This weekend there was no formal workouts. We spent most of the weekend cleaning house, washing laundry, and practicing shooting sporting clays. (Yes, my husband and I shoot and we are getting ready for the State Championship this week.) So, even though there were no formal workouts, we definitely burned plenty of calories!
This morning was a whole different story! I just knew that I was going to sleep in – my whole body has been exhausted for several days. Four or five hours out in the heat Saturday AND Sunday, didn’t help any either! My motivation has slowly been disappearing. I guess it has decided that it has more fun in the closet drinking wine with my will power. But again, this is not all about me!
I went to the store last night and bought me and the girls some multivitamins. I was going to buy some of that Alli stuff (the pills that absorb some of the fat you eat and then you poop it out…), but there was a plastic cover over them that read “Lift Here Alarm Will Sound” (It’s at HEB check it out), so I chickened out – I didn’t want to be the idiot standing there waiting for someone to open the cover while the alarm is screaming “look at me – I need to poop!” Anyway, back to the multivitamins, I figured that my body needs a boost. I have been eating healthier, but not healthy enough to support the early morning activity and definitely not enough to support the torture Jillian Michaels put me through! I took a vitamin last night (washed it down with a Mojito) and I think it’s the only reason that I got up this morning! Seriously!
5am – didn’t even fight it this morning. I got up and got the girls ready. Off to pick up my friend (which she duly noted that I was starting to pick her up earlier and earlier-but really I had been late the other times…shhh). My goal was 4 miles! We have already done it before and since we were running on time and had an extra 10 minutes – we could do it again! OH YEAH!
It didn’t happen.
(Sorry, my husband just texted me inviting me to lunch today – that seldom happens – wonder what he did wrong…or maybe he has seen how/what I’ve been eating…hmmmm?)
Mile 1 - done and over with like a pro. (Well a pro that runs and walks a mile in 13 minutes.) Mile 2 – we increased our running time which meant that we slowed down our walking time to recover – not good! At the end of mile 2 the girls had dropped back behind me closer to my friend. She had fallen behind because she has a hurt foot; however, she was still out there pushing herself. I turned the last corner of mile 2 and was approaching the last running stretch when I noticed that there was a lady up ahead, across the street speed walking. She had big strides and her arms were in full swing with every step. Here I go; I start to jog the last stretch. I don’t know why, but I noticed that I wasn’t catching up to her. Am I really jogging that slowly? So, I speed up. I feel like my heart is about to come out of my chest – I must have been running full speed for a whole 10 seconds before I slowed down. I still never caught up to her – pitiful! I turn the corner to start mile 3 and I am mad. I am mad because the girls were way behind and not pushing themselves AND they weren’t in front of me, so I couldn’t yell at them. Mile 3 and they’re lollygagging! I end up a half mile ahead of them and all I can think about is that I wish I had a bullhorn!
I get done and I’m waiting on them 9 minutes to finish! I could have almost been half way through mile 4, but no – I’m waiting on them! This will NOT happen again! They will NOT fall behind me again! We are not out here to socialize and sight-see! Their punishment – Jillian Michaels!!!!! Hahahahahah!
We will be gone 4 days this week to the State shoot and I don’t want the girls to fall behind. My mom is in charge and I will definitely be leaving a long list of do’s and don’ts, but I still worry. I’ll probably have to keep sending them voice texts with “are you making good choices?” on them over and over.
We still have to weigh-in on Wednesdays, so I keep preaching about how our choices will guide the direction of our results. On a side note: even though my body is feeling exhausted, my muscles are no longer sore. Which means that I need to do the Jillian Michaels workout again, or what I’m really hoping it means is that it does get easier the longer you continue.
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