Day 57 of 90

Taking time for myself means I have more to give when I am present.

Today's Workout: Workout 9

You may have noticed I didn't blog last night.  I wanted to, and it was on my mind while I toddled off to bed, and even while I was in bed.  But it was one of THOSE days.  After I brought baby up to bed, I went to bed myself.  Last glance at the clock read 6:36pm.  I probably do this about once a month, or perhaps every 2 months.  I go to bed so freakishly early.  But it always helps to get me back on track spiritually.

So it was my first time with workout 9 yesterday.  It may be my new fave.  I say MAY be, because it sure is tough, but tough is so good, isn't it?  The warmup caused my heart rate to go from 60 to 180 in about 30 seconds... Okay, that may not be accurate since I have yet to obtain a heart rate monitor... but this is what it felt like.  The moves were challenging, and they were all mostly blends of previous workout sets.  Crabs are back again, only this time they are weighted (weights rest on your abdomen).  I found it began challenging, and again eased up as the circuits progressed.  Another challenge here was the Side Burpees, although burpees really do get easier the more you do.

Food wise was good.  Here I am relying on MFP to remind me what I ate.

Breakfast was one of my brand new banana chocolate chip muffins made with whole wheat flour, and no sugar.  I basically took Jillian's Blueberry Banana Muffin recipe, omitted the blueberries and instead added 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips (the darkest I could find).  Actually, that's a lie... I do have 50% cocao chocolate chips, but I forgot to use them as I have a huge bag of the semi-sweet used for the kids mostly.  But I should have used the 50% cocao.  These turn out light and fluffy, and the right amount of sweet.  Along with the muffin I had a medium Timmies coffee with 2 milk.

After my workout, I again had a banana chocolate chip muffin (um, perhaps my day wasn't as good as I thought!).  This would have been a good time to have a protein smoothie or shake... tsk tsk, next time!

Lunch was a Tomato, Avocado & Cheddar Pita.  These are great when served on fresh pitas, but they do need a plate as the tomato tends to drip into a gooey mess.  And, yum.

Afternoon snack was some Garlic Roasted Pita Chips (from Jillians meal plan) and some roasted garlic hummus.  William also didn't finish his snack of a Blueberry Banana Muffin, so I ended up finishing his.  Three muffins in one day is not good, is it?  Hmmm.

Then, just before running out the door to pick up hubby from work, I had 6 more cookies.  Just six, that's still bad, I know.  One the way home, we stopped at McDonald's for dinner, where I had nothing.  That's right, nothing for me.  Recall I wasn't feeling the best today and hit the hay shortly after getting home.

So that's my day, I was certainly struggling a bit, but it does improve for Thursday!

Good day to all!

Peach