A better day.

Nobody crushed my lunch... because I opted to do the fresh feature at my cafeteria.  Since the chef cooked it from scratch in front of me I could make all my PCP requests.  He thought I was nutso.  But in return I had a delicious and correct meal.  Chicken and veggie stir-fry (in a drizzle of olive oil) with brown rice.  Almost took a picture of it, but the styrofoam container was, erm, ugly.  I don't hate push ups anymore.  I do reserve a strong disliking for them.  When I jumprope, I move backward.  This makes jumping on my porch quite impossible.  Grr.

Finished my prepwork for Friday's test.  Tomorrow is an all day study session.  I have reassembled the squishy bits of my brain.  Hopefully, all that info is still in there.

Down, down.

Did my 800 after work in the parking lot before getting in the car.  Pavement two nights in a row is not pretty.  Left my fruit at home.  Someone sat their lunch basket on my lunch bag.  My food was squished to oblivion.  I salvaged a veggie sandwich.  Dinner was a cheese sandwich because the kitchen was a wreck.  I'm not hungry, but I'm forcing a banana to get at least some fruit in my day.  On the plus side, I have four chicken breasts with various seasonings on each in tinfoil packets roasting in the oven for tomorrow.  They smell good if I do say so myself...

... and I do.

My brain, she has 'sploded.

We are back from vacation.  I have a mad week of cramming before my test on Friday for AORN.  Gah!  I'm not hungry, I'm stressin'.  I have no, no, NO appetite.  But I'm eating (the right stuff).  I have no, no, NO energy, but I'm exercising (still have a hate-on for pushups).

Here is a very public apology to my poor husband.  I'm sorry I'm not more supportive right now.  I'm working on it.  I'm just scared to death that the last 6 months of intense physical, mental, and emotional labor are about to circle the drain Friday.  I love you and Olive to bits and pieces and I'm happy we are doing this.  Really.

Limited internet access at the Mouse. Sorry, folks!

We are in Disney.  It's wonderful.  I'm just loving the time with my family.  Today is me and my hubby's fourth anniversary!  How do we celebrate?  Jumprope!  I kid, but not completely.  I'm keeping up with all the exercises with relatively little problems.  My arms and upper body are getting stronger as a work in progress.  My legs feel great.  My belly is still jiggly though much less so than a month ago.

Eating is a little more problematic here at the Mouse.  I am following the dietary guidelines as closely as is possible without the benefit of being able to measure it all out.  'Tis tough, but I feel I'm getting it mostly right.  It's really not a struggle to choose the right groups of food.  It's tough to estimate portions.  We'll see how it comes together once I'm home.

Working out on the road!

Well, on the driveway to be precise.  I did my jumps between the cars.  Two things about this - 1) jumping on pavement is really not so comfortable while jumping on grass is impossible, 2) I totally did this in about three feet of space.  Awesome sauce.  The push ups are getting slightly better.  Slightly.

Still not hungry.  My husband could happily gnaw off my right leg at this point.  On a sidenote, since changing my diet in prep for this project I have lost 12 pounds.  Ten of those were before I started the exercise regime.  Double awesome sauce.  Now how I do in Disney, surrounded by luscious trash practically screaming my name, well that's the true test.  I'm not going to be a tea-totaller about it, but I am going to stick to my guns.  Half-portions and good choices.

Team BLUE!  I am reading everyone's blog, but I haven't had a moment to make any comments.

My arms. They hurt.

Still hating on the pushups.  Silly arms.  Keep up!

My husband is hungry.  Hungry.  HUNGRY.  Me?  Meh.  Not really finding myself hungry.  Yeah, at meal time I'm ready to eat.  I'm not ravenous and the half rations are quite enough, thanks.  I can just feel the karma building up... waiting to strike me down...

Did not do as well on the jumproping.  This could be due to the fact that I was jumping in the front yard of my brother and sister-in-law's house.  Their neighbors were curious.  Someone was checking me out from a front porch.  Performance anxiety!

Tomorrow night - drive to Disney!  So excited.  :D  Night everybody.

Going to need to stretch.

I feel mostly great, but my arms are tight as drums.  I'm running in the OR all day so my legs stay warm and fairly limber.  My upper body, eh, not so much.  The first 2 push ups were kind of painful.  It eased up after that, but was rather uncomfortable.  Took a bit more time while jumping rope and found I had a better rhythm and less missteps.  Could go 30+ in a row!  Very happy with that.

Diet continues to go well, though I do have some concerns about intake.  I don't feel hungry, but I know for a fact that I have barely cleared 1000 calories today.  Same thing yesterday.  As long as it doesn't start slowing me down, I'm going to flow with it.  I will, however, really crackdown on taking a multivitamin a day.  It's a balanced diet, but I don't want to risk any deficiencies.

Day 1 done!

Not bad.  I hate push ups, but that's because my arms are deplorably weak.  Jumping rope is pretty decent and will likely grow on me.  The thing for me will be carving out the time to exercise.  I'm thinking I'll need to do this before work (while kiddo and hubby are asleep) or just after work (kiddo still in daycare).

The diet is going well.  Ian and I radically revamped our diet when we decided to do the PCP almost a month ago.  Now that I'm eating fresh foods, veggies, and fruits, I find I crave them.  If I have fast food, I generally regret it - makes my tummy mad and my brain sluggish.

I know this will get harder as it goes along, but I'm feeling good about it.  Up to the challenge, shall we say?

Susan Has Arrived!

And is ready to get in the best shape of her life!