Weekend recap in my completed to-do-list form:
Go visit couple who just brought their new baby homeClean house top-to-bottomWal-Mart/BJs/Farmer’s Market tripsLaundryPrep all veggies and meats (as needed) for the upcoming weekBuy lumber for square foot gardenBuy compost, vermiculite, and peat moss for garden(only slightly successful…everyone was sold out of vermiculite!)Make food for the new parents, freeze, and deliver with instructions for reheat(New mom has seriously low iron levels, and doc wantshereating red meat, so, I stuck to meaty meals!)
Bake banana bread – for us 🙂Wash carWalk dog x 2Clean dead flowers/buds off daffodilsOrder pup bully sticks and antlers
That’s basically all you missed. I was on my feet from 9am to 10pm both days. I was exhausted and slept well, but didn’t get any purposeful exercise in (beyond carrying the 40 lb bags of compost. Mmm, ancient poop in plastic bags. Nice.)
Monday
I was actually in a relatively good mood today. See, I finally caved and started taking Claritin on Saturday, and I’ve been a much more pleasant person to be around ever since. Heh.
My only sadness is I can’t take anything with pseudoephedrine in it – which means I’m still a bit stuffy. 🙁
Breakfast
Red Berry!!! I finally got my BJ’s Wholesale Club membership card, and one of the biggest reasons was this cereal. LOL
At Giant, I can get a box for $4. At BJs I can get 2.5 times the cereal for $3.99. HURRAY!
..with milk, ½ banana, and blueberries
Snack
Strawberries that I sprinkled with raw sugar because they weren’t nearly as delicious as they looked. Sad.
Lunch
Huge bagel sandwich: onion bagel, thick slice of easter ham, 3 leaves of lettuce and 1 whole organic vine-ripened tomato. (and some Pirates Booty on the side! Damn stuff is addicting)
Snack
Most random snack ever witnessed, but man was it satisfying.
A new Yoplait greek yogurt (I like it a lot. It’s creamier and not as tart as regular greek yogurt) in honey vanilla flavor, a strawberry fruit leather, and a piece of my homemade banana bread.
Exercise
30 minutes steady (moderate) state on the elliptical
Gentle stretching for the back/hamstrings/piriformis
Lower Body Strength and Abs (Spaced to show you exercises I did together. So, for example, 1 set of deadlifts, then one set of hamstring curls, rinse and repeat twice):
Ball Planks (Feet on Ball): 3 x 40 sec
Single Leg Deadlift (with Dumbbells): 3 x 15 lb dumbbells x 12 each leg
Stability Ball Hamstring Curls: 3 x 12 (bodyweight)
Full Vertical Crunch: 3 x 12
Bulgarian Split Squats: 3 x 7.5 lb dumbbells x 12 each leg
Pile Squat with Calf Raise: 3 x 12.5 lb dumbbell x 12
Step Ups with Knee Raise: 3 x 10 lb dumbbells x 12
Back Extensions on Ball: 3 x 12 (bodyweight)
Bridge with Feet on Bench: 3 x 12 (bodyweight)
Side Plank with Bent Bottom Leg: 3 x 12 (bodyweight)
Single Leg Calf Raises (Lying): 3 x 75 lbs x 12 each leg
Reverse Single Leg Calf Raise: 3 x 12 each leg (bodyweight)
Extended Crunch on Ball: 3 x 12 (bodyweight)
Headed home and walked the pup for 30 minutes. Legs = Jello.
Burned 700 calories in 1h20m
Dinner
Venison steak, steamed cauliflower, and pasta tossed with olive oil.
Evening
No plans this evening…DH is gonna grill me up some chicken for sunken burritos tomorrow, and I’m going to blog and hopefully read a bit. 🙂
Tomorrow I get my eyes tested and get new glasses! YAY!
I miss contacts a lot, but my eyes “attack” the contacts. 🙁 My eye doc told me birth control pills can cause that…so after I go off the pill I’ll try them again, I think. Until then – glasses!
