October 27 {Monday}
Its hard to believe that its already the last week of October and I feel like I've only gone backward this month. But I have one more week to turn things around and maybe even drop a few pounds.
It's never easy to balance everything and I find that dividing my energy to all the things I need and want to do is even harder. One thing will ALWAYS take priorty and the rest suffer. This month I put tons of effort toward school and little to myself... for November I am going to try to balance a little better and I already feel I am doing just that.
I've set a goal for this week to at least get out of bed at a decent time in the morning. If I have enough time to get some type of workout in then great, but as long as I am to work on time that's all that really matters. I typically make lunches in the morning, but I've found that if I make them at night then I don't have to stress over it and all I have to do is pack the stuff and out the door I go. This morning proved how much time I spend making lunches and what not. I was out the door around 6:35 and to work by 6:55... and I didn't even have to do my makeup at my desk!! (not that I wear that much makeup anyway).
I'm hoping to make this trend last so that hopefully I can start getting workouts in the morning. When I was with my trainer my workouts were T/Th/Sat from 5:30-6:30 and till 7:30 on Satrudays... and at that point I had to drive 40 mins to get to him so I was up around 4... If I really dedicated myself I could start doing this again and get a good hour's workout in before 6... because in order to be on time I need to be in the shower by 5:50... Maybe I will hit the floor just before 5 tomorrow and see how I feel. Step thinks I'm crazy to just get out of bed and start working out... I find it fully wakes me up.
But anyway, I am for real this time making myself accountable for my eating. And hopefully can keep a 500-700+ deficit daily. I don't think this will be a problem, I just need to write things down and put them into fitday. We didn't make a grocery list for this week, but I told Step I wanted fish for dinner so I see a trip to Whole Foods in our near future.
So workouts for this week are as planned:
Monday: PM Circut or Strength (depends soley on Stephen, if he doesnt want to circut then I will do my Cathe Fredrich Hardcore Max strength).
Tuesday: AM Kickboxing/PM Run 3+ miles
Wednesday: AM abs/PM Salsa
Thursday: AM run 2+ miles (depending on time)/PM Circut or strength
Friday: Loop (early since is halloween!!!)
Satruday: TBA
We ran the loop last Friday and we pushed ourselves a bit. There is an uphill stretch that is about 1 mile long and we always end up walking part of it... well this time I was watching the clock and I told Step okay... we have 10 mins to get to the turn... meaning we would have to run the whole way... and we did it!! But it took us like 10:20, but it was rough. Even Step admitted it was tough.
That's all for now...
Today's Eats
Breakfast:
1 cup Kashi go lean crunch honey almond
1/2 cup ff milk
1 lg banana
2 cups coffee w/dry creamer and sugar