DAY 15 OF 365: BACK TO THE GRIND

I have to say that Mondays are the hardest day for me. When that alarm goes off, I must hit snooze about three times before finally getting out of bed. But alas, when my alarm went off this morning, I knew it was the start of another workweek. It also meant another extensive workout with JC! I usually hit the gym either Saturday or Sunday, but because I was at the Inn this weekend, I didn’t. So I knew that this workout was going to be a tough one.
After getting into the office, I did some research on the computer and found out that on average, we drink about 450 to 550 calories a days. Can you believe that? One frapacchino from Starbucks is about 290 calories. I can only imagine how many calories I used to drink in a day. Remember, I was a heavy soda drinker and I also enjoyed my morning Carmel Macchiato from Starbucks. Thank God I cut that off and switched to water and tea. Now don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy coffee and I am going to start reintroducing coffee back into my diet. Just not with all the sugar and cream I used to add. And I will be sticking with basic coffee and not the fancy cappuccinos. I don’t want to go back to drinking half my caloric intake. I think that is where we go wrong.
As far as work went, it was just a normal day. Nothing out of the ordinary. It is actually a slow time at the office. Usually we start picking up again around February and March. Right now I am happy with my one show.
So after work I headed to my session with JC, which like I thought, was rough and intense; but in a good way. We worked allot on my legs and my core, integrating upper body workouts in as well. I have to say that the warm up routine that we do before every workout really gets me going. To me, it is more like the actual workout then a warm-up, but hopefully once I get some muscle built up it will start to feel like just a warm-up. We have been increasing the weights and reps on the machines, which is great to see. Especially since when I started I could hardly do any. My upper body strength is still not that great, but it is getting there.

After the session and stretching out the muscles I headed home, showered and relaxed. I did have something to eat when I got home. After a workout like that I needed to give my body some protein as it was repairing the damage that I did to the muscles during my workout. Well, time to call it a night. Busy day ahead of me. Oh and yeah, we are having a snow/sleet/ice/rain storm tomorrow. Gush, don’t you just love winter? Till tomorrow.


P.S. Sorry this post is late. Had some issues posting last night so I had to post this morning.