~phoenixnv22~

I have been on a workout program for about 8 weeks now after taking about 2 1/2 years off of clean eating and lifting.  I am following Tony Horton’s P90x program and loving it.  I am in the home stretch which just happens to be the hardest part of the program. 

I am a bit distraut because I have eaten lean and clean for these 8 weeks minus 3 not so lean meals through that whole time.  I can see the muscle going on and I am stronger but I haven’t lost the lbs that I thought I would by now.  I started out at 150 and I am currently at 147.  So either I am replacing fat with muscle faster than I can drop the fat or I am just not sure what is going on.  There is a definite change to my physique but previous times I have done programs I would have at least dropped 12-15lbs by now.

In addition I feel like crap all of the time.  I have severe headaches and I am so exhausted at times that I can’t lift any weight or sustain my workouts.  I think that I might not be getting enough calories, this is all I can think of.  I have reviewed others’ diets and although I have followed them closely I do tend to miss meals, not on purpose I just get busy during the day at work and don’t have time.  Am I over working?  And is there something out there that I can take to help with sustaining the energy I need to get through my workouts.  I don’t want to take a thermo, but is there some other booster that might help I can take before I leave work that will ready me by the time I get home to work out?  Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Had I known that my eye surgery was going to have such an impact I might have reconsidered my surgery until after my first round of P90x.  For those of you looking to push yourself just a little more and really see what you are made of, try this routine, I garauntee it will kick your butt.  I am on day 15 and looking forward to kicking it up a bit in the next few weeks.  Big expectations this time, I am taking it where I have never gone before and I am more motivated than I have ever been.  I have been sitting out for the past 4 days because I had lasik surgery and ran into some complications.  Friday is an evaluation from there who knows where.  Today is the first day back at lifting and boy have I missed it.  Arms, shoulders and tris today and I feel like I could lift the house.  This is the first program that I have done where I have gotten these kinds of results this fast.  Not even with Billy Blanks…sorry big guy I have a new love in my life now.  Show me the light Tony H.!

Bring IT!

Well I have made a few mental changes and revamped some goals.  I have found a trainer and a health plan that I can live with.  I am on a strict no sugar, no yeast, lean meats and veggi diet for this month.  At the end of this month I will move to just a strict lean meats veggi and whole grain diet for the next 12 weeks.  I am training for a fitness competition, not sure which one yet.  I am testing out my me routine and trainer to see where I am comfortable.  I have high hopes this time as I am more confident about my plan.  I have changed my thinking as to my overall health and consider the things I eat as fuel and something I have to do not want to do.  I want to be thin and flexible and agile and proud.  I know that slipping in a piece of pizza 3 times a week won’t get me there.  So I have joined the same band wagon as most who want to transform their bodies.  A diet of lean meats and veggis for me.

The holidays…

Is there a crazier time to try and get motivated?  Well when I stepped on the scale last night I thought, uh yeah!  I had my fill of all of the goodies for the past few days and I am feeling sluggish and tired, shocker.  Well time to regen and get back at it.  Christmas is around the corner and I am running out of time to get back into bikini shape.  Time to go!  Good luck to everyone.

Time to start over.  I got derailed the past few months.  Work is completely out of control and I can’t seem to find anytime to do anything else.  80hr work weeks are enough to throw anyone off target.  GOD hates a quitter, so back at it I go.  I have done this so many times before, but I am so infamous for falling off of the wagon so to speak, and when I fall off I tend to run myself over with it.  I am such an extremist when it comes to making my mind up.  All or nothing, no in between.  This tends to overwhelm me, so for years I have been trying to find a middle ground.  Unfortunately this happens with everything I do, so each thing I attempt gets run over with the other and in the end do I ever really get anything accomplished?  No, but I keep trying.

I do love chest and back day…

Bench press 35 3×10
dumbbell flys 10lbs 3×10
reverse dumbbell flys 10lbx 3×10
bentover barbell rows 35lbs 3×10

Big ab workout today.  Didn’t do any last week.  Made up for it today.

Decline cruches 20
Crunches on the ball 40
Oblique crunches 40

Eliptical 30 mins

It was a great workout today.  I am a bit sore from yesterday’s lift and I am not sure how I am going to get my hair washed since I can’t lift my arms.  I feel great though and I can’t wait to see the results.  I usually start showing right away especially when I lean out my diet.  I expect to post new photos in two weeks.

Eliptical 20 mins 200 calories

Priest curls 26lbs 3×10
isolation curls 7lbs 3×10
kickbacks 7lbs 3×10
overhead tri presses 10lbs 3×10

before workout: Thermo’s/shake
lunch: thai soup w/fresh veggis
pre dinner: shake
dinner: lean tacos, corn toritilla, fresh veggies
nite snack: banana, cottage cheese