Saturday, September 5, 2015

Days Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight: Packing and Heading to the Beach

I'm at the beach! Yay!



However, working a full day when the kid has early release from school, and packing for the beach at the same time makes this mama a freakishly busy person with no time or thought to give to fitness, eating, or blogging. I had no time to eat breakfast, then ate a late lunch because I had to get to the school to get the kid. Last night I was packing like a crazy thing while still doing laundry, and my friend Meredith was arriving, and there was all kinds of frenzied activity. I literally forgot to do my ab work, let alone blog about the day. I skipped zumba on purpose, though I felt a little bad about that. But there it was, 11:40pm, and I realized as I was crawling into the bed that no ab work had been done and not one thing had been logged for the day. I did manage to eat decently, though not enough calories. I thought I had eaten so much food till today when I logged the calories--skipping a meal is a mistake.

Today, I made up for the calorie thing yesterday. We ate a good breakfast, but then lunch on the road at Chick-Fil-A while driving. One cannot eat a salad while driving, and I knew that we were going out for dinner, too, so I just declared today a cheater day. And how. I ate more calories for lunch than I ate all of yesterday. Ugh. Not only that, after Chick-Fil-A for lunch and fried seafood for dinner, I feel like crap on toast. I will NOT be doing that again tomorrow--I want green things.

Today should have been day 28 of the ab workout, which is a rest day, so I just did day 27's workout today, and I will skip the rest day. Only two more days to go, which is hard to believe. Now, I need to figure out what ab work I am going to keep as part of my daily workout. I definitely need to keep going with the ab work--I can already see and feel a difference in my body from the past 28 days of dedicated and targeted work.

Tomorrow begins my official vacation, and I plan to walk and walk and walk. I brought hand weights, a medicine ball, and resistance bands with me, so I am going to try to fit in some mild strength training as well. And there will be stretching--I want to stretch every day.

Day 27 Log:
Exercise: 
  • Does packing count?
Nutrition:
  • Breakfast: N/A
  • Lunch: big salad with lots of veggies, avocado, and turkey breast, with honey dijon dressing, muhammara and 5 pretzel thins
  • Dinner: a small grass fed ribeye, French green beans with olive oil and porcini salt, heirloom tomato salad
  • Snacks: 1 mozzarella Babybel
Stats:
  • Steps: 5965
  • Calories: 732 consumed, 57 burned
  • Weight: 201 (home)

Day 28 Log:
Exercise: 
  • Day 27 of the 30 Day Abs Challenge: 115 sit ups, 62 leg raises, 180 crunches,  110 second plank
Nutrition:
  • Breakfast: two eggs scrambled with cheese, microgreens, little tomatoes, watermelon
  • Lunch: Chick-Fil-A sandwich and fries with iced tea
  • Dinner: went to Frost, a fried seafood joint at the beach (tradition)--I split a popcorn shrimp plate with Meredith with a side of squash casserole and a small salad with ranch dressing
  • Snacks: N/A
Stats:
  • Steps: 5407
  • Calories: 1978 consumed, burned
  • Weight: no scale at the beach

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