Day 2, FitWit Bootcamp

I don't have a picture to share today, but honestly, I ate pretty much exactly the same as yesterday's meals, with a few tweaks:
- I had 2 eggs today instead of 1 (and also had 3 slices of turkey bacon, asparagus, tomatoes, and added some sauteed garlic to the mix)
- I drank some hot water with lemon, with my breakfast. I don't really know why that is being touted as "healthy" but it tasted good. I also had my coffee at work sans sugar! (this does not include the sugar that is in the little mini-coffeemate that I put into my coffee...)
- Work was STUPID busy today so I had coconut milk yogurt as a snack and didn't have lunch until 4:30 (which was the same as yesterdays - basically, a grilled chicken salad).
- I ate an orange after bootcamp

It's almost 10pm and I haven't had dinner yet. I'm not sure what I'll have/if anything - I AM BEAT!

Today's workout was with the "vets" - we were partnered up and had to go through a series of exercises at different stations. This is what we had to do in an hour:

50 pullups (max 10) - Kim and I did not get to this
100 Pushups (max 10) - Kim and I got to 50
150 Squats (max 15) - We did this! (first...which was probably not a very strategic move because we were pretty beat afterwards)
200 Supermans (max 20) - Did this too!
400 Lunges total (max 40) - Hell no
200 Double Unders (max 20) or 1,000 Singles (max 100) - I think we got to about 400 singles or so - we lost count hahaha
20 Touch Drill (100 yards, max 2) - yup, did this too.

Chaya, I thought of you as I was doing the pushups! Those things can really wreck your neck lol.

I am really happy with what we did. I don't know if anyone got through all of those exercises in the hour we had. I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I think it was even FUN... and I'm looking forward to Thursday's workout!! (tomorrow is an off day - thank goodness, I have to do laundry, buy some new workout clothes, catch up on GH!)

After bootcamp, we had a nutrition talk with one of the trainers. She was pretty bad (bad speaker, I felt bad for her) - but you could tell she was knowledgeable. I bet she'd be better 1:1 so I may try to take advantage of her expertise throughout this bootcamp month. She's pretty jacked and is super curious about nutrition. Key takeways for me, from the nutrition talk, were:

1. Do your own research. Try to figure out what's propaganda versus real science (now, how to do that is an entirely different question).
2. Experiment. Find what types and combinations of works for your body and health.
3. Gluten is bad. (I think I secretly have known this but have been ignoring the physical pains/proof of the "badness").
4. Soy is bad. (Same side note as above.)
5. I am not giving up wine for anybody. I don't care you who are or how fit you are or what you say. So fuck you and give me my glass of wine :-) (Though, I will admit to be drinking a glass of carbonated water as I type this...)
6. Sugar is bad and addictive. This, I for sure know and can personally attest to its addictive qualities.
7. There is a sustainable aspect to food - how animals are raised, how vegetables are tended to (addressing the side effects of pesticides), what sort of enviromental foot print is left when we consider what it takes to get food from the farm to our table, etc. I hear the hippy foodie wackos talk about this all time - especially in my line of work - but luckily, I now live in an area that is abundant with farmers markets and general access to affordable healthy, sustainable food options (some of the "lower end" grocery stores here have fantastic organic sections - it's' amazing).
8. There are different kinds - and flavors - of olive oil. The ones that smell better are worse for cooking with - just use those as flavor enhancers. After hearing that, it made me want to do a olive oil tasting! I just used to buy EVOO - whichever was on sale or sounded most "Italian" hahahaha...never considered that its smell or taste actually meant anything.
9. I love my cats.
10. Hahaha, I put that in to see if anyone would actually read this far down (and to make it to 10 points haha).

Today my ____ is:
- stress: 7/10 (today was a crazy stressful day at work; had a big meeting with CDC where I was, yet again disappointed by the lack of vision of our nation's health agency...)
- anxiety: 7/10
- energy: 5/10
- mental focus: 4/10
- fitness: 3/10 (i did more than I thought i was capable of today but I have a *long* way to go)
- quality of sleep: 4/10
- happiness: 5/10
- financial health: 6.5/10 (I have grand plans in place here, but need to give them time to actually WORK haha) (and thanks to Chaya for this addition! Interestingly, I read an article somewhere about how people who are financially "fit" are also able to lose weight..or something like that. I bet it has to do with being able to stick with small changes/habits until you see the big picture change.) I wonder if we could create some sort of "financial boot camp"....

Ok, so I'm pooped. Looking forward to a good night's sleep. Happy that tomorrow is an off day. Looking forward to Thursday's workout!! WOOOOOOO!!