Last week’s totals: 3 days at the gym, all of them early in the week (Sun, Mon, Tues). I have such bad morning sickness, even though I’m taking the Zofran. Some days the pills work, and some days they seem to have no effect, leaving me feeling (w)retched. It’s like having a perpetual flu for months on end. Couple the nausea with the usual antepartum depression and it’s like my own personal cocktail of failure. This week, despite the great start, I felt increasingly bitter and petulant about being tired, nauseated, and depressed.
But today’s Sunday — a new day, the beginning of a new week. I’m back from church, and I feel forgiven and cleansed from the week before. I’m looking forward to a fresh start, and I plan to add some resistance training to my day. What I need is a regimen I can follow while blogging! I’ll look around for some simple exercises I can do with resistance bands. You know what I’m talking about: handle on each end, stretchy tube in between. Nothing my kids can drop on their feet and hurt themselves with.
Food: I can’t seem to want to cook green vegetables myself, but I’m actually doing better on the veg front and have been downing Indian dishes like mutter paneer and aloo saag — the spice keeps my nausea in check and I can eat loads of spinach and peas along with some basmati rice. The saag was hot as the fires of hell but I drank milk to help cancel some of the heat. Other cravings: pico de gallo made by the market near me, which has a bunch of Latino guys working behind the counter. They make a mean cuban sandwich — and Lord help me if the market ever closes and I lose my supply of pico de gallo! When I’m pregnant my salsa cravings know no bounds. I will practically upend a jar into my mouth (what a lady!). And the other day I did a u-turn to bounce into the Wendy’s line for a Frosty. I ate the whole thing driving the 2 miles from Wendy’s to my house, and if that’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
Any ideas for resistance band workouts? I’ll do a YouTube search.
So I made it to the gym today, got on the treadmill, and managed a half hour of brisk walking and –wait for it –one full minute of running. I would have gone longer but 
A new year, a new you, right? It’s said that goals written down are the ones that are reached most faithfully. I know it’s easy to say “I’ll lose 20 lbs” and get lost in the clouds of such a general goal. My specific goal for Jan 2009 and beyond? Getting to the gym 5 days a week. I’m still rehabbing the broken foot so I’m not doing serious running at all, just trying to stretch the ankle and hip and get back into the exercise habit.