Ellena’s BodyBlog

Hey all,

 A little while back I wrote a post that I started a mini challenge at the gym with a few peeps. I dropped the weight that I was supposed to pretty quick. The final date kept getting pushed because not all of us are there at the same time to weigh in together. 

 Tomorrow it finally ends, with the final day being pushed a couple of times.  The hardest part about it was keeping and maintaining the weight! That is always the hardest part. Even when I took off the 115lbs before the gym was introduced to my life, I tried to maintain that with the same eating habits I had to take off the weight, with moderate exercise.  Now I’m 140lbs down in total from the time I started way back. 

 I finally weigh in tomorrow. I just want to make sure that I’ve kept it off, and with the new plan that I’m on, a few more has been lost.

 Wish me luck!

Yo all! Hope you’re all fantastic just as much as I am!  I have a surprise comin’ this Monday and I’m EXCITED! I haven’t even started yet! Wooo! Hoooo!  Let me give you a hint: www.fitnesspoynters.com  Can you guess? Stay tuned!

Hey all!

Hope all is great with everyone on B.B.  I just wanted you to know that I’m feeling absolutely awesome.  I have been for a while and I don’t think anything or anyone can bring me down.

Update on my game.  I’ve had 3 weigh in’s.  I actually started at 172lbs with clothes on and shoes.  Each week has been good.  I’m now at 165.5.  My goal has only been set to 12lbs.  Cause of my condition and the doc not givin me 100% to go as hard as I used to, I think I’m doing pretty well. I still have until May 1st.  It seems as though I will hit my goal before then.  If I do, I will up my loss. I will let you all know.

I’ve been eating a lot cleaner and feel great, and look leaner.  So many people think I’ve had a 20-30lbs weight loss in the last little while. If only they knew! LOL!  The clean eating, cardio and weights have really changed me.  I’m having fun.

 Tonight legs, cardio, abs completed!  Tomorrow another day, another pump and another game! LOL!

Have a good one!

So, just wanted to share that by fluke, I was let in on a conversation and mini private competition. At the gym, there are 5 of us, one being my trainer from last year, one of the girls that used to work there, another member, and the chiropractor.

 Started 2 weeks ago, and wasn’t sure if I could do it.  Just in case I fall of the wagon.  They asked me to ask myself if I could do it. After I asked them if they think I can.  I said to them that they have to tell me I can, cause I’m motivated when there are other people I cannot let down.  So, they said that I can.  13 weeks, May 1st 2009. In the last 2 weeks, 4lbs, with weight training.

I was told by my ex-trainer that  I cannot aim as high as them cause of my low red blood cell count and not being able to work out as hard as them—-doctors orders.  She knows and had to explain to 2 of the other competitors that it will be twice as hard for me. 

 She laughed at me  when she noticed I was ahead. I said that if I loose what I initially said in a short amount of time, I will up my weight loss goal and stick to it.

Reason I’m telling you all, is there’s money involved. LOL! $100 to start. Weekly weigh in, stay steady or lose, you’re ok. Gain weight, $10 up! End of it, the one who hits their target  or higher gets the cash. If we all win, then u get ur money back and have lost weight.

 I’ve been pretty steady at this weight for a while, but I guess this is my kick in the ass to see if I can lose a little more.

Wish me luck!

Hope everyone is doing great on BB! 

Hi all!

 Just wanted u all 2 know that I had an awesome time tonight at the gym. Back and tris with double cardio and abs. 

The other day I posted bout my legs killin’ me after my workout, and still do 2day. That’s an awesome feeling. I went and kicked them out with the cardio you all said to "just not think about it and do it". So I did it that night, yesterday and today.

Just wanted to share the awesome feeling I have. LOL!

Happy New Year All! Ur all a great inspiration!

Hey all,

So I’m sure some of you have slacked in going to they gym. I repeat some.LOL!  I have gone but haven’t done legs in a week and a half.  I even changed my routine and I walked out waddeling knowing today they would feel great! Not! Don’t get me wrong, the pain is a good feeling and in a few days they won’t feel like logs and hurt everytime I walk, bend and everything in between.

I’ve been stretching till I’m "blue in the face" and taking my glutamine.  My glutes, quads, hams right down to my calves hurt.

How can I get cardio in when feeling like this? What can I do?  Is there anything else I can use or do not too feel like this so I don’t feel so held back?

Hi all,

I’m having a bit of a problem.  I used to be able to drink a whey protein —low carb at least with skim milk.  I cannot have it just with water.

 Now I’m having a hard time having it mixed into anything.  Even a flavourless one.  I don’t know what to do.  I’m just not liking the taste of the protein all together.

 Any suggestions?

Hey all,

 1 question:  Best Fat Burning Supplement- Which one do I choose?

 Help!  Any suggestions?

Hey all,

 Needin’ some help please.  I got really sick over the Christmas holidays. To find out my red blood cell count is low.  Much happened in Feb and for about 5wks i was back at the gym-strong. Till I started to feel wiped out andwould be so tired.  Went in for blood work to find out my Ferrous–red blood cell formation got to an all time low of 8.2. I am anemic as well but this is way too bad for someone with that trait. 

 I went on ferrous gluconate for a month and got to a 10.4.  I was ordered to stay off the gym for about 6wks in order to form some blood cells so i have something to start with when I go back. Since you burn your red blood cells during activity.

 I went back to the gym and did two 6week routines of a full body circuit just to get back in.  I had to stay on the ferrous for 3months everyday.

I’ve done my blood work and found out that in 3months I finally hit 20. 

The normal range in 10-280.  Most people sit at 50-60. My norm being anemic is 29-30. I have been ordered to stay on it for another 3 months everyday.  Which means in my diet i have to take into consideration not just my carbs/protiens/fats, but iron and vitamin c as well.  It’s hard.

 Also, Last week here in Toronto, Canada we had an explosion of a propane depot that i ran through and also had to take chest exams and xrays.  I was ordered to take off a week.

 I’m back in and really serious now. I was able to drop a few pounds and lean out with a change of my diet over the last few months. I Haven’t updated my profile but notice a differece. And been able to keep up with some muscle formation and seeing definition.

I am a pear shape so I’m bottom heavy.  It’s easy to work on my upper body, it’s smaller and easy to see results.

I NEED HELP WITH a lower body leg routine. My thighs are down to 26 inches. They were up at 28.  Can someone help me out? 

I also need something reasonable for a diet routine and easy things to put together. I’m a hairdresser who is busy and has few moments to eat. So i need something easy to put together. Please some suggestions! 

Thanks so much!

Hey all,

 A little cry for help, motivation, reassurance or whatever you want to call it.

 I wrote a post a while back about getting back into the swing of things.  That was easy compared to this.

 I haven’t been to the gym I would say in a month.  I threw my back out for a week and a half from shovelling snow and got a pinched nerve.  Finally one night (Thursday that wk), I decided to go work on legs and give my back even another few days to recoup, and I still had a pinched nerve in the upper back.  I kicked out legs so hard that I couldn’t walk for 4 days and still had my glutes hurt until the following Tuesday. 

I’m a hairdresser, as I’ve stated and had pulled holiday hrs, 10-12hrs over the next few days. As I finally got through the weekend, I shoveled heavy snow again on the Sunday, which kicked out my back for another week.  During that week I also felt really tired, dizzy, didn’t want to stomach food etc. By Friday that wk, I was taking blood tests and left work early in the afternoon to almost falling asleep at the wheel 4x’s and having some of my joints and bones hurt.  I woke up the next morning to all of my joints, muscles and bones in severe pain and feeling very faint like.  I spent the day in the hospital to find out I had a viral flu that has taken a week and a half to get through, my joints back to normal by that Thursday, and now finally have got enough energy to go back to the gym. 

I have not gained any weight but have felt like I have "flubbed" out. That time frame has been the longest time ever away from the gym since I started there last Jan.  I can’t believe at how bad I feel.  As much as my health is important, I can’t begin to tell you that I felt like I’ve lost myself somewhere.  My life has changed this past year and don’t like the fact that I have to end 2007 like this. 

I have had my bag packed in my Jeep for a couple of days and am finally off to the gym. They have had holiday hrs and I haven’t been able to go since they’ve closed at 10 and I get off at 9. 

I feel I need support to go back. Not because I don’t want to but because I’m afraid about having to step back a little and can’t kick into full force like I used to.  To even know that I might not be able to pull the last weight I did will discourage me.

 The other thing is that I don’t actually feel comfortable going into the main gym.  I usually work out with everyone and I know many people.  I feel like I want to lock myself up on the women’s only side until I gear up again.  I don’t like the insecure feeling that I’ve now gotten.  I only worked out in there for the first couple of months, for one, I didn’t know anyone on the other side yet and second, my circuits that I was set up with, were only set up for that side.

 I don’t know why I’m feeling like this but it saddens me.