smmelend2’s BodyBlog

This week has been really hard. I came off the weekend of really bad eating.  Tuesday in the late afternoon I was kind of out of control with my eating and ended up mixing probably 5-6 TBSP of Peanutbutter and 2TBSP of jelly in a cup and eating that.  I added two Milano cookies to that too.  To top it off, I am now retaining water.  I feel almost defeated this week… really frustrated.  I am just hoping that I can recover.  My stomach is really showing the most damage from this.  Today is my day off from weights, but I need to do cardio so I am thinking of trotting up the canyon, or just run around my house for a good hour.  Not really sure how or if I can undo the failures of this week in time.  Any suggestions?

My trainer is out of town for two weeks… so that leaves me on my own… I did in fact get up and do my chest/tri workout at 5 am.  I got my cardio done at 10, but I ate like crap this weekend and now have to play catch up.  I have six weeks to go and I think I will make it, but cant have any more crappy weekends!  I will have to add cardio tonight. 

Wow it is Friday!  This has been a rough week!  I have felt really exhausted all week long.  Earlier this week I drove past a fast food place that was cooking french fries.  The smell filled the air, and oh was I tempted.  I thought to myself, "why cant healty food taste more like french fries?"  I came home and had my meal of steamed broccoli…  not quite the same, but so much better for me!  I am seeing changes in my body now week by week.  I have learned that I must do my weight training, have to do my cardio and then eat clean for anything to happen.  If I forget, or slack on one of those three, it wont work.  Slowly and steadly things are changing, and if I keep it up, one day I will be a totally new me.

Yeah its Monday…  I got to wake up at 4 and work out at 5!  Oh FUN!  not really.  I really wanted to find an excuse to skip my workout this morning, however eight weeks is right around the corner.  Even thought it was more like going through the motions I got out of bed, into my truck and to the gym.  I am tired today. I have finally started seeing results of the hard work I am putting in, and that is a big motivator.  I just need to keep up working out and eating right, day by day and soon I will have changed my body, my perspective, my mood… everything!  I hope everyone has a great day!

Had my body fat done today and I am down from 23.41% to 22.41%.  These past two weeks I put on one pound of muscle and lost two pounds of body fat.  I mostly lost this in my kidney, sprailiac and abdominals, but I also lost in my quads and calves.  I am pleased, but have eight weeks until my competetion and I need to get agressive!!!  progress pictures done tonight.

So I stayed up last night working on my spanish grammar homework.  I stayed up way too late!  Then instead of getting my cardio done, I had to finish up the rest of my homework this morning.  I feel like all I do is work out, school, then feed horses, then do it again.  I keep thinking that it is all worth it, but somedays I just want to do NOTHING but read a book (something that is not a textbook) or watch TV, two things I have not done in a couple of months.  My abs are still so very soar from Monday and Tuesdays workouts.  I cant even sneeze!  I hope that is a good thing.  I am not sure if I should even consider training abs until they recover totally?  Today is back and bi’s day.  I am excited that tomorrow is my day off from lifting, but I get to go report to my figure coach.  Yippi!!  I will have updated stats tomorrow, and possibly progress photos!  Hope everyone has a great day!

Another early morning with the trainer.  Today was shoulder day.  They are pretty tired.  I am getting excited to see all the changes in my body, and I cant wait to see what the final changes will be at the end of November.  Strange thing, on legs day I could work my quads until they were Jell-o- and never feel it the next day, but do only a couple dead lifts and my hamies would hurt for days.  Is that strange or what?  I am hoping that I dont have well developed hamstrings and then small quads.  My trainer and I are curious to see what is going to happen with my legs.  I hope that your day is a good one! 

I feel like I have been punched in the gut.  I have not had my abs so soar in a really long time.  I am hoping that that is a good thing!?!  I cheated quite a bit this weekend on my diet.  I had been craving Taco Bell forever and I knew that if I didnt have even a taco, I would crack and order the whole menu, sit down and eat it while hiding in my room… Sunday my gut was bloated out and I felt really bad!  I dont really know what in that, but I dont think it is very good for me, or many people.  I couldnt even imagine what I would feel like eating that kind of stuff everyday as some people do. I have to go get my cardio done, then finish up my spanish homework before my 10 weight lifting class, neither one I am really excited about doing… I hope you all have a wonderful day!

I started my new training times with my trainer this morning.  I had to be up at 4 AM and to the gym by 5. I am going to have to rework my meals and times with my other trainer because I was HUNGRY today.  Usually my first meal is at 7, but today it was at 4:30… I was so tired in my political analysis class at 11:30 i am sure I missed some testable material.  I meet friday with my competetion trainer for measurements and to revamp my nutition, so hopefully the rest of this week I wont feel so blah! I will have updates then on the progress!!!!

Today was supposed to be shoulder day but I have a tight, almost knotted muscle in my left medial delt…  After discussing with my teacher, we decided to do my bi’s, tri’s and traps… strange workout!  I am not sure how I managed to get this knot in my shoulder because I only work shoulders on Thursdays and this started feeling funky yesterday.  I am wondering if I slept funny…  I am really bummed that McDonalds raised the price of thier extra large drinks again…  I used to treat myself to a $0.59 extra large diet coke once a week and today I paid $2.20.  Part of thinking it was ok to drink the bucket of diet soda was that it was so cheap!!!  I am also craving peanutbutter.  I know if I have even a taste it will be all over and I will have eaten half the jar in a flash so I am just staying out of the kitchen. I hope everyones day is going great!