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!

Restless Night

Not sure if I drank too much ginseng energy tea yesterday or what, but I did not sleep last night at all. I was still awake at 1 this morning when Hailey came into our room. I went to bed at 10:30 but sleep just would not come to me. And it wasn’t the million things running through my brain kind of thing either, honestly was a very calm nothing to think about kind of night.

A little before 8 this morning I worked in the back yard a bit. I filled and dumped the wheelbarrow twice with the grass. So my little dirt patch is a little bigger. About 15 after 8 the sun was starting to peek around the corner of the house so I called it quits.

I know this week is supposed to be R&R but I decided to try 2 of the pairs of the meltdown workouts in reboot5. Wished I had paid more attention to reboot during M.A.P. but I didn’t, lol. I did one meltdown of fly/ bridges and one meltdown of triceps extension/extension crunch. I also did a bit of the belly dancing workout as well.  I think that what happened to me in Jan. with Meltdown was that we had the week of R&R and then it was a week or several days anyways before Reboot was up and running. I had already in that short amount of time gotten out of working out and then I just could not give it my all with Reboot. I had lost whatever it was that had pushed me through Meltdown. I don’t want to lose that again. So, I am going to throw in a workout or two here and there just to make sure I keep on keeping on, so to speak.

This morning the scales said I was down another 2 pounds. Yea me!

I made sure not to drink any of the energy tea today so hopefully I will have a better night tonight!

M.A.P. The Day After!

Not a very exciting day but a good day. I was pretty much a lazy kitten today. I did take kids to the Dr.’s and cleaned out the frig and that sort of thing, but as far as out-and-out working out, I did not. This is a week of R & R. I will do yard work tomorrow before it gets hot and I think I will take pics to see what kind of progress we make over the summer with our project.

Today would have been a fasting day if the program were continuing, so I fasted.  I am not going to worry about carb cycling for this week. I am just going to continue with regular ED. I feel no need at this time to try and add things back into my diet. In a week or so I may add cheese because it is one of the things I do enjoy and it seems as Americans we eat a whole heck of a lot of it. Cheese on eggs, sandwiches, chili, baked tators, soups and even our salads. Too much cheese I am thinking, makes it almost impossible to order out.

Hubby is supposed to start on the landscaping timbers tomorrow. Went tonight to borrow tools from a friend.  After looking at the size of the pool and wanting to make room for the table and benches we already have,  the area needs to be a bit bigger than we first planned.  Instead of using rocks and stepping-stones, the hubby is now talking about making a flush with the ground deck. How is it men can take something simple and basic and turn it into a major ordeal?

Here is a pic from day one after the kids and me spent 4 hours shoveling and moving the grass to another area of the yard. Not even a 4th of the way done!

 

M.A.P. Results

 

Ok, pics are done. I am too tired to play with the pic arrangement any longer so the after pics are 1st and the before pics are last. I think I can see a small change in the side views. Not as drastic as I would like for it to be but hey it is a change and I’ll take it!

Measurements     

                                   June 6        /            July 6

Weight                       240        /            231                                 -9 lbs

Bust                             40in     /            39 in                                -1 in

waist                             41in   /             37.5 in                            -3.5 in

lt arm   was measuring wrong at the start  15 in

rt arm                                                       15.5 in

hips                   54in    /          50 in                                             -4 in

4″lt                     26in      /        25 in                                               -1in

4″rt                      26.5in    /     25.5in                                            -1in

8″lt                        29in       /       27in                                              -2in

8″rt                    30in        /       27.5 in                                         -2.5 in           

Over all 15 inches total gone, if I am counting correctly and down 9 pounds to boot.  Not bad I don’t think.

I am not really feeling a difference in my clothes but hopefully will in a few more weeks.                                                 

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