I mentioned previously I had some setbacks re: complete and total loss of my work out space! I've rearranged some stuff in my living room, and hopefully tomorrow this fridge will be out of here! I've decided to essentially start over on Monday for a few reasons.
- I really don't want to hurt myself by jumping into a hardcore day right after several days "off".
- I started mid-week, and to line up with the calendar, its best to start on a Monday. I was going to work around that, but I like the idea of Sunday being an off day since that is when I usually clean and do laundry and am generally active anyway.
- Weekends are ROUGH enough as it is, with the girls home.
Weekends are definitely going to be my weak spot. It is much easier for me to be more conscientious of what I'm eating when I'm at work. If I'm hungry, I only have what I brought with me during the day to much on - red pepper strips, beef jerky, my protein bars, etc. When I'm home? Lets just say the girls had pizza for dinner tonight, and I couldn't let it go to waste now could I?
I think it will get easier as I get into a routine, but with lack of a kitchen, I'm kind of sticking to what is here and simple at the moment. I want normal back!
Either way, I have been attempting to do positive things this weekend. Like sleep.
Sleep is important!! You burn fat when you sleep. And your body regenerates itself. I am not a good sleeper. I've tried being set and consistent, but it doesn't work for me. My hours are too crazy with work, Sassypants doesn't sleep well through the night yet, the school bus comes SUPER early in the morning for Chatterbox. I suck horribly at actually falling asleep... 100 different reasons. But then it gets to the weekend, and I end up exhausted and not being all that I can be for my girls. So my goal is to be up and be motivated next weekend, even though they're going to be at their dads.
Also, completely unrelated to my complete and utter lack of motivation this weekend, I have started taking liver supplements. Before I started this entire journey, I went in to my doctor for a complete physical. Doctors are important, yo! I wanted to make sure I didn't have any sort of imbalance, or issues that would get in the way of being healthy, or stop my progress. Complete blood panels were drawn. My cholesterol was perfect, blood pressure perfect, thyroid levels were perfect, everything was tip top! For being so overweight for so long, that was astonishing to me!
EXCEPT... and there is always a but.
My liver. It was showing decreased function. I didn't think much of it at the time. I don't drink heavily, but I do take acetaminophen relatively frequently because of my foot, and a couple of other medications, but even that isn't horrible. But then I started reading about how insanely important the liver is for maintaining healthy weight, and processing fat out of your body when you're losing weight, as well as combating general fatigue, which is something that plagues me constantly.
I decided to look into different supplements that increase liver function. I found one that my doctor recommended that has a lot of different herbs, like milk thistle, that are designed to reset liver damage and increase overall function, so I started taking that, and will be interested to see how it helps. I'll keep you posted!
So tomorrow is a new day, a new week, and back on track. The beginning of the track, but back on it nonetheless. I know it has only been a couple of workouts, but I'm interested to see if any of my initial fit test numbers go up since I'll be repeating it tomorrow. You guys don't get those results until the two week mark on the program though. Gotta keep you in suspense at least a little bit right?
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