176boxingchic’s BodyBlog

I am down from 203lbs on Friday morning to 196lbs at boxing practice last night. I was kind of shocked to see that much weight drop off so soon, but I attribute that to stress, eating less, and working out a lot more than I was before. I don’t want to lose too fast so I don’t have tons of loose skin! I’ve been working out hard, but eating has been difficult since my husband is going through one of his "i’m not eating carbs" phases, so I can’t enjoy brown rice or whole wheat noodles without his making comments….errr!

 My stress is coming from the fact that I just found out my husband is deploying for the 3rd time to Iraq. Oh joy. Like twice wasn’t enough. I’m so grateful that when I was a Marine, I didn’t have to deploy. Knee surgery kept me from going (even though I would have gone if I had to…it would have been an experience) and I sometimes wish my husband didn’t have to go. The first two times he went was at the start of the US invasion of Iraq, when things were much worse than they are now. It is by no means luxorious now, but it shouldn’t be constant bloodshed and bullets like before. Just pray for his safety and my sanity!!!

The good things that will come out of this will be that we will able to pay our SUV off and I will have the time to focus on myself and my body. Last time he was deployed, I got into really good shape, and I’m planning to keep doind what I’m doind, but more. This time, I know what not to do when he comes back so both of us don’t gain. He went from 168 (which is small for his large frame) to 185 and my weight loss halted at 164 and I went up to 171lbs. (wow, what I would do to be back at 171!)

I hope everyone is doing well in their goals. Keep training hard!

On a side note, this weekend, I was able to make my husband tap out in a wrestling/grappling match in the living room…it was sweet! )

So I now have two fights next week; One on Friday, one on Saturday! I am so pumped to fight and I can’t wait to beat some ass!!!

I started a long where I document my weight and measurements every other Friday, and I’ve lost 3lbs and 5.25 inches on my body in the last two weeks…yey!!! Here is what it looks like:

             August 01, 2008            August 15, 2008

Weight:        206lbs       Â
 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  203lbs

                        Waist:          35.5 inches        33.75 inches                   
      

Hips             47 inches                 45 inches

Chest: under boobs: 37 inches                36 inches

          around boobs: 41 inches             same:

 

I’ve been working my ass off in the boxing gym and I’ve been working on my cardio a lot. It really motivates me to workout harder knowing that I’m making progress!!!

 I hope everyone has a good weekend! )

Well, I started boxing again and I love it! I love the feeling of knocking someone in the face…it relieves so much anger and stress! I also started morning cardio with my coach (who just had a baby) so that should speed up the weight loss!

 My food choices have been awesome and I’m working on helping my husband maintain a healthy lifestyle. We are cooking a lot more! Tomorrow night is a girls night at the cheesecake factory and I’ve already planned to get the thai lettuce wraps, which is chicken and veggies, so I’ll be set. I also plan to be too full for dessert, so I won’t ruin my diet.

I am feeling happier. The prozac is helping, but taking care of my body and having my clothes feel loose is a great booster. The bad part is the scale hasn’t budged! Well, it did, but it was up…I think that was from monthly bloat ( I hate being a woman sometimes, It’s fustrating because I don’t see the number go down. I’m starting to measure myself, so I will be able to see where I’ve lost inches and how many inches I’ve lost.

I’m training for the 2009 state/national boxing competition, so I am working on cutting to 165 and then aim to gain about 8-10 lbs of muscle. I want to be able to knock someone out next year!!

I hope everyone is doing well, but I don’t think that anyone reads my blog!!!!

As some of you may know from my previous blogs or from reading my profile, I have anger, anxiety, and depression issues from being sexually assaulted while I was serving in the Marine Corps. I’m lucky enough to be able to have wonderful healthcare through the VA, my job, and through my husband’s job (he is still active duty) so that I can get the care that I need without having to worry about the cost. However, these issues are creating a slight problem with my routine.

 My doctor started me on a new medicine, fluoxetine, which is a generic form of low dose prozac. A good thing about the prozac is that it supresses my appetite, so I’m not eating as much and has drasticly reduced cravings, but it gives me migraine type headaches, complete with nausea. These headaches are starting to affect my lifting, as I have not lifted since I started this medicine on Monday due to the headaches. I went and bought some generic excedrin migraine and that has been helping, but not as much as I would like. I think that I am going to have to move my workouts back to the morning, since I have to take my medicine in the morning and I don’t feel the effects for about 4 hours.  Does anyone else have this issue with medicine that  they take where it affects their ability to work out? What do you do to avoid it?

 On a good note, my diet (lifestyle choices, not diet, it’s a 4-letter word to me!) is going well. I’m cooking about 95 percent of what I eat, and the other 5 percent is fairly healthy. I do eat lunch at work sometimes (it’s 3.85 for lunch, very cheap for Hawaii) and my husband and I go out about once or twice in a 2 week (pay) period, which is better than the 5-7 times we would before. I cooked a bunch of chicken breasts and cut them up so I can easily have some protein without any work. I made a healthy version of chicken a la king using skim milk and one can of low sodium cream of chicken soup that was delicous and good for you. Plus my husband loved it, even though he ate his with about 7 biscuits!! I also made sweet potatoes and used sugar-free maple syrup in place of the browm sugar to sweeten the…also very good! I haven’t weighed myself, but I’m trying to limit that to bi-monthly weigh-ins, so I don’t get discouraged.

I’m trying to help out my husband with healthy lifestyle choices. His story is similar to mine in that he was a fat kid (very fat) growing up, and decided that he wanted to join the Marine Corps. He lost weight on the atkins diet (which I am strongly against if all you eat is bacon, hamburger patties and cheese!) and kept it off while in boot camp and when he was deployed. His problem now is that he does not control his portions and will eat and eat and eat. Plus, he drinks beer on the weekends and can drink 15 beers in one sitting if he wants to. He has never really lifted and gets his strength from his daily actvities in his job (he is a mechanic) and Marine Corps PT, which focused on running, pull ups, and other calistenics.  I"m trying to get him into lifting so that he can build some muscle which in the long run will help him drop some fat. Old habits are hard to break with him! I"m trying to teach him how to lift and educate him about all the kinds of routines that he can try to see what works for him, but he gets fustrated and wants to go back to doing his cardio and pullups….I just have to keep trying!

Yesterday, my husband, my dog, and I went to the park near our house and did a boot camp style workout. I want to go back to boot camp so I can get in shape again! We walked over there so the dog could take care of her buisness before we started working out and then once we arrived, we jogged a lap around the fields (about 2 soccer fields). It was hard, but it was enjoyable a I watched my overweight dog try to run her fat little body around the field. My husband and I were running about 15 feet apart and she ran in between us. I was cute to see her do laps.

 After that, we did a circuit course where we would stop to do jumping jacks, pushups, crunched, etc. We did lunges dow the field and some other calistenics. It was a lot of fun and a good way for us to spend some productive time together and workout. It challenged some muscles that I don’t normally use all together!

 Tonight is back to the gym and I am excited. It should be a fun one! Back, biceps, abs, and cardio….yey!

I bought a new scale that allows you to program it for age, height, gender, and a male/female athlete/non-athlete setting. It measures body weight, fat, and hydration level (in %) It’s pretty cool. However, when I got on the scale, it was upsetting. I’ve gained. Again. 196 lbs. I refuse to go over 200 lbs again. I was there when I was in high school, but I don’t want to be there again. So I am back at month1, week 1, day 1.

It’s time for change. I feel good on the inside, so I want the outside to match that. I spent the weekend working out and having a me weekend. I had a pedicure, went shopping for clothes and had my hair done today.I got a bonus  from work and spent it on myself. It’s a new me!

I went grocery shopping today and stocked up on healthy food. I cooked my chicken for tomorrow and have my gym bag packed. I’m ready! My family is coming to visit me here in Hawaii and I want to be able to wear my swimsuit without being embarrased at the beach or having fat hang out where it shouldn’t! I want to go hiking and not have thigh rub. That is my motivation for now!!

Here is a non bodybuilding related rant:

I hate drama. I have a wonderful and very faithful marriage and I think some people are jealous of that since my husband and I don’t sleep around, cheat on each other, etc. Well, a baby mamma of one of my husband’s friends has some real issues and feels the need to bring down other people because she is such a horrible person. It irritates me. She is one of those girls that tries to start stuff by making up crap (that I know isn’t true and that she wouldn’t know because we don’t see her now that her baby daddy-husband’s friend-has moved to CA) and trying to say stuff like your husbad is sleeping around, hiding stuff from you, etc. Well, when she was saying this stuff, I said (texted) some not nice things and then she says that we shouldn’t be mad at them because our marriage is bad and their marriage (I don’t even know if they are married) is wonderful and that we shouldn’t bring them down just becasue we cheat on each other.None of which is true!!…wow so much drama!!

Who says crap like this to people that you rarely see? The funny thing is that she is the one who sleeps around ( had to have a paternity test for baby and should have given birth by now but turns out to be 7 months preggo…I think she had a miscarriage and got knocked up again by a different dude since baby daddy is in CA) and has a boyfriend that isn’t faithful either ( I’ve seen it firsthand) but she accuses us of this???? why???

I am lucky to have such a wonderful husband that loves me for me and doesn’t cheat on me or sleep around or anything like that. In fact, we have a wonderful marriage! We renewed our vows this year and are truely a perfect match. I really wish everyone could experience what we have. It really bothered me that this girl would say stuff when she is never around either of us…So messed up!!!!

I bought a new scale that allows you to program it for age, height, gender, and a male/female athlete/non-athlete setting. It measures body weight, fat, and hydration level (in %) It’s pretty cool. However, when I got on the scale, it was upsetting. I’ve gained. Again. 196 lbs. I refuse to go over 200 lbs again. I was there when I was in high school, but I don’t want to be there again. So I am back at month1, week 1, day 1.

It’s time for change. I feel good on the inside, so I want the outside to match that. I spent the weekend working out and having a me weekend. I had a pedicure, went shopping for clothes and had my hair done today.I got a bonus  from work and spent it on myself. It’s a new me!

I went grocery shopping today and stocked up on healthy food. I cooked my chicken for tomorrow and have my gym bag packed. I’m ready! My family is coming to visit me here in Hawaii and I want to be able to wear my swimsuit without being embarrased at the beach or having fat hang out where it shouldn’t! I want to go hiking and not have thigh rub. That is my motivation for now!!

Here is a non bodybuilding related rant:

I hate drama. I have a wonderful and very faithful marriage and I think some people are jealous of that since my husband and I don’t sleep around, cheat on each other, etc. Well, a baby mamma of one of my husband’s friends has some real issues and feels the need to bring down other people because she is such a horrible person. It irritates me. She is one of those girls that tries to start stuff by making up crap (that I know isn’t true and that she wouldn’t know because we don’t see her now that her baby daddy-husband’s friend-has moved to CA) and trying to say stuff like your husbad is sleeping around, hiding stuff from you, etc. Well, when she was saying this stuff, I said (texted) some not nice things and then she says that we shouldn’t be mad at them because our marriage is bad and their marriage (I don’t even know if they are married) is wonderful and that we shouldn’t bring them down just becasue we cheat on each other.None of which is true!!…wow so much drama!!

Who says crap like this to people that you rarely see? The funny thing is that she is the one who sleeps around ( had to have a paternity test for baby and should have given birth by now but turns out to be 7 months preggo…I think she had a miscarriage and got knocked up again by a different dude since baby daddy is in CA) and has a boyfriend that isn’t faithful either ( I’ve seen it firsthand) but she accuses us of this???? why???

I am lucky to have such a wonderful husband that loves me for me and doesn’t cheat on me or sleep around or anything like that. In fact, we have a wonderful marriage! We renewed our vows this year and are truely a perfect match. I really wish everyone could experience what we have. It really bothered me that this girl would say stuff when she is never around either of us…So messed up!!!!

When I tried to lose weight for the first time in my life, I had a reason to do so. I was joining the Marine Corps and needed to be a certain weight and preform up to a certain level on physical fitness tests. The second time in my life when I was trying to loose weight was when I was boxing because I wanted to fight in the lower weight class. Now, I don’t have a reason (physical reason, like make weight for a sport, for my job, anything) so it’s hard to find that motivation. I don’t get as much support from my husband, since he has been gone on and off recently for work and my family lives 6000 miles away in Ohio. It’s hard. It’s really hard. I want to lose weight and tone up for myself, but sometimes it feels like it’s never going to happen or I am going to fail. If I fail, it’s all my fault, and there isn’t anyone else to blame but myself. Does anyone else go through this?? I need a good support system!

 Anyways, I’ve had two awesome workouts in the last 2 days and I really want to go tonight, but I am so sore. It’s not the sore that you can work through, but the it hurts to sit down, move, and laugh sore! I love it! I think that I am going to take tonight off and workout tomorrow morning. I plan to take a nice long walk with the dog to hopefully walk some of the sore out! I really don’t want to skip tonight, but I don’t want to hurt myself either. I feel great since I’ve been working out more frequently!

I did deadlifts last night for the first time and it felt good. I think a strong and muscular hamstring sticking out of the back of leg looks hot, especially in skirts and shorts! I used to do my legs/abs/ass all at once, but I’m seperating the leg workout. On the first leg day, I’m going to focus on my ass, abs, and hams. The second leg workout, later in the week, will focus in calves, quads, and overall full legs exercises like squats and lunges. I’m seperating them becasue I love to workout my legs and tend to go overboard on leg days, leaving me extrememly sore for a couple of days. I want to avoid that, especially since I am incorporating more actual running (as opposed to the elliptical) into my routine. I just need the support to keep going!

Well, it’s been a week or two since I’ve last posted, but things are going well. I’ve been eating well, and working out, but it’s still going slow. I’ve been eating more frequently, but smaller portions. When I’ve been out and had no other option but to get fast food, I opted for the grilled chicken sandwhich, no mayo, side salad, and diet coke. A much better option than chicken nuggets and french fries with honey mustard (yum!) I’ve also made it a point to eat breakfast every morning.

Workout wise, It’s been beter. I had a week where I dodn’t make it to the gym, but I was spending time moving furnitute and doing some hardcore cleaning of the apartment. My husband is gone, so I had to move everything by myself, which I think is a better workout that I could have gotten in the gym. THose dressers are heavy! Tonight, I am playing softball, so that should be fun. I’m still sore from the last two days of lifiting, so taking a lifting break until Saturday will be good.

I think I’m going to take some progress pics this week and put them up. I think my stomach has gotten smaller, but I don’t know. I feel better, which is important.

I want to start swimming in the morning. The pool is open from 6-8, so I am going to aim to be there at 7. Since I don’t have to be at work until 10, it works out great. I sleep to much anyways, so this will get me out of bed.

Does anyone else swim in the morning? Do you eat something before hand, or do it on an empty stomach? I know people say that cardio is done best first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, but others say that it’s good to have something in you to give you some energy. Any suggestions?

 

I feel good about myself. 

 I went shopping today, and I now know that my work is starting to pay off. Although the weight isn’t coming off as fast as I would like and in the amount that I would like, inches are coming off. Trying on clothes today was not as horrible of an experience that it usually is. Clothes fit better and I felt better and more confident wearing them. I guess it doesn’t matter about the number, so if I’m 200 lbs and look good, that’s okay. I would rather be a solid 180 lbs, size 6 and look tone and fit than a flabby 135 chick. I’ve seen pics of women that are about 130-140 lbs and look horrible because they are solid flab. It’s kind of gross and I’m glad I’m not that.

Workout wise, today is a day off. I had a girls shopping day today, which was much needed. I’ll be back in the gym tomorrow with cardio, chest, and triceps.