Hair/Health Update :

1) HAIR: I didn’t get a relaxer yesterday b/c stylist forgot appt so I ORDERED it from bluebeez.com and will now get back to self-relaxing. I am so sick of trying to hunt a good stylist down. It’s like I have bad luck with stylists. One of my favorites got pregnant, moved her shop and then increased the price of a relaxer from $55 to $90 and told me that when I do long stretches(in her opinion anything past 6 weeks) it would cost extra. So, NEXT!!!! Really nice lady, results nice, but not as great as I expected them to be. I didn’t have the fresh from the salon-look going on when I left. It was above average, but still quite average. The next person was my absolute favorite, but he no longer does hair FT so availability has now become an issue. So long story short, I’ll be doing them myself from now on. Heck, I’ve been doing my own since I was 14yrs old. It has been the last year that I have been venturing out to find someone worthy of doing my chemical treatments.

2) HEALTH: I haven’t had that many smoothies lately b/c I’ve been too cheap to buy any fruit. I’ll probably go buy some this weekend

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EXERCISE: I organized all of my favorite and most challenging fitness DVD’s 2 days ago. I made an excel spreadsheet with 7 columns (days of the week) and 5 rows (wks). I think filled up the spreadsheets with all of the many workouts. For me this works great because now I have an “inmyface” plan. I planned it out carefully dividing them into Cardio, Fitness Quickies (20mins or less), Strength Training and Balance & Flexibility. From here I determined that I want to work out a max of 3-4days a week given my 19lbs goal. The more challenging workouts I do only 3 times a week and the others, 4 days or so. I throw in a fitness quickie on rest days- 10-20min Pilates or a 10 min abs routine.

Each sheet is a 2 month rotation, for example Jan. & Feb, Mar. & Apr. and so on. I wanted to do this to give my body variety and also so I wouldn’t get bored or only pick my favorites. I go week by week. No two weeks are the same; I wanted every week to be different. My rest days are never the same. Sometimes, I workout back-to-back and other weeks the days will be spread out. My food cheat day is Saturday, yet I still add on a few weekend workout days.

This has helped me exponentially because ‘whenever I felt like exercising’ meant that I missed quite a few days. Not to mention, it takes the guessing out of which DVD I want to do.