Weekly recap

My goals this week were to:

1. Make my gym sessions count. Be more efficient with my time and really get my sweat on.
2. Drink more water and tea.
3. Eat more vegetables.

Then I also decided out of the blue to tweet that my fourth goal was to gym it up 5 days in a row, Wednesday through Sunday.

I know there are a lot of people out there who go to the gym every day, and some people who run every day (shout out to Tara, whose blog I just started following) and I totally admire that. For me though, my mental-emotional state of mind just needs a break.

On the other hand, sometimes (often) I need to stop whining and babying myself already and just make a habit of going more often than not.

Monday:
No gym on Monday, because I was whiny and baby-ey. However, I did drink a ton of tea (mango green tea, yum), and also had a dinner chock full of veggies (rice, chicken sausage, with spinach, garlic, broccoli, carrots, and chick peas. It was a hot mess of deliciousness). Plus, I was within my calorie range, which was a welcome change. I felt that Monday a good healthy detox/comeback from the weekend.

Tuesday:
Today was a 12+ hour work day, which impeded any plans of gymming. But I ate some veggies (leftover-broccoli-spinach-rice-smorgasbord was today's lunch), and drank a LOT of water during the day. Check and check.

Wednesday:
Snow day! Made friend rice. Went to the gym and did a solid 40 minutes on the bike, and then 20 minutes on the tread. Didn't drink enough straight water, but bathed my insides with tea pretty much all day. "I'm not drinking liquids, I'm bathing my insides." Kinda cooler?

Thursday:
I ran a 5k on the treadmill without stopping! This is big news!

Thanks Chuck. *brushes shoulders off*

After having not run much at all in about 3 months, I was pleasantly surprised to pull this one out. I was slow (33 minutes slow) but I did it. This makes me feel like I have a good base to build from to get up to an 8-10 mile run pre-tough mudder. I actually felt like I could have run more, too. Not easily, but I could have.

Friday:
40 minutes on the bike. Super sore from yesterday. Still a good workout. Learned that watching videos as opposed to listening to music makes the time go by waaay faster.

Saturday:
I did NOT want to go to the gym today. Procrastinated like a boss, then gave in and booted myself out the door. Walked for an hour on the tread on an incline. Watched a TED talk about the psychology of motivation and happiness, so not only did the time fly by, but now I feel more cultured.

Saturday night, some friends and I went out to this awesome bbq joint and nommed on some pulled pork, mac n cheese, and some drinks, so I was hoping that my Sunday gym session would be legit....

Sunday:
...And it was. Except I didn't go to the gym. I've been dealing with a smidge of a cold that won't go away, and the dry air at the gym isn't helping. That, along with me just being lazy about leaving the apartment, led to an in-home workout, which I based loosely on this:

I have 48 different pins in my "Workouts" Pinterest folder. This is the first one I've actually done.

Separate note: what fresh hell are burpees?? Jesus. Five at a time was rough. On the plus side, jumping jacks were kinda fun. I don't think I've done those since grade school.

I also did some pull up hangs. I can now pull myself up about an inch or two from a hanging position, and hang for a solid 15-20 seconds, whereas before I would just sort of hang for 4 seconds and then promptly die. PROGRESS!

Overall: Goals accomplished!
1. I definitely made my gym sessions count. I was sore this week and did a lot of good work.
2. Drink more water: I'd say an 8 out of 10 on this one.
3. Eat more veggies. I added spinach and brocc whenever I could, so I'll call this a win.

Weigh in this morning: 150.2. Down 1.2 pounds from two weeks ago, and down a lot post-VT weekend. Aiming to be under 150 next week.

Happy kitteh.

Goals for this week:
1. Focus on lifting heavy, doing more push ups and planks, and pull ups. I want sore muscles! (to a point. I would also like to be able to walk and move normally afterwards.)
2. Be in my calorie goal range each day. This is the week before our cruise (!!!), so I'm trying to be a little more strict with myself.

What workouts do you do at home? My buddy Kelsey posted about T25 a couple weeks ago. I've also heard awesome things about Insanity and P90x, etc, so I'm thinking of looking into those. Any other suggestions?