46 & 45

Yesterday Andrew and I needed to help my brother and his wife move so I didn't have much time to work out. I decided to ride my bike to their house in Kaysville = 15 miles. 

Does anyone else in this work suffer from restless leg? Well it is the most irritating thing at times. Usually I can control when I get it and prevent it from happening but last night I had it so bad that I didn't fall asleep till 4 am. I tell you this because the lack of sleep definitively effected my work out today. I was so tired and it took everything I had to drag myself to the gym but I did.

Total workout time = 40 minutes.

I just did the same upper body workout as last time because I was much to tired to think of anything else to do.

Day 48 and 47

This is one of those "oh crap, lets hurry and log even though nothing cool happened but I have to" post.

 Saturday I convinced Andrew to go on my bike ride with me. We were supposed to go 40 miles but only ended up going a little less than 30. I had forgotten to grab our ice cold water bottles out of the fridge before leaving and we forgot to apply sunscreen so we decided to cut it short. It was probably a good idea because I'm pretty sure I started to get Heat Stroke, or is it Exhaustion? I can never remember which one come first. Head ache that lasted the rest of the day, nausea, extreme fatigue. It was probably a wise choice to end early, to say the least.
That being said, I'm horrified that I have to ride 50 miles in 2 weeks. THANK GOODNESS I didn't sign up for the full century. ooof. that would be a tough task.

As a little side note, Denali is almost all the way weaned which means I'm not longer effortlessly burning calories. This makes me nervous about my up coming weight loss. I must not eat Reese's I must not eat Reese's.

Day 51 - Hill Ride

 Yet again another bad day on my diet. I just can seem to stay away from those Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs. It doesn't help that I bought an entire package just for my family, my mother in-law gave me an entire package, and my mom gave me some in my Easter basket as well.
Today I have a little zip lock bag with a few treats in it that I can eat today at any time. We'll see if this method works.
My second mistake was a Costco Muffin that I helped Denali eat for lunch. I didn't know until this morning that they are around 640 calories each! Makes me think of my favorite comedian Jim Gaffigan talking about how muffins are just a cup cake with out frosting or the mini-muffins.

“Have you seen the mini-muffins? How much denial are we in when we’re eating mini-muffins?… ‘Oh I’m just gonna have like one…or twelve…So small, they don’t really count. They’re like muffin vitamins. When I eat ‘em, I feel like an astronaut!’ ”

Someone from Bountiful might appreciate my ride yesterday. I only had a short amount of time so I decided to do a hill climbing ride. My original thought was Victory Road in SLC but it was right at rush hour and I decided that I didn't need to put myself in that much danger. 

My Rout:

-Down Highway 89

-Up Eagle Ridge Dr

-North along Bountiful Blvd 

-Down Eagle Wood something road

-Back home

Total time = 40 Minutes

I have to admit that I had to ride into every other side street to give my legs and heart a break. I sincerely thought my lungs were going to pop like an over filled balloon from the strain. My plan was just to go up as far as I could. I got up 1/4 of the way and was dying but thought to myself just get half way. At 1/2 way I was dying but told myself I could make it 3/4 of the way. At 3/4 I was dying but I was SO close to the top that I couldn't stop there. 

The ride down was rewarding although my hands threatened to give out and I'm sure I took off half the life of my breaks. 

After I totally turfed it a month ago while riding over some train tracks I don't go nearly as fast down hills as I used to. The thought of asphalt embedding into my skin keeps me at bay. 

Day 52 + 1 Week Stats

Yesterday I did sooooo good...until I didn't.

I ate well, worked out twice (to make up for the fact that I didn't workout yesterday), and then at 9 pm I was soooooo hungry that I kinda just went crazy and ate almost a whole package of Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs. What I should have done is just had more dinner and filled myself up a little more since  with my workouts and breast feeding I was probably way under my calorie goal. There are times when your body is telling you something and you should listen. I always know that when I'm craving a burger and fries it's because I've been cutting too much fat out of my diet.

This is not including all my Reese's Eggs and I didn't log any exercise.

WORKOUT

#1 30 minutes of core exercises on my TRX at home.

#2 Upper Body at the gym

-Bicep Curls (12 E/S)

-Overhead Press (12)

-Triceps Dip (12)

-Shoulder Row (12) 

-Pull Ups (15)

-Push Ups (15)

-Dips (15)

-Rotated Bicep Curls  (12)

-Chest Press (12)

-Standing Row (12)

     (all 3 on cable machine)

-----3 sets of each exercise. 

Total Workout Time = 80 minutes

PS: I'm sooooooo sore today. It's been more than a year since I've spent so much time on upper body alone.

Thought for today- You can't starve yourself, it won't work. + Mess up days will happen, just keep looking forward and focus on what you did RIGHT that day.

1 WEEK STATS:

123 lbs (-1lb)
19.3% Body Fat (-.7%)
22 BMI

Bust Same
Waist 31 ( -1.5 inches)
Hips Same

Las Vegas

So I took a spontaneous trip to Las Vegas with my sister and my mom. I didn't have Internet (unless I wanted to pay $14 a day, which I didn't) so I haven't been able to post for a couple days.

My goal for this trip was simply to not move backwards. It's really hard to lose weight when traveling even if you are being perfect with your diet and exercise. Personally I think it's because your body tells everything to stop until it can figure out what you are doing to it. That could totally be a load of bologna. 

I couldn't track my calories with out the Internet, no microwave in the hotel, and couldn't use the hotel gym because I had my little girl all the time.

FOOD

I went to the grocery store the first day and loaded up with fresh fruit, protein bars, Naked drinks, yogurt, and granola bars. I tried to eat only those things for breakfast, lunch, and snacks. It's too difficult to make a yummy healthy dinner in a hotel room with no microwave or way to cook so dinners I always ate out.

EXERCISE

I brought my handy dandy TRX baby! Simply hung it on the door and boom, you've got yourself a gym.

Ash, my sister, doing some one leg squats on the TRX

Doing lunges with my 25 lb nephew. A workout for you and entertaining for the kids.

I did full body strength training every other day and got my cardio in by walks in the morning with Denali and walking up and down the strip.

WRAP UP
~I ate way more then I should have when eating dinner...but hey it's Vegas and I'm going to get my money's worth at a buffet.
~I felt so much better eating lots of fresh food rather than eating out for every meal, especially because my body isn't used to it. Usually by the end of a trip I feel bloated, tired, and stopped up. This trip I managed to avoid all of those things. I will be doing this same system next time I go on a vacation.
~There isn't and excuse for not being able to workout when you go on vacation. I'm not saying you have to workout on vacation, to some that might not be a vacation. Just get creative and have fun!

Day 60

Today was a tough day. I was sooooooo tired this morning so I didn't go to the gym before Andrew left for work like I should have. I was forced to go at 5:30 pm along with the rest of Bountiful. I did half the work out that I wanted to do and then was so fed up with fighting for weights or cable machines that I just went home. You know how some days you feel like you could just go on for forever? Well this was not one of those days. Each repetition was a fight and I had to visualize my end goal to make it through.

Overall, not a very inspiring day. Here's to tomorrow-a better day.

30 minutes on the Stair Stepper

3 Sets

One arm Kettle Bell Swing with lunge and press (15 E/S)
Side Squat with Barbell (15 E/S)
Walking push ups (25 total)
Mt Climbers with legs on step and balancing crunch (25 total)

Ab blasting--Pretty much just did ab exercises until I couldn't any more.

Goals
-focus on fast but controlled reps-high cardio (more fat burn).
-Keeping heart rate around 80%
-30 second break between each exercise

 

Day 61

Today was just like any other Sunday, lots and lots of carbs. 

Sunday's are my rest days so no gym or bike workouts. Although I did Classical Stretch in the morning (look it up-it's awesome!) and Andrew and I went to the park twice today so I at least tried to be a little more active then I would normally be on a Sunday.

Figured I should add some stats in here though so even if my before and after pictures don't show a big difference hopefully we can see some difference in my body fat %.

As of this morning:

124 lbs
20% body fat
22 BMI

32 1/2 Waist
34 1/2 Bust
36 Hips

Day 62

Today was a bit of a doozy as far as "eating healthy" goes. My excused include--it's the first day and it's the weekend. :) My family went out to dinner for my sister and sister in-laws birthdays to the Cheese Cake Factory. I had my mind set on following the rules I set for clients when eating out and I did okay.

Rules I followed:

-I didn't have any of the bread they bring out for you to eat while you wait to consume your 1600 calorie meal.

-Just water NO SODA

-I shared my dinner with Andrew, my fabulous husband, so I ate a little less than half of the portion they give you. A good rule is to split your meal in half and ask for a doggy bag first thing-unless your husband is your doggy bag. 

Rules I didn't do so good on:

-I ate dessert and I lot of it which I actually forgot to log on myfitnesspal so these numbers are a little wrong.

-I kept eating way past my "I'm full" mark even though I only ate half the portion they give you.

Over all I actually feel good about my eating choices today. I was at my mom's for the better portion of the day where there is pretty much an endless supply of cookies which I didn't eat a single one. As well I cut back on my unnecessary snacking through out the day which can add up quickly.

As for exercise, I went on a 27  mile bike ride with my dad, brother, and hubby. This is my first ride of this length for the season and I'm not going to pretend that it was easy. The entire way out was against the wind with a little bit of rain and I did not have a happy attitude. Finally on the way back (which by the way the wind changed directions and we headed into it the entire way back too) I decided that I actually wanted to enjoy my ride and changed my attitude. It was hard but I had an absolute blast. I'm nervous for next week which should be a 35-40 mile ride (half century race in 4 weeks from today).

The battery on my heart rate monitor was dead so I couldn't get an accurate account of calories burned on my ride but according to myfitnesspal it was around 1100 which makes up for eating at the Cheese Cake Factory. 


**Don't expect this much detail in each post.
**Fun fact - Had I eaten the dish from The Cheese Cake Factory by myself  + the cheese cake we ordered I would have consumed 2,020 Calories. + bread + a salad + a soda...

60ish Day Challenge

Alright y'all, I officially have 63 days until my cruise in June which makes it a little over 2 months. I decided that I want to do my own personal challenge. I'm okay with how my body looks right now, at least I was until I took some "Before" pictures, but I'd like to take it to the next step. My main goal is to do it just how I would tell a client to do it. This means:

-I'm not aloud to spend crazy, impossible hours at the gym.

-I have to eat a diet that I could maintain for the rest of my life (no quick weight loss fad diets).

-I'll be following the NASM guidelines that I would train my own clients with.

I'll be doing a "try to loose as much fat as possible in 2 weeks" phase and then do a Hypertrophy (muscle gain or "bulking up") phase for the last 6 weeks. Keep in mind that I have already been doing months of endurance and strength training. I wouldn't just jump into a major Hypertrophy work out right at the beginning.

Keep checking back EVERYDAY, yes I said EVERYDAY for my diet/calorie log and exercise log. Posting everyday will probably be the hardest part of this challenge for me.

What are my goals?!

-To prove that you don't have to spend a lot of money or an absurd amount of time to get the body you want.

-Eating healthy isn't impossible---you can even have a treat everyday! 

**My official log will start tomorrow, I promised myself I would take a week off to allow myself time to get over a nasty cold.

**I will as well be training for a half century and full century during all of this so if you are thinking to yourself that there is no way you're going to go for a 50+ mile bike ride, don't worry you don't need to. :)

**I'm not going to look like a freaking body builder or anything in two months...or ever really. I'm trying to achieve some results that every mom could be more than okay with. 

OH my goodness, oh my goodness I can't believe i'm about to do this! I can't believe I'm actually putting up nasty sauce pictures of myself on the internet. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! Here goes nothing.

BEFORE

(hoping for some awesome AFTER pictures to redeem these)

Bonus points to who ever can find my musculoskeletal imbalances (there's a really big one, hint, take a look at my pant line).
I even folded down my pants so you could see the love handles in all their glory.
Take a look at my awful posture- and that sexy profile of my nose.
What exactly is going on with my hair? It can't decide to flip in or out.
Old lady bra.
The picture of my back kinda makes me want to cry.
Why am I bashing myself? Probably so there is nothing left for you guys to criticize, but feel free!! Bring on the comments good or bad.