Hello again, here to fill you in on my thrilling day in Greenville, North Carolina. Per usual, my alarm went off at 6:25am, per usual, I groaned and dragged my sorry butt out of bed. I made my protein shake, which consisted of 1 1/2 cups of frozen strawberries, 10 oz of water, and 2 scoops of protein powder, for your idle curiosity. Please sit down before you read this next statement. Sitting? Okay great, then I turned on CNN to see what was going on in the world while I drank my shake. I am trying to make this a habit to further educate myself on the big world out there of which I have no idea what's going on. Watching for about 10 minutes, enough to put me back to sleep, I trudged out the door to the gym. I ran a few miles on the treadmill, biked 6 miles, then sat down to stretch out my legs. My legs are starting to look like legs instead of large tree trunks, so I think the workouts are helping! WOO! Every morning at 8:30, along with 3 other women, I begin my weightlifting/cardio class. My trainer, Marc, whoops our behinds every day for a half hour. He combines lifting with plyometrics to keep our heart rates nice and high for the full thirty minutes. Today was Thursday, aka Leg and Chest day. I HATE LEG AND CHEST DAY. So many jump squats I thought my butt was actually going to fall off, thats one way to lose weight I guess? But I digress, we did stations today just using our own body weight to work out with things such as pull-ups, squats on a boss ball (hard surface on one side, half an inflatable ball on the other to promote balance and increase leg strength through stability) and pushups. I am happy to say I can finally do a real pushup! I don't think the Army would look twice at me with how it looks but hey! I did it! After the class I came home, had a piece of whole grain bread with peanut butter, a cup of watermelon (mm my favorite) and a bottle of water.
I decided that I was going to be an actual slug today. Actually not even a slug, because they move, more like a potted plant. I set myself up in my bed with an old favorite show, Gilmore Girls, a cup of tea, and went into cave mode. What is cave mode you ask?! Cave mode: noun. A state in which one lays in an extremely dark room and doesn't leave the same spot unless absolutely necessary. My dear Dad knew I was having a long week, what with my unemployment status and having no friends to the point where I have full conversations with Bails even though she doesn't respond, just poops. I figured its her way of agreeing with me. He sent me beautiful flowers and a teddy bear cause he knew that it would cheer me up. I have the best parents!!
I succesfully completed my cave mode for the duration of the day until dinner time where I rose to nuke 5 chicken nuggets, get 9 almonds, and 1 cup of strawberries for my dinner. DELICIOSO! This does not sound like alot to you all but I am now eating 6 200-300 calorie meals a day so I am nutritional sound, fear not. I had an apple with some cinnamon on it early as well as a 100 calorie bag of pop corn. Eating these small meals keeps my metabolism up all day, and makes me over eat so much less than before because I am never starvin like marvin. I am now watching the Hunger Games on netflix and prepared to go right back to sleep in my cloud of a bed cause why not?! Its somtimes really hard not to be back at JMU with all my friends, but I know that I have to grow up and living the party life is not my life anymore! I am however thrilled that I am going back next weekend to see everyone. I am so lucky to have such great friends there. Anyways time for me to hit the hay here's a pic of Bailey and I from yesterday, love to you all!
High: Getting flowers!!
Low: Just feeling out of sorts about the lack of job
Weather: 90 and sunny, HOT!
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