Hey there! How are y’alls Friday afternoons turning out? Some of you guys are already done for the week and off work…lucky! 🙂
Mid-morning snack was a piece of the Coconut Pecan Cake I made for the office. I tried to make sure I got a smaller piece:
It was really good…I left the pecan halves whole because I was too lazy to chop them, and I used 1/4 cup of light sour cream and 1.5 cups of nonfat milk instead of buttermilk, and I think it turned out great! Lunch was the last of the leftover pasta from the other night with a Boca mushroom patty chopped up and mixed in. The pasta was starting to get soggy, but I ate it anyway. The mushroom patty covers a multitude of food sins 🙂
Then began the dragging of the afternoon. Our company is really slow on Friday afternoons, but I ended up not taking a lunch for a couple of reasons, which meant no walk again. Sad. I did stop at Starbucks and grab a bag of dried cherries and a grande coffee (unpictured) to help the day go faster!
I left Bunker with Nate and this is the face I got when I put him back in my office. Cheer up Bunker-Boy! 🙂 I love him!
And baby girl Keira is always so chipper. She’s totally a snuggle bug, and a daddy’s girl 🙂 I’m excited about snuggling as a family later tonight!
So, I gotta be honest, I’m trying really hard to not be annoyed/angry/fat-talking at myself for not working out yet today. I took yesterday off because I was stressed and it was blizzard-snowing, and now I’m trying to get the motivation to do 30-day Shred at home. I really want to do all 3 workouts together (I can at least do the easier versions of all the moves together). It’s just going to mean me getting over the “I finally made it home on a Friday” slump and just DO it. I’ve enlisted the help of Nate to force me to get it done! Maybe I’ll have him take a picture of me gross and sweaty after it’s done to prove to you guys (I guess I’m considering y’all my support group :)) that I actually got it done?
Do you ever feel like a gross blob when you don’t work out at your designated time? Do you find yourself being really hard on yourself because of it? Do you have anything that you do to pump yourself up and do the workout that you deserve to do? I’m trying to get Nate to force me to do it, I know I’ll be thanking him later!
I hope you guys have a fabulous weekend! I’m getting my hair done by my friend Rebecca (she’s a rock star!!!) and hopefully cleaning the office! Any ideas what I should do with my hair (Teri, I think this might be your field ;))
Your dog is soooooooooo sweet!!!
I have always had a hard time when I have not been able to workout when I was planning on it. But Now that I have cleaned up my eating and have more important things, like a toddler who keeps me busy, I am much more relaxed.
PS – I showed you some love on my blog! Have a wonderful weekend!
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hey! i need to get caught up on your blog…..but i did just see this post and wanted to say thanks for calling me a rock star! 🙂 i’m looking forward to it. i know when i get my hair done, it’s always a much-needed “pick-me-up!”
Hey girl 🙂
I def feel like that sometimes. I try to remind myself that it doesn’t really matter *when* I work out, respectively. I aim for 5 days per week and if one week I take off Monday and Tuesday, and the next Wednesday and Sunday, it doesn’t really matter in the end.
Have a great weekend 🙂 🙂
xx
Lauren
I only walked today and yesterday and I feel out of sorts. Like I’m losing all my progress. But bad days/weeks happen and tomorrow is a new day. I’m going to work out tomm. I promise!
I think a lot of people go thru this same thing. I have been feeling like this for the past month, due to a major flu that kept me at home in bed. I try to shake it off, continue to eat healthy, and jump back in the game as soon as possible.
Oh yes, I get the same way. When I get really off my plans, whether eating or training, I start to really get down on myself. But, we have to snap out of it. It’s really as simple as deciding to get up and go workout or make the next meal healthy.
Yes. When I don’t work out because of some sort of excuse I make up in my mind like “oh, the weather is terrible” or “Lost is on”, I always feel kind of crappy. I need to workout because it’s become a part of my daily life.
I strugle with the days I don’t work out. It used to be hard for me to even take a day off a week! I’ve gotten to the point where I realize that things happen and I’m not going to lose all of my fitness because I took one day off! As they say in baseball, “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it rains”
Yes, I know exactly what you mean. I hate the fat talk that results from not working out, I don’t really fat talk about food anymore but boy, I sure do for exercise.
We can do this, though. Really, we are strong beautiful women capable of doing exactly what we put our minds to!
I think stress is the in air. All us blogger’s seem to have the blues today =/ Cheer up.
p.s. I meant “above” not “about” hehe
YES!!! I totally know what you mean about feeling like a blob. It’s usually because there is some reason I can’t workout though. Like if the weather is bad [before I belonged to a gym], or if I’m sick, or injured [like with my foot this past week]. That is when I feel blob-like. I don’t have a problem actually doing the working out or getting to the gym..it’s that sometimes I just can’t fit it in and then I get upset/annoyed/down on myself. It’s a catch 22 because as you keep working out it gets easier to motivate yourself to do it….but then, when you’re not able to workout [for reasons mentioned about] you get the blob feeling again, lol. I think you just have to push through..1 day or 1 week of a messed up schedule is not going to be detrimental to your goal. And, remember, once you workout, even if it’s 20min, you will MENTALLY feel better. Power through it girl. It’s friday, you don’t want to start the weekend in a rut. Thinkin about you + your awesomeness.
I do the same thing! As a matter of fact, I was starting to get depressed about it today so I seriously too all I had to convince myself to get to the gym. One day off doesn’t get to me much but two days in a row really gets my negative self talk started.
Will Nate do it with you?