Biggest Loser Resort Chicago - Week 2 Day 5 - Thursday July 30

Today was a good day. It started with yoga at 6. or at least we thought it did. Sue came bouncing down the halls, encouraging us all to go into Studio 2.  It ended up being a balance/stretch class. I liked it more than yoga, even though my balance is limited. Breakfast I had my usual ezekial toast, peanut butter and banana. I'm switching it up for tomorrow.  At five til 8 we gathered in the lobby and loaded in the vans for our Outdoor Activity.  We went to the beach at Glencoe.

The traffic was bad going there. I carried a slam ball down the ramp to the shelter along with my water bottle. So this beach has a long wind-y driveway in an S format with a second entrance in the middle of the S. Basically 2 steep inclines and 1 less steep incline.  Our warmup was to walk down and up the less steep incline a couple of times. We were split into groups. I stayed with the incline group to start. I went up one steep incline and back down, 20 crunches, and down the huge stairs and back up, finishing with down the less-steep incline and back up. I got thru the rotation twice before the switch. We went down to the base of the stairs onto the beach. We did some exercises with the stretch bands, some body weight and then we walked down the sand to the water and back. this was a shorter time span and it was soon time to go to the tennis courts.  I took the stairs instead of the ramp and it followed with the steep incline. The Incline felt steeper on the way up!  We did some exercises at the tennis courts like skipping to the other end of the court and back and Pushups. We stretched and then got back in the van. It was a nice long car ride back followed by lunch.  Lunch was so good!  It was gazpacho which was a bit too spicy but I ate some of it.  There was also roasted veggies and a little steak. Cute and yummy.

I went to Injury Prevention after lunch. Shannon and Matt taught Mountain and Kettlebell. I did the octane machine for Mountain. Kettlebell was exactly what I thought it would be :-)  I took Meal Planning. there was good discussion and the slides were different from last time.

Dinner felt like Thanksgiving!  It was turkey, sweet potato stuffing and some sort of cranberry gravy. It tasted great. I was disappointed in the dessert. It was supposed to be berry brulee. What I remember of it from my last week here and what we got tonight was different. Tonight it was a lot of berries with a little bit of greek yogurt. The fruit wasnt drained very well and the water was pooling in the bottom of the dish ruining the little amount of yogurt they gave us.

After dinner I went on a Grocery Store Tour with a few other guests and one of the dieticians.  It was similar to other tours I had taken before with Lifetime. Lifetime did theirs at Whole Foods and this was at Marianos. I'm glad I went. I always learn something new.

Tomorrow is the final Fitness Assessment so we'll find out if I'm able to go farther. There are a few Education sessions I'll be attending.  Sounds like a fun day. And it will be ending with the optional activity "Music on the Patio". Each day we have an optional activity to take part in (trip to a running store, fireplace social time, mini-golf, grocery store tour) and this friday it is "Music on the Patio".