Daily Health Confession: 7.25.2012

Today's Date:	Wednesday – 7.25.2012
Previous Night Bed Time:	01:45:00 AM
Today's Wake Up Time:	09:45:00 AM – Got out of bed around 11:45AM
Wake Up Feeling:	6 – Felt like I could have stayed in bed forever. Comfortable. Had a deep sleep void of any stressful dreams. Enjoyed spending time in bed with H.
Exercises:	50 Jumping Jacks, 6 Push Ups, 20 Crunches, 20 Mountain Climbers, 40 Second Plank, 12 Laps Running Around the House, 3 Laps Walking Cool Down, 60 Step Ups (fast paced), 20 Stair Hops, 10 Lunges, 20 Counter Supported Push Ups, 20 Crunches.
Feeling:	8 – Feel hot, but great. Work outs are definitely best in the morning before the sun gets too hot. I'm proud that I am sticking with this.
Breakfast:	skipped
Supplements/Vitamins:	3 Vitex, 3 Vitamin C, 1 Vitamin E, 6 Prenatal
Lunch:	Chips and Salsa, leftover homemade organic spanish rice.
Dinner:	Spanish rice with organic corn and organic red kidney beans in a tortilla. Had fresh organic tomatoes and organic traditional plain greek yogurt. 8 oz. Of split pea soup with goat cheese.
Snacks/Desserts/Drinks:	Water, Organic Strawberry Lemonade
Daily Activity/Accomplishments:	Exercise, Walked on the Beach
Bed Time Feeling:	Sick, headache, sharp pain in my left ribcage/lung whenever I inhale deeply to yawn or sneeze.

Exercise:	Feeling/Reaction:
50 Jumping Jacks	It is time to replace this with something else. I'm bored of it. I can feel my upper calves and the outsides of my knees working – they are tired by 50.
6 Push Ups	Still at 105*, but it feels like it is getting easier. My arms were tired, but it felt good.
20 Crunches	Taking elbow to opposite knee. They feel good. I am challenging myself to keep my knees directly above my hips. This requires my abdominals to work harder.
20 Mountain Climbers	I can start adding more to my routine. My arms are getting tired before my legs and abs are. I'm feeling stronger in this exercise.
40 Second Plank	I challenged myself to hold plank longer than yesterday and succeeded. 40 seconds made my abs very aware of themselves.
12 Laps Running Around House	My Pattern Was As Follows: Run 4 Walk 1 Run 3 Walk 1 Run 3 Walk 1 Run 2 My legs felt heavy as I started to run. I had to start talking to myself positively in that first round to motivate myself to keep going. After hitting the 4th lap and then hitting the 3rd lap in the second round I began to feel more motivated naturally and could stop giving myself a pep talk. I pushed myself to run 12 laps today and I succeeded in reaching that goal. My lungs and heart feel great!
3 Laps Walking Cool Down	Took a few laps to cool down. The sun was hot and there is little wind today. The cool down was very welcome.
60 Step Ups (fast paced)	I did 30 step ups on each leg as the leading leg. Felt good. I'm not sure it is going anything for me though. I may need to replace this exercise with something else.
20 Stair Hops	I kept my balance this time and was able to get through the 20 hops pretty quickly. I can feel my leg muscles tightening up. I may want to add more to this.
20 Counter Supported Push Ups	Rather than do Wall Push-Ups, I did some using the kitchen counter. I stood about 3 feet from the counter and brought myself down slowly until my elbows reached 90*. The inside of my arms where my biceps meet my armpit area started to burn at 20. Felt great! Definitely keeping this in my routine.
20 Crunches	I forgot to add the second set of Crunches after the Mountain Climbers, so I added them here. After the whole routine, these were a lot harder than I thought they would be. The biggest challenge was keeping in alignment. Still felt good, though.

My after work out glow. Feelin' good!