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Okay today was really tolerable.   Some fellow P90Xers gave me some great advice and tips.     And I didn’t get ticked off like I did the other 2 times.    So this is good.  It’s still such a looong workout, but when my family is around me, it’s good.

I’m still sooo tired.  Last night I managed to get to bed by 10:00, and managed to fall asleep right away, but I was still feeling so wasted and wiped out during the day, I actually took 2 naps.   I got nearly 8 hours of sleep at night, I know that is not nearly enough and one of my kids got sick so i know they aren’t getting enough zzz’s in either.   It seems difficult to get extra sleep these days since we are waking up so early.

Okay, you know how we do Abs 3 times a week, and Mr. Horton tells us “don’t do abs every single day - you don’t do other parts of your body every day, you shouldn’t do abs”. 

 Well in Taekwondo last night the Master had us do 100 crunches, not to mention countless push ups, maybe another 100, I lost count.   My pecks were already killin’ me from the last chest workout.  

I skipped the second set of reps in the bonus round because my arms were so spent!

The endurdance and flexibility workouts definately leave me tired and moody while the weighted workouts give me energy afterward.    I hope this turns around by week 4 when I have to drop all my beloved weight workouts!

 Plyo went okay, but I’m still looking for my energy!   I still can’t do all the moves nor can I jump up as high, I am usually switching feet instead of having my feet leave the floor momentarily.

 DH said he lost 5 lbs. already.    He doesn’t really have much to lose, but muscle to gain.  I know muscle gain (and loss) happens at a really slow rate.   I myself refuse to get on the scale until the very last day.  I could stand to lose 20 lbs. and it all between my waist and my knees.   It’s hard to see on my 6 foot frame but I can denfinately feel it when I try to put on most of my pants.

I’m starting to really like the weight workouts over the aerobic and yoga workouts.    They really energize me.   I think they do the opposite for DH, who seemed to have run out of gas toward the end.  Part of it could be that we ran out of carrots so he made straight apple juice, and apples are pretty low in sugar.   

I was also slightly nauseated after the work-out, so DH, DD and I did the Ab Ripper later in the afternoon, while our 2 DS’s did the Ab workout immediately afterward.   I wish I hadn’t waited because I did run out of steam by then.  Next time I will stick it out and do the Ab Ripper right afterwards.

I wanted to do a little run down of some changes from the last 2 weeks. 

The one thing I’ve experienced is a lot of detox symptoms.    Not regular aches and pains but some peculiar things, like pains in weird places and a sinus infection.   I’m not sure if this was directly related to the workout, change in diet, etc. or if it’s more of a coincidence.

 Some positive benefits I’ve experienced are more energy (when not tired, that is) - I’ve been cleaning and organizing like crazy around the house.    Also during our stretching in Taekwondo, I’ve found them to be easier than they used to be!  My endurance is a lot better as well.

One thing I really want to work on is getting more sleep.   DH and I try to get in to bed by 10:00 but I often can’t fall asleep right off the bat, and when the alarm goes off at 5:45 I am completely out of it.   We are trying to get the kids in bed by 8:30 and that doesn’t always happen.  Their little bodies definitely need more rest than ours!   They are pretty wiped out with the new schedule too.   So that’s one thing to work on.

Sundays are supposed to be either a stretch or rest day.   We had no rest because we ended up running around a lot with the kids, but we also woke up too late to do the stretch because everyone was so wiped out from getting up early all week long.    So we did no stretch workout or rest!

Great workout.  DH got his heart monitor going and did quite well.   The blocks and punches still throw me for a loop, the kicks are so different than what we are used to in TKD.

 We still need to get more sleep as well.  7 hours just doesn’t cut it when our bodies need to recover and rebuild.     One great thing, is that the kids have no problem going to bed when it’s time and they fall asleep pretty fast!

I really enjoy this one.  I wanted to keep going with the Ab Ripper but nobody else wanted to.  DH was getting nauseated and we kept some crystalized ginger around, he said if it weren’t for that he may have gotten sick.    It is a shame because he really is in great shape, sometimes I wonder if he doesn’t push himself too hard on these workouts.    I did 2 more reps of everything than last week so that’s progress.    We completed the workout with the Ab Ripper in the evening

Could it be that the moves are so frustrating and there isn’t one single person out of the four on the video that does modified moves for beginners?

Could it be that this workout is one and a half hours of sheer annoyance and irritation?

 Could it be that the roots of yoga are so against an awesome, single, omnipotent and omnipresent creator and the moves are for worshipping the sun and other gods?

Could it be that I just don’t have the patience for this workout?

My oh my what a work out that was.  Arms were good and sore afterward.  Had to run a kid to an ortho appointement afterward so we did the ab ripper later in the evening!

This is always a tough one.    Where is all my energy?

 The other day I posted something on the Beach Body forum about spinach having 50% protein.  Well, one of the mods responded that spinach is not a complete protein.    I know that theory went out the window long ago - it was originally written by Frances Moore Lappe in Diet For a Small Planet  which she later corrected in print in the 10th Anniversary Edition,  since the theory was proven to be untrue.   

 I have been reading Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. and happened to come across the following:

“Some people believe that only animal protein contain all the essential amino acids and that plant proteins are incomplete.  False.  They were taught that animal protein is superior to plant protein.  False.  They accept the outdated notion that plant protein must be mixed and matched in some complicated way that takes the planning of a nuclear physicist for a vegetarian diet to be adequate.  False.

“I guess they never thought too hard about how a rhinoceros, hippopotamus, gorilla, giraffe, or elephant became so big eating only vegetables.  Animals do not make animo acids from thin air; all the amino acids orginally came from plants.   Even the nonessential amino acids that are fabricated by the body are just the basic amino acids that are modified slightly in some way by the body.  So the lion’s muscles can be composed of only the protein and amino acids that the zebra and gazelle ate.  Green grasses made the lion.

“I see about twenty to thrity new patients per week, and I always ask them, “
Which has more protein - one hundred calories of sirloin steak or one hundred calories of broccoli?”  When I tell them it’s the broccoli, the most frequent response I get is “I didn’t know broccoli had more protein in it.”  I then ask them “So where did you think the calories in broccoli came from?  Did you think it was mostly fat, like an avocado, or mostly carbohydrate, like a potato?”

“People know less about nutirtion than any other subject.  Even the physicians and dieticians who attend my lectures quickly volunteer the answer “Steak!”  They are surprised to learn that broccoli has about twice as much protein as steak.

“When you eat large quantities of greeen vegetables, you receive a considerable amount of protein.  Remember, one 10-ounce box of frozen broccoli contains more than ten grams of protein.”

Pages 137-138 Eat to Live by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.