Day 26: Core Synergistics – I hate it… but…. no, I still hate it.

17Apr08

It was better than last time, but I still hate the flow of this workout. You’re up. Then you’re on the floor. Then you’re up again. Then you’re back down on the floor. Up again. And on and on and on. It really is an hour I kinda dread doing, so I’m glad I’m only doing this one during recovery weeks. I don’t know what I would sub this one with if I ever decide to do a lean rotation in the future. I might have to learn it well enough or skip through the DVD and do all the standing portions first, then go back and do all of the ones where you’re on the floor. I think because my heart rate was so high during alot of the segments, then I’m just jumping up from the floor, into the next segment, then back down onto the floor, I ended this workout with a really bad headache. I finished it up, then had to lay down for a while, just to stabilize myself. It really was a hot mess.

It WAS better than the first time, I will say that. I modified with push ups on my knees when I needed to, had better form on the banana rolls and the superman/banana, and ALMOST got myself up off of the floor during the Dreya Rolls. That one’s gonna take some time.

I almost didn’t do X Stretch last night, I really wasn’t feeling it. But once I got started the hour passed by pretty quickly and then it was 10:00pm and I was off to bed.

I know I said I was gonna keep things simple and not worry so much about calories and protein, fat and carb percentages and all that stuff, but I had been hearing about clean eating for a while now and although I say I am eating clean, I did want to know more about what exactly that was, so I bought the Eat Clean Diet. It’s not really a diet really, it’s all common sense things, you know, stay away from fast foods, fatty foods, sodas, fruit juices, sugary breakfast cereals, alcohol, things like that. The “diet” also stressed no artificial sweeteners and preservatives than are found in pre-packaged foods. Just basically no chemicals or preservatives whatsoever if it can be helped. Which means that for the most part you’re cooking things mainly from scratch. And still following the basics of complex carbs, lean protein, healthy fats, fruits and vegetables. It’s pretty sustainable as far as I can tell. The book also stresses eating at 2-3 hour intervals, as opposed to 3 big meals. It also says that the biggest meal should be at lunch, not dinner, that way you’re not filling your body up with food that’s just gonna sit in your stomach all night long. It’s all making sense to me, and it’s what I’ve been trying to do for the most part since I started eating better the second week I started P90X. The only thing that the book stresses that I hadn’t done is to include a complex carb with every meal. For the most part, I had been trying to stay away from that. I would even skip carbs altogether at breakfast and even at dinner. The book says there should be a complex carb, a protein, and a fruit or vegetable at every meal, those 5-6 meals you should be having each day. Again, pretty common sense really, and for the most part, what I’ve been doing lately. I’m gonna finish reading the book and see what happens, but it seems like something I can incorporate into my daily life and something that will get me results from this program.

Eats have been ooookay. Not great. But not BAD. I mean I’m not eating fast food or chips or anything like that. It’s just the after-dinner urges that are getting to me. The urges to eat after dinner are strong sometimes, and it’s hard to tell myself no. I think it’s because in the past few days once I’m done eating dinner, I’ve been under my calorie limit for the day so I feel like I can eat a little more even though I’m not really hungry. How can I be, I just ate!

Anyway, I’m doing my best. I think after I eat I’ll try brushing my teeth immediately. I usually TELL myself to do it, but I never get there. I just end up right back in the kitchen.

Tomorrow: Yoga X

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