I had left over paleo pancakes (elana's pantry silver dollar pancakes) for breakfast - these were delicious and quick and easy to make. I highly recommend them if you're looking for a new pancake recipe. Next time I think I'll add coconut flakes or even blueberries to the batter. The honey was sweet enough that I didn't even use maple syrup or anything on them. Delish.
Lunch/dinner was shrimp cocktail - but without the cocktail sauce. I just thawed jumbo shrimp and mixed in some tomatoes, olive oil, and fresh squeezed lemon juice. (I also had a salad on the side). Dinner was more jumbo shrimp, this time on top of (rather than next to) a salad :-) ...I can't help it, I find a food I like (just like with music) and I eat it until I can eat it no more (or listen to it on repeat, as in the case of music).
Yesterday's workout was some absurd set of kettlebell and medicine ball circuits. The goal was to see how long it would take you to do 50/40/30 of 5 different exercises, twice over. Obvs, I chose the 30 rep sets and it took me 31:12. We'll be re-assessed again and hopefully, I'll get through this quicker next time.
Today's food: eggs and turkey bacon for breakfast; grilled chicken salad for lunch; a cup or so of blueberries; and a coconut milk yogurt. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do for dinner. I'll update this later when I figure that out. Maybe sweet potato hash again? That was SO good - you guys HAVE to try it.
Today's workout: RUNNING. FUCKING RUNNING. I HATE THE FUCKING RUNNING. like, as in 100 yard (or meter? i don't know) sprints. FUCK FUCK FUCK. I was about as slow as the 14 month pregnant chick that was working out with us. We had to run 100 yards (or meters? it was the length of a parking lot) and then power walk back.... as many times as possible for 15 MINUTES. Apparently this is how you get fast. We'll see about that. All I know is that I have never felt so in touch with my fucking hamstrings as I have these past two weeks. OH and my fucking boobs kept flying all over the place. OH, wait, before we did the running, there was JUMPING. FUCKING JUMPING. I don't know what I dislike more. We had to do a broad jump that was measured (best of 3 was taken)..I got 4'5". Yeah, i think that pregnant lady went farter than I did. To end this joyous workout, we did some ridiculous core workout where we had to do an exercise for the length of time it took one person to run a short distance (like a 1/4 of the parking lot). When that person came back, the next person would get up to run that distance while we moved onto a new core exercise. And this went on for about....10 people/10 core exercises. Maybe more, maybe less. I don't know, I was pretty dead by this time. This better get easier...because all I feel right now is how hard it is and how challenging it is for me.
Today my ____ is: (1 is the worst, 10 is the best)
- stress: 4/10 - not too stressed, had a good day at work with my minions/bad day w/ one of my clients and have to do some work tonight, but I'm feeling ok about it.
- anxiety: 5/10 - i don't feel totally relaxed, but i also don't really feel anxious...
- energy: 5/10 - thank goodness, i have some energy back.
- mental focus: 4/10 - not as foggy as last week, but still feel some "residual" fogginess
- fitness: 1/10 - when a 45 month pregnant woman laps you during sprints, you feel pretty out of shape :-(
- quality of sleep: 5/10 - I think i need to go to bed earlier. I only woke up once (at 4am) and then woke up for real at 6:30 - so that was better than usual.
- happiness: 6/10 - i feel ok today, had a relatively good day at work (minus my idiot clients), left in time to come home, watch an episode of HIMYM, went to workout/torture myself, and now am looking forward to dinner.
- financial discipline: New indicators: (1) ahead of schedule/ (2) on track/(3) behind schedule/ (4) holy shit what did I just do. Today, I'll give myself a 2. I spent more than I wanted to this weekend, but less than I expected too, so I think overall I ended up saving $ on what could've been a really expensive weekend (with the 2 day festival).
Oh, and here's a picture of my ugly rainbooties. Thoughts? I went to 3 stores on Sunday and these were the only ones I could find :-(
duuuude. your bootcamp workout reminds me of the clusterf*ck that was track and field in high school... when chaya was there and they had no coach for the weight team, it was all fun and games. when i got there, they FOUND A COACH for the weight team, and i remember her saying two things:
ReplyDeleteto our whole team - "you guys are gonna run more than the runners will"
to me in particular - "you have no muscles in your legs. i'm gonna change that"
for the record, she did change that. also, at some point, i had to run bleachers for track, and i fell on my knees afterwards (like tried to jump off a little half wall and landed on my feet and immediately collapsed onto my knees in front of everyone and was so tired that i wasn't even embarrassed).
annnnnywayyyyy all of that is to say that i am so impressed by you. and that you shouldn't compare yourself to others, but if you feel the need to do so - compare yourself to all the lazy people who sit on their couches all night long and don't do what you've done by committing yourself to a four-week bootcamp class. maybe you're not the most fit person there, but you're doing a whole lot more for yourself than a lot of other people are.
and also, i like your rainbooties. is that weird? if you wanted a new pair, though, i really love mine - the brand is tretorn and i bought them off of zappos.com - they're lightweight and easy to wear.