So this is day 3, and welcome to day 3. Today was a good day. I always find when I'm at work it's easier to stay on course with my healthy eating plan. The day is more structured and I pretty much have 5-6 small meals in the day. I work 12 hour days from 6 am to 6 pm. I work in a dispatch centre and we are not allowed to leave the building. I pretty much only have what I brought to eat. There are some days when the guys arrange to have have a big meal or a special meal, but since I work with fire fighters they are pretty health conscious most of the time. I just have to watch my portion sizes.
Today I am counting as a small victory that fact that one of my co-workers brought in cookies and I didn't have a single one. Normally I would have had at least 2......or maybe 3, but I would have snuck 2 of them when I thought no one was looking. Today I managed to stay clear. Even when the 3 o'clock munchies kicked in. I had my hard boiled eggs, a big drink of water and I was good. Yay me!!!!
Work out wise today was Lower Fix aka Leg day. I am not a fan of leg day. It was tough, good tough, but tough. There were a couple of times I had to modify the modifier exercises. I have discovered that my balance, although pretty good, is not great. Add to that the fact that every once in a while my right knee gives out, it created a bit of a challenge. What I did was pull a dining room chair close by, (turned it backwards ) and when I needed to balance I placed my hand gently on the chair back. I didn't rest heavily on the chair, but it was just enough for me to keep my balance and not crash to the floor. I still did all the exercises but did not bend as deeply as the girl doing the modified exercises, but I did them as best as I could and finished each rep. Hopefully in no time I will be able to everything the way the modified exercises are supposed to be done, then on to the full blown exercise. Even though I had to alter things a bit, I still managed to feel the burning muscle feeling and worked up a sweat. Yay for me again!
One thing that I have noticed, is that with 3 of us in my house eating healthier, I'm finding it hard to keep the fruits and veggies in the house. I don't want to buy too many because I don't want it going bad by the end of the week and then going to waste, but I also don't want to be grocery shopping twice a week. I'm sure I'll get better at is as we go along and will figure things out.
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