ouch!

So, I wasn't too good and missed almost a week doing stuff.  Again, I have plenty of excuses, but I am still mad at myself.  I did the tae bo today, and ugh I am now so tired its ridiculous.  Serves me right for not doing anything for five days...now I have to feel it!  At least I should sleep well tonight.

Sore!

Not sure if it was yesterday's yoga or the day before's tae bo, but my arms were sore this morning.  Not in a bad way, in a good way.  Its odd for such a thing to be delayed for me by two days so I'm somewhat inclined to lean towards it being from yoga, though I can't think of what would have caused that.

I am definitely feeling it now though.  I just did the ten minute cardio today, but I added in all my own stretches and ab exercises to push it a bit.  I had some stuff to do today, so time was a bit crunched.

I'm not pleased with my lunch though.  It wasn't horrible, but I definitely overate.  I had some leftover mac and cheese, some fried shrimp and an avocado.  I probably could have cut it in half and been okay.  I tend to try to finish stuff off when I should stretch it to two meals.  It was really tasty though.  I was good at dinner and only had one piece of chicken.

Yoga

I am definitely going to have to look over my yoga routine.  I think it is a good set of exercises, but it seems a little off.  And it definitely doesn't help that my list isn't in the right order and I have to keep looking up the exercises in my book to remember exactly what they are.  And I think my  list is slightly redundant.  I am going to re-write it by Thursday so that it is better.

Whew!

I went back to the tae bo vid today.  I did all of the parts, in order.  There were only a couple of places that I had to stop.  I felt really good about that.

So, I decided it might be a good idea to start keeping track of my measurements.  I don't own any kind of scale, and I've heard a lot of bad things about tracking by scale.  I know you can track by how well your clothes fit, but I've also had success in the past with measurements.  If nothing else, it will help to keep me motivated.  I can't find the book I used before, and don't feel like looking for it, so I will be mostly going by memory.  I remember measuring my (right) thigh and upper arm, bust, hip and waist.  So that's what I'm going to do now.

Thigh:  28 3/4...Hip 48 1/4...Waist 42....Bust 44...Arm 13...That is around the thickest part, except for the waist which was around the thinnest and the arm which I just did the middle.  I have my measurements from a couple years ago around here somewhere, I'll have to hunt them down sometime and see what they were.

It's funny how we convince ourselves of what we want to believe.  For the longest time I told myself that as long as I went in at the middle I wasn't overweight.  It took me absolutely years (and staring at my pants laying out on the bed and a shirt laid flat) to realize that I would probably always go in at the middle, and that didn't mean anything.

not so bad

I went back to the original ten minute cardio vid today.  I definitely am starting to tell the difference in what I am able to do.  And the reps I have been doing to build arm strength are getting easier too.  I am encouraged by this.  Hopefully I can start picking up the pace and getting somewhere instead of struggling to start.

I am not sure I am doing as well on the food aspect.  I'm not eating any worse, but I don't think I'm making as much headway as I would like.  I still find myself craving (and caving in) more meat than I should probably be eating...and definitely not the healthy proteins I could be eating, but fatty meats.  I have been making an effort to keep eating more veggies...I do like vegetables so that isn't so hard really.  I just need to be more strict with myself and portions.

abs!

I tried the ab boot camp by the tae bo guy today.  If I thought the tae bo owned me, I was wrong.  There were quite a few that I just couldn't complete on this one!  And half the time it wasn't because of the abs.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not a six pack or anything, but my thighs and neck were killing me on some of the exercises.  Even now, an hour later, my legs ache, and normally I don't feel things until the day after.  I can feel it in my abs too though, so that is good.

I'm not sure I'm going to do that one as regularly as the others.  We'll see how it feels tomorrow. 

*sniffle

I woke this morning with a head cold...couldn't stop blowing my nose to save my life!  All  morning long, it was non-stop.  I thought at first it was an allergy (I am allergic to dust), but the house was vacuumed on Sunday, so that wasn't as likely.  Then, strangely, around lunch time, it seems to have gone away, so here's hoping that it doesn't come back this evening or tomorrow.

I got out my yoga book and worked through the yoga routine I had.  It has been quite the while since I've done anything from that book, I had to re-read almost all the poses just to remember what to do.  I was surprised at how steady I was in the tree pose.  It has always been one of my favorites, but I used to struggle to do it with long pants on...my raised leg would always slip down.  Today, it wasn't an issue, even though I was wearing long jogging pants.  I was less wobbly than I remember as well.

I definitely need work on both my triangle and my warrior poses.  Warrior has always been a slight struggle, and triangle can be as well.  I think I need to remove my glasses for the triangle.  I kept trying to look up at the ceiling to maintain my center of balance, and it was half in and half out of my glasses field of vision, and so it made me feel extra wobbly.