Day 45 - Woohoo Half Way There!!

1. I can't believe we are half way through our journey. Congratulations to all my fellow Peakers.

2. A giant THANK YOU to Patrick for eliminating yogurt from my diet this week. I heart you!

3. There's nothing like a swift kick to the head to get you to esquiva or querda correctly. Yesterday we were training querda, a Capoeira take down. And for some stupid reason I froze and Ana got me real nice in my left ear. I'm not going to lie, that s**t hurt but, you better believe I learned that move real quick after that. Thanks Ana for not taking it easy on me :)

4. Jeebus, I slept forever today. Went to bed at 12 last night, woke up a 10am, ate breakfast and then went back to bed at 12 and woke up at 5pm. I guess my body needed it.

5. I love egg whites.

6. If I don't have a rockin badonk-a-donk after 160 lunges I give up.

7. Starting to see some more definition and I really don't care if the scale isn't moving.

8. Found out we are having another Capoeira retreat in June. So excited because I know I'll be in great shape for it and bikini weather.

9. Stretching is my best friend.

10. I think I have to break up with dried fruit. It's going to be sad. I hope it doesn't take it too hard.

Day 10

I think I'm starting to get dish pan hands. I feel like the past 2 days all I have been doing is cooking, washing dishes, eating, washing dishes, PCP work out, cooking, eating, washing dishes, Capoeira, cooking, washing dishes, eating, washing more dishes, um eating some more, washing some more. I think you get the picture.

Seriously, I feel like I have been eating like a mad woman. This is what I had for breakfast and lunch.

And I ate it ALL. Once again, I am not complaining. At first I was worried that with all this food I might gain some weight, but to tell you the truth, I've lost 2lbs since day 1. Not that I'm doing this to loose weight. I just don't want to end up bigger then when I started.

I am sore as hell though. Between Capoeira and the Peak work outs, my body is not happy with me. My shins and calves were KILLING me during my jumps today. I am prone to shin splints so I've been stretching my calves constantly but, I feel those suckers coming on. On the other hand, my back is finally feeling better.

I got a pedicure and a 35 min back massage today. Ahhhhh...I wish I had my own miniature masseuse that lived in my closet. I would take good care of it. Feed it, say encouraging things to it, I would even let it play in the yard with Chewie.

Tomorrow is going to be a long day. It's the first day of school. I probably won't get home from work and teaching until about 10 pm. I'm going to TRY REAL HARD to get up early and do my PCP work out because I know for damn sure I won't want to do it when I get home. Well I better start settling in for the night. If I have to get 8 hrs of sleep like Patrick says, I better have my ass in bed by 10.

Good night all.

Day 7

WTF!?! How did a full week go by already? At first I thought this past week would take forever but now looking back I have no idea where it went.

I was very grumpy at work today. I don't know if it was because I haven't felt full once in the past week or what. But, I want to apologize to Jenn, aka Looney Bun, for any snappiness I might have thrown her way.

I can't even tell you how happy I am to be off the half diet. My normal diet is pretty good so when I actually had to cut it in half I was starving.

Patrick gave us our new food plans for week 2. I was so excited and curious to see how different it would be from what I normally eat so I prepared tomorrow's dinner as my final "half " meal. I was glad to see that I wasn't too far off in my regular diet. I did notice that I usually put A LOT more carbs on my plate than I do veggies. I was also extremely happy to find out that the portions are quite larger than I expected them to be.

I'd like to announce that my back is feeling a bit better today. Both my mestre Foca and Patrick gave me some exercises and stretches to do that should help elevate the soreness. Thanks guys!!

I want to wish my fellow PCPers good luck in week 2. Only 83 more days to go!!