The hike this morning was “third ravine”. It was pretty intense in the beginning, lots of climbing. Unfortunately, it’s getting a lot harder to burn calories. I’m guessing that’s a great sign but it’s a bit disappointing too!
Breakfast was a muffin, but I decided to have eggs and toast instead. Also, today I decided I would try and drink as much water as possible! It made it a bit difficult to make it through classes without having to leave to go to the bathroom. I think it’s important I keep drinking as much water as I did today though.
The options this morning were pretty calm, no serious cardio options. I chose strength circuit and stretch. Incase you’ve forgotten, strength circuit is when you work out at each station for a minute per machine. The point is to fatigue your muscles as much as possible in 60 seconds. Stretch was nice but It’s so difficult to stay awake. I always doze off… I still get a good stretch in though and I think that’s the most important part.
Lunch was coconut chicken soup (a chicken broth with little pieces of chicken, avocado, and red pepper), as well as quinoa lettuce wraps. The lettuce wraps were phenomenal! About a half cup of quinoa per piece of boston lettuce.
Every Tuesday at fitness ridge is “calorie challenge” day. Today’s calorie challenge was to guess the amount of calories in a variety of different sandwiches. As always, first prize is a facial, second prize are the chef’s cookbooks, and third prize is a biggest loser book (it varies every week, today’s was a specifically dessert cookbook).
After calorie challenge I decided to watch true blood in my room to kill some time before afternoon classes. If you haven’t been watching, get to it!!
My first class was cardio intervals, but I was absolutely exhausted for some reason. The first interval (30 seconds per 7 increases & 7 decreases) I did on the elliptical. The 2 sprints I did on the treadmill and I finished the last interval on the treadmill as well. It seems to be the only machine I enjoy using, mostly because it gets my heart rate up the highest and I can’t lie to myself about speed and incline.
Next I took total toning with robin. I was using 6 lb weights and at one point in the class Sharon gave me this look of shock and outrage and stomped away. She quickly came back with 10 lb weights for me to use for the rest of the class. Thanks Sharon… always looking out for me.
Finally, for the first time in a while, I took a pool class: deep water suspension. It was great! Nicole is one of the more intense trainers here at FR. She makes sure that when you’re in the pool you don’t feel like you’re having free swim. I never knew pool workouts could be as intense as they have been here.
Dinner was white bean chili topped with avocado and a few tortilla strips. It was delicious! Dessert was the vanilla and chocolate pudding parfait again. It’s one of my favorite desserts here, but it’s 194 calories.
At the end of dinner they announce the calorie challenge winners. Annie always jokes that she’s never going to win because this is her sixth week here and she has yet to be even remotely close. I went inside to be moral support. Turns out, I wasn’t very good moral support as I won third place. So, I’ll be bringing home the biggest loser’s dessert cookbook. Thank god for me since I have such a huge sweet tooth! All of the desserts look amazing.
Open life coach is every Tuesday night, instead of the lectures like I had the first week I was here. We usually just talk about whatever topic comes up first. It always seems to be the same issue, “what do I say to people who remark, ‘you still look the same’ or ‘how much weight did you lose?’”. Honestly, I can’t believe that’s an issue for people. If you still look the same, it’s because no one looks that different after two weeks. You can only feel the differences. If someone asks you how much weight you lost, as them how much weight they lost.
I went back to my empty room to kill time before my meeting with Jen tonight. I played a little bit of guitar, sad that the Internet here is down. Finally at 8:15 I met up with Jen. We spoke first about why I was there. I told her that I’m afraid to disappoint myself after I leave here. I don’t want to be struggling with my weight for the rest of my life. It’s too tiring. She showed me the basic “calories in = calories out” math and told me that tomorrow morning I should wear my heart rate monitor for 24 hours so I can find out what my most active burning rate is. I’m excited to find out! We talked a bit about options at school and I told her how all of my friends were always confused because my fridge was stuffed with healthy food.
At the end we touched on how many nutritionists I’d been to, and a few more personal areas as well. She asked me how I felt about my body. I didn’t know what to say but truthfully I’m not embarrassed of my body. I wish I was thinner, I would feel better if I was thinner, but I wouldn’t be a different person. I told her that if I wasn’t so confident in my personality that I would probably feel differently.
Now I’m watching cupcake wars. Kateri watches so much foodnetwork here and now I understand why. I forgot how much I loved it!!!
Sorry for the late post, by the way. The internet is down here, as I said before. But look at the bright side, two posts in one day!
11 days away, with love, goodnight.
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