No plans..

My day has been a classic example of what NOT to do!! Not so much in the exercise department, cause I totally rocked that out! But more in area of food!

Last night, I just didn't feel like doing any planning for today, so I went to bed!! Waking up this morning, I didn't want to think.. so I grabbed an apple, oatmeal, and a nature valley granola bar!

Yeah.. That would be an OK start to the day.. Too bad that was all I had planned out!! I ended up eating the apple and oatmeal (With flax and agave nectar) for a pre-workout meal...

My problem lies after that.. The fact that I skipped lunch in favor of a nap.. and then my next pre-workout meal consisted of a pop-tart and an energy drink! Round out my dinner with cottage cheese and a sweet potato...

WOW!! No balance what-so-ever!!! Also, I don't believe I hit my calorie intake for the day either! So tomorrow will be different! I've got a plan working.. I'm getting up early to make sure everything is ready to go!!

One day won't kill me.. It's when I get lazy and start stringing those days together that I get off course!! Let's get moving in the right direction again! Tomorrow is a new day!

SUCCESS IS MY ONLY OPTION!!!

Long time no see!!!

I love when I see people that I haven't seen in a long time!!

Today, I saw my friend Eric, whom I haven't seen since last October when his team played in Peoria!! It made me smile when he noticed such a big difference in my size!

Photo comparison!!2009
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Looking good, feeling good!! (By the way, I just had to get new jeans.. cause my last pair were too big!! YAY for another size down!)

Thinking.....

I got to thinking about the timing of this whole journey tonight!

Why didn't I do this earlier??... Why did it take me nearly 25 years to realize that I need to take control of my health and lose this weight?!? I just wish that I would have thought of this earlier! For some reason, today I feel like I've wasted so much of my life!

I can't thank my gymmies enough for always being there for me!

Stretch me out!!

You always hear that you need to stretch out when you are done working out.. And I fully agree!!

After my 5K, I did not stretch, and my muscles tightened up and were sore for a couple days! Not a good feeling!

I make sure to stretch out after all my workouts! And whenever its an option, I make my trainer Travis stretch me out! It feels awesome to get your muscles stretched for you!


Travis torturing.. errr.. I mean, stretching my quads!!

So make sure you stretch out after your work outs! All your muscles... legs, arms, shoulders, back, hips... All of it!!

OPPSS!!!

Well... we've got two fails going on right now!

#1.. Somehow on a Friday night in which I was doing basically NOTHING, I break my blog writing streak at 11 days! Opps, Sorry guys! And that was one of my goals too.. THAT SUCKS!

#2.. I also completely failed the Vegan thing! My problem is, even some stuff labeled as "soy" or "veggie" products still have casein or whey protein in it!! BOOOOO!! So for the past 3 days, I've been completely Vegetarian.. But not Vegan!! I think if just work on getting more veggies into my diet and not so much processed crap, I'll be good!


Now onto my complete successes!!!

Power Hour was great this morning! I burned 930 calories during it!! That's a record for Power Hour! And it was ridiculously simple! Since it was only Margie and I, we both put on boxing gloves, and one of us would box, while the other one ran a lap... when that person got back, the one boxing would head out! We did that for an hour.. 930 calories!!! WOOP WOOP!

Oh and get this... While we were boxing, Dorian has me punching all over the place and then he puts it on his chest and says punch... Umm ok! So I did it.. then he puts it on his face and says punch... Oh my! So I did it, and he told me to "Punch hard, don't be afraid"... You don't have to tell me that twice! So I did! And I maybe punched him in the eye!!! Not hard enough for a black eye.. but maybe next time :-)



Bahahaha! I had to take a picture.. Its like my trophy.. or something like that!

Then I went and burned another 960 calories during Turbo Kick!! 1890 calories burned during JUST the gym portion of my day!! All in all, it was an AWESOME workout day!! I ended up burning 5,131 calories! WOOP WOOP!

Skipping my off day tomorrow in favor of some training with Travis!! Gotta burn those calories!!

Switching it up!

I've come to the decision to try to go Vegan for 2 weeks! It is going to be VERY hard! I can live without meat... But I do love eggs, cheese, yogurt, milk! Lots of good things made from yummy animals! But, I know it will be really good for me, and a really good challenge!

Today was going pretty well, until I had some goldfish for a snack!! Shoot, they are made with cheddar! Opps! That's what I get when I work with children!

But today my meals looked like this?

Breakfast:
Oatmeal with agave nectar, ground flax seeds, and raspberries!

Pre-workout snack:
Mango Smoothie (Kinda high in calories.. but over 3 servings of fruit in the bottle)

Lunch:
Avocado + Tomato Sandwich (Made with whole grain bread)
Cucumber slices
Goldfish

Pre-workout snack:
Oatmeal Squares (My favorite cereal)

Dinner:
Protein shake (Would have had more, but ran out of calories + needed high protein)

So overall, not terrible! Although, I guess my protein shake had animal protein in it.. but it was made with almond milk! I'm going to have to start getting creative to get all my protein in and not have to turn to protein shakes!

Totals today...
5188 calories burned
1822 calories consumed
3366 calorie deficit

WOOP WOOP!

Come on Baby, make it hurt so good!

Hurt so good
Come on baby, make it hurt so good
Sometimes love don't feel like it should
You make it hurt so good


Between the cardio I did on my own this morning, and Travis' attempt to make my arms fall off, I am just beyond sore!

I started off the day with getting in a mile at 15:19!! YAY! So excited with how close I am getting to 15 minutes!! WOOP WOOP!

Then came training tonight... Travis always asks how we're feeling, if anything is sore.. Well, my usual answer is I'm good! Today, that was NOT what he wanted to hear! So his decision... MAKE IT HURT!

We did an hour of JUST biceps and shoulders... From 6 minutes straight of bicep curls (With 17.5lbs weights).. to dragging Travis around on a rope doing shoulder presses... We did it all.. and it hurts!!

Everything hurts... It doesn't help that my sciatica decided to flair up tonight! BOO! And there's no rest for the weary! I've got 2 trainings, 2 Power Hours, and 2 Turbo Kicks before I get my rest day on Sunday!! Here's to Sunday getting here quickly!