BeCrazy’s BodyBlog

So, I really know a TON about nutrition, so why would I join WW?  Simple.  I wasn’t losing weight and I was desperate to find out why.  Two words:  PORTION CONTROL.  I was eating "clean" but I was eating too much.  I’ve been trying to lose 20 lbs for A YEAR and finally, I decided, HEY, I’m going to freaking join WW.  I’ll do my clean "bodybuilding" type eating, but I’ll count points and see if the darn thing works.  I’m desperate.

Well, I’m happy to report that the FIRST WEEK I lost 5.6 pounds and the second week I lost 3.7 pounds.  I am ecstatic.  From now on, I’m a WW BELIEVER!!!  I’m also working my BUTT off doing P90X six days a week, drinking my water, taking my ALC 600 and choline and inositol, lifting hard, etc…but I was doing all that before.  The only thing that has changed in basically my portions.  Wow.  I’m glad I finally found something that will work for me.  I really believe that I’ll have reached my goal weight by Christmas or sooner, and that is cause for celebration!!!!

Trying to get back on here after a loooong break!  Just started a new workout program w/ my neighbor and we’re helping each other eat clean and stay accountable.  Been 100% clean and journaling all week and it feels AWESOME!  My goal is to get back into my cute jeans by Halloween!  I feel strong physically and mentally and that is a great feeling!!!

Today is my weigh-in day.  Learned a good lesson.  Don’t have your cheat day right before your weigh-in day unless you want to get DEPRESSED!!!

Yesterday wasn’t really a "cheat" day, I stayed 100% clean with my eats, but at Sunday dinner, I DID have an extra piece of lean pork roast and I STUFFED myself with my mom’s cabbage salad.  It was also clean, just a little olive oil and then lemon on the whole thing, but the point is, I STUFFED myself.  I stopped eating at 5pm and drank water all night, but I was still stuffed when i got in bed at 10pm.

It’s hard when you’ve been an overeater before to STOP EATING when you’re satisfied, not stuffed.  It’s a lesson I’m still learning.  Sometimes you just crave being, well, FULL!!!

Anyhow, after last night, I knew I wasn’t going to like my weigh-in.  I did SOOOO awesome all week with my water and food and my workouts and i thought for sure I’d be down 2 pounds and I was only down 1/2 pound.

Live and learn.

Again, just like always, learning things the hard way over here!

The good news is, I can see my arms leaning out and that’s the first place I start losing, so even though my weight isn’t really dropping yet, I know my Bodyfat is.

Thanks to all you bodyspacers out there leaving encouraging comments for me.  It helps me more than you all know, you guys rock!!!

ROCK ON this week ya’ll, eat clean, drink your water, and workout HARD.  all it takes is time and faith and patience and you WILL reach your goals!!!

DH rented Michael Clayton and we watched it last night until 11pm (even though I VOWED to be in bed by 9pm!)

After the movie was over, I was complaining to him about how he always keeps me up and it’s hard to stay up late when I get up so early. He told me that it’s just plain "abnormal!" to get up at 5am and I said to him,"SINCE WHEN did you want to be like everyone else??"

Then, I did the normal Steph Stuff:

"Honey, do you want a fat wife or a skinny wife?"

Scott:  "A Skinny wife."

Me:  "so HELP ME get to bed early so I can GET UP early and be a CUTE, SKINNY WIFE FOR YOU!!!"

Scott:  (sheepishly)  "OK, I’ll try."

Me:  "aren’t you always saying that YOU need to start working out??"

Scott:  "Yeah, but 5am is too early!"

Me:  "NOT if you get to bed at a decent time and stop renting movies every weeknight!!"

Scott:  "I know, you’re right.  Maybe someday I’ll start to go to bed and wake up early with you."

Me: (thinking) I used to be like that. "SOMEDAY" I’ll start being consistent. Someday I’ll start eating clean and journaling my food. Someday, I’ll commit 100% to this thing. Someday…

Then, last year it CLICKED.   SOMEDAY was never going to come. I HAD to make someday HAPPEN TODAY otherwise, I’ll wake up one day when I’m 72 years old and think,"Why did I wait for someday? Why didn’t I just DO IT and enjoy my body and my health and do the things I want to do while I’m young???

If any of you are like methen you’re guilty of saying no to opportunities and vacations JUST BECAUSE you don’t like how you’re doing to look doing it.

FOR EXAMPLE:

Something in my mind clicked a couple of summers ago when I was on a family vacation with my hubby and all his brothers and everyone was climbing up this cliff and jumping off a ropeswing into the water below. My sister in law did it and my hubby looked at me like, ‘why don’t you go?’ and I thought, "why don’t I???"

I told him that I didn’t feel like it.

The real truth was  THAT I felt too fat to stand up in front of everyone and do it. I drove back to our condo and I was steaming mad at myself. That night, everyone went to some hot pots (hot springs) and I said I was tired. Why? I didn’t want to be in my bathing suit in front of all his skinny brothers. They are all fit (one is a personal trainer) and most of them are into bodybuilding and I just felt plain DUMB being all fat in front of them.

Same goes for rock climbing. used to love to do it, but everytime friends asked us to go, I made up an excuse for why I couldn’t. The truth? I didn’t want them to see my fat booty squishing out the harness. It’s so dumb, but it’s the truth! I wanted NOTHING MORE than to climb and be free and have fun and NOT TO WORRY the entire time about what everyone is thinking about MY BUTT!!!!

I WAS ASHAMED OF MY BODY AND it was preventing me from living my life, but most importantly, it was preventing me from being ME.

I’ve ALWAYS been the daredevil in my family. I grew up in a family of all boys and I was always the first one to jump in the water and waterski or cliffjump or whatever it was. Then, I had a couple kids, gained weight, and became…. BORING.

The worst part of it was that I KNOW the daredevil TRY-ANYTHING part of me was part of what my husband fell in love with and I knew I was letting him down. I was also letting myself down.

There’s my rant for the day.  Do this to FIND YOURSELF again.

DO IT to live your life again.

DO IT so you’ll stop saying NO to opportunities because you’re afraid of how you’ll LOOK while you’re doing them!!!

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There’s my ranting for the day everyone! I’m sorry, but I just have to type what’s in my head!!! It helps me figure out my life!!!

I woke up at 5am this morning and about DIED I was so tired. I did Shoulders and Arms, and then the new Abs/Core Plus but it wasn’t my best workout ever. I was just wasted!

I am determined to start getting my butt in bed earlier cause my body is just plain NOT GETTING ENOUGH REST and I can’t keep up this program without proper rest!

So, if any of you girls are doing the same thing, let’s add to our challenge  GET GOOD SLEEP!!!  It’s one of the things I struggle with the most.

For any of you who were posting here last year, I did the X and gave myself NO EXCUSES. I got up at 5am no matter what and I got pneumonia. I swear it was because I was working out so hard and just plain not getting enough rest. I pushed through the tiredness and I needed to focus more on my recovery. So, I’m going to try to not make that same mistake again!!!

So, I went to the health food store to get some extra-virgin coconut oil (after I read that JNL uses it, of course!) and I couldn’t help but notice that ALL the girls working there were overweight!!!!  Not only that, but the checkout counter was SURROUNDED by treats!  (mostly carob stuff) but it was all GARBAGE!!!!

I was thinking how the "former me" used to think that if something was labeled "organic" it meant you could eat as much of it as you wanted and not gain weight!  I had NO CLUE what was a carb/protein/etc…and I knew NOTHING about weight training.  I just went for my 30 minute run every day, ate cereal and tortillas and non-fat snackwells cookies and couldn’t understand why I was still FAT?????!!!!!

Oh my gosh, I wish everyone knew what the bodybuilding world knows.  It truly BUGS me that most people are so clueless.

The craziest part is that I CARED!!!  I read Shape Magazine and Fitness Magazine and all those other women’s "fitness" mags and bought into everything they said.  It wasn’t until I read Body for Life and subscribed to Oxygen that I figured out HOW TO EAT and what an important role (the MOST important) role nutrition plays!

Most people think if you focus 90% of your energies into working out, the rest will just take care of itself.  Maybe that works for some people.  for me, I have to focus 90% of my energies into WHAT I EAT and the rest takes care of itself!

Training hard is easy for me, it’s the nutrition part that is a toughie!  But they go hand in hand.  When you’re working so hard to eat clean, you WANT to kick your own butt in the gym so you can shape those muscles.

the world is screwed up, but the knowledge is creeping out there little by little.

I love it when my mom rolls her eyes at me cause I eat SO OFTEN when I’m trying to lose weight.  She’s like, "DUH!!!  Don’t u know you’re supposed to STARVE yourself when you’re trying to lose weight??!!!"  I used to believe that.  You can only starve yourself for so long before you BINGE on every carb in sight!

Anyway, I was at the grocery store the other day and I heard them talking about Tosca Reno’s Eat clean Diet and I was thinking…"It’s going to get to the masses someday, this is so cool!!!"

So, note to everyone out there:  Just cause you buy it at the health food store, DOESN’T MEAN IT’S CLEAN!!!  Evaporated Cane Juice is STILL SUGAR!!!!  It’s a TEENSY bit better for you than sugar, but your body still uses it as sugar!

Starting to feel smaller today, it’s a great feeling since spring is right around the corner!  MAN, I had plyo today and I was so completely exhausted that I almost skipped it.  I feel 100% better now that it’s behind me!  Life is good!  Asparagus was on sale and the store today and I bought 7 bunches!  Going to cut it up and freeze some for later.  YUMMO!

Ooooh, this is going to be AWESOME!   I love that so many of us on bodyspace are all beginning the cutting process together!  THANK GOODNESS I’m finally down a few pounds.  Should be losing every week now.  Got the diet nailed down and I’m ready to see some CUTS again!!!

Today’s workout:

Chest and Back and Abs

Bike Trainer 30 minutes HIIT

Life is good when you’re working towards your goals!

I snapped a few shots of my body last month after eating crap for a month (all through the holidays).  I was doing a w/o and couldn’t believe how soft and flabby I looked!  So, I decided to take some pictures so it would be documented and keep me from GOING BACK here ever again!

FYI, I was still working out every single day.  That’s the crazy thing.  People think that all you need to do is workout.  Well, for me, I DO have to workout hard, but it’s 90% eating when it comes to the way i LOOK.

I hope this stops some of you from going off the clean eating thing.  Heck, I hope it stops ME from ever eating garbage AGAIN.  Repeat after me…you EAT garbage, you LOOK like garbage!!!!

Yesterday finished up well.  I stayed 100% clean, and drank all my water, so that felt great.  Now, only three more months of it before I’m looking like what I want to look like and then only the rest of my life to maintain it.  Oh, it’s not too bad, better than the alternative, of course!

Starting a new P90X rotation on Monday so that will be nice to be back on a program.  I decided that I HAVE to be on a program or I fall off the wagon.

Thanks to all you bodyspacers out there motivating me more each day!

This week was a disaster.  After finding my fire, I got sick and have been taking care of sick people all week.  on top of that, it was valentines and I was surrounded by chocolate (which I ate.)  Last night, I was feeling so weak and disgusted with myself for not being STRONG and withstanding all the temptation.  I woke up this morning and decided to sleep in (NOT COOL) and SOOOO not me!!!!  Finally, I looked at myself in the mirror and looked at my arm and said,"WHERE’S mY OLD FRIENDS, MY MUSCLES????"  Covered by FAT, that’s where they are!!!!

ENOUGH!

SUmmer is right around the corner and am I going to spend it in pants and baggy T-shirts?  NO!!!

Honestly started working out and was SOOOO half-A@@ed that I couldn’t stand myself.  Then, Hopped on my bike trainer.  NO BETTER.  Flipping through the stations and saw the P90X informercial and thought, THAT is what I’m missing!

So, I popped in my plyometrics DVD and rocked it and found my motivation again.

I canNOT believe what a slump I’ve been in this winter.  It’s a funk that has lasted for MONTHS and I have NOT been able to snap myself out of it, it’s terrible!  Hope that when the warm weather starts peeking out that I’ll be in better spirits.

Today is going to be clean, journaled food and water.  No more freakin’ chocolate!  if there’s any left over, i’m throwing it out today!  I am NOT strong enough right now, so I gotta just get rid of it.

Hoping to find the old me soon…..