#fitsummer30

[justanotherworkingmother]

My new position at work is pretty overwhelming. I worked an hour of overtime today and I still didn't get everything done. Well, it's technically not overtime anymore now that I'm salaried. Damn!

Also, we just finished Shred Day 2. Yep, we started over since for a couple weeks we had a baby who wouldn't fall asleep until 10 pm. She has been pretty consistent with an 8:15 pm bedtime so we thought we would start up again. (Watch, now that I typed this she will start waking up again right after we put her down...)

[babydescant]

missed shredding yesterday due to all of our furniture needing to be moved back post carpet cleaning. We didn't finish that job till 9:45 pm and then my inner dialogue said "nope nope nope". 

Then, a la 4 canines almost through the gums at once, I was up until 11, up again at 12:50, fell asleep on his floor at some point which is probably why he decided to go back to sleep, woke up at 2:30 due to sleeping in a really weird position on a hard floor with no pillow or blanket, back to sleep by 3 or so, Roland back up at 3:40 (at which point I said F it and brought him to bed) and then he was up again at 5:15 though I convinced him to stay in bed until 6:30. And J, that angel, got up first so I could sleep 45 more minutes, bringing my grand total up to maybe 5 and a half hours of sleep. It's one thing to do 5.5 straight- I can do most anything on 5.5 straight- but 5.5 broken up into 1 and 2 hour bits is the worst.

Subsequently, I only got one cup of coffee, worked my clinic shift, walked roland through the downtown festival, cleaned house, put kiddo to bed, and the question loomed: To shred, or not to shred?

I shredded on the rationale that starting is the hardest part. Tonight, that was not true. The whole thing was the hardest part. Minute by minute I was tempted to call it a day, and I took more 5 second breaks than anyone should in a 20 minute workout. I still somehow managed to get sweaty, but it was enough of a terrible workout I think I'm going to call this day null too and add an extra day to make up for it. 

I guess sometimes you gotta know when to quit, too. 

[annamannix]

Shred!

Still semi on the wagon. Fell off for a bit.

I think I should have been finishing up about now if I'd worked out every day, but here I am just finished day 18. Level 2 still makes me sweat my proverbial nads off but it feels good.

I still doubt that I've lost any weight, BUT! my workout pants are falling down during the jump moves where they most certainly did not before.

I've also taken to working out in front of a mirror, not out of narcissism, but It's great motivation. I can check myself for good form or lazy posture, and it doesn't hurt to sometimes feel a little embarassed by the jiggly bits, or to be impressed by the muscles I can now see in my arms and shoulders.

Gonna go negate my workout calories burned by drinking wine with the husband now.

[babydescant]

Fitsummer30 10 day countdown!

I took a 5 day break after level 2 because the logistics of working out away from home was too hard and I wanted to eat cake and drink alcohol. Technically I ran a little, but I don't think playing catch or chasing dogs and babies counts, and that high ropes course we did had enough traffic that we got to pause too often to consider it a workout. 

Anyway. I'm back, baby. The first 20 days have caused near universal "You look great, what are you doing?" comments, which is all I really need in life, but I'd like to be an easier size to buy clothes for. I started this baby journey a 6 and that's never going to happen again. I'm rocking a 10-12 now but would like to get down to an 8-10. So far I've lost multiple inches off waist and bust, but I think my hips are going to be 39" forever now. I've also noticed improvements in my general mood, digestion, and energy level. 

Bonus routine- when I'm not eating cake, I am maintaining a 95% vegetarian diet. I started a new vitamin/digestion/essential fatty acid protocol called the life long vitality package by doTerra, and I've added an extra 3/4 of a liter of water to my previous goal of 3 liters. I've severely limited my sugar intake. I'm using dates, beets, and sweet potatoes as my primary sugar sources. 

Vices: Never going to give up coffee, nope nope nope. But I have been skipping every third day unintentionally

Level 3 is tough, man. It's not available on youtube as I previously thought, but you can get it off amazon (watch instantly) for the same price. I think mountain climbers are the new bane of my existence. Every level has had a great balance of things I could do and things I had to modify and work up to. This is a great workout, and I think I can squeeze 20 minutes in every day no matter how much I don't want to. 

After this last 10 days are over, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I'd like to repeat the series ad infinitum, but I prefer to do yoga and my knee prefers it too. Stay tuned for the less than exciting but critical to my success adventures in fitness!

[annamannix]

Shred Days 13 & 14

FYI: I ought to have been on day 20 today, based on when I started. I'm not happy about the days I missed but I have to give myself a break. I work tomorrow, then have one day off and work another four, and I'm the kind of sick where my lymph nodes are swollen and I feel a little off in the morning and night, but have no other major symptoms. Hoping the good old immune system will take care of this one.

Also there is the thing where my baby is going under general anesthesia to get his tooth removed. I'm super fucking nervous but fairly confident that this choice is preferable to holding him down in a dentist's office while he has a local anesthetic injected into his mouth and then the tooth pulled. That just sounds traumatizing and since I know for sure that being held for an IV will be easier, and I also know from having to hold children for various procedures and knowing my child that he is probably the strongest, wiliest toddler I have ever met and a worthy opponent.

I'm slightly conflicted about opting for medications in a scenario where the procedure COULD be done without, but I know they are relatively safe and will save Ro a scary memory at the dentist's office. He is 100% likely to need to visit THERE again in his lifetime, with a smaller chance that he'll ever need to visit the hospital again, so therein lies the root of my choice.

What would y'all do, tumblr?

Off topic post is off topic.

[babydescant]

Monday

Made that baby some play dough. Babies love play dough. Only had to tell him not to eat it once, apparently that much salt in a lick is a pretty good deterrent right now.

Roland started making "Urch" and "vroom vroom" noises as relates to stopping and pushing his wheely bug around

We've read "My First ABC Board Book" approximately 9 million times now. Jer bought it for kiddo last week when we were picking up presents for a birthday party. If you watch sesame street and are familiar with the worm yelling "Ree, ree" and oscar the grouch reading the adventures of trash gordon again and again, you have heard the exact way that Roland asks to read a book. He yells "Ree, ree!" and then he throws a book in your general direction

Continuance of adorbs: yesterday I picked up "wintersmith" by terry pratchett to read him a chapter before bed, and kiddo said "No no, Hat!" by which he meant "Not that book, mama, I would rather you read to me the fine novel of "The Cat in the Hat'"  which of course I did. 

I'm not sure if I'm sad that he would rather pick out his own book because I can't enforce my own pleasure reading at bed time or ecstatic that he's so excited and opinionated about reading.

Back to the shredding grind. My fever broke sometime in the wee hours of last night, so I'm back at it. I modded pretty heavily for myself but am glad that I started doing it again. 

I'm going to give myself a vacation break from shredding between level 2 and 3. Maybe I'll volunteer to get the mail every day while we're at the outlaws. Their mailbox is a 1.5 mile round trip or something like that. Also, acreage. I'm sure I'll be chasing baby/dog/playing football/climbing trees. 

I'm going to make that smitten kitchen ice cream cake the lazy way while I'm up there, too. No regrets.

Super looking forward to vacation.

[babydescant]

Day 18

Delayed. I can't breathe out of my nose and all my joints feel like they're on fire. Now I'm going to wait for baby to fall asleep, put on cold socks, drink nettle tea and go to sleep. Hopefully I feel more alive in the morning.

[annamannix]

Shred day 12

Skipped two days. First was a very stressful out of my control kind of day involving long ferry waits and my mom taking Ro to the dentist (tooth needs to be removed, All The Tears), second was because I felt I deserved a day of rest after all of that.

So back at it today. Needed lots of breaks to avoid sure death. Sweat still dripping down my face. I feel good.