That wasn't so bad..

My session with the trainer was much easier than I thought it would be. There was no weighing, no measuring. He just showed me the basics on how to work the stationary bike and elliptical, which I've already been doing so... And then he explained to me the importance of stretching before and after exercise whenever possible. The only new thing that I did was work my obliques. I'm not quite sure if my description is going to do it justice, but the device that he showed me to work my obliques was a metal stand with two bars, one was the base on the floor and the other was about a 45 degree angle from the base and had padding at the top and feet plates. I get on the obtuse side of the angle and put my legs flat against the padding and my feet on the plates, then I lean forward so my body makes a 90 degree angle and go back up to 180. It's crazy, I kept thinking I could fall and break my face! Then he had me turn to the side so my hip was against the pads and I did the same thing but sideways. That really worked my love handles. The soreness that I'm feeling now is mainly in the love handles and in my quads, for some reason I kept using my legs as a way of coming back up instead of using my back muscles? That's still a little confusing... But good thing is I know I worked out my butt...and I didn't even have to get on the stair stepper. Thank God! After that I got on the bike and did maybe 30 minutes. Then I did some more obliques.

My weigh in last night was only .1 pound less than the night before. Disappointing... This morning I was down .5 from the previous morning. Eh, I hope it'll be better tomorrow. Last night I was feeling so odd. My heart kept feeling like it would skip a beat every 4 or 5 beats. I think it could be that I'm off caffeine, but when I go out to lunch and get an unsweet tea...that has caffeine! I never really thought about it before because the tea we make at home is decaf. I think I'm going to stick strictly with my water bottle, even when I do go out for lunch. If I'm not feeling 100% this afternoon when I go to work out...I'll just have to skip today and have a rest day. I am not going to push myself too hard again!

Today I've Eaten:
Breakfast - Half a bottle of orange juice, scrambled eggs, single serving size of raisin bran, half carton of 2% milk (9 1/2 pts.)

Mid-day snack - Banana (2 pts.)

Lunch - Captain D's low cal fish with broccoli and green beans and the bread (Darn their bread...11 pts.)

Mid-afternoon snack - Cheddar Sunchips (4 pts.)

Dinner - Grilled Steak salad from Cracker Barrel with Ranch (14 pts.)