June 28th

Wow, my alarm went off at 7 this morning, it hasn't done that in a while. I haven't been sleeping well again and it is in relation to my cycle. I don't know if I should fight and do things to sleep more it or just go with it. I have a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep yet I feel fine when I wake up on just a few hours. My mind isn't busy with thoughts that are keeping me up, every time I wake through the night I feel clear headed and very alert. Today I felt a bit groggy when my alarm went off. I had been sleeping on my hand and it was still asleep so I decided to do my lower body workout. It went well. I could tell I had not done it in a while.

Today I have a full day running errands with Elizabeth and teaching the last of a five week series of childbirth education. My house is reasonably clean because I just started a three week series yesterday. Maybe her and I will do some yoga together this afternoon to help break up the day.

I have been bad

I can't believe it has been 10 days since I have posted last. That is very naughty. The past three weeks have been extremely busy, overwhelming busy and because of that my personal fitness suffered. i still taught my classes and extra classes but I didn't do my home workouts. All work and no workouts caused my system to get dragged down by Elizabeth's cold. I got it on Sunday and today my voice has mostly returned. I feel better though still easily fatigued, I think not exercising may be partly contributing.

Regardless when I stood on the scale I was down another 2 lbs, no inches though and that was day 23 of my 28 day cycle. I am hopeful. Next week I will be getting back on track, work is somewhat calming down so I can get on track and geared for the kids to be off school. I am so excited.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. Chat soon with motivated and achieving news.

June 16th

Yesterday I was so tired. Marc asked me a question at 10:30 and I was stumbling with my answer, the words weren't coming out I was so tired. I finally pulled myself together enough to answer and said "Tomorrow I will try and sit at the table with the legs on it." which had absolutely nothing to do with what he was asking me.

It was a good day. I taught deep aquafit for the first time and it seemed to go over well. In the evening I walked to my muscle conditioning class and back which was 50-60 minutes round trip.

Today I was pretty wiped, not sure if I have a cold coming on. This week and next I have an extra aquafit and muscle conditioning class. Hopefully it will make up for last week.

June 14th

Yikes a whole week since I have posted, that is not good. Nor was my workouts this week. The week was good just not for my health journey. To be honest I only did a lower body strength training session and miss my muscle conditioning and one Aqua class. I did however have one outstanding birth and another pretty good one. I did good while eating at the birth however there was more than average Tim Horton's consumed. When I weighed myself on Saturday my weight had not changed, therefore I decided not to do my measurements. I feel things have changed. I have been noticing that clothes hang different and people have noticed a big change in my face. I am happy with that for now.

I have a very busy work week this week but I have scheduled my workouts into it and asked for Marc's help in pushing me on. I just finished my upper body workout and was very impressed with my bicep curls. Sonny has me do them with a heavy weight until failure. The last time I did this workout I could only do 12 before failure. This week I got 15, then 8 on my second set and 5 on my third. I was very happy with that. I am also going to start incoroprating yoga into my evenings 2-3 times per week. I think I could use some more stretching. That is it for now. I will write again tomorrow.

June 7th

Yikes it has been a while since my last post. To be honest it wasn't a fabulous week for me. I was quite stressed out and I actually got pretty overwhelmed on Thursday. The redeeming factor was I have a new niece. Yeah Allison, now I just need to find the time to visit her. I did teach all my fitness classes, however if memory serves me correct I didn't do any of my strength training until Friday, which was when I weekend warriored it and did my lower body, went to teach Aqua and came back to do my upper body, ate lunch, went for a massage and busted my butt getting ready to spend the weekend at my mom's helping her with her garage sale and prepping for her move.

This morning I have started with my lower body workout. My house is trashed so between groceries and the dentist I will clean, vacuum, Marc's job but someone has got to do it, and prepare to teach prenatal tonight. I also need to get my weekly plan put together, maybe during breakfast to spare some time.

May 28th

I am drenched. I just finished my lower body workout and I sweat a ton. It felt great. While I was doing my ballet bar exercise my working leg kept getting lower and lower and my supportive leg by the end of the set was shaking like crazy. I should be able to get upstairs today but tomorrow we will need to get a chair lift installed.

I didn't get on the bike last night. I was feeling quite overwhelmed and irritated all day. I called a friend but that didn't help. So I put on a bellydance technique DVD. I noticed how out of practice I am. Though the dancing felt okay it didn't help because I was disappointed in my body not being able to dance as it used to and with me for allowing my practice to slip. In the evening when I was still feeling blah I did indulge in a glass of wine and a chocolate bar, not dark chocolate either. It didn't really satisfy anything. I watched a Russell Peters movie and the laughing helped a bit. I am sure tonights go karting and outing to celebrate Marc's birthday will help. I can't wait to go rock climbing, that is next Friday.

May 27th

Getting out of bed this morning was awesome. I was so sore. My abs, particularly my obliques, and my chest are yikes. Marc asked if I was okay. I said "Oh yeah, I am good." I got a soft gel seat for my bike and hope to take it out tonight. I was going to ride it to the pool today however I need to drop off something at a clients and pick up a new shipment of Nukkles. I know it sounds a bit like an excuse. However I did get on the elliptical for 30 minutes this morning and will get on the bike tonight. I do have to get a birth story started, ideally done which means a large chunk of time on the computer. But I do have a plan. Every 30 minutes I have a timer that will go off and I will do a different exercise each time. June will be the start of five months into my journey and I want to see some bigger results. Not so focused on weight loss as I am the inches, dress size and overall health. Others have been noticing the difference I however am feeling not much has changed. Maybe a new picture and chalk outline may help.