Tyyger’s BodyBlog

I went home to South Ga for the holiday.  Had a great time!!! I surprised my Mom for her birthday!!  She didn’t know I was coming home.  She loved it!  I’m her baby of course she’d love it!! LOL!    Anyway… Mom is a GREAT cook.  And I couldn’t wait to get there to sample her lovely dishes.. .did I mention she was is also a master cake baker!  Fortunately for me she didn’t bake my favorite.  She made red velvet of which I am not a fan.  So I didn’t indulge.  But she did cook some other dishes of which I did.  I didn’t exercise not once this weekend either.  Well I went to the beach on Monday…. took my nieces and nephews.  I had to keep an eye on my 4 year old niece and that proved to be an exercise in itself.  That girl loves the water and she kept me busy.  Her mother did not want her hair to get wet.  So I’m trying to let her enjoy herself and keep her hair dry!! LOL!!  But that was the extent of my cardio.  Now I’m back and I need to get focused.  Somewhere along the way I have lost my focus.  Even before I left.  I started doing better on the cardio, but my eating wasn’t as good as when I first started.  I am determined to lose this weight.  I just need to get that drive back from the beginning.  I did lose three pounds and started seeing some differences, but after this weekend, I’m sure those three are back and then some.  That’s discouraging, but it’s also a motivator.  I don’t want to be so strict on my diet that I crave things I shouldn’t.  I want to change my eating to where I am not eating the wrong things but not depriving myself so much that I over indulge in foods I shouldn’t eat.  I want to be able to fit into my Old Navy clothes… believe it or not, I was able to wear their clothing at one time.  Now they are too tight.  I wasn’t a big shopper there but I do have a few article of clothing from there that were mad cute!!  Now they are mad tight!! LOL!!  So I guess there is nothing to do, but to get to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!……………
…….now where are my gym shoes?…………..LOL!!!

Okay yall, (yeh I said yall… I am from the south!! LOL)  Anywhoooo… I did some measurements and I weighed myself today.  I must say I am disappointed, yet not so much so.  I have lost a whopping 3 pounds… 3 inches off my waist, and .5 inches off of my hips.  I was hoping for more, but I guess I have to remember that a slow loss is not bad…. probably better.  I will have to do some more tweaking on my diet.  I must admit the last week I have slipped a bit.  Not as strict as it has been.  But I have to make it comfortable for me.  And not so rigid that I go off on a binge.  All in All I am happy with my progress.  I am having a birthday cookout for myself since my bday was Thursday.  I know I will be off track today, but I’m making today my cheat day.  I’ll go play tennis in the morning to get in that extra cardio to combat the bad eating I’ll do today.  I feel like if I plan ahead I am being proactive in my goals.  I even did some cardio today even though I usually take Saturdays off.  I didn’t make it to the gym yesterday so I made up for it today.  I ran the stairs at the track.  I did 2 sets of stairs 7 times.   I am also going home next weekend to Georgia and I KNOW… with Mom’s cooking…. I’m gonna be off the chain!!!!!! LOL!!  So….. this week is going to be somewhat strict on the eating… just to prepare my body for the shock of some fats!!!  I also bought a "fatgirl" belt today… I call it that because a friend of mine has one and he calls it his "fatboy belt"  LOL!  Gonna start using it next week, see how much help it will give me. 

So today is my birthday….  I took the day off from the gym. Using it as a rest day.  But I haven’t used that as an excuse to just eat anything.  Because I haven’t.  I’ve eaten good today.  Probably should have eaten more.  I had only 3 meals as opposed to the 5 or 6 I’ve doing before, but it’s all good.  No junk food for me today.  Not even birthday cake!  I know I could have indulged in one piece, but the fact is, I didn’t really want anything sweet!  Hey, I think I’m getting the hang of this clean eating after all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so I was somewhat of a bad girl last night.  Went out to eat and had a philly.  It was so good.  But I don’t feel that bad because I have been on it this week.  I’ve gone to the gym and I did my workouts with no complaints.  Not that I can afford to really cheat a lot, but one night won’t kill me.   So to make up for that meal, I went to the track this morning… of course there was some big track meet so I ended up at the new trail.  Did some walking and speed walking and I also did some sprints.  I wanted to shock my system with the sprints.  I think it worked really well cause  sista was TIRED!! and SOOO out of breath!  But that is something I am going to add to my weekly routine.  Take a day and do sprints.  Just a lil spice to the regular everyday workout!   I’ve caught some kind of virus so I didn’t go the gym Friday.  I went ahead and did my leg workout Thursday.  I usually do Legs on Fridays, but I didn’t know If I would feel like going. Well I got sick, so it’s a good thing I went ahead and did them Thursday.  When I got up the morning and did the cardio, I felt better, but after I got back home… I’ve been sick every since.  I hope this will be over by tomorrow……

Okay… so I’ve regrouped and gotten back on the train.  I’m doing well this week with my eating and cardio.  I have to take it day by day.  Today was to be my off day, but I decided to walk.  I walked the new trail I mentioned in one of my earlier blogs.  And boy let me tell you… my hamstrings are tight.  I started something new this week.  The high intensity interval training.  While doing treadmill, bike, stairclimber etc.  you do moderate pace for 2 min and then do high speed for 30 seconds.  Then back down to moderate for 2 mins.  This is supposed to spike your heart rate.  And let me tell you…ya girl was sweating her A*& off yesterday.  I did the stairclimber first.  Started moderate pace at level 3… the kicked up for 30 sec. on level 7.  Those stairs were coming at me like gangbusters.  I was keeping up, but I was glad when those 30 sec were over! "whew"!!!  I did 15 mins total.  Then I went to the bike.  I put the bike on random starting at level 6 and when on random, the bike moves from one level up to another and back and forth.  I got up to about level 13.  So I went from 6 to 13 and all those inbetween.  I was one tired, but energized sista when I got done!  But I was proud of myself because I kept up with the pace and didn’t give up and quit!

I’ve been a bit discouraged the last couple of days.  Can’t really explain why.  I’ve been doing well the last three weeks and I wanted to post some new measurements.  So I just measured my thigh and I didn’t see any change.  That may be the reason why feel this way.  I’ve only lost 1/2 inch from my waist.  I was hoping I had lost more than that.  I’ve tweaked my diet and made some changes.  I’ve stopped using sugar in my coffee in the morning.  I haven’t had any soft drinks for a month.  I’ve added salad to my lunch  two days a week and substituted my favorite 1000 island dressing for the salad spritzers.  I’ve added more water and protein.  Maybe I’m expecting too much too soon.  But this is what always happens.  I don’t see any changes, so I quit.  I’m trying hard not to do that this time.  I would really love to post some pictures where you can see the changes in my body.  But that won’t be happening this week.