Week 2: Day 5

I totally woke up today thinking it was day 6. Man was I bummed to find out it was day 5. I do however enjoy the Leg and Back dvd. It is really hard and makes me want to vomit. But for some reason that one is somewhat exhilerating. And it amazes me that it is a strength training video and not a cardio per say, and in 58 minutes I burn 522 calories. Compare that with my 600 calories in an hour on Plyo day, I would say 522 is pretty awesome. I did 2 extra pull ups today and I increased my length of wall squats. Last week I completely fell on my butt. Not this week. I am still really struggling with the ab video. But I am at least doing my best.

Food today was tricky. I had a good breakfast but I ran out of time for lunch and grabbed a banana before heading out the door. I then forgot to eat my banana on my way to my appointment. So, when I got out at 3, I went to eat my banana and it was pretty smooshed. I ate almost half, but I couldn't do the smooshy part. I know, so lame. =) After picking up my kids from school I was starving and my son had baseball. So, I swung into McD's, I know, I know! I had a kids meal of chicken nuggets and fries. My lunch was only 380 calories. I didn't think that was too bad considering the source. It gets worse though. After baseball practice, I go into the kitchen at 6:15 to make chicken thighs, quinoa and broccoli. Well, somehow I read the bag wrong in my freezer and pulled out two thighs and a hamburger patty. I didn't have time to defrost more chicken and cook it. So I made the chicken for my kids and found a small chicken pot pie in my freezer that only took about 25 minutes to bake. So, I had the quinoa and a mound of broccoli. I felt I had to make up for not having a salad for lunch. I ate just the filling of the pot pie and only a little bit of the crust. I was sad that my food plan today felt like a bust. But even though it wasn't the best of choices, I stayed pretty well within my calorie range.

I will say that even though this blog may be boring to the reader and I don't know if I'll ever have the nerve to post pictures; if I didn't have this blog to write at the end of today I think I would have either talked myself out of exercising or I would have had a 600 plus calorie lunch at McD's. Or maybe even with dinner being a bust I would have just said "Oh screw it" and made myself a Sunday. But because I know my family, my husband and friends are reading this and encouraging me, I felt like I couldn't let them or even myself down. I may have to repeat P90X twice to get back to a size 6. But I have to keep taking it one day at a time and do as Tony Horton says, "Do your best and forget the rest."