Belles’s BodyBlog

My goals from the beginning have been to see some definition in my abs and to loose my lower lil tummy pooch!  My starting measurements and my measurements as of today are: 

Measurement at bb - Start - 25.5, Today 25.5!

Measurement 1 inch above bb - Start - 26, Today 26!

Measurement 2 inches below bb - Start - 30, Today 30!

This is unacceptable my fellow de-fluffers!!!!! ;(  My goals for this particular week we are wrapping up today was for four weight lifting days with three cardio sessions.  I was successful in my four days of weight lifting…I even increased all weights this week; but only completed two cardio.  Hummmm, two is nice…..and I’m still pretty proud of myself but…this belly isn’t getting any prettier!  I know I need the cardio!!!!  This week I’m going to try for four days of cardio.  Now onto the eating clean…..

I eat clean!!!!!!  I do, I do, I do!  However, I have discovered something very important throughout our de-fluffing journey.  I’m very sensative to "gluten"!  I have had years of bloating but once I started eating very clean - tons of whole grains - I am bloated almost every day!  I finally started doing research and spent a lot of time this week narrowing it down to where the issue lies…..I am sensative to lactose - which I already knew, but during my quest to fix the gluten issues I’ve found out there is an enzyme I can take to help my body break down the lactose.  So anywho…..that is awesome!  Now I just wish there was something to help me with the gluten.  From what I’ve learned so far you just have to buy the gluten free breads, etc. but they are made from rice, potatoes, etc……so now I’m trying to find out if any of those are considered clean-eating????  Oh well…..surely a few days off the gluten and my measurements will be a tad better! 

If any of my fab de-fluffers are familiar with this frustrating……well, I’ve ran out of F words!  Please fill me in!  :-)  

Hummm, where to start…..how about at the piece of cheese cake?!?!?!? OMG!  I mentioned last week that I had a business golf trip and would be traveling three days.  What I didn’t mention was that it was our ANNUAL golf outing for the ENTIRE industry that I’ve grown up in….needless to say its always nothing but fun mixing great wine, great friends and golf with about 170 other people!

I kicked butt right out of the gate with some awesome workouts, including cardio!!!!, and eating clean Saturday and Sunday.  Monday was where it all got a lil crazy!  I ordered a cheese cake for my husband (his fav) while he went to the bar to get a drink.  He didn’t return….as I sat there waiting and visiting with everyone else at our table I took a bite, then another, then another…..OMG!  Ladies..if I’m gonna have a cheat dessert it aint gonna be cheese cake!  (stay with me here….it gets worse)

Tuesday played golf - had a blast - thanks to Jules I did a lot of walking!  BTW…I love getting these lil e-mail butt kickers on my blackberry from our fab de-fluffers while I’m being lazy!  But then it all went down hill…..I realized as I was washing up for dinner back at the club house that I LOST MY WEDDING RING!  Oh yes. 

THE ERROR…..I was "watching" a hole for hole in one shots after my round was over and I took my ring off to re-braid my hair.  Someone started teeing off - with some poor aim, I jumped behind a tree in hast to keep from getting hit forgetting about taking off my ring and laying it in my hat while I refreshed my doo.  

SIDE NOTE……I’ve been married 15 years and last year was totally blessed with getting to design my own "upgrade" with a jeweler in KC.  My kids call it my "I’m happy ring" because it is a lot easier to see.  

So I jump on a cart - go out to hole 15 - get on my hands and knees and start crawling and praying!  Its way to heavy to land on top of the tall grass where I was sitting so I had to press and feel.  With all the rain, their grass was lush and thick!!!!  Thoughts were racing through my head like "does insurance cover stupidity???" 

After about 15 min I found it……God answers prayers even when all because of stupidity!  I was freaken stressed and washed out at that piont.  Back at the club house i got a small plate and a glass of wine to help calm me down, then another, before I knew it, it was 11pm and I was at a party on the patio eating pizza!!!!  It was not a proud moment…….that took a couple days to completely recover from.  lol!

So anywho…..lets try this again, shall we?  I totally fell off my defluffing wagon but I’m running to catch up and get back on!  My week two’s goals were four days of lifting and three days of cardio.  I had two days of lifting and two days of cardio.  I’m going to set those same goals for my week three, only I shall make them this time!

I really tried to get this written Friday..then Saturday…now its early Sunday morning!  Maybe my goals this week should be to have my update written by Friday evening! lol!  Its been a decent eating week - but I did splurge on a little chocolate.  I’ve eaten very clean for over two weeks now so I went ahead and had a little treat.  My weight lifting has suffered a bit this week.  I have started working on a political campaign and I typically lift five days a week and I was only able to get in three!  My energy level just wasn’t there but the control freak inside of me will make sure I get that figured out asap! 

Onto my goal for this past week….. 

Let me start by saying YOU LADIES ARE AWESOME!!!!!  I have had so much amazing encouragement for this cardio problem I have!!!  Plus I get my blog responses on my blackberry so even though I’m not logged on the site….you girls are buzzing my phone telling me to get my butt in gear!  I love our fabulous fantastic de-fluffers!  My goal was to get in three days of cardio.  I didn’t get in three but I got in two PLUS I’m not negative about it anymore!  So…that is more to me than getting in three and dreading this next week of trying!  I can do it!  I love the HIITs training Hot Heather, Jules and others helped me out with.  Word up….don’t try to google acronyms if you don’t know how to spell them or know what they stand for! Yep..I wasted a little time there!

My goals this week are going to be to get in three days cardio and four days lifting.  I will be traveling and playing golf so this will be a little tough - I have 36 holes to play in a fundraiser Tuesday so I expect to be pretty beat for a day or two.  I love the way JJfit does her measurements so I’m going to do mine the same way…I think this will help me more for encouragement than taking pictures and squinting to see if I can finally see some definition!  But hey, I’m gonna keep doing that too! 

Measurement at bb - 25.5

Measurement 1 inch above - 26

Measurement 2 inches below (this is my lil pooch thats gota go!) - 30  

So this week I’m going to get in THREE sessions of cardio (and I aint scared ) and FOUR sessions of lifting.  I expect the POOCH measurement to start shrinking…..have a fantabulous week ladies!  I’ll be checking in on your blogs as I get a chance but I promise to get to everyones before the weekend’s up!

OK fellow de-fluffers….please keep in mind I’m new to this "blogging"!  From what I understand about the de-fluffing challenge is that we have five weeks left and we give weekly updates of our progress???  Let me know anything I might be missing….

So, my goals for the next five weeks will be to get some definition in these abs!  Right now I do no cardio to speak of, I love weight training, truly dislike the cardio.  That will be my challenge so any encouragement or pushes from my fellow de-fluffers will be greatly appreciated!  I’m going to add cardio into my workouts - I’ll shoot for three times a week, and continue eating clean.

I’ve noticed that all the women’s workout magazines has ads for BSN Dessert, however I just went to place an order on the Bodybuilding.com store and noticed the Optimum Whey has less calories and more protein per scoop.  Is there anything about the BSN Dessert that makes it a preferred product for women?  I’m working hard to add muscle!

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