The View from the Classroom

So yesterday was my day off and my official cheat day which I don’t do too often.  I actually ate pretty well up until evening time.  Hubby and I went out…we get to do that now that the kids are too cool to be seen with us…I had already decided it was a mexican food night, so that’s what we had.  Chips and salsa with a margarita to start with.  Now, understand that I really don’t drink too much.  In fact prior to last weekend, I don’t think I had an alcoholic beverage since like last year or something.  Anyway, it was quite hot and humid AND the margarita, on the rocks, tasted like lemonade.  I drank it as if it was.  Downed it in about 5 minutes.  No problem. 

The ladies next to me had these sangria margarita swirls which looked absolutely enticing, so that was my next drink.  Frozen this time (it was hot).  By the time I got it, that first margarita was taking effect so the second one went down a bit slower.  It actually lasted through dinner.  Dinner…fish tacos, rice and beans….not too bad.  Needless to say, when done, my belly was full and I had a pretty good little buzz going.  On the way home I decided that I don’t need to do that again anytime soon.  It was kind of miserable, not necessarily the buzz, the full feeling.  Also decided that I was gonna pay for it with the cardio in the morning by doing an extra 15 minutes on the stairmaster.  Of course, the night wouldn’t have been complete without polishing off the last of the moollineum crunch ice cream we had in the freezer.  I’m happy to report that the ALL of the ice cream is gone now and no more will come into this house anytime soon.  Man, I slept really well.

Forward to today…felt great getting up…no hangover, which would have been really bad after only 2 drinks…did the 60 minutes on the stairmaster…5 minute warm-up followed by 52 minutes of intervals, 3 minutes high followed by 3 minutes lower, increasing the level on the high intensity intervals each time and ending with a 3 minute cool down.  I was sweating my ass off.  Average level was 8.2 which is .5 higher than my highest prior.  It was an exceptionally good cardio day, but I can’t wait to hit the weights tomorrow night!

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