lorabeann’s BodyBlog

Well today was good.  I have been really busy today trying to get my gym payment stuff worked out, working out, getting my bodyfat tested, and almost getting attacked by a dog.

I’ll start with my eats:

M1: 1/2 egg whites, 1/2c oats, 1 tbsp whole wheat flour (made a pancake)
1.5 scoop Superpump250 15 min before workout- felt this within 10 minutes. I instantly felt better and more energized. It was another slow morning with bad weather. Ugh
M2: post workout shake- 1.5 scoop Vanilla intrapro! First time to try this. I used my hand blender so I would have a nice thick shake. The vanilla was awesome. Both of the flavors are great!
M3: cottage cheese and a piece of ezk bread.
1 Cytolean today around 3:30 (I felt sensitive to it yesterday so I cut down dosage.  Plus, it was later in the day.)
M4: Kind of lazy tonight- 3.5 oz of a turkey burger (homemade), 2oz salmon needed a green veggie, but whatev. This is right after I almost got attacked by that dog. The story coming up next!

Workout
Back and Bi’s
Lat Pull down- #3+plate- 15(warmup), #5 10, 10 , #5+plate- 10
Concentration Curls- 15# 10, 10, 8, 10
Reverse grip cable bicep curl #2- 10, #2+plate- 12, 10, 10
Row- cable #3- 15, #3+plate- 12, #4-10, 8
BB curls 30# 10, 8, 7

Abs
Decline crunch- 10#- 20, 18, 15

My workout felt powerful today. I kept increasing weight despite my wrist still being sore. I injured it last week playing around doing gymnastics (yep, stupid me ) and it bothers me gripping. I used wraps today when I could to help grip so it wouldn’t hurt. I also felt really focused. When I got there I found out my gym was messing up my account. New management. The new GM said if they have to change something up, then they would have to change the price on me. I was like B-S. He has no people skills. This is a Gold’s by the way. It is nothing like Gold’s in Dallas or in Cali. Anyway- not sure who they are charging my membership too, but it’s not me. ? Ugh. I’ll deal with it later!

Let’s see what next- body fat! I got my body fat done- 3 sites- and it was 16.81%! Now, I still feel that number is low to be accurate. I give it anywhere from 17-20%. My beginning pictures in my journal were very bloated due to that cycle we females have to endure monthly. Anyway- I am going to use that number as a marker for future reference.

And the dog story. I was walking Katy- my border goat. Ok she is a border collie but stands on everything and anything she can- and she eats everything. It was still light out and we come up on a loose boxer dog. I start backing away, and the dog starts circling my dog and I aggressively. I have a stick so I am holding it out, following the dog, keeping it away from my dog. This dog would not let up. It constantly circled us- we were in the middle of the street now (neighborhood). No cars were coming by and this dog was biting my stick. I start yelling and a guy comes out of his house and ran the dog off.

I call my parents and my dad and brother come running down the street. My dad catches the dog and this pothead in a beanie was like uhhh yeah i know who the dog belongs to. Well it belonged to more potheads, who were sitting in their garage smoking- probably listening to their dog barking its head off at me and me yelling. I was so pissed. I should have called 911 to get this dog out of the neighborhood. This isn’t the first time this dog has aggressively bothered people.

Alright, well…. that was my day.  Kind of crazy.  I am happy about the bodyfat reading though.  Let’s get it lower.

Well today is off day, since I worked out yesterday.  But I will give you my run down of what the day has been like:

Meals and Supps:
Wake up: 2 Cytolean, 3oz coffee with 2oz soy milk (just love the taste)
M1: 3/4c cottage cheese, 1/2c oats, tsp flax
1Cytolean 30mins before next meal
M2: 1/4 oats, 1scoop intrapro, 1tbsp PB (shake)
M3: 1/2c CC, 2tsp PB
M4: 4.5oz Turkey burger, sm. sweet potato, 1c broccoli
M5: something light with no fat.  I will update this one.

Ok, did NOT mean to have so much fat in the diet today.  Wasn’t planning on PB in my shake, but I had a (very nice) local supplement shop blend up a smoothie today with the Intrapro instead of what they use.  I just forgot to tell them to cut the PB. 

The Cytolean doesn’t give me jitters at all.  I wrote a paper this morning in 30 mins too, so I would have to say it does help with focus.  The real test will be next week before finals. 

Tomorrow is Back, Biceps, and Abs with Cardio.  Sometimes I feel like I have to cram a lot in since I have certain days with more time on my hands.  The rest of the day I have to volunteer at a Therapeutic Riding Stable for volunteer hours for a class.  This is what happens when you put stuff off until the end of the semester… I will be cramming in 15 hours into 2 days. 

Well boys and girls, I am feeling good.    Actually, I took 2 cytoleans at 3:00 pm.  Kind of late, but that is when I remembered about it.  Still feel kind of crappy today, and was tired when I took it.  Two hours later and I am feeling pretty good.  No jitters, or feeling queasy.  I feel a little warmer- but who knows-I felt warmer today when I feel asleep for an hour.  I will only take 2 today since it is so late in the day.  Oh well, now I feel motivated to go to my night class.  Ugh.  1 hour drive though.

Also my appetite is like non-existent.   You have to remind yourself to eat with this stuff.

On another note- I got my competition heels in! I got the standard 5" Ellie Clear Mules (M-Vanity).  Love them!  They are motivation to work hard.  Right now I really want to drop fat with this stack.  I feel like I will be quite small when I shed this bodyfat, but I will worry about that later I guess.  I mean, I have till next summer…  Hope that is enough time.

My goal right now is to eat clean for fat loss, and lift heavy.  Sound good?

Tried out the Lemon Burst this morning right before my shoulder workout.  It mixed really well with just a spoon- not too clumpy.  I didn’t have a shaker bottle with me or I would have used that.  The lemon flavor tastes good.   It isn’t like lemonade- it definitely has a kick to it!

I felt pretty energized, despite feeling like crap this morning.  Woke up with a dull headache, have a cough, etc. Hopefully this isn’t something that will stick around… Not to mention it was just a bad morning.  Soooo, this stuff is definitely a mood lifter! 

Workout- Also I log weight, then reps per set. 
Free Motion Workout 15# 15, 10, 10
BB Shoulder Press 30# 12, 12, 10, 10
Lat raise w/ 10# plates 8, 8, 6, 6 Supersetted with
Front Plate raise- 10# 8, 8, 10, 10
Reverse Flyes- Machine 20# 8, 10, 10

Intrapro
Mixed the Chocolate in skim milk after my workout.  Oh my gosh.  It is like a milkshake!  I needed to finish up my skim milk.  The next test will be in water.  it is super coco-ey.  if that is a word.   I mixed it with a spoon and it didn’t have too many clumps either.  It also ends up kind of thicker, which is nice.  I don’t like watery shakes.

I will post diet later and include times I took supps.

So Gaspari sent me 2 bottles of Intrapro, Cytolean, and Superpump in the new flavor- lemon!  I have some pictures of everything, since it is like Christmas over here, but I need to get my image hosting set up!

I’ll be back!

Quick post here.  I did chest and tris today, got a really big pump.  I haven’t started the supplements yet- so when I do, I can’t wait to see the results.

Free Motion Pec Flye 25# 15 reps, 30# 8, 8, 6
Tricep Press Down #3+plate 14, 10, 8, 6
Chest press, incline-machine 40# 10, 10, 7, 8
Skull crushers with barbell 30# 10, 8, 8, 7
Supersetted w/ chest press 30# 10, 8, 8, 8,

35 min cardio

Doesn’t seem like much, but I am pretty sure it has been awhile since I did chest, so I was exhausted.  I need to go by Wally world tonight.  I hate going there in the evening.  Parents bring their wild kids there like it is a playground or something.  The best time to go is in the middle of the day.

Well, I have an odd story to tell everyone.  It seems I have a mystery creature in my backyard.  I have box turtles- 4 full grown turtles and 5 baby box turtles.  I checked on them the other day because it is starting to get cold and they hibernate.   Everything was cool.

I go back out there the other day and the baby turtles are completely missing from their section of the "turtle sanctuary".  I thought they might be able to get out from that section, but unlikely.  We have never had predators in our backyard and turtles have lived in our backyard for 10 years and never bothered.  Whatever it was, I thought it would ignore my big turtles because they were already buried for winter.

I checked the big ones this morning and my big turtles were all over the place.  Two of my turtles had been chewed on, but luckily no shell punctures.  One might have to get antibiotics tomorrow though.  Can you believe that?  Turtle antibiotics.  My family is weird about pets though.  We had a large rabbit that thought it was a dog once.  His name was Mr. Bunny. 

Anyway, I need Fern (MsFitness) to head over here with her car and take care of this mystery creature.  She has a history with creatures- just check her blog.  She’s hilarious. Pest control on wheels.

I am excited to start blogging for the Fit N Lean stack!  Can’t wait to see the changes with these supps.  I need to go food shopping.  The fridge is filled with stuff from thanksgiving.  and its not all healthy…. 

So my leg workout must have worked.    I like having DOMS.  I’m still sticking with the higher reps for my legs.  I hope that works for me.  Don’t need a lot of muscle there right now, I just want to work on decreasing bodyfat so my definition comes in.

On another note, it is still to warm here in Texas.  I want to start listening to Christmas music, but it doesn’t feel right.  :\ Well, I guess I should write my paper.

Side pose:

Back Relaxed: And for the butt shot. I am pretty sure I am sticking out my butt here. I have a booty, but um here it looks accentuated.

Back Pose: Once again… no idea what I am doing.