The continued challenges of my "March
Madness" quest to exercise every single day in the month.
It's the middle of the month and my energy is
clearly waning. Not only for blogging, but also for doing actual workouts. It
didn't help matters that I had my Sunday weigh-in with my nutritionist and it
didn't go well. The great stuffing of my face of 2012 (see the last post's food confession)
didn't help. But Monday starts a new week and a juice cleanse… so hopefully
that'll get me back on track.
Thursday - March 14th
I didn't do my
normal double trouble Thursday workout of Training with Tara at the crack of dawn and
yoga at night, because yoga got cancelled. But I still did a pretty tough
training session that ended with these cruel leg raises where you laid on your
back and then lift your legs, and then make a diamond shape in the air with
them. I am terrible at describing this stuff, but let's just say they were
pretty painful and they worked out some lower ab muscles I wasn't sure existed.
I ended my day
trying out a few yoga poses I saw on Tumblr… this was as bad of an idea as it
sounds. Thankfully I stopped before I dislocated something.
Friday - March 15th
Early morning
bootcamp, which was really funny for some reason. Everyone was joking around
and I had gotten a full night's sleep (almost 6 whole hours!) so I was up and
at 'em. It was burpee heavy, and that was great. But then she had us doing
these hopping things where you raise a knee in front of you and then put it
down and raise the same knee out to the side. Let's just say, my Lord of the
Dance impression was part of the day's amusements.
After work I was
going to my friend's house to see her baby and do some shopping, and they live
on the upper west side. It wasn't appallingly cold out, so I decided that I'd
walk from my office in midtown, and cut through Central Park. It was beautiful
to meander down the Writer's Walk and by the lake. Probably only about a mile
and a half and took me about 15 minutes longer than it would have if I'd gone
to the subway, but it was well worth it. A nice stress-relieving way to end the
week.
Saturday - March 16th
I had every
intention of getting up and going for a run, but I had missed my normal bus
home on Friday and ended up taking the late/drunk bus (which is no fun if you
aren't drunk) and not getting home until close to 2 AM. So I got to bed about 3
and then when my alarm when off at 7, I just couldn't muster the energy. This
does not bode well for my personal spring training…
I picked Isabel
up at 8:30, we headed to the city because I had to go see a movie screening of
The Croods for work. Well, didn't HAVE to, but I love taking my kid to free
movies when I can make it work with my schedule. I told her that we could
either walk there or back, it was close to 2 miles, but I knew she could do it.
She opted to walk to the theater, so we trekked up to Lincoln Center. It was a
chilly but sunny day, and my cute model did some posing and didn't even
complain that her legs were tired.
After the movie
we went back to NJ, then met quickly with her uncle for lunch and headed off to
a MagiQuest birthday party. I thought that I'd just get to sit around while she
played, but she wanted me to help her. This meant that I basically ran around
in circles at MagiQuest for an hour. We covered some serious ground, especially
as she got the hang of it and started picking up the pace.
Sunday- March 17th We were planning to go for a run as the World's Cutest Personal Trainer and I are doing a 1 mile race next month (she picked it because it goes around the mall parking lot). But when we woke up, it was frigid outside. I don't mind subjecting myself to runs on ridiculously cold days, but I felt like asking my kid to do laps at the outdoor track in sub-freezing temps with a crazy windchill was just too much.
So
we stayed in and snuggled, then went to my Weight Loss Miracle Worker and found
out that the scale was up… significantly after the last two weeks. Isabel told
me that according to The Biggest Loser, I should try to lose weight
not gain it (yeah, thanks), and that she was going to train me and even make me
dinner on Monday (we shall see how THAT goes). You'd think this would have
motivated me to do something, and it might have, but then Isabel had to sell
Girl Scout cookies to get her booth sale badge and we froze outside for two hours.
After
I thawed out, I had a headache and just general exhaustion, so I diagnosed
myself with needing a break and prescribed an afternoon and evening of resting.
Even the World's Cutest Personal Trainer passed out on the couch at 7 PM, which
is very early for her. Who knew selling cookies in the cold was such hard work.
I've
got high hopes for the next week, and am disappointed in myself for getting off
track, but trying not to get totally discouraged. Instead, I'm grabbing my
Excederin (because as I write this Monday AM, that head ache hasn't gone away),
my juice from Danae and a ton of veggies and hoping to turn this bus around
before it goes back to chubby land.
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