Shannon’s BodyBlog

I had enough trouble loosening up my inhibitions to do an interpretive dance routine when I took a dance class in college.  You won’t find me twisting and bending and doing weird moves like this, especially on a subway, LOL.
And knowing me, I’d probably get all tangled up in the springs anyway.

I went to the gym at my usual time yesterday and man was it BUSY!

It was also busy with two men working out together, one of which was entertaining the hell out of me.

He was wearing this huge sunglasses-ski goggle sort of thing on his face and was donned in a red sweatsuit.

And then in between sets while his friend was using the machine they were sharing, he started break dancing!  Full-on break dancing!

He wasn’t just bebopping here and there.

I don’t know the name of the moves, but he was skidaddling around on the floor and then would pop up into a one-armed handstand….right next to his workout partner.
He was actually pretty good.  I broke the gym rule of "do not stare at the other gym members", but I couldn’t help it.  I just stood there and watched him.  When he was done, I went on doing my thing.

And then I would stop and stare when he did some more breakdancing moves.
Anyway, I finished up and made my way out.  I hope to see them there again.  I need some motivation to stay on the treadmill.

Weight Training:  Legs…still need to finish up with walking lunges at home
Breakfast:  2 whole eggs, 4 egg whites

1/2 slice whole wheat toast

coffee w/ skim

Lunch:  TURKEYYYYYY

corn

green beans

last of the sweet potato casserole

Dinner:  Pizza

Goals for today:

Do upper body supersets

Throw out the leftovers

Don’t step on the scale

Get to doing cardio again because I avoided it too many days in a row lately.

Dig myself out of this blue funk because right now I don’t feel like doing diddly squat but I hate that feeling.  It makes me feel lazy and useless.

Breakfast:  apple pie

coffee w/ milk

Why let Christmas hog up all the holiday songs

Have a BIG FAT HAPPY Thanksgiving and have the most satisfyingly sleepy nap you’ll have all year!!

Congratulations goes to Mdrane.  I believe he can now see 3 abs.  It is better than the 2.5 he was hoping to see.

He did good!  Lost 6 pounds in like the last 3 days of the competition.  That’s a man for ya   Me, on the other hand gained 3 pounds in the LAST DAY.  WTH.

Are you working on the blogging issues you’re having?  I lost a blog and it’s important that it is seen by a certain someone.

What are your favorite songs to work out to whether it’s for cardio or weight training?  I need some new music.  "Womanizer" is getting on my last nerve.

I’m open to any kind of music except for classical or country.  Those just don’t get me PUMPED for a workout.
I don’t know what I’d do without my iPod at the gym.  They play music by The Jonas Brothers and Hanna Montana.  WTF!  I hear that crap at home all.  the.  time.  The Jonas Brothers don’t get me all pumped and sweaty.

I am a woman who needs hardcore music!

Look how shitty my HIIT was this morning.
HIIT:  18 minutes, 371 calories

Hello Lisa

Breakfast:  1/2 dozen eggs (2 egg yolks only)

whole wheat toast

2 cups coffee

Snack:  apple

Lunch:  1 can sardines

small caesar salad

Snack:  orange

Dinner:  taco.  filling made with ground turkey, taco seasoning and black beans

It’s been a while since I’ve been full on clothes shopping.  Actually, I don’t remember the last time I went out to actually shop specifically for clothes.  If I have to run to Wally World for something, I’ll pick up a pair of jeans or the one and only cute top they have.
But I went to my FAVORITE store, Old Navy, and bought ALL smalls.  My medium tops have been roomy, so I figured it’s about time I get something that fits right.  I love the way Old Navy tops fit because they fit to my figure.  I hate wearing boxy t-shirts, buttondowns and sweaters.
Me so happy

My size 6 jeans are LOOSE, not LOSE.  The only thing holding them up is my buxom butt.  At least something on me is buxom because nothin’ is going on up top (I’m not talking about my head, btw) :S  That’s fine.  Whatev. haha.

SIDENOTE:  Did I ever tell you all how tense the weekend mornings make me?  Between the kids wanting their breakfast and asking me when it’s going to be ready, them getting all noisy and begin the bickering and rowdiness, the dog needing to be fed and let outside repeatedly, and me needing my cawfee but not getting it when I need it, I get TENSE.

Wednesday is coming up fast.  Mdrane is eating his little heart away with HoHo cakes, Taco Bell, and brauts from the oven.  We weigh in every other day and so far he hasn’t told me his wife’s weights.  I have to follow up on that.  I don’t want anything sneaky going on.

I’ve already had two of my so called BB.com friends defect from my cheering section.  SemiV is throwing me his 8 pounds he’s gained from eating cheesecake, ice cream, popcorn chicken, cake, cookies.  Ilovetopump has switched over and is now batting for the other team.  Damn them!  (I’m just teasing ;P)

This is what it’s like to swim during a triathlon competition.  It is soooo the truth.  I’ll never regret kicking that beyotch off of me who was literally swimming ON me:

Breakfast:  Oatmeal w. mashed banana mixed in (I used to feed this to my babies!  LOL)

coffee w/ milk

Snack:  bad things to get them out of my mental system

egg white omelette

Lunch:  BK steakhouse burger

diet coke

1 long nap

Dinner:  Iceberg lettuce wedge with blue cheese dressing and bacon crumbles

A cute little container of Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream

You work hard in the gym and you’re getting your body nice and tight.  But you’re useless to humanity if your brain cells aren’t up to par.  Please use them right and avoid being a contestant for the Darwin Awards:  http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2006-10.html
(26 August 2006, Leicester, England) Darren’s death was a mystery. The 33-year-old was found slumped in the hallway of his house, bleeding from stab wounds to his chest. Police initially assumed that an assailant had attacked him, but they could find no supporting evidence. A year later, the inquest revealed why Darren can stake his claim to a place among the winners of the Darwin Award.

Darren had called a friend, but minutes after he hung up, rang back to ask for an ambulance. The front door was ajar, and Darren was found lying near a bloodstained lock-knife he had purchased whilst on holiday in Spain. Forensics investigators saw no indication of a struggle, and the coroner reported that the stab wounds seemed to be self-inflicted. However, Darren had shown no suicidal tendencies.

His wife, who was on holiday at the time of the incident, cleared up the mystery, and revealed why our subject will go down in history as a Darwin Award winner. As she was leaving for the holiday, she remembered Darren wondering whether his new jacket was ’stab-proof’.

That’s right. Darren decided to find out if his jacket could withstand a knife attack. Did he choose to test his jacket while it was draped over the back of a chair? No, our man thought that the best approach would be to wear the garment and stab himself. Sadly, his choice of armor proved less resistant to a sharp blade than he had hoped.

The coroner reached a verdict of accidental death by ‘misadventure’.

Weight Training:  Upper body (including 90 lbs for the close grip, reverse grip pulldown)

I’m always assessing my progress by touching myself.  Since I can’t really see it so easily with my layer o’ fat covering up my muscles, I have to resort to touch….like a blind woman reading braille.

I can FEEL my tricep making progress even though I can’t see it yet as well as I’d like to.  Damn you, bathroom lighting!

When I walk up the stairs, I feel my butt to "see" how toned and muscular it’s getting.  I don’t know what it’s called, but the part where the butt attachs to the thigh is a LOT more toned and hard.  That’s cool.

When I walk downstairs, I touch my thigh muscles and can feel muscles I never knew were there!  That’s cool too.
I startled myself once when I had a pain in my stomach and I was rubbing it.  I suddenly came upon a lump and got a jolt of alarm.  Being that I have a tendency toward hypochondria I thought, "Oh my god what’s that lump?"  Upon further feeling with my fingers, I realized it was an ab muscle.  Wow.  Awesome!

I’ll reach over my shoulder to see how thick the muscles in my upper back are getting.  And then I scratch that itch I had.  And then I go back to feeling my muscles.

I don’t know if I’ll ever get my body fat down low enough to see what I feel, but for now, I’ll just have to "read" the progress by touch.  I don’t know how to get that to show up in progress pictures.