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!