Cardio Monday ~ 30/30/30

In the words of Stewie Griffin "What the deuce?" That was my thought around 7:30 this morning. So, cardio day and I have a love/hate relationship, and today it leaned a little more on the hate side.

In the past we did 30 seconds active, 60 seconds rest for 20 rounds. Today CB upgraded us to 30 seconds active, 30 seconds rest, 30 rounds. Cheese and rice I thought my heart was going to beat right out of my chest. Thank you FIB for the "good jobs" and "you can do its" really motivated me when I needed it today.

5 stations because all five of us were there ~ welcome back C ~ burpees, hill climbers, bike, high knees and renegade rows. After the 30 minutes of hate was over I started feeling good, actually it was probably 5-10 minutes after that when I finally could breath again.

Figured out some new recipes for this week to switch up and get out of the boredom stage. New twist on fish and chicken, plus a breakfast smoothie which I had this morning and yummy!

We just finished week 8, half way there! Can't wait for next measurement day.

Need to step it up

So, I've been extremely frustrated with myself the past few workouts. I feel like I'm doing less, but working hard, if that makes any sense. However, I think I've figured out what my problem is. It's an emotional road block, at least that's my theory. I've been thinking about my sister a lot lately and really missing her and talking to her and thinking about all the things I'll never get to do with her again and since I don't usually talk about it I've been keeping it bottled inside and I think that is what has been holding me back in workouts (and probably other stuff too). Now, I just have to figure out how not to let my emotions affect (or is is effect) my workouts. And maybe that's not even it, maybe I'm just getting slower, but I don't like that theory.

Food has been good though. Calories and percentages were just lowered this weekend and so far, no problems at all. I actually really enjoy sitting down with fitday and figuring it all out. My favorite meal is lunch. I have a "salad" everyday, but keep it un-boring.

Today's salad:
2 cups baby spinach
1/2 cup fat free mozz. cheese
1/8 cup walnuts
2 HB egg whites
packet Healthy Selections tuna mixed with spicey brown mustard on top
YUMMY!!!

Just for Gab - Here are the numbers

Pounds Loss: 20.5 pounds
Body Fat Loss: 3.5%
Hips, Waist, Thigh and Upper Arm: 6 inches total loss

Great job to all the girls!! My FIB who lost 7% Fat - YEAH YOU!!!

Ending Week Six

Today is the last day of week six so we did some measuring today, just Erica and I, the other 3 are tomorrow. I was a little nervous about it, but was very happy with the results.

Food this past week was pretty good ~ I switched up what I'd been eating to add a little variety and help get over the boring week I had previously. I had some WW pasta and shrimp one night which was a nice change, but decided pasta was too many carbs for my menu, but still a nice change every once in a while. I also added spicy brown mustard to my dinner, I've been mixing with asparagus to add a little something extra. Let's see what else... peanut butter! I'd been avoiding it the first five weeks, but added it last week to the BBC brownie batter and that was a really nice addition ~ Kevin loves it too.

I'm loving lunch time salads. Been changing and adding new foods each day. One day added apples, I've added HB egg whites, some days walnuts, a couple days I switched the baby spinach with a cup of cucumbers cubed and that was tasty.

I don't have any plans for anything new this week, probably just variations of previous weeks. My numbers might be changing tomorrow, so I haven't planned next weeks menu yet.

This mornings workout was VERY frustrating for me. I didn't feel like I was getting the numbers I should be, but I was really pushing myself as much as I could, not sure what my problem was or if I even had a problem, but was frustrated with myself anyway. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be back on.