Weekends are always the hardest!

I don't know about you, but when the weekends come around, I feel truly free and can relax!  But with HCC, I can't totally relax and remembering that is difficult!  Friday night after workout, I went to Black Bean Company with Ed, one of the mentors.  I just found out recently (probably the last to find out) that our two mentors are dating each other - Ed is AWESOME - so I'm not surprised at all that he's dating the other awesome mentor, Cyndi.  Ed is hilarious, but you wouldn't know it right away because he's quiet.  He reminds me of my cousin Ben and my brother-in-law Evan, which right there explains his awesomeness.  Also, during the Friday night workout, when doing the indian runs were so difficult, he fell back and ran with me and encouraged me! I didn't stop to walk once! The Friday night "happy hour" and work out was hard - but I felt GREAT at the end!! In fact, Tyler had us play dodge ball at the end - always fun (!!) - and if you hit someone above the shoulders, you had to stop and do 3 squats, if you got hit, you had to stop and do the same 3 squats, and again, if when you threw the ball at someone and they caught it, 3 more squats.  So a lot of squatting and laughing and throwing and hitting - GREAT end to the Friday Happy Hour! :)

Saturday, I got up and met Cyndi, Mary, & Jane at Spinning at 9:30 and worked HARD in that class!! But I really liked taking spinning with Kelsey (the instructor) and I felt great afterwards.  The biggest problem I have with weekends is working out with the same intensity as M-F workouts - but Saturday's spinning class fixed that. And the second biggest thing is eating on schedule.  M-F eating schedule is set by and large by my school schedule, but the weekends = a lot of free time and I don't always stick to the schedule as well.

One great thing this weekend, I don't want to mess up what I've lost so far by eating something I shouldn't and I can't say that for the past 3 weekends, so something clicked! I'm not even tempted! Sure, I wanted something sweet on Saturday, but I didn't want chocolate chip cookies or milk chocolate or sweets - I craved strawberries.  I went to the grocery store hungry and was FINE.  How great is that?? I wouldn't suggest going to the grocery store hungry and it's not something I would normally do, but I feel great about what I've done and I don't want to mess it up with something as silly as Reeses cups.  Yay!!