What a Wonderful World

I am channeling Louis Armstrong right now but I will get to that in a moment. I had another rough start getting out the door. I was on duty last night, so I got to bed a little later than usual. Getting up was a little hard, but each morning DQ says "you go girl!" as I roll out of bed. I have had car problems this week which I thought were corrected last night. NOT!! So I had to run back in the dorm, grab DQs keys and try again. I was five minutes later than usual.

I worked on my legs and abs today before cardio. I stayed out in the main part of the gym and used those machines. I hate that they face all the people on the treadmills. I always feel like the people working out are judging me. I am sure they are not, but I just feel that way. I felt good about working on my legs. It hurt - leg lifts and curls. I have zero strength in that area. Which is funny to me because my legs are a pretty big part of my body.

I jumped on the elliptical, and "What A Wonderful World" came on my ipod. Much like "Freedom" I don't know all the words, but it got me thinking about what a wonderful world I live in. How lucky am I to be able to work out. God blessed me with two legs that work, and a job that pays me well enough to belong to a gym. While I was feeling some good ju-ju (or whatever that word is!) I didn't work as hard on the elliptical as I have been doing. Yesterday I upped the intensity a level, as I will try to do each week. I normally average 300 calories burned, but today I barely reached 260. I still went for over two miles though.

I did some more ab work in the "womens room" before I headed out the door.

I am hopeful that my car will be fixed for good tonight!

til tomorrow -
Mummy Q.

ps...I took the boys to Dunkin Donuts this morning and managed to walk out with only a hot tea. It was SO hard! I came to work and had fruit and yogurt.