sblandrus’s BodyBlog

I ate too much tonight…I did very well all day, but around 8 o’clock, my self control ditched me and I was left in the dust.

I think it had a great deal to do with what time I got up: 5 am. Which is fine, no big deal, but from being used to waking up 3 hours later, it threw off my eating schedule. If I start earlier, then I need to end earlier, i.e. around 8 (hence my slip up), because since my body is on the 3 hour eating rotation, 3 hours after my last meal my body is ready for the next one.

We went out to dinner and had Thai food, which I actually ordered well, I got a green salad with apples in it and trout, with a lime dressing (not a heavy dressing, I think it was just lime juice and spices), and I had a little white rice, maybe 1/2 cup. We didn’t have dinner until 830 :O, and I hadn’t eaten since…maybe 3? Yeah, a really bad gap. SO I was already starvin’, so while I was waiting to leave (around 7), I was munchin’ on a few blueberries, apples, grapes here and there, and had fat free yogurt (60 cal) and a couple of rice cakes…no big deal.  But then after dinner, I still had the munchies, so I had another apple, 4 rice cakes (:|), a few more grapes and a kiwi. Not altogether terrible, but excessive…but my brain just thought I was so hungry today….idk….

Ugh…so now my tummy is upset (too many fruit)…don’t worry, I’ll tighten it up tomorrow…and I’m ready to do some bucket sweating cardio!!!!!

Giddy-up!!!!

Just finished finals today!!! Not too sure how I did….:\ but I finished nevertheless.  Oh, and still haven’t heard from the gym concerning body fat test… >:| Anyhow, today is my mid week "rest" day, which isn’t really a rest, just a break from lifting…I still do cardio and abs. I’m thinking of starting to do 2-a-days, meaning cardio first thing in the morning, and then weights in the evening (if my schedule allows).

I am more inspired and motivated than ever to get my body in the best shape it can be, I’m not going to back down. I’m in this for the long haul…it’s going to be a struggle the whole way through, but what great things come without hard work, right???

:D

So I just got done @ the gym and my body is so tired and fatigued!!! I worked my legs really hard yesterday, and today I gave my arms and back a run for their money! I also have decided to incorporate 10 minutes of stretching, and 10 minutes of abs into every workout.
I have really enjoyed the ab exercises I’ve been using thus far (which is a miracle, because I hate most ab exercises…it is my least favorite part of the body to challenge)…

My goal this week is simply to make it through all of my workouts and stick to my meal plans.

That’s it. Very doable.

Later, gators…

This is typically what I wear to the gym…in purple too.
So, I didn’t get pinched today…and by that I mean I didn’t get my body fat taken today…I was misinformed, and told that you can just walk in to get it taken at my gym, after putting my name on a list a couple of weeks ago, awaiting a call back to schedule an appointment.  Well, I got to the gym today, asked the desk manager, and he said that, indeed, as I was told before, I do have to schedule an appointment with a personal trainer by waiting for one of their calls.  I’m kind of getting aggrivated with this whole thing. I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH BODY FAT I HAVE!!! I don’t need to have a fitness analysis done over the phone, just schedule me and app’t with a personal trainer. I know that they probably want to sell me some of their services, but I am a poor student and cannot afford a trainer so they are wasting their time. However, even if I could afford it, I have seen the trainers at my gym training people, and they always are having their clients do these really crazy, and difficult, exercises that involve little weight, and these really crazy movements that require a great deal of coordination and balance…I don’t get it. Why don’t they just teach people some basics about lifting weights??? I’ve never seen one person that is being trained by them doing anything with weights. It just kind of irritates me….

Anythewhoo, hopefully they know how to take body fat properly.

Oh yeah, my workout went well today, it took me longer than I anticipated, and I tried doing my cardio after lifting (like most people do it seems) and I was all out of energy. I didn’t like it.  I think I am going to go back to doing cardio before my lifting. I have way better results that way…what’s the theory behind post-lifting cardio anyway?

Yes. Tomorrow should be a good lift. Upper body. And I have decided that I’m gonna hold out on HIIT for a couple of weeks, because I am just a little too out of shape from my month of inconsistency to hit it that hard yet.

-peace

So tomorrow is my first day back at the gym, and I am excited to get back in the groove.  It’s been too long. I am ready to give it my all!!!!

***EDIT***

So, I’m going to have my body fat tested tomorrow…finally! I am super stoked, because then I can really plan out my goals, and keep track besides using the worthless scale (which I hardly ever set foot on)…

I will post my results tomorrow…. (!)

So I’ve been on a hiatus, which i hate, but it’s been a culmination of a few things…I’ve been hesitant to write about it on BB.com, but I figured I should, since when I’m having a rough go of it this is the first place I should talk about this stuff.  The comments sometimes help me from giving up.

Well, it’s been a couple weeks since the gym…(I know, it’s awful) so that adds up to about a month or so of inconsistency, which I am going to have to make up for my losses. But, it was to be anticipated. Right when I got back from my cruise, I was having a hard time getting back on the wagon, because I was starting a new job and had a lot of school work to make up.  So, shortly after I was back in the gym, doctors gave my grandpa (of whom I am very close to) 2 weeks to live.  So, my sisters from out of town came to visit him, and I got thrown in the mix of a lot of family stuff…which, again, set me behind on my school work.  So, after getting caught up (at the sacrifice of the gym) I was ready to go back, and that was when grandpa started getting worse, and finals were coming up, so I got loaded up with homework (still working 5 or so days a week, mind you) and then a few days later he passed.  So, that meant grieving, finals work, and family coming back into town. We just had his funeral this last Wednesday, so the dust is finally starting to settle…and finals will be done on Wednesday…it’s weird, because the very thing I am striving for (to get my degree in exercise science) is sometimes a hindrance to my progress in my own personal exercise discipline.

So, as I stated in my last post, I am making some changes. So today, I finally took the time to sit down and figure out my diet for this cutting phase…boy was it exhausting!! It won’t be so bad in the following weeks now that I have the foundation, I can just make little adjustments where needed.  I am following a carb-cycling program that I found in an article on this site:

I am also using the Fat Loss Revealed (an e-book by Will Brinks) member’s diet tracker, which let’s me enter in the foods, amounts for each meal, and it keeps track of my macros for me…I think I’d go crazy without it!

So, the big shopping night is tonight, and my prep day is tomorrow.

One of the changes I am also making is to commit myself to one day a week shopping/preparing my meals.  This has been one of the biggest culprits of my less-than consistent eating habits.  Mind you, compared to the average joe, I do very well about eating my meals, but for optimum results I know I need to put out a little more commitment to this than I previously have.

I will also be posting some progress pics soon. I know it’s been awhile, but I’ve been kind of digressing lately, and so I’m not going to post any now, until I’ve eaten clean for at least a week, so then the bloating goes away, that way my progress will be represented accurately.

Thanks for your continued support you guys!!

p.s. I found out that one of the girls that I work with has competed…you can bet that I’m gonna be picking her brain!!!

http://www.bodybuilding.com/contestmedia/contest/2289/5935/d/lauri_faraschuk_night03.jpg

Ok, so I’ve been thinking about my progress so far. And I realize, that although I haven’t been as consistent as I’d like these past 3-4 months, I have made progress, and I have made some definite headway. I have seen striations I’ve never seen before, veins have shown up that I didn’t know existed, and overall my butt has decreased in size, which my sister, mother and boyfriend have attested to. But, now I’d like to really start working towards my goals by setting dates and making time frames, because I won’t accomplish them if I don’t, and it also will cause me to work harder and be more consistent because I have something I’m working towards.

My overall goal is to compete in a figure competition spring of ‘09.

My plan is to find a couple of shows to go to this summer so I can get a good idea of what I’m looking at.

Broken down, this is my steps that I’m going to take to achieve that (roughly, and subject to change):

For the next 4 months cut until, getting down to 15% BF

The following 4 months I will analyze what needs work, and spend these months bulking (probably going to be a clean bulk).

The remaining 4 months I will cut, and get ready for the contest.

I am starting this process by getting my BF taken so I can plan from there my diet including macros, supplements, and workouts.

From then on I plan to get my BF tested every 2 weeks.

I am really excited about all this, because it will be a dream come true, and I really think I will do well in one of these competitions. My body was made for it.
Eventually I want to do a fitness comp, but I am going to wait till I get out of school to do that, because it will be a lot more involved since I will probably have to take some sort of gymnastics classes etc. Anyhow, I’m excited, and it’s a DAMN GOOD THING I’m majoring in exercise science, because I LOVE THIS STUFF!!!

Ok, so this has been tough, and I don’t think it’s gonna get easier.  I feel a lot like life gets the best of me.
I guess what I am referring to is that this last week I only got to 3 out of my 5 workouts, and this weekend I went on a weekend trip to a motocross park for a 2 day event, so we took the trailer and brought food with us…that is burgers, sandwiches and bacon, eggs, and pancakes for breakfast…yeah.

Needless to say, I didn’t get my workouts in, didn’t eat well, and am not prepared with my meals for this week.

I guess it’s frustrating, because I have to make sacrifices for school sometimes at the expense of my health and workout goals, and if I do not adhere to a very strict rigorous schedule, I jeopardize my health and fitness goals.

I just don’t feel I’m disciplined enough to strike that balance and flow to my life.  It has to be a constant balance, otherwise I quickly fall off the train, and it is not an easy pace to keep up.

I don’t know, it’s like I get going in the right direction, start making improvements, and then there’s a set back.

4 steps forward, and 3 steps back.

I am either making short spurts of improvements, or set backs.

It just gets very discouraging.

I don’t know if anyone has struggled with this, but maybe you have some words of advice, so I can come to some sort of  resolve.

I know I can do it, I’m just tired of spinning my wheels.