Oh thank you belinda i appreciate all your support and feedback. (and everyone in this group)
Your day yesterday sounds like so much fun!
I think you totally deserve a rest day. Definitely if your body says rest, you should.
I spent the last 1 hour or so singing along with the radio(all different kinds of songs) while i rode my recumbent bike. yea i'm in a good mood. It was another really good day. great day for me staying on plan. i hate that phrase, it makes it sounds like i'm following a strict diet with things i can't do or i'll be punished. But, that's what i did. I exercised as much as i could, since i have alot of time that's usually alot. i didn't eat too much. i ate healthy. i really have been trying to work on building my leg muscles more. i'm doing weights with my arms too, push ups etc to keep the calories burning a tad more. can't hurt to have more muscle in my arms. Anyway, focusing on the legs. I've been doing alot of lower body work. squats, lunges etc. i try to fit in a some version of a lower body exercise while i'm doing other things during the day. then later when i get on the bike, or do weights it doesn't take forever to feel it. today i mostly walked up this big hill on the edge of the park. i went up forwards 20 times. backwards...i think i did 20 times too. i lost count. i also did a few walking squats up the hill. maybe 10 each side. 11 step ups on a bench. that was about 30 mins this morning. inside i did more lower body stuff. including about dot com's best butt routine. squats, walking lunges, step ups, quadruple extensions(this is when we are on hands and knees lifting the knee backwards), and one leg squats. i also did some dead lifts today. another thing that's new( the first one was trying to walk up the hill forwards and backwards), i increased my squats weight. i often do them without weights, they really do feel effective it just takes forever to wear me out. when i do use a weight for squats, it's a 25# db. so today i tried using both cast iron 25's doing the squat. even though i was tired i could do a whole set of 12. i surprise myself sometimes
so now i know i can use the 25's for deadlifts and squats. maybe that's all i needed. just increase my weight.
then after the kids came home from school, we took some tours of houses. this was the first time they came with us. the other times, they were in school. they had fun telling us what they liked about the different places. this one doesn't have enough cubboard space mommy(in the kitchen), this one has the stove you like, oh this room is already painted pink...it was fun. we are putting in an offer for our fav. again. hopefully we'll here back sometime tomorrow. the other house we put an offer on, someone put in an offer before us. but this house has lots of updates. completely move in ready. it's really the best house we've looked at. so if it goes through we could be moving in by christmas. we'll see though lol. i've said that before.
edit to add: i'm working abs too. i'm trying to hit every muscle. i needed to work especially hard today. i'm consistently bad at keeping up with the exericise on the weekend. if i don't have doms tomorrow...there's something wrong with me lol.
