Those are the words Pablo kept repeating last night and it really was motivational. Spin is hard, spin is tiring, but spin also forces you to go within yourself and find out how hard you can push yourself. And when you think you have pushed yourself far enough, go a little more. Spin makes you use your own body to build resistance against the bike - you control your ride and, just like Pablo said, you control your body. It's all mental. When the heat in the room is getting to be too much and the music is just too loud, and your muscles are sore and you can't climb that hill any higher (and you can't actually see the hill they want you to climb), you just have to remind yourself that there is an end, and the longer you push, the quicker the end will come!
Last night's class was hard and great! I hadn't been to a spin class since October so I knew this would be hard. I knew I would not be able to push myself as hard as I wanted to, but as long as I was there and moving my legs and sweating, I knew everything would be okay. I love that moment when Pablo gets on his bike and says "Hello! How is everyone doing? Tonight's going to be easy" because you just know, there is no such thing as easy when it comes to Pablo! When the lights dimmed and the music started playing, I lowered my head, turned up my resistance and just rode my bike. I rode the hill that Pablo told me we were going to ride and I got up out of the saddle when it became really tough, and sat down and pushed my legs faster to go downhill. The music was loud, emotions were strong and I was loving it! I couldn't think about anything at all. I sang along to the music in my head and just went with the flow. I love that Pablo rides with us and then he walks around the room and makes sure that everyone is doing okay - I love that he locks eyes with you and moves side to side standing in front of you while you move side to side on the bike. It's motivational and it's fun!
I had a lot of Weight Watchers Activity logged from the ride (5 points), but the fitbit did not do a good job. From the chart, it looks like I was barely moving during the 45 minute class, whereas the activelink tracked high activity levels. I only hit my steps goal on my walk home. I am glad that I use both to track my activity because sometimes the tracking does not make sense. Obviously last night's spin class was more activity than the fitbit shows since it is showing my walk to the class as more activity than the class itself.
I got home last night and made a quick dinner of a rice cake topped with avocado and maple ham. Dessert was what I was waiting for, but I needed some quick protein and fiber and good food right after my ride to refuel and help my muscles repair! Dessert was a baked chocolate cookie dough quest bar with arctic zero chocolate peanut butter ice cream! It was heavenly. And it kept me full the rest of the night - I didn't go into the kitchen once to snack and I didn't take a bite of Ryan's cereal for his late night snack! Tonight, I plan to make the quest banana boat! We have plenty of bananas at home and chocolate powdered peanut butter and so many flavors of quest bars to choose from! I am going to leave out the chocolate chips and only use half a quest bar to keep the points lower. Bananas are 3 WW points when you cook with them, so it makes the dessert an extra meal if I used a banana and a full quest bar. By only using half a bar, and using powdered peanut butter, my points are lowered, but the taste is still just as great (I hope)!
I didn't go to bar method this morning like I had planned. I got really used to sleeping in and having breakfast at home this week so I decided to do it one more day and get back into my routine Monday! For breakfast, instead of my usual egg white and oatmeal pancake, I made an omelette with ham and avocado (5 WW Points). Basically a recreation of dinner last night. And I added chia seeds for some extra "expansion" of the eggs and to make it more filling! It tasted so delicious and kept me full all morning! The avocado melted inside of the egg and became "cheesy." Tomorrow I will have my pancake since I need to be full all day before our 16-course tasting menu at Eleven Madison!
It's unbearably cold again today and I am so ready for this winter to end. It seems to be going on forever! It makes me not want to wake up early, workout, get out of bed, walk, or be outside. I miss going on a walk after dinner with Ryan, but it's too windy and too cold, and not fun! We would much rather stay inside watching TV. And as fun and comfy and warm as that is, it does not help with our activity. I can't wait for the warmer months to show up so we can get our butts moving again! Then we can walk and bike everywhere and then I'll be more motivated to get out of bed in the morning for bar method!
Tonight, we are going to stay in and watch a movie. I am ABSOLUTELY going to bar method tomorrow. It's our 1 year anniversary and I am going to bar to celebrate, just as I did 1 year ago! Then we have our amazing dinner to prepare ourselves for! They say it takes about 4 hours for the entire meal - so we have a reservation at 5:30pm and we plan to be there a long time! I know with a tasting menu the plates are small, and by spacing them out, I know we won't get "stuffed." I am dreaming about the food that we had at our wedding so I am so excited to be going back to Eleven Madison. It is such a treat to eat there and I can't wait to share it with my husband!
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