A bath does the body good...relaxes you, and releases any stresses you may have. So yesterday (Sunday) I decided to take a bath in the morning which was oh so nice! I love taking a bath, I never used to take them very much but I am starting to take them more. I've decided I'm going to start taking better care of myself both physically and emotionally. I am now taking time for myself to have a nice bath and relax once in a while...you guys should try it! turn out the lights, put a few candles on and get into the hot bath. A little bit of soft music is always nice as well, I can't think of many things that are much more relaxing than that...and FREE!
So I took my bath for about 45 minutes, it was fantastic. I got out and made my breakfast and then decided I would go to the gym for my cardio. Mike was working today so I went by myself. Have you ever signed out a machine at the gym only to find someone has just taken your machine and didn't sign it out? Grrrrrr this frustrates me...you take the time to sign it out then you before you make it to the machine, someone has stepped on and started their workout. At our gym...there are 2 cardio levels...there is a private area that only has about 8 machines and then the cardio level which has about 30 machines. I prefer to use the private area as it's quiet, I can concentrate and I feel more confident in there. In the cardio room with more machines, I feel intimidated at times. Most of the people in there are at the top of their fitness performance, etc. So I signed out 1 of the 2 treadmills in teh private area. I went to put my coat in the locker and came out to find a guy on my machine. I went to make sure I signed out the right machine...I did. This guy keeps looking over at me and must know that I've signed it out as I'm looking at his machine to make sure that's the one I signed out for that time slot. I didn't have the nerve to cut him off of his workout. I felt bad as he was a larger guy as well. I was thinking to myself...hmmmm maybe he's just like me and gets intimidated by the upstairs cardio room. I thought, well I could put up a stink about this or I could just march my butt upstairs and get over this ridiculous fear I have. So that's what I did, I left this guy to his workout that maybe he'd feel comfortable in the private room like I do...and went upstairs. It wasn't so bad...I signed out the #6 treadmill and away I went. I began walking quickly and then started my run. I couldn't last very long before I had to slow down. I ran for almost 5 minutes and couldn't go a second farther running. I know Rob my trainer said that I would have my weaker days at the beginning and I guess this was one of them! I had no energy at all today! I was just pushing myself as far as I could go today.
Have you ever had that feeling when you get off a treadmill that you're not even walking on the ground....like you feel your legs moving but you feel like you're floating. When someone walks in front of you, you feel like you're going to walk right into them because you can't stop. I had that today...it's wierd! I was also very dizzy...I think it was just a low energy day.
All in all it was a pretty good day....a lazy one but it was good. I still got my A - double - you know what to the gym today so that's all that matters!
I did some shopping after that, god does shopping ever do the body good!
Oh yes, I forgot to post for Saturday night. We went to a guys 50th birthday who works with Mike. I didn't really know anyone there but felt okay in the situation, everyone was very nice! I was doing great until they pulled out these sandwiches....on croissants!!!! OMG they looked so delicious...with their 2 slices of swiss cheese, their turkey and ham meat...lettuce and all the fixing...and boy did they look good!
Mmmmmmm so off I went over to the "goodies" table to grab a plate....Before I wouldn't have put a second thought into my head about taking one or 2 pieces of that sandwich! Now I had to think twice...it was so tempting...almost calling my name....
but I didn't need it so I passed!!! I grabbed my veggies and fruits, a few cubes of cheese and off I went, I was satisfied with that...I reallly was. Sure I would have loved to have that sandwich but it's not going ot get me to where I need to go....I was proud of myself for sticking to my guns
I had water the whole time we were there, downed 2 bottles. They offered me this delicious strawberry orange alcoholic punch that looked OMG...delicious...but I told them no thank you. They said oh one glass won't hurt you...but that's the thing with me, I know one glass could turn into 2 or 10! So I stayed away completely knowing if I didn't get a taste of evil I wouldn't want more!
SO I guess that's it...today is a good day...off to a good start.....
Hope you guys have a good...cold Monday!
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Good for you for resisting temptations. You are WAY stronger than I was in my 2nd week. I wouldn't leave the house to attend any functions cause I knew I wasn't ready to turn down or pass on the goodies! Good on ya!! And ya, some days are low energy days for whatever reason...watch, tomorrow when you do your routine, you'll kick some serious butt!! BE A TIGER!! :)
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