Journey of an Empty Nester - April 12, 2016

Today was a pretty good day all in all. I really didn't get a lot of sleep last night because Scott is working nights. When he works nights I stay up half the night. I am so thankful that my shift today didn't start until 12:30pm. :)

Anyhow, I got up this morning, posted in a few of my groups and then did Day 16 of 22 Minute Hard Corps Resistance 1. I am loving this program and how quick the workouts are. I mean how can you complain when they are only 22 minutes, right? For the most part I did great with the workout except that I noticed I am starting to struggle a bit because of my carpal tunnel. I have a hard time doing pushups now, well harder than normal, I mean those are a normal struggle for me anyhow. I am also having an issue with holding the weights in my right hand. I don't seem to have any strength in that hand so that could become a problem. Besides that the workout went great.

For personal development today I was able to read Chapter 2 of Deliberate Receiving Finally the Universe Makes Sense. I admit that if I had seen this book in my amazon feed I would have scrolled right past it. But because of a wonderful friend and coach, Abby Marie, I decided to join her book club and give it a try. It is actually quite interesting. Thanks doll for the recommendation. :)

I also had time this morning to listen to a National wake up call. It was Seay Stanford: Building Trust Not Transactions. This was a great call and I would highly suggest it to any other coaches. I got a lot of golden nuggets from it.

Ok now for the daily scoop:

Breakfast

Tea and Oatmeal (yellow container)

Snack

Chocolate Shakeology with water (red container)

Lunch

Pineapple, watermelon, cheese and strawberries (2 1/2 purple containers and 1 blue container)

Dinner

21 Day Fix Approved Pork Carnitas with a roll (2 red containers and 1 yellow)

 Snack

Tortilla Chips with salsa :( Tea

I had about 55 ounces of water today. Not enough by far. I need about 90 ounces each day. I really have my work cut out for me if I am going to change things up.

As you can plainly see I am struggling with using my containers right now. Because of my job I don't have a lot of time to sit down and eat. From 12:30 to 6:30 today I had exactly 15 minutes to eat, drink some water and go to the rest room. So I need to really try to figure out how I am going to get all of my containers in during the day. Any suggestions????

I think I need to just find some super quick foods to eat on the run. I don't know. This is a work in progress.

I made a promise to a good friend of mine that I would not step on the scale until the beginning of next week. Keeping my fingers crossed on this one. That is such temptation for me. I don't know why either. I mean, if I step on the scale and the numbers go up, I get depressed and eat. If I step on the scale and the numbers go down, I seem to slack off and then the numbers go back up anyhow. You would really think that it would make it so I didn't want to jump on. Know what I mean?

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