Body Beast Arms bulk... DONE!
Leslie 5 really big miles (just 4, and they weren't so big)... DONE!
I walked the first mile with them, then during mile 2 and 3 would alternate walking with them and doing my sets. It is a good way to do my workout. PLUS, I was thinking, Firm is aerobics and weight training, which is supposed to be "far superior" (said in my best Carolina accent). So I am, in a way, doing Firm
I am trying to stress relieve, reduce inflammation in my body... which I read can also be caused by hard workouts... and center myself. So I am keeping it more gentle. I remember
Ebianco suggesting I go easier, and me thinking that doing still hard but lower impact workouts was going easier. Now I am realizing that I need to relax while I workout, enjoy it, and see it as movement and maintenance rather than pushing myself forward and trying to improve my cardio and push up my reps or weight. I have actually gone down in dumbbell weight and my cardio is more just to move. Sometimes a little winded, but not pushing my limits.
I ate
way over my calories yesterday, DH and I went out to eat hamburgers, fries and a glass of wine while LB was at kids night out. However, I set my goal for 7 months because I knew there would be days I would do this. So, even that I'm more relaxed about!!!
Today will probably be just cardio.
So Eugene has been waking us up to go outside at least one or two times a night. Yesterday when I took him out, he pooped twice. The first time it was slimy, the second time he had some drips of blood come out. I called the vet right away, and they suspected he has a gut imbalance from the stress and medicines he's been on. I took in a sample, and sure enough, he has what is the equivalent of c-diff in people. Too many antibiotics. So I gave him chicken and rice for dinner last night, plus some dinovite, and DH was up with him during the night taking him out twice. I feel bad he did, but I have taken him out the last few nights, and he has an easier time getting to sleep after than I do, so I am OK with it!
Today I pick up medicine for THAT, and she said it works pretty quick. I will feed him the chicken and rice and dinovite for a while though. Poor dude. He's going through so much!
Hopefully this is it for him though.
Yesterday I spent going through the living room and putting things that we have had on display that we don't need to, into a box. It will go to the shed. I talked to DH at dinner about how I try very hard not to touch his stuff since I have been warned in the past, and suddenly he's all "I don't really have attachments to stuff" and I'm all "what the h*ll???" so I will take a deep breath, let go of the past 15 years of him not wanting to get rid of things, and instead take advantage of his current words and get stuff outta here.
We have zero room, and have had this huge, like 4 foot wide glass curio cabinet in our living room for all this time, and last night he looked at it and at first proclaimed "It's not ALL mine". Well duh, we have our wedding topper in there and champagne glasses. The rest is his. Then he looked at it all and said "The dragons are pretty cool. But the rest I don't really care about."
So it's been here 15 years and now suddenly it hasn't meant anything all along???????? ugh.
I will take a deep breath, let it go, and take him at his current word. So frustrating.
So yesterday was moving stuff out, today will be getting dog medicine and moving more stuff out and throwing stuff away. I was going through our laundry room/pantry, and finding little things like a square tile keychain holder, random nails and screws, keys to things we probably don't own anymore, business cards, vacuum parts to vacuums we don't own anymore... it's all going away. If we need it, we aren't going to look in the laundry room. Or, it has been in there so long, we apparently don't need it. So it's gone.
I dropped off LB at kids night out, and I am friends with the girl that works there. We were friends before she worked there, so it's fun to see her. She asked what I was going to do, I told her I was going through things. She said "Still? You've been doing that a long time!!!" I feel like it's peeling layers off an onion.
Now I'm finally getting to the core, and will hold DH to his current word!!! Whoo hoo!! Feels like freedom!!
Ebianco: good to see you back! I get so frustrated at how much Doctors charge for things like a wrist wrap, when I know I can get it so much cheaper. However, they kinda have you over a barrel when you are there to get it. I hope your insurance pays for it!! It's like the old adage of paying $20 for one Tylenol at the hospital. you can get it cheaper, but when you are at the hospital you don't have a choice so they charge whatever the heck they want to. Oh well. I am glad you can workout now!! What a relief. Feels like a huge first step!
So funny, when I was looking for workouts to do yesterday I was looking for ballroom aerobics. I couldn't find it just with my initial look (I rearranged all my DVD's to make them easier to find. HA!) so I went with Leslie. I love ballroom aerobics though!
I am working on myself, thanks to you!! I talked to DH last night also about my parents. I was surprised how many times I told him I need to let go and not concern myself with their decisions, and how I meant it. That not only surprised me, but felt really good. I need to let them do their thing and not fight it so hard.
Sorry you are involuntarily in the midst of the sister thing. By this time next year it should be a memory and you can look back and hopefully have peace that you did what you could do and now it's up to her.
Lots of personal work for us this year I suppose!!
Eventmom: So are you subscribed to the Callanetics site? that sounds really fun to do a live class! Although, I know they can't see you, I would be afraid they could. How cool though! I hear ya about the unfinished projects on horizontal surfaces. I feel like everything is on display, and I need to figure out how to control that one. He has this amazingly messy desk, piled with whatever, and it takes up one whole wall of the kitchen/quasi dining area. He hasn't touched it in.... geez, a year or two. I am so tempted to just go through and throw it all away. Maybe I will. Plus the kitchen peninsula. Oh, and the table. Men have a way of wanting to display everything, and not caring!! HA!