LoveMyLife’s BodyBlog

I am sooo stoked!  So,to catch up on things a little bit.  Stopped going to the gym for a few months because of a huge change in our family.  Quit one gym and joined another one that is a little farther away from where we live now(we moved).  Decided to go to this new gym that is farther away because it will benefit us better (now have a pool and many many other amenities that we love).   

So my husband has been extremely committed to getting to the gym and we have been working out together.  Normally we fight and argue when we workout together,  but some how we have worked through all that and it has been wonderful!  We have stuck to a program for a whole month now and have seen tremendous results.  I started out at 25% BF and have dropped to 23.1%.  That is just in a little less then 4 weeks!  Right now we are doing a strength and muscle building regimen so we have done basically nothing but weights.  We have only done cardio 4 times in the past 4 weeks.  My husband has went from 30% to 25%.  Our weight has remained pretty much the same, but I know when we start to do cardio this month it will go down. 

I can not wait until the end of next month to see how we have done!  I used to want to get back down to 20% but now I am so confident that I will pass that goal right up so now my goal is at 17%.   :)

I am getting so board of working my legs out!  I have changed my leg routine from Monday heavy sets less reps and then on Thursday light sets more reps and working them separately- to lighter sets more reps on both days.  I think I am tired of doing them twice a week.   Don’t get me wrong, I see results- my butt is lifting and legs are looking leaner.  I’m just board, need new motivation to do legs.  I keep looking at other women’s legs but that’s not even motivating me.  Maybe it’s time I find a work out partner.  Plus I know I’ll push my self harder if I’m working out with someone. 

 Oh well,  I have to keep goin’ to continue with positive gains, right!?   

I am so proud of my self!  Guess what? did you know when you are consistent you actually get results! OMG!   I’ve known that- it’s just doing it is my problem.  I have been working out for 3 weeks in a row- being consistent.  Even when we go camping I’ve been jogging and playing extra hard with the kids(playing tag, football, soccer things like that.)  I have not weighed my self since earlier this month and I’m planning on taking all my measurements and weight at the end of this month to see how my progress is going.  I will also post new pics!  I’m soooooo excited!

 I had a talk with my husband and told him that I really need his encouragement.  He always says that I am so beautiful and sexy.  (he said that when I was 206lbs too.)  When he says that I look great just the way I am, I start to slack off.  I figure my husband thinks I look great I don’t have to watch what I eat and go to the gym so much- but then I’m not happy with my self.   SO, I talked to him and he has been encouraging me so much to go to the gym.  That has been such a big help.  Plus he doesn’t want to eat out as much and he has been eating healthy-er too!  He has lost 10lbs!  He also went to the gym with me-he could only do 20 mins of cardio but that’s great because it’s better than none at all. 

So keep rootin’ for me!  I’m on the right track and need to stay motivated!  NO excuses!  I can do it!

Well, this time it wasn’t from lifting weights.  I fell last night and when I fell I thought I hurt my left shoulder cause it hurt really bad.  But as the night went on my right shoulder started to hurt-the one that I hurt a year and a half or so ago.  This morning it really hurt and I did my back work out today I couldn’t do reverse flys.  It hurts to try to raise it laterally.  So I am going to make an doctors appointment tomorrow if it is still hurting.  Yes, I am actually going to finally get it looked at.  You want to know the pathetic part of it all, when I fell I was climbing over our sand rail to get to the fridge to get a root beer so I could make my self a small root beer float.   I should have took the hint.  Then when I got back in the house I dropped the ice cream on the floor and spilled some root beer by almost knocking the cup over.  I am glad to let you know that I only had a quarter of it.  I didn’t finish it.  Soooo all that work trying to get a fix on a craving that I’ve been having for a couple days WAS NOT WORTH IT! 

Other than that my back work out was pretty good considering I didn’t have my music to keep me pumped up.  I ran 30 min on the treadmill too!  I did HITT.  I couldn’t believe it!  That is an accomplishment in itself-doing cardio without my music!  Keeping my fingers crossed on my shoulder….Not sure how my chest workout is going to pan out tomorrow.

We went camping for the weekend and I had such a wonderful time-even with the rain!  Before we left I felt upset that I would not be able to go to the gym but I know that I would be doing a lot of exercising.  I was right!  We went to Sand Lake near Tillamook Oregon where we always go.  My quad (4wheeler not my leg) was fixed and I was ridin’ the hell out of it!  It’s been 7 months since I last rode and was extremely surprised and excited what a change in strength I had!  I actually rode with just a tank top on and some jeans (with my boots and helmet, have to have saftey gear on) I was worried about how my upper body would look,  but everyone said that I looked like I should have been a quad rider model!  All the muscles in my arms chest and back were flared!  My husband said that the parts of shoulders and chest he could see were shredded!  I’m sooooo pumped!  So aside from getting a work out from riding my quad, I got a killer work out running in the sand chasing after my two girls riding their quads!  Plus all the heavy lifting of unloading and loading the camping gear.  I still have not been to the gym to do my leg work out today, I’ve had such a head ache all day and been extremely tired and sore!  But I am feeling good now and going to go after I get more house work done.  I’ve decided that I’m just going to do cardio then my leg workout and no swimming today.  I don’t want to over do it since my body is already feeling exhausted. 

I had such a great workout today!  I feel soooo good!  I did my back today and 30 min of cardio. 

10 min cardio on precore 

One arm dumbbell row- 12×15lbs, 12×20lbs, 12×25lbs

Lat pull-downs- reg grip 12×60, 12×65, 12×70, wide grip 12×60, 12×65, close grip 12×60, 12×65

One arm seated row- 12×25, 12×5, 12×25

Bent over barbell row- 12×30, 12×40, 12×50

Lower back extensions- 20xbody, 15×10, 15×10

Planks- 40 sec reg, 10sec leg up, 10sec other leg up, rest. 20sec on right side, 20sec center, 20sec on left side, 20sec right side, 20sec center, 20sec left side.

Jack knife sit up- 2 sets of 20.

10 min cardio on elliptical

10 min cardio on row machine

Well, I was excited to get my butt to the gym today because I was going to get my BF% tested before my workout.  I got there and no one was available to take it.  Well actually I think the front desk person was just too lazy.  A trainer did come over and say that someone was avail now that he was out of a meeting, but the lazy front desk person said that she was sure he was still in the meeting and that the only other avail person was no where to be found.  She didn’t even call it over the loud speaker.  So I got fed up with waiting and went to start my workout.  After waiting 10 min to get my BF% I was pretty upset and did not feel like working out at all.  I did 10 min warm up on elliptical, then 6 sets of wide and normal and narrow stance of squats-12 to 15 reps.  Then went on to do seated leg curls but the stupid lever was stuck so I went and got some one and it took them a few min to fix it-it was jammed pretty good.  So then I did 2 sets of 20 on that then went over and did 2 sets of 20 on the leg extension then 2 sets of 20 on calves.  By that time I was so unmotivated and I knew I was cutting my self short of my workout.  So I went and swam for 40 min and finally was able to blow off the steam. 

Then, after I showered and was dressed, I weighed my self and was so surprised that I had lost 5lbs!  I was in a great mood then!  But as I drove home I was suspicious and decided to go to my other gym to weigh myself.  That scale said I lost 2lbs.  Which I think I am going to go by that one considering that is the scale I normally use.  But I’m still optimistic about it cause I will need to weigh in again for the BF% which hopefully I can get done tomorrow before my workout.  So for last 5 hours I’ve been outside with my girls playing soccer and tether ball- staying active.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

I am soooo proud of myself!  So the brownie thing I only had that one night-haven’t touched them since!  I’ve been eating right.  Yesterday I really did not want to go to the gym to do my leg work out.  I was soooo dead tired.  I started to get ready but my body was so sore and I was literaly walking around the house with my eyes half open! Then I started reasoning why I shouldn’t go to the gym.  So I decided to take a 20 min nap.  Huge difference!  I was so ready to go after the nap it wasn’t even funny.  I actually fell asleep thinking about my work out  and thinking of how great my booty will look again. I even dreamed of working out!  So I loaded the girls up and to the gym we went!  It was great!  Today my tushy is a little sore.  OK this morning it was quite sore, you know the kind that hurts to sit on the toilet seat….It’s fine now after I’ve stretched and worked out.  I’ve been doing at least 30 if not 40 min of cardio each day.  AND my husband commented on how great my back was looking!  FYI he still has not went to the gym with me.  At least I am staying motivated!  OH and my old work out pants that I had to stop wearing cause my tushy was too big- fit me now! OH YEAH, that’s what I’m talkin’ about!  I LOVE my work out pants! So that means I have dropped an inch or two in that area.   I guess I’ll find out on Sunday.  Although I am using Sunday as a NEW starting point, not really a reference to what I was a couple of months ago. 

Tomorrow I’m planning on just doing cardio.  And Sunday I’m going to take off.

Ok! It feels so great to get back to the gym.  It seems like every time I get a good week or two of being consistent I get sick or my kids get sick or we take a trip.  I really wish I could get one full month in of going to the gym and eating right.  Then I know it would stick in my head and I would really see some results.  Don’t get me wrong, I am seeing results- just very very slow ones.  I have gotten stronger, but I still need to trim down.

So, last week I was sick, but the week before that I did legs hard and swam on Tuesday. Wednesday I did back and cardio. Thursday I did chest and cardio.  Friday I did legs working them separately and more reps, then swam.  Saturday I did arms and shoulders and cardio.  Sunday I took off.  So I’ve decided to continue that regimen only I started it on Monday this week.  I really love incorporating swimming into my workouts because I seem to get the kind of results that I am looking for. 

Last night was really hard for me because I was struggling with food decisions.  My husband and kids wanted pizza.  And I did not.  So I ended up ordering pizza and chicken.  Kind of a compromise.   I did not have a piece of pizza like I wanted to.  But then he begged me to make brownies.  That’s when I started to cry.  When I was pregnant I would seriously eat a whole batch of brownies.  So this is what I did I made the brownies, and while they were cooking I looked at profiles on here and wrote out the exercises I was going to do today.  I still had a brownie. And milk.  But, I have not had any today and I have been eating very well so far today.  I feel full and have no urges to splurge or make stupid excuses that I worked out today so it’s ok to cheat.  I have to stay motivated. Last night while I was balling my eyes out to my husband, I told him that I really needed him to help me and that we can do this together and I need some one to encourage me to eat healthy and not take the easy way out.  I also told him that I need him to go to the gym with me when he gets off work to do cardio with me.  That was kind of a trick to get him to get his butt back to the gym too!  But it worked-well, we’ll see later today. 

I can’t wait until Sunday.  I am going to kind of start over and re-take my measurements and a new photo.  And then I’ll work from there.