Kris the Girl

I’ve had a really good week, healthy-getting-wise. I’ve done somethingevery day (except my rest day), I’ve been eating much better and smaller portions, and I feel great. There have been some really invaluable websites that I’ve been reading that are jam-packed with helpful advice and people, such as sparkpeople.com and the comments on this thread  are a wonderful read with even more helpful books/people/websites/ideas for just about anyone.

The mornings have been nice and cool lately, which has only served to make me WISH I’d get my butt out of bed and take my dog for a walk. I only think of this when I’m leaving for work – d’oh! I really have no reason to not get up, beyond my deep and abiding love of sleeping.

Now if only I could go swimming, I would love it. As it is, I’ll just continue to let Jillian Michaels kill me for several days out of the week. She’s really good at it.

I signed up over at jillianmichaels.com – I like her philosophy, I like her workouts, and there are lots and lots (and lots, and lots) of recipes available. Also, daily workouts in circuits. Me likey. Today is day one – I have to go to the grocery store and get things like low-fat cottage cheese, and hoison sauce. I don’t even know what that is. I think it’s something Asian.

I’m going to start my stats over, too, since I haven’t really done much in the way of exercise until this week, so my previous month shows no progress – well, unless you count not getting any worse, but still. I like the ring of starting over. Mulligan? Anyway, for whatever reason I just started busting out a workout every day this week since Sunday. OK, that’s only three, but that’s about 100% more quality movement than I’ve been doing.

My shoulders are still killing me from the 30-Day shred. I did a yoga abs thing yesterday to give my little chicken wings a break, but they still hurt.

It turns out that I really like sleeping in, especially when I’m staying up late watching the ‘lympics. So instead of beating myself up about it, I just…have been exercising after work. It’s like an epiphany, except for the part where it’s pretty much the oldest idea in the book.

Is making me literally kick myself in the ass. And I kind of like it. You should try it! It’s been two days and I can’t lift my arms over my head without doing deep breathing exercises at the same time.

Boy, I may need to rethink some things about this whole plan – I mean, Wednesdays have been crap to update since I started, for one thing. Also, I haven’t really been doing much exercise-wise, let alone my illustrious “six days a week” plan. Maybe I should half that. Or something. I may also start my 3 months over, with a more structured plan. Part of my problem is lack of space to do anything in my house, coupled with the August heat…I dunno. I’ll figure something out.

I have at least been eating much better, and also eating out WAY less – probably an average of twice a week, but only that high because I’ve been on vacation and also moving offices. Most of the time I just go home for lunch. I also have more money, though – yay! I’ve really noticed my bank balance being higher at the end of each pay period. Eating out = eating your own money, people. It’s not worth it.

So I’ve decided to do this whole change thingy right smack in the middle of the hottest part of the year (I wilt when the heat index hits 90…it’s been over 100 for two weeks.) AND in the middle of lots of crap going on at work. I have big plans for this blog (and myself…) but no time to write it! Will update more when things die down.