Week 3 Recap

  I hit all my goals this week!  Yeah for being so productive but, that doesn't always happen which is why I'm celebrating.  You have to celebrate the small things.  Even if I only completed one thing I would have said good job and rolled over the other items.

1. I finished and start a new book! I am now onto book number 3.

  So far it's starting out good which always makes reading a book easy, right?!

2. My new recipe of the week was Swedish Meatballs. 

They were ok.  I didn't make the meatballs by hand so I cheated a bit but, I wanted a little more flavor so I will try again.


3. I have a few posts figured out for next week.  That's good enough for me.  Having a direction is better then not.

4. The nails did get painted as well.

A little gold for the week!

5. Lastly my fitness goal was met.  I wanted 15 cardio miles.  With inside lap miles, my job, the elliptical and the spin bike my miles were over 40 miles.  For 2 days of cardio machines I did 15 miles alone. 

I'm going to need to up that numbers!

  Overall my goals weren't that hard but not all goals have to be.  Goals just have to be something you work on accomplishing.  The meal was a benefit for my family.  The book, nails, fitness and blog were for me! 

  Maybe I will work on adding goals for specific reasons or people.  A new week is coming and there's nothing else to do but get ready for it.

9 Days of 30 Day Fitness Challenge Recap

  So at the beginning of the month I made a couple goals.  One of those goals was to workout in one way or the other for the month of Dec.  Yes, I did workout before but never everyday. Never with the mindset that I had to get a workout in EVERY day.  Never have I ever worked out with a purpose everyday until now.

Here's what 9 days of working out looks like!

Day 1 I started on the elliptical.

Day 2 I swam laps for 30 minutes.

 





 

Day 3 I worked out at home but not alone!

 



Day 4 I ran on the treadmill.

 



 

Day 5 I rowed 5000m.

Day 6 I took a Piloxing class.

 



 

Day 7 I swam sat in the hot tub and spent minutes in the sauna.

 

Day 8 on the bike.

Day 9 also on the bike.

 

 

 

  I would like to say that's a pretty productive 9 days.  Some of my cardio days included weight training with an exception of the class and swimming days.  I alternate between legs, arms and abs.  This second week I started with protein shakes in the morning and even meal prepped my lunches for the week.

 

  I am not looking for major changes although some pants have slid on a little better then they used to; that's kind of nice let's just be honest.  The scale hasn't moved but, you know what they say its about how your clothes fit!  I just want to condition my body and tone it.  I wanted to set a challenge/goal for myself and 30 days of fitness sounded like a good place to start.  9 days down 3 weeks to go!  See what I did there?  The weeks were less then the days so I am fooling myself.

 

 

  If you feel motivated to join me I would love to hear your goals whether they are fitness related or not.  What are you currently challenging yourself with?  Finish reading one more book before the end of the month?  Finish shopping a week ahead of Christmas?  

 

Day 2 of 30 complete

  This day started out so good.  I woke up focused. Satisfied I had did well the first day and ready to take on the second.  I made an awesome smoothie after figuring out what I was finally going to have.  I am a breakfast eater and I had read that you get a better workout in if you eat something before hand so I always try to.  I settled on a peach oatmeal smoothie and I am glad I did.  I did use almond milk

that I bought for health reasons but I do drink and prefer good old cows milk but I thought I would experiment with almond milk on this journey.  I however did not buy the Greek yogurt.  I have the good old fatty stuff.  I know you can make you own and I have not messed with that yet.  This yogurt called for both and obviously I used the almond milk but just skipped the yogurt all together.  I guess it would have been thicker but it was just fine!

Workout went great and then I saw what day it was

Cows Appreciation Day at Chick Fil A.

If you dress like a cow you get a free meal. Which is great. It was me and two calves! Free lunch.  Well if you have discipline that's fine. They have salads for those people but I their fries are right up there on my list of (I know your just had surgery and can eat real food what do you want me to bring in for you list) ((and sweet tea)) So I eat the chicken sandwich meal with fries and a sweet tea. BUT it was one and that is huge for me.  I could win a sweet tea competition if there was one. (Note to self to Google that)

However the good thing from this was it was late for lunch and early for dinner so I was not hungry but, you are supposed to eat so I made a bowl of veggies to finish my night off.

There it is people my meals for the day.  I am just trying to keep it real. I am accountable for my own actions and results.

However ending this story with my workout will show you my dedication  and determination.  

My workout consisted of

 33 minutes on the elliptical, 

15 on the treadmill

various weights for legs

Late night jog around my neighborhood at 2.56 miles!

That was my day.  There's always tomorrow  and as far as I know nothing is being celebrated!!

Recipe credit:peach-oat-breakfast-smoothie/

Day 1 of 30 day healthy challenge

  Most of you do not know me but have gotten a good idea based on what I write  about what's important to me, what I like, my hobbies or aspirations.  If you read in between the lines you see I do love to eat

 and workout.

 Not necessarily the best two compatible things.   At least in my case.  I overeat the bad things and work my butt off which means I will only see small changes.  I have a deep relationship with sweet tea.  I was born in the North where it was a luxury and now where I reside it's second nature.  I can get it everywhere.  I have even learned I like flavored such as raspberry and a Teavana brand.  Tea is good but the sugar that I am ingesting not so good I hear.  So I definitely lack in good drinking choices.  I go days without drinking but if I eat out I will down 3-4 or more glasses of tea.  So this challenge is also keeping me on track with consuming water; not just drinking it but actually drinking at all.

I post a lot of my drinking water containers on twitter. Making fun of myself calling it camouflaged water as I drink it from my Dunking Donuts cup

or Starbucks cup.  I even had it out in a big gulp cup but didn't successfully finish that before it was left unattended and dumped down the sink.

 

Well I started on the overindulgence of drinking water last week and my 30 day challenge started today.  So I am going to hold myself accountable with you guys (and the fitness group that started it).

Our mission and I did choose to accept it was to. 1) post our meals, water consumption and workouts 2) take before pics and measurements 3) Adhere to the rules and wait and watch the transformation.

I am excited because I am feeling more serious this time and usually bomb out but I'm focused.  Summer is still here and there is a chance I can walk around the pool with some confidence.  I have posted various pictures on the other social media sites but will stick with food and exercise with you guys.  Eventually I would like to add a quick easy workout to my you tube channel but I am still working on that.

For now I invite you to join me on this journey.  I will have bad food choices I can guarantee you that but my goal is too have more good ones than bad.  That cheesecake picture was from last week and I have eaten out a few more times and successfully declined dessert. (Which is a HUGE feat for me)

My journey will only be with healthy food or food in general. No supplements, protein shakes or diet meals.  Definitely exercise which I enjoy consisting of anything and everything.  My muscle content is on certain parts of me and other areas lack drastically.  I plan to get my body on the same track.

Day 1 meals!

Peaches and bananas for breakfast with my water. Lunch was a salad with cucumbers, carrots and tuna fish sprinkled with garlic and onion powder with more water. Dinner was 1 hard beef taco and 1/4 Spanish rice at a local restaurant with a sweet tea and more water.  I drank about 91 oz of water today!!

My workout included a bike ride to my gym and back 3.78 miles, 12 laps in the pool and various weight training with my arms and legs.

I do workout for the muscle tone not to be skinny.  I have a focus of what I want to look like and what I don't want to look like. Sadly I do not know if or how much weight I can lose or just only tone what I have.  I will deal with that as it comes. Everything I do is attainable by anyone. I am not lifting hundreds of pounds, running or biking marathons.  Sometimes my kids go with me so it's not always about speed as much as it is about just moving.