Off schedule...

Last Friday I had a bunch of errands to do and never got a workout in, although it felt like I had been running all day!  Saturday and Sunday I was just feeling lazy and didn't do anything.  Then Monday was a holiday and everyone was home, so it felt more like a weekend, again no workout.  At 6:00 this morning I get a call from a friend saying her daycare provider texted in sick and asking if I could watch her 2 kids.  So, yeah, pretty sure I'll get no workout today.

I hate getting thrown off schedule, it is so hard for me to get back on track.  Sometimes even one day off gives me zero motivation to start again.  Ugh.

Legs of mush...

It took a lot of mental peptalking to get myself on the elliptical today.  At 29 minutes, with 1 minute left, my legs started to feel very shaky.  As I finished up I was almost afraid to try and step off the machine, I wasn't sure my legs would hold me up anymore.

I had previously planned to do one set of lower body strength exercises (squats and lunges) afterward.  I wasn't expecting to feel so depleted after the elliptical though and the idea of torturing my legs anymore made my whole body feel like jello.  But I did some more peptalking, ignored my shaking body, and forced myself through 15 reps of 5 exercises.  It wasn't painful, but every time I went down I was not at all convinced I'd make it back up.

I'm pretty sure I will not be able to make it upstairs to take my shower now.  Or, do anything other than sit in this chair for the rest of the day for that matter.  Oooh but hey, this chair's got wheels, I could wheel myself around the house!

So...so far this week I have done 30 mins elliptical plus upper body strength on Monday, 20 minutes elliptical on Tuesday, 30 mins elliptical plus 20 mins upper body strength on Wednesday, and 30 mins elliptical plus one very weak lower body strength workout on Thursday.  I have also tracked my points for breakfast and lunch every day.  Making great progress towards reaching my goals!

A long time...

It has been a super long time since I posted here.  It has been a super long time since I felt like I should post here.  *sigh*  I did well in January, and then...not so much.  February I got off my routine, then I got sick.  March I swore I'd get back on track, but the next thing I knew it was April.  April I swore I'd get back on track, but the next thing I knew it was May.  And now here it is almost the end of May.  I haven't been keeping track of my points, haven't been working out regularly, have given in to certain foods or certain amounts way too much.  As a result I gained back all the weight I lost, plus some. 

Ugh.

The past couple weeks I have been putting more effort into getting back into the swing of things.  It hasn't been spectacular, but it's been somewhat of an effort at least.  I know what helped back in January was that I made small goals and I knew that I would mess up and made it ok for me to do that.  I expected that I'd slip and not meet every goal and I accepted that without feeling like a failure.  I haven't had that same mind set since then and I really need to get back to it.  Plus the smaller the goal the easier it is for me to reach it, and then I feel good about that and want to keep going.  So...

This week my goal are:
     Food - track breakfast and lunch points every day
     Exercise - workout for a minimum of 20 minutes 4 days