Saturday I woke up with the idea of going to the gym, but I didn't want to until I ::cough:: moved my bowels. (I promised you a real account of life post WLS so there you have it). I woke up, put on my gym clothes, made coffee, and no dice. Drank a liter of water, and still no dice. So I started to move around and do some chores and it finally happened, but not with enough time to go to the gym and make it to our afternoon plans.
Our afternoon plans were a buffet lunch with my husband's family, some of which were in from out of town. I walked to the buffet and chose the smallest serving I could get of some cauliflower, vegetable korma, some Nepali potato dish, and a little rice. After hardly looking like I made a dent in my plate I was full.
So when we were getting ready for bed on Saturday night (afternoons with my husbands family go well into the night), I told my husband that I was getting up for the gym first thing in the morning.
Yea that didn't happen.
So after attending a church service, then teaching the Kindergarten-1st Grade class, I went right to the gym and did my workout, which took nearly two hours. I'm trying to pick one weekend day to do a longer run, so today was that day. Then I worked out two muscle groups, which is also trying to become habit.
After that I did my first individual swim lesson since the surgery.
I ran an errand on the way home and then upon getting home I promptly took a nap.
When I woke up, I made an old recipe out of an old family cookbook. It's called "Ratatouille" but its a very simple recipe.
Makes seven (7) half-cup servings
1 zucchini
1 eggplant
1 bell pepper
1 cube of chicken bullion
1 can of crushed tomatoes
1 can of tomato paste
Put it all in a pressure cooker and set it on Soup for 20 minutes. Once it finished and I let it naturally lose its pressure for about 15 minutes, I had a tasty, easy-to-digest meal.
Workout:
45 minutes on elliptical (4.3 miles)
Shoulders:
- Upright press (4x10 @5lbs in each hand)
- Upright rows (4x10 @ 20lbs)
- Lateral raises (3x12 @ 5 each hand)
- Front raises (3x12 @ 5 each hand)
- Shoulder shrugs (3x12 @ 20)
- Read delt (3x12 @45)
Back
- Rows (3 of each of the below bullets. Called a "drop set")
- 1x10 @37.5
- 1x10 @30
- 1x10 @22.5
- Lat pull downs
- 1x10 @37.5
- 1x10 @30
- 1x10 @22.5
- Row at 45 degrees (I was standing up and a cable was at about my knees, I took a step back and pulled)
- 1x10 @30
- 1x10 @25
- 1x10 @20
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