Finally. I Could be BACK.

Happy Sunday Kittens and I must grovel. I have sinned as a blogger but - I think you'll see in my vlog below, I explain a wee bit about how OVERWHELMINGLY SWAMPED the past week has been. I've been working until 1am so many nights, I can't count. It's just life in start-up land when you have a start-up that is exploding like my baby, FitFluential, you just kinda ROLL WITH IT and be grateful, knowing that someday soon...you will get some sleep. 

Here is the said Ramble-On-A-Thon:

As I mentioned in the vlog, I leave for NYC with my Fitfluential crew on Thursday, back on Monday afternoon. And then it's Christmas right? And then I have to freaking MOVE!! Hello!! I was so not ready to move in December and what a gargantuan PITA!!! 

A lot of you have been asking about my physical therapy progress. I am probably the most impatient person on the planet and thus, hearing that it will probably take 3 full months of strengthening kind of pissed me off. What are ya gonna do? Keep at it. She's working hard on strengthening my upper back because all the time that I've been injured I wasn't working my back, and then when I DID go back to do UPPER BODY work, what did I do? Shoulders- with HEAVY WEIGHTS and likely poor form, because I was rushing.

Do you see how important 1) correct form is and 2) not rushing? I've learned enough lessons this year to make me shutup and slow down in 2012. I'm just SAYING.

How has your December been thus far? Now it's time to be back at it. I did conquer a mountain of urgent work the past week so I can really do what I said and PUT MYSELF FIRST, put my health and wellbeing first. That means, working on my START NOW goals. 

They are:

• Drink more water daily. Use my Brita pitcher at home and chug from my bottle on the road. 
• 5-6 Meals throughout the day. No more 1-2 meals a day at 9am and 10pm. BALONEY. 
• Protein at every meal. I've been crappy on protein. I'll be in GNC a LOT. (#client)
• Workouts 6x a week. Period. Consistency.
• Sleep. Get enough. 
• Make time for ME. Make time for down time--time to enjoy life, not just work all the time. 
• Overall Healthy Focus: Vitamins, Supplements. I used to religously take my vitamins and supplements. I stopped because a moron doctor told me to when he couldn't figure out I had started perimenopause....he thought my vitamins were making my skin freak out. #fail. I'm adding back in GNC Vita-Paks (takes away the hassle of figuring it out each morning, let's be honest), Fish Oil, Glutamine, Glucosamine, L-Carnitine, etc. I'll do a detailed post later. 

Question: What are your goals that you want to START NOW on, and focus on in the new year?? What didn't you accomplish this year, and what will you change to make it happen in the new year? 

*Disclosure: GNC is a client of my company, FitFluential LLC. Although they are a paid partner of my company, my opinions are my own.*

Wednesday WOOT- back next week! PROMISE! {Day 10 1KO21}

Happy Wednesday Kittens! How's your week going? Mine is going great! I'm on "day 10" of my first 21-Day Challenge where I am focusing first and foremost on CONSISTENCY. Working out every day- 6x a week, no matter what. I won't stop this focus but consistency has NOT been my boyfriend for a while and we totally need to get back together and like GO STEADY.

I feel good about the physical therapy thing too and my shoulder. She nudged me last night in that teres minor/major area and said, "You might be really sore when you get home" and I chuckled as I walked out. HOLY CRAP later on I was diving into some ice like it was Huge Jackman. Seriously. 

NOT my idea of what I want to cuddle up with but it worked. I go back tomorrow and Friday and next week I do three days. SO looking forward to being able to LIFT again. And Kettlebells. And TRX, and you know!! Being a badass again. ;-0 Such as...

So, in the mean time, cheers to my new good habits that are sticking:

• The Brita Challenge has been a fun and competitive way to get myself back into drinking water all day long. I love me some Diet Coke but I'm now drinking a TON more water every day. I just get out the purple pitcher when I'm home and that whole pitcher must be done by the end of the day. On the road, I take that awesome water bottle with a filter in it with me. NICE>
• The 1KO21 challenge is working. I'm getting the HABIT thing where my workouts are starting to feel again like brushing my teeth or getting the mail or showering or thinking about Huge Jackman - it's what I do EVERY DAY. ;-) hehehohoh
• No Excuses. There is always something we CAN do. No excuses. This mantra is working. 

 Here's my ramble-on-a-thon from yesterday:

Blah blah blah. I swear I could make my vlogs into a CD and it could replace Excedrin PM as a way for me to fall asleep. LOL

Gotta run. 

Question of the day: If you could only do ONE "kind" of workout~ what would it be? Cardio? A certain type of cardio? Weights? Crossfit? Yoga?