Bou's Blog 

It has been way too long since I posted!

.....and even now I only have time for a quick note before I go to work. I will post more extensively tonight and let ya'll know what I have been up to for the last little while.

Gotta go!

Have a great day!

Bou :0)

morning comes way, way too early!

Hi!

I am currently at school waiting for my English teacher to arrive. I have had classes and work the last few days, and I work tommorrow morning. I am going to the gym Saturday after work, and I am hoping to get into armor on Sunday. I made my own granola breakfast bars the other day...I just mixed oatmeal, flax meal, pumpkin, seseme and hemp seeds, dried cranberries, raisins with some brown rice syrup (maple would be nice too) and moistened the whole mess with a jar of unsweetened apple sauce and some cinnamon and ginger. I spread it out evenly on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet, scored it into bar shapes and baked it a 250 F for at least 3 hours (until they get as dry and crunchy as you want them, if you want them more chewy cook them less) I keep them in a plastic container in the freezer.

gotta go now!

Bou :0)

Back to the Gym.....part 3,000 (in theatres soon!)

219.5 lbs. :oP

Felt kinda sorry for my self today. I couldn't seem to get up the energy to go to the gym ,or walk, or do anything. It doesn't help that I am on day 2 and feel like a waterlogged yak with 100lb. weights tied to each hoof (try a visual for that one!) My sweet hubby did everything he could to try and convice me that life was not all that bleak...but to no avail. I was deeply entrenched in a vat of pity that might as well have been quicksand, when suddenly, he said something so unexpected that in suprise, the vat of pity relaxed it's deadly grip just long enough for me to escape it's evil clutches. What did he say, you ask? Well my sweet, dear , darling husband opened his mouth and uttered, "would you like me to go to the gym with you?" Yes, you heard right! In the past, I have asked him to just try going to the gym with me, you know, so we could have something we could do together, and get fit and healthy and motivate each other at the same time. These requests have always been met with a polite but firm "no thanks, gyms are just not my thing" and the subject was closed. So when he offered to go with me today, I had to jump at the opportunity! We did about 15 minutes of warm up on the treadmill, then we did the upper body circuit (2 sets, 12 reps) and then finished off with 30 more minutes on the treadmill. We actually had a pretty good time, and my mood was considerably improved with the exercise and the time spent with Paul. To top it all off, we had dinner at The Organic Garden Cafe, a vegetarian restaurant across the street from the gym....let me give you a hint.....chicken burgers are about as vegetarian as Paul gets....he actually had a brownie and a rootbeer, but I had a black bean and vegi wrap and a cup of peppermint tea! MMMMMM! We got home just in time for Paul to go to work (he works 7pm till 3am) , so James and I watched a DVD that Gauwyn lent us: Feints and Fakes by Duke Finn, very educational...

Anyways, enough blabbing....time for bed now!

Bou :o)

Wheeeeee!!!!!!!

Well, I am done with my Apprenticeship classes for this semester.....We did a huge written test (over 200 questions on everything to do with meat), and a practical exam where we each had to cook, chicken vegetable soup, striploin steak (medium) with Sauce Milanase (peppers....yuck!), saute`d broccoli, Duchesse Potatoes (mashed potatoes mixed with butter and egg yolk , put into a piping bag, piped out in a fancy mound, and then brushed with butter and baked till brown), and saute`d mushrooms with garlic and white wine. The trick is to get it all to finish at once, and be hot when the instructor comes to taste it. Out of 10 I got 9 for presentation, and 8.5 for flavor (the soup was kinda bland), so all in all, not too bad! I am not sure when we will get the results of the written test. I think I did pretty well on it though....We all went out after to Montana's and had a beer or three to celebrate! So till January, I only have classes on Thursday and Friday!
Wheeee!
I did my pell work yesterday and today and went for an hour walk yesterday as well! With more time off I am going to get back to working out at the gym.

Later,

Bou :0)

my brain 'urts........

I have been getting slammed with test after test this last week....2 math tests (one I got 90%, one I don't think I will be that lucky), 2 tests on intro to hotels and resorts (got 100% on those ones) and I have a food theory test on monday that is over 200 questions and diagrams on meat, meat and more meat! Also on the same day, we have a practical exam in the kitchen and he chose nearly every food that I hate for us to prepare :0( blech
I am in English class right now and we are doing a test on righting the body of our 5 paragraph essay. Wheeeeee!

Gotta go ....teacher is here!

Bou :0)

maybe not so bleah.....

216lb

I did my pell work yesterday:
12,12,12R (with shield and gauntlets)
12,12,12L (with gauntlets)
10,10,10 offside with shield and gauntlets

Did Matt Furey this morning:

35 hindu squats, 4 hindu pushups, 1-10 second table and bridges on the ball
65 torso twists, and 10 sidebends (each side, with 10 mini stretches each rep)

I did not consume any sugar yesterday, I didn't get it in my coffee, I turned down pastry in food lab, I resisted chocolate in the evening....It is a small step, but I know it will be beneficial for me.....I also need to start watching my high glycemic carbs (no, I am not doing atkins) like bread, pasta and any "white. processesed" carb product and use instead, whole grains, fruits and veg and stuff like that; however, I will work on conquering the sugar demon first! Small steps!

I have to go now and get ready to go to work!

Have a great day!

Bou :0)

Bleah

Did my Matt Furey
35 hindu squats, 3 hindu pushups (also did 5 "girl" pushups), 1-10 second table and bridges on the ball
70 torso twists, 10 (each side) side bends (with 10 mini stretches per rep)

I'm grumpy, because I can't find anything healthy AND appealing to eat for breakfast........I don't WANT oatmeal......grrrrrrr! Don't even talk to me about lunch........I don't remember it being this difficult or encountering this much inner resistance....(at least not at first) in prior endeavors.......

***cue Valley girl voice*** "Can't I like, just take like, some sort of pill and get like, skinny?" " ....or like, weight reducing lipgloss???" :0) ***end Valley girl voice***

gotta go and eat something healthy now........

Bou

why is it so hard???

219lbs.

Why is it so hard to do what is good and right and healthy for my body? Why is it easier to sit in front of the T.V. and eat chocolate cheesecake than to do my Matt Furey and my pell work and eat a tossed green salad with a broiled chicken breast? Does the body not have an instinct for self preservation? Why is doing unhealthy things so damn pleasurable and doing healthy things so damn hard? Do I not want it enough? I have spent the better part of my life now trying to lose weight and get fit and healthy......what am I doing wrong? Because except for a few brief losses, my attempts have been an utter failure! I have worked in the natural foods and health industry for nearly 10 years, I have been exposed to more information that the average person regarding weight loss and fitness, I have had access to experts on a myriad of different diets, supplements and exercises, and still the changes that I seek elude me. It would be easy to blame it on society, the media, the food industry, my mother, my father, or my husband but I wouldn't be being honest with myself, the problem and the answer lie within me, I can blame no one else......so......what IS the problem??? We have talked about "willpower" and "won't power" but until I figure out why I am holding on to the fat, I don't think that my progress will be great.
Some questions to ask myself:

What benefit do I get from being fat, in constant pain, in poor heath and out of shape???

What is the downside to being fat, in constant pain, in poor health and out of shape???

What are the benefits to being at a healthy weight, pain free, in good health and fit???

What is the downside to being at a healthy weight, pain free, in good health and fit???


I have some thinking to do about what I want, why, and how to get it without going insane......

Later,

Bou

a quick note

Did Matt Furey this morning
31 hindu squats, 4 hindu pushups, 1-10second table and back bridges on the ball
65 torso twists, 10 (each side) sidebends (10 mini stretches each rep)

gotta go to school now!

Bou :0)

....back on track

I did Matt Furey this morning
31 hindu squats, 4 hindu pushups, 1-10second table and back bridges on the yoga ball
60 torso twists, 10-each side, side bends (10 mini stretches per rep)

We have an elliptical trainer now and I am going to start doing that daily as well, starting this evening.

I have sent out e-mails to 2 of the Knights on my list: Vicountess Elizabeth Mortimer and Duke Dag. They have both replied to me. I have not sent out the other 3 because they have been taken off of the Midrealm Chivalry list (and thus thier e-mails removed as well) when Northshield went Kingdom. I am currently using alternative means to find them.

Later gators,

Bou :0)