Shannon’s BodyBlog

Cardio (Session 1 to make up for missing yesterday):  300
Breakfast:  1 whole egg, 4 egg whites (22g prot)
oatmeal (5g prot)
coffee

Snack:  1 cup cottage cheese (24g prot)

Lunch:  salmon (40g prot)

1/2 cup rice (3g prot)

Snack:  Titan Crunch Bar (sample came with BB.com delivery…it was good) (9g prot)

Pregym:  protein shake (24g prot)

Postgym:  protein shake (21g prot)

banana
Dinner:  Hot and sour seafood soup (30g prot)

Bedtime:  Casein protein shake (24g prot)

When someone is described as, or describes themselves as smelling ripe.

"Woooeee, he smells ripe."

"Peee-ee-ee U!  Do I smell ripe!"

It’s actually turning my stomach WRITING about ripeness, but sometimes the burden of something that has been rolling around in my mind is alleviated when I write it all out.

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about this for the past couple of days for no particular reason.

I fear the day that someone at the gym actually smells ripe.  Smelling the ripeness grosses me out too.

When I’m in a public place like a supermarket and I see someone who has the potential to smell ripe….maybe they have greasy hair or mangy clothes or they’re overweight…..I hold my breath when I pass by them to avoid smelling them just in case they actually do smell ripe.

Oh man, the day I smell someone who smells ripe at the gym will be my worst workout day EVA.

So far guys just smell like laundry detergent when we walk past each other.

I, however, do NOT smell ripe because I use a ton of deodorant after I shower before I go to the gym.

If you can smell your bad self, you know others can too.  So, make sure you deodorize yourself!

Breakfast:  2 whole eggs, 3 egg whites (24g prot)

oatmeal (5g prot)

coffee

Lunch:  Chicken (40g prot)  (not much of an appetite)

Dinner:  salmon (40g prot)
macaroni (7g prot)

Snack:  1 whole egg, 4 egg whites (24g prot)
2 slices whole wheat toast

Weight Training:  Chest, back and calves

Headache, low brain energy.  Got to get this in writing though.

I’m prone to the attitude of "Why do today what you can put off ’til tomorrow."  And it gets me all topsy turvy.

I’m learning that I have the potential to be a full steam ahead kind of gal and need to tap into that quality.

So, what I’ve learned is that I have to compete against myself in order to live out that quality.  One way I do that is to put myself on little challenges like eating clean for 30 days without cheating, like I’ve done in the past since joining this site.  And doing cardio 7 days a week, assigning myself amount of calories burned without skipping a day or a burnt up calorie.

So here goes it all over again.

I’m eating clean for 30 days straight without cheats.  I HATE to see a (Day) skipped on this blog, so it will make me feel really good seeing consecutive numbers written each day I write a blog post.

I’m doing cardio 7 days a week, but because I don’t want to waste away into a skeletal mess, I’m assigning 500 calorie burns on non leg days and Sunday…my off from the gym day.  The other days I’ll just burn 300 calories.  Why?  Cuz I feel like it.

Oh, and a little advice to the Know-It-Alls in the world, if you see something that doesn’t jive with what your knowledge base is, don’t just jump in and think you can correct a situation without first learning some background info.  If you "care" that much as to share your wealth of knowledge, then care enough to get to know a little something about the person before giving unsolicited advice.

Oh yeah, and you might want to know what you’re talking about, too.

Weight Training:  Legs, abs

Cardio:  300

Breakfast:  1 cup cottage cheese (24g prot)

oatmeal (5g prot)

coffee

Snack:  2 slices whole wheat toast (headache food…makes me feel better) (8g prot)
Pregym:  protein shake (21g prot)

Postgym:  protein shake (21g prot)

Lunch:  tuna (22g prot)

Snack:  cottage cheese (12g prot)
peanuts (3g prot)

Dinner:  chicken (40g prot)

macaroni (7g prot)

Bedtime:  Casein shake (24g prot)

Here are some lame pick up lines that I’m not sure would garner success….unless you gave a girl a shot of Tequila:
If I said you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?

Excuse me, but do you give head to strangers? No. Well, then, allow me to introduce myself.

Baby, I’m no Fred Flintstone, but I can make your bed rock.

You know how they say skin is the largest organ?  Not in my case.

Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?

What’s that on your face?  Oh, must just be beauty.  Here, let me get it off.  Hey, it’s not coming off!

At the gym, I’ve gotten hit on by two different men on two different occasions using the SAME pick up line.  (Or at least I think they hit on me.  LOL):

Don’t I know you from somewhere?

And both times I wondered if it was a trick question.

I’ve been going to the gym 6 days a week since December.  For the most part, I’ve gone at essentially the same time, wearing the same baseball cap (I still haven’t thrown it out), wearing the same round of ratty gym clothes.  I’m consistent if anything.  And I see these two guys regularly.
So when these two men, one of whom is Chatty Cathy (the man who wouldn’t stop talking the entire time I was working out a few months ago), asked me that question I had to answer:

"Well, we see each other all the time at the gym."

Chatty Cathy:  No.  I know you from somewhere.  Did you change something about you?

Me:  No.

CC:  I’m trying to think of where I know you from.

Me:  We talked once here, a while ago, so maybe that’s why you think I’m so familiar.

CC:  No, I keep looking at you while you work out and for the life of me I can’t figure out where I know you from.  I keep coming up with nothing.

Me:  You come up with nothing because there is nothing.  I only know you from the gym!

———————-

Guy From Last Week:  You look familiar.  Where do we know each other from?

Me:  Here at the gym.

GFLW:  No, I know you from somewhere else.  God, where do I know you from?  Do you run?

Me:  No.

GFLW:  No?  Did you run the Boston Marathon this week?  I could’ve sworn I saw you there.  I ran in it.  You look like someone I saw.
Me:  No, I don’t run.  I used to, but not anymore.

GFLW:  Really?  I can’t believe you don’t run.

Me:  I did in HS and started up again a few years ago, but wasn’t as crazy about it, so I stopped.

GFLW:  Well, once you hit 40 it gets to be a lot harder.

Me (in my head):  Did he just say I look 40?  F*ck!

Breakfast:  1 whole egg, 3 egg whites

oatmeal

milk

coffee

Snack:  cottage cheese (1 serving)

I’m sure with all of the hard work you’ve put into working out, I would hope so.  But these people not only have healthy hearts, they have kind hearts as well.  AND I WOULD LOVE TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LIST:

WaynesWorld (to be given)

Mamaof2

Fitclubmom

AND

c16alberts (husband of Fitclubmom)

Shanbl

Frogprincess72

Al–1961

TheCrab

Bradl

Stuwantsmore

Motorbiker

Sarverbe
Kulzor

Mrscaz

HermtheWorm
Follow their good hearted example and please help the daughter of a fellow Bodyspacer.  See yesterday’s post for more details.

If we can come together to support each other’s goals to become healthy and HOT, then we can help out someone who needs it because her life depends on it.

Even if you don’t know who I am or could care less, I know you’ll care enough to help Lily Kate.  Please see the post below for the link directing you to where you need to go.  Thank you!

Everyone here wants to achieve their personal best in lifting a weight, consecutive days at the gym, miles spent on CARDIO.  PB’s are what keeps us improving to our better selves.

Never have I met a more encouraging, supportive bunch of people here who are also happy to see someone achieve their personal best and reach out to that person to let them know how impressed or proud they are with them.

So far, I have these Bodyspaceers on a list, and I want to add your name too:

WaynesWorld (to be given)

Mamaof2

Fitclubmom

AND

c16alberts (husband of Fitclubmom)

Shanbl

Frogprincess72

Al–1961

TheCrab

Bradl

Stuwantsmore

Motorbiker

Sarverbe
Kulzor

Mrscaz

HermtheWorm
Sometimes you need go beyond encouraging words to help someone who needs it just because it is the right thing to do.

My good friend AND trainer, Bodyspacer Janthony, has a daughter who has Cystic Fibrosis.  She is as pretty and graceful as her name, Lily Kate.

He has done so much to help me and others on this site without ever asking for anything in return.  Please follow his example and donate to his daughter’s cause.
I know we can all help Janthony and his family achieve their personal best by donating so they can hand in their biggest donation EVER.

You can do one of two things…or better yet, BOTH:

1.  Comment on here to keep this blog afloat so that it isn’t buried and not seen by those who come to the Bodyspace Blog section.

2.  PLEASE donate even if it’s $1.  If we all give just that much, then it will add up to a phenomenal amount.

Click on this link so you can donate DONATIONS ARE ACCEPTED BEYOND SATURDAY:

http://www.cff.org/Great_Strides/JohnAnthony5225