OK, I lied. I didn't start Week 9 of P90X until today. It was chest/back/abs, which involves a lot of push-ups and pull-ups, and a great deal of pain when it comes to abs. But I am imagining myself having to appear in an I Dream of Jeannie costume for my next show, and that helps me get through the horror of Abs Ripper X --- or as my friend Mark likes to call it, Processing the Meat.
I also got back to my food plan today, and while I'm not going to score 100% on following it, I did trade evenly when I traded foods out. So I feel reasonably virtuous, and happy to be getting back on track. That gorgeous chard above? The first harvest from my garden. Sauteed it with a little garlic and Spanish olive oil, and served it with homemade lentil-forbidden rice-corn burgers for dinner. Mmmm! I'm hoping to get to taste a radish or one of the mini eggplants before I head out again --- the rest of it will be left to my husband, if he remembers to pick it!
My resistance bands and yoga mat haven't even come out of the suitcase (nor have half my clothes) since I'll be leaving again on Thursday. I still don't know where I will be housed, or what it will be like! I know I won't have a car this time, and I'm wondering if I can buy a cheap bike at Goodwill or on Craigslist that will get me through 5 1/2 weeks. It really sucks not to have a car for that long. But I have already decided that if I don't have wheels, I will run wherever I need to go! Better pack my Camelback ... plus there is excellent hiking in New Jersey, if only I can get to it.
I'm looking at an incredibly busy summer, y'all. As my husband remarked, "Once you leave, you don't get a day off until August!" Well, that's not strictly true --- there will be days off while I'm in Princeton, but once I get off the stage there, I get on a plane and go directly to my next gig (directing my opera workshop, which is pretty much 24/7 while it lasts) and then get on another plane and go directly to my singing engagement after that, another Fille du Regiment.
So I'm thinking now about this pattern of regularly hitting the fitness/eating plan hard, and then sort of losing my way, and then hitting it hard, and losing my way ... is there any way to fix this? There will always be times when I can't work out due to schedule, and there will always be meals where I go off track. It'd be nice if I could get the off track part down to a single meal rather than a week of meals. It seems that regular travel and its accompanying uncertainty are going to be a bigger part of my life, so I'm just going to have to find a way to deal.
Last but not least, 100 Pounds recently got a little shoutout from a commercial site which listed it as one of the "50 Best Blogs for Opera Students". If you're interested at all in opera, there are some other very good blogs listed there as well. Mine seems to be the only opera/fitness blog!
Tomorrow's plan: P90X Plyometrics first thing. One thing I do know, the workout has to be prioritized every single day.
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