Week 14 Day 7: After the Anger

So…

I just went on a long walk with my wife and we had a chance to talk about things.

Really we did have a good weekend but the frustration I had with cheating made my weekend not so go. I think my general negative experience I’m having with my life right now is making it hard for me to enjoy things that are good.

We did go Geocaching (Connect with me! Username: IanHopfe) this weekend! We didn’t find the cache closest to our house but I had fun and I think my wife would have had more fun if we remembered the bug spray!

Now, I have to fill out my stupid Food Journal…really what the hell is with this food journaling BS? I don’t understand how writing down what I had to eat will help my already anguished mental state about cheating.

Sorry there is still some frustration coming through.

Things should get better now that I had a great talk and walk with my wife!

-Ian

Week 14 Day 7: Heritage Weekend

We had a good long weekend exercise wise but again our eating has gotten the best of us.

Heritage Festival in Edmonton this weekend was great! We tried some food we normally can't get but we also ate ice cream. We walked all day around the festival so we figured an ice cream cone was fine.

Almost got heat stroke on the way home I think because I started to feel really sick to my stomach about a block before getting home. I had to sit in the dark with a fan blowing on me for a half hour before I could get myself to take a cold shower. Felt real good after that thanks to my wife convincing me to take one!

We ended up cheating for the rest of the day and that's not good. We did start the next day off well but we cheated again Sunday night. Today so far we have been good but the temptations are still there. It feels unfair that I have to have to watch what I eat when the rest of the world can eat what ever the HELL THEY WANT!!!

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Needless to say...I'm frustrated!

-Ian

Week 13 Day 6: First Kettle Bell Workout!

Yesterday my wife convinced me to go to the pool again...don't get me wrong I love the pool! I don't like that there has to be annoying people there! Creepy guys checking out my wife and then the same creepy guys walking around naked in the change room!

Well she wanted to spend some time on the elliptical so I brought by copy of The 4-Hour Body and headed to the stretching dumbbell area on the second floor of the pool. I read over the section on kettle bells and started my workout.

I started with the 20 pound kettle bell like 4HB recommends. The first set of 25 was not that hard! I almost thought I should get a heaver kettle bell for the second set but decided not to. Good thing...the second set was harder I had to really push out the last 2 and started to lose my form for the last 4.

The third set was OK till about 15 and then it got fun! I started losing my form at about 17 and really had to concentrate for the rest. The last 5 were a real challenge and made me feel like I did a great workout.

Took me about 15 minutes from start to finish with about 3 minutes rest between sets.

I plan to do it again sometime half way through the week maybe Thursday if my legs feel up to it. My legs were like Jello after the workout! I had some fun getting down the stairs to the basement to see my wife. Then even more fun trying to get up the stairs!

Bottom line...I enjoyed the workout and will be trying to continue!

-Ian