Did I fall off the wagon?

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I haven't wrote anything in a while. Does it mean that I miserably failed my challenge. Not really

Because of the trip to Canada I had a lot of catching up to do. Also the work kept me working and the baby is being teething really bad (today is Day 3 of his fever).

I skipped couple workouts last weekend, but, finally, yesterday I finished my 30 day challenge with WII Active. It is exciting and I decided to celebrate it with sandwich. I am joking, but I did have a sandwich and my body is not liking me too much right now.

Clearly, I am just over 2/3 of my challenge and 5 days overdue for the measurement. Will really try to do it this weekend and - oh, gosh - I still owed myself a bike ride. Forecast is promising rain for the next 6 days and that doesn't leave me too much of a chance.

However, I recently got WII Active more (second part of WII Active) at 50% off, so I would consider it my second reward. I also did some major clothes shopping. I can actually find some clothes in size medium that fits me. Yey me!

Today is the day I open my WII Active More and take a first look at it. This is is targeting more of a abdominal areas, but I am not sure if the cardio still there, so I might have to customize it, because I'd like to have cardio-abs-yoga/pilates combination, so I just might get creative

Back

Good news! I am back
Bad news! I gained 2 pounds

Maybe I wasn't supposed to get on the scales, but I did. Just wanted to get to see the results of my trip. Well, I had 4 ice creams - 3 of each I got in a form of my ice cream cake for my birthday.

My WII program said that I blew my challenge but I wasn't planning to take the game on the road with me. I had my hands full, but I am back now and the first thing I should get back on track

Yoga talk again

I really have been enjoying my free Yoga classes. Oh, wait - I just realized that I talked about my Yoga WII experience before, but it pretty much ended with me getting disappointed with the Game and now I can't figure out how I can get my money back.

However, since my workout goes two days at a time and one day rest, I figured this rest days is asking to be my yoga day. Unfortunately, the day I figured it out was the day of Yoga (aka Rest Day) and I came out with a brilliant idea - I will go to the library and a couple DVDs, so I can figure out when I need.

I got excited when I scored a really close spot to the doors and just pulled out my double stroller, when a car stopped behind me and a nice woman's voice sounded, "Hi, I just want to mention, We are closed." Nice! Apparently it closes at 6 on Friday, just in time for me to get there and the door.

I loaded my stroller into the car and pulled out from the garage. I have a Yoga day and yoga mood and no yoga teacher. And suddenly it came to me - I have Netflix. And if Netflix has 20 Barney DVDs available for Instant watching, why wouldn't they have Yoga?

When I got home, I went online and found that they do have about 5 Yoga DVDs I can use. The first one I tried I didn't like. My TV teacher acted like my second grade teacher and it made me uncomfortable. Also, I was the fattest kid in a class and wasn't really good in putting my fit behind my ears.

The other one I tried called Candlelight Yoga (or something like that) and I truly enjoyed it. It wasn't difficult and it was all about relaxation and stretching, but no extreme things I couldn't do.

I started my relaxation journey in my living room, but soon figured that there are few things around me were not willing to let me enjoy my experience

1. My daughter. She "went to sleep 20 minutes ago" and now jumping in her bed and laughing
2. My husband. He was in charge for putting my daughter to sleep and at this point felt that he was done. At this particular point he was sitting behind me on the chair and eating a salad making all kind of noises with his fork.

- This is just not happening, - I said.

Did I mentioned that I live in one bedroom? Yes, with my husband and two kids. It is a big one bedroom and the living room is L-shaped. Few years ago my husband built a wall in it separating the living room from the office area. Office last year became half way my daughter's room. We still have the desk there that is used a shelf area and otherwise it is a kids room. Except, it has a curtain that replaces a door between that room and the living room and there is a wide entrance into the kitchen

And once again my my Golden brain gave me an easy solution - I can use the bedroom. My son falls asleep earlier and the is enough space in that room to put my laptop and still be able to lay down on the floor.

Wow, it was great. Dark and quite and I think I got what I was looking for.

So I did my Yoga few times with a nice people at Candle Yoga and I would of gladly continued to enjoy it, but this morning when I went on Netflix, it said that the DVD will expire at the beginning of next month. That's bummer. No what? I have to look for another DVD. But they have like a lot of them expiring at the same time, so that makes it a little bit more complicated

Ice Cream - Love ya, kiss ya, eat ya!

Guess, who enjoyed her ice cream right after the detox was over? Me me me.
No judging! Detox was brutal. Somehow that most difficult was the last day when I went to visit my parents. My mom kept complaining that my diet is very mean and maybe I should have something to eat. She offered to order veggie pizza - she would it the crust and I would it the veggies. That's an interesting idea. I brought a bag of frozen vegetables with herbs and that probably saved my life, because the choices were limited. There was enough vegetables to make a salad, but I was spending half a day there, so I needed some kind of dinner. My mom decided to eat the same stuff I was eating and as she was consuming my broccoli (there was plenty) she once again complained about my mean diet. She suggested that next time I go on all meat diet, because that is more nutritious. Was I suppose to argue with her? I didn't think so.

Oh, well - it was finally over and I think deserved a good ice cream.

As a result of my detox I lost 5 pounds. I know, it wasn't about the pounds, but still it is more than I lost since I decided to put myself on this journey. Oh yeah, my pounds are not giving up easy.

Feeling like a winner

I am feeling like a winner. I still have until tomorrow night to finish my misery or detox (as some would call it), but I can smell the victory. Sure, I had few stumbles on the way. I am not sure which part of it was more difficult - my personal way of dealing with it or the social aspect of it.

I personally have to deal with my cravings and argue with my brain that is trying to trick me into eating something I am not suppose to.

Socially, I've got so many comments in regards to dieting, it is not even funny.I have nothing against the opinions of others, but, I think, this way of eating making me slightly irritable. And that proofs again the [pints - diets are bad! If I had to eat like this all the time, I would not be a good person to be around. One week twice a year I can handle, but not more than that.

Still Detoxing

I am running out of jokes about detoxing, so I am not going to post another food related funny pictures.

I talked about the idea of detox and what it is for, what to eat and what not, and now, I think, is a good time to talk about keeping up with the Great Detox. It is a day 5 and I could use a pick me up.

If you are not doing all that great on 100% vegetable diet, add some lean protein like grilled chicken, canned tuna in water. You'd be surprised how much better you will feel. I mixed it with a salad and that added a totally new flavor and, yes, made me a much happier person.

If you are not getting home for your next meal or if you didn't have a chance to chop enough vegetables, it doesn't ruin everything. Just stop by fast food restaurant and get a side salad. Better yet, use a drive through. You've been strong and dedicated, but do you really want to tempt yourself? You want to make sure the salad you get has no croutons, dressings, etc. And fried chicken is not the same as grilled chicken. In the whole honesty I would stay away from the Chicken of fast food places, because the quality methods of cooking of it is questionable (at least by me).

Remember the corn I ate on Tuesday? I couldn't help, but think that it wasn't a detox food. Now I remember - it is because of starch. Dah!

I still can't figure out when to ride a bike. How am I getting this into the schedule?
Ideally, I could drop off kids and ride to work, but it is a bit sketchy - I need to get time to ride and see how much time it will take.

The other problem, we are going out of town next week for 6 days and I am not sure how to workout or especially completing my WII 30 Days challenge

Dreaming of good food

Dear roast beef sandwich and a cup of coffee,

It's been 3 days and 12 hours since the last time we met and it was magical. I have to say, at first I thought I am not going to miss you and I was proved wrong. I am missing you with every part of my body.

It's funny, but that's exactly how I feel right now. Had some corn on a cub yesterday and it was great