Everywhere I research online, I find an article about fitness and dieting AND another article that completely disproves the prior article! There is nothing worse than too much disconnected information! As usual, I have to go back to what my grandfather referred to as “your own common sense”. It is very frustrating for me – why does everything have to be over analyzed, over processed and over dissected? I’m going to take Tao’s advice and “See Simplicity in the Complicated”…
I am also going to continue with the basic building blocks throughout our routine and I HAVE TO get busy on our diets! This morning we completed our 3 miles – tried something new (letting the girls determine the amount of effort they want to put towards their results…) BIG mistake. The first reason is because I don’t like being that far ahead of the girls at that time of morning and the second reason is because they WALKED the 3rd mile! So, I will have to compromise somehow, because I DO want to teach them the lesson of “getting out of it, what you put in” – a 1 week timeframe was recommended by CL, so we will see what happens.
My legs hurt so badly from helping out in 2 different renovations over the weekend. If you want to get in really good shape become a contractor – one that actually does the work! With that being written, Wednesday has officially become Hell Day instead of Hump Day around here. We’ll see if we can survive the whole workout. I’ve designed another one WITHOUT my level of conditioning in mind! Oh boy…
On a side note: I have designed and ordered our t-shirts. The ones that I said I was going to do a few weeks ago. These are much simpler than what I was going to do in an earlier idea. These will be the ones that we wear during our 1st 5k run in four weeks. I will send pictures once I get them in! Super excited! I think my mom should do it with us – she has walked (count them) 3 days in a row! I am so proud of her!
Oh yeah, beginning in 2 weeks, we will begin incorporating Yoga and Meditation into our weekly routines. At least once a week – maybe this will help us all learn to calm our minds of the thousands of thoughts and worries over things that haven’t even happened yet. Kitty made the soccer team and next month she will have to try out for Volleyball AND Tennis. She made the teams last year, but she has already begun to worry…so maybe this will help her!
This week we will focus on eating better (AGAIN) and drinking more water – I had a Dr. Pepper yesterday AND today! I thought it would help boost my energy, but it just made me bloated. Sucks… Do you have any plans or goals this week?
I will put more focus into my eating as well, this morning I had a protein shake after our run, then around 9 had plain oatmeal, lunch was a turkey sandwich on wheat and some "Feel'n healthy' trail mix, afternoon snack was a white flesh peach, and I just had a "planters nutrition energy bar. (I will need that for spin tonight!) For dinner tonight I plan on having grilled chicken on a salad. I am tracking all of this on thedailyplate.com. It is a great tool to use for watching calorie intake and you can log your work outs on there as well.
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