This is the first week where my group doesn’t have a lot of lectures. We had a whole host of new arrivals on Sunday – so campus is busy. Add Nutrition Week to the mix – and it is pandemonium! Although the list of lectures for our group is short - the Nutrition Week organizers would have us attend every single nutrition class on the agenda. They've created a score card and the person who accumulates the most points will win a prize at the end of the week.
Today was the big Nutrition Bowl - extra points were up for grabs if you came in a costume - and it was truly amazing to see how creative some people were. As "Vanna White" I transformed my bathing suit and sarong into a faux evening gown. One group was extremely creative and created theme costumes around nutrition and came armed with water pistols - another created an elaborate headgear out of balloons, some came in grass skirts - one made a hat out of cabbage + a sandwich board talking about it's two main strengths. The competition was fierce, the questions seemed to be never ending - but after an hour we had a clear winner.
I thought that as Vanna White, I would have it easy ...not thinking that I would be on my feet the entire time - with no letters to turn, I was charged with posting the points for each correct answer and modeled the exciting prizes. As score keeper – I took the liberty of deducting points from those that squirted me – and as the competition was fierce it was a good way to avoid getting drenched! Marlene (the Director of Nutrition) posed the questions and Nancy, our fearless nutrition intern was the time keeper. We had two teams - one for the newbies/ first timers and the other for the returnees. It was good fun.
Tomorrow night is the Supermarket Scavenger Hunt - I signed up out of curiosity - we shall see! If today’s questions are any indication as to what it entails …it won’t be easy. I’m hoping that I’ll get teamed up with someone who is very knowledgeable.
All in all it's been a busy day - I started off the morning with the low impact aerobics class - it's a level 2/3 class - and discovered that doing the lateral moves was a real challenge - the top part of my outer thighs / hips screamed in pain -so had to make some adjustments. I think all the dance classes are catching up - and I need to do more stretching. Thankfully, there was a Gyrokinesis class this afternoon -and that's a great one to stretch some of the sore muscles. I managed to persuade a few others to join in as well. I finished off with strength training on the weight machines. I have been avoiding doing crunches (primarily because I can't stand them) but bit the bullet and am pleased to report that today, I did 3 sets of 10 on the ball. I figured it was time - and that as long as I avoided them - the more challenging they would be - so will add them to the end of my strength training routine.
After dinner, I went to cooking demo on Chinese food. It’s hosted by this lady from China and is at her store. She’s been doing this with Structure House for 20 years and was excellent. She had several tips on ways to convert it from fattening to low fat and healthy. We did Shrimp Fried Rice (Cantonese Style) - which soon became Szechuan Style (guess who asked??? :-)) General Tso's Chicken and Peking Dumpling Soup. The amazing thing is - that other than a few squirts of oil for the rice - no other oil was used! It was very tasty - and easy to do - so will definitely be able to do it at home.
Well -I've going to end it here - as we have another full day tomorrow - and ....an extra NIA class - so need to get a good night's rest!
I hear that the heavy rains have caused a lot of flooding in Bermuda - I'm hoping that all is dry at my apartment - and that those that have been impacted by the adverse weather will have respite soon!
Love to all!
Norma
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