One step forward, two steps back

Hormones=The Devil

So, I haven't had a period in four months.  Yes, you read that right, four months.  It is extremely annoying.  My body is so out of whack and I don't know what is going on with it.  I just knew that when I started eating better on the Trim Healthy Mama way, that I would get my period.  I don't eat sugar, I don't eat wheat.  I DON'T GET IT! 

What's even worse is that when I go through these spells, I have to take a pregnancy test to make sure I'm not pregnant before I think about taking something to induce a period. But I don't want to rely on synthetic, dangerous medications to make my body have a cycle.

Can I just say, UGH!!  How did a stupid little piece of plastic have the ability to reduce me to a squalling mess?  Of course it's always negative.  But I digress.

  I'm just fumbuzzled about my period or lack of.  I have pcos, endometriosis and I rarely go without a period.  I am the queen of 3,4,7 week periods.  I've had blood transfusions I've lost so much blood.  I've had to have a d&c because my lining was so thick (and that was after bleeding for 60 days).  So to go without is so confusing to me.

Until... I read the chapters on hormones.  Wow!  There is a wealth of information in those chapters.  Pearl did an amazing job of explaining my hormones to me.  I learned a lot about hormones when I went to the fertility doctors but I was so focused on getting pregnant, I never really listened to what they were saying.  Now I'm ready to listen.  And Pearl has made me stop, take notes and research. 

My husband is self-employed.  We have no health insurance, so it was great to learn I can get my hormones checked by an independent facility!  I'm saving my money as we speak.  I want a full hormone work-up.  I am ready to reclaim my health. 

I think I have estrogen dominance in my body.  I have several of the symptoms.  I ordered some progesterone cream to counter balance my excess estrogen.  Of course I don't know this for sure, but getting a blood work-up is not possible right now.  So I have been reading and writing and researching all day!  I feel excited and hopeful that I can finally figure out what is off in my body and fix it.  I have also made a list of supplements to start taking and will slowly add them to my diet as my budget allows. 

Tonight I take my first magnesium supplements ever.  I would like to get the magnesium oil, but will settle for the cheap stuff.  I'm also starting Vitamin C.  It's a start and any start is better than none. 

I feel ashamed that I have waited 35 years to really try and take care of my body.  God has blessed me so much and I have wasted years filling it full of junk, gaining weight and being obese, not exercising and basically not caring!  I'm so thankful that God's mercies are new every day.  Thank you Lord!

Results are in!

I have to say that I'm glad to have done the fuel cycle week with a group of amazing ladies.  What an encouragement they were, each cheering on the other with no motives and no competition.  It's refreshing to say the least!  I was so glad to have cream in my coffee this morning.  Oh cream, how I love thee...!
I actually did nothing physically to boost my weight loss efforts this week.  I honestly did not exercise one.single.day.  But I'm not proud of that fact.  I have made it a mission to get three days this week of some kind of exercise.  Here are some things I learned this week about eating the Trim Healthy Mama way.

1. I'm more fully aware of the styles of the plan.  What a true S (satisfying) meal is, E (energizing) and FP (fuel pull).  I know how to do the plan to make it successful for me.
2. I was eating way too much cheese!  I didn't realize how much cheese, cream cheese and cream I was eating.  Of course it is allowed but making my S meals so heavy probably contributed to my having so much trouble in the bathroom area.  I know, TMI!  Moving on.
3.I'm learning to listen to my body.  Am I truly hungry? Thirsty? Tired?  I had true hunger this week and it wasn't a bad thing.  True belly growling hunger.  Sometimes by eating so many S meals before, I was always satisfied and never got to feel true hunger.  Now I know to scale back my S meals and let my body get hungry.
4.I'm now ready to move on to the supplement area of the book.  I am not the type of person that can jump head first into a diet and just rearrange my life and do everything the book says to do all at once.  Talk about major burnout fast!  I view THM differently.  It is not a diet, in my opinion, but a way to eat forever.  I knew I had to get the eating down pat before I tackled exercise and supplements.  I am now ready to embrace both.
5. This book was an answer to many years of praying to God to help me shed this weight once and for all, but to also to reclaim my health.  I thank Him for answering my prayers.  I am ashamed to say that I have neglected my devotion time with God lately.  I had so immersed myself in the THM way that it was consuming my thoughts and actions.  It's not a bad thing to immerse in this exciting new way.  But it is bad when I neglect the One who answered my prayer about this exciting new way lol!  A little perspective is what I needed and I got that at church yesterday.  God is so good and His mercy endureth forever!

I am fearfully and wonderfully made, says the Lord.

I've learned much this week and when I woke this morning I was ready to step on that scale and see my results.

4.6 lbs!  Awesome results if you ask me :)  Thank you Lord!!!

This is me and my family at Christmas.  I am now 16.6 lbs less.  When I reach 30 lbs loss, I'll post a new picture.

It's an abcd..E...kind of day

Only one more day to go on my fuel cycle week.  I'm so curious to see if I have lost weight.  I've been tempted a few times to hop on that scale, but I think if I hopped on, it would give me that error message because I hopped and it's all sensitive, so then I would hop off and keep stepping on too quick and still get the error message and then I might get all mad and throw the scale and think ugly thoughts so for now I guess I better wait!  On Monday, I will gently step on my scale and hopefully get to do a little dance.  Do you ever do a scale dance?  You know what I'm talking about.  Just a a little dance to celebrate where you hear that pretend music or applause in your head when you see a smaller number than the previous week.  Yeah, that's fun to do :)  I'm shooting for 3 lbs gone.

I was ever so glad to switch to an E day.  A day with some healthy carbs to fuel my body.  I started out with the THM pancake recipe.  I topped it with greek yogurt and strawberries.  It was really good!  The only drawback to that is that within an hour, I was was starting to feel weak like my blood sugar was dropping. So I whipped up a FS frappe and had that for a snack. We went to town and it had been a few hours since I had ate and I was HUNGRY!  Not just a little, but my belly was really growling.  We went to Subway and I had the turkey on wheat with tons of veggies, a little lite mayo and brown mustard. It was just what I needed.  After an hour of running around, I was wore out!  Put a fork in me done.  I had no energy at all.  This week has really took a toll on my energy levels.  A lot of the ladies have reported that they have felt OK and I'm thinking, "what's wrong with me that I can't form a complete sentence and want to take a nap?"
We are all different I guess.  I think too that because I have a lot of weight to lose, maybe my body needed more than what I was giving it.  I'll write more on my observations tomorrow.

Last Fuel Pull Day, Woohoo!

So my fuel cycle week has been pretty good so far.  I have had some brain fog and low energy today.  I ate the cookie bowl oatmeal for breakfast and realized that I really need protein to start out my day.  I got the weak trembles.  For lunch I had the cajun cottage cheese salad and a 1/2 fs frappe with coffee.  I was very satisfied and my energy levels came up.  I am curious to see the results on Monday.  I haven't even went near the scales.  It hasn't even been that hard.  I know when I do the cycle again in 6 weeks or so, I will plan for protein at every meal.  Exercise has been out for me this week as my energy just hasn't been there in the last few days. 

Here's a picture of my lunch today.  It was very good and filling!

For supper I tried the cream less creamy sauce with angel hair cabbage and a small piece of cube steak that had been cooking in the crockpot all day. It was mmmmmmm good!

It's a Fuel Pull day

Today is day four of my fuel cycle week.  It's been an interesting week so far.  I'm really glad I did it but am definitely noticing a difference in my energy level today compared to yesterday.  Yesterday was all about healthy fats and today is about high nutrition with very little fat or carbs.  This morning I made an egg white omelet with 1 tsp. coconut oil, turkey deli meat and a tiny bit of raw cheddar.  I then had my coffee with a little almond milk instead of cream.  All I can say is, GROSS!  I didn't care for the omelet and I did NOT like my coffee with almond milk.  After breakfast I was cleaning the kitchen and getting the kids started on their schoolwork and it hit me.  I got woozy, weak and light headed.  My body was not happy with the food I gave it, so I made a big boy smoothie and sipped on it for the next hour.

I knew that I was going to my sisters for lunch, so I packed up what I needed to make fotato soup and out the door I went.  I made the soup at my sisters, with a bit of chicken and turkey bacon bits in it for lunch and it was very yummy!  I had to go to town and get a few things at the store.  At this point it had been 2 hours since lunch and I started to get a little woozy at the grocery store.  It really hit home that this is why I have hated diets my whole life, that feeling of deprivation is awful.  But I know that these two days will be over so quick and it's good for my body to cleanse.  When I got home, I ate some greek yogurt with fruit jam on top.  That was super good! And I also drank a big glass of earth milk.  This second batch is better than the first. 

For supper, I am going to attempt the Asian stir fry recipe with konjac noodles.  I hope I can  make it a success! 

Here's a snack I made this morning and they are smack your momma good if I do say so myself:

Mouth Watering Meringues
I love how they just melt and crunch in your mouth.  SO.MUCH.FUN!

Fuel cycle week

Well day 2 is down of my fuel cycle week. It's been going really well so far, except for one thing...I'm having major trouble in the bathroom department. I know, I know, TMI, but still you would think scaling back dairy, cheese, etc and piling on the veggies (raw and cooked), salads, earthmilk, olive oil, coconut oil and lots of butter and at least three quarts of water a day would make my body BEG to go to the bathroom. But, no that is not the case. So today I broke down and took some milk of magnesia. Yep, that did the trick!

I'm really enjoying my deep S days and I'm a little leery of my upcoming fuel pull days. I can imagine myself pouring salt on my hand and gnawing on it for awhile lol! I have a lot planned to eat so I'm hoping it will all work out. Well anyway, here's my menu for tomorrow.
B: whey smoothie with 1 T of coconut oil
Sn: the rest of my earth milk( about a quart)
L: grilled chicken, raw veggies and a little raw cheese
Sn: fat stripping frappe
D: deer tenderloin, big salad
Dessert: skinny chocolate


We had a discussion today on the Facebook THM group about jars and our obsession with them. I LOVE jars! I put tons of stuff into them. Here's some pictures of my lovely jars.

Fuel cycle begins

Well it began today. The fuel cycle week. If you don't know what that is, it's a stricter version of the trim healthy mama eating plan, scaling back the luxuries like cheeses, nuts, nut butters, avocados, grains, etc. There is still plenty to eat and a wide variety but the focus this week is on pure nourishment. So today went well. I ate everything I had planned for. I tried earth milk for the first time and actually had two glasses today. By the second glass after lunch, my tummy was doing some major rumbling. Nothing has hit me yet, but I'm sure by tomorrow I will be detoxing big time :)

My menu for tomorrow is:
B- sausage, eggs fried in butter, coffee with a bit if heavy cream
L- salmon cooked in garlic butter, salad
D- grilled steak, roasted Brussel sprouts
Snacks will be earth milk and raw veggies with raw cheese and tummy tucking ice cream for dessert.

Here's a pic of my lunch today. A grilled chicken Greek salad. So good!

Temptation right and left

This post is going to be about temptation. It's everywhere! The other night I really, really wanted some good ole salty chips. I thought about them for hours. I didn't give in and had an apple with a little peanut butter instead. I'm trying to learn new habits and that takes a lot of work. I'm nearing my 6 week mark of eating the trim healthy mama way and it seems that every day this week I have been tempted in one way or another.

This morning my husband took the kids with him, thus leaving me to have a leisure day. Because I didn't have my crew to cook for, I got up and made my coffee, turned around and saw it. A big jar of homemade chocolate chip cookies. My husband forgot to take them with him and they just beckoned me to them. Before I knew what I was doing, I had three of them eaten with my coffee. They were delish! I almost let myself get in a bad spot mentally and really beat myself up but I refused. It is what it is. I am still on a path to be a trim healthy mama. I did better for the rest of the day but did have a few more tonight. I know that tomorrow I will have a yummy breakfast of bacon and eggs and be back on track. I know that next week I will do the fuel cycle with a group of ladies and hopefully lose a few more pounds. I know that I will continue on this track until I get this weight off me once and for all.

I'm going to mess up, this I know to be true. But for the first time in my life, it doesn't terrify me to mess up. It's life. Life is messy and complicated and beautiful and worth living well. I will get there. One day at a time!

Oh and I did lose a pound this week so I'm down 12 now. Have a blessed weekend!

My sweet son and me this fall.

Gearing up for a fuel cycle week

I'm joining other ladies next week to do a fuel cycle week and have spent the last two days planning my menu.  I'm still tweaking it and will post it when I get it all ready! I'm going to also try the earth milk recipe in the book next week and I am looking forward to that.  It's been pouring the rain here in TN and I am just about sick of it.  If there's going to be this much moisture, it needs to be snow, in my opinion lol.  . 

Todays Menu:

B- fried egg in butter, 2 peanut butter chocolate cookies, coffee with heavy cream (1TBsp)
L- big ole salad at my favorite restaurant with 2 TBsp cottage cheese and ranch dressing, gyro sandwich (meat only)
Sn- small handful of almonds
D-Marcy's cheese rolls with turkey to make a sandwich, lemonade with stevia

I have not exercised today.  We ran around town most of the day.  Does unloading wood from your husbands truck count as activity?  :)

Back on track

I had a wonderful blessed weekend with our dear friends and ate pretty much on plan except for two Mexican meals with chips. I was up two pounds on Monday but realized I didn't drink near enough water and had way too much salt! So yesterday I had a light day eating wise to ease back on plan.

Yesterday's meals were:
B- small piece of special agent brownie cake and fried egg
L- roast chicken, broccoli tossed with butter and parmesan
S- spaghetti meat sauce over zucchini pasta (pic below)
Sn- skinny chocolate with pb in afternoon, 1/2 apple late last night


Today's plan is:
B- muffin in a mug, coffee with cream
L- chicken salad over romaine lettuce - s
D- baked pork chops, cheesy cauliflower, mashed potatoes(kids), fried cabbage
Snacks will be big boy smoothie-FP
and pudding-fp

I'm also going to do a walk away the pounds tape and drink at least two quarts of water today!

Be back Monday

We have dear sweet friends visiting for the weekend and I am taking a break until Monday. Today went pretty good until my husband took us to eat Mexican and I ate too many chips. So I'm going to focus on s meals tomorrow and enjoy spending time with my friends:) have a blessed weekend and I'll post how my weekend went on Monday!


Oh and I'll add I worked out yesterday and did a mini kettle bell workout and I am sore today!

Lighter

For the past month or two, I have battled depression.  It hits me every year around the holidays and winter.  I just had an out and out case of the blues.  A lot of personal things have happened around the holidays but one of the hardest things for me to deal with on an ongoing basis is my infertility.  Yes, God has blessed me with two amazing adopted children and I am very fulfilled with my role as their momma.  I know with out a shadow of a doubt I was meant to be their forever momma.

But I also long to carry a baby.  To know I was able to do as the bible instructs, to be "fruitful and multiply".  It's like a secret club that I will never have access to.  Every time you get a group of women together, talk always turns to pregnancy and childbirth.  Sometimes I am able to sit and listen and even enjoy the conversation, but sometimes, when I'm in a bad place, the enemy whispers in my ear, "you don't belong", "you're broken".  Hateful words in my opinion!  So when that happens, I quietly get up and walk away and the group of ladies are never the wiser that inside I am tormented.   Infertility is a horrible silent disease.  I didn't choose this and would never wish it on anyone.  I don't like to have pity parties with anyone, so most of the time I keep it to myself.  My family are the only ones who know my deep pain over this.  And how sweet and supportive they are, always listening when I need to vent.

Sunday at church as our youth group sang, I felt the urge to go pray.  Our church is a sweet little country church and our altar is always open for people to pray and seek help.  As I poured my heart out to God, I told him, "Lord, I feel so alone in this journey.  Will I ever get over this?"  He so sweetly and gently listened to my heart.  Little by little I became aware of hands on my back as people prayed with me.  God told me so gently, "You're not alone."  Two of my sisters and my momma were right beside me, praying and crying with me.  I felt such a burden lifted.  That shroud of depression was gone.  I felt lighter, freer and at peace.  God is so good and faithful to me, even when I am at my lowest.  I adore Him!  I refuse to give satan any more of my time this winter! One of  my favorite bible verses is Jeremiah 29:11, For I know the thoughts I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 

This is a very personal post.  I am on a journey to lose weight and regain my health.  I need to process a lot of stuff right now and some of it may come out as I blog.  I also keep a journal at home which is really helpful to me so please bear with me on days like today when I just need to speak my heart. :)

On a lighter note, I woke up this morning feeling lighter physically so I decided to just get it over with and weigh.  So since Christmas I am down 11 pounds!   I'm very excited about that.  Here's my menu plans for today.

B-Light/white muffins with blueberries, chocolate milk (almond milk with cocoa and nustevia blended in blender)

L-turkey sandwich on oopsie rolls. raw veggies(peppers, cukes)

S- I'm going to a pampered chef party so we are having some kind of soup.  I am also bringing the basic cheesecake for desert.

Snacks will be an apple with tsp. of pb, big boy smoothie if needed.

My loves on Christmas!

A visit with a good friend.

Wrapping up this Christmas week has been fun and exhausting!  We've had dinners to go to, tons of cleaning to do, decorations to put away and meals to make.  I was especially excited when a dear sweet friend invited me over today to cook me lunch and just chat.  But I was also nervous since I've been eating a more grain free, gluten free, sugar free diet because anytime I have ever been to her house I can be guaranteed a delicious meal that can sometimes have more carbs than I am trying to eat right now.  She made me soup today.  It was white chicken chili with cannelloni beans, corn, carrots, chicken, cream, stock, seasonings, etc.  It was very delicious but full of carb heavy veggies!  I ate two bowls anyway.  Sometimes you just do the best you can do with what you are given.  The fact that a yummy meal was provided for me and I didn't have to cook or clean was worth it!  Plus the company was great.  I got right back on track with the next meal.


I have yet to weigh to see if I have lost any weight.  I don't want to get obsessive about it, I don't even want to weigh every week so I'm thinking every month will be enough for me.  I have a lot of weight to lose, but I am feeling great eating this way and I know it is so good for me.  The weight will come off eventually.

The up side was that I made a couple of yummy deserts today.  I tried the ginger snap cookie recipe in the THM book and made some fresh whipped cream to go with it.  I could eat this all day and my husband and kids loved it!  So that was a winner. 

Can you guess what this is?

A yucky rainy day

Today it rained all.day.long.  My husband is in construction and was home with me so we really got to cracking on our house.  We have friends coming for the weekend and really needed to clean our carpets.  We rented a machine and got busy.  There was no need for a workout today.  After lugging that 40 lb machine around and back and forth for hours, we were sweating and wore out!  It was a good day to get extra stuff done.

B- leftover coconut/blueberry muffins, coffee with cream

L-  a really huge salad with a little chicken and maybe a T of italian dressing, so definitely a FP salad

S- Cheeseburger pie, mushrooms in butter, sauteed zucchini with creole seasoning (it was a smack your momma supper)

More rain for tomorrow so it'll be extra schoolwork for the kids, extra read-alouds (we are currently in the colonial period) and more laundry (comforters and sheets for all beds).

I told you this salad was huge. But so so yummy!

To weigh or not to weigh

I have a love/hate relationship with the scale.  It is my worst enemy most weeks and I avoid it like the plague.  I originally decided that I was only going to weigh once a month but have come to the conclusion that I need a weekly accountability.  I need to see if I've had a loss or a gain so I can look back over my journal and see if I messed up or maybe ate too much off plan or whatever.  I haven't decided what day will be my weigh in day.  If it's monday I have all week to correct myself, if it's friday I have ,again, all week to correct myself lol!  Hmmm...decisions,decisions.  I'm not in a hurry to weigh myself so I will just take a day when I feel like it.  That sounds like a plan to me :-)

Speaking of plan, here's what I ate today.

B-coconut/blueberry muffins.  My coconut is big flakes so it's didn't grind very fine making the texture very much like a macaroon.  They tasted great, but my dh was gagging from the texture.  Yeah, he's a wimp.  He hates to bite into onions too.

L- We met my dh for lunch and it was Wendy's! ack!  I made the best of  it, ordered a baja salad with chili and picked out most of the beans and it was actually very good.  So I'm thinking it was an S meal.

S- Good ole bacon and eggs, yum!  I fried potatoes for the kids and they also had some home canned apple sauce.  Of course my husband had to have some potatoes too.  And then maybe I ate two or three fresh out of the pan:)  I'm human!

Desert was divine!  Cheesecake with strawberry glaze and fresh whipped cream.  Eating sugar free never tasted so good.

Monday's Plan

So last night my niece and nephew spent the night, so I had four kids aged 10,10,9,8!  It was loud and noisy to say the least.  This morning I tried the light/white muffins from the book and they were so good.  I really enjoyed them.  I put blueberries in the bottom of the muffin tin and put the batter over the top.  They stayed on the bottom and were so pretty when they came out.  I wish I had taken a picture.

Anyway, lunch was salmon patties with almond meal used in place of oats or flour, making it an S meal.  I also ate a little salad with it. I'm out of lettuce so will be heading to the store tomorrow.

I was hungry a few hours later so I made a fat strapping frappe for a snack. Maybe my metabolism is kicking into gear finally because I am hungrier than usual.   I am really loving this way of eating.  It's very indulgent and I am always satisfied.  I am even craving salads, something I have never done.  I crave healthy things and it is wonderful!  I have always grown a big garden and canned lots of food, but this year I am excited to try new vegetables, lettuces and herbs in my garden.  Our family has always thrived on new potatoes and lots of corn on the cob.  I'm ready to go down a new path this summer in my garden.

I have not exercised yet today.  I'm thinking I will take a walk with the kids or do the wii this evening after supper.  I am baby stepping exercise this week.  After being sore for 4 days last week from the spew, I am not in a hurry to inflict pain on myself yet this week!

Tomorrows goal is to exercise first thing in the morning before we start our schoolwork and just get it over with.

Sunday Menu

Today was a simple day eating wise since I like to keep it easy on Sundays. 

B- bacon, eggs, coffee with cream and truvia

L- grilled deer burgers wrapped in lettuce with cheese, mayonnaise, pickles, red onion and mustard.  Yum!

S- Leftover Cheeseburger Pie and Fat Strapping Frappe for a snack later.

I also had a delicious, long nap which is something I love to do on Sundays after church and lunch.  It is such a treat after an exhausting week of homeschooling and keeping a house running. 

Saturday Menu

My husband had to work today, which is unusual for him since he is self-employed.  I love having Saturdays with my whole family and miss him terribly when he is gone.  But he took our son with him this morning leaving my daughter and me to have a lazy Saturday.  It's nice occasionally to have nothing planned and just have an easy day.  I did get terribly bored and lonely though!  My daughter and I got some exercise from the wii, I cooked us breakfast, did a little laundry and read some more of my Trim Healthy Mama book.  I have read it once through already but am now going back and taking notes.  It has so much information in it that I am sure I missed something.

I am enjoying learning new things and getting on a better path to health.  I feel better, am sleeping better (when I don't overdo the chocolate treats!), and have more energy.  I am starting to think I definitely need supplements because I feel very emotional and weepy lately.  I tend to get this way this time of year anyway from being cooped up in the house more and I always struggle this time of year with my infertility.  So I am going to reread the chapter on supplements and make me a list.  I don't like being weepy mama.  Or depressed mama.  God has been too good to me and I want to be an encouraging mama.

I am still a little sore from the SPEW session Wednesday and have decided I will not do it again until I have dropped some weight.  My knees can't take it right now.  So walking, hiking, wii exercise and light weights will have to do for now. 

So my menu plan for today is:

B- Chocolate cake for purists, coffee with heavy cream- S

L- Chicken Salad with 1/4 of an apple chopped up in it on a lettuce bed- S + S helper

D- Cheeseburger Pie, side salad- S

Snack- Big boy smoothie- FP

Exercise, Wii Just dance for 20 minutes, went for a 20 minute walk with daughter while she rode bike beside me.

This was lunch! Yummy

My sweet daughter playing dress-up!

My Spew session

So yesterday on facebook one of the authors of the book I am reading challenged us to do an exercise session from the book.  They call it SPEW.  I accepted the challenge and agreed to do it this morning.   When I woke up, I made some easy peazy cinnamon muffins, had my coffee going and went into the bedroom to begin.  It's an 8 minute session involving 20 squats, 20 lunges, 20 jump lunges and finish with 20 jump squats.  I thought it would be challenging but never thought I would want to die by the end of it!  Here's the rundown:

20 squats: I was able to do these just fine, breath was elevated and heart pumping good by the end.  I then go into the lunges.  Now they want you to lunge forward and almost touch the floor with your knee that is behind you.  Being a plus sized mama, that was NOT going to happen if I wanted to get back up off the floor!  So I did the best I could and went as low as I could.  By lunge 17 I was so winded but managed to get through.  Now for the jump lunges.  Same as a lunge but you are supposed to jump and switch legs real quick in between.  At this point while I am doing them, I am begging for the Lord to return and take me home.  By jump lunge 15 my legs said, "ENOUGH"!  I couldn't finish them.  So I moved on the to jump squat.  You are supposed to squat and then jump as high as you can.  Um...does high bouncing count?  Cause I'm pretty sure my feet never left the floor, I was THAT exhausted. When I finished I was extremely winded and wore smack dab out!  I took a shower and as the day has went on, I am realizing that I am sore!

I was feeling pretty accomplished until I read that you are supposed to repeat the session after resting for several minutes! WHAT!!! Say it ain't so!

Grrr...Well, it's not going to happen today and I will definitely have to build up to that in the future but I'm still proud of myself.