I’ve been on this healthy journey for almost a year now–next month will mark my 1 year anniversary of quitting smoking and turning my life around. But I guess I didn’t consider all aspects of a healthy lifestyle. Of course everyone suffers from stress at times in their life, it’s only normal! However, it’s what you do to deal with it that really matters, and I guess I haven’t really been dealing with it at all because I started to let it effect my health.
My new goal is to RELAX! Sounds easy, right?!?! One would think so, but unfortunately the older I get the harder it seems to be for me to take it easy in general, and especially on myself. I’m constantly on the go and always feeing like I need to please everyone around me–I get lost in it all sometimes and forget that I need time to focus on me as well and figure out what truly makes me happy.
When I sit here and think about it, I see myself in a great place! I’m back in school and finally starting to see some light of the end of the tunnel, I have a great job with wonderful opportunites, I have a wonderful Boo, some amazing people who I can always count on, the best Dad, I have my health and hopefully a great future ahead of me!
So I’m going to focus on the good. I’m going to BREATHE. I’m going to savor the moments I have with the people I love and ENJOY my life instead of just living it to get to the next day. I’m going to accept that I will encounter MANY stressful situations in my life, I will DEAL with them in a way that I’m hoping I learn to do. I will continue working hard to get to where I want to be but take away the pressure that I put on myself. And ummm did I mention BREATHE?
What do YOU do to deal with stress? Do you let it get to you TOO much?
Moving on-I started seeing a trainer at the gym on the weekends who pretty much rocks and makes me feel like I’ve spent hours in the gym. We’re slowly building a plan for me as I start incorporating weights into my workouts again. So far I have a great upper body plan that I can work on and it’s challenging because I have pretty weak arms to begin with.
So at the gym I did 40 minutes of cardio-
20 min Stairs
20 min Treadmill
My upper body workout will consist of-
3×15 Chest Press
3×15 Back Row
3×15 tricep kickbacks
3×15 V-Curls Biceps
3×10 Tricep Walk
3×15 barbell pushups (these are to eventually get me doing the real thing)
3×15 barbell bullups
Sounds easy enough, right? GAHHHHH!
This weekend is lower body….wish me luck!
After the gym I wasn’t really too hungry so I roasted some veggies
Broccoli-Brussels Sprouts-Cauliflower and ate it with a Golden Corn Vita Top-
These Vita Tops are deeeelish and only 100 calories! This one tasted like corn bread which I absolutely LOVE and was only 100 calories!
And to satisfy my sweet tooth I had a few chocolate covered almonds from Tierra Farm-
I have to limit myself with these–I could eat almonds ALL day!
Well it’s off to bed I go! Hope everyone is having a great stress-free week! 
But I love it! 
