August 10th

So not quite the start to the week I had hoped. I didn't get to bed until after 1:30 on Sunday and I thought five hours of sleep on purpose is not enough, so I skipped my strength training. However I had an awesome Aquafit class. I was silly and highly energized. it was a lot of fun, the members complained/were very impressed with the class and said what a great workout it was.

Today my alarm went of at 6:30 am and I really didn't feel up to my strength training, my muscle are tender from the weekend (It was an incredible Nia class). I was planning on doing my getter done workout but would have needed to sneak through Elizabeth's room and in the girls bathroom to get the timer and I didn't want to run the risk, so I did a Zumba class at home. Wow, it was Zumba advanced, really good and very sweaty. My abs, legs and heart felt it. I will make up for the missed training sessions today in my muscle conditioning class. I have a really full week this week so any opportunity for a fun workout I am going to grasp at.

Today Elizabeth and I are going to Glen Williams to a fellow doulas house. Our Dooula CARE regional group is having an informal summer fun day with trampoline and pool fun. Woohoo.

August 7th

What a week. I had a client with on and off contractions from Monday - Friday. Thursday morning they called right before my alarm was due to go off for my workout. I ended up at their house for the morning, working through the day and teaching childbirth ed at night, no workout : ( Friday morning was a write off as well. Today I did go to Zumba. I had to scale it back at the end I guess I was not totally recovered after missing a full nights sleep. It was still good though. Tomorrow I am going to Burlington's Labrinth to do a Nia class with my Mom and Aunt. It should be good.

Next week I will be back on track.

August 4th

This morning I planned to sleep in however forces were against me. Marc's alarm went off at 7 am, Elizabeth climbed into bed at 7:05, and a client called at 7:20. I only wanted to sleep in until 7:45. Oh well.

I went to Aquafit and ended up wetter than my participants in the pool. Holy sweat. In the afternoon I began feeling a little overwhelmed with work so I took a break and walked as Elizabeth drive her Corvette to Esso. It was not the relaxing, take a breather walk I was hoping for. I was quite stressed with her sudden stop, starts and indecisiveness while on the road or in driveways, of course she never did it on the safe sidewalks. I got an ice cap that I am pretty sure she made with cream even though I asked for it to be made with chocolate milk (since that is 1%mf). I downed it because I was so hot rather than savouring it as I had intended. When I got home I was so exhausted. Elizabeth got invited to the neighbours to play. My plan was to play a quick game on the computer and then was cooler and less frustrated vacuum the house. While somehow I ended up working on "Family, Birth and Baby show" stuff (a big event the Halton Peel Doula CARE chapter is putting on in September), took another call from my client with an update, called the back up doula to update her and then answered a ton of questions about teaching prenatal classes. Next thing I knew I was on the phone again, this time to my sister, it was 4 pm and my floors still weren't vacuumed. My amazing husband came home made dinner, fixed some small details on the Family Birth and baby show website, vacuum the house, did dishes and then gave Elizabeth a bath (I was not allowed to help with the last one so I came downstairs to start my lower body workout instead. I really didn't feel up to it since my muscles were quite stiff and tender from yesterday's muscle conditioning class. But the plan was to do it anyway, and then hop into a super hot epsom salt bath with lavendar vanilla bubbles and mellow out. It has been a busy day, though it sounds as though Marc did everything I was working the whole time as well, but I figure it is important to praise him once and a while since everyone already knows I am a super woman, hee hee hee.

August 3rd

No changes in the measurements department. I woke up at 6:30 this morning and did my upper body workout. I was planning on going to another instructors Aqua class. I hear she has some creative moves but the day is so full today I think I would be better off catching her another time. The plan is to walk to muscle conditioning tonight (6:15 - 6:45 pm), teach (7 - 8 pm), walk home (home by 8:40 pm), quickly freshen, hop in the car go to an interview (9 pm) and then go grocery shopping if I haven't done it earlier, then maybe do some PM yoga to help bring me down and settle with a cup of mellowing tea. Until it all starts again at 6:30 tomorrow morning. I really want to getting 8 hours of sleep so that means forcing myself to an earlier bed time, which Marc will be thrilled with.

August 2nd

Today was very busy. I woke up shortly after 7 am and did 30 minutes on the elliptical. Marc and I both had to work and I got a head's up call for a birth so I really needed to cram as much as I could because I am not sure when I will get called out, for how long or how much recovery time I will need. By the end of the day I felt very depleted. I sat down to a large hot chocolate around 8 pm, gave Elizabeth a bath and decided to do a "Dance it Off" video I borrowed from the library. Juliet wanted to watch a movie with me but I really felt I needed to do something for me that released some endorphins. It was a fun routine, it will be better next time as some combos I wasn't grasping until the last rep.

I weighed it in Sunday morning, no change in weight. I didn't do my measurements, I may do that tonight. If there are changes I will let you know tomorrow when I report in after my workout. Sleep well.

July 30th

This morning I so did not feel like doing my workout. I woke up at 6:22 and really wanted to turn my alarm off. But I got out of bed, came downstairs and checked e-mail. I really wanted to work rather than exercise but I laced up my shoes and am glad I did. I know my pecs will be sore tomorrow but I will be happy to feel the ache, even as I type I can feel they are ouchy. I stretched but will down more water and stretch even more.

Today Marc is taking Elizabeth to her last day of swimming so that gives me a free morning to get a haircut and get some work done. I have no more snap heating pads so I need to neutralize those. Marc is out all night tomight so I MUST complete a birth story. I will not go to sleep tonight until it is finished.

Saturday I plan to go to Aquafit to participate in the morning after I weigh in. I am excited to see what the results are. This is the first week in a very long time I have gotted four strength training sessions in, I am just coming off of my period, I have been pretty stressed and eating some unhealthy stuff, so it will be interesting. Sunday will be a day of rest, maybe I will go on the elliptical in the morning but the afternoon will be spent at Marc's friends partying on the lake, maybe some water sports. It should be fun. Talk to you on Monday.

July 29th

I keep waking up at 6:15 am and convincing myself to lounge in bed the extra 15 minutes. I really should just get up and start my day. There is a lot that can be accomplished in 15 minutes.

I did my lower body workout today. My stomach was feeling yucky at the start and I questioned whether I should workout. I decided I would get started and if it got worse I could always stop. Amazing as the muscles began aching, I mean working, the stomach stopped. I feel lovely now, sweaty but lovely.

Today I have both kids at home, laundry, lunch with a friend, and a childbirth ed class tonight. It should be a lovely day.