Reboot

So I've had a bad bout of luck for the last 6months, not being able to workout, not wanting to workout, depression and just in a bad mood.

Last night I went to bed and I made myself promise to get up early and workout.

Well one of the two I did. I didn't get up till 6:30am even thou I've been awake since 5am.

So I did work and when I got to a good stopping point I took out my workout gear and did the following workout. It was short, but intense and better then nothing.

I had the following equipment:

Exercise Ball, Jump Rope, a stool, 7lb. dumbells, stretchy band and my house.

For a warmup I walked 5 mins up and down my freaking long hallway.

First Set I did 3x

Stretchy Band, sideways walk, 10steps each direction.
Stretchy Band Bicep Curls 12 reps
Plank in Pushup position 30sec.
40 jumps with Jumprope
These are done back to back and 30sec. rest in between.

Second Set I did 2x

Dumbell Stepups, each side 10x
Ball Situps 12x

I am sweating like crazy but I am feeling accomplished. I will do this workout 3x this week.

It's been a month...

And what a month it has been. I was sick then my son got sick with Scarlet fever, it was terrible.

I haven't worked out in a while and I am not going to for a few more days. My mom is leaving after visiting for 9weeks.
So this blog was put on hold for a while.

But stay tuned for new posts. :D

12weeks Day 1

So I hate to do Cardio, I will do it, but I am not a fan of it. So today I was looking thru BodyBuilding.com 's web-site and I found a workout plan that I liked. So I dl the app and it's pretty cool cause you can input the reps and weight you use and I even did 30mins of cardio. Yay me.

I am so happy I can go back to the gym. Today was back and biceps day. To make the bicep exercise a bit more challenging I did the curls on the BOSU Ball. And in the end I added some Abs to the workout.

I think it is important that you have fun at the gym. I love lifiting weight and doing Cardio classes, but to be honest, now that I run my own business I am not happy spending 2hrs a day in the gym. So I am really looking forward to this where I spend about 1hrs a day in the gym.

I also changed my diet very much, I do no eat any carbs from beads, potatos, pasta or rice with Dinner. And so far so good.
I weighed in this am at 260lb, that is a total weight loss since January of 15lb. I am ok with that.

I also ordered some protein Powders, cause i heard with this band you can bake. We'll see.

Food Poisoning... and weird dreams

So this past Monday I ordered Pizza like I always to and we ate. Well by 9pm, my husband, daughter and I are taking turns who gets to say hi to the porcelain gods.
Yup you guessed it food poisoning. I got sick so many times that night I lost count. My poor daughter hit her nose and has a bruise now on the bridge of her nose. We just had a miserable couple of days at my house. Of course I got it the worst. It took me 3 days to get over it and I still don't feel 100%. But I went grocery shopping yesterday and I am pumped to cook again and get back on track. And then it also helps that I dreamed of Jared last night wanting to know why I named a blog after him and why I was cooking for him. I told him my story and he loved it. And then I was in the gym and my friend Ariel, kept yelling at me to do more squats.
But I woke up and was excited to start this day and log my food and eat good. I had energy. Well it's passed noon and the steam kind of went out of me. I think I need a nap. But I know I will be better by Monday to get to the gym and workout. I have to be. Cause I have an image in my head what I wanna look like in September. And it is reachable.
So don't ever let stuff bring you down, get back up brush it off and keep going. I owe this much to myself.

Squats
Claudia

Sigh...

This is an emotional roller coaster. I haven't been in the gym in 2 weeks, I am eating ok, but I have not lost any weight. I am depressed. I don't know why, but I feel a bit down lately. So I need to pick myself up and get going again. A friend of mine lost 177lb. she is such an inspiration. Another friend always posts really motivational stuff on her FB and I love reading them. But somehow, I am in the downy dumps.
Well what am I going to do?
The last weekend of Faire approaches and that is good, it will lift a huge stress factor off my shoulders. I don't have to worry about politics, stepping on nobody's toes, dont' have to worry about my daughter's grades, or if she did her homework. I can breathe, well somewhat as I am doing a convention right after with my small business SewGeekAustin . But that is my stuff, I don't have to make stuff for others or depend on them, it's just me. So I can breathe again.
Also I got swamped with orders and feel like I need to take care of my customers, but that is not true, they can wait one more day, I need to be healthy for me, cause if I am not, then they won't get their stuff at all.
Oh wow, that just made a bunch of sense.
So I am going to blog more again and I will have more recipe's in my food blog as well.
I bet you are looking forward to my rambelings... see you soon.

Claudia

Running after the Wagon...

So the last week has been pretty terrible. Not just eating wise but emotional as well. So I kind of fell of the Wagon and the scales showed it.
So this morning I woke up and decided it's time to get back on the Wagon, well chase after it and then get back on.
I made Banana Pancakes, gluten free and they are delicious. You can find my recipe in my other Blog: Cooking for Jared Padalecki and decide for yourself. They didn't look like much, but they filled me up and were tasty.
I need to remember drinking more water and tea again, since my mom has been here, I have been drinking to much coffee. So that's my goal for this week, log food and drink water. I am also going to a convention this weekend, but the good thing is, I can make Salads in a Jar and I am staying at my house, so I don't have to worry to much about bad foods.
Then we have only one more weekend at the Faire and one more Con right after that and then I have 2 months with nothing going on on the weekends. So I can get my gym schedule back on track.
This week there is no Gym at all, I have to make merchandise and fill orders for the convention and I hope to maybe get a walk in the next two days.
We shall see.
Anyways, I am back on the Wagon.

Burn out... (anoter a-ha moment)

No not from dieting or exercise... that's not it.

It's just these last 2.5 months have been taxing. I have not spend one weekend at home since December 29th. I spend it at the faire. It was fun and all, but I realized today I need a break.
I got home last weekend and I was just mentally drained. All week felt like a burden and the constant catching up is really tearing at me. So I decided to take this weekend off from everything I need a break to get my creative juices flowing again.
Well and I want to spend it with my mom who just flew in and is going to spend 8 weeks with us (yay no laundry)
I just had to get this off my chest. I just feel that I let people down but you know what I am not that person anymore, I don't have to be there every waking minute, cause if I am not I will be sternly talked to and told that I don't care. I am my own person, I need to take care of myself. Cause this past week I didn't go to the gym, I ate ok, but not as clean as I could./should have so there was no change on the scale which sucks. But it is what it is, this new piece of information is of great value to me for the future. I am saying NO, I can say NO and I will say NO.
Mental healthy is as much a part of this journey as the physical one. So here is to good mental health, Take care of youself.