Day 36, CLX/Insanity

Yeah for weight training! Boo for hubby being gone! I think I missed about 3 exercises which considering it's only 32 minutes long is a lot. There was so much going on at the gym tonight - first there were people in the kid room who said they had it reserved (which is NOT possible, but whatever), so the kids got to run around the weight room; then those people left and Denver had a complete and total meltdown because he had to stay in the kid room; part way into the workout the kids "escaped" and Denver came at me full-speed, so we let him stay in the weight room with us and of course the outlets aren't covered since no kids allowed and all, so what do you think he wanted to play with?! Yep, the outlets. Then he wanted to play with Steph's laptop that was playing our workout (which he thankfully didn't break but did almost spill his milk on - UGH)! So, yea, it was a rough workout. Katelynn on the other hand was a little gem and behaved very well in the kid room.
Tomorrow is Insanity and we should have the basketball court, so hopefully it'll be a little better for us. Now that's a workout I'm not looking forward too. Insanity Max Interval Circuit. 59 minutes of Insanity. Supposedly the hardest one in the set. If the kids are good it should be a great workout. If the kids are bad, I'll go hard with it next week. No biggie. It is what it is.
Anyway, back to Chalene. I liked tonight's workout. It's all about lifting heavy. No crazy lunges and squats while lifting, just lifting. We are only doing 6 to 8 reps per exercise so you're supposed to go super heavy (or go home)...

The heaviest weights I have are 12's which were fine for the arms, but I could've seriously gone a lot heavier on those squats. I'm not ready to purchase more weights though, so I'm going to make these work for me. She does talk about "thinking" the weights heavier, I don't know about all that. I'm assuming she means to literally feel every single movement and just focus and think them heavier. We'll see how it goes. ;)

Yep, this photo pretty much explains how I felt running today, and about how fast I was going. Today was a run day - UGH! It was so hot out there when we ran it felt as if we could've gone faster walking. Sweat was pouring off of me and I don't think it was because I was jogging - I felt like I was trying to run through quick sand. It was probably the worst run I've had so far. If this heat keeps up we'll have to start running earlier. Our next run will be Wednesday and then the Earth Day 5K is Saturday. I'm hoping they don't go as bad...looks like rain both times! HA!

And one more thing for tonight (sorry, Chris is gone so I'm extra "chatty"). I made a snack from the TF food guide (Tabitha is borrowing my CLX one...need to get that back) and I actually liked it and it made me feel full. After our run I made these rice cakes with 1 TBSP PB and 1/2 a banana (Katelynn ate the other half). I think the PB and bananas help hide the styrofoam taste that rice cakes tend to have. These will now be added into my snack rotation!
ALSO, yes, one more thing. I lost 2 lbs this week!!!!! WOO-HOO for Recovery Week's! I haven't lost any weight since the first week of CLX/Insanity (I guess the shock of a new routine...going from P90X to this, and now the change up in routine). I've also been really good about logging my food (except this weekend) and I'm working on staying around 1800 calories - 3 days in a row now! Woot-woot!
And while these jars (yes, I'm still using them, just haven't been losing any weight, so actually they've been kind of depressing to stare at) are a bit dusty, I got to move 2 more stones so now there are 9 stones in my weight loss jar. I'm moving one of the big green ones over when I hit 10 down!