I Got Nothing but Love for Me, Baby
This week is nothing short of fantastic for me. The mood is great. My motivation and health feels beyond solid. Izzy's taking a break from the mood tsunami that was hitting last week. Cowboy and Izzy are growing closer and it's terribly adorable to witness.
I am feeling like my old fitness starved self. Weekly challenges, goals, energy, good pain, feeling my muscles in ways I hadn't in ages. My mood reflecting it all. THIS is where it's at for me. The women in my life who are helping to keep my motivated and add fresh new ideas to challenging ourselves has been just what the Dr. ordered. It's wonderful to feel like it's a team effort and to cheer each other on. Funny how life changes. Perspective and relationships change so much. We've gone through peaks and valleys in our relationships but I am nothing short of in love with my Girls these days and I don't see it changing anywhere in near *or* distant future. It feels good to look around and be thankful for those in my life. With maturity and the years comes a bond and understanding between each other that compares to no other time in my life. The insecurity that lived in some of my relationships in the past just isn't there anymore. Layers of resentment or miscommunication have been sloughed off and it leaves a beautiful thing that I feel like I can actually touch and hug. I swear I'm not high. I'm just in love with life right now. Check back in a week and my mood could be in the gutter, but damnit, today it's solid.
Izzy is my little ray of sunshine again, with normal mood swings but I haven't found myself crying because of seeing her tortured soul in the past few days so that's progress. We graduated her to her big girl bed and that's been a bit of a rough transition. When we put her in her bed, she was kinda losing her mind and we'd have to repeatedly put her back in her bed but we're no longer fighting her on it. We initially put her in her bed and once we close the door, we see her creep out of it (in that handy dandy lil video monitor) and set up camp on the floor. Apparently it's a normal thing that some go through so if that's what she wants to do, she's welcome to camp out as long as she's not losing her mind.
Baby J is doing awesome, except that 2-3AM is his witching hour where he on and off talks/cries/laughs and even if we turn the monitor to his room off, we hear it ringing through the upstairs. He's sitting up with assitance in getting up and Izzy's loving that he's so amused by her so there's mostly peace in those ranks.
Current Weekly Health/Fitness goals:
1) 5 workouts (I work from home so I really have no excuse for not getting these in)
2) Limit alcohol to 3 times a week (this is my doozy because evening wine is one of my faves)
3) Burn at least 1500 calories
4) Run at least 2 times a week and balance with more resistance work
5) Do one exercise that's ab specific every day this week (even if it's just plank for 30 seconds, it's something)
6) Drink more water
So far so good. AND, I've lost 2.5 lbs so far with a long term goal of about 15 total. Weigh ins are every other Friday for the group but I'm going to keep on with weigh ins each week. I ordered a caliper to measure the body fat and I have to remember to take measurements tonight as well.
It is on.
I am feeling like my old fitness starved self. Weekly challenges, goals, energy, good pain, feeling my muscles in ways I hadn't in ages. My mood reflecting it all. THIS is where it's at for me. The women in my life who are helping to keep my motivated and add fresh new ideas to challenging ourselves has been just what the Dr. ordered. It's wonderful to feel like it's a team effort and to cheer each other on. Funny how life changes. Perspective and relationships change so much. We've gone through peaks and valleys in our relationships but I am nothing short of in love with my Girls these days and I don't see it changing anywhere in near *or* distant future. It feels good to look around and be thankful for those in my life. With maturity and the years comes a bond and understanding between each other that compares to no other time in my life. The insecurity that lived in some of my relationships in the past just isn't there anymore. Layers of resentment or miscommunication have been sloughed off and it leaves a beautiful thing that I feel like I can actually touch and hug. I swear I'm not high. I'm just in love with life right now. Check back in a week and my mood could be in the gutter, but damnit, today it's solid.
Izzy is my little ray of sunshine again, with normal mood swings but I haven't found myself crying because of seeing her tortured soul in the past few days so that's progress. We graduated her to her big girl bed and that's been a bit of a rough transition. When we put her in her bed, she was kinda losing her mind and we'd have to repeatedly put her back in her bed but we're no longer fighting her on it. We initially put her in her bed and once we close the door, we see her creep out of it (in that handy dandy lil video monitor) and set up camp on the floor. Apparently it's a normal thing that some go through so if that's what she wants to do, she's welcome to camp out as long as she's not losing her mind.
Baby J is doing awesome, except that 2-3AM is his witching hour where he on and off talks/cries/laughs and even if we turn the monitor to his room off, we hear it ringing through the upstairs. He's sitting up with assitance in getting up and Izzy's loving that he's so amused by her so there's mostly peace in those ranks.
Current Weekly Health/Fitness goals:
1) 5 workouts (I work from home so I really have no excuse for not getting these in)
2) Limit alcohol to 3 times a week (this is my doozy because evening wine is one of my faves)
3) Burn at least 1500 calories
4) Run at least 2 times a week and balance with more resistance work
5) Do one exercise that's ab specific every day this week (even if it's just plank for 30 seconds, it's something)
6) Drink more water
So far so good. AND, I've lost 2.5 lbs so far with a long term goal of about 15 total. Weigh ins are every other Friday for the group but I'm going to keep on with weigh ins each week. I ordered a caliper to measure the body fat and I have to remember to take measurements tonight as well.
It is on.
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