I don't feel like having Christmas food
Posted on December 23, 2009
Today was traveling day. I took the train home to my mom to spend the Christmas with her and the rest of the family. Luckily there were no delays. Theres been so many delays because of snow. I arrived in time to go to the gym before we had a family dinner at my sisters. We have a tradition in our family to celebrate the 23rd with rice budding topped with cinnamon and sugar. Afterwards we drink gloeg(hot redwine with spices, raisins and chopped almonds) and enjoy bakery and sweets. Everyone will have one present. It's all very traditional. I managed to have my sister cook the rice pudding on just non-fat milk and rice. I brought my own cinnamon/sugar mix made of cinnamon and artificial sweetener(the powdered). Traditionally you put butter on top too but I skipped it. I had one cup of the gloeg and that was it. It was fine for me. I felt like being sociable but still eating healthy.I have made an agreement with myself that I would have cheat days on the 23rd, 24th and 31st. Nothing more. But I didn't feel like having a cheat day today, I'll wait until tomorrow. I'm quite sure that I'll only have the Christmas dinner tomorrow evening. When I'm really motivated for something I just enter some kinda zone and don't want to break my rhythm.
I've lost a good deal of weight and it motivates me. I haven't been on the scale yet but I can see it in the mirror and thats what is most important. I think I'll jump on the scale tomorrow morning just to see.
I'm also improving on my stamina, sprints, balance and high jumps. I'm pretty impressed with the human body. I have improved on everything I've started in the past 2 weeks I've been training for the Wipeout Challenge.
Gym was great today. I met up with my training partner Anders whom I always train with when I'm here. I love to work out with him. He is so enthusiastic about training! I love it!
We did shoulders today. They got bashed good! And then I did a number of core exercises and balance moves. I can stand up on the stability ball now without holding onto the rib for my dear life as I usually do! 30 sec with no hands made my friend and gym owner Ricky gasp and try for himself LOL with little success:D I gained some respect there! LOL. I didn't have time to do cardio which sucks because I know I'm not doing enough. Tomorrow I'll definitely do cardio. I took brochure at the gym today with all the classes and hours. I met two of the instructors who I know well and promised them to join their class. It's good for me to make appointments because then I have to stick to them! I HATE to break an appointment so I know I'll be there. One class was FUNK and the other one was PULSE(which is pure intervals and max pulse!) I'll prolly die but that's ok :)
Ok, I have to get to bed now but I'll give you guys an update tomorrow!
Merry Christmas to you all,
Helle
Posted on December 23, 2009 by Helle Nielsen - 0 Comments
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