P90X Week 14: Days 93 & 94 (Take 2)
Although you are reading this some time in December, a mere day after my last post, I have a confession to make. I wrote my last post a full week ago (on October 27 and today is November 3). After getting up for Yoga last Wednesday (because I skipped it when I was supposed to do it on Monday), I competely fell off the P90X wagon. For the record, I’m imagining a wagon like from Oregon Trail with all of the P90X Players on board … I hope no one gets dysentery! Anyway, every night last week I set my alarm with the intention of doing P90X. And every morning, I snoozed for 40 minutes until finally resetting the alarm for an hour later. By the time the weekend came, I had just given up. And not only with the workouts. I gave up on the diet too. After eating that whole box of Cheez-Its in one day, I went back to the grocery store for another box and ate that whole thing too. On Saturday (after a bit too much drinking Friday night), I had McDonald’s for lunch. McDonald’s! I had a quarter pounder with cheese and fries and I checked the nutrition info on the back of the box. I’m pretty sure I didn’t need to consume 75% of my daily recommended allowance of saturated fat in one sitting. That night, at a Halloween party, I took an entire cheese pizza into a dark room and ate the whole thing by myself. True story. It was terribly delicious.
The saddest part about this is that it’s technically my last week of P90X. Why don’t I have the motivation to finish strong?? I mentioned last week that I’m feeling really burnt out. I guess this is not surprising since I started my first P90X workout on July 19 (16 weeks ago) and about 95% of that time I’ve been getting out of bed at 5:30 AM (except for my week at Oktoberfest and a few other lapses along the way). Regardless, it’s a travesty. Which is why I’ve decided to start my last week one more time. Yes, it’s Tuesday, which means I’ve already skipped a day already. But it’s better than nothing and hopefully I can wrap up my personal P90X challenge on the right foot (and without a huge shock when I step back on the scale). So, without further ado, I bring you a repeat of days 2 and 3 of Week 14, to be followed by a successful rest of the week (fingers crossed!).
Day 2
I repeated Core Synergestics to start my re-week and it went much better this time around. I actually didn’t realize how poor my performance was last week until doing it again today. I guess I had more energy after taking an entire week off so I went at it a little more aggressively this morning. My arms were a bit tired by the end from all the push-ups and I found the table dip leg raises in the bonus portion to be particularly difficult. But I finished and felt so great afterwards. I’m now actually looking forward to the rest of the week! Also, I should note that when I woke up this morning it was FREEZING in my house. How I managed to get out of my warm bed next to Mattie I really don’t know. Of course once I started working out I was hot and sweaty so the freeze didn’t last too long. Looks like winter is really here, though, which will make it that much harder to stick to a workout routine, I’m sure!
Today wasn’t that great of a diet day. I don’t have much breakfast food in the house (or at least not healthy breakfast food). I made scrambled eggs with cheese this morning, which I ate in a whole wheat pita. For lunch I have a Kashi meal with applesauce and fig newtons for a snack. And tonight I’m reviving what used to be book club but is now wine-and-food-club so the menu will consist of wine and wine-appropriate food. I made these Italian rice balls stuffed with lamb, spinach and mozzarella which I’m going to fry up before guests arrive. I also made pumpkin bread (it’s not Fall without pumpkin bread!) and will be assembling proscruitto and ricotta crostini’s later. Plus whatever unhealthy delicacies my guests bring. Not exactly diet material.
Day 3
My wine and food night ran a little late last night and when it was time to get up to do P90X, I was just not having it. But don’t worry, I didn’t skip it all together today. Since I was scheduled to do X-Stretch, I decided to take the DVD to work with me and do it in my office! I know that sounds very strange but I get an hour for lunch which I have to take (otherwise they have to pay me overtime, and they won’t approve that). I’m always looking for things to do during this lunch hour because, frankly, lunch doesn’t take a whole hour. Particularly when I bring it from home. So today I did X-Stretch and was thankful that I have an actual office with an actual door, rather than a cubicle :) It was very relaxing and I felt refreshed and stretched out when I was done. Oddly enough, while I believe I did this video at least once before during this program, I didn’t remember it at all. Nothing seemed familiar, it was very strange
I had eggs and cheese on a wheat pita again for breakfast and I’m now completely out of breakfast food so I have to make a grocery stop on the way home tonight. I had a Kashi meal for lunch and for snacks I had 4 fig newtons and those honey wheat braided twists from the vending machine. My husband gets home tonight from his volunteering for the Senatorial election in Connecticut, so I’m making his favorite: Chicken Marsala. Lots of butter and pasta await me, as does a husband that I missed very much!
