Workout schedule and equipment

I get a lot of questions about what workouts I do so I want to answer that here! I live in a small, small town and the one gym I know of is 15-20 minutes away. That doesn't fit in my schedule, it doesn't make my wallet happy, and I don't like going to the gym anyway! I knew when I started this journey that I would bring equipment to my home and I would use stuff I already have here like MY OWN BODY. I do cardio Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, I do calisthenics and weights on Monday and Wednesday, Saturday is my weigh in day and day off, and then Sunday is just whatever I feel like. I do cardio for no less than 30 minutes at a time and that could be on the stationary bike, the treadmill, going up and down my driveway, or my personal favorite, doing Just Dance on the Wii! I dread working out UNLESS it is Just Dance AND, my kids and my husband have both joined in on Just Dance so that makes it even more fun. Calisthenics include push ups and sit ups of course and then I add in stretches, leg lifts, planks, donkey kicks, etc. I have hand weights I used to always use but now I use the bowflex to really work my back and arms. I am very consistent with this but on the other hand, there have been the few exceptions such as I don't feel good or I have a busy night and then I don't workout at all. I will post pictures below of my equipment except the treadmill because I don't have a picture, I don't remember the brand to look it up, and its just going to be your personal preference.

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Thursday

Hello all :) I was at a training this week with work and when deciding where we should eat somebody mentioned Olive Garden and I immediately dropped by head. I know Olive Garden as PASTA, PASTA, PASTA so I wasn't looking forward to the temptation. I don't know why I don't give myself credit for how strong I am. My entire life, people couldn't pressure me to do ANYTHING I didn't want to. I am SO STRONG and I make my own decisions; I am a lion, not a sheep :) (I want a shirt so bad that says "Be a lion") Anyways, when we got there, I looked at the menu and right there on the lunch section were meals that were 300-400 calories and as soon as I saw zucchini I was in. Its a half piece of chicken with a piece and a half of zucchini with mozzarella cheese and some lemon butter with tomatoes to top it off (I didn't eat those). I left behind some zucchini and you know, I never once thought about pasta as I was sitting there. On my way home I thought of

2 week liquid diet

Today is the day! All liquids! Well, except for the popsicles, jell-o, pickles, and celery. I have to get in 4 premier proteins and then at least 48-64 oz of other liquids each day. Other liquids include: Water Diet V-8 Splash Sugar free jello Sugar free popsicles (less than 25 calories per popsicle) Fruit 2-0 Crystal light Diet Snapple up to 2 cups of broth decaf tea and coffee Propel water Powerade zero I don't really know what some of those are and yesterday when I went to look for Diet V-8 Splash to try it out, I couldn't find it so who knows. This morning I am having 2 vanilla premier protein shakes in a thermos with my decaf coffee. I also have a 20oz thing of water sitting here and a 32oz grape Powerade zero. Last night I made strawberry, lemon, and blue raspberry jello, I bought 3 different sizes of dill pickles, and then I have boxes of popsicles, all different kind of broths, all different flavors of Powerade, grape Propel, and some cinnamon tea

17 days post op

Happy New Year everybody! :). I can see now that these blog post that once were days apart are probably going to be weeks apart due to my YouTube being up and running. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYkL_ZZWuw7kEq4N-IWQ4zw?view_as=subscriber Sorry but sometimes speaking is just easier than writing but I will do my best of keeping up both! So I am almost 3 weeks out. Getting into the fluids is getting easier, especially when I add protein powder to food and I don't have to worry about drinking the protein shakes. Everything is slow for now, eating, drinking, walking....all slow :). It is the process though so slow we shall go! I started a cup of coffee around 8:45 and finally finished it at 10:15. Then I wait 30 minutes to eat. So at 10:45 I made an egg with cheese and am slowly working on eating it. I am not hungry....that kind of goes away with surgery so its about making yourself eat for nutritional value. It's hard to keep eating when you don't feel like it

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