Health and fitness Friday : Bye Bye Night Owl

It's time for Health and Fitness talk today.

Fitness

Last Saturday I had my 10k run.

It was 31* when we were running walking.

It was so hard.

Hot and hard!!

I'm still waiting for some photos to put the post together but I hoping to do it this week.

I did much better this week with Fitness.

I did ab work 3 days and did lots of stretching.

I needed to stretch after the 10k.

I was very stiff and sore.

No runs but I'm starting back tonight hopefully.

Jen and I were going to try to be early birds this week.

The plan was to see if getting up early made it easier for us to do all the things us women have to.

I got up early 2 mornings and I got quite alot done.

But the night owl in me is not giving up without a fight.

I forgot that to get up early you need to go to bed early. Doh!

I'm setting my phone to remind me to go to bed early.

Sounds crazy, Right?

I'm hoping to be in bed for 11pm and up at 6.30am.

In bed for 11pm!

Not get up off the couch and start turning off the lights, locking the doors and putting in the dog and end up going to bed closer to midnight.

I'm going to tweet Jen when I get up and hope we can keep each other motivated.

My favourite hashtag I'm using at the moment is #SlackerNoMore .

If you want to join in on our quest to not be slackers use to hashtag so I see what your all up to.

Health

I made dinner every night this week.

Healthy options. 

And I have made much better choices when it came to snacking.

I picked at fruit and fresh peas.

I love fresh peas.

The other thing I was meant to do this week was try yoga.

I have been meaning to try this all week. 

Jen posted a great video in her post last week.

I need to this for a de-stressing workout.

I suffer from tension headaches and this will help for sure.

So this coming week these are my goals.
Go to bed early.
Get up early.
Eat healthier.
Run.
Yoga.
Be happy.

That it for this week.
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Health and Fitness Friday : Giving myself a kick in the Butt

It Friday! Woohoo!

Linking up with Jen over at A Daily Dose of Davis of Health and Fitness Friday.

I said last week that I was being a total slacker.

Not doing any running.

No workouts.

Nothing.

Guess what?

This week wasn't any different.

It's not good enough!!

I'm letting myself down.

I did so much good work up to last month and now I feel like I'm going to have to start over again.

I feel like I'm letting all you ladies here at the link-up down.

I read your posts for inspiration.

For new recipes, workouts and motivation to keep going.

I'm not pulling my weight at all here.

But tomorrow is a new day. 

Tomorrow is race day for me.

I was collecting my race pack today.

It's going to be tough.

The heat, lack of training and too make cupcakes are all things that won't help.

( I'm eating a cupcake while I write this. Oops!)

Starting Monday everything changes.

I'm going to be joining Jen on her quest to become a morning person.

I'm going to be doing some sort of workout EVERY day.

Start doing yoga.

No more snacking on crap.

Drink more water.

I what you girls to keep me in check.

I'm sharing this smoothie recipe that I pinned ages ago.

Have any of you tried it?

I'm hoping that it will give me the energy I need and help with the poundage issue. Ha!

 The recipe 

Two handfuls of baby spinach

1 apple

1 banana

1 cup of yogurt

5 strawberries

1/2 orange

Blend well and enjoy!

I hope you've had a better week than me fitness wise.

Have a great weekend.