LilMogul’s BodyBlog

Haven’t been plugged in in a minute. You know, when you are just on and you plan, prepare and follow through. Yeah. None of that for a while. So I was a little groggy getting back into things today. I have generally kept to clean eating but I had to get the pantry back in gear for my pre/ post workout meals. So after work I went to the store and got a handful of stuff. Then- what? Yes I came home and took a nap because I am still tossing and turning at night. I finally heard from my man in Guam (or rather, on the high seas) around 4am this morning. So, needless to say I didn’t get much sleep again and I lost my energy towards the end of the workday. The sleep was solid and then I was up at 7:30 getting ready for the gym.

Once I got there, I felt like I was swimming upstream on the cardio. It was too hard too soon. So I kept it simple for my first night back in. Definitely didn’t like the pie face staring back at me in the mirror and the arms were looking like logs, so I got work to do.
Cardio Wave 20 min lev. 4/ 133 cal

Rowing machine 20 min 27 spm/ 175 cal

Protein shake, cottage cheese. Bedtime. Repeat again tomorrow.

I haven’t worked out this weekend. But I was worked. Happy to say our fundraiser for our neighbor went very well. The lady my family was raising money for is an ordinary citizen who lost her husband and son within a short span of time. Her husband’s illness had put them in deep with medical bills before he passed and afterward her home was being foreclosed on in the weeks before she lost her son. Our community really rallied behind us and we even had a sheriff, senator and congressman show up and pay out. Over 50 businesses sent gift cards and baskets to raffle. Seemed like we were calling out numbers all night. We had (too much) good food which we served, the DJ was great. About 300-400 ppl showed up. I think the only problem was that no one ate the hundreds of cookies and cupcakes and other desserts. Guess people are eating a little better these days?  I confess I have has 3 cupcakes since Friday!

Otherwise I have been really good. I have had serious munchies all day. My body was tired from the event and there is all this food around me. But other than the cupcakes I stuck to my oatmeal, cheese, yogurt, greens, etc.

With the fundraiser coming up Saturday afternoon there has been much to do. Food prep, sign making, meetings, site updates, picking up donations. So I am putting the gym on the back burner til next week so I DON"T stress about not going. If it is part of the plan I feel a LITTLE less anxious. But I am eating clean with the occasional indulgence of a steak, slice of pizza or… yesterday’s half hoagie. It used to be I couldn’t have any of this without almost immediate ramifications, even with working out. But, like Al said, I think I normally keep my carbs so low that when my body gets a little extra, its "using" them a little more constructively. I won’t make it a habit though. My goal is to be lean so I have no intention of abandoning that. Hope everyone has a great day and weekend!!!

The cardio and clean eats are kicking in quickly. I had spent two weeks with nary a workout and eating dirty. (Not proud of it) The last two days I have eaten clean and hit the cardio with HIIT. I wish I had weighed myself after the big jiggly mess I created, but the scale was down. I can say that defore the vacation I was at 123/124lb. My waist was 27" and the bbbf was 30". This morning: weighed in lower at 122.5 which is tough for me to maintain and dip below so we will see what happens with that. Could be because I lost a bit of muscle? I know we don’t give the scale much cred anyway. And the waist is down a half inch from those pre-glutton ways. bbbf (fattiest area below my belly button!) measurement is back down to 30". that’s very good, but i would love to get that down to 29" one day…soon! Mirror: looks nice but not the tight drum I wanna be. I am definitely not jumping rope in my bikini for y’all anytime soon….

I really do think the coconut oil helps burn those cardio calories, but that is me. Y’all know I am partial to the natural stuff. I am looking for good simple recipes for cooking with it. (I won’t keep it up if it aint simple). It is great in my coffee and oatmeal and dreamy on whole grain bread. but it clings to the walls of my blender when mixed with cold stuff. it is very temperature sensitive. i would like to use it on chicken but al the cool recipes use flax and almonds. i am allergic to all nuts except peanuts and cashews… Saw a great recipe for using with brown rice. I don’t eat much carbs, but that might be good side in my post workout meal. Also saw one for sauteeing veggies (zucchini and squash). So any recipes are welcome!

Rowing Machine 20 min HIIT 175cal

captain chair- knee lifts 3 sets of 12

back extension- 4 sets of 12

lat pulldown- 4 sets of 8

ab crunch- 1 set 40/ 1set of 30

seated back extension- 3 sets of 12 (90lb)

crunches on incline bench- 1 set of 12

scizzor leg lift on incline- 2 sets of 8- cramping. not good.
Cardio Wave 20 min level 6/ 145cal

Stairmaster 19min level 5/ 90cal

Might have overdone the cardio tonight. Kelly Osborne was killing it on Dancing with the Stars so I went a little longer than I wanted on the Stairmaster so I could see her final scores. But now that I think about it, I have a meeting after work tomorrow and would have missed a chance to go to the gym. So I won’t feel bad about resting one night.

I am beat.

I am feeling increasingly better today. It seems my abrupt return to clean eating yesterday caused, ahem, a "cleansing effect". That is all we will say about that! lol! Yes, my body was also shocked during last night’s workout and interestingly, this morning I measured where I was in inches pre- vacation for waistline and bbbf! The past few days I was a jiggly tub-o- lard there. I guess I have a bit of the HIIT - after- carbs- effect? It was not a long workout but it was a few intense bursts of sprints.

Looking forward to getting back at it tonight. Definitely cardio, but not sure what other work I will do. I like to go in with a plan so I will put some thought into it before I leave the office…

Rough, brief night in the gym. Pushing myself with sprints resulted in lightheaded sick feeling. Tried to do an arm workout but it was working me out after only a couple sets…Hope my body is just in shock from being away from the game a couple weeks and eating garbage the whole time.
Bike 17 min HIIT 5 one minute sprints (107rpm) 107 cal

Rower 8 min HIIT 2 one minute sprints (33 spm) 80 cal

Dips - 2 sets of 6

Pullups - 2 sets of 6

Lat row - 2 sets of 8

Delt Row - 2 sets of 8

Tricep Pulldown- 3 sets of 8
(Lat pulldown bar missing, grrrr)

Threw in towel. Had intended to do dumbells too. My arms are rubber bands…wtf?

I was supposed to get back in the saddle on Saturday after dropping off the boyfriend at the airport (tears). I guess I had a double whammy of feeling like crap from the foods I have been eating for two weeks and being a bit depressed after saying goodbye—I DID NOTHING. I basically stayed in bed for two more days and ate more crap. I didn’t go food shopping, workout, or eat right as planned. Didn’t drink enough water, no vitamins. Just flipped channels on the tube and checking my phone for how many more days/ hours before he will land in Guam.

I do this every time we part. Go ahead…check the blogs! It is the only time I am really weak.

Well, this morning I was sick of feeling gross and didn’t want to set my progress back any further. I got up earlier than normal (and I am not a morning person) and went to the grocery store to replenish my clean eating pantry at home and work. Everyone at work looked at me like I am crazier than usual because I was cutting down a huge block of cheddar cheese at lunchtime (to sort into baggies for the week) and I had brought a doz eggs and a pack of chicken thighs to work (to put in the fridge til I go home tonight).

I had my EVCO in my oatmeal and coffee this morning. Had yogurt and some cashews for a snack. Took my vits. Been drinking my water- even had some water with ACV. For lunch I had a big plate of veggies and a small dish of tuna with eggs and whole grain pasta. Got my usual funny looks and felt good because I knew I was back to doing the right thing. (snicker) Now I am having one of those 1 oz pieces of cheese and a hard boiled egg.

So tonight…dun, dun, DUNNN!!! Back to the gym. Gotta do some cardio! My bbbf is back!!! Gotta torch it!!!

….On just how unlike myself I have been the last two weeks of "vacation" with the boyfriend in town. I still work most days, and that is the only time the eating has been clean. Everything else has been convenience food- at the bowling alley, bars, restaurants, football at friend’s homes. I always thought I would take the high road in these situations or at least keep it to a minimum. Oh nooooo….It’s not that he doesn’t respect my desire to eat right and work out at all. It is just I do better when I can pre-plan my meals and my time to myself for working out. I failed miserably in that regard I guess.

I have also learned something that I never realized was so serious for him: he is seriously addicted to sugar. I knew he liked sweets. But now I see he is grabbing at every piece of candy he can find. He wanted to stop before the movies last night to grab drinks at the convenience store (yes- to sneak into the theatre) and he returned to the car with THREE extra large Twix and a soft pretzel. Who eats 3 extra large candy bars in a sitting? We had just eaten dinner and said he was full way before I stopped. But he had plenty of room for the huge candies thirty minutes later. Then it came back to me. When we were at friends house watching the football game days before, a bag of Reeses Pieces were brought out. All I heard was crinkle, crinkle, crinkle and looked down at the coffee table. In record time he had opened and devoured three of them. All I saw were wrappers. When we were in the store the other night to buy food, he tried to sneak a couple packs of starburst onto the belt at the checkout counter. I told him not to waste money because I had some chewy noni candies at home just like them. I thought it was great because I couldn’t eat them so I could get him to. He tried one and felt betrayed- not enough SUGAR! I told him he is 17 years younger than me and has a hot sexy body now, but he is going to age faster than me and have rotten teeth, a pot belly and diabetes, which I will not appreciate. His mom has huge jars of candy lining the walls of her kitchenette and I imagine whenever he didn’t want to heat something up he probably ate it like food.

Plus I haven’t had a decent workout either. One night I literally squeezed in 20 min of HIIT on the treadmill at the hotel until his friends showed up. One morning I did some core work while he was sleeping. And my personal trainer session was debatable. I had a brief HIIT warm up (15 min) and then she had me do lunges and jumping on the bosu from side to side. That threw my heart through the roof and I got dizzy and lightheaded. So it slowed us down. I didn’t feel like the rest of the session REALLY challenged me. I guess she was taking it easy on me. I haven’t even used the gorgeous pool at the hotel!

But one thing I have learned is I can miss getting on bodyspace and chatting it up with y’all as much as the clean eats and workouts! Not getting on BB can make me just as anxious and irritable! lol! 

I have been pretty excited for a few days because my bbbf measurement FINALLY went down 1 inch. I don’t bother with my waist or hip measurement. The part of me I am most bothered by is the spare tire area, right under the belly button. The pudge, baby fat, pooch, muffin top. Whatever you wanna call it.  So it is very ironic that just as I start to maintain my smidge smaller bbbf area and right before a much desired bodyfat reading this Saturday I would play out my week something like (exactly like) this:

Monday-No workout. Stretch and recovery day from Sunday’s full body and leg emphasis workout; ate clean; about 6 hours sleep; prep for BF arrival.

Tuesday- Ate clean entire workday. After work drive to Philly with friends to get my BF and we (they) bowled until 1AM. I ate a small cheeseburger. No workout. 3 hrs sleep- hey the BF is home!

Wednesday- Ate clean at work and drank ridiculous amount of water all day. Must have left desk twenty five times between refills, clean snack meals and bathroom trips. After work looked forward to a nap but we had company…til 1AM. No workout. But I did have 1 slice pizza, small side of cheese fries, a brownie, 2 glasses of redbull & smirnoff. For those of you who know me well, my body is probably in some sort of shock and doesn’t know what to do with all the carb, sugar, and fat. Fell asleep on the guests, 6 hrs sleep.

Today- Woke up 15 min early this morning inspite of general sleep deprivation. Used some of that time for a mini core workout in hotel room. 12 push ups, 60 sec front plank, 30 sec side planks+ 8 scoops with the raised arm, 12 tricep dips, 50 bicycle crunches, 12 imaginary swiss ball passes. Not much but it was something I guess. I am not confident I will get a nap or cardio workout in at the hotel tonight, but I will try.

Emailed trainer to reschedule my bodyfat reading for the following weekend. I would like it to reflect how I usually behave 98% of the time.