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I am getting back on track. The scale may say otherwise, but that's only because my eating schedule is so chaotic these days. Not only did I play nearly ten hours of volleyball this week (maybe 0.5-1 hour too much for me), I went to a free bootcamp class yesterday. And man it was the most f$^^&#@ tough class I've ever done.

A lot of people keep telling me I should try the P90X videos, well apparently my workout yesterday was like a P90X course, and it was baaah-rrrutal. I used to be very scared of the word bootcamp (though always had some fantasy about trying one of those real bootcamp courses with the walls and ropes and all that. Recently, since I've been getting in good shape, crunches no longer scare me and I can do more of everything, like push ups and squats and all that. So I enjoy a bit of a challenge.

I do not, however, enjoy a novice, overly zealous ripped althete chick trying to get me to do 250 squats, push ups, chin ups (of which I cannot do one), dips, lunges, jumping lunges and jumping squats, in sets of 10, with all the legwork combined and same for the arms. The abs came last but that part wasn't too bad surprisingly. She ended up cutting the workout in half, realizing it would take us 2 hours to do all that (even for the 3 athlete men in the class). I ended up doing just HALF of the HALF and doing squats for 20 minutes until the guys finished 5 sets... I am in paiiiiiiiiiiiin today. It's not debilitating pain, so I am not injured, but faaaaahk that was intense, too intense. Anyway, it was free, I did it, and the instructor will eventually learn to adjust her class to actual people whose bodies are not 100% muscle.

I hardly at during the day, but I finally made an effort to go to the grocery store. I only bought a few things, so that I can at least have breakfast at home this week, and a few snack fruits and veggies. I was saving up my calories for the feast I enjoyed at my friend's Tree Decorating Party. It turned out to be just 4 of us, but the food was amazing (ribs, celery root/potatoes scalloped / beets / mashed artichoke and potatoes / breeeeeaaaad and cheeeeeeeses / and even a vinegar tasting, just for me) (I love vinegar to a crazy extent, and the husband bought some fancy white and regular balsamic. amazing.)

So I did a lot of drinking and eating, and naturally the scale is up, but not by much and it's mostly going to go away today I am sure. I'm about to make myself a late breakfast that's very healthy as well because I am going to a fancy burger place for dinner with a friend tonight. I think I will lighten up about absolutely losing the last 10 lbs before Christmas and focus on not gaining weight right now. I will aim to do the Game On challenge in January to lose the rest...

I got to sleeeeep in this morning and it's snowing prettily outside :) I hope you all have a wonderful day like me.