Monday July 25th, 2016     CAN I GO HOME YET?

Well I had to get up earlier this am to get my body analysis done before 6 am... ugh. I also stayed up the latest that I have since I got here.  I still got a great deep sleep in.  I was a bit disappointed with my weigh in.  I was really hoping to get into the 230's.. even 239.9 but NOPE! 240.3  So close yet so far away.  Tonight I looked at the sheet and did the comparison and ........... I lost 5.7 lbs of FAT!  Gained 1.3 lb of muscle.  My bmr went up from 1763 cal/day to 1776 cal / day ( because of the muscle gain)  So that 1 lb of muscle will help burn more calories throughout the day - so don't get caught up with the numbers on the scale. So I will take that 4.4 lb loss for the week and 18.1 lb total.  So far I have lost 12.1 lbs of body fat and bmi has gone down from 40.5 to 37.6 and I get my BUTT out of bed when I don't have to and exercise to get it done!

Morning Hike - I was NOT in a mood to meet new people and our van had 10 people. I was afraid I wouldn't get a great workout and with missing Sat I wanted to burn lots of calories, so I got in the STOP SIGN VAN instead of my hiking group ( and they saw a wild huge desert tortoise!!!!) .... weeping now......   BUT I beat my stop sign time from 2 weeks ago by 4 minutes and I DID NOT STOP AT ALL - that the goal of that workout!  SET GOALS ALL TEH TIME - for every workout and for everything you do.. GIVE IT PURPOSE and GIVE IT YOUR ALL!

I did an extra walk to the lookout and back and then walked back again with 2 other people. 

SNOW CANYON OVERLOOK - my morning adventure started way down canyon and I walked up 1000 feet and 10 km to get to this point!

BREAKFAST

BIKE RIDE - was awesome - took it easy but at the  end pushed myself.

Got back a bit late and hopped in the pool and had an AWESOME POOL CLASS - Robin the fitness director taught it - it was a great workout and I learned some new moves!

LUNCH

COOKING DEMO - Nope not today - I hopped in the pool and swam a km and then relaxed for 15 minutes and enjoyed talking to my MOM!

CIRCUIT TRAINING - I stayed on the treadmill and every 2 minutes back and forth from treadmill to weights. 

COURT CHALLENGE - my back has been bothering me so I didn't want to do those bootcamp type exercises so I did the circuit training again ( SHARON was doing this one and she made us work!)  got through a bunch of other weights, still some to go.  Crushed my finger between 2 weights, OUCH! 

POOL CLASS ( couldn't do it - same routine that I've seen 20 times already) didn't feel like water jogging so I went back to the gym and did stationary bike.

It was a great day all in all. I woke up wanting to come home SOOOOOOOOOO BAD!  I'm just ready to come home and live my life. I miss my wonderful husband - who walked this path on STRAVA to make me a flower, so much better than any flower I could ever get from him!

I miss my wonderful children - I don't miss my job - nor have I even though about it at all!!! It is great not being in pain on a daily basic - my job as a dental hygienist does that to me and it may be time to think about what to do next. Life is too short to be in chronic pain!

So I made the best of my opportunity. I am blessed to be here so I look forward to every minute and every challenge that this week will bring me and it really doesn't matter what my sheet and measurments tell me at the end of the week, I am ready. I have a better mindset and relationship with food and am sick and tired of worrying about weightloss, talking about weightloss and it's just time to DO IT - make healthy choices most of the time.  Eat balanced meals. Make exercise / movement a part of my daily routine - because it's good for me and because I love it and the way it makes me feel!    Until tomorrow.....................