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Sick sick sick.
I haven't made it to the gym since Tuesday. I've been sick as a dog, home from work, lying around wishing I could stop coughing because my throat is completely raw from it. Suuuuuucks.
For all you paleo peeps out there.
Do yourself a huge favor a pick up a bag of chia seeds. Yes, ch-ch-ch-chia, stop laughing.
It's so much more than that. The seeds are loaded with fiber and EFAs and so chock full of antioxidants that they don't go rancid for a good long time. Oh, and unlike flax seeds, you don't have to grind chia seeds to get in on those benefits.
More...6 weeks to beachtime.
It's not official yet because the plane tickets haven't been purchased yet (that'll be tomorrow), but we're jetting off to St. John to camp out on a beach for 7 days. Not namby pamby cityfolk camping out, but serious, roughing-it camping out. On a beach. On an island. For a week. I'm. Hyperventilating.
More...Resetting my paleo button
So the past week, I've been having dairy on and off, mostly because we haven't had time to go grocery shopping and big hunks of cheese are just sitting around in the fridge. I won't venture into TMI territory, but I think two words will sum it up quite nicely: gastrointestinal distress.
More...Love Challenge: this is frikkin hard.
The Feats
BODY: I decided to focus my love on a very special part of my body that's been getting neglected a lot lately: my shoulders. I made a microwavable heating pad out of a pair of very soft, very cozy, very unused wool socks a
Make that 18 feats.
In the spirit of total dorkdom, I just banged out 126 pushups and 101 situps while watching Zombieland. I was telling The Boy that I was 89% of the way done with the One Thousands feat and that I was feeling too lazy to complete it.
More...24 workouts and 17 feats: a solid finish for NYE Challenge
With the potential for 1 more feat if I feel like doing some pushups and situps tonight. The verdicts still out -- I'm feeling kinda lazy, nah mean?
Check out my status spreadsheet if you're into details.
Feat accompli!:
More...I'm going to miss the 12:00 green checkmark party. Bew hew!
I'm going to be at a makeshift yoga retreat with my coworker. That basically means we took the day off so we could go to YogaWorks Soho for 8 hours and alternate between classes, the sauna and lunch at Souen.
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Snow day snow day snoooowwww daaaaay!!!
No work for me today, folks. Know what that means? I'm going to the gym mid-day and there's going to be nobody there!
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