frogprincess72’s BodyBlog

as i mentioned, i gave up refined sugar and diet soda/caffeine last friday..and i’ve been doing rather well..no headaches…better energy believe it or not….and drinking tons of water…so yesterday i take my son out to lunch.. i’m thinking to myself, let’s see how a real soda would taste.. i wasn’t craving it as much as i kinda wanted to see if i would crave it.. i know.. a slipery slope… so i drank it… and it tasted good..doesn’t anything sugary caramel colored and carbonated? but the real kicker was that i didn’t want more. i had no desire to go out and get more sugar. that was all i had for the day..and i was sooooooo happy!!

BUT……this morning when i opened my eyes, i had a headache that i couldn’t believe. my eyes hurt and the throbbing.. oh the throbbing…and it dawned on me.. i hadn’t had my usual ridulous amount of H2O the previous day.. I’ve always known i need my water but i had no idea that it would come to this.. and not sure if the sugary caramel colored carbonated soda was a contributing factor or not, but honestly…. i’m not willing to conduct that experiment again just to find out…

so i’ve got my lake of water to drink today and i’m well on my way.. plus today is my day off from the gym, so i can catch up!!

Okay.. I did it.. I gave up caffeine yesterday.. shhhhhhhhh… be vewy, vewy quiet, please!! I did it for several reasons.. #1 being that I drink Diet cola… vewy, vewy bad for you.. but that’s another blog… #2 I started a new fat burner, which has caffeine and I’m already very sensitive to caffeine.. And I’m a full time job as it is.. I don’t need double caffeine!

And boy howdy hi, was i glad i gave up the diet cola today! i took my fat burner as directed…and 30 minutes later i was a jitter bug.. So i crammed a few strawberries and 1/2 my protein bar in my mouth (what i could get in there.. my hands were shaking so badly I almost missed a few times) and the jitters subsided.. PHEW!!!

So the other thing i did this weekend was to also pay closer attention to my diet and follow my higher protein/lower carb eating plan.. WHICH I’m supposed to be doing anyways, since I apparently have an intolerance to carbs naturally.. that’s another blog as well… And i have to say, that having been alone much of the weekend I did very well.. I haven’t had any refined sugar for 2 days.. And no extra caffeine… And i’m not nearly the monster everyone warned me i would be!! YAY!!!!

And I’m still sticking to my cardio.. LOVE my cardio.. I know.. that’s taboo here on bb.com but seriously… Give me my IPOD with my kick butt music and off i go…  Which is why i’m working with my trainer.. Cuz without her, I wouldn’t push myself nearly as hard with the weights.. Let’s be honest.. I just might skip them entirely! But I did start doing a few sprints mixed in thanks to the guidance of another trainer.. Which really helped the monotony that sets in after about 30 minutes..

SO.. the moral of my story is this.. I’m back on! I’m ready to kick butt.. (my own)…Wish me luck…. Constructive advice always welcome!!

So i had a quick workout with my trainer this morning.. She’s awesome.. She didn’t count it as a training because she had to cut it short secondary to a scheduling conflict… okay.. whatever..

so at the end of the session, we’re doing abs… and somehow we got into the topic of our least favorite body part/s… Mine were always my arms.. Now i love them.. Now I"m working on having that same love for my abs… I’ve got a long way to go…

So Then she says "mine are my calves and ankles. You have calves and ankles I would KILL to have!" WHAT????? ME???? Then she says "you’ve inspired me to step up my running.. I want legs like yours!!" Then I was officially floored… I’m still in a mild state of shock..

But it did make me realize that we’re all in this together.. There’s always something that we would like to change about ourselves.. and together we can inspired each other to reach whatever goal it is we’ve set for ourselves!