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Bursting On The Scene

On November 9, 2009

I am sort of a schism of emotions today. Mostly good ones but I digress. Let’s get on with it:

Movin’ on down:

This morning I started the week at 154.8. This is a huge victory. I haven’t started the week below 155 since – well, I can’t remember. Since I have been paying attention to Monday weights. My low weight last week was 152.8, which is also something I haven’t seen in a while. How did I accomplish this?

Cakehole Shoving:

I actually did a damn good job of this for the entire week – for the most part. I was below 1400 Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. I was around 1500 Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. I went a little nutzo on Sunday, but it couldn’t have been above 2000. I did learn some good lessons and reinforce some good behaviors (or at least “lesser evil” behaviors).

Friday, I enjoyed a very healthy and low cal dinner and some drinks, but I found the good stopping point where I was enjoying myself but wasn’t wasted. I wish to remember that point as sometimes on a weekend, I’ll just run up to that cliff and jump right on over. Fun, yes, but then I pay for it the next day. Saturday I was pretty responsible as well, we stayed in, ate leftovers, and cleaned like mad people. The majority of the house is now sparkling clean – or at least for us normally opposite-of-neat-freak peoples.

Sunday, we had planned a little controlled splurge – ordering a medium supreme pizza and that along with salad and veggies being our meal for the day. We put the pizza order in (and my Zliten, who was in need of meat, made us order the large chicken wings and fries) and then as soon as I hung up we got an invite to celebrate a friend’s birthday at the Alamo Drafthouse. Fun yes – but my day was not working out as planned at all. This day could have potentially been my ruination.

The pizza was delicious. Just what I was craving. We each had 2 slices and put the rest away (and now have a delicious lunch for today). I had 3 chicken wings, and we split the order of fries. The nice thing about the place is they have no frier. Yeah, I know – the wings and fries are SO ungreasy because they’re baked. It’s awesome. A hefty meal perhaps, but my dinner later was a greek salad with italian. Eaten right before we went to the alamo. Hello, strategy.

The problem was, we got there and they were picking up the tab so they said to order whatever we wanted. To clarify for any non-Austinites, the Alamo Drafthouse is really the only reasonable place to see a movie. The ticket prices are cheaper, and they serve food (like real food – you can get pita chips, veggies, and hummus there, or a burger, or pizza if you would like) and beer and wine. They also do really cool events like 80s sing alongs, screenings of old classics, and sometimes feasts themed to the movie.

I got a glass of wine and then somehow convinced myself it was a good idea to also order a guiness milkshake. I shared it around with everyone and then drank about half. While it may have been a not-so-good idea to order it I conquered two things. First – milkshakes have held this magical power over me. I have had a craving for one for over two years. This one was delicious, but honestly, I would have rather had a nice three bite home baked cookie, or a sliver of decadent chocolate cake. I will no longer be obsessed with them as they are firmly in the category now of “eh, totally not worth the calories”. Second – I was able to drink half of it, put it down on the table, and leave it alone. I have a big thing about finishing (which is why I only cook what I’m going to eat or make sure it is tucked away before I can go for it again), so it was nice to not suck the whole thing down.

All in all, a great week. This week becomes a bit more challenging. Friday, I have the day off and a friend and I are going to hit happy hour. The plan is to get a good lunch in me and only allow myself healthy food if I’m going to drink. Then, Saturday is our Austinite wedding reception. We had a lot of friends that couldn’t go to Vegas, so we decided to host a reception here. The win – we’re doing all the cooking. However, I’m not going to subject my guests to stuff that doesn’t taste good so I have some ’sperimenting to do. I am excited for a Polynesian feast!

I have been totally lazy about tracking calories over the weekend. I’d chastise myself for it, but it actually seems to be working. I know if I fall face down in the bag of chips or if I eat mindfully – and as long as I stick with the latter, I do ok. If the downward trend comes to a screeching halt… then I’m back on it like bees on honey. For now, I’ll see if I can get by as it’s something I’d like to move away from eventually.

My Ass, and Moving It:

During the week, I am a workout saint. Shredded without complaint Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I did my DDR, my yoga, and my running. I think I might have even beat a record running but sadly I wasn’t really timing. The watch is coming with on tomorrow’s run though fo sho. If there is any chance I ran a sub 25 minute 5k I want proof! My 5 mile time is improving as well. I’m under 50, now I want to work towards under 45. I know I can do it!

The weekdays jam packed are killing me by the weekend. I am so over it and sore and tired (thx u Jillian), I don’t want to do a fucking thing. On Saturday, I woke up feeling like my pec was slightly pulled. I had planned on shredding that morning and decided against it. It takes me a full weekend before my feet and legs feel good again. Level 3 is brutal. Doing 5 days of intense strength back to back is brutal.

So this week I’m changing it up. Just a little. I said I was going to shred for 4 weeks. I’m not going to wuss out this last week, but I am going to alternate levels. M, W, F – Level 3. Tu/Th – Level 1 or 2. Going forward, I’m going to try to keep it on the schedule 2-3 times per week until half training gets too intense. I don’t want to knock it too much. I am seeing results. I wore jeans yesterday that I haven’t even had the guts to put on in months. It is working. However, I just can’t risk rolling into training time injured and tired, and I think that alternating the days will work my muscles differently enough that it will be good for me and I won’t feel on the brink of injury.

NaNoWriMo:

The story is developing nicely. Writing about characters inspired by and very similar to us ten years ago (extended and stereotyped and much more extreme) has made it easier to keep going – I just have to dig in my “memories” section of the brain for the next plot twist. Perhaps the next one will be a story created solely by my warped little mind, but this is something safe for the first and very time-crunched attempt and I’m appreciating it.

I have no idea if it will be interesting. If it was a screenplay, it would be one of those Napolean Dynamite type movies – slow paced, with some humor, but you almost feel like you are laughing at the poor sobs because their situation is so ridiculous, not because it’s terribly funny. Nothing terribly extraordinary happens to them – they don’t get sucked into a black hole and end up in Bizarro World and become royalty – they just live their lives. The end is anticlimactic. But it’s kind of what I’m going for.

I’m also a little behind. I should be at about 12500 words as of yesterday, and I’m only at about 11000. It doesn’t sound like that much, but tonight I’m aiming to do about 3k words to get caught up, which is about 2 hours of full concentration, and I am usually at about 50% with the TV on and my Zliten home. Hopefully I can have some kick ass sessions this week and get back ahead as this weekend isn’t looking promising for writing time. For those of you who haven’t checked out NaNoWriMo, the goal is 50k words by Nov 30th.

Initial prediction – I’m going to finish the story. I’m up in the air whether I can continue to dedicate the hours each day to finish up the words in the time allotted (though being super competitive me, I bet I’ll do it), but I’m going to do it even if it’s not by the end of the month. However, I’m also now seeing a novel as a manageable and possible thing to do. If I did it right and came up with a story outline, laid out the chapters in an outline, and then went to town, I think I could have something polished in perhaps 6 months time. I’m not going to get books published by wishing for it. It something I can EASILY do while just relaxing at home on the couch with the lappy. This is a HUGE revelation for me!

It’s the same thing as a marathon. It looks like a huge, unwieldy task. Highly intimidating. There is no better way to get there than picking a deadline and putting together a plan to get there. Looking forward to cracking both of those nuts in the next year.

Back to my Monday. What mountains are you going to climb this week? Inspiration wanted.

This Is How I Do It…

By Quix

On November 4, 2009

In Uncategorized

I was stuck for a post today, so here is a random idea of something that may or may not be interesting that popped into my brain. I am fascinated by the way other people deal with, shop, cook, eat, think about, and otherwise act around food, so I figured I’d share how I roll with my food habits day by day for a typical week.

Saturday/Sunday morning:

Our food supplies are starting to get picked over. The easy stuff to make and/or the stuff we were really looking forward to has already been used up for the week, so it’s time to make a list. I plan out the lunches and dinners we’re going to have for the week, considering our schedules, and assign them to days. I try not to plan the same things for two days in a row (though it happens), I try not to plan the same meat two times in a row, and I try to make sure that Zliten is on board with the plan or it fails. Once that’s done, I come up with an ingredient list, and add anything else we need to the list (breakfasts, snacks, sodas, etc) and email it off to both my phone and Zliten’s phone so we have it for reference.

Buffalo Chicken Salad

Sunday:

It’s grocery shopping day! I *try* to get out by 9:30-10am so I can get most of it done while all the good folk are at church and the store is less crowded, but it doesn’t always work. First, I stop at the local, organic, hippie-dippie grocery store which is closest to my house. I get almost all my produce there, and other odds and ends. A lot of their canned and packaged goods are more expensive, but totally better quality, so I’ve stopped shying away from paying more there for it. Unless it’s ridiculous, like paying 4 bucks for a bag of frozen broccoli instead of a dollar or so for the regular grocery store kind. As I find everything, I mark it off the list on my phone. I have reusable bags in my car, but I often forget them.

Then I head to the larger, chain grocery store. This is where I pick up whatever I couldn’t find there – which usually involves lettuce and fruit (for some reason, lettuce and fruit both SUCK at the hippie place), frozen veggies, sodas, and anything I don’t want the super organic version of (like hot dogs/buns/frozen lasagna/etc). Oddly enough, I always end up spending more at the regular store even though I swear I buy less there.

Then, I head home and unpack the car, clean out the fridge (if things are starting to grow and/or I need the room), and put away the groceries. Oh, and Zliten has usually cleaned the kitchen and has dishes going by then. BTW – Zliten does NOT go grocery shopping with me. He is like a kid in a candy store and is very grabby – not that all of it is unhealthy, but we’ll come home with 3 different types of hot sauce and odd cans of beans and about 40 bucks of other things that aren’t on the list. I deviate too, but not NEARLY as much and usually when I remember things I needed that I forgot to list. Anyhoo, usually by that time we’re so hungry, we end up going out to lunch, heh. This Sunday, we went to a new little mexican place and it was yummy. I had a few too many chips, an enchilada, half a flauta, and the toppings of a tostada.

Sunday night though is usually a cook-y night. There is usually something I’ve purchased from the store that takes a little more prep time than I’d like for a weekday meal or something super healthy because we splurged for lunch. This week, we had made whole wheat spaghetti with a little bit of super low fat ground beef and meat sauce with tons of veggies because of the latter. Zliten cooked while I wrote and it was awesome.

Filet mignon, taterflowers (half cauliflower/half potatoes), and asparagus

Monday:

Zliten gets fed free breakfast at work so I don’t worry about him (seriously, they cater whole foods breakfast every day for the entire company… so jealous), but he was nice enough to put the beef stew ingredients in the crock pot before he left for work. I’ve been on a bar kick lately so I alternate between a pro-max bar or a zone bar (both about 15-20g protien, a little fiber, and 180-200 cal). This perks me up after a workout and keeps me full until lunch.

Around 1pm we both head home for lunch together (he works 1.5 miles away, I work 3 miles away – love it). On this occasion, we made black bean burgers, which I stuck into pitas and he put into tacos. I added a little low fat sour cream, salsa, low fat cheese, lettuce, olives, and onions and chowed down on 2 pita pocket halves.

Around 4pm I broke out my half pint of raspberries and ate the whole damn thing. Because they were just so good. An hour later, I grabbed a handful of pistachios and enjoyed those too.

Got home around 7 and the beef stew was smelling *ohsogood* in the crockpot. I tried to stave off the urge to dig in early since Zliten wasn’t home yet from the gym with some turkey pepperoni (I could tell I needed some protein as I hadn’t had meat for lunch), but I gave in and had an appetizer sized bowl of it. When he got home we ate about 1/3 of the crockpot each and saved the rest. Later, since I had the calories, I indulged in about 100 calories of halloween candy.

Italian Veggie Pasta Salad

Typical Weekdays:

Pretty much the same as Monday. If I’m skipping lunch, I’ll usually have a builder bar with more protein and calories for breakfast and either a soup and salad or Amy’s Indian meal for lunch. I always try to have a piece of fruit in the afternoon, but sometimes I’ll do veggie and hummus instead of nuts or sometimes if I’m having a caloric day I’ll skip it altogether. Typical lunches are sandwiches, leftovers from dinner, soup and a salad, garden burgers/hot dogs, and in a pinch microwave meals. Sometimes the salad bar if we really don’t feel like making lunch.

For dinners, we typically cook unless it’s a rare night out somewhere. This week, on the menu is chicken curry with veggies and saffron rice, grilled fish tacos, shepard’s pie (96/4 ground beef, mixed veggies and tomato sauce smothered with a thin layer of mashed potatoes and light cheese), and tuna veggie pasta (essentially a tuna helper with double protein and a heaping helping of frozen veggies.

Usually before dinners I’ll have a small healthy snack like jerky or turkey pepperoni (it’s a habit I’m trying to break, I just get home and it hits me how STARVING I am). Usually after dinner I’ll have a sweet of some sort (another habit I’d like to break, but it’s usually something of very little caloric impact if not something healthy like fruit). Very occasionally, instead of a bigger dinner and a sweet, I’ll have smaller food and few drinks.

Fridays:

These are a different animal. I’ll usually make sure to have a zone bar or something lighter because lunch is earlier (around 12:30). We go to pho, which is vietnamese noodle soup. It’s about 400 calories and amazingly awesome. I usually try to resist the egg rolls but about once every other month I’ll splurge and have one. I usually try to go light on snacks because we typically come home and either get somewhat healthy takeout, eat something quick, or fire up the BBQ and have some cocktails. This week I plan to take it mellow and stay in, but then again last week I was out and about being a party animal. So it varies.

Saturday:

We wake up and almost invariably go out to lunch even if I have weekend food planned. Now with Zliten working overtime not as much (if it’s just me I generally poke around and just find something to eat in the house), but generally we don’t want to be buggered cooking anything major. Saturday night totally depends – if there is something on the menu we are still looking forward to and we don’t have plans, we eat. If we’re looking for a quick meal before going out, we usually scrounge. If we don’t have major plans, we might head out to dinner somewhere or get takeout.

Rinse, and repeat.

How do you plan out your weeks? Do you fly by the seat of your pants? Batch cook everything on the weekend? Do you make a menu or do you just eat what you feel like each day? Like I said, I am totally curious about other people and food so comment away!

Pictures are foods we cooked over the summer…

Five Random Things

By Quix

On October 28, 2009

In Uncategorized

I don’t have another coherent post in me today, and I realized that what I was going to post today was much more appropriate for Friday, so welcome to the return of 5 random things.

1. Somehow, I’m not sure why – but an easy 5k has now dropped to about 28 minutes (so 9 minute miles) – just in the last week or 2. Is it that the shred strengthening muscles I didn’t know I needed stronger? I’d say is it the shred warming me up, but it even happened yesterday when I shredded in the morning and ran at night. Is it the new music I have? Is it the cooler weather (it’s odd – I wear a sweater and a jacket when I’m out in it to go to work, and then I go running in just a tank and I’m fine)? Is it that I can run at night again? I don’t know, but I’ll take it. Now, just as I’m hitting my short distance stride, I’m about to change it up and start distance training next month. 25 minute 5k, maybe next year…. I’m going to do one more probably next month but I haven’t been training for it so I don’t have high hopes.

2. I’m playing EverQuest again. Yes, this game that I spent years and years in front of a computer playing, eating delivery pizza and drinking bourbon. The fun thing is – we’ve been able to get on and play for an hour or 2 a night in place of just sitting in front of the TV and me dorking on the net and Zliten playing bejeweled for hours. It’s kinda fun to reconnect with some people we used to play with and relearn how to maneuver our characters again. It’s always good for the soul to get into a game again. It’s also reminding me that I do have that chunk of time from about 9-11pm each weekday night to get things accomplished instead of zoning out EVERY night and watching TV.

3. Speaking of finding time in my day – I’m contemplating NaNoWriMo. I’ve even got an idea for it. The only problem is I’m pretty sure the blog will suffer. Maybe not, but it’s possible. All I have to say is that wanting to pursue multiple interests sucks when you also are required to get 7-8 hours sleep at night and work full time. When I’m working out as intensely as I am, having a weekday 4-5 hour night to get caught up is just not an option. And then when I do it on the weekends it just makes Monday soooo hard. I figure though – worst case, I come up with the idea, start on it, and even if I don’t finish in November, I’ll can certainly tick one more thing off the 2009 to do list – something creative!

4. I’ve realized that 30 means being more concerned about fitting in my workouts around a lab appointment to draw blood to check my numbers tomorrow than the needle itself. Fun fact about Quix: I HATE NEEDLES. I especially hate needles around where they draw blood (the inside of my arms… I don’t even like people touching me there). However, I have to watch the entire process, like I’m guiding the nurse’s stabby stabby procedure with my eyes. I love the idea of tattoos and piercings and would probably have some ink and be pierced a LOT more than 8 times (three in each ear, one in my cartelige, once in my tongue – though the tongue and one in my ear closed up so I only have 6 now) if I could get over that.

5. We’ve been eating at home a lot more. We have a constant lunch date on Fridays with a group to eat pho (Vietnamese noodle soup), we typically end up having a meal or two out on the weekends, but that’s about it now. We come home for lunch just about every weekday and cook dinner every night. Last year this time, we ate lunch out every day, and most weekend meals out, and generally cooked dinner about 4 days a week and that was it (if we weren’t crunching and getting dinners provided at work). We are eating a lot healthier (maybe not lower calorie, I got good at that, but definitely more good stuff), it’s saving money, but bugger if the dishes don’t have dish babies in the sink! I don’t usually make a production out of dinner, it involves maybe a pan, a tupperware, a salad bowl, two plates, and two utensils – but somehow the sink is full every day. It takes me a long time to notice it’s an issue (if it’s not overflowing then who cares is my motto) and it annoys Zliten to no end. In fact, he was the one who suggested this topic for my fifth random thing. We badly need a kitchen fairy that can do dishes for us every night. Like the gal above. =)

There is my random stuff. Tomorrow I forsee work kicking my arse, plus I have aforementioned doctor appointment and a shred and a 5 mile run to do, so I’ll be back Friday for the mysterious post I did not write today. Ciao, internet!

Where Everything Falls Apart

By Quix

On October 26, 2009

In Uncategorized

So my big thing is no guilt. No regrets. But it’s hard not to regret and rib yourself a bit if you treated yourself so poorly over the weekend that you are feeling physically ill about it. And by “you”, I mean me. Consider yourselves my proverbial priests, while I give you a full confessional. I’ll give you a play by play of the carnage.

My first mistake was going out Friday night. I knew I had a party lined up the next night, yet I couldn’t wait. I didn’t go too crazy and I ate well (I was a good girl and ordered chipotle tacos with meat, lettuce, salsa, and that’s it, and that was the worst thing food-wise I had all day), but there was definitely whiskey involved. And I was up until almost 5am. And I skipped the DDR part of my workout. Mostly because I was sore and wanted to die, but partly because I didn’t have time – friends were already over and food was sitting on the counter after Jillian kicked my butt.

My second mistake was sleeping in Saturday, lazing around, and then having to run all over town getting things for my costume. I missed my sixth day of Shred. Six days is more than I usually do, but considering 2 of those days were only 20 min shred workouts, I still owed myself a workout. And I didn’t do it.

My third mistake was following my advice for parties – I had a very small and what I thought was filling snack before I headed out, but I guess a gardenburger wasn’t enough. I was so seriously hungry I downed an OBSCENE amount of junk food there because I was STARVING. On top of that, I could only obtain a one liter of diet soda and had to move on after that to sugared punch and soda. Ugh.

My fourth mistake was lunch on Sunday. It wasn’t that it was so unhealthy – it was just so BAD. We went to try out what we thought was a new soup and salad bar, but it ended up being more of a straight buffet, and probably the worst one in town we’ve had thus far. Everything was fatty and greasy and bleh (except that salad, that was alright- but the topping bar was pretty small).

My fifth mistake? Not making up my skipped workout on Sunday. I had convinced myself somehow that I should rest today so I didn’t tire myself out, but I think it was more about the hangover. I usually punish myself by working through hangovers but not so much yesterday.

My sixth and final nail in the coffin was dinner. Calorie-wise, I was a freaking saint. We got chinese takeout and I had wonton soup, veggie delight, and one bite of orange chicken. And about half a cup of rice. The problem is – I ended up with a gigantic portion of the wonton soup + broth and it was especially salty, so I am Bloaty McBalloonperson today.

I will say some good things about this weekend though:

1. I didn’t partake of the late night fast food runs either night. I had a few fries off Zliten’s plate Friday but that’s it.

2. I did dance my ass of for a while at the party Saturday. Plus I was shopping for 3 hours – shopping is cardio, right?

3. I made good food choices with what I had to work with Sunday. I went for non fried stuff (minus one small taste of fried fish which was honestly the best thing on the buffet :P) and loaded up on veggies and non-sauce covered protein. Chinese, I ate probably just about the lowest calorie foods on the menu and was actually pretty satisfied with what I got instead of feeling diet-punished.

However, the truth is today the scale is saying unthinkable things that I am going to throw out as a mulligan. I’ll give myself a day or 2 being healthy to detox and I should be back in business. The problem: I have just about the same weekend to face next weekend. I have high hopes going into each weekend and then it all falls apart. It’s one hundred percent my fault. While I’d love to get persnickety about people around me not being the best influences and yadda yadda yadda, I am the one making the choices. I am the one who controls my destiny.

I am the one who had to have her heart jump out of her chest practically today because of what she saw on the scale. Yeah, it was that ridiculous. Who gains seven lbs in 2 days? That would be me, people. I am really going to have to get it together if I want to accomplish project: the last effing 20 lbs.

But really, all I can do is analyze, figure out how to be better next time, and move on. So that I will. This week, I will stop letting those close to me be enablers. If I choose to go out drinking and find myself hungry because of it, fuck it. Being hungry is not the worst thing in the world. If I have the strength to run a half marathon, and the capability to come up with a training plan – I can figure this out. I’m not a dumb bunny, but I sure played one this weekend.

So, I guess here is last week by the numbers:

Monday: under 1400 1500 calories, Shred Lvl 1, 30 mins DDR 5k run (had an itch to run, so I ran instead)

Tuesday: under 1400 1500 calories, Shred Lvl 1, 5k run 30 mins DDR (switched from Monday, and at lower intensity than normal because – um, sore!)

Wednesday: under 1400 1500 calories, Shred Level 1, 30 mins DDR yoga (was about to die from soreness so I yoga’d out)

Thursday: under 1400 1500 calories, Shred Level 1, 5 mile run 5k run (just didn’t have a 5 miler in me)

Friday: under 1500 1700 calories, Shred Level 1

Saturday: healthy eating until the Halloween party, Shred Level 1

Sunday: under 1500 calories (who knows), rest

So this week is:

Monday: under 1400 calories, Shred Lvl 1, 30 mins DDR

Tuesday: under 1400 calories, Shred Lvl 2, 5 mile run

Wednesday: under 1400 calories, Shred Level 2, yoga

Thursday: under 1400 calories, Shred Level 2, 5k run

Friday: under 1500 calories, Shred Level 2, 30 mins DDR

Saturday: under 2000 calories, Shred Level 2, yoga

Sunday: under 1500 calories, rest

So yes, pretty much a do-over of last week, and moving up to level 2 of the Shred. Since this post is already looking to be like a novel, I’ll talk more about the shred and other random stuff tomorrow.

How was your weekend? Anyone else want to pull up a chair to the confessional? If you had a saintly weekend, wanna give me some tips? 🙂

Fantasy…

By Quix

On October 21, 2009

In Uncategorized

First, read this. Totally ripped the idea from there…

I loved this post and wanted to share my own. I often dream about what I’d do if I won the lottery, but it’s fun to just confine it to things that would make me able to live a healthy lifestyle better (some of them are a stretch…but…). Let the opulence begin with a day in the life!

I wake up whenever my body tells me to – however, since I don’t have any worries or things to do to keep me up at night, I probably naturally arise around 9am. I reluctantly leave my bed, because it is made to the exact firmness for me (and Zliten’s side for Zliten) and feels pretty much like sleeping on a cloud. I plod into my perfectly clean bathroom that the maid just tidied up for me yesterday and get ready to start my day.

I head to the kitchen where a chef is waiting for me. He asks me what I want to eat for breakfast, and I jokingly say a waffle with ice cream, chocolate syrup, and some homefries. He says that he would oblige, but it’s not on the nutritionist’s list for me and it’s not a splurge day. Instead, he whips me up some delicious whole grain homemade toast and a fruit salad, as he knows I’ll be doing a long run that day and need something to fuel it.

I eat my breakfast while catching up on the internet/blogs/etc. After the food settles, I go into my workout clothes closet which are organized by temperature and sport, and select an outfit for 60-70 degrees, running. Since I have all the time in the world, I get my driver (please, if I ever get rich I will NEVER drive again) to Town Lake for a change of scenery, and run a nice, easy 10 mile jaunt – as I’m gearing up for a half marathon and that’s what my trainer has prescribed today. When not training for a race, I might have someone come in and teach a different class each week so I can try everything. After the car takes me home, I stretch out, and the chef has a smoothie waiting for me. At first I object because I’m feeling fine and not hungry, but after his insistence, I drink it and feel even better. He lets me know that lunch will be served in about an hour.

I see that Zliten is now up and swimming in the pool. It’s too cold for the roof to be retracted, but it’s still nice to see the sun shining and get in the perfectly heated water. I begrudgingly take a cold bath first for my legs, but then jump into the water and splash around with him for a while. I look longingly at the hot tub, but figure that wouldn’t be the greatest on my just ice-bathed legs, so tomorrow it is. On another day I’d make use of the diving board and be thankful for the life guard under our employ, but after a long run, I’m just happy to be in the water. Before we know it, the chef lets us know that lunch is ready.

We dry off and put on our super cushy robes and eat lunch outside. Today, mine is a gigantic turkey sandwich made on the same delicious homemade toast I had that morning, a salad, and some assorted veggies and pita slices with hummus. Zliten is munching on the same thing, but a kobe beef burger instead of turkey.

After lunch, since we have some free time, we walk down to the theatre and decide to take in a movie. The movie runs a little longer than we thought, so we have to call the car to have them pick us up and bring us a change of clothes and a snack (homemade protein bars and fruit) or we’d be late. It’s time for a yoga class and then after, an hour massage. It’s such a relaxing afternoon we both fall asleep during our sessions, and pretty much float back to the car.

On the way home, we decide that we want to hang out with our friends, and invite them over for dinner, after checking our schedules (easy workout tomorrow for Zliten, day off for me, check!). After having a delicious dinner of shrimp cocktail, light caesar salad, petite filet mignon, and assorted veggies, we decide that we must hit the town. The car takes us out to a new spot we’ve been wanting to try, and after we’ve had enough, it drops our friends off and takes us home. Almost instantly, we fall into bed after the eventful day and drift off to sleep.

Instead – it’s get up reluctantly after the alarm has been buzzing for about an hour (snooze, snooze, snooze). Squeeze in half of a workout. Get ready really, really quickly and grab a promax bar on the way out the door. Get to work just in time. Head home for lunch, cook up something easy, finish up the day, come home and finish up my workout, cook/eat dinner, and have about 2 hours to relax/knock off anything on the to-do list, and then it’s time to get ready for bed.

While I crave a little stress and excitement, I think I could surely live with that sort of lifestyle for at least a little while. How about you? Tell me about your wildest fitness fantasies?

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“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.” – Mark Twain

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