Whoa! Today was a challenge.

Last night wee man started bawling his little eyes out at 11:30 p.m. and of course we both rushed to his room.  He was complaining of a tummy pain and kept asking me to kiss it better - poor soul!  After getting him all freshened up and a bit of meds down his gullet, I brought him into our bed (all the while wondering if this was setting ourselves up for future disaster).  He had no desire to sleep.  Like, none.  Periodically he would be quiet and lie still and then we'd think he was sleeping.  I'd start to drift off and then all of a sudden he said, "MOM!  Can I watch Max and Ruby please, Mummy, pleeeease?"  Oh good god.  Needless to say, he was hoofed out of our bed and back into his own at 12:45 p.m.

Fast forward to this morning and we are all tired and all grumpy.  I've got some weird cough thing going on, wee man's tummy still hurts and husband just wants to sleep 'cause he's been working super hard lately.  Ugh.

Despite just wanting to lie down and be lazy after wee man was on the bus, I went to the gym. There were several times when I came close to bailing because instead of going straight to the gym from dropping wee man off, I went back to the house to get my gym bag and then ended up in a conversation with husband.  With every word, my motivation (as little as it was today) was dwindling.  Then I got a text from Denise - THANK YOU!  The entire text was "Go to the gym. Go to the gym.  Go to the gym gym gym" and it worked, I went to the gym!  The timing of her text was perfect.

It was hard going on the elliptical today, probably one of the hardest days I've had.  After 15 minutes I thought I was going to die and this kept up until 30 minutes.  After that I mainly moved past how crappy I was feeling.  

I'm a bit nervous about how much I've been struggling this week.  I just need to keep it up!  I can do this.  I know I can do this... unfortunately thought with a twinge of doubt.  Ack!

Exercise

50 minutes on elliptical - burned 512 calories

Food

1 cup Raisin Bran cereal with 1% milk

2 litres water

1 organic Golden Delicious apple

22 organic dry roasted almonds

1 cup fat-free, Splenda sweeteened, lemon yogurt - so good! (approx. 70 cal.)

2 cuppas with milk & Splenda (falling back into Splenda habit... must eliminate!   EXTERMINATE!  EXTERMINATE!)

Sundried tomato veggie burger on a flat bun with pan-fried onions (1 tbsp olive oil for all the onions), lettuce, tomato & salsa. 

4 oven chips

1/2 cup carrot ginger soup

Cupcake

xo