We found these drinks at H-E-B the other day called Neuro Sleep, Neuro Bliss, Neuro Trim, etc. The sleep one helps you to ease into sleep at night without any added non natural stuff in it. It works, I drink it and usually within a half hour, I can lie down and fall asleep rather easily. I've been drinking the Trim one as well, which is supposed to help with weight loss. Now, I don't know about all that, but the taste reminds me of going out to my grandma's yard and picking grapes straight off the vine and eating them, it takes me back to a nice childhood memory. The best part, other than the taste, is that it only has 35 calories in it and it's non carbonated. The Bliss one is supposed to help you de-stress naturally, it's lightly carbonated, and the taste isn't bad but it is not my favorite.
I'm not endorsing them, in any way, I am just saying that the one for sleep seems to work really well.
Britney and I went to the gym today and worked out for a bit. She surprises me more and more every day. She was running on the treadmill today at 6.8 mph for about 7 minutes when she looks over at me, points to her knee and says it hurts, so I tell her to get off the treadmill. However; prior to that, she has been on the treadmill for about 25 minutes at a pretty good pace of 4.0 mph. There was an Army Reservist there working out on the treadmill, and my 13 yr old daughter, ran circles around him. After him being on the treadmill at 4.5 mph for 10 minutes, he shut it down and doubled over gasping for air....poor dude weighed maybe 145 pounds max. Just goes to show that you never know what a person is capable of just by their looks. This Army wife wound up running circles around him on the treadmill and I weigh significantly more than he does. One of the trainers fussed at him for dropping the weights because he tried to do too much. Meanwhile, my daughter and I are doing arm workouts pulling or pushing anywhere from 30 - 60 pounds and doing leg presses at 90 pounds and pushing and pulling 60 pounds on the inner and outer thigh machines and pushing 90 pounds while working on our glutes. 50 pounds on our abs. Her and I may not have a lot of upper body strength, but we are working on it and while I was literally soaked in sweat, I felt bad for this Reservist because he was just trying to impress the ladies...and we were ALL at a much higher level than this guy. He just needs to come back and work on it a little at a time and build up to it. That's what the rest of us have done.
I'm getting better at ignoring the wine and beer sections at the grocery stores. It doesn't bother me anymore. Sure, I can smell an open something and my mouth may water, but it doesn't mean that I have to take that drink. I can sit back, do my shopping, go home and have some ice tea or water and be just as happy. I'm enjoying my life right at this moment. I'm going to the gym daily, unless my knee dictates otherwise, and I am doing daily Yoga routines as well and those poses I can modify so that there isn't as much pressure on my knee if it's a bad day. Tonight I'll be working with someone I haven't worked with before, so this should be interesting. Right now, I just hope that I have some workout clothes clean and dry before class starts, otherwise I'm going to miss out and I need that extra hour of workout today. This weight cannot stay on forever if I am doing two completely different types of workouts every day, because it's always working different sets of muscles in different ways. Nothing is the same from day to day. Besides, you can't have a 30 inch waist and weigh 250 pounds...it's physically impossible. So here is to doing well so far today.
I'll be back later!
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