HOW is it January 28th already? I was reading a work email and someone referenced the date and right away I laughed inside thinking they had gotten a bit ahead of themselves on the calendar. Apparantly it’s me who is behind!
Obviously this past weekend was hard and sad and exhausting. This as a bookend to the last two weeks that have been exciting, sad, heartbreaking, sleepless and worrisome. It’s no wonder that my brain is still stuck back on January 12th! As we were laying in bed on Saturday and then laying on the couch on Saturday and then laying on a different couch on Sunday and then back in bed on Sunday, I remarked to my dear hubby that we may as well stop trying to “get some sleep” because extra sleep is not going to help us with the kind of tired that we’re feeling. Just time and regular life will take care of that. As silly as it may sound, the last two weeks have been traumatizing. I know that we only had Snoopy for 11 days but what we went through with him was pretty intense so we’ll be recovering from it for a little while, I think.
Saturday night, wiped out & sad. Pajamas, sofa, red eyes.
We went to a 50th bday party on Saturday night, something we’d already committed to and it was actually a great distraction for us. We took Ray’s son & daughter with us as the venue was an hour’s freeway drive away. The birthday guy got there at 5 and by 7 they had him absolutely shittered, I felt SO bad for Future Birthday Guy, they were mixing shooters and cream drinks and beer. We didn’t call and see how he was feeling the next day, I can only imagine!
Sunday we didn’t do much, it was absolutely pouring with rain so we did a couple errands and then hung out on the sofa for the rest of the day. I was actually looking forward to coming to work today and I am REALLY looking forward to going to the gym tomorrow morning! I was on hiatus this past week but my body and my mind really need to charge forward and keep building on the momentum that I started at the beginning of January!
We’re going out of town for the weekend on Friday after work so I really only have 2 workout days to get through this week but two is better than zero! I may add a Friday morning one just to add fuel to my fire in light of this past week off. We’ll see how my body feels by Friday!
Today is Day One that I’m adding creatine to my diet. Creatine is an amino acid that your body produces normally but in the case of heavy lifting, supplementing with it can provide extra “food” for your muscles in order to get leaner, lift heavier and increase the rate at which you can build muscle. I definitely want to maximize my time in the gym and taking a supplement such as this will definitely help me get there (the same as taking a protein drink within 30 minutes of muscle work). If you’ve ever done any reading on weight lifting, body building or supplementing you may have heard that taking creatine can make you bloated and retain water. Fortunately, technology and medicine has come a long way and there is now a revised version called buffered creatine or Kre Alkalyn. This buffered creatine has a higher pH in order to avoid the acidity of the stomach from turning large quantities of it into the toxic byproduct creatinine. Creatinine is what causes water retention, bloating and upset. The conversion of creatine into creatinine is also why, in the past, people had to take huge quantities of the supplement to get the results…because after the degradation in the stomach, not a lot of usable supplement was left. Now they’ve taken the creatine and buffered it to a higher pH such that the acidity of the stomach does not degrade it. So a smaller supplement load with better absorption to the muscles and no side effects.
Anyway, I’m excited and curious to see what, if any, results I have with this. It’s possible that I don’t lift often or heavy enough to actually gain a measurable benefit from taking it, but I’m going to try it for awhile. The bottle that I bought should last me a little over two months at which time I’ll make an assessment and either keep on or drop it.
Anyway, should probably run along and make some tea, eat some vegetables and do some work and remember:
Today is a brand new day. Replace any negativity with positivity. Think happy thoughts. Exercise. Drink lots of water. Healthy is happy!
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