Sweaty...

Today was a cardio day. I did 4 - 30 second surges of elliptical, jumping jacks, butt kicks, jump squats. I was hurting a bit during the squats. I slept in a bit other wise I would have gone for a run. I had our 9 month old down stairs with me and he kept laughing at me while I was jumping around. Now I'm hanging out with my children drinking our chocolate shakes eating green apples. Well, they are eating the apple, I'm eating the skin. Our 3 year old wants to eat hers the same way as the 9 month old. Silly girl.

My scale still isn't moving. I'm a little bummed but at the same time I know I haven't been as strict as I should be. I had a couple chip ahoy cookies at my parents last night. I think if I have a true, realistic goal I'll be less tempted to cheat or at least more motivation not to cheat. I was watching a video copy of a seminar by Dr. Pompa, the guy who helped design this program I'm following, and he was saying that it takes 5 days for your body to stop craving sugar. The first 5 days are the hardest. Even if you have just a little sugar on a cheat day you will crave for the next 5 days. Sugar is an all or nothing thing that needs to be cut out when I make the full plunge.

Until next time, keep up the hard work and you will be at your goal weight/size before you know it. Just take it one day at a time.

I'm in love...

This morning I wasn't in the mood to make eggs and had been doing some reading in the cookbook/guidebook that I'm using. Apperently you should only eat 15-20g of protien at every meal. Protien breaks down to sugar. I think I've been over doing it a bit. I'll make 6 eggs and split them with my 3 year old and 9 month old. One egg has about 7 grams of protien. Oops. Plus chowing on cheese all day. Too much protien and not enough veggies is probably why I'm not loosing weight, that and I've been eating a little bit of sugar every day. Naughty me.
Anyway, the shake is:
1 scoop of Dark Chocolate Whey Factor (Found at Greatest Grains), 7 oz milk, 1 C ice, 1 tsp ground vanilla, 2 scoops stevia, 1 T coconut oil. I will post the full recipe in the Recipe Blog.
There is nothing bad about this shake. I made one with out ice, put it in a sippy cup and gave it to out 9 month old with his dried strawberry bites this morning. That is the best thing about what we eat. Even the desserts I'll feed to him and not worry about it being bad for him. Last night, I made healthy brownies for the first time and they are like a sponge. The 3 of us don't like them, but I cut them up into little pieces and he likes them. It's great!!

Workout - Tuesday - Upper Body
3 - 30 second surges bicep curls, tricep dips, chest fly, over head press, over head pull (horizontal lat pull down). I have yet to do abs today; crunches, reverse crunches, oblique crunches, bicycles, captain's chair, side plank.

Until next time, keep up the hard work and you will be at your goal weight/size before you know it. Just take it one day at a time.

Really Not Digging This

This summer I have decided to try and save some money since I'm not working and going to school full time. We have decided that we won't run the AC during the day. So far it hasn't been too bad other than I'm super swollen. At first I thought it was because I was eating poorly. Now that I'm not, I'm still swollen. The only thing I can think of that could be causing this is the heat. I found out this morning that at night, my hubby sets the AC to 75F. Holy Cow!! No wonder he thinks it's stuffy at night. During the winter it's set at 65F. Maybe, if we set it to 72F it won't be so stuffy because it will actually run and remove some of the humidity in the air and I won't be so swollen all the time. I really hate being swollen, it makes the scale do CRAZY things.

Workout: Monday - Cardio Day

This morning I got my butt out of bed and did 3 sets of 3-30 second surges on the elliptical not dropping below 4 MPH. It was hard come the last set. Then I did 3, 3-30 second surges of jumping jacks. It was great fun. I had a hard time doing the first surge of jumping jacks. My legs were all jell-o like and I was so not graceful at all.

Well, 6 AM gotta hit the shower and get kids ready for the chiro and grocery shopping. Maybe hit up the fabric store too. Until next time, keep up the hard work and you will be at your goal weight/size before you know it. Just take it one day at a time.

Grrr

Just stepped on the scale. It hasn't budged yet this week. Come on. I think that I might be eating way to many nuts. I'm on break from school still and all I do all day is snack plus eat large meals. ow that I think about it, when I was losing the Zander weight I hardly ate anything for supper. I was never hungry. Also, I would feel hungry for a little while before eating. I have to get back to that again. I'm not working out this morning I'm kinda tired and want to cuddle with Zander a little more. Ta ta for now.

Well, until next time, keep up the hard work and you will be at your goal weight/size before you know it. Just take it one day at a time.

I'm back

Well, things haven't been going so well for me. I've been a little busy with school, children (baby stopped sleeping through the night), and got myself a small case of strep from all the farm chems. in the air. I've had very little motivation to do anything. Even my house has gone to the way side. Eeks. Anyway, I went to my very special chiropractor/energy worker a week ago and she found that all my energy centers were turned off along with my bladder (man did I pee a lot that weekend) and one side of my jaw was jammed back and up, causing all my neck pain. I feel a million times better now.

I've been able to get up and do my workouts everyday this week. Monday, I did my Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred before my normal chiro visit. While I was there, they were playing a taped seminar about the Surge Workout. A lot of the information was not new to me but I think I just needed to hear it again. I decided that I will go back to doing the Surge Workout again. After all, that is how I lost the first 30 lbs.

Tuesday, I did the Surge Workout with 30 second surges of pushups, lunge with bicep curl, squat with overhead press, and side lunge with lateral raises. All moves from the Jillian Michaels DVDs.

Wednesday, 30second surges of jumping jack, jumping squats, punches, and butt kicks. I also spent the day helping my mother mulch. OMG!! I'm very sore now.

Today, with being so sore I didn't want to do anything so I hopped on my elliptical and did 30 second surges. I'm still very tired and would love to go back to sleep. I'm sure once the coffee kicks in I'll be fine for a while.

I also received the Maximized Living Custom Cookbook. It is the best thing in the world. I will be posting my favorite recipes to the Recipes blog. I am having to modify some just because I don't like as much stevia in my foods.

Well, until next time, keep up the hard work and you will be at your goal weight/size before you know it. Just take it one day at a time.