Baby is as long as an avocado!

Thanks for all of the support with the news about our upcoming MOVE! We’re so excited and blessed to be where we are right now!

How I’m Feeling

Great! Again, nothing to complain about! I started wearing a BeBand from Target to keep some pants up. It’s this awesome elastic tube that well, keeps your pants up (even when they’re unbuttoned). I’m definitely starting to “feel” pregnant, meaning that my belly just feels different than it ever has!

My bellybutton is changing shapes already, even though there’s not THAT much pushing it out.

Workouts

Man, working out feels SO GOOD! I did “overdo” it on one day though. On Saturday, I did a weights routine in the morning, and then I went walking with my friend Ashley, and we went to church that evening. Just that much activity had me begging to lay down around 8pm. Granted, I haven’t done that much activity in one day in a while, so I’m sure my body would probably be ok if I did weights and a 20-30min walk!

I’ve also been doing lots of planks. It feels so good to engage my core (without doing actual ab exercises, here’s why I’m staying away from crunches).

Foods

Still loving to cook over here! Tuesdays have been deemed enchilada days! I used this recipe for Turkey & Black Bean Enchiladas from Skinnytaste (but I subbed in pinto beans for the turkey and corn tortillas for the flour).

Another winning recipe was a Sweet Curried Tuna Salad from Cooking Light and a Apple-Broccoli Slaw salad from the same book, but I can’t find the recipe online. It was bascially a package of broccoli slaw, 1.5 c. chopped apple (I used a green apple), and a dressing of lite mayo (3TBSP), apple cider vinegar, a bit of sugar and salt. I had to double up on the sugar and the vinegar, because as the slaw sat overnight, the flavors were barely detectable. I don’t know if I’d make the slaw this way again, but, we really liked the apples mixed in there! I think we’ll just tweak the dressing a bit to make it have some more PUNCH!

Week 6 vs Week 16- what a difference 10 weeks makes!

Well, there went week 16 without a hitch! Excited to see what week 17 brings!

Hi Friends! I hope your week went as swimmingly as mine! This week, I had a lot of free time, but I had a wonderful time taking it easy because I know next week is going to be slightly crazy!

It’s that time of the week, time for Fitness Friday!

• Saturday: Pool with Matthew and Daniel!
• Sunday: Another Pool Day
• Monday: REST
• Tuesday: 1 mile run on Treadmill, played “Personal Trainer” to my little bro at the gym!
• Wednesday: 4.5 mile Interval Run on Treadmill at Body Structure

• Thursday: 90 Abs- using exercises from Tina’s recent abs post on Faith, Fitness Fun
• Friday: 5 mile Ladder Workout on the Treadmill at Body Structure

1 mile Warm Up
400 @ 7.5mph
400 @ 8.0mph
800 @ 8.0mph
1200 @ 8.0mph
800 @ 8.2mph
400 @ 8.5 mph
400 @ 8.5 mph
0.5 mile Cooldown

(rest was 0.13 miles- 1/2 walking, 1/2 jogging at 6.5)

• Miles for this week: 10.5
• Abs for this week (towards the 3,000 in 35 challenge): 90

I felt SO GOOD this week during my runs! I retired an old pair of running shoes, and pulled out another pair from the closet that weren’t as worn. Well… these “old but not too old shoes” did something:

I have a huge blister on the inside of my arch. It formed on Wednesday’s run, and on todays run, it busted open. Fortunately, I was at the gym and I had access to bandages. I put on 3 band aids before I started my run, but about half way through, my blister was pretty painful. Then, I put on a super bandage, and wrapped my foot with neoprene. The blister still hurt a lot, but at least I wasn’t getting blister goo and blood everywhere!

I also had another running “injury” this week- I lost a toenail. Gross, I know. So you may think I have all of my little piggies painted orange, but really I just painted a chunk of skin on one of my toesies.

Well folks, that’s all for this week’s edition of Fitness Fridays with the Coopers! Stay tuned for a Post about Squid-Ink Pasta!

Since my schedule is going to be changing a bit, I thought it would be a good idea to write down some of my exercise routine goals!

• Monday: Bodyrock.tv workout
• Tuesday: Run (starting at 20-30 minutes)
• Wednesday: Bodyrock.tv workout
• Thursday: Run
• Friday: Run Make-up Day (in case Tues or Thurs doesn’t work) or Rest/Long Walk with Silas
• Saturday: BodyRock.tv workout or Run
• Sunday: Rest Day (I can never seem to muster up much energy after church on Sunday mornings!)