176boxingchic’s BodyBlog

I am fighting again this weekend! I found out today! I am fighting the same girl I fought last time, and I hope to knock her out this time!

 Things are going well for the most part. I am struggling with my diet, but I’m trying hard to stay on track. It’s hard when I have a bottomless pit fopr a husband that wants pizza and other junk at all hours of the night. (

Boxing is going well. I got to lead the class this week, which was awesome! My arm hurts today from hitting the heavybag, but hopefully it will feel better by the weekend!

 Good luck to everyone with their goals!!!!

That’s all I have to say. This girl was weak and I put her in her place! There was no mercy and it was awesome!

Boxing is such an awesome sport!

Well, I am scheduled to fight on Saturday night. My opponent is 190lbs and I am 196-200lbs, depending at what time I weigh myself. I am so pumped!

Last night at boxing, we sparred. I love sparring. To me, it’s the ultimate high! I was sparring with a guy, and I kept backing him onto the ropes, and he wouldn’t really hit me back. That’s what I hate about sparring with men. They don’t want to hit me at first, but after a  couple of hooks to the head, he finall started hitting back. I also worked with one of the younger boxers (he is 13) and it was fun. He is shorter than me, so he just hit my body, but I kept smacking him in the head. I felt bad, since I have about 75 lbs on him, but he has to learn sometime )

I haven’t been lifting, but Monday, after my fights, I’m going to go back to AM lifting. I wanted to lift this week, but I needed to focus on my boxing skills this week. After this weekend, the next fight I will have is the last week of September, in Oxnard, California for the PAL boxing. (PAL=Police Athletic Leauge) IT is a USA Boxing sactioned event, so I will finally get ranked nationally!

My biceps are getting bigger. I’m sure it’s from all of the boxing ) I feel great, even though I’m still heavy! The lbs will come off soon! Good lucj to all in their boxing endeavors!!! )

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! )

SO I found out the other day that there is a girl that I can fight next week. She is 201lbs and fairly new to the sport, so it should be a lot of fun!! I am so happy and just wanted to share that with everyone else!!!! This will be my first fight in the heavyweight weightclass (I usually fight in light heavyweight) so this should be interesting!!!

Boxing training has been going great, even though I’m so freaking sore!!! I love it so much…I don’t know what else to say about it!

I’ve been working on the running, and it’s going slow, but it’s going. I ran an 11 min mile the other night (which is S-L-O-W!!!!) but it felt good. I think the best part was the fact that I didn’t have shin or knee pain the next day!! Yey! I was able to run the next night too!!!

 Lifting has taken a temporary break as I am working up to lifting and boxing. Next week, I plan to do boxing in the PM and go to the gym at least 4 times during the week to lift and do some cardio. I lost a lot of weight doing two-a-days last time, so hopefully that will help.

 Speaking of weight, I am officially over 200 lbs. I feel like a complete fat ass, even though I know that I’ve increased my muscle, but not that much! I started a new log book where I am going to weigh myself every two weeks and take measurements to track my progress. I ususally lose inched before I do lbs, so we will see. I wasn’t too happy with my measurements, and it’s not the largest I’ve been. When I was 180lbs (a fat 180) I had larger meassurements in the abdomen and hips than I do now at 206….go figure…I would like to loose the poouch thing that a lot of women seem to have!

Nutrition has been great. I am in love with those coccavia bars (they’re called something like that) They are dark chocolate with blueberries and almonds and they are only 100 calories each. Those are my daily treats and it satisfies that chocolate craving. The last couple times we’ve gone out, I haven’t ordered french fries or anything really bad. Overall, the diet is awesome. I’m actually looking forward to stepping on the scale on the 15th!

 

That is all for now! If you have read this far, thanks! I always need the support!

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!