I call this Train Wreck Weekend because of how I ate. I don't know what came over me, but I ate this weekend. Tons. Plenty of healthy choices were made available to me, and no one forced the food into my mouth, but I ate pizza and cookies and chicken wings and taco dip and tortilla chips and pizza rolls and more taco dip and english muffins and omelets...it was a train wreck, health wise.
I also had to unfortunately leave my nephew's birthday party early after my older son had an UTTER AND COMPLETE MENTAL BREAKDOWN. It was extremely frustrating. I had to leave, on the spot, with the boys. And I wasn't happy. I'm still pretty good and pissed off about it. Not nearly as much as I was. And I'll tell you why.
Once we got home, I worked out. Lean Circuit 1. And I hit it hard. So much of the stress just melted away. I can honestly say it is probably the first time that a workout has reduced my stress so noticeably. It was relaxing and refreshing. My daughter made us dinner while I worked out (the culinary student learned something tonight too...follow the MICROWAVE directions when using the MICROWAVE...ten minutes was WAY TOO LONG for turkey meatballs...but, I have plenty of practice golf balls for this summer now), and I was able to relax considerably. After dinner we hung out for a bit, I got the boys in the tub and in bed, and was able to work on some of the sunrise pictures I took this morning. I'll include them at the bottom of this post.
To get back to the stress thing, I have been able to get very relaxed during a run before. At some point you just seem to hit a certain level of zen. When I was running and training for the 5k I was supposed to do in October 2010, once I got into minute 15 or so of constant running, things would just become automatic. Your body would run itself, to an extent. It was, honestly, a spectacular feeling. I'm looking forward to having that again in my runs.
Anyway, it was nice to have Saturday off from any kind of workout after such a packed week. I did Lean Circuit 1 today, I will do week 2 day 1 of couch to 5k tomorrow, and maybe try out my foam roller.
Now for the pictures:
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