I finally broke my streak of posting everyday. C’mon – who’s really surprised? Well, I do have quite a valid excuse. I caught some sort of stomach virus on Wednesday. It hit me about 10 AM while I was trying to finish my last day of work for the week. I have to admit that this was by far the most horrible day of work since I started this new job. It’s not easy to take care of 9 one-year-olds when you feel like you need to vomit! I made it till 4 PM before I tossed my cookies (so to speak – you know you don’t get cookies on this diet 😉 ). Anyway, the day/night continued just as roughly. What a poorly timed (are they ever greatly timed?) virus! There was no one to relieve me at work. It was the day before Thanksgiving and the Turkey Trot that I for some insane reason decided to sign up for. I tried my hardest to feel better in order to go run this with my Holly Jolly Challenge team, but alas, my body was still completely wiped out! Oh well, at least the money went to a good cause. Bryan went on with out me and made a HUGE accomplishment for himself by running the entire 5 miles with no stops! I’m super proud of him! That is so amazing to me!

The rest of Thanksgiving went better, but it still had rocky moments. I was trying to decide what I could eat and what was simply too heavy. I only just got my stomach to feeling much better tonight with dinner. Thank goodness! We had dinner with Bryan’s grandparents and their neighbors. It was really nice. It was nice to have a place to belong to on a holiday. Since I can’t be with my family, I’m really happy to have Bryan’s to rely on for moments like these. Dinner was great even though I didn’t eat all that much. We made a few dishes and brought over. I’m going to try to make this the last cheat until the challenge is over because that is a real challenge for me. I’ve never gone more than 2 weeks without cheating. This might be hard or it might be all too easy – too early to tell.

Today I started out going to CrossFit for a free class. It was a team workout, and it was extremely hard because I didn’t have all of my strength back yet. We still managed to finish and with good time however. The workout was

• 400 m run
• 225 pull-ups
• 400 m run
• 225 thrusters (I did 45 lbs.)
• 400 m run

I found the pull-ups to be harder than normal for the reasons stated above. I did really good on the thrusters, however, which means it’s definitely time for me to up my weight. I think I was doing really good form, and they just didn’t seem all that difficult. Will be nice to rack some weight for this exercise finally! There were a few rules for this like you couldn’t start until all team members returned from the run. Only one team member could do the 225’s at a time. And the worst one was there was a 10 burpee penalty if you dropped the bar at all until all thrusters were finished. One team member dropped the bar so we all had to do 10. After today, I’m kind of dreading open gym tomorrow.

Here are my 3 journal entry sheets for today and the 2 days prior. There isn’t much on them, but eating should return to normal starting tomorrow. I hope everyone had a GREAT Thanksgiving! I am most thankful for Bryan (of course!) as well as my family, CrossFit, and my health. I am very thankful for my job and my friends. Life is great!