Week 9ish

Wow! I can't believe I missed two weeks of blogs. I had a nice vacation in the Promised Land. Florida aka my fountain of youth. I think the real youth potion is all that sunshine. I felt remarkably alive! Then I came home and all I wanted to do was curl up under blankets and sleep. It has been so cold here! I know I will eventually retire somewhere warm. At this point I think it would be prudent to start searching and researching other warm weather locales. I may have finally had my fill of Disneyworld. At least until they finish the new construction in Magic Kingdom. I would like to say that while on vacation I adhered to my exercise and diet strategies but I would be lying, again. The first few days of my vacation consisted of a walk, swimmming laps in the retirement village pool, and battling the surf at Caspersen Beach. I didn't eat a lot but I also didn't eat healthy. The second half of my vacation was spent at Disney and the only exercise was hours and hours of walking and standing in lines. The food was phenomenal, turkey legs, pineapple soft-serve, fish and chips, nachos, soft pretzels, chocolate croissants.....where was I? Remarkably, when I got home I had only gained two pounds. I didn't think that was too bad considering there was not a real workout in ten days.

Sadly I have not yet found my workout groove since I have been back. I think I need the sunshine. Or a drill sargeant. I need to get out of this funk. Getting back to healthy eating has not been a problem. In fact, I started the Paleo diet for fun. I even bought and read the book. Sounds logical enough. Kind of goes along with my idea of cutting out absorbent foods. Eat like a caveman. Cut out grains and dairy. I have been doing this since last Wednesday and I lost the two pounds I gained and lost another. That brings my grand total to six.

I have not weighed myself all weekend because my daughter and her boyfriend came home and we ate out twice. We had lunch Saturday at the Flat Top Grill at Hilldale. This place is great! I was able to eat there according to the caveman code and still be entirely satisfied. The food tastes great too! It is like a more casual Hu Hot but nicer than BD's Mongolian BBQ was. If anyone ever wants to go give me a call! Sunday we went to the Nitty Gritty. We were trying to show her boyfriend Jeff something that was truly Madison and we didn't have a lot of time before they had to head back to Minnesota. So I epic failed and ordered chicken strips with fries and gritty sauces. It was good. The down side was my youngest daughter and I succumbed to the stomach flu that has been making it's rounds. Nasty! That is why I have time to type this right now. While I was getting ready for my noon bodypump class, the school called. Ana has a stomach ache and mild fever. She threw up before I got to the school. At least the school nurse got to do cleanup this time. Sadly I am missing my workout and run. I might have to go down in the basement and figure out how to hook up the dvd player so I can do Jillian Michael's Thirty Day Shred instead. Jillian is not my favorite person but she gets the job done. The workout is only 22 minutes so there is another reason to like it. I always aim for Jillian's face during the punching session. Makes me feel better about her kicking my ass.

Well that is all I have for today. I am going to go figure out how to paleo my favorite beeftips with mushrooms recipe. I bought coconut milk to substitute for the heavy cream. That ma be the only change I really need to make. If you are curious about the paleo lifestyle try googling paleoeveryday or paleOMG blogs. They are the two I like best so far and have even made a couple of their recipes already. It is even pretty easy to look at recipes for meat and vegetables you already have and make minor changes to make the more caveman like. I am hoping to hit that ten pound mark by next Monday. Wish me luck!!!!