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365 ONE: day 11 (dum di dum dum dum dum!)

Posted: January 19, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Day 11: January 19th, 2012 = COMPLETE!!!!!!!!!!

Cardio was = Running from home to top of Triboro Bridge and back home

Dance of the Day was = “Gasolina” by Daddy Yankee

Improvised Acting Video that I uploaded to my other blog that I refer to as = “Hand Puppets”

Anything to Note =

Low and behold another busy day – surprise surprise!! AHHHH! When is it not, boo 😦 I did manage to get in some of my fitness criterion through the day but my body is just sooooo tired – especially after a long rehearsal last night until after 10pm of hours of movement – I can certainly feel it today. I really felt it when I was doing the two planks and my push-ups – so I am guessing its my core that is weak….a little frustrating to be honest. I need to take it a little easy soon to be able to keep going each day the way I want, so hopefully when I get a moment I will be able to do less and then build up strength properly. No time for rest yet!

Since the train did that tunnel slow thing yesterday it must have jinxed something as on my way home late tonight the bloody train went slowly in the tunnel again!! And this time it was at the end of the day so I was just soooo tired. I was trying to learn my monologue as well but just got distracted waiting for the outside to pop out and the tunnel to be done. Poop. Schmoop. (The more of these blogs you read, the more you will realize that I have my own favorite words and made up language!!!)

I got home late again and hadn’t done my cardio – I walked everywhere yesterday as my cardio, and walking will be an easy choice and also a common choice in this challenge, so I will try to fight that if I can. Today I didn’t have time to walk from work to rehearsal and such so I was faced with the “what shall I do for my cardio today??” I decided to run! Sooooo….probably wasn’t the best idea for various reasons; it was cold out, I wanted to run to Randall’s Island, it was late, and…and…I am not supposed to be running at all due to my knee. But I wanted to, and I wanted to just go out and run to my ipod. I thought of it as a sort of tester and also I figured that my PT told me not to run but the stretching exercises I have included as one of my 365 criteria are just those exercises he gave me to help me out. And I have been doing them for 11 days now so I justified it as, well, I have been doing some work on my muscles, and I won’t push it too much….well, it ended up that way as I wanted to run to Randall’s Island but compromised and ran to the top of the Triboro Bridge and came back down instead. It was hard to restrain myself from going all the way!! I am amazed and proud I didn’t actually!! The knee and guilt made me turn around, and the fact that it was cold so my throat was hurting a little….saved by the bell…bells….??? What Th…! Wowza!

What made my day, was after my run, there I am dying out on the street outside my apt front door, trying to cool down, I figured this would be a great time to do my dance of the day – lots of space, outside feels nice as I’m so hot from my run, and with the curious eye driving/walking by enticing me 🙂 Yes, I like the attention!! Yes, that’s why I want to be a cage dancer haha! I was just going full-out with my ipod on and I didn’t mind the earphones on as it was loud and I had the liberty to do whatever out on the sidewalk! I just loved the cars that would drive by, double take and slow down haha! I especially liked the couple carrying groceries who passed me dancing latina full-out – I caught their smiles at each other as they passed!! 🙂 DANCING ON THE STREET!!! LOVE!!! Will be doing that again!

365 ONE: day six of challenge

Posted: January 14, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Day 6: January 14th, 2012 = COMPLETE!!!!!!!!!!!

Cardio was = Elliptical

Dance of the Day was = “Let me Think About It” by Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le Grand

Improvised Acting Video I uploaded to my other blog was what I like to refer to as = “Gym Rip”

Anything to Note =

Cardio today was actually at the gym – that thing called the gym that I haven’t been to in a looooong time! It’s a good thing that it’s only $10 a month as I feel less guilty. Thank you Planet Fitness. I managed to squeeze in some elliptical between conflicts today and boy am I out of shape – it was super hard! And I was on an easy level. I tell you if I hadn’t added the whole “Healthy” criteria to this 365 Challenge I would have been at that elliptical machine like the old crazy days where I wouldn’t leave the gym until I burned off 1,500 calories! Yup, I even went through a time where I had to call my good friend to come get me as I was puking in the gym shower due to my extreme-ness. That was an ultimate low-point, and I have not repeated that since, or got that low. But, to be honest, I have those urges, that desire still is there, that masochistic extreme addiction….I feel it all the time. Hence the food and veg week I am on right now, and believe me that’s wild. Since tomorrow is the end of the fruit/veg thing, I decided to have a little oil today with some veg – or I allowed it to be there – going against my instincts – but trying to be “normal”…whatever that is! I guess, better – I am trying to be better and lead a healthy lifestyle without all the crazy. This 365 Challenge is extreme enough without adding more to it!!

I also had some natural fruit gummies – also was hard to succumb to but I need to ease my body back to eating healthy so a bit here and there today and tomorrow should do it. Although I feel bad. This is how the whole crazy dieting starts though – I feel bad about myself and punishment is needed – although I don’t see it that way, but that’s what it sometimes feels like if honesty is underlying here. If I could eat nothing. Literally NOTHING, I would. And you want to know a secret….I have actually tried to eat nothing. I get to a faint state where I can’t take it any longer and give in…thank god!!!! But l admit that I have tried. I know it’s not good for me but now and again I get the extreme girl in me – the real extreme girl. I lost a lot of weight this past year because I lost my appetite – stress and an upcoming marriage would do that to anyone though! 365 will help me – if I can keep it up!! Day six! Tomorrow will be a whole week!

One good thing today, I got to dance the way I love to – in minimal lighting, high volume and in front of a mirror!!! And out came my secret techno cage dancer 🙂 LOVE!!! My body was a little tired but I pushed through. All I needed was a black light and white clothing on 🙂 I am soooooo European hahaha!!