Not much time today so legs it is! Easy to hit the majors in a short time. Some volume, some heavy. Feel the buuuuuurn!
TGIF
Post workout later with some video 😜
Tabata Arms
I didn’t have a whole lot in the tank this morning. Between not getting enough calories in yesterday to a poor sleep due to a sick dog. But I still got to the gym and put in what I could.
I have been loving Tabata workouts lately for my accessory work.
Today I did arms for 15:50 20secs work, 10secs rest.
Bicep cable curl s/s Tricep Rope Pressdown 8 rounds
Bicep high cable curl alternating arms 8 rounds
Tricep dumbbell kickback alternating arms 8 rounds
Bicep Hammer Curl 4 rounds
Tricep dip machine 4 rounds
I’m not covered in sweat but I do feel like I got a decent workout in! I’ll do cardio tonight for 30-40mins depending on my work day.
What happened?
Wow! As I look back at what has happened this year, it is a blur. So many things, so many changes and so many curve balls. Some people call this LIFE! As my husband would say “Grab a mitt, and get in the game!”
Basically, I am feel like I am back at square one. I have gained back every pound that I lost last year. I started a new job, in a new industry. And my son, who is now 3 years old is facing a possible autism diagnosis.
Where do I go from here?
There is only one direction, and that is UP!
I can’t move any further back, I can’t stop and I won’t give up.
I am going to use this blog again. I am going to start to share my thoughts again, my journey. I want whoever reads this to know that sometimes we fall down. We get tested, pushed, pressured. But don’t give up. If life pushes, just push back no matter how hard it is.
Insert inspirational quote here LOL!
It can be a slippery slope
Tonight feels like it could go sideways. Not too sure why. Good workout this morning, got my cardio in and busy but productive day at work.
Finished dinner – Kale salad with tuna, tomatoes, cranberries, seeds and little bit of poppyseed dressing – and I still feel like something sweet. Pull out ketchup crispy minis, ok not sweet but carbs. Had a few handfuls. Still searching, raisins sure! Let’s “fill up” my sons 1/4 empty bin 😉 handful, few more, close the lid. But this is how it starts, little bits of things.
My husband is heading downstairs with my son leaving me in the kitchen alone. Dangerous. I have to do a little cooking tonight for the rest of the week. I made a coffee, almond milk latte actually with a bit of chocolate protein powder, ah this is satisfaction!
And I write about it, of my fingers are typing I certainly can’t be eating too 😉
My view
Busy bee Monday’s – Got it done!
The whole point about being in off season is learning about balance. I started my contest prep in March of 2014 for my competition in Nov 2014. I have been yo yo dieting since. This period of time, until about May is my balance portion, my off season.
I am hoping when I do start prep again, I will be in a good head space and my body will have regulated and found its comfortable weight.
Here is my Monday, and it was a busy one!
I started early eating my first meal just after 4am for my 5am workout. My preworkout was the Magnum Pyscho Stack! And I was flying!!
Feels good to start
Motivated. Ready. On Track.
It is funny how when you fuel your body with the right foods, you not only feel better but you aren’t as hungry!?! Amazing isn’t it? Not really, it’s pretty basic but most of us let our minds decide what goes into our mouths not our brains.
I had a good day today, not prefect, just better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow.
I wrote down my food and my workout this morning as well. Hubby and I worked out together this morning, we try to workout together as much as possible. Besides a two year old demanding our attention, this is our time together.
Salad with sole, quinoa and flax
Pumpkin Protein Cookies
Although I do wish there was a magic button I could push to get me three weeks from now feeling great, it’s a process and I need to learn to enjoy the process.
Epic Fail? No, I was sick
My 21 days was going to start, but then I got sick! Did you know that adults can get Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease? Well, let me tell you it is true! It started in my mouth, just thinking I was getting a sore throat but then my hands started to get itchy by Tuesday. On Wednesday got worse, to the point that having dinner that night I could not concentrate, they were itching and throbbing!! A trip to the walk in clinic confirmed it, Hand, Foot, and Mouth!?! It hit my feet by Thursday and today (Saturday) I am finally ok!
In that time, my food was all over the place and I obviously wasn’t hitting the gym.
Tomorrow, I will be back at the gym and I already have some food prepped. And more prepping to do tomorrow.
We are moving in 27 days. Hubby and I have decided that we are not going to eat out, no treat meals until we move. We are both feeling fluffy and out of shape! I vow for the next 27 days not only to post, but to post with pictures of my food and workouts.
PROMISE this time 😉
Some habits are harder than others
They say it takes 21 days to create a habit. How many days does it take to break one?
I have been on a rollercoaster since my debut Figure show November 8, 2014. As you have probably seen the sporadic, emotional, nonsense posts. Start and stop, start and stop. Which is why I come back to, how many days does it take to break a habit?
My habit is/was sticking to an eating plan. Journaling my food, and training with a coach. I have been decent at journaling but it is what my coach wants to see, not the in between snacks, the BLT’s as I call them. BLT’s = Bites, Licks and Tastes 🙂
In the last two weeks, I have decided not to train for a show in May. I have quit working with my coach (temporary) and I have gone off the friggin’ rails! I wake up every morning telling myself, today is the day. I will eat properly, according to my “off season” meal plan. I will take my off season seriously, and I will get back on track. But for me it only takes one thing, and then I give myself permission to throw away the rest of the day.
I don’t have a middle right now, only extreme left and right. But I am going to learn the middle.
It takes 21 days to create a habit. I am starting it today, this post Day 1 of 21.
Ready set, change
“Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.” Alvin Toffler
I love change; I seek it and embrace it. It is evident in all aspects of my life. It has formed who I am, and will continue to help me grow.
They say all good things come in 3’s, well I have 3 changes coming up…
New job
New house
New competition to train for
Wish me luck!
‘Twas the night before, before Christmas
I wrote this a few days ago, and I was honestly afraid to post it. But now maybe because it is New Years Eve, I need to get over it. I need to get over my fears.
“Stop and Remember: Whatever is going on in your mind, you are attracting.”
So, with that said I am not attracting the negative. I am done with extremes and I am ready to move on. Here is my post from the other night. Enjoy!
I have so much to say but don’t know where to start…bullet points, that might work!
- What a year!! Let’s be done with it 😉
- Completed my first Figure Show
- Hired a new coach, to do another show? I don’t know?
- Went off the rails – LOL – yup!
Let’s go with the last point because that is the what is hitting me NOW! The days leading up the Christmas have gotten progressively worse. Everyday and extra bite of something. I had told my new coach (see third point) that I only know extremes – extreme highs and extreme lows – I don’t know where the middle of the road is. There is no grey in my life, just black and white.
She gave me a meal plan, and a workout plan for December. This is off season, no show in mind yet for 2015. We need to work on some areas and we are slowly increase my food and decreasing all the cardio.
The weeks leading up to my show, which was November 8, 2014, I was doing 1hr20mins cardio and my carbs and fats were at a record low. I was doing what I though was needed to get me on stage. And I did, I stepped on stage that day very proud of my accomplishments! I didn’t have a care in the world, 1st, 5th or 10th it didn’t matter. It was the experience backstage, on stage and the Boston Pizza foodathon that followed. It was my Dad’s waffles for breakfast the next day and candy and pizza and whatever I wanted.
Is that the way it should be done, no probably not but I didn’t care – I had put in the work for 16 weeks to get myself down to a record low of 145lbs and 12% body fat. Never in my life had I felt so small, but so powerful. I felt beautiful and ugly at the same time. It was, and still is a whirl win of emotions.
So, what brings me to today? I just feel huge, and I haven’t even had Christmas dinner. But I can’t stop myself. It is like this is the last time I will have these items that I am craving?!? I am having a hard time allowing myself little pleasures, I just resort to extremes.
One foot in front of the other 