Valleygirl’s BodyBlog

As I mentioned in my status I have not had great motivation lately. While pouring a cup of coffee this morning I finally pin pointed why. I am currently unemployed, (by my own decision) and at first I was excited. I was going to look for a new job and the rest of the day was going to be devoted to training for the triathlon. Well, for this first month that was great, but now I think its all catching up to me. I feel like I will never get a new job and we will be struggling to make bills forever. I put way to much pressure on myself! Its not like we haven’t been payint the bills for the last month or anything, my husband has been playing well and making money, so I shouldn’t be worrying….but I’m a woman, that seems to be what we do =) Anyway, so it seems like I am not motivated because working out whenever means I don’t have a job. Hopefully that makes sense. If I knew we wouldn’t need me to have a job I would be fine.  Oh well! It’ll work out =) Thanks for listening!

~Valleygirl

So, I know this isn’t a body building event, but I’ve started training for a triathlon. I’m pretty excited, its still 9 weeks away, so I’ve got plenty of time to get there. I’m doing the Sprint distance triathlon for the first one, its a 500 meter swim, 13 mile bike ride and a 3.2 mile (5K) run. Not too bad, but daunting in a way. I’ll keep everyone updated on the progress!

So, its pretty obvious I am not going to reach my goal. Seeing how I have 24lbs left and 21 days left to do it. But, I’m ok with that. I am still going to keep up trying. Even if I only drop like 5 more pounds or something it will be ok. I’m not going to give in to the Holiday hype that you might as well eat all you can from Thanksgiving to New Year’s because thats what everyone does. I’m no saint, I did indulge over Thanksgiving and it took me a whole nother week to get back on track, but enough already! I’m going on a great vacation over Christmas and I don’t want to feel fat, so I’m back on the wagon! If I don’t talk to anyone before then, have a very Merry Christmas!!!

I recently purchased a skin fold caliper from bodybuilding.com, it hasn’t gotten here yet, but I’m excited. In my exercise physiology class in college we learned the proper way to use them and all the calculations and what not. I know most people would just say, "go to your local gym" well to be very honest…I’m so extremely embarrassed with myself I don’t want anyone else to know how exactly how grotesquely overweight I am.  On the flip side of things I am a little in denial about the whole thing. I know I am overweight, but I don’t REALLY know. Doing the skin fold measurements…I will have no way to deny it. Its also a great way to start keeping track of my progress. Looking forward to this!

Hey everyone! Long time no see! Its no mistake, I have been MIA for the past 7 months. Truth is I used every excuse in the book not to work out or take care of myself.  I let myself go. I got up to the heaviest I have ever been and felt so sick about it I tried one of the ever popular "fad diets". Yes I lost an incredible amount of weight in 10 days, but I felt so weak, I couldn’t go on. So even though I have put back on half of what I lost I still feel a since of motivation. I haven’t started working out everyday yet. But I have started walking during my lunch hour and I will soon begin swimming in the mornings.

I CAN DO THIS!

Someone recently told me that the human body can only handle 36 grams of protein at a time. Does this sound right? To me it does not, but this person was in a store that supposedly has people educated in proper nutrition. If anyone can help me with this it would be great.

Well, its official. I fell off the wagon for a few days. Luckily I did not fall off and get run over, I just held onto the side for dear life! But, I am back on track today. I figured out I have a hard time staying with my eating/lifting schedule when I am out of town.  For the first couple of days it was easy, but then I gave in. I didn’t completely bomb all day long, just one meal a day was crap! Ughhh, I feel bad, but I’m over it now. I know these things do happen, I just need to work on not having it happen very often. I need to learn to say NO too! I would be a lot happier with myself if I would have just chosen to go out to each with the fam, but just have something to drink or eat a salad…nothing wrong with that. Its just a little hard. But, I bought some WPI while out of town and I had my fist shake this morning….it was ok. I definetly need to get used to the taste. Maybe I will add some frozen fruit or something….who knows.

Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Just a quick word to the wise…don’t eat your fish oil tablets!

Let me explain…

This morning I was having a nice snack of low-fat cottage cheese and some almonds. Well, I take fish oil with every meal. So, I grabbed one and for some reason my brain thought the fish oil was an almond and I popped it in my mouth. yeah…lets just say in the half-millisecond it took me to realize what I had done, it was too late. The caplet burst in my mouth and it was as gross as I could have imagined, maybe even worse! So after spitting everything out of my mouth and trying not to hurl I recovered and enjoyed the rest of my snack.

Hard lesson learned!!!

So, I have seen the scale move down! What a huge motivator, I am stoked to keep going. Its only been a week and I can already feel and see a difference. Even though I did not accomplish my goal of getting in the gym everyday, I have gone and lifted twice this week and I am going to go today in a few hours. Speaking of that…man am i sore. Definitely have the sore walk going on. Oh well, it makes me know I have done something worthwhile. I am looking forward to next Friday when I weigh in to see the newest developments!

Well, I took the first step to achieving my goals. I worked out this morning. 25 minutes of moderate intensity cardio, then about 45 of weights. Definitely a little sore, but it feels good. I’ve also been really trying to eat every 3 hours. That is harder than it sounds! Eggs and oats this morning, protein bar for snack, salad w/ hamburger patty, not sure what I’m going to eat for dinner…probably some grilled chicken.

One day down…many more to go!