So I went on a week's vacation for Thanskgiving and didn't blog at all, bad me! Then I came back from vacation and planned to blog about vacation, but I was lazy and doing other things and didn't get around to it. Also bad me! The good news is that I did get to the gym twice on vacation, and have gotten back to exercise since I got back, so I haven't totally been slacking off. I may go back and backfill at least one post about Thanksgiving, but I've realized that if I don't start blogging the present again, I'll never catch up.
Coming back from vacation was a little weird, because it was hard to know exactly what happened during my vacation. We came home on Saturday night after flying and being in airports all day, and I weighed myself almost as soon as we got home, just to get it over with. I was appalled to see that I was ten full pounds up from my last weigh-in weight.Yikes! Luckily, it turned out that quite a bit of that was water retention from being in airplanes all day, because I lost five pounds by Sunday afternoon. Still not a great result, but one I could live with. Then I started getting cramps, and realized that the time of the month was also probably a factor in my sudden growth spurt. I finally got my period yesterday, and today I'm weighing as about two pounds up from my last weigh-in. Considering the week's vacation and the holiday, the fact that I'm still ragging, and that my last weigh-in was done on the end of two weeks of illness, I feel pretty satisfied with that. Still gotta keep working, but it's nothing apocalyptic. Water weight is crazy stuff.
Anyway, I've been getting back to exercise at Gold's Gym, and it feels good. It was fun to exercise with my mom at her gym, but I definitely like the classes and the energy better at my own place. I also have three new pairs of exercise pants, which substantially decreases the risk of embarrassment from the growing chance that my old sweatpants would fall off mid-workout. I went to cycling on Monday and actually tried out one of the newer bikes with the RPM meter. I couldn't control my RPMs at all, but Carlos says that comes with practice, and he'll help me get set up properly next week. He definitely seems to think I should start taking his Tuesday cycling class as well, but I need my yoga. It's making me all stretchy!
Tuesday was, obviously, yoga class, and it was good despite the oncoming time of the month. Ana Maria was introducing us to a new routine, some parts of which were quite difficult, and my abs were still sore all the next day. But it was good! I love the times when I'm in class and I feel like I'm really getting it, like I'm right there with everybody else instead of trying to do my own limping variant, and it's happening more and more in yoga class. I think you all should know that I can stand on my right foot, grab my left foot with my right hand behind my back, and lean forward, all without falling over. It's really quite impressive. The stamina and flexibility exercises like sun salutations and the pilates work are probably the parts of BodyFlow that are best for me, but I think the balance exercises are the most fun.
Wednesday is Bodycombat day, which is both the hardest and the most fun class. I have to be on top of my game for that class because it's extremely challenging just to get through all the punching and kicking without falling on the floor gasping. Unfortunately, this Wednesday was less about being on top of my game and more about having cramps and pouting, so I stayed home from the gym. Bug was disappointed because he wanted to go to Kids Club, but his pain was eased when he and I spent a half hour or so using his new dart guns from Papa to cause mayhem around the apartment. I'm feeling a lot better today, so I'm hoping to get to yoga and do at least part of the exercise tonight. Between vacation and that two week long cold from hell, I only made it to the gym eight times in November, well below my minimum goal of 12. We're leaving for our Christmas trip in two more weeks, so I have to work fast if I want to get my time in this month!
