CardioGrl’s BodyBlog

It’s so disheartening to watch what some people do on this site.  I thought that this site is for the purpose of getting oneself into shape, working out, posting workouts, pictures, progress reports, learning, getting positive criticism etc… And yet daily I see negative comments, ridiculously low ratings for people who appear less than perfect to the so called *Muscle Heads*. 

A young lady had the courage to post 3 photos of herself, she let it all out, showed herself, posted what her goals are, explained what she is hoping to achieve through hard work and proper nutrition, and yet got slammed with ridiculing statements.  How, prey-tell is one supposed to get to where they want to go if they’ll be degraded, laughed at, and told  "I simply don’t understand this, is this a joke?". 

Did we not ALL start somewhere? Or did some of us woke up all chiseled and cut up one morning? Shame on every single one of you who are in the habit of doing this.  You might have the physical beauty, but your inside is hollow and cold, you are the reason that titles like  *Dumb jock* exist.

With the start of the New Year, I am happy to report that I have not really gained weight.  Despite the parties and all the food fests, I’ve managed to take the advice given in Tosca Reno’s Eating Clean book and managed to not gain.  

Having been on the overweight side for most of my adult life I am forever paranoid that I will regain the weight.  But I suspect that for as long as I remember to eat six properly proportioned meals a day, remain active and physical my weight will not be an issue. 

Though I’ve been training, lifting, resistence cardio and remained active throughout the last weekend of December, I got lazy about entering the information in my journal.  So I began today and hopefully I’ll manage to enter the information on daily basis.

New Year Resolution:

1- To accomplish my Personal Training Certification and secure a position in a reputable gym.

2- To get down to less than 16% body fat and get defined.

I am incredibly frustrated.  Since I began the higher protein intake and upped my workingout time and routines, I dropped approximately four pounds.  And here I am at a rot a complete standstill for over four days now.  Not budging an inch, in fact, this morning the scale read 148.4!!! WTF!!! 

I bust my ass at the gym (Glance at my journal), I’m there six days a week always starting with cardio and proceed to weights.  I eat clean and I’m stuck! 

What on earth am I doing wrong? Why is this happening? How am I supposed to reach my goals if I’m in a plateau? 

I was on my way home from the gym listening to the local readio station.  They were talking about working out addictions, the signs:

1- If you must burn a certain amount of calories by a certain time. 

2- If you feel guilty on days that you don’t go to the gym. 

3- Lifting until you are sore. 

I finally inquired into what Hydrolyzed means. 

This is what I found

from wikipedia:

Hydrolyzed protein

Hydrolyzed Protein is protein that has been hydrolyzed or broken down into its component amino acids. While there are many means of achieving this, two of the most common are prolonged boiling in a strong acid or strong base or using an enzyme such as the pancreatic protease enzyme to stimulate the naturally-occurring hydrolytic process.

According to the FDA, hydrolyzed protein is used to enhance flavor and contains monosodium glutamate. When added this way, the labels are not required to list MSG as an ingredient.[1] Many in the organic food industry believe this is a way for dangerous food additives to be hidden from public scrutiny. [citation needed]

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and:Obesity

Monosodium glutamate has been shown to indirectly cause obesity in lab rats by downregulating hypothalamic appetite suppression and, thus, increasing the amount of food the lab rats consumed. Animal research compels some researchers to theorize that MSG has a role in the occurrence of obesity in humans.

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WOW!

Quite a concern isn’t it?

A friend suggest that I try: Metabolic Drive by Biotest, that it’s micronized protien (what does that mean?) and that it’s better for you.  Anyone try this? Any other recommendations?