Day 3 ✔️

Finished Day 3 Total Body Circuit. Barley. Really mixed feelings today...
- Proud that I finished even though I had a headache every time I jumped to landed. - Disappointed I let myself slip so far back that I'm struggling again.

Why did I start again? It was the realization that I've gained back 8 of the pounds I've lost. I haven't weighed myself since the day before my birthday. I don't think it was nearly as bad - was just the bloating from pms that added to the size of my belly that made me sad.

(I don't know what Pms is called after a hysterectomy though ... I still have my ovaries and hormones so I still get the bloat and major mood swings but no pain and issues.)

Anyway, I should go and weigh and take my body measurements again so I can see the results after I finish my program.

Eating and drinking better - haven't had a soda since Monday night.


Me post work out. It was tough today and I worked up a good sweat.








My workout buddy. He wasn't that impressed apparently. 😖













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Day 2

Day 2 is finally in the books after starting at night rather than in the morning like I had planned. Lessons learned:
* Need to just get my workouts in before I start my work day.
* Plan my meals again- didn't over eat today but don't have the energy now like I did yesterday when I spaced out my meals and snacks better.

Speed 1.0 while not crazy hard like when I started originally, seemed longer than 25 minutes today - think it was because of the lower energy!!

Ah well. I feel so much better mentally now that I can check that item off my to do list. :)


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Workout started

No more excuses 😅 - I'm 37, the oldest kid is now 9 and I'm nearly 5 months post surgery.

T25 Day 1 Alpha Cardio - check. Not quite starting over at -0 but definitely harder than when I stopped working out consistently. The first 10 mins went by pretty fast - the last 15 seemed longer than before 😝. Every time I wanted to quit I looked to the right where our old TV was and see my reflection and how much I hated my weight currently and it pushed me to continue.

At least it's over for today and my knees survived! Next is to eat well today....

What is your health and fitness goal for today? Whatever it is - do it early and plan ahead! I need to go plan those meals and snacks before I get starving and devour everything in sight and make this all for naught!


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After the Fall

Owie. I fell down our steps earlier this evening and my body is now hurting even more. I got cocky thinking I could walk and bend and scoop up stuff to take down at the same time and next thing I knew, I was sliding down the stairs. Taking an inventory of aches, I jarred my teeth, hurt my wrist, back, and butt. My biggest area of pain though is on my forearm where I must've hit the stairs the hardest. :'(


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Oh what a beautiful morning!

Woke up early this morning and instead of being lazy in bed and reading facebook posts like I have been of late, I got my workout gear on and hit our home gym.

My workout buddy this morning:



I decided to try out Combat Power Kata45 to get my day going. Great workout but about 35 minutes in, my scar line started to hurt a bit - not sure if it was the constant punching motion pulling on the area or just getting too sweaty.

Btw if you were concerned and about to call animal control on me, don't worry my little buddy wasn't working that hard :).



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On with the journey

I'm taking little steps to get back on track. Got on the treadmill on Tuesday and it felt good even if it was just a brisk walk. I'm suffering from a cough that just hasn't gone away and it leaves me gasping for breath quite a bit so not pushing too hard at the moment.

Working on turning over some new leaves lately in productivity and organizing! Using a time logging app to see how I'm really spending my days and it is pretty helpful in helping me stay on track.

I'm fighting the pack rat in me and purging! Currently, I'm tossing all of the makeup I've had laying around that I don't use. Who knows what icky germs are on them anyway at this point (although some are so old I would think the germs have died)!


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Ahhhhh

Quick back and forth to the grocery store in hopes of a quick fix for my toffee craving (no luck) and dinner out tonight. Those are my only adventures outdoor so far. Towards the end of dinner, my arms were hurting pretty badly though. The meds had worn off about 20 mins before the check came and I could just feel weird cramp/tendon spasm/some crazy pain going off behind my arm. Now not sure if I'm having an allergic reaction or what, but I was itchy and scratched without really thinking and now one arm around my stitches has a bump on it about the size of a golf ball. Put some anti itch cream on, took Motrin, Allegra, and currently icing. Hope something/everything works. I have a follow up tmr with one of the surgeons. Whew.

On to productivity - so much more productive when I'm not staring at facebook all day. Almost finished with a dress for k that I'm testing for a pattern designer, and also started converting my stamp set unmounting exercise.

So this is what they used to look when I was doing binder sheets. I'm now going all DVD Stamp case. I'm hoping by the time I'm finished I'll free up more room in my craft room!





My old blog has the details here: http://stampingandscrappingwithamy.blogspot.com/2008/07/unmounting-instructions.html?m=1

This is what they look like now! The one on top is the one I converted. The one on the bottom is how now clear mount sets come in the packaging from SU.






Took me forever to set up the initial template in Photoshop Elements. Each future one will take some time to set up still, but will go faster hopefully as I make more. I've got three more tonight that I've already finished the case insert and printed. Will cut and convert tomorrow!

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