Day 68 of 125

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Holy thunderstorms Batman! It rained so hard today that it created a white wall (twice) that I couldn't see anything past 10 feet out my window. But with the rain comes cooler hair. Oh how wonderful it's been, it's 10:20 pm and 30 degrees celcius on the button in the office. That's a lot cooler than it's been all week. It's still raining and I have our office and kitchen windows (to create a cross draft) cranked open. I don't care if anything gets wet, I want, no, I NEED it to cool down in here. Dryness be damned.

Good exercise today, could have been better obviously if it was cooler but I'm not going to complain about that. I'm still doing it, despite my urges not to and my uncomfortableness. So whatever forces are trying to work against me and make it feel like it's too difficult for me to do my exercises, I say - Go suck on a rotten egg! :P

I hope you had a great day and have a wonderful weekend. :)

Exercise:

Insanity Pure Cardio
Routine: 38 mins
In Zone(126-165bpm): 17 mins 17 secs
Average Heart Rate: 153
Max Heart Rate: 187
Calories Burned: 322

Meals:

Breakfast - 500 calories

Snack - 50 calories

Lunch - 300 calories

Snack - 80 calories

Dinner - 650 calories

Total Calorie Intake - 1580

Day 67 of 125

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Finally a bit of relief! No, I'm not talking about the heat, it's still being and this is no pun intended, a real stinker. What I'm talking about is the exercise. Today's exercise was more of an entire stretching routine. Yes, I was still drenched in sweat but it felt real gooood not to be running and jumping wildly about. If only the rest of the week could be filled with exercises like this one. Actually, I'd take the heat at a more reasonable level first but there's nothing I can do about that.

I hope everyone had a great day. :)

Exercise:

Insanity Cardio Recovery
Routine: 33 mins
In Zone(126-165bpm): 13 mins 28 secs
Average Heart Rate: 121
Max Heart Rate: 143
Calories Burned: 180

Meals:

Breakfast - 500 calories

Snack - 50 calories

Lunch - 450 calories

Snack - 50 calories

Dinner - 400 calories

Total Calorie Intake - 1450

Day 66 of 125

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Heat issues, same as yesterday, same issues applied to my workout today. It was already over 30 degrees by 7 am and it's just supposed to be hotter tonight and tomorrow. Not to mention the rest of the week, right through to next Wednesday as far as the weather network is concerned. Just shoot me now.

I hope everyone had a great day.

Exercise:

Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance
Routine: 39 mins
In Zone(126-165bpm): 27 mins 01 secs
Average Heart Rate: 147
Max Heart Rate: 190
Calories Burned: 303

Meals:

Breakfast - 400 calories

Snack - 40 calories

Lunch - 390 calories

Snack - 100 calories

Dinner - 400 calories

Total Calorie Intake - 1330

Day 65 of 125

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Definitely took it easy today. I could have easily burned 500-600 calories with this workout but what with house being 32.5 + degrees in the coolest room and still being on my period, I thought it wise not to push too hard. I felt myself on the edge of becoming sick, the likely possibility of heat stroke, a couple of times throughout the routine. I had the fan going and a litre and a half of cool water at my disposal, neither seemed to help much. Of course it has to be the hottest week with temperatures in the high 30's + with the humidex in the solid 40's the week I start the most challenging workout I've ever done. I must have some bad ju-ju going on.

I spent the day soaking down my cat with cold water, which he hated at first, until I turned it into a scritching game. Gave him lots of rubbies with damp cloths while he sprawled out and rolled all over the floor. His hair looks like a disaster right now but at least he's cool. :) He's taking to his new antibiotics well too, thank goodness. I was worried about that when they prescribed us the pills last night but they seem to mix into his food well enough without being too much of an issue and I only have to worry about him taking them till Thursday evening.

I hope everyone had a great day. :)

Exercise:

Insanity Plyometric Cardio Circuit
Routine: 41 mins
In Zone(126-165bpm): 19 mins 59 secs
Average Heart Rate: 157
Max Heart Rate: 191
Calories Burned: 370

Meals:

Breakfast - 650 calories

Lunch - 500 calories

Snack - 50 calories

Dinner - 450 calories

Total Calorie Intake - 1650

Day 60 of 125

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Happy Canada Day!

I hope everyone had a great day. :)

Exercise:

Nothing

Meals:

Breakfast / Lunch - 1500 calories

Dinner - 600 calories

Total Calorie Intake - 2100

Day 59 of 125

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Canada day tomorrow! :)

Spent the day with Hubby, had a picnic in the park and then ran around like chickens with our heads cut off doing errands. We ended up waiting by the phone at home till noon to get the test results for my cat, hence the headless chickeness. He's doing ok but his levels are 'slightly elevated' concerning his Pancreatitis, so we have to bring him back in for more tests in a month. He is not going to be happy with us this month. In two weeks we need to go back to the animal hospital for a heart ultra-sound to check on his heart murmur and see if his heart has enlarged anymore. This of course requires he gets his chest and belly shaved. Eeek. Then two weeks later, more blood tests at the regular vet where he'll likely get his arm shaved again. My poor baby is going to be all patchy. lol.

I fear the revenge he will take out on us for his unhappiness. Many earlier than usual morning wake ups by trotting across our chests and faces. I can see it coming now. I'm going to wake up to paw prints on my forehead.

By the way, lunch (and what we didn't finish ended up being dinner) was special and high calorie. We ended up splitting a half rack of ribs, a smoke meat sandwich (something I've never had before that apparently this Province is famous for) and a serving of fries each. Since I'm starting Insanity on Monday and my Husband has been trying to get me to try these meals for months, I figure better to try them now rather than after I start the fitness program. I want to eat as clean as possible to see exactly want kind of results I can generate. We also had an ice cream for dessert after lunch. *blush* oink oink.

I hope everyone had a great day. :)

Exercise:

Nothing

Meals:

Breakfast - 250 calories

Lunch - 1400 calories

Dinner - 1000 calories

Total Calorie Intake - 2650

Day 58 of 125

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

I'm sorry, I suck. I don't have much to say tonight, nothing interesting happened today. I did chores all day (laundry and such like) and watched the last half of Saving Private Ryan while starting dinner, since I'm a multi-tasker. Jumped through hoops trying to get a hold of my vet for my cats tests results which we were supposed to get the middle of last week. Now I have to go through it all over again tomorrow, since they insist that I need to get the results from my actual vet and I can't come in and have a technician tell me what the results are. Ugh. If something was important enough to the point of needing to be taken care of quickly, she would have likely told us what it was on the answering machine, like usual. I don't understand why it's such a darn issue that we can't have someone else tell us the results instead of our vet. Grrr.

In other news, we officially don't have a curb or road anymore. They are redoing our street, so I had the joy of listening to jackhammers, dump trucks and diggers literally right outside our house today, all day long, as in 7am to 6pm. At least I don't have to worry about them waking me up since my cat does that at 4am and I'm out of bed by 5am.

Speaking of 5am, it's late and I need to get up early, so...

I hope everyone had a wonderful day. :)

Exercise:

Nothing

Meals:

Breakfast - 750 calories

Lunch - 650 calories

Dinner - 600 calories

Total Calorie Intake - 2000