Sunday Summary.

Ahhhh. Serenity Now. This is how I FINALLY feel today after a combo Hangover/Tired/Jet-Lagged day from hell yesterday. I'm exaggerating a little bit, I mean, waking up at 7am and flying all day and finally getting home at 10pm is no picnic, but I wasn't HORRIBLY hungover. I was just so hyper-aware of how yukky I felt, and honestly, I ate junk food for all three meals yesterday. I almost felt like I HAD TO. And there was no real guilty pleasure in it at all. In fact, I was just annoyed as heck that drinking the night prior was affecting a big portion of the entire next day. NOT how I roll. 

So- I mentioned that I'd be doing "Saturday Summary" posts, but since I missed that yesterday while I was feeling like this:

I am here today, finally feeling like myself again, and ready to belt out a pretty good summary of this past week's activity:

The GOOD:

• For being out of town 6 days of the week, I completed 4 workouts. CERTAINLY not an "A" game by any means, but better.
• For being out of town 6 days of the week, I stayed on target with my "diet"--I'm going to say if an "A" is perfect, meaning only one cheat day and the other 6 days were spot-on, then this week was a B-. I did great - had one cheat meal on Thursday night, but then Friday night, I had sushi and drinks while entertaining and then y'all know I had junk food hell yesterday. So instead of one cheat day, it really was more like 2 cheat days. Not acceptable. 
• I had to be out entertaining every night this week, so the workouts had to be done in the early morning. I'm pleased that even when an unexpected meeting came up and I only had 30 minutes, I still got my sweat on and squeezed SOMETHING in. 

The BAD: 

• I did really good sticking to my "diet"- while in the airports, even when being taken out for dinner the first night to an amazing HUGE decadent buffet. But...by not planning and being very specific that DAY X is my cheat day, I only did a "little" cheating (I had chips with the Mexican meal and a margarita....that's not a LOT of cheating), and then didn't feel bad about having sushi the following night and a couple extra cocktails....then that led into hangover hell. Mentally I felt 200x worse than I did physically, but still. 
• This week was typical of a travel week of "winging it" with my workouts. Even though I packed everything, I did NOT balance out all body parts and my workouts are more cardio than weights. THIS is the kind of stuff I cannot do. When I can't use the hotel gym, I have to plan my in-room workouts to include BOTH cardio and weights....!!!! 

I chose this picture because this is what is on my mind today. I've been away from running for a bit and missing it. I took the last two weeks of the year and worked out at home. This week, because the hotel gym was $25 a day, and I didn't feel ok about running outside in the Vegas Ghetto, I did inside workouts. I'm ready to run this week. And I wanted a picture that would show someone running on a path- think about a runner on any path or trail.....are they constantly stopping and turning around and looking back, at a rock they might have tripped on, or a fork in the road, wondering if they should have taken THAT trail instead of this one? Nope....they are looking forward. They are running forward. This is DEEP THOUGHTS metaphor time people. 

Learn from your mistakes (i.e. for me, I mean, I disappointed myself this week, not having an "A" week), and then mentally, drop them by the side of the road and MOVE ON. Shrug it off. Choose to learn, to be better, to GET better, and then PRESS ON. 

I don't want to put my energy into focusing on what I did wrong last week. I choose to focus on making this week SING. 

On a side note, here is the one baby vlog I shot while in Vegas after one of my workouts:

For all of you asking, I REALLY am glad that I bought the TRX. I've only used it like two times this week and I'm still getting used to all that it can do, but OMG. It is fantastic. Easy to pack, it can be shoved into this tiny little bag. It was EASY to use with the hotel closet door or the door to the room. I can tell you that this gadget is going to work my core and arms like nothing else....I haven't even begun to try 1% of the moves you can do on here, and I am pretty sure that in 2011 I will get my TRX certification.....so cool. I even had one of the hotel maids say she is going to order one, after she came in my room to clean while I was finishing my workout. I showed her some moves and she tried it and was like HOLY HECK!! I can't wait to do these:

OMG check out Brandon Vera using TRX for his training. Can you tell why I love this stuff- it's killer for everyone. And also- I'm finally getting to go check out the Crossfit gym that Pete opened up this week.....yaya! I'm gonna tear some s**t UP people!! Are you IN????

I'M BACK!