Reading your log title always reminds me of something someone told me a while back - "Five days out of the week, I treat my body like a temple. The other two I treat it like a circus tent."
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No "happy hours" makes for a lot of miserable days. - Mahler
Between the two, I definitely prefer wine. Although I'll usually take a mixed drink over wine. Too bad they're often pretty caloric.
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
Reading your log title always reminds me of something someone told me a while back - "Five days out of the week, I treat my body like a temple. The other two I treat it like a circus tent."
LOL....Although, I'm not sure how your body can be treated like a circus tent. And the amt of brain power I want to spend thinking that analogy through is.................none.
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Originally Posted by scribess
Between the two, I definitely prefer wine. Although I'll usually take a mixed drink over wine. Too bad they're often pretty caloric.
My mixed drink is either vodka and diet coke, a dirty martini or the occasional vodka and cranberry. But overall, there's a vodka theme, isn't there?
06/19
Weight: 124.8...ahh, the downward trend didn't continue....and I was hungry yesterday!
Training: Day C To be completed after work Cardio: Walking.
We're going to an amusement park today for a fieldtrip. If I walk around tons, I'm not going to go walk on a treadmill. However, I will have to for at least 35 mins if I don't.
So, I don't really have a lot of food planned for the day. If I do eat it'll be the protein shake and a salad with chicken. Also, we're going out later tonight where I'll have some food as well that I want to save up cals for.
Dilemma:Father's Day weekend. We're going with my dad for breakfast tomorrow...should be okay as long as I stick to just eggs. Then it's dinner with his dad on Sunday. We're also going kayaking so that should give me a little room to eat more. If not, I'll just save my cals and not worry about macros.
Time to kill so I'll ramble in my log cuz it's my log. A part of me wants to stop this insanity that's called a deficit. I'm hungry, I want food and all I want is a piece of whole grain toast with pb and banana.....LOL. That and I feel like the fatloss is painfully slow. And to get leaner abs, my upper body is going to look too skinny and no boobs. Sad.......OTOH, I'd love to get it done so I can just focus on maintaining, which is when I'll pick up running again. I love running. Plus I do have two weddings this summer but one of them means that in just over two weeks I'll have to interrupt my plan again for probably 2 weeks. This is not helping my cause.
I feel your pain! But then, if you are good at maintaining, you can take a break and just pick up where you left off, diet-wise, right?
Yup, that's a voice of reason.
06/19
I messed up on my training day. The only impact was that I had some fruit when I shouldn't have; however, it's accounted for.
Training Day B
Single leg SLDL (db) 12x15, 2x12x20
OH squat (I use a dumbell) 10x5, 4x10, 6x10 **I am terrible at these. Maybe because I use dumbells but those db weights are wimpy. Maybe I should look up the proper way to do these with dumbells or does anyone know of a db alternative?
DB lunges 6x15, 6x20
Cobra 3x12
Bike intervals
2mins @ 75% MHR
1min @80% MHR
2 mins @ 60% MHR
I've done these on the elliptical in the past and that's easier. I'm hoping that this will help me on my longer bike rides that I do now that the weather's lovely.
Notables: I felt awful doing this workout. Tired to the verge of passing out. I attribute this to lower than usual H2O intake during the day and my random eats. My head still hurts and all I want is a nap. Sucks.
Notables: I felt awful doing this workout. Tired to the verge of passing out. I attribute this to lower than usual H2O intake during the day and my random eats. My head still hurts and all I want is a nap. Sucks.
*ahem* I went off plan yesterday. By 100-200 cals. We went for some street food at an Asian outdoor market. I had skewers but a couple bites of hubby's carbilicious dinner.
06/20
Weight: 124.8 Training Day A
Lat pulldown 3x12x#6 (these felt good)
Lat pulldown, supinated 10x#7, 2x10x#6
Curl and press standing 3x10x10
Straight leg crunch, weighted 2x15x10
Side bridge, 1x60sec , 1x65sec. I am supposed to do 120sec but I CAN'T! Cardio: Driving range. I suck at golf
Meals:
Boring to post.
I have two weeks until we go away. Two solid weeks of opportunities to stay true to the plan and hopefully drop one real pound of fat. I must, I must, must!!!!
I have two weeks until we go away. Two solid weeks of opportunities to stay true to the plan and hopefully drop one real pound of fat. I must, I must, must!!!!
I hear ya! This is how I'm feeling. Just want the fat scale to go down!!! We must stay on the good food path.
I just started going to the driving range. Hopefully we can both lose fat and get good at golf!
You can do it, Naive! Two weeks of staying on track!
Jules, PowerThirst video is great!
(*cough but the editor in me did notice the spelling of "lightening" rather than" lightning" cough*)
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06/21
Thanks guys, I'll try! But I kind of messed up already. LOL.....
Training: Day C
Db press (alternating) 3x6x25
Incline db press 3x10x20
Arnold press 3x8x15
Seated rear delt raise 3x10x15
Cardio: 1 hr kayaking. Scheduled was 35mins walking but I ran out of time and since I was kayaking anyways, I figured it was ok. Kayaking was fun but we got caught in some heavy rain and wind and so we turned back.
Food wise: Not 100%
M1: 250g ff yogurt, 1 banana, 1T pb (this was at 11am)
M2: 4oz chicken deli meat w/ greens
M3: 1c cherries
M4: small piece of lasagna, some homemade caesar salad, 1/4 of a roll, a few bites of dessert, 1glass red wine, 1c corn. Yup, father's day dinner. So, I'll be 100-150 cals over. I put everything into fitday, even the wine! Except the roll....so there ya go.
The thing that makes it hard is that I feel like crap. Tired all the time, workouts are suffering....I suppose that's what it means to be in a deficit but I can't wait until I can do everything with 100% energy. I guess that won't happen until I'm 100% fuelled. I suppose I just carry on......reload on thursday, which is good because our year end staff party is then!
we're still deciding whether to adopt locally or from Korea........
The thing that makes it hard is that I feel like crap. Tired all the time, workouts are suffering....I suppose that's what it means to be in a deficit but I can't wait until I can do everything with 100% energy. I guess that won't happen until I'm 100% fuelled. I suppose I just carry on......reload on thursday, which is good because our year end staff party is then!
How about some multivitamins? You may suffer from an iron or some other vit/mineral deficiency that's making you tired.
How about some multivitamins? You may suffer from an iron or some other vit/mineral deficiency that's making you tired.
Could be....I have prenatal multivitamins that I take but I haven't been taking those regularly. So....that could be it!
06/22
Training: Off
Cardio: whatever walking around I do.
Weight:124.8 It's stuck.
Meals:
M1: 1 egg, 0.6c egg whites, 1tsp olive oil, 15g cheddar, veggies, 2T salsa
M2: 1scoop whey, 1.2oz almonds
M3: I'll be starving because the above is what I packed for lunch. Probably some ff yogurt
M4: ground turkey burgers, no bun. Veggies.
Cals are good for today. Short on protein, I have 250cals leftover so..........I am so tempted to have some fruit instead of protein though.
My crazy goal right now is wondering if I could do enough training/diet by my birthday, Jan 24, 2010 so that I could have a lean physique. I like the Jessica Biel look, the one that's #5 on Leigh's blog. Do I want it badly enough is the question, really. For now, the short term is to stick with it for two weeks and then I'll continue with Round 3 when I come back from vacation. After that, I'll re-evaluate. I want to start running again as well!!!
Re: the ideal physique question, I've been thinking about that as well. I still haven't decided what I want to achieve, though the Jessica Biel #5 pic is quite nice. But I don't know if I want to go thru the whole nutrition and exercise wringer to achieve it, either.
I liked #5 on Leigh's Blog too... I haven't got a a realistic idea on what it takes to archieve it, though.. Probably a lot more than I think
But I'm planning to continue training after I'm done with NROLW4, so I might as well have a goal. Else I'll just go to the gym and have no control over what I'm doing.. And its not like I have to archieve it overnight.
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Working my way from 76.4 to 58 kg (168 - 127.6 lbs)
Lifting a bit, schedule varies. Barbell weight: 22kg/48.4#
Another one who liked #5. I'd like to get there eventually, but I don't have any timeframe in mind, and like Pips I have no clue what it'd take for me to get there. I still don't know what I'm doing after OPT--I may head into a second round (or part of a second round) if I still have fat to lose. Having grown up overweight, I don't know what my "set point" is, so I don't really know what number I'm aiming for before I focus on gaining LBM. I'm just taking things as they come right now.
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06/23 Weight:126 what?!!! LOL...I was sooo good yesterday. Oh well, the trials and tribulations of being a girl, I guess. Training: Day B To be completed later. Cardio: 2 hr bike ride. Actually, one way or 20km to work and then I have to go back. Obviously. I sucked this morning. Really, the ride was hard. I made sure to have some carbs with breakfast but either it wasn't enough or it just wasn't my day. Hopefully the ride back will be better but there's way more hills.
Meals: Oh, very exciting......I get an extra 800cals for my suffering efforts. M1: 0.75c egg white, 1 tsp olive oil, 1 multigrain pita, 1T pb, some jam M2: 1 donair M3: A kashi granola bar M4: 7oz chicken breast, salad, veggies
This still leaves me with 750 cals....I'll have to figure this out.
So yesterday's cals are at 1900. Including 2oz vodka. Not surprisingly, I had energy yesterday!!! Yup, it was amazing. Even with the bike ride, I still felt good enough to go to the gym and finish Training Day B and it was legs. I was smart enough not to include the bike intervals. I already spent 2 hrs riding......
And the surprise ending:
06/24 Weight: 124.8!!!! Training: OFF Cardio: OFF
I know rationally that weightloss isn't linear so I'm not freaking. I think it's funny that yesterday, I was at 126 and after a day of eating carbs +the ride, I'm down today! I thought for sure I'd stay up there. Ah well.
In order for me to comply, I'm going to implement Leigh's method of compliance. Simple Yes/No answers to daily goals.
Today's Goals 1. Calories: 1248 F:45g P:150g C: 61g
2. Sleep: 8.5hrs
3: Foam roll
4. Exercise: NEAT/OFF day
Today's Goals 1. Calories: 1248 F:45g P:150g C: 61g Yes to cals. No to macros.
2. Sleep: 8.5hrs No
3: Foam roll I went for a massage
4. Exercise: NEAT/OFF day
4x12
OH squat 5/5/5/5
Arnold press 15/15/15/10
Rear delt raise 15/15/15/15
Close grip push up on knees
Lat pulldown #5/#5/#5/#5
Standing db curls 10/10/10/10
Tri pushdown #2/#2/#2/#2
GOALS 1. Cals: 2304 P: 125 F: 33 C:318 I
2. Training: Reload Day
3. Foam roll
4. Sleep 8.5 hrs
It's our staff party tonight so I think eating lots of carbs will be easy. What will be tricky is keeping fat low. It's a BBQ and we're taking steaks. I'm also going to include vodka in my totals as I'll be drinking vodka+coke zero.
I know I'm not seeing the results I want buy my compliance level + interruption in diet/training has contributed to that. So, I'll suck it up and aim for better compliance for the remainder of this round and for next round. At least I'll keep telling myself that so that execution is there.
We're having our second meeting with the social worker today as well.
I know Etana also tracks using the yes/no compliance method. I probably ought to--my activity is good and my calories are fine, but my macros are starting to slip a little (though admittedly I did want to increase fat since I started having issues with eczema). Still, it strikes me as kind of a slippery slope, so I should really nail things down.
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
It went well. We just talked about our relationship as husband and wife. Really, these meetings aren't necessarily to just evaluate you as parents but to provide the agency and the birth mothers a biography of you. So there's not a lot of pressure. Just a little.
GOALS 1. Cals: 2304 P: 125 F: 33 C:318 No...in that, I had 800 cals left and there wasn't a lot of food at the BBQ. I had: a handful of chips, some fruit, a little noodles, 4oz of vodka (w/ coke zero) and one cream puff. And then on the way home we stopped for a Mcdonald's sundae. They're actually relatively low in fat. So I actually think I came under in cals.
2. Training: Reload Day YES!
3. Foam roll No
4. Sleep 8.5 hrs YES!
So yesterday I didn't do too badly but definitely could improve. That foam-rolling thing, I need to make a better effort.
06/26
THE LAST DAY OF WORK! Weight: 126.8 Not bad....... Training: Day C Cardio: 35mins walking....we're also playing tennis so I may just count that as my walking since we're going out later and walking.
Goals:
1. Cals: 1344 P: 150g C: I'm allowed fruit!
2. Exercise: Training Day C
3. Foam roll...I need to, my IT band hurts.
4. Sleep: 8-9 hrs.
5. Water: At least 2L if not more.
Linear Mode
