Exercise: Treadmill today, pilates yesterday
Diet Cokes: One; everything in moderation, right?
Mood: Sleepy
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This getting up at 5 thing has me a little tired. For some reason Keira's decided that's her new favorite time to eat, so I get up at 5 and feed her and then go downstairs to exercise. MTV pilates kicked my butt yesterday and I feel I must apologize to the lovely Bonnie, my pilates teacher of days gone by, for my crappypoor performance. I couldn't do a single roll-up! Sadness. And the worst of it is that Keira has a cold, which has made its way to me (could be when she decided to eat my nose earlier and then sneezed on me...strange what you let the people you love do to you), so now every time I cough my abs seize up like I've brutally offended them. Sigh.
I went back to bed at 6:30 this morning, as, thankfully, I work from home on Fridays and my first call wasn't until 8:30. I need to find a way to get my mojo back. Caffeine is still out and I'm trying not to rely on sugar as a crutch, so I need some ideas. I've been going to bed at 10 each night, but I'm still pooped. I thought exercise was supposed to make you LESS tired?
Although, I did lose the sugar battle a bit last night so maybe this is my punishment. We had two sad brown little bananas on the counter so I decided to make banoffee pie. (For those of you non-Anglophiles, that's banana/toffee pie.) There's nothing redeeming about it other than the banana -- sweetened condensed milk cooked down into a caramel, graham cracker crust, and homemade whipped cream. Don't get me wrong -- it tasted lovely and goopy -- but even my stupid food diary pointed out that I needed to cut back on the sugar. Guess that's why I pay it $9/month. I should just send the cash directly to NY, who's already told me that.
Anyway, I'm going to finish my Diet Coke (caffeine-free...sigh...) and read some Russian literature and wait for Trinny and Susannah to come on. And think about how a little MTV yoga is going to kick my butt tomorrow morning.... In the meantime, I sincerely hope you all are having a more exciting Friday night than I am!
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You can't beat yourself up for one bad day. We all have them. I give you major props for trying to do this while working full time (well FT for "normal" people, PT for lawyers) and raising a beautiful baby girl! There is no way you are going to get a full 8 hours of sleep. Can you drink any caffiene or no...not yet? I was thinking green tea maybe? It has only slightly less caffiene in it than diet coke but none of the sugar. Also, if I haven't said this before, diet drinks and snacks with fake sugars are even worse than one may think. They don't satisfy your body's craving for real sugar so you keep eating and drinking items with fake sugar. Just cautioning you on the fake sugars too. We can't win!!! :)
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I can't do a roll up in Pilates either if you do it the right way. If I fake it like all the other posers in class, then yeah, I can do it. But you don't win when you cheat yourself. I'm intrigued by the MTV Yoga and Pilates DVDs. I was thinking, "they can't be that hard" but I think you are proving me wrong!! You are a goddess. Be your own hero! xoxo