{"id":12244,"date":"2017-10-16T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=12244"},"modified":"2017-10-16T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:13:07","slug":"weekend-recap-on-the-21-day-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=12244","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Recap on the 21 Day Fix!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we had a lovely weekend full of play-dates, Baker&#8217;s piano lessons, swimming lessons, friends over for the Football game, being outside and general weekend merriment.\u00a0 I was quite concerned about keeping up with my meal plan over the weekend since weekends are my nemesis.\u00a0 However, I am happy to report that it went great!\u00a0 This past week I had been posting the day after regarding how I did the day before, but I was finding that to be confusing, so I&#8217;m going to recap the weekend and then start posting about how today went (even though I know it&#8217;s technically not quite over yet).\u00a0 \u00a0And before I start the recaps, I thought I would share a picture of my adorable new egg slicer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just too cute not to share&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12248\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12248\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cute-egg-slicer-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cute-egg-slicer-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cute-egg-slicer-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cute-egg-slicer-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cute-egg-slicer.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><em>21 Day Fix Update:<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Day 5\u00a0 (Friday) is done and in the books.\u00a0 I&#8217;m finally starting to not feel as sore.\u00a0 I feel like this week has been ridiculously long.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only into my 6th day now, but it feels like I&#8217;ve been doing this for weeks.\u00a0 But I suppose in a way that&#8217;s a good thing because it&#8217;s starting to not feel as overwhelming anymore.\u00a0 I did breakdown and have a zero calorie \/ zero sugar energy drink yesterday.\u00a0 The black coffee was just not enough&#8230; I felt bad &#8220;breaking the rules&#8221; but I figure if it keeps me going it&#8217;s ok.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve been sooooo good about everything else, that I felt kind of like I was rewarding myself.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>21 Day Fix Update:<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0 Day 6 &amp; 7 (Saturday &amp; Sunday) are completed! I was super concerned I wouldn&#8217;t be able to hold it together.\u00a0 But Saturday I kept myself busy and got up early to get my workout done before swimming lessons.\u00a0 Sunday we had friends over and they brought super yummy food, but I was in charge of veggies for the meal, so I just made sure there was an amazing veggie assortment and I was able to pretty much keep myself eating fruits and veggies for the afternoon.\u00a0 I admit I did sample a tiny bit of a couple things, but I kept it totally in moderation.\u00a0 So even though I cheated, it was still within my calorie limits.\u00a0 Oh, and I had one small cookie.\u00a0 Hehe!\u00a0 And it was soooooo good.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t had any sugary things this week, so it was super scrumptious.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>21 Day Fix Update:<\/em><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 Day 8 (today) is just about done!\u00a0 And I&#8217;m happy to report that I am officially NOT SORE!\u00a0 Yippie!\u00a0 Today I&#8217;m finally feeling like this isn&#8217;t as hard anymore.\u00a0 I&#8217;m able to plan out my day and think of foods much easier.\u00a0 I also finally have my water intake under control&#8211;and am able to get all of that in without trouble. I was ecstatic to see another tiny drop on the scale again this morning.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to make you wait on pins and needles to share my final weight loss number with you though.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 You&#8217;ll just have to hang on to the end to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, I&#8217;m impressed at how much of a change I can feel in just one week.\u00a0 Mostly mental, but a little bit physical.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t feel as overwhelmed.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling healthier and overall better about myself.\u00a0 I can tell my belly is starting to shrink (a tiny bit) and I&#8217;m not as winded going up and down stairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we had a lovely weekend full of play-dates, Baker&#8217;s piano lessons, swimming lessons, friends over for the Football game, being outside and general weekend merriment.\u00a0 I was quite concerned about keeping up with my meal plan over the weekend since weekends are my nemesis.\u00a0 However, I am happy to report that it went great!\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12244\/revisions\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}