21 Day fix take two, round one....ACTION!!

If you haven't figured it out by my lack of posting something came up.  It always seems that something comes up when I start a diet.  As I stated in my last post I had a sick kiddo on Sunday night and so I missed my work out on Monday, then Tuesday my old friend my eye herpes started coming back.  I was hoping I could avoid it with drops but it just kept on getting worse until I couldn't look at my phone let alone a computer screen or the TV.  Of course I picked up extra hours this last week and so I took tons of pain meds to get through work on and finally went to the Dr on Thursday and they verified it was back, and my eye ball was swollen up so we had to dilate it again which made everything that involved light for the next couple days impossible.

Needless to say my plan to get right back on track on Tuesday was delayed then delayed further and further until I am officially out of the running of my share of the 1.5 million.  But I believe in this program so much that even with out the 1.5 million dollar diet bet I am going to continue my journey.  Tomorrow is will be 21 Day fix, day one, Round one (Take 2).  I can still complete 2 full rounds before our vacation and that is super exciting! Be ready for more frequent post again I plan to post every day of the 21 Day fix. :-) Be talking to you soon!

A sick little one and NO sleep..

21 Day Challenge, Round 1, Day 8

I was up until after 3 AM with a sick kiddo last night, then he woke up again at 5 AM. By the time my alarm went off at 6:00 I got around 2.5- 3 hrs of sleep total. He was so miserable he missed a day of school already.  So I ended up staying at home and not feeling that well myself. I am not sure if I also have the nasty cold he has. But I've been whooped. Today was not a diet or exercise day again.  Tomorrow I need to get back on with it. I am setting up some motivation around my bedroom and bathroom and I'll share pics hopefully tomorrow.  I just wanted to stop in and say while I didn't exercise or really diet today I did take a larger step toward my commitment to this program.  I'll explain this later.... ;-)

It was just one of those days....

21 Day fix, Round 1, Day 7

Again in with the goal of being completely transparent through the whole 21 day fix process. here is some more honestly for today.

After my disaster of a dinner last night the craziness continued. This morning we woke up late and went running out the door to go to church. No time for breakfast for anyone let alone making myself a shakeology. We then went out to lunch after church, and while I didn't eat bad choices I am pretty sure I ate too much.  Today was the Seahawks first official game of the season and that just screams eat junk food.  While I didn't got the wings and mini taco route that is our normal game fare, I did make some chocolate covered strawberries and yes I ate them.  Then out of no where I am exhausted, stuffy and sneezy. Not sure if it was allergies out of the blue but it could be a cold. You'll see why later.  I fell asleep sitting up during half time of the Seahawk game.  I woke up at the beginning of the 4th quarter and felt a little better, I told Hubby while dinner is cooking I wanted to try to do my work out.  I just get dinner in the oven and my youngest starts screaming and crying from the back yard.  He broke a glass jar out there last weekend and we apparently missed a piece of glass while cleaning it up.  He stepped on it and it was stuck in one foot and in attempts to get it out he rubbed the bottom of that foot on the top of his other foot and cut the crap out of the top of that foot.  Keeping in mind he was barefoot outside on our patio not only was there just cuts but there was gravel/dirt in his cuts. Blood was everywhere! Poor kid had never seen so much blood and he kept asking if he was going to live. We had to make sure the glass wasn't still in the cuts, needless to say that is a very painful thing to do to anyone. Especially to a 6 year old that is certain this amount of blood is almost all he has in his little body. An hour later we finally get the last piece of gravel out of the cut and felt confident that there was no glass left in it.  Dinner had been done for about 45 mins and was getting cold. We sat ate and then it was time to put kids to bed. Finally got the kids in bed and then my youngest who as already had quite the night woke up with a miserable cold. So you know what I did?  I ate ice-cream and never worked out.  It was just one of those days.

Now I am up super late because I am trying to help my little boy who refuses to take any medicine, sleep with massive amounts of snot running down his throat.  I am trying to think positive about tomorrow but I am to tired to think right now. Talk to you all tomorrow.

Stupid scale....

I had toyed with the thought of not weighing myself at all until the end of the 21 Day fix and just see what the final results were. I know the scale can vary and it always seems to be heavier on a weigh in day.  Well yesterday morning at 6AM I stepped on the scale and was shocked to see myself down 3 lbs since Monday.  I felt really good all day but then this morning thinking that because I can weigh myself later in the morning, since it is Saturday, I will weigh less. BIG FAT NOPE!! I was heavier today than yesterday.  UGH!!! The reason I was thinking about the scale is this small fluctuation of less than a pound throws me into a downward spiral, causing massive binging on junk food and

It is funny that my first instinct was to eat something but instead I put on my work out clothes did my Dirty 30 work out the morning then took Loki for a walk.  While my natural reaction was quit and eat it didn't take hold like it normally does.  I thought do you work out and you probably just need to drink more water today.

Tonight however all hell broke lose on my diet and I feel just awful about the whole thing.  We were invited to do a local wine walk and dinner afterwards with some friends of ours.  I told hubby I don't know if we can because what would I eat at the restaurant. We hoped for the best and went out with our friends. I don't drink so not having the wine was no problem. Our friends made reservations at a local place for dinner and I kid you not when I say there was NOTHING on the list that was diet friendly. Granted I could have ordered a side salad but at this point I wasn't just hungry I was HANGRY!  They had fried food, burgers, pasta and 18 oz Ribeye steaks.  I looked over the menu 3 times and finally decided the burger will have just to do tonight.  It was a very good burger and I didn't eat it all and I didn't eat all my fries. It was a great night spent with friends but I feel like it I failed.  The difference will be this time if I can keep going.  Not let this derail me completely and keep going and start fresh tomorrow.

5:45 AM

My youngest woke up at around 5:30 from a bad dream. At this point hubby is already almost out the door to work and the boys and I have to be up by 6:30 to have time to wake up, eat breakfast, get dressed and out the door.  I think I can have another whole hour if DS2 will just go back to sleep at 5:45 it was very apparent that he would not be going back to sleep. So as I am laying bed and DS2 is watching cartoons on my iPad I say out loud. I really should just get up and do my work out for the day and get it done.  To which my youngest jumps out of my bed and yell "YES MOMMY! Lets go! I'll watch you!" as he runs into the TV room where I do my work outs. *sigh*  this kid I tell ya.

I don't know if it was just to early or what but I was not feeling my Cardio fix this morning.  Lets just touch on the fact that I can not do a burpee. I tried to do the modified burpees and I really only got like 3 1/2 done in the 60 second reps. As of right now I can not even do one burpee.

I want this and I don't want to do that!!!!

21 Day Fix Day, Round 1, Day 4- Active recovery day. Pilates....

A couple other things happened today. I may have sent a text to my husband that had a bunch of junk food emoji's and the the sad crying face.  I may have told him I was in mourning for my junk food.  So keep this in mind when I tell you at Target I had talked myself into a bag of kit kat bites.  Knowing that 3 times a week we can swap one of our carb containers for a treat I thought even though kit kats are not really on the list and they may be a little high on the calorie side. I am just going to use my treat for these.  I was putting my stuff down on the counter to check out and with a big sigh and a small stomp of my foot, I put them back. You could say that is a victory but the thought of not eating them still makes me cranky. LOL!

The second thing that happened today was the fact that I am just spent, my kids started school yesterday, new school and Kindergarten for my youngest and he isn't super excited about the whole thing.  Anyways so my youngest has been watching me do my work outs and he has been asking questions like why do you do exercise? I tell him because Mommy is trying to get healthy.  Tonight I really didn't want to work out. I kept stalling and stalling, My kitchen was a mess and I spent all night cleaning it, yes it was really that bad. By the time that was done it was the kids bed time and all that goes along with that. So I told Hubby I am not going to get my work out done today.  DS2 said but why Mommy I said because it is late. His response was that means you don't want to get healthy and trotted his little cute butt upstairs. Yes there was more kicking my feet and another mini temper tantrum and my hubby laughed and I whined all the way up stairs to do my work out.  Again a victory maybe but I am still to cranky about it all to be excited about these victories.

I had to take lots of breaks during the Pilates DVD and I was shaking and every muscle was burning. The last couple days have been full of using muscles I didn't know could be isolated during a work out.

Tomorrow is back to work and the first day I have to go to work after my dropping my kids off at their new school. Up so early and so much to do in the morning. Need to meal prep this weekend! 

I don't think I can walk tomorrow.....

21 Day Fix, round 1, Day 3.....

So far I've been sticking to my meal plan and I have worked out everyday.  Today was the lower body fix and my legs were still sore and it hurt to bike, from the first work out on Monday.  This work out was insane.  I have been doing all the modifications aka easier stuff during these work, and lets take it even another step into the honestly. I have not just been doing the modifications I didn't use weights with the work out today at all. Even the lady doing the modified work out is using light weights and I am not even doing that!! Yet, I am just as sore as when I have a personal trainer pushing me.  I know I said that in my last post but I can't quite get over it.  I am in shock at how sore I am.  I keep asking hubby: "Why did we buy a house with stairs!?!?!"

Coming up next is what they are calling an active recovery day.  It is Pilates and I don't know how that can be considered a recovery day. I'll let you know if it feels like a recovery tomorrow.

1.5 Million Dollars......

Day 1 of Round 1 of the 21 Day Fix.  I have had this for 4 months, I tried it for one day and said screw it.  Thought it's to restrictive, I can eat more on WW. In the past I fall off the WW wagon because of how I use my weekly points. I basically would have a free day every week and have  heard time getting back onto track after that.  My friend who is a Beach Body Coach and the one I ordered from told me that Beach Body was funding a diet bet and I could participate.  The last I heard the pot was at 1.5 Million and I figured that even if I get $20 bucks that would be cool.   After hearing about all the success my friends have been having with the 21 Day Fix lately that I need to give this a real try.  So I ordered some bento boxes from Amazon to pack my lunches each week. Today was Labor Day so we were home all day and I never got my lunches packed for this week hopefully tomorrow after work I can get them packed.

Here is what you need to know about the 21 Day fix.  Thee is no counting points or calories. They have a calculation that tells you how many of each container you get. And you can fill the container to the brim as long as the lid can still go on.  The size of these things seem really small and I was a little concerned but I was pleasantly surprised today when I found my self full and satisfied. Except for fighting this evenings munchies but that is always the hard part of dieting right?  There is also the work outs so today I got my first one in and I followed the modified version and it still kicked my butt! I felt like I do when I work out with a personal trainer but it was at home with my TV.  This is going to be an interesting journey.

Here are what my meals looked like today.

2 Scrambled eggs, strawberries & 1/2 English Muffin w/ Almond Butter

Chocolate Shakology with an Orange

Chicken Quesadilla 

Salad with chicken, apples, grapes and 21 Day fix dressing

Tomorrow I hope schedule for more food for snacks. I realize I was short because I was more concerned about having enough to eat.  I was filling my containers and really probably only needed half of a couple of them and would have had some left over for my snack tonight. Well lesson learned. Tomorrow will be easier to stay on plan but Wednesday is when the boys start school and I will have to get up super early to pull off my work outs and getting the kids off to school then to work.  I am thinking I may have to work out at night but I just don't know where the time is going to be easier to find. I know the morning there is nothing else on my plate at 5:45 AM, except sleep. Or it would have to be done after the kids are in chill mode around 7:30 at night. When I was working out with a trainer last time it was so nice to be done with my work out first thing and not have to think about it after that point.  When it is later it is kind of the thing your thinking about all day and dreading. But knowing my habit of staying up to late and lack of sleep, along with the boys having to get up so much earlier for school. I just don't know if the mornings will be an option but skipping the work outs are not.  One day down 20 more to go for this round.

Darn you Run Disney...

Today was the Disneyland Half Marathon and watching all the updates and post and I wanted to be there and be part of it so bad.  I still want the coast to coast medal and that will require at least 2 more half marathons in my future.  We are going to Disney World for the first time next Nov and we will miss the Disney Wine and Dine Half.  Not to mention we are using up all our time share points through 2018 for our WDW trip.  I want to do these runs so bad and yet I have been feeling to old.  I keep on thinking by the time I can actually do this I am going to be almost 40 and that scares the crap out of me.  I think part of the reason I feel old at 36 is because I had such young parents. My Mom and Dad got married at 17 & 20 and my mom had me when she was 20. So when my Mom was my age, I was 16.  How did I get to be 36 years old and not have accomplished the health goals that I've been trying to accomplish for 6 years?  Looking back time goes by so fast but in the midst of it the effort doesn't feel worth it.  What is one more day with out dieting? I really won't matter if I put this off a little bit longer.  But that little bit has turned into 6 years. I don't want to be blogging the same thing in another year wondering where did time go. Change is coming and needs to come to stay.

Running has been the excuse..

At work the other day someone asked me when my next run is.  A large part of me does miss running, races and getting medals. It has been officially over a year since I really ran.  Looking back it seems like the Tinker Bell Half Marathon was just a few months ago, certainly not 15 months ago.  I have not had any real activity since then. No wonder my feet ache after I am on them for to long, my body hurts after a day of cleaning the house or grocery shopping.  My first thought is I need to start running again.  Remember when I told you about the new Beach Body program I got 3 almost 4 months ago called the 21 Day Fix.  I have yet to start it but randomly I have found out several people I am surrounded by have done the 21 Day fix in the last few months, with great success. One of them in 2 rounds(42 days) of the 21 day fix lost 22 lbs and 20 inches!!!  I tell myself I really need to give this a try. Yes it is more restrictive than WW but you know what, I probably need that right now. This program requires you to work out 7 days a week with the work out DVD's the provided with the package.  7 DAYS A WEEK!?!?!  I can't even stick to the C25K lately how on earth am I going to work out 7 DAYS A WEEK?!?!?!  I think surly I must be able to skip the work outs if I do my C25K training. I am sure I must be able to count those as my work out those days.  I contacted my Beach Body Coach and found out I am very wrong.  I am welcome to do that on top of my work outs I still must do my other work outs. Well WTFrick?!?!  I don't want to work out even more!  I started searching online certain I read somewhere that you can substitute your runs for work outs. Even people training for a marathon didn't!  Well Crap!! I then tell myself well if I can't run maybe I shouldn't do this program.  Running had officially become my excuse for not using this program for the last month or so.

Well I've decided it is time to give this the full 21 days. I know so many people that have had success with this and it still has all the positive. And in perfect timing there is a new challenge diet bet group through beach body that starts on 9/5. Lots of prep work in the next couple days.