Stellar Path

We are still in the pool. I’m beginning to think we may be in the pool forever. In all seriousness, I think we’re staying in the pool until the third week is over, with perhaps some land cardio in between. I’m ready to hit the weights.

One thing I can say positive about the pool is that our trainer, who has never trained anyone in the pool before, is kicking our butts. I literally leave the pool sweating. (Well, I’d leave the pool sweating if I didn’t keep ducking my head under to cool off.) Over the course of an hour, we do running suicides, flutter kicks on the side of the pool, knee jumps (where you jump out of the water as high as you can and get your knees as high up as you possibly can), underwater squats (where you go under and explode out of the water as high as you can), flyes with weights, jumping jacks, butt kicks, and a variety of other things (usually done for a minute or more at a time) until we are out of time and all wiped.

I’m still trying to get my own workout in as well. I want to do three hours a day. It’s tough. My routine is to be at the gym by 5:45 to do an hour on the treadmill (elliptical if possible, but the gym is so busy at that point it’s almost possible), an hour in the pool from 7 to 8, and then elliptical from 8ish to 9. I also have an elliptical at home, and if I’m up for it, I do a little more. I am being VERY sure to get in 8 hours of sleep though, which I sadly missed last night, just to give my body time to heal.

Dietwise, I’ve started adding a few healthy carbs back in. I’m avoiding the white stuff, but I am eating fruits and vegetables. I found myself slipping into an Atkins mindset of, “Well, I can’t have an orange, but I can have four servings of pickled baloney!” Not good. So I’m trying to eat healthy fats, lean meats, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. In fact, I have a spiralized zucchini with pesto for lunch. On Weight Watchers, that’s a nice 1-point lunch, and the pesto should help my body assimilate more nutrients out of the zucchini. (I’ve always heard that fat helps your body do more with veggies, which is why I tend to go for full-fat dressings and just use less than to drown a salad with low-fat dressing, which also tastes weird to me.)

First place may elude me this week. My weight loss has, indeed, hit the second week slump. We’ll see. My week isn’t over, and I still have three more nights of good workouts ahead of me. I may even squeeze in an hour of cardio Friday morning just for good measure.

They should air our video update in the morning, and I’ll post it here as soon as they do. But for now, I have the video intro they had us film the night the contest started. It’s just a short video about why we joined the competition.

More tomorrow! (If the video above doesn’t work, my apologies. I’ll try to fix it later!)

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