it's the very little things...

today I put pumpkin pie spice in my smoothie instead of cinnamon.  Quadruple yum.  Highly recommend...

(the depth of my blog posts sometimes astounds even me!)

Day 64 - FOOD!

My food consumption seems like it's doubled this week.  Not that I'm complaining, but Patrick, if you realized you made a mistake and gave me Alex C's food instead, I'd figured I'd let you know now before I start getting used to eating carbs at every meal, and 3 egg whites a day!!!

:)

Missing my PCP peeps

It's a gloomy day here and I am very happy just to have jumps today (already did them this am).  The last couple of days I've been doing the strength training part later at night and it SUCKS, but that's really the only time when I can get an hour+ to myself, no kids, no car pool, etc.

Happy that it's now my second week in a row that I managed to get all the workouts done on their assigned day.  I originally thought the idea of a "perfect PCP day" was silly - how could each day NOT be perfect.  Realizing as we get further and further into this that perfection is very difficult to obtain.  But I keep getting back on the horse.  My slip ups are never major (too much applesauce at snack, stealing bites of my kids' noodles at dinner, adding honey to my yogurt on a regular basis, eating morning snack at 1pm, followed by lunch at 4pm), but they're slip ups just the same - another day that goes by w/o perfection.  It's a good goal to have, but I can probably count on one hand the number of days I've been PCP perfect.

Anyway - thinking about all my other team Cookie Monster/JFD team mates.

Jack - your progress is AMAZING.  Photos look great and you still manage to blog regularly, in addition to all of your school work.  A+!!! :)

Susan and Ian - hope jet lag has been gentle on the whole family and you're getting back into the swing of being a family of 3 again:)

Erin - I think of you and little Vincent all the time.  I have done the newborn thing twice and know where you're at (but in my case, I had 9 months to prepare, sounds like you had a couple of days, which is even harder!)  Anything you're able to do PCP-wise is just gravy - the good stuff is in that little bundle who's going to call you Mommy very soon:)

Alex - bad elbow and hospital?  Blech.  Hope each recovery is quick and easy and that you get back up on the PCP horse very soon.

Nicole - hope PCP is treating you well - and when are we ever going to see some photos of your fabulous PCP self??

Fish - so impressed that on top of the PCP you're getting out to volleyball games every weekend (or more!)  I can barely get my exercises done, so the idea of doing things on top of that has me bowing at your feet:)

Brian - Every time I go to the grocery store and see Greek Yogurt on the shelf, I think of you.  Love your photos, love the beard.  Perfect winter attire:)

Ok, lovefest over.  Want to rant about one thing.  It's been said that pregnancy/breastfeeding wreaks havoc on one's boobs, but in my case, PCP has been my #1 boob wrecker.  Don't get my wrong, I've never had huge boobs, but now?  Holy crap - where the fuck did my boobs go?  Ugh.  

Kick ass blog post, not my own

Great blog post today, from one of my favorite websites, Jezebel.com about women, strength, body image, etc. etc.

A favorite line:

"Your body was made for so much more than being looked at, deprived of food, and enjoyed by others. Your body was made for kicking some ass."

Highly recommend.

59.5 - ok, i take that back

Tonight's work out was started at 11:14pm and I just finished, at 12:02 (jumped in the am).  I guess some things (like 150 lunges) take longer than others (7 sets of incline pullups).

Off to do 8MA to celebrate (I could get used to this)....

Day 59: everyone done in under an hour? Uh-oh....

I agree with Jim - last night I worked my butt off and had a very intense work out, but it still took at least 1 hour 20 minutes.  Wasn't able to jump in the am, so did jumps immediately followed by my workout.  Started around 8:45, finished at 10:15.  Didn't take a lot of breaks, timed the seconds in between sets to a T, etc. etc.

Anyone else???

The best thing....

is when you struggle through all the shoulder exercises, thinking three more bicep exercises are to follow,  only to discover just abs are left!

it's the little things at this point...

to celebrate, I'm going to do 8MA.