No hurry.

As of 6:30 this morning, I'm down exactly 40 pounds! That's the good news. Bad news is, I made this joke at boot camp about "being sick" on monday so I wouldn't have to work out, annnnnnnnd I woke up this morning feeling pretty lousy. Well played universe. well played. Hopefully it's just my allergies. I don't have time to be sick!

So the thing is, I may have said this already but I'm gonna say it again. I really don't think I could have found a better personal trainer than Darin. Seriously. He's got to be one of the most patient and down to earth people I've ever met. I'm fairly sure he told me approximately 502,908 times to slow down yesterday (I seem to want to do everything as fast as I talk). I think he told me at one point, no matter how fast I did something, I didn't get to leave early. Which wasn't my intent, because as much as I do complain about being sore/tired/working out in general, if I didn't LIKE going to O3, I would have quit looooooooooooooooong ago.

So workout #ivelostcount... He said "we're gonna do something different" and I was like, if it's boot camp, I'm leaving. I legit probably would have cried. But we didn't do anything involving a timer, which was fabulous. He upped the weight on everything but it was lower reps....I think evens things out a bit maybe. I don't know what I'm saying. I think we only did like five exercises and that was fine. by. me! We did everything slower, and took longer breaks between sets (yesssssss. I DON'T miss the 25 seconds in between sets). It was pretty great, if I do say so myself. I've worked allllllllll week/weekend with barely an end in sight and boot camp was a swift kick to the teeth.  We did dead lifts, the bench press thing, lat pull down, seated row and this weird thing I almost choked myself on. I can't really explain how it happened, but it was what it was. I just realized we didn't do any kind of leg work really (other than the dead lifts) which means one of two things. That he didn't plan it like that orrrrrr the more likely of the two, and we'll do leg stuff Thursday. I would really wear long pants the rest of my life if it would mean no more leg exercises. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's out of the question, so we'll see about Thursday, I guess. I actually kind of grimaced during the second set of the bench press things (I generally don't make a ton of faces). I call them that because I'm not sure what they really are, so henceforth I will say BPTs. Anywho, the second set had more weight and I had to do like 6 maybe? my memory is going, but about rep #5 I kinda thought......well, this isn't going to end well haha. I got them all the way up, but it wasn't without great effort .... which I'm sure is the point.

My back hurts, but kinda in a weird way. Like I can't tell if it's the muscles (here's to hoping) or the hardware. My arms are a little fatigued this morning. Pouring my cereal was like a mini workout. My calves still are a wee bit iffy but I could stretch and fix that, I'm just lazy.

My weight loss has slowed from rapid to not so rapid and it sucks, just so we're clear. I guess I didn't gain it overnight (though it sure feels that way) so I won't lose it that quick. Some days I think the gastric bypass/lapband would have been easier but I wouldn't have learned anything. So I need to stop being in such a hurry and I guess enjoy the journey more and focus on the good things. Like the fact I can do more in the gym than I ever thought possible and the fact that every day things aren't as hard for me.

This really doesn't have a ton to do with anything but right now I'm at work (surprise) and I'm eating special k for breakfast...the chocolate kind (don't judge, it's like 120 calories for 3/4s of a cup!) and I'm out of plastic bowls. so I have to improvise and eat it out of my mission tumbler we got for nurses week, and all the chocolate pieces are at the bottom :( which is the worst. #firstworldproblems/#princessproblems

I guess that's all I have to say for now. I'm sure I'll think of something else the minute I hit "publish" but whatever. I guess actually working at work would be a good thing to get started on. Even though some days, the best part of my job is the fact that my chair swivels.

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