Day 18

Due to my rest day yesterday I didn't make a note but, I am now on Day 18 and I'm still very much into the diet and workouts.  Today is not really a good day as Jan, Sara and family held a funeral for Jan's mom Doris today.  I thought I might be alright, and I did hold myself pretty good but, this would be the first funeral since my mom passed away.  So, to honor "Grannie" and Mom, I am going to continue with my plans to go to the gym today.  I am hoping to get myself lost in the zone and just keep going until I can't go anymore.  This morning I had my usual breakfast of Special K and a banana and unfortunately I did not eat anything for lunch.  As breakfast was a little late this morning I didn't get hungry until around 4 so I just went on to make supper.  I had a tuna salad sandwich for supper on whole wheat bread and a couple celery stalks chopped up in it.  Once that was done I had a bowl full of about 15 or 20 cherries and about 1/2 a cup of blueberries.  It was very good!

 

Tomorrow I have my next session with Jeremy so we'll see how everything goes there.  If he's anything like he was on Monday it should be a good workout.  Tonight I plan on staying in the gym for a couple of hours, and I will probably post an update once I'm done later on this evening.

 

I just got back from my evening workout and boy oh boy was it good!  I completely zoned out and worked out the hardest i've ever worked at the gym tonight!  I started off at the treadmill and I had to go pretty slow to begin with because I had a cramp in the left knee and I thought that maybe I could just walk it out.  So I started off with 5 min at a speed of 1.4.  About 3 min in it was feeling alot better so at 5 min I bumped the speed up to a 2 for another 5 min.  Once again I bumped up the speed to a 2.6 for 5 more min.  Finally I upped it one more time to a 3 speed and did it for 15 min, the longest I have ever done a 3 speed.  It helped that I had music to go to so that I could just focus on a spot and listen to the beat.  Once I hit 30 min I did a cool down for 5 min, wiped off my machine and went to the ladies only room.  Here I did a total of 18 min on the bike and then right afterwards got onto the treadmill again for another 30 min total time.  I feel good, it gave me time to think, and also gave me a good workout.

 

After all was said and done I texted Nikki and we decided to go out for coffee to Timmy's.  We had a really nice chat, talking about the day and fond memories and some other things as well.  I sure am glad I have my buddies in my life!  Thanks Nikki!  Once I got home I did a few stretches on my new exercise mat, juggling my space with the cats and Daisy this time.  LOL  Silly animals!  Then I went over to the stairs and stretched the back just a little more and now I think I am completely done for the night.  I don't really want to do too much so that I can't work out with Jeremy in the morning!  Anyhow, I am off to bed now as it is almost midnight and I must be up by 6 if I want to be ready for tomorrow!  :)