Good morning! How are you going to Bring It today?
The Toothfairy visted our house last night, and the Easter Bunny is hopping by tonight. It's a magical, enchanted place these days! Makes me scared to get up in the middle of the night for a wee, as you never know who or what I'll bump into!
Katie - I'm not sure if you read the weekend posts, but if you do, then I hope you are getting your brain wrapped around everything. The eating plan is a big issue. Just do your best. So you start on Thursday, hey? It's a date! I never bought the P90X supplements, but just subbed my own: Power Bar Harvest Bars and Boost drinks. For the recovery drinks, the ratio is 4:1 carbs
rotein. Yup, the snap & binge is a terrible thing, but is your body's way of coping when it becomes too deprived. I'm glad you're sensitive to it, and know how to prevent it from happening.
TraciX - Huh? You did YOGA, ARX, LEGS & BACK *THEN* did 65 minutes of a modified VIPER.....and you think you're not conditioned?!?! Hit yourself in the head for me, please. I'm still busy dinging DH with the frying pan. You've become dillusional! I need a high-intensity-cardio to do for this Tuesday. The Viper, cardio only, might be what I'm looking for. Or the Gauntlet cardio, followed by HSTA cardio only. Hmmmm. So many choices once you start getting creative. There's a thread on the Video forums that asks about favourite premixes/mish moshes, and the ideas have my head spinning and my muscles salivating. It's sad how excited I get. Yesterday's incident with the lawn mower sounds awful. I agree that someone was watching over DH yesterday. Are you feeling better about it today? I think of some of the near misses my family and I have had in the past and they make me shiver. Our entire lives can change in a speck of a second. Makes me want to ask "Is anyone steering this thing??" Thanks a million for finding that Behind the Scenes link! How was your walk?? What or who did you find? LMAO! I checked out the link you posted the other day, to the Tom Venuto article. Did you know that the guy he interviewed also shares one of my alma maters? My undergraduate degree is from the University of Western Ontario. Just an interesting tidbit I thought I'd share. First Tosca, now Dr. John. Is the universe trying to tell me something?
DebraX - What do you mean, "hopefully the neighbours haven't called social services yet"? Don't you think they SHOULD be called? Good heavens, we're terrible parents! Why doesn't anyone see that? If it takes a village to raise a child, the neighbours are being very negligent! DD and DH had no choice but to tell me. When I came in the door everyone was sitting around with such guilty looks on their faces that I immediately knew something was up! Nobody wanted to make a confession, though. It got dragged out of them almost one word at a time. Thanks for the recipe! I printed it off. I'm going to tuck it away for another occasion because I guess what I was looking for was a "crumble" - the one with the rolled oats in the topping. I found an apple crumble pie recipe on the Allrecipes.com website that seems to be what I'm looking for. Great website, btw. Eionn for you today, huh? I'm getting very jealous of you all. Must...find....Finn yoga!
JeanetteX - I read your post from last night and melted in envy at the description of your afternoon/evening. I want to be like you when I grow up!!!! I'm also really happy to hear how much you're enjoying your new job. It sounds like things are trucking along really well for you these days. Yay! If you rarely cook, what do you eat for dinner every night? I don't understand how someone can rarely cook, unless they eat take-out every night? Plugged oil glands; thank heavens you figured it out and it only took a simple procedure to fix it. Stys look so nasty. I'm not sure how much you'll like Baptiste's Levels 1 and 2 of Power Yoga. Level 1 is really, really basic. I haven't even opened my Level 2. Level 3 is on the advanced side of things, but still not as intense as YogaX. And not as beautifully produced as Yoga Shakti. I hope you get some use out of them. Right now DD#2 is sleeping in her crib, thank heavens! It's the only time she's safe. Ask me again in about an hour, and I'll see if I can figure out the answer! I laughed about your description of how your parents gradually loosened up over the years of parenting. That seems rather typical. Aren't we supposed to grow from being bad parents to good ones, NOT the other way around?
TracyX - All right, I know it's bad now when the only personal Tracy writes is to ask me where my children are! LOL! Thanks for the link to the zip and hollow technique. I remember reading about that yeaaars ago. I have a weak pelvic floor, if my requirement for bladder pads is anything to go by. I should be more regular with my kegels and practice this zip thing. What are you up to today?
Well, I need to go grocery shopping today, since I didn't get around to it yesterday. My lower body isn't feel as bad today as I expected. After the shopping I will do either KenpoX, or StrikeZone. I'm leaning towards KenpoX because the cardio is longer, and I don't think my butt needs to do the drill work in Strikezone. But I *will* give SZ a try some time soon! I do want to do it, gosh dang it.
My meals for yesterday:
Breakfast:
steel cut oatmeal, banana
turkey breast deli meat
Snack:
Boost, drank in between the run and the lower body workout
Lunch:
tuna mixed with ff mayo & lemon juice wrapped in a ww tortilla with lettuce
apple
Snack:
PowerBar double-dipped chocolate Harvest Bar
soymilk, 1 cup
Supper:
baby carrots while cooking dinner
Speedy Shepherd's pie (Weight Watcher's recipe),
acorn squash,
my usual salad with the avocado/bal.vinegar dressing
This took me to 1770 calories, so no bedtime snack for me. When I got noshy around 8pm I had a cup of peppermint tea.
A tip: keep a pack of Listerine breath strips with you at all times. When a non-hunger induced craving hits, or at the end of a meal, have a breath strip. It kills cravings very well! I find it's a nice way to signal my brain that it's time to stop eating.
Have a great day,
SandraX
