Day Four...where to fit in a workout today? No time for biking...I have to open the gym for 7am, plus I'm not a die hard...rain will definitely keep me at home. So off to work I go..at 6am to fit in a small workout before starting the opening procedures.
Since I had the entire gym at my disposal and a lot more variety than I have at home, I opted for machines and bars that I don't usually get to use. I varied the exercises, doing mostly legs today and did two sets. I did 15 reps in the first set and then raised the weights for the second set and in some cases, made it to 15 again, some I only got to 12. And of course, I did a bunch of ab exercises.
Someone might wonder, that in my quest for changing my body, I haven't yet written one word about my eating habits. Well, that's not completely true...I think I said something about having polished off a 10lb bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs. The reason for this is that I eat a very healthy, varied diet already. Not that I don't enjoy a bowl of Fruit Loops, but I very rarely eat processed, sugary foods. I have never drank a can of pop (only occasional sips from Mark's drink at the movies when I was dying of thirst - carbonated drinks hurt my throat) and I find I can't eat candy if I don't buy it. This is really the best advice ever. Buy good food and you'll eat good food. The trick is to buy good food that you'll want to eat.
This is the one area where I definitely have an advantage over Mark. He eats healthy on a regular basis, but only because I do the grocery shopping. I will, however, buy him his favourite bag of chips (Miss Vickie's - the dark blue bag, I'm not sure what they're called) and I try really hard to avoid letting him come with me to the store. When he does, we manage to bring home pop, ice cream and pie. I definitely have more will power than him when he comes to making healthy food choices. This makes our competition even since he's way ahead of me in the muscle department.
So...I finished my workout, got everything ready to open the gym and sat down to answer e-mails when Mark walked in at 7am. His hands were full. He had stopped at Tim Horton's on his way and picked us up bagels with cream cheese and also a French Vanilla for me. Hmmm...I had packed some granola, milk and fresh fruit. But never wanting to disappoint anyone, I ate half the bagel and drank the (extremely delicious, by the way) French Vanilla. Then I thought...was this really just a sweet gesture to make sure I wasn't hungry throughout my shift today at the gym or was this some kind of ulterior motive to destroy my healthy eating, thereby allowing him to get ahead in our competition towards the coveted six-pack. I gave this quite a bit of thought.
Then I made my decision.
Since he's my husband and I love him, I gave him the benefit of the doubt...this time.
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