A Day in the Life: workout

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Food and working out.

SUNDAY! I love Sundays. It's my day to wake up and relax with my sweet little family before hitting the gym for legs and butt. Then...I get to go back home to my sweet family. It's pretty wonderful.

Keeping track of what we are doing in the gym now as well as what we are eating. Time to get real serious.

This was our workout today. Would have ended with a HIIT 10 minute session, but we were both fatigued, and I was a bit dehydrated. Solution by Ben, get a nice bottle to take to the gym.

Delilah and Ben have been spending some time together and it has been quite wonderful for their relationship. I love it!

Ben is asleep right now, taking a nap before he has to wake up for the Superbowl. See, as you all enjoy the game at a reasonable hour, us folks in Germany have to wait until 12:30am for kickoff. Needless to say, I have no stakes in either team, so I will be sleeping through it. Kinda stinks to not have a Superbowl party like we usually do, but I think living here in Europe is a fair trade most of the time.

Nothing too exciting going on for me this week. I am going to REALLY try and dedicate some time cleaning out the craft room downstairs. It's become a catchall for crap we don't want to go through, and it's a big waste of space right now. I could move Delilah's kitchen and toys to that room and make the guest room less "kiddish" if I could just get in gear and get it cleaned out.

Weekly stuff going on:

German grocery store

Food prepping for the week

Baking with Delilah

Review A, B, C, Continue with D-H

Gym 2-3 times

Library

Gymnastics

Dance

Craft room

Painting order

Possibly Star Wars monopoly this weekend!

And now...for the food:

Breakfast:

Banana peanut butter chia pudding

Waffle and strawberries

Double chocolate oatmeal

Greek yogurt with PB2&honey

Cereal

Lunch:

Chicken salad served in an avocado

Chicken avocado burritos

Quinoa salad (w/Greek yogurt, black beans, and avocado)

Breakfast quesedilla

Leftovers

Dinner:

5 Ingredient white chicken chili

Crispy cauliflower nachos

Soy salmon and stir fry quinoa

Ratatouille

BBQ chicken thighs (in crockpot)

Snacks:

Whole wheat pumpkin muffins

Peanut butter granola bars

Vitamix fruit "ice cream"

That's all I have in me to write right now. I'm exhausted. It's been a long, tiring week.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

I don't want to get off my couch ever.

Sunday is leg/butt day at the gym. It's my favorite day...but it's also exhausting. I can see results already, and so as hard as it is, I'm keeping it up. So we hit the gym for about an hour and a half, and then had lunch while we meal planned. She's helping me get fit and healthy at the gym, and I'm helping her get organized and prepared with meals. It's a win win.

Had a pretty quiet weekend. Got to spend Friday with our friends, and I fell asleep putting Delilah to bed. Usually, I can keep myself awake, but this week has been completely exhausting. I've worked out a bunch, Delilah's classes, I had to take the car and get the oil changed, I had my pacemaker checkup.

About that...

In October, I had it checked, and had about 16 months left. They put me on a 90 day check up schedule. I went in on Thursday, and they discovered that I was now at 8 months. I lost months in 3 months. So now, they've got me on a once a month check. Worst case scenario, I will have to have the battery replaced in April. What a pain. My dumb heart.

Funny story about the oil change too...

Went in and it takes forever. The guy helping me was super nice though, and told me that the hose was disconnected from my washer fluid. Ben had thought the pump was out and was going to order a new one. Oil change guy told me it was just the tubing and that I could easily fix it. He told me he wasn't allowed to fix it. I understand that. Well, when it was time to go, he showed me that he HAD fixed it! Germany has these pesky little weasel things that will crawl up under the hoods of cars in the winter to stay warms. They will chew on tubing and wires and can really mess up your car. He said he suspected that's what happened to the tubing of our car.