day 16?

I have lost track of what day it is on Reboot. I still have a cough that is deep and takes my breath away. I have not done any of the workouts since Friday a week ago. Weight is holding. I have been eating ED, until last night. Sunday we had Jessica’s birthday party with the family. I turned down pizza. I turned down a chocolate cake from Pulix’s. I was very proud of me. Then Monday we went to Adventure Island four 4 hours. Then to Chuck E Cheese’s for supper. The salad bar was the scariest thing I have ever seen! So,I ate one slice of pizza and thought yuck! I don’t know what being out in the sun does to make me so hungry! Then today we spent the day at Busch Gardens and I had a sweet tea and a cheese burger on the way home. So two very not ED days in a row. I will be fasting tomorrow to help get rid of the toxins I took in. Though, I had no weight gain from yesterday or no other ill effects, so maybe I am not a reactor to wheat. But I do know when I eat bread, usually I end up wanting more, so still a good idea for me to avoid it. Renata and Jessie are saying they want to go back tomorrow. Since it is just the 2 of them I may ago ahead and take them. If we go to the water park I can sit and read and let them go do the rides. If we go to Busch Gardens then I can ride the rides too. I really don’t like the water park rides, but love the water rides at Busch Gardens, lol, go figure.

I am going to officially workout tomorrow before we go anywhere regardless of the coughing. I don’t mind feeling sore from a good workout but I hate being in pain. And I am scared with so much time gone from my last workout that I am going to be past sore and in pain.

Reboot Days 9 & 10

Everything is still going well ED wise. Even sitting in the workshop with m & m’s, Dunkin muchins, and other nasties, I have not given in and had one bite. Not one bite! I am very proud of me Still haven’t worked out. The dizziness just won’t let me. Plus the thought of having a coughing fit in the middle of some of the moves scares me.

So far in 10 days I have lost 5.5 pounds. Not bad at all. And I am down several more inches as well. I am very happy about that!

Only one more day of workshops left and then I can baby myself and get me well I hope.

Day 8 of Reboot 6 Weirdness

Ok, I noticed a few days before getting sick that I was very emotional. Now for me, the only time I really ever get teary eyed is when someone I know passes on to better places and when in extreme pain.  And when I was carrying my baby girls. Even when pregnant, I would cry at the sappy tv commercials and such. Nothing unexpected for many women at that point in their lives. As of today, I have far surpassed that! I am talking drop of the hat tears. Because the kids are fighting, crying, not happy, are playing so good together. Because the presenter was speaking to the class in Greek today to prove a point and to let us as teachers see how it feels to come into the classroom and not understand the language that the teacher and other students are speaking. Which I have taken 4 or 5 classes with the same presenter and she does this no matter which class she is teaching, so why would that make me cry now? Because someone cut me off in traffic, I forgot to put things in the crock pot. I don’t know, just crazy stuff that would not normally faze me in any way form or fashion!!! Surely it isn’t because I am sick. I have been sick before and it not have this effect on me. I am not pregnant because the hubby will be going back to the Dr. and demanding a refund if I am!

So, my thoughts are does it have to do with detox-ing? If after eating the ED way and doing the different workouts that Dax works so hard to give us burns off the most recently stored fat, if then by continuing the lifestyle and much older fat is released with much more toxins in them, could this be where the weirdness is coming from. Or does the ED completely detox you in 30 days no matter the amount of mass in your body or the amount of toxins? Could it take some people more than 30 days to detox and others less, depending on their eating habits before ED? And age?  I am 38. Is it possible that we burn our fat stores in layers? And as we burn those stores do we continue to release stored toxins?

Just wondering if Dax or anyone else has any thoughts on this or if you actually have answers.  

I think getting out of the house did me some good today. First off I went to the wrong place and then had to figure out where the right place was. Thankfully my co-teach still had her phone on and was able to text the info to me. Hit every red light on the way there, of course. And I made it there late and of course in tears! I have 5 kids, I am use to being late, sigh. I had yogurt and strawberries for breakfast. For lunch I ordered a ham quiche and then noticed that it was a three cheese. After it arrived it, it was in a pie crust! And I really didn’t care for it, but it could have been because I am sick. I ate the eggs, cheese & ham and tried my best to not eat the crust. I did enjoy the cup of mixed fresh fruit. I started my fast after lunch. I am still a little dizzy/ light headed feeling so have not worked out. I did help the hubby clean the ponds this evenings so am thinking that I will be able to add at least the matrixes back in tomorrow. Will wait and see wait tomorrow brings.

I started this adventure with Dax as a way to lose weight and keep it off and to also teach my babies what a healthy lifestyle looks like. The longer I am on this adventure the more my focus is on gaining strength and keeping active and eating healthy. I have never talked to my kids about being over weight because in my opinion none of my children are, but about making healthy choices. Even though I have been overweight since middle school, I don’t talk about being fat to them. I do joke and tease them about the foods that I eat and that I feed them is because I want to be a skinny mommie and because it is healthy for us. But the jokes and teasing haven’t been ringing true here lately. I really could care less if I ever get “skinny”. I really honestly don’t want to be. I like my curves and always have. I want to be strong. I want to be healthy. I want my kids strong and healthy. And that is really what it boils down to for me. I don’t want to expose my kids to all the additives and hormones that are in so many of the readily available foods. Don’t get me wrong I am still excited to see the numbers go down, but now it is more the numbers on the tape than the numbers on the scales.

But how do you guys keep the bad stuff from your kids? School lunch is not something they can eat as it is all pretty much all bad stuff but maybe the salad. I can’t ask my kids to eat salad every day! And packing lunch is what I do must of the time.  But the kids go off with their friends and are exposed to more of the bad stuff. How do you get it through to them so that they are making those good choices over the bad? How do you as parents help them to start making those choices?

Sorry a lot of questions for you tonight, but then I am all emotional!!!!! LOL I really am looking forward to your thoughts, ideas and opinions.

Reboot6 days 5,6,7

Can you say sick? I was perfectly fine Friday morning. The girls and I went to lunch with the hubby. I had a bowl of chilli and a small salad and started feeling off. We made it home around 2:30 and I crashed onto the couch and did not move again until 9 that night. The girls were really good, Hailey sat on my feet and Jessie layed on the loveseat all afternoon until Dad came home. And Renata pretty much stayed in her room. Until my husband came home I was still able to fuss when I thought that they had been in the bathroom or kitchen too long, but once he came in I stopped fighting it and couldn’t even open my eyes. By 9 that night I had a deep rumbley cough that shakes you all the way to your toes and makes your head feel like it is going to pop off. My head only hurts when I cough and I have to move around like I am wearing a neck brace because just standing up and walking makes me dizzy. The hubby order pizza for himself and the girls and me a salad. When I was able to move I asked him to put the salad in the frig for me and to pour me some hot water over my lemons, then went to bed.

Saturday morning was a real effort to get up out of bed. Thankfully the girls went to grandma and grandpa’s house to swim for a few hours. My umbrella cockatoo was completely out of food. I spent over an hour trying to convince myself to go get the food before the girls came home. I really didn’t want them in the car with me the way I was feeling.  So, went and got the bird food, stopped at McDonald’s and picked up sweet tea for the hubby since I was over by his work and went ahead and got me one too. I am happy to say it didn’t taste as good as I remembered but it was a nice change. I made it home in one piece and crashed again until the girls made it home. Around 1:30 I picked at the salad the hubby had gotten my the night before. I was in bed again at 9 last night.

This morning the fever is still fading in and out. One minute I am slopping wet and the next I am freezing to death. Still a bit dizzy when I get up moving around and the cough is awful. But I am moving today! Since the matrix 2 is the only workout for today I may try it. Still not sure I am ready for that. Starting tomorrow I have a week-long workshop, hopefully whatever I have is gone by then.

Day 4 Reboot 6

Well, down another pound. and a 3 inches gone in some areas but 1 and a half inches up in others. Hummm. I finished yesterdays fast at lunch today. I had a small garden salad and a bowl of chili. Supper was 4 chicken wings I bar b qed and about a 1/4 cup of red quinoa. I am thinking I am going to make the ed friendly “ice cream” to hide my minerals in. I haven’t taking any this week and could be why I am feeling so tired. Also, I have only drank water today, no tea. Once I started drinking the teas, I stopped drinking the water. I need to workout something were I “get to have” a cup of tea if I have drunk X amount of water.

I did the meltdown this morning, half way thru the first set I realized I was not doing the movement I had planned, but finished the next 4 rounds because I hadn’t done it in the rotation so no big deal. The next meltdown was to be lunges, but again about round 4 I realized I was doing the step backs instead, but continued the next 4 rounds doing them. For the lunges this week I have been doing them between my couch and the coffee table, so that I can use them to steady myself but yet go to the within 1 inch of the floor. I know I am using my arms too much but I wanted to see if it would make a difference in the range of motion over all. My thighs are sore but nothing like what their were at the beginning of MAP. I am also feeling a soreness in my sides from doing the accumulator, but again, it is a good soreness, not the painful kind. And for the 3rd meltdown I actually did the movement I was planning on doing. I wonder if there was some higher power working there… LOL The next time I do meltdown is Saturday and then I have no choice but to do them, to make sure I do all in the rotation!

Otherwise it was a quite day of reading Though I was very sad at the ending of my book. I still can’t believe they turned him into a bad guy, sigh. So, tomorrow I will take books 1, 2, and 3 of Vampire Academy back to my friend and pick up book 4. I am very sad to go into reading it, knowing that Rose is going off to hunt down the love of her life to kill him………….

Day 3 of Reboot 6

Started off this morning with the matrix 1. The first time I went thru it I used 12 lb dumb bells and did 6 reps. Since I was able to complete all six reps and still do more the 2nd time I went thru it I used 15 lb dumb bells. That was a much better workout though on some of the moves I think I can still go heavier, but to do that it means I have to stop add plates do the move then stop and take plates off to do the next movement. Not sure if that would mess up the flow of doing the movements back to back. I’ll have to ask in the forum and see what others think.

Breakfast was a greek yogurt with strawberries. Lunch was 3 crunchy tacos, with , sigh, yes cheese AND sour cream. But it was a nice change and not going to beat myself up over it. It was good and I enjoyed it My fast started after lunch and I am doing ok. As long as I am cooking pasta for the rest of the family, I am totally ok with not eating when they all do. Tonight was mac & cheese, and one of the pastas I do like once in a while. The Hubby saved me from temptation, sort of. I cooked the pasta and then he took over after it was cooked to do the cheese and such. But then he left me to plate it for the girls. lol Oh well. I was good, I didn’t even lick my finger when some of the cheese got on it.

The evening was the accumulator. I put it off all day. It is a hard one. Doing only 5 reps of each movement, I made it thru the table again. The 1st time I only had about a minute and a half left and I just could not do anything else. I stopped. Tonight I had over 4 minutes left, so I started over again and made it to the table with 15 seconds left. I didn’t even start the table the second time. But I am happy I made it so much farther today than the other day. If this continues the same way, it is looking like I will get to experience the screw press!

Reboot6 Day 2

Today was a nice day. I got up and since I was fasting, I just let the kids fix their own breakfast when they decided they wanted to eat. I did the matrix 2 then read for a while. It was nice having no workout this afternoon, but in a way I felt lost because there was nothing I “had” to do.

I had a nice little grilled chicken salad with a couple of strawberries, grapes, and a few apple chunks in it. Later in the day I had a yogurt with blueberries and strawberries. For dinner I had 2 scrambled eggs, bacon and a sausage link. I also had one bite of hash browns. I didn’t care for them so the girls ate them for me, lol. I need to start drinking water again. Since my order of tulis tea came in I have just been drinking it all day long.  Of the 12 kinds I ordered, I am only finding the sweet rose is the only one I can live without. It has too much of a tawny after taste. It does smell wonderful though! I also had a glass of cranberry juice with dinner. I don’t tend to drink juices very often. I think it was too much at one time because it made me feel all sick and yuck. A sugar dump.

I hope everyone else is still headed toward their goals! Night all.

Reboot6 Day 1

I redid measurements but I will just use the pics from the end of M.A.P. as my reboot6 starting pics.

July 12, 2010

weight  229 lbs.

chest 38 in (my chest is now bigger than my waist!!!)

waist 36 in  (YEA!!!!!!!! my waist is now smaller than my chest instead of the other way around!)

hips 48 in

lt arm 14.5 in

rt arm 14.5 in

lt leg @ 4″ 23.5 in

lt leg @ 8″ 26

rt leg @ 4″  24 in

rt leg @ 8″  26.5 in

I have lost a few more pounds and several more inches since M.A.P. and I can’t wait to see how much more is gone at the end of this month of reboot.

Yesterday the first workout of the day was the accumulator. Oh man, was it hard. I did, or tried to do the beginner level, and still did not make it all the way through in the 20 minute time limit. I was too tired/shaky/whatever to even try to finish past the 20 minutes. We only do this workout 2 more times this week before the time is lowered on us for next week.  My goal is to make it through at least once in the 20 minute time limit.

Meltdown this month is also a killer because once again Dax has changed the rules on us. My arms, oh my poor arms. Sigh, I did say I wanted pretty arms before the summer was over. It just might be an attainable goal with all of this!

Fasting was awesome yesterday. I was surprised it went so well. After I ate lunch I was planning on heading to Adventure Island and working out in the lazy river. BUT the hubby had to stay at work longer than planned training the people on the service drive. It was after 3 when he got home. Too late to make the drive to Tampa and still have time to play before the park is closed. So, instead of ordering pizza and hiding in the bedroom while they ate, I ended up cooking dinner. I decided the best bet was to make something that would not tempt me. I really am not a big pasta eater, so the kids and hubby got spaghetti and I read a book. I forgot I was fasting after lunch, so it was actually lunch before I ate yesterday. I had 2 eggs fried in coconut oil.

Since we didn’t go to Tampa yesterday, the Hubby worked around the yard. He has the side yard and the front butterfly garden boxed and ready to be put together. You’ll have to parden the camera. The lens fogged up when I took it outside this morning.

The day before Reboot6

Dax gave us our new workouts today for the next 4 weeks. He is trying to kill me again after a week of taking it easy. I have already watched the video for the new workout I don’t know how many times. I still don’t have all the movements to their correct names yet. And it looks like a killer, not sure I will be able to complete it in the 20 minute time limit. I may end up just going all the way through it regardless of how long it takes the first time, just to make sure I know how to do all the movements. All other workouts we have done in the past so at least I am good there.

Eating this month is just ED with 2 or 3 fasts each week. I had already decided I was going to try 3 days a week before reading the new guidelines, so I am happy that they match up. I have decided I am fasting on Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays. I am going to try to go lunch to lunch and see if that works better than the supper to supper that I have been doing. If it does work out then I don’t have to deal with all the questions about why I am not eating lunch when school starts back up in the middle of August.

I was fasting today, but it was harder than usual. I don’t know if it was because the kids were in and out of the kitchen all day and I was fixing things for all 5 of them individually  or what. But I broke fast around 4 this afternoon instead of at 7. I did find a recipe for making my own wraps that turned out pretty good.

I took 2 to 4 tablespoons of ground flax seeds, 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil, and 1 egg. I mixed this all together, lightly oiled my pan, then poured the mixture into the hot pan and cooked like a crape. I then filled the wrap with seasoned cooked ground chicken, red & yellow bell peppers. It wasn’t bad at all. I will have to work on getting the right shape but I am loving having a wrap to eat things in again. I hate looking through all the wraps at the store trying to find one that is ok to eat. These are made as needed, quick and with items I always have on hand!

I thought we were going to the in-laws to swim yesterday afternoon, but the hubby came home and started cutting his landscaping timbers. He was planning on putting them together today but it rained just enough to make that not a possibility. I figure if the rain holds off tomorrow then the backyard framework and the side of the house framework will be finished. Hopefully he will have enough timbers left over to finish the frame for the butterfly garden that was started last summer!

I am wishing you all a good night and good luck for tomorrow mornings Accumulator workout!

Energy!

I still have a underliying of just plain old tiredness that I wish would go away. But I also have tons and tons and tons of energy! How can I feel so tired and drained but yet have this need to go-go go?  My house got clean even with all 5 kids under foot. Usually, I have to send them elsewhere and have the house to myself to clean it, but today I managed with them at home. 

Went to bed on time last night and I managed to go to sleep! Yea! Was up again early, not as early as 5:30 which is what Dax says we should be up by. But early for it to be summer vacation and no reason to get up out of bed.

I did the same 2 combo workouts today that I did yesterday. I can feel it in my chest this afternoon. Other than cleaning house and the half a meltdown workout, I didn’t workout today.

The hubby and working on starting the framing with his landscaping timbers has not happened yet…. lol. Wonder how long it is going to take before he decides to get started? Especially considering he has the pool laying in pieces all over the lanai! Not happy about that, would rather it had stayed in the box until we are ready to put it up. But anyways….

My order of  tulis tea came today. So, far I have tried 5 of the 12 kinds I ordered. I must say not bad at all. Not sure I am crazy about the rose but maybe after I try it iced I will like it better. I also ordered 2 kinds of herbal ”coffee” that has no caffeine. I haven’t tried them yet but will let you know when I do.

Awesome day food wise and water/tea wise.

Going to continue with ED and I can’t wait to see what the end of the week holds.

This is one of our ongoing projects. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger!