Victory at the Gym

Today was quite a victorious gym day.  Not only did I manage to make it in before midnight but I had an awesome workout.  Before I go on to my lovely story I figured I'd grace you all with daily pieces of my my workout and eating. Mainly just to keep myself accountable. lol.

My  favorite meal of the day has to be dinner. There is so much effort put into dinner and best of all I get to have this meal with my lovely husband. Today's dinner consisted of pork loin cube steak, a small baked potato, and steamed green beans:

I'm in no way an expert on foods and measuring everything, but for the most part I was able to measure approximate serving sizes. As far as my methods of cooking the pork I seared it on both sides using about half a tablespoon of canola oil then added water to let it steam itself. After placing all my info into my food journal on the calorie count website I figured out that my dinner was 346 calories not too bad I guess. I sure as hell am not starving after a meal lol.

Today's super exercise of the day is: SITUPS.  I have to admit the first time I ever contemplated doing one, I thought there was ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I could complete the task.  I want to cry just thinking about having to do them, but I go out of my way to add in the situps to my daily workouts. 30 situps to be exact. I was able to break my husband away from his Call of Duty for a whole minute to demonstrate the situp. lol. Here it is:

As you can see he has lovely form. I'm sure I don't look as graceful sitting up but nevertheless I TRY and accomplish it. I don't always give myself enough credit for my mini victories. Today, as my husband was getting ready to hold my feet for situps, I began to complain about how much I hated them. The complaining stopped after he made a quite logical statement that had never occurred to me. He said "remember when you thought you couldn't even do one? Now you do thirty." Its amazing the things we can accomplish when we just look beyond the physical and dig deep into our inner strength.

While doing my dumbbells presses I noticed another couple a few benches away. They were your typical all American beautiful couple. He was tall, tanned and ripped and she had a beautiful, toned body with a perfectly flat stomach.  I always tend to feel a little self-conscious around people like that but today I did my thing; pressing my dumbbells at 32.5 lbs each since someone had taken the 30 pounders.  Anyhow, the beautiful, toned lady happen to notice that I was pressing more then her. Naturally, in true competitive spirit, she went for the 30 pounds the next set. It just didn't happen for her. lol. In no way am I implying that I was excited for her failure. However, I was proud of myself. I'm sure she saw me and thought that there was no way that I could possibly be better at something with my over-60-pounds-overweight-squishy body.

I didn't let it phase me. I kept my game face on but inside a big hairy caveman was beating his chest as he yelled at the top of his lunges in celebration of victory! So I guess the lesson of the day is NEVER underestimate yourself! You're just as good if not BETTER then anybody else out there! Happy Workouts for all!