Today's circuit:
10 burpees
10 each side single-leg squat (beginner's kind, sitting down to a chair)
10 shoulder pushups (knees on back of couch, pushup sort of vertical-like... ideally this is a handstand pushup, but I'm not there yet)
10 each side lunges (these started out as weighted lunges until there was a painful pop sort of thing in my inner thigh)
20 crunches
OMG that was painful. I hurt now. There is ibuprofen in my future. Oh, and I made it through the circuit only 4 times. I guess there's a lot of room for improvement there!
In other news, am having a lot of difficulty controlling my eating, to the point that I have actually, what with the slacking over the last couple weeks, put on 6 lbs. Uuugghhh. I may eat largely healthy food but I don't have healthy eating habits. I eat too much, generally, and I deal with stress or procrastinating by eating AND doing something else at the same time, I think in order to overload my brain with fun things so it doesn't have time to remind me that I really ought to be cleaning the kitchen and the bathroom, folding the laundry, writing an article, phoning someone, putting Rowan's toys away, culling my book collection, making crackers, or whatever. I have never been particularly good at self-management, and being an effective domestic engineer is ALL about the self-management. I keep everyone well-fed, to be sure - I have no problem planning and executing days-long food prep tasks like bread or whatever - but cleaning? laundry? not so much. There are a lot of factors behind that, but let's just sum up with a simple "I don't like cleaning very much." Eating helps me avoid cleaning, because obviously it's far more important for me to have a snack at any given time than pick up a few toys, or wipe the kitchen counters.
I suck. I KNOW I shouldn't do it, but I do anyway. Right now I really, really need to clean the kitchen - but here I am, finishing off the rest of the morning smoothie and blogging. And I HAVE sort of eaten lunch, although not very much of it. And that wasn't even a good lunch, I finished off Rowan's croissant and ham sandwiches. It's a vicious circle, too, because the more I procrastinate on housework and stuff, the more stressed I get, and the more I want to stuff my face and occupy my brain with unimportant things. And also, when I get stressed, I feel I deserve treats. Really, I do NOT deserve treats, yet somehow my brain manages to convince me otherwise. Sigh.
Well, I guess I just have to work on it. If anyone has any tips for dealing with this kind of eating, let me know.
Ummm... maybe I should start a food journal? An online one... but that would be seriously boring as hell. I'll put it in tiny print so if you don't want to read it, you don't have to.
Oh and the other thing? I think my coffee is sabotaging me... but I looooove my coffee. More sighing.
Food journal (will update later with the rest of the day)
- coffee with half & half
- smoothie: pint of kefir, 2 raw eggs, banana, 1/2 cup frozen fruit
- 1/2 croissant with butter & ham
- 1/4 ham sandwich on homemade bread (no crusts)
- apple
- 2 slices pizza (eating on the run to a meeting)
- bowl of ham & bean soup and a slice of bread
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2 comments:
Uhmmm 6 lbs in a couple of weeks? Checked your thyroid lately? No sense it beating yourself up about weight gain if your body's working against you.
Dude, I was drifting through wines 'o whitehorse, and I thought to myself, what's sarah up to on her blog?
and then I see that what you're up to is some sort of insane circuit training involving pushups, of all crazy things (although I do recall your eerie ability to do the flexed arm hang....) anyway, I'm with Sue - you're going to discourage yourself out of training if you're putting so much pressure on yourself. My tiny two cents worth (probably two cents from Zimbabwe) is that you want to break it up and do cardio and weights. Although Rowan may giggle, you'd be amazed at how much cardio you can do in a tiny space, with Rowan right there - even while she is sleeping. Richard Simmons would back me up on this - and I did it on the boat - just you try doing like 20 times, crossing your arm over and leaning down toward your toes - then again to the other side. yep, that's right, you're breathing harder, and not because you're out of shape but because even little movements, repeated, lead to cardio. you don't have to be doing massive deep breathing to get the best benefits - just get your heart rate and breathing increased to over 120.
OK, that was more than two cents. sorry if it sounds preachy. Don't hurt yourself working out though - the best workouts leave you feeling more awake, but not in pain.
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