115 days to go!

I love spicy food. The more it makes my nose run and eyes water, the better. I made some chicken yesterday with Sriracha sauce on it, and then mixed it with some basmati rice, squash, and tomato and sprinkled it all with garlic salt for dinner. It was delectable! I loved it. My favorite flavors all combined. And it took all of 5 minutes to throw together today. No excuses for eating a box of oreos.. macaroni (which actually takes a long time to make).. or a lean cuisine for dinner. The hardest thing was measuring the rice out.

Today was a great day at "work". I did 3 evaluations completely on my own and treated all my patients with no help from my CI. Great day. I did have a patient though who came in with back pain. She told me My whole body hurts. Oh ya... okay. Well let's just talk about your back. How long's that been going on? Since I gave birth to my youngest daughter. Okay, when was that. Well she's 40 years old.. You didn't think in the last 40 years to go to the doctor before now? Great. Just great. But it went well anyway. I also had a patient who barely would walk 5 feet without her "back brace/corset" on.. too much pain. Right. She's supratentorial.. (that was seriously in a doctor's referral to us.. not for this pt.. but pretty hilarious anyway. Do you use that Joan?)

Workouts this week have been great. Rear Delts and Back along with some light cardio yesterday; Tris, Bis, and Core today. I got a couple PRs so I'm feeling good. Tomorrow is legs and I'll do a little cardio as well. Also, nutrition for this past week has been spot on. Although, my macros aren't spread out as evenly as I'd like, I am hitting all of the numbers pretty consistently. This weekend things are changing, so I'll have to do a little adjusting once I find out the details on that. I'm excited. 115 days to go!

Well, gotta get back to watching the Espys. KU vs MU border showdown should've won the most whatever game.. something about best comeback or just being awesome in general.. but they didn't the SF Giants did. True that was a great game but geeez the KU game was the best. And I got goosebumps watching it all over again. In case you are curious... Oh and Jack Harry.. suck it. We're okay letting them go. Chumps chumps chumps..

Oh ya, and I just want you to all know that I got a record in minesweeper tonight.. Expert.. 125s. Yup. Great day, indeed. Keep it real, peeps. It's almost the weekend.. that means a lot more work for me. Awesome. 7 day work weeks are stupid.

Back to Being Positive

This week has been chaotic. Why? I have no idea really. It's not like I'm actually busy. Yes, I am doing more then usual, but I think really it's just that my schedule has been thrown off. And it just takes me some time to adjust. Things are going really well here, though. I like the clinic I'm at.. except for the polos. I mean most of them are wearing polos too, so it's not that bad. But I had to wear a polo with black pants. I felt like I was going to work at McDonalds. That might have been the worst. I don't know if I will wear my new, comfy, nicely fitting, black pants again. Just because McDonald's ruined them for me. Or at least not with a polo. Who knows though. Tomorrow I only have 4 hours of work and then I'm going to a Pilate's studio with my CI (Clinical Instructor.. a PT who teaches me basically) to lead some lady through some exercises. Who knows. It's not a part of my clinical, I'm just doing it.

My workouts yesterday and today have been pretty good. It's been difficult adjusting weights, but that's just something you deal with when switching gyms in general. Whether my weight is going up or down this first week, I'm not really concerned. The main point is to just lift as heavy as possible, with good form, and work my muscles to exhaustion by the last rep. As long as I do that, I don't care shouldn't care about how heavy the weights are. Good theory. My damn ego still gets in the way though. Whatever. Today was legs. We did both the lunges and squats on the smith machine today, and I was actually pleased with that. Lunges were much easier. Not in my quads/glutes, but I could focus on where to push and on my form more, then just wanting to quit. Typically I dread lunges just because they take SO LONG! Not that this was any faster, but it was different, and I could lift more because I didn't have to clean and press that barbell over my head, it was just already there! Magic :) But I definitely pushed more with my front heel and even kept my back foot off the ground for both the eccentric and concentric motions, and only put it down for a little balance. It was divine. So here was the day:

Squats on Smith Machine ss Squat Jumps - 3 sets
Seated HS Curls (They don't have the prone machine.. which (surprise, surprise) annoyed me) - 4 sets and a drop
Leg Press - 4 sets
Lunges on Smith Machine - 3 sets
Leg Extension - 3 sets

The leg press also was different. The one I like to do has you pushing more at an incline of 45 degrees or so, and the one at my new gym is more of a horizontal push. It felt like I didn't have as much room to get full extension and full flexion before the weights would drop down. But I eventually got the hang of it and increased weight each set, even though reps increased as well. It definitely wasn't as awesome of a feeling as pressing over 400.. but I did it and worked hard and I was basically limping out of the gym my legs were so shaky.

We are headed back to CH tomorrow after CJ is done working, so we will get to do 2 workouts this week at the SRC and Rams. Praise the Lord! I am also going to try out some new recipes this weekend,  some different protein breads, and a Carob Chip Banana bread of Little B's, and a few others. I'll post the recipes that I make if they turn out to be delightful. It's also my bff from Kansas, Jack's, bday Wednesday and CJ's bday Thursday of next week, so I will be making some desserts for them (clean.. shh don't tell) and going out to celebrate while being 100% on my diet. This week I ate all of the stuff I needed to eat, but a few days had some serious cravings and would eat a tootsie roll (yes only one) after the gym. So my goal for this weekend is to be 100% and to prep all of my food again for the week, no cheating, no extras, nothing, this weekend. A few days of being good takes away all the urges of being bad. Seriously. So that's that. I think I'm going to post my meals this weekend - no lying, no leaving anything out - so you all can hold me accountable. So if you found my last nutrition post boring, check back on Monday :)

Well, I'm going to bed. Last night I stayed up until 11:30 playing minesweeper on my phone.. and I was exhausted and "rushed"... meaning I only had 2 hours between waking up and getting to work to sit around and eat as opposed to 3. I'm weird, I like my morning chill time. Whatever, you all have weirder quirks.

Catch ya on the flip side! And thanks to my AMAZING sisters for all of the support and motivation and encouragement you gave me this weekend. I love you all more then anything!