is Sunday I don’t feel this is a good representation of how my days will actually go. We’ll just have to wait and see…