Meditation started the morning at 6am. We all got on our mats and Cathy talked us thru a meditation sequence. It wasn't as awesome as the beach meditation, but it was still nice. Breakfast - I tried the greek yogurt with fruit, chia seeds and almonds. It was not my favorite. I'll go back to PB & Ezekial toast & banana.
Fitness Assessment time!!! I exceeded all of the measurements except for Wall Sits. Wall Sits I psyched myself out and slipped. I cut 2 min off my cardio time on the treadmill.
I went to Patterns & Portions where we worked on meal planning and portion sizes for our meal's ingredients.
Lunch was vegetable soup and fish tacos. The soup was good except for the beans. I'm not really liking the excess of beans this week. Cause they're always the white beans. They should vary it. The fish tacos were "eh". I liked the insides - fish, cabbage, tomato. But the corn tortilla was kind of gross. I ate it anyway. That's one thing they stress about our food - while we're here, we really need to eat all our food. It's all counted out into a 1500 calorie formula and if we don't eat part of it, we'll be hungry and it'll start affecting our workouts. I forgot the snack yesterday and I was really hungry for dinner. Other days I was ready, but not super hungry when dinner came around.
After lunch I went to Planning Strategies which focused on planning meals. 1:45 brought the class I was dreading the most since the beginning of the week: 52 card pickup. Last time I was here, it was like a madhouse for people to finish their exercises and grab cards. I barely got any. This time, it was better. There were 2 sets of cards since there were so many of us. There was a list of 6 activities and we had to get thru the whole list before we could take a card. It worked better this time. With the cards we got, we were supposed to make the best hand. Mine wasn't anything, but I did get three cards! The five best hands got a Biggest Loser prize (a book and something fun like glow bracelets)
Zumba was next. i am NOT a Zumba person. I know this because I've tried before. But it was one of our classes, so I went. I enjoyed the music and tried to follow the moves.
At 4 was "Become Your Own PT". This was funny because Sue told us we weren't allowed to leave until she approved our workout plan for when we leave. She gave us a grid, a bunch of examples, and encouraged us to use workouts that we did this week. As she went around to us, we got to leave when our plan was approved, we didn't have to wait for everybody. We all got to leave at a reasonable time and get to dinner on time.
Dinner was good. Turkey burgers! and some sort of chocolate dessert. It said Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge but I didn't taste the peanut butter. No problem though, it was delicious
After dinner I went to the patio near the outdoor pool. There was a duo performing live music. It was a nice mix of new and old music. I had a great time.
Tomorrow morning is my weigh out, last chance workout and graduation! I'm weighing out tomorrow because I'm doing the run/walk in Chicago on Sunday morning and there won't be time for a weigh out on Sunday.
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