Helping me stay on track…

As you see, I have not been on this site since Feb.  I was not doing well back then, and school got super crazy as well.  I’m not getting to the gym as much as I’d like and haven’t taken progress pics in ages.  It’s time, though, to get going again.  I’ll be changing gyms next month to save money.  The place I’m going to is just a room with equipment, but it’s less than 10 bucks a month for students.  I need to browse some exercises for the equipment they have, b/c they don’t have everything I’m used to using (no leg press, no back or ab machines, and no incremental barbells–so the one they have is too heavy for me even without weight on it).  there are a bunch of cable machines, free weights, cardio equipment, and bench press (which i can’t use).  If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to post!  I’m going to check out BB’s exercises as well.

Anwho!  It’s good to be back, and this coming week is going to be a new week!

So, the past month has not been good for me fitness and diet wise.  My husband was here visiting last weekend and said I’ve lost a significant amount of weight since he’d seen me last 4 weeks prior.  I’ve been much more tired, less motivated, and not interested so much in food.  I have also been thinking that I have been gaining weight.  These are all signs that I’m not doing well with my intake and exercise.  I need to get on top of this, but I’m just so damn tired and not really wanting to.

I went to the gym today and left before I was done with what I wanted to do.  I plan to go tomorrow again.  If I can get back up to 3-5x/week I know my mood will elevate and appetite will increase.

Grrrrr… why does it have to be so hard right now?!  I was doing so well!

i’m not posting my intake today, and i know i’ve slacked so much recently.  i’m just not doing well with the intake, and am finding it more and more useless to post it here. and now with all the final papers, presentations, reports, and exams… well, let’s just say that i don’t tend to eat so well during those times.

i’m terrified to take my progress pics for november, but will do it anyway tomorrow after my workout.  i’ve only been to the gym twice this week… i have been averaging 3x/week and feel like i need to go more often.

*sigh*

semester will be over soooooooooooon….

not so good today….

• 7:00 am - oatmeal, cinnamon, raisins
• 9:00 am - gym
• 11:00am - 4 egg whites, 2 slices whole grain toast, string cheese
• 2:00pm - kashi granola bar
• 5:00pm - pure protein bar
• 7:00pm - cheese and kashi crackers
• 7:30pm - salad (baby spinach, couscous, cucumbers, grape tomatoes, olives, orange and yellow peppers, salsa)
• 9:00pm - muscle milk

and here it is 11pm, and time to go to bed soon.  i’m gonna have some PB and an apple, though…

Agh! midterm week is here and i have been slacking with my blogging here.  but just to give you all a run-down of this week so far– workouts have been good, except today i did the same leg work with the same amount of weights as last week, but i’m not sore at all.  i don’t like that!!!!  grrrrr…

eating has been going well, overall…. more good days than bad.  but i’ve been crashing in the late afternoons (i’m guessing it’s a stress thing right now), and my dinners have been little snacks here and there.  everything’s good and clean, but prob not enough this week.  this is what happens to me when i’m stressed…. i unintentionally restrict.

and the H20 has been an ongoing issue.  there were a couple of days i drank the entire 2.5L, but otherwise, nice try ;P

i’ll be around more next week once this week is done and over with!

much luv,

*jes*

10:00 am

• Muscle Milk

11:00 am — Gym

• Gravity class (1 hr.—LUV this class!  Highlight of my week!)

12:15 pm

• 4 organic egg whites
• 2 slices organic whole grain toast
• organic string cheese
• H20

then I crashed around 1:30 or so and slept until 4pm! I did NOT mean to do that!!!

4:30 pm

• organic oatmeal with cinnamon, raisins, and Veg Boost Protein powder
• H20

5:00 pm

• 2 cups black coffee
• Pure Protein bar

8:30 pm

• low carb high protein wrap
• nayonnaise
• slice veggie cheese
• 1/2 pickle
• Morning Star Chick’n Strip Meal Starters
• cheat:  french fries

I’m probably going to have some fruit in a little bit.  Sucked again on the H20 today.  I need a new plan with this, or something, b/c filling my 2.5 L bottle daily is just not working for some reason.  argh.

Whoops! another forgotten blog entry… it was an okay day yesterday.  Could have been better.  The H20 intake sucked.  So, I didn’t reach my week-goal of 2.5 L, which really bums me out.  I’m not going to stop working on it, though.

6:30 am

• Muscle Milk

7:30 am — Gym

• 25 min cardio
• 45 training:  lower back, abs, biceps, triceps

9:00 am

• 4 organic egg white
• 2 slices organic whole grain toast
• organic string cheese
• herbal iced tea

10:00 am

• 2 cups black coffee

12:00 pm

• Kashi Honey Almond Flax Seed granola bar

1:15 pm

• Pure Protein Bar

2:30 pm

• diet coke (they’re all gone now!)

3:00 pm

• organic oatmeal with cinnamon, raisins, and Veg Protein Boost powder
• H20

6:30 pm

• Kashi crackers
• slice of organic whole grain bread
• hummus
• H20

7:30 pm

• Gardenburger
• 2 slices organic whole grain bread
• nayonnaise
• veggie cheese
• 1/2 pickle
• H20

8:30 pm

• baked yam
• H20

Good day today!

7:30 am

• Muscle Milk

8:30 am — Gym

• 25 min cardio
• 45 min training (lower back, abs, legs)

10:00 am

• 2 slices organic whole grain toast
• 4 organic egg whites
• organic string cheese
• herbal iced tea
• multivitamin and mega-B complex

11:00 am

• black coffee

12:00 pm

• Pure Protein Bar
• H20

1:00 pm

• cottage cheese, flax seeds, strawberries
• H20

3:00 pm

• baby carrots
• Kashi Honey Almond Flax Seed granola bar
• H20

4:00 pm

• unsalted pretzels
• soynut butter
• soynuts
• H20

6:30 pm

• organic salad (baby spinach, grape tomatoes, orange and yellow bell peppers, black olives, shredded veggie cheese)

7:00 pm

• organic veggie and wheat pasta
• organic tomato sauce
• 6 meatless meatballs
• herbal iced tea

I’m still working on my water for the day, and I’ll probably have an apple in a little bit.  Apples are *SO* good right now!!!!

Another good day!  Had a great workout, too!

7:00 am

• Muscle Milk

8:00 am –  Gym

• cardio (ran to gym and back, exactly 1 mile each direction)
• training:  abs, back, shoulders, chest

10:00 am

• 4 organic egg whites
• 2 slices organic whole grain toast
• organic string cheese
• herbal iced tea

11:00 am

• black coffee
• H20

12:00 pm

• Pure Protein bar
• H20

1:00 pm

• cottage cheese, flax seeds, strawberries
• H20

2:30 pm

• baby carrots
• soynuts
• chunks o’ energy thingies (organic bite-size yumminess)
• H20

4:00 pm

• unsalted pretzels
• Kashi crackers
• sunflower butter

7:00 pm

• organic salad (same as last night but smaller)
• slice of organic whole grain bread and hummus

8:00 pm

• 2 slices organic whole grain bread
• Gardenburger chicken pattie
• 1/2 pickle
• nayonnaise
• slice of veggie cheese
• H20

And that’s it! Still working on the H20 intake for today…. still haven’t gotten myself up to that 2.5 L, but it’s my goal to be there again by Friday.

’til next time

*jes*

Hmm… I don’t really know what to say about today.  I got a bit of a late start, the time of my abs class changed–I’d have to wait an hour between that and gravity, and I really don’t want to do an hour of cardio in-between… I went out looking for an art gallery and got lost, came home and crashed… so, my day went by pretty quickly and crappily, and the intake suffered.  But for those of you interested, last night after I posted I had 1/2 a Muscle Milk and drank a total of 2L of H20! Go me! My ass is killing me from the lower body work yesterday, which I am LOVING.  I didn’t think I was going to make it through the squat routine and hamstring routine in gravity class, but I did!
So, for today:

9:30 am

• black coffee

10:00 am

• Muscle Milk

11:00 am - 12:00 pm –Gym

• Gravity class (no cardio for me today… feels weird)

12:30 pm

• 4 organic egg whites
• 2 pieces organic whole grain toast
• organic string cheese
• 2 glasses herbal iced tea
• organic concord grapes

1:30 pm

• Pure Protein bar
• 1/2 diet coke (they’re almost gone now!)

—this is when i went out looking for the gallery—
4:30 pm — home again

• spicy soy and flax seed tortilla chips
• H20

5:00 pm

• unsalted pretzels
• sunflower butter
• H20

7:30 pm

• low carb/high protein wrap
• nayonnaise
• veggie cheese
• 1/2 pickle
• Morning Star Meal Starters chicken strips
• herbal iced tea

9:00 pm

• Muscle Milk (go me!)

have to go to the grocery store tomorrow.  i’m out of everything clean.