Day 8

Today is day 8 of my cleanse. I'm finished on Monday the 14th. I was originally thinking I might do a second cleanse after this one, but have decided against it for a couple of reasons:
1) I feel pretty great atm and don't think I actually need to do the 2nd one, and
2) I just found out that I passed my TCMP exam, and I want to celebrate, which means all my friends will likely buy me shots (atleast that's what happened last time - a fun evening, I was so happy over my exam, with a fair number of shots in me, I was laughing and crying at the same time most of the night. Paul was laughing at me a lot, and I don't blame him )

The cleanse is going well tho, I'm feeling quite energetic. The only thing that is a pain in the butt is having to prepare food and really think it thru a lot more than I'm used to. It's pretty damn hard to get anything that is "ok" to eat on my cleanse at any restaurant around here, so if I don't make enough food each day, I'm kinda hooped.

Exercise wise: All is going well, I finally got into the gym last night at 9pm after a very busy day. I intended to go right when I got home, but by the time I made dinner, got groceries, cleaned up from dinner, washed my sheets for the clinic, etc etc, it was 9. I am finding it easier to workout tho. I have mentioned before that I find running on some machine excruciatingly boring, but it has been getting easier every single time. I believe I've done 5 workouts so far this month.. which keeps me well on track with the "12 per month" thing. Yesterday I upped the time on my cardio by 5 minutes (10 minutes if you count me racing back upstairs halfway thru my workout when I realized I'd left walnuts toasting in the oven ) I also increased my weights a bit. So I did 25 minutes on the eliptical, and 3 sets of 12 each of military press(2 8lb weights), biceps (10 lb weights) and triceps (10 lb).. and some situps and stretching. Not too shabby. Honestly, I could probably go way more hardcore on my workouts, but my intention is just to workout regularily, so I'm starting slow. As long as I break a sweat and get my heart rate up a bit, I'm happy. Once I'm into the routine of going 3 to 4 times a week, I'll start going longer on the cardio.

I made an appointment to see Sean (or chiro) for early next week. Once I get an assessment done of what muscles are weak, I'll go see Zeke (our kinesiologist) and get the exercises I need to strengthen the "problem" areas of my body. That is my plan. It's a simple plan, but I think it will work out just fine.