Getting Closer to the Weekend

Today lived up to all my expectations…HECTIC!!!  I didn’t even eat my pudding or my granola/golden graham while I was at work.  I did end up snacking on the granola/golden graham after Just. and I left the mall tonight because I was STARVING!  But the pudding will be nice and frozen for me tomorrow.

Workout #1

Headed to the gym over lunch

Exercise	Weights	Reps/Sets
Bench Press	50lbs	8/3
Shoulder Press	2/20lb weights	8/3
Bicep Curls	30lb barbell	8/3
Dead Lift	30lb barbell	10/3
Bicep Curls (again)	30lb barbell	8/3
Tricep Kickbacks	1 20lb weight	8/3 per arm
Lat Pulldown	60lb weight	8/3
Tricep kickback in plank	1 12.5 lb weight	10/3 per arm
Pushups on Bosu		10/3
Seated Rows	15lb (L) 17.5lb (R)	8/3

This took about 30 minutes.  Then I went and did my daily physical therapy workout/stretches which took another 10 minutes.

Work was beyond busy and I thought it would be done after my major 3:30 meeting, but basically I was simply tasked to represent my report after crunching some new numbers on Monday.  Well I obviously won’t be there Monday, so I need to get all of that done tomorrow so my boss can go pitch it for me.  And I still have all those things that I had put off until Friday because I assumed the day would be easy.  As long as I get a good amount of sleep tonight, I’ll be fine.  And it will mean the day will go quickly and then it will be Friday night—start of the vacation and time for a alcoholic beverage!!

Workout #2

I headed back to the gym after work and went swimming

Drill	Time
Warm-up-4 X 50m Freestyle	Rest 0:15 per 50m
2 X 25m freestyle Arm Catch-up	Rest 0:10 per 25m
2 X 25m Streamline Kicking	Rest 0:10 per 25m
2 X 100m Freestyle Swim: Target 2:00 minutes	Rest 0:30 per 100m
2 X 100m Freestyle Swim: Target 2:00 minutes	Rest 0:20 per 100m
2 X 100m Freestyle Swim: Target 2:00 minutes	Rest 0:30 per 100m
2 X 100m Freestyle Swim: Target 2:00 minutes	Rest 0:10 per 100m
1 X 100m Freestyle Swim: Target 2:00 minutes	Rest 0:30 per 100m
1 X 100m Freestyle Push & Glide	Rest 0:20 per 100m
Cool-down: 1 X 100m Freestyle Easy
Total: 1500 m
Time: 38:34

My arms were SO tired after the swim.  Taking off my suit in the shower was near torture.  After a hard day of lifting and then swimming….I bet I have some good bicep lines.

After work, I picked Just. up at work and headed to the mall so he could pick up a pair of sunglasses for the trip.  When I left the gym, I snacked on 1/2 a chocolate chip Clif Bar.

 

Then we left the mall and headed home (after 8:00pm) so that was when I had the granola/graham crackers.

Dinner

I wanted a quick dinner…and something that cleaned out some of the things in the fridge.  So here are the concoctions that I came up with (at least it was much better than last night!!) 

I made a box of Annie’s Whole Wheat Mac and Cheese.  I made the sauce with soy milk and then I added a cooked carrot, broccoli and 1 chicken sausage.  This was fabulous.

 

(I snacked on a carrot while making dinner, but well, I assumed you guys know what a carrot looks like. )

 

On the side, I had a piece of whole wheat bread with 2 leftover chicken meatballs with some of the Newman’s pasta sauce on it.  This was simply YUM!

The aim for tonight is to get all packed.  My mom is coming up tomorrow night so that we can all get to the airport at the crack of dawn on Saturday morning.  OH!  I just remembered that I need to stop and pick up some brainless celebrity magazines for the flight.  Must remember to do that tomorrow!!!  And I just realized that I don’t have any coffee.  Sheesh–tomorrow could be tough!

Okay, sorry about that….digress.

Pack and do abs tonight.  That will be 6 of 6 abs session in the past 12 days.

 

Have a great night.  Tomorrow morning is my weigh in day.  Fingers crossed that it isn’t brutal the day before my vacation!

Heavy, heavy eyelids

Okay, we have a cat.  Her name is stiletto and boy does she have a personality.  She is a cross between thinking she is a dog and…being a complete and utter brat.  Last night she chose to do the later and she did it with flying colors.  We lock her up at night in a back bedroom because she gets so bratty. Last night she woke us up at about 1AM meowing bloody murder, so I went to check on her.  Sneaky little thing basically leaped over my head to escape from the room.  Once she is out, there is no putting her back away.  Food doesn’t help, yelling doesn’t help, she simply is too fast.  For the next 5 hours she went on a mission to piss us off in every manner possible.  She makes noise, she breaks things, she runs around like a maniac, she eats any and everything she can get her little mouth on.

And then at about 6AM, she curled up on the end of the bed and went to sleep.  I probably could have killed her.  So, despite the fact that I need to be UBER productive today, I am running on about 20% of my normal sleep.  Caffeine here I come!

Last night (it was too late of a night for me with all the chores we were doing. I must get to bed early tonight!), I had a little snack in the evening: A handful of Golden Grahams (there are some chocolate chips hiding under that pile) and a small mug of soy milk.

Breakfast

Complete and total repeat of yesterday, so I don’t think I really need to go into details.

Pumpkin Oats:

AM Snack

Kefir and a little peach.  This was the last of the peaches.

 

Lunch

Again, this is a throw everything that is still remaining in the kitchen together to form some sort of meal.

I made a salad with arugula, blueberries, quinoa, grape tomatoes and a few raisins.  I packed 1T of Annie’s Green Goddess Dressing to add to it.

Then I made a wrap on a whole wheat tortilla with at least 1T of hummus, a little arugula, sliced carrots, cucs, onion, red bell pepper and some mint

All rolled up

And I have my trusty fat free pudding in the freezer right now to enjoy on the side.

PM Snack

I stole one of Justin’s yogurt (yep that’s right hun, I stole a yogurt. ) because he wasn’t going to eat all of them this week anyway and they would have gone bad while we are on vacation.  Therefore, I actually see this as me helping out. 

1 blueberry yogurt and a side of granola, golden grahams and a few pieces of dried fruit

I am going to the gym over lunch today and lifting.  I am planning on going back to the gym after work and swimming.  It is so humid here today that I am worried that it’ll be storming by 5PM tonight and I won’t be able to get my swim in. 

Okay, I just need to make it until 4PM basically today and then all my major meetings are over and I can start to breath again.

Bring on the caffeine!