Food: 2809
- Honey Nut Cheerios w/ 1% milk, coffee, carmel macchiato sugar free creamer
- apple, yoplait greek w/ fruit and granola. 2 clementines.
- Turkey, Reduced Fat Swiss, Spinach, Cucumber, Mushroom and Cucumber Dill Greek Dressing on a Sun-dried Tomato & Basil tortilla with Sparkling Ice Lemon Lime and two baby energy bites
- Spinach salad w/ almonds, strawberry, clementine, tofu and Cucumber Dill dressing
- Natural Almond Butter, milk, banana, whey protein, chia seed and Hershey’s Special Dark smoothie/protein shake
- Red Wine
Exercise:
- 50 toe pushups
- 50 situps (25 leg lifts, 25 cobras)
- Reilly walk (short)
- 2hr. Sweets practice
- 1hr. scrimmage
After sitting down and writing all about being positive, I had a major Hulk Menace negativity slip. 😦 Oops.
Huge food success yesterday. 2800+ healthy calories. I have decided to experiment with wraps, so yesterday I smashed myself a turkey-swiss spinach wrap. I’ve never been good at rolling burritos and I always overfill my tacos. These skills translate to wrap-ping, so I struggled and designed a cucumber-dill dressing disaster. Oddly enough, after being refrigerated all day, it stayed together well. And was filling. Despite the lack of bread-stuffs. I’m quite pleased with how it turned out, and have another for today. It kills me that 6 tortillas cost $3.59 and a loaf of bread is $1.99, though…
I brought clementines and energy bites to ward off the Dove Dark Chocolates (the stash of which Karen refilled yesterday.) Success! Those energy bites rock. Remind me again why I didn’t make them the past few weeks? I jammed on a spinach salad and a smoothie-shake (what’s the difference?) before practice yesterday. Waaay more than enough, even for a 3hr. night. I didn’t have a snack before scrimmage, or even afterwards. Chia seeds keep your blood sugar regulated, and your tummy full. Considering they were in everything I ate yesterday… must be true. 🙂
Practice was… practice. My backwards skating has improved tremendously the past week alone. Misto hugely helped last Thursday. When crossing over, she told me to keep my feet on the ground. Aha! I can still only do it going the correct direction, but yesterday I worked on the foot movement to cross the wrong direction and improved. Baby steps. At scrimmage… well first I was pleased to have four refs. Really. It was such a relief seeing them all show up. I’d have been happy with three, four was amazing! Yay. I played… okay. I fucked up a few times and did some good things as well. But. Positive Polly focuses on the things she did well, so…
- I didn’t give up. Jamming against a Sweets-Nona-Bijou-??? wall I pushed and pushed and fought and fought and got a high block and went to the box. But Sweets said it wasn’t really a high block. 😀 Regardless: I didn’t give up. I kept pushing and pushing and maybe I didn’t get through, but someday soon I will.
- Cass jamming… seconds on the jam clock. I dropped back and nailed someone out of Cass’s way so she scored her points as time expired. I’m not so good at the drop back (the clockwise “danger zone,” so to speak,) so this was pretty cool.
- Last jam, power jam Menace. I get out of the pack and look at the jam clock. 8 seconds to get back around and through again. Fuuuck. My instinct is to conserve energy, w/ 8 seconds I’m not getting around the track and back through… but I’ve seen She Who lap a pack and score in 8 seconds, so fuck it. I sped up, got around the track, and with the help of an amazing offensive hit from Cass, scored my 5 points. Fuck yeah! … and that was the end of scrimmage. 😀
I’ve still got an Apex-Jumping mental block. I think I have to skip practice tomorrow (we’re hosting a playoff basketball game. They haven’t asked me to run the clock, perhaps due to the faux pas from Saturday… perhaps b/c they think I intuitively know to be here… not sure.) So maybe I’ll hit up Saturday Scrimmage and focus on my hops. (My hops, my hops, my lovely lady hops?)
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