Today was a lazy day. Even though I didn't get finished with my workout until about 1:30 this afternoon I still felt like I spent most of the day doing nothing, which technically I did but it never usually feels this way. I felt like I wanted to do more but my body was tired and I could hear my shower calling me. Yeah, so I'm just starting to become OK with the idea of sweat. Honestly I've always found sweating to be embarrassing. I was always worried about getting sweat marks, even when I was doing sports. I think a lot of it had/has to do with my certain OCD tendencies that tie in with my anxiety. Today however I had worked up a really big sweat, I literally can't remember the last time I sweat that much. What is weird is that I was totally OK with it. I will admit that the walk back from the gym to my apartment I wasn't loving it so much mostly because it was making me cold, but I wasn't embarrassed by it or even really grossed out by it. It was like I suddenly had the mentally that those sweat spots on my shirt are a sign that I just did some WORK! I just kicked some ass in the gym. Judge me, stare at me, give me funny looks all you want because right now I'm doing ME. Looking back on this moment in my life it feels AWESOME.
Before I get into the boring stuff I have one other thing to mention. I seriously have no appetite during the day. It's not until around 7:00 that I'm actually wanting to eat. I'll eat breakfast and lunch and maybe throw in a snack just so I can get a sufficient amount of calories to still be healthy and even as I get closer to dinner I just put it off because nothing really sounds appealing or appealing enough for me to take the effort to make it. Then suddenly I'm rearing to go. All kinds of ideas pop into my head as to what I should make and then my appetite not just my actual hunger goes crazy! It's really inconvenient but I'm sure it's just a side effect of detoxing from all that holiday food. Anyways, on to the boring stuff.
FOOD
Breakfast: CLIF bar
Lunch: egg, baby spinach, artichoke antipasto, and sandwich thins breakfast sandwich
Snack: some fancy almond and hazelnut nougat, veggie chips
Dinner: some pan-fried tofu with spicy Asian aioli
Dessert: two strawberry, cream cheese, and honey tacos on corn tortillas, mango sorbet [so delicious!]
EXERCISE
C25K: week 2 day 3 on elliptical - kept in on level five and just upped the intensity for the jogging portions
a little arm work [emphasis on little]
ab cycle - 10 crunches, 20 row crunches, 10 leg lift crunches, 10 crunches, 10 bicycle crunches - did it twice with very minimal resting
I really need to work on my stretching habits, specifically actually stretching. As of now all I'm doing are these bedtime yoga poses. They get some pretty decent stretches in but I'm sure it would be a lot more beneficial if I could remember/get the motivation to do them at the end of my workouts.
Before I get into the boring stuff I have one other thing to mention. I seriously have no appetite during the day. It's not until around 7:00 that I'm actually wanting to eat. I'll eat breakfast and lunch and maybe throw in a snack just so I can get a sufficient amount of calories to still be healthy and even as I get closer to dinner I just put it off because nothing really sounds appealing or appealing enough for me to take the effort to make it. Then suddenly I'm rearing to go. All kinds of ideas pop into my head as to what I should make and then my appetite not just my actual hunger goes crazy! It's really inconvenient but I'm sure it's just a side effect of detoxing from all that holiday food. Anyways, on to the boring stuff.
FOOD
Breakfast: CLIF bar
Lunch: egg, baby spinach, artichoke antipasto, and sandwich thins breakfast sandwich
Snack: some fancy almond and hazelnut nougat, veggie chips
Dinner: some pan-fried tofu with spicy Asian aioli
Dessert: two strawberry, cream cheese, and honey tacos on corn tortillas, mango sorbet [so delicious!]
EXERCISE
C25K: week 2 day 3 on elliptical - kept in on level five and just upped the intensity for the jogging portions
a little arm work [emphasis on little]
ab cycle - 10 crunches, 20 row crunches, 10 leg lift crunches, 10 crunches, 10 bicycle crunches - did it twice with very minimal resting
I really need to work on my stretching habits, specifically actually stretching. As of now all I'm doing are these bedtime yoga poses. They get some pretty decent stretches in but I'm sure it would be a lot more beneficial if I could remember/get the motivation to do them at the end of my workouts.
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