01012007’s BodyBlog

The ride down from PA was A-OK. My husband drove and I slept most of the way. I think my body was in self preservation mode. I had a really good morning workout but I also did kettlebells and I didn’t stop for yogurts and fruit like I usually do. I ate a handful of potato chips, about 1 serving and a peanut butter granola bar. I’m in Nassau County now and just had a resplendent meal of sardines on an onion matzoh cracker and organic flax chips.

OMG I am already relaxed. This has been a really long year. I’m just grateful my mother is still alive!!! I do not know when I will be able to post again but guaranteed I will be recording all my workouts and foods. I will come back five pounds lighter!

I just ate a yogurt cup before I begin the downward spiral to bed. Going to do some stretches to loosen up after work. I am going to miss my residents but they’re get a better aide and nurse when I get back. Anyway, I just can’t wait to get going on this family reunion trip. I can’t wait to go to Trinidad and just start my body cleansing and remodeling. I feel good already and am totally excited about working out in the warm weather and sun. I do have a goal of five to ten pounds of weight loss while I’m there. It’s very ambitious but I’ll be eating mostly fruit and veggies (they’re cheap!) and the rawfoods will be cleansing to my body. My body took a total beating this year so I feel it has to be babied for the rest of the year.

1. woke up with breath in my lungs

2. cancer free and no major diseases

3. still have money despite waking up to two overdraft fees!!! (some do not have anything at all this christmas)

4. have a job I LOVE and a new career I will love even more

5. my mother is alive and we are going to celebrate christmas together in the land of her birth

6. ability to hear, see, feel, smell, taste…have my senses about me

7. that I am able to use the toilet (work in a nursing home and  you will appreciate the ability to pee)

8. roof over my head, my husband and my father in law
I did not break the chain. Even though I did not go to the gym, I still rode my exercise bike for 25 minutes and did a kettlebell workout for ten minutes before my body said that it was time for breakfast. Coffee and some egg scramble it will be. I made a vow to myself that I would workout thirty minutes before breakfast every morning no matter what. I am also keeping a food journal of everything that goes in my mouth. It will be hard to count calories in Trinidad and Tobago but I will be writing everything down.

Thinking of different ways to work out and what to do but I think I will just go with the flow on vacation. Running on sand, body weight stuff… I may take the kettlebells along since they are only four pounds each. Packing is not my most favorite activity!

Today I am happy and thankful to be alive. I’m grateful that I can get up with the will to go to the gym and do some morning cardio before I’ve had my morning coffee *LOL* I discovered early that doing some cardio in the morning is great for clearing the mental cobwebs. Cardio gets the blood going to the brain. I just have to make sure I eat right after so I don’t go hypoglycemic nutty. I started keeping a workout journal on bb.com but I have a paper one I take to the gym that has food lists,etc.

I am not participating in the class lunch party with a big stromboli. Eh. My friend and I are going to the grocerystore to pick out healthy stuff. Who wants to eat a doughy stromboli (that isn’t even good) before taking a practice NCLEX anyway? Not me

I graduated from nursing school finally. I can’t wait to dig myself out of the financial hole I got into going back and forth with my mother. I’m happy and grateful I have not gained back any weight I got rid of when I was first diagnosed with a hiatal hernia. I find that INACTIVITY is the worst thing for me, as in not going to the gym. Being active at work is totally different from being on a stepper or pumping iron.

I’m glad I didn’t completely give up on my body. I’m happy and grateful to work in an arena that shows me what happens when you DON’T take care of yourself. I know what it feels like I don’t do my best for myself. This has been the most challenging year of my life. I think this year was more challenging than dealing with suicidal feelings, childhood sex abuse,etc. I had the worst thrown at me and I’m still around.

I’m going with my mom, sister and husband to a huge family reunion in Trinidad and Tobago (where my mother is from). I’m already working on a bodyweight program so I can be ahead of the game. I will be eating mostly raw fruits and vegetables, cups of tea instead of the gallons of coffee I drank in the last few days during some stressful periods of the month (if you know what I mean). My goals for the coming new year are to address my fibroid and breast cyst issues in a constructive way, namely exercise and pumping iron. I did start out in the iron game wanting to pump iron and see what sort of shape my body takes.

Can’t wait for my tuition reimbursement to come in and use my 10% bb.com coupon. I already have three hundred dollars in stuff parked in my shoping cart LOL!