The daily constant battles
My workout kind of sucked last night because of the detox. I don’t think there was anything left in my body but I was able to keep my dinner in me. It’s hard because you’re not supposed to have caffeine or anything like that and that’s what gives me that little kick for my workouts. Sometimes I take a caffeine pill with some liquid L-carnitine or I take N.O.2 Explode. My trainer told my not to take anything like that while doing detox. I couldn’t do abs either because my stomach was so sore from my traumatic detox experience. If I have the same experience as yesterday I’m going to cut the dosage in half tomorrow.
The last two mornings I was able to get up at 5:30 to do cardio so I’m feeling really good about that along with my evening cardio. I took everyone’s advice and stopped running. It was really taking a toll on my hips. They were really aching from running so much. My trainer insists on me running and I don’t know why because we all know that it’ll break down what muscle when you’re dieting down. I’m eating between 1300-1500 calories a day and I’ve cut back on my carbs.
Tonight will be a hectic night. I have to stop by and pick up my posing suits on the way home from work and I have an appointment with my trainer at 7 so somewhere in between there I have to feed the kids. And then there’s Adrian. He’s my 15 yr step son who’s a big thorn in my side. He’s on the football team and thank God this is his last week because I’m so tired of having to schedule our lives around him. He’s a spoiled brat and the laziest child I’ve ever met in my life. In the past 2 years since I’ve been here I can’t even count the number of times that I packed my bags to go back to Canada because of him. That’s the only thing I get pissed at my husband about, other than that we have a great marriage. He has spoiled his kids and I have to constantly try to break him of it because he’s created high rolling monsters. It’s been a constant battle between Adrian and I. Anyhow, the school never knows when or where football practice is and we have to sit and wait for him to call us if he missed the activity bus. Well I won’t do it. He doesn’t deserve to be catered to since he has 3 F’s, 3 D’s, a C and 1 A and that’s in Airbrushing. I can’t believe he hasn’t been kicked off the team yet. Not to mention my husband still lets him on his computer ALL night long from the time he gets home from school until the time he goes to bed and NEVER does homework. My husband works afternoons so this is what I have to deal with 3 school nights of the week and it’s very stressful for me. So tonight we have no idea how he’s getting home or where he’s even practicing. I’m at the point where I don’t even care anymore.
I don’t even know why I went on about him but I guess this is where you share your experiences and stresses in life.
October 15, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Oh my goodness! That is tough!! When I married my husband, he had full custody of his three boys. We established my authority right off the bat. School was their first priority and certain grade expectations had to be met. Anything other than the standards we set they didn’t get. Meaning..all the fun stuff, sports,,etc they wanted were privileges earned!!,My oldest stepson who will be 17 soon didn’t even get his permit or job till he met the criteria for school!! He has those things now because he earned them. What applies to his kids also applies to mine..where my husband is concerned. Stay the course..You have my utmost respect!!
Annemarie
October 15, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Sounds like a tough one! Best of luck getting through it all. From someone who played football in school and didn’t care about the grades the best thing you can do is remove him from the team. My folks did this to me in the spring of my Junior year and I ended up getting my ass in gear and getting a Scholarship my senior year for football. Now I’m finishing up a masters degree with honours. Maybe that will kick the guy into gear!
October 16, 2008 at 5:43 am
Cripe, at my school for any extra curricular activity if you had 1 D you were on academic probation and had to get weekly grade updates. If you had 1 F you were suspended until the grade came up. That was flat out school policy.
As for the detox, I dunno which one you’re using but they’re always worse initially. There’s literally just so much to clean out, but then once the worst is over it becomes more maintenance. I always do longer duration ones to avoid the more intense/harsh effects of the shorter ones.
October 17, 2008 at 9:11 am
I don’t mind hearing you are human and have stuff going on outside of the gym, thanks for sharing!
Fazer
October 18, 2008 at 11:20 am
Thank goodness mine are still little! I am so not looking forward to dealing with teen-agers!