Learning Not Just To Talk The Talk, But To Also Walk The Walk

REFLECTION OF THE DAY:

I'm starting to become more and more inspired by others within the fitness industry and those who just love being healthy. I'm also digging deep and finding that inner spark I had/have for a love of being healthy, really caring about what I put into my body, realizing that it's not just how I look on the outside--but also how the food is affecting my insides (for life!), and that, "it's a lifestyle, not a cake walk."

I'm really beginning to feel like "me" again and get back to who I was before Mizzou and the TAM department changed me. During my time there, I began to eat to numb other feelings I was having: guilt, confusion, anxity, saddness, lonliness, and occasionally just wanting to "fit in" and feel like a college student. I also was tyring to figure out who I was and what did I want to do/become? Now that I'm offically home for good, things are looking up. They're unexpected (future job, graduation, wedding plans, living arrangements), but on the up and up! I no longer have to fill that void in my life. Life is good, I have it good, and I have great people in my life that love me for who I am, not what I am.

My pre-cardio meal wasn't exactly what I would have eaten pre-cardio but the workout today was unplanned. I was going to rest today and run errands but then realized it was continuing to snow and didn't want to go out in it. Plus it was freezing out! So I hid out inside my warm house all day doing odds and ends that needed to be done and hanging out with the fam'.

DIET FOR THE DAY: ON; LOW

Pre-cardio: 1oz almond milk; 2 slices Healthy Life bread, ff slice cheese, 90g EW; NHM orange cran. Muffin
CARDIO
Post-cardio: 25g Essential Nutrition whey, 3.4oz banana, WF choc syrup, stevia, coffee
M1: 140g EW, ff slice cheese; Thomas light eng muffin, 14g cashew butter, 15g Welch’s red. sug jelly(PR ST LGI GF)
M2: Bethany’s LF Fudge Muffin(PR ST LGI/NSV)
M3: 3.5oz Morey’s marinated tilapia, 5oz lemon-marinated asparagus(PR LGI/NSV GF)
M4: 20g Beverly Int. pp + water (PR)
M5: 20g BSN LD, 100g EW, Splenda gran.; 28g soy crisps (PR ST)


WORKOUT FOR THE DAY:

Today was an unexpected Tae Bo session. My back was achy, my abs/obliques/glutes/inner thighs were all quite sore from my Tae Bo: Abs session yesterday. How a 35 minutes ab workout can make your butt hurt so bad I don't know! The Amped bar was used for the whole workout, part of which was done lying on the floor using your legs. So that's possibly how my inner thighs and butt got sore.

So anyways, I wanted to keep it short and sweet today....so I opted for Cardio Bootcamp Live with the black bands. I'm already feeling it in my tri's and back! No matter the pain, I'll always push through Tae Bo! The only way I'll ever turn down doing a Tae Bo workout is if I can't haul my butt outta bed because I'm deathly ill or injured.

ETC:

Tomorrow's plans consist of stopping by Jeff's to pick up a book before Econ at 12:30pm. Then after Econ I need to stop by the post office to mail his book. Then home for M2 and a great Tae Bo workout plus some yoga. I got a new yoga for scoliosis dvd yesterday and I'm dying to try it!

Tomorrow night will be accounting homework and new econ homework--blah!