Week 7

Schedule Weigh in on Monday: 152
Weigh in on Friday: unknown as of Tuesday

I think I need to cut out more food..... boooooooo.... I like eating. So I'm been pretty stable with the weight but the goal of this plan is to lose weight and tone up so stable really just doesn't cut it. After evaluating my eating habits and workout plans over the past 6 weeks, looks like the areas where I can do better are eating and I still need more Cardio. After evaluating the work out plan, looks like my stoped dropped as soon as i switched over to kickboxing instead of my HIIT. so....this week I am going to attempt to add in at least 30 mins of cardio (non-kickboxing) after my Weight Training (gotta love the HIIT) and doing at least an hour of cardio on non-strength training day. Somehow I feel this will get me back on track. And I did some research on the some of the supplements and I think I'm going to lay off them for a couple of weeks and then pick them back up since I don't want to be addicted to them. So for the next couple of weeks, just vitamins and protein powders :)


Monday, August 25, 2008
Workout
60 Min - Full Body Strength Training with Abs
30 Min - Elytical Machine

Food
Breakfast - Egg white omelet with Ham and Cheese, 2 cups awake Tea
Snack - 15 Almonds
Lunch - Sugar Snap Peas, Honey Nut Oatmeal
Snack - Natures Valley Chocolate Chip Chewy Granola Bar
Pre Workout - Rack of Lamb (5 pieces), Nectarine, 4 chocolate covered blueberries, 2 small slices of Brie
Dinner - Ham and Cheese with Spinach

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 (151.6lbs)
Workout
45 Min - Elytical Machine
20 Min - Stationary Bike

Food
Breakfast - Raisin Bagel with Low fat Cream Cheese - 2 cups Awake Tea
Snack - None, 1 cup darjeeling tea
Lunch - 1 delicious homecooked Lamb Chop, Blueberries
Snack - Yogurt Parfait with lowfat Yogurt, Granola and Strawberries, unsweetened ice tea
Post Workout - None
Dinner - Whole Wheat Pasta with low sodium Vodka Sauce with Ricotta and Mozarella

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Workout
60 Min - Full body strength training with Abs emphasis
20 Min - HIIT - 1 minute sprints
20 Min - HIIT - Elytical

Food
Breakfast - Ham, Swiss, Spinach, Tomato, Egg White Omelet, 2 cups awake tea
Snack - None, 2 cups green tea
Lunch - Spicy Noodle Soup from Lanna Thai Diner with Extra sprouts little noodles
Snack - Snackwell cookie, Strawberry Shortcake Eclair Ice Cream Bar (bad), 2 cups ice coffee(bad) (Crap... work is providing goodies... must behave more!!!!!)
Pre Workout - 2 Peaches
Post Workout - None
Dinner - Bowl of Pasta with sauce and ricotta cheese

Thursday, August 28, 2008
Workout
30 Min Elytical
30 Min Step Machine
30 Min Stationary Bike

Food
Breakfast - Sausage Egg and Cheese on English Muffin, 2 cups awake tea
Snack - Yogurt Parfait, 1 cup green tea
Lunch - 1 soft chicken Taco, Nacho Chips with Guacamoli, 2 chicken wings, 1 meatball (courtesy of work)
Snack - 2 meatballs (courtesy of work)
Dinner - Satay Chicken with Peanut Sauce(homemade), 3 meatballs


Friday, August 29, 2008
Workout
None

Food
Breakfast - Raisin Bagel with Low Fat Cream Cheese, 2 cups awake Tea
Snack - Slice of watermelon (courtesy of work - so good)
Lunch - Pulled Chicken, Spinach Salad, string peas (Courtesy of work)
Dinner - Satay Chicken

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Workout
60 Min - Full Body Strength Training
30 Min - Cardio

Food
Breakfast - Honey glazed Donut
Snack - NA
Lunch - NA
Snack - Sugar Snap Peas
Dinner - Lamb

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Workout
30 Min - HIIT Cardio

Food
Breakfast - Raisin Bagel
Snack - NA
Lunch - Hot Dog, some handfull of French Fries
Snack - NA
Dinner - Shrimp Cocktail, Ceasar Salad, Scallops Casserole, Coffee, Applepie

Week 6

Schedule

Weigh in on Monday: 152.8 lbs (Targeted weight: 148 - damn I'm 4 lbs behind)

Weigh in on Friday: 153 - double damn

hmm..... so I'm still at 152.8 lbs. I haven't moved weight wise in 2 weeks. Let's see here, I think I'm going to cut out the sausage egg and cheeses, cut down sodium, looks like I need more greens and fruits. Protein intake is good so far. I finally got the rest of my Revolution lifestyle supplements yesterday so I started taking those. Can't say it made me feel too good after I took them, I thought I was going to pass out at the gym. My heart rate was only around 144 and even then I was winded. I'm still adjusting to the 20lb dumbells, they are still tough which is good. This week, I need to get back onto the cardio more and eat more greens and see if that helps. I'm working towards being 150 by the end of the week.

Monday, August 18, 2008
Workout
60 Min - Upper Body and Abs strength Training

Food
Breakfast - Sausage Egg and Cheese, 2 cups awake tea
Snack - Almonds
Lunch - Chicken breast, Sugar Snap Peas
Snack - NA
Post Workout - Optimum Protein Shake
Dinner - Chicken Breast

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Weighed in tonight at the gym, 151.8. not bad. still 3lbs off. I think I might've hurt the little muscle on the outside of my upper arm close to my shoulder (Deltoid muscle?).

Workout
60 min - lower body strength training with Abs

Food
Breakfast - small serving corn hash, 2 fried eggs
Snack - 2 cups Milk
Lunch - Ham & Cheese Crepe with Lettuce
Snack - NA
Pre workout - NA
Post workout - Optimum Protein Shake
Dinner - Steamed Asparagus with Cayenne peppers

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Bad Bad sleeping on Tuesday night going into today. 2 hours. ONLY 2 HOURS between 1am and 3am, after that, I was up and am in a pretty foul mood today. Not a good combo for losing weight and working out. I'm wondering how I'm going to get thru the rest of the day without crashing and I'm supposed to go fishing afterwork tonight and was planning on hitting the gym afterwards - somehow, I think trying to do all that will burn me in the end. we'll see how I feel.

Workout
45 Min - Upper Body Strength training
20 Min - Kickboxing drills
70 Min - Kickboxing technique focus

Food
Breakfast - 2 slices oatmeal molasses toast with peanut butter jelly, milk, yogurt
Snack - 2 cups awake tea
Lunch - Vietnamese grilled shrimp, pork, 1 spring roll, 1 egg roll.
Snack - Oatmeal
Pre workout - None
Post workout - Optimum Protein Shake
Dinner - Oatmeal with Blueberries

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Well, I tried to get some rest last night but just don't think I got enough still. Had a pretty solid workout last night at the gym. Today, my legs are really sore from the workout on Tuesday and probably from the kickboxing last night too. So today, I jump to the 3 tablets of the revolution thermogenic push supplement and 3 tablets of the Dreamweaver. I'm going to cut back on the Hydroxy cut from 6 tablets to 4 (2 tablets twice a day).

Workout
30 Min - Lower Body Strength Training
20 Min - 1 min Sprints on treadmill
20 Min - Kickboxing

Food
Breakfast - Oatmeal, 2 cups awake tea
Snack - Half an apple
Lunch - half of a grilled ham and cheese on wheat bread, Pomegranite and Pear Juice. (I'm not starving myself, but am extremely nauceous today)
Snack - None
Pre Workout - None
Post Workout - Optimum Protein Shake
Dinner - Ratatouwe (spell check?) over rice

Friday, August 22, 2008
I say this week has sucked for sleep... once again, only got a few hours last night. I vote this week is of the suckiness. Tonight, I'm helping a friend move some minor stuff and tomorrow is the big move so i think I'll get my cardio in that way if I can't make it to the gym.

Workout
None - Helped my friend move some boxes into her new place

Food
Breakfast - Egg white omelet with ham and cheese with Salsa, 2 cups awake tea.
Lunch - Grilled Chicken
Dinner - Ham, cheese, mushroom, onion, tomato Omelet
Snack - 4 Mozarella Sticks and french onion soup

Saturday, August 23, 2008
Workout
Moving! and 60 Min full body strength training

Food
Breakfast - 2 cups Ice coffee from Honeydew
Lunch - 1 slice cheese Pizza and Gingerale
Dinner - Lamb Steak

Sunday, August 24, 2008
Workout
None - Beach day

Food
Breakfast - Eggs florentine on english muffin
Snack - Sugar Snap Peas
Lunch - Spicy Pulled Chicken Sandwich
Dinner - Raw Oysters, Cherrystones, cocktail shrimp and Lobster Bisque

Week 5

Oh man, I am exhausted today. I hate starting off my week like this but whatever - I had an awesome weekend with Travis and it's all worth it. So I'm pretty happy I made it to the Gym while I was away this past weekemd and surprisingly, I'm still sore from working out :)

Dammit, so I jumped on the scale downstairs at work today and it said 152. grrrrrrrrrr.... Ok tonight.... I am going to start measuring my waist and arms and legs with the measurer I bought and start using that as a gage too. there's no way I'm not making progress....

Couple of tweaks for this week. Got some new supplements and vitamins: Here's what I'm going for this week

• Hydroxy cut - 3 capsules twice a day
• Revolution Abdominal Cuts - 3 capsules once a day (ok I'm a sucker - the bottle was pretty)
• Cayenne Pepper - 500 mg - 1 capsule after workout
• Vitamin E - 400mg - 1 capsule after workout
• Vitamin C - 1000mg - 1 chewable tablet after workout
• Flaxseed Oil - 1 tablet after workout
• I also purchased the Dreamweaver and thermogenic Push for Women today online.. https://www.revolutionlifestyle.com/shop/cart.html so I guess I'll start those whenever I get them in the mail.
  

So you might be thinking - wow that's a lot of vitamins...well guess what? ... I'm thinking that too. . Plus I just bought the other 2 this morning - after this, yeah - I'm going to stop adding to the list and just take what I have and stick to it. can't have overkill on vitamins.

For workouts this week - I'm going to start doing my squats on the Bosu ball and up the number of reps this week. I think it's a good time to bring up my circuits from 2 to 3 circuits for weight training. My concern is that right now, it takes me about 45-60 minutes to finish my abs workout and 2 circuits of my full body training workout. If I bump that up to 3, I'll probably be looking at 60-90 minutes just on weight training and that doesn't leave a lot of time for Cardio afterwards. So my options this week are to stay at the gym for 2+ hours or really plan out some crazy sessions - go hard at the strength training 3 times a week and go hard at the cardio 3 times a week on seperate nights. ouch my body is going to be sore this week :) can't wait!

As for eating habits, my brother is going to ruin me. He just came back from his summer in France last Wednesday and has all these delicious sounding recipes and he is quite a good cook. So at first, I was bummed, because I do want to try these delicious sounding meals, but know they are way off from my proper diet. So we worked it out! He's going to make them on my cheat meal - that way I get to try them and then we're going to put a healthy spin on it so we can continue to make it during the week! It's a win win. I'm pretty happy. I also need to make sure I'm snacking right - I've been skimping on my snacks and sometimes dinner last week so no more... need to fuel my system for these crazy workouts this week. I'm ready.

Schedule
Weigh in on Monday: 152lbs (Crapperdoodles)
Weigh in on Monday: 152lbs (dammit..... 4 lbs behind schedule)

Monday, August 11, 2008
Workout
none

Food
Breakfast - Ham and Cheese Egg White Omelet with Salsa, 2 cups awake tea,
Snack - NA Lunch - Russian Rueban (BAD) with sweet potato fries and unsweetened tea
Snack - Milk
Dinner - all bad food at Shanghai gate (Fried fish, braised beef, green beans, scallion pancake, chicken wing), Bubble Tea and Lychees

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
So I really couldn't believe I was at 152 yesterday, I should be at 150 and thought I was working really hard towards this. so I jumped on the scale at the gym today, and it's at 154. slightly discouraged today... that and I'm exhausted - how am I going to shave off the weight and 154?!? seriously? sigh...

Workout
45 min - full body circuit strength training with abs emphasis (pump it out session - no slow reps)20 min - kickboxing

Food
Breakfast - Egg white omelet with ham, cheese, green peppers, onions, and tomations with Salsa, 2 cups green tea
Snack - None
Lunch - Thai Spicy Noodle Soup (I didn't eat the noodles), Ice Coffee
Snack - None
Dinner - Sushi
Snack - Chicken Breast with Broccoli

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
So after thinking about my workout routines, I do believe I'm working at the gym pretty hard and don't think the extra 4 lbs that came onto my body over the weekend was from food or fat, rather, I think my body is retaining water. After looking at my diet, the vietnamese noodle soups and thai spicy noodle soup and the chicken breast I've been having is packed with Sodium. I have been pounding down water so I don't think that's an issue, but I do think I'm going to have to cut back my sodium intake to under 900mg per day... I think that should be enough.... we'll see by the end of the week to see if it helps... if not, then I'll just cut back more.

Workout
No workout tonight. I'm going to go food shopping so I can start bringing in my own lunch and eat low sodium foods (forever)... I'm also going to try to catch up on some rest as I'm exhausted and I read somewhere if you can undo everything at the gym if you're not sleeping enough. so sleep I will tonight.

Food
Breakfast - Egg white omelet with sausage, green peppers, onions, cheese, salsa, 2 cups awake tea.
Snack - None, Green Tea
Lunch - Pulled Pork and 1 chicken wing, spinach, milk. (frick, so much for eating healthy)
Snack - Plain Oatmeal, Milk
Snack 2 - 1 Wholefoods Fruit Tart
Dinner - Cayenne pepper oxtail soup with mushrooms and bean sprouts, 1 small bite of ham and cheese crepe, a skinny cow ice cream sandwich.
Snack - more soup!

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Workout
60 min - Full body strength training with Abs emphasis (pump it out session - no slow reps)20 min - kicks on the kickboxing bag

Food
Breakfast - 1 egg white, with ham, cheese. Yogurt, Milk, and Tea
Snack - Raw Almonds
Lunch - Ham, cheese, mushroom Crepe, chicken crepe
Snack - Raw Almonds
Pre-workout - Protein drink
Post- Workout - Optimum Protein shake, vitamins
Snack - 3 pieces Sushi
Dinner - Soup and 1/2 ice cream skinny cow sandwich

Friday, August 15, 2008
Workout
None

Food
Breakfast - Egg white omelet with ham and cheese with Salsa, Milk and 2 cups Ice Coffee
Snack - Yogurt
Lunch - Thai noodles (I'm still hungry:p ...)
Snack - None
Dinner - Diva Indian Food. Lamb Marsala, Chicken something.

Saturday, August 16, 2008
Workout
None

Food
Breakfast - Starbucks Coffee, blueberry coffee cake
Snack - None
Lunch - Raw Oysters, Raw Scallops, Scallops Casserole, Steamers
Snack - Taro Chips
Dinner - Lobster, Lobster Bisque, Brie, Pasta

Sunday, August 17, 2008
Workout
Mowed the Lawn

Food
Breakfast - None
Snack - Brie
Lunch - Pollo Loco Chicken Breast and Veggies
Snack - Root Beer Float
Dinner - Raw Oysters, Cherrystones, Shrimp Cocktail, baked Scallops, squash

all in all - I was bad this week. I haven't even been to the gym yet so haven't weighed in. I'll find out tonight. I'm not expecting the normal 2 lbs off this week.. I've been eating crappy. But I did get to catch up on some much needed sleep this weekend so that's a plus.

Week 4

So last week was not impressive. the beginning of the week was great but after Thursday, my eating habits were slipping. Partner lunches at Capital Grille, traveling to Atlanta, not having the ability to cook while I'm away. It's not easy to eat healthy when you're on the road - there's fast food everywhere and time is so limited. I'm going away again this weekend so will try to pack some healthy snacks like almonds, protein shakes, and trail mix.

For workouts this week. I'm going to focus on muscle fatigue - increasing # of reps in my circuit until my muscles are ready to crap out and also upping the cardio sessions from 3 times a week to 5. As for my abs focus, throwing the 15 reps out the window. For each exercise, I'm going to work my abs for as many reps until they hurt and then do 5 more on top of that.

I want to start taking some classes but it's difficult to get out of work exactly at 5 and I have a lot of evening commitments this week picking up and dropping people off the airport and then me leaving as well on Friday to see Travis in Atlanta again. I feel as tho lately, my stress level is at an all time high, it's a quiet stress and I can feel like subconsciously building up so I need to find an outlet to relieve some of that.

Also, I'm going to bump up my dosage of Hydroxycut to 2 capsules twice a day this week. As for food consumption - strict dieting this week - no junk at all) and a higher focus on my pre workout and post workout nutrition intake. I'm also starting to take 1000 mg Vitamin C, 400 mg, Vitamin E and 1000mg of Flaxseed oil post workout.

Schedule

Weigh in on Monday: 151 (wohoo!)

Weigh in on Saturday: Unknown, the scale at Bally's in Stone Mountain, GA was not working property and proceeded to tell me I was 164 lbs (Boooo)

Weigh in on Monday afternoon: 152lbs :( boooooooo

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Workout
75 Min - Full Body Circuit Strength Training with Abs Emphasis
45 Min - HIIT Cardio (1 minute sprint/walk for 15 minutes... 1 minute uphill sprints/walks for 25 min )

Food
Breakfast - 3 egg whites, 1 yolk, green tea
Snack - None
Lunch - Tuna Tataki Salad at Cheesecake factory
Snack - Milk
Pre workout - Optimum Whey Protein Shake
Post workout - Optimum Whey Protein shake, Vitamins
Dinner - Sugar Snap peas, chicken breast

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Workout
60 Min - HIIT Cardio (30 Min elytical, 30 Min uphill sprints)

Food
Breakfast - Sausage Egg Cheese on English Muffin, Milk, Green Tea
Snack - Sugar Snap Peas, Almonds
Lunch - Grilled Chicken breast Sandwich with Mayo, Swiss and onions, 5 wedge french fries
Snack - Almonds
Pre Workout - Optimum Protein Shake
Post Workout - some random protein shake from the gym
Snack - Pirates Booty

Tonight at the Gym, I realized that my one hour at the gym has been invaluable. Lately, my stress level is starting to rise tremendously and my emotional balance is totally off. At the Gym, I work out - I focus on me, it's my hour, it's my body, and it's my time. As much as I hate Cardio - reaching the point in my workout where I'm just focused on breathing and my form and my legs being sore - it really doesn't leave room for much else in my little brain to be stressed. For an Hour of my day... I am truly free from everything.

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
I'm really stressed out today. Skip levels in the morning, customer call at 11, the internal system at work fighting me, not eating right cause I just ran out of time and just in general, again, I feel like nothing's moving forward with my life... not with the move.. nothing. Is it bad when someone asks how are things going and you just want to cry because there are no words? LOL - yeah, it was a bad day. I didn't cry, there's no crying in Oracle. Looking forward to my workout tonight.

Workout
75 Min - Full Body Circuit Strength Training with Abs Emphasis
45 Min - Kickboxing HIIT Cardio

Food
Breakfast - Sausage Egg Cheese on English Muffin, Milk
Snack - bowl of grapes, Green Tea
Snack 2 - 10 Almonds, Mushroom bisque
Lunch - worked thru it, no food :(
Snack - Quaker ranch rice snacks
Pre Workout - Optimum Protein Shake
Post Workout - Some random Protein Shake from the gym, Vitamins
Dinner - Chicken Breast, Broccoli

So I decided to weigh myself at the gym... I really should stop doing that midweek cause it doesn't really mean anything. I'm at 152. the ups and downs. but I gotta say, had a great workout - I switched it up and did my circuits on a Bosu ball or on the Stability ball. then I did some kickboxing and didn't stop feeling nauceus until about 2 hours after the workout. LOL.

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Ugh.... no more going on the scale until the end of the week.

Workout
60 Min - HIIT Cardio - Sprints and uphill sprints

Food
Breakfast - Sausage, Egg, Cheese on English Muffin, 2 cups Milk
Snack - None
Lunch - Boston Market Dark Chicken with Corn and a little gravy
Snack - None
Pre Workout - None
Post Workout - Random Protein shake from the gym
Dinner - Maine Lobster... mmmmmmm so yummmmy

Friday, August 8, 2008
Here we go. Today is traveling day. I obviously didn't wake up early enough to go to the gym and probably won't be able to make it today. Maybe I'll do laps around the airport if my flights delayed today. I packed almonds and some protein powder for my trip. Have gym clothes ready to go and hopefully, I'll be better than last week. I've been cranky this week - maybe I'll feel better once I get away from here tonight.

Workout
Traveling Day

Food
Breakfast - 4 egg yolks, Strawberries, green tea
Snack - None
Lunch - half of a chunky chicken salad wrap from Boston King Coffee
Snack - Fruit Cup (Strawberries, Blueberries and Kiwi)
Dinner - half of a chunky chicken salad wrap from Boston King Coffee
Snack - Soft Beef Taco, Soft Chicken Taco from Taco Bell

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Workout
Ha Ha YEEEAAAAAAAH, Travis and I made it to the gym while I was out of town! Wohoo! We went to the Bally's in Stone Mountain GA. It's a nice nice gym. There's an indoor pool, 2 racket ball rooms, 1 heavy lifting room, 1 light lifting room, cardio and general machines out on the main floor and a running track to surround the gym. The locker rooms were also huge and everything was blue - went nice with the pool I thought - very soothing. However, the dumbell selection was pathetic. had to scramble around to find my 20lb ones, and apparently 15lb dumbells just didn't exist. so jumping between 12lb and 20lb kinda blows. They were missing some key machines, nothing to work out the hamstrings that I saw - maybe it was tucked away in a secret room somewhere. and then they had the kickboxing bag that was grounded to the floor but no gloves. That, and their scale was anywhere from 8- 14 lbs off. My GOD I almost had a heart attack when it said 162lbs... lol. Nothing like having your boyfriend watch you get on the scale and it adds on an extra 14lbs just for kicks. ha ha. anyways... I thought I had a really bad workout, my heart rate was kinda low since I stopped a lot to look for equipment, but I was happy- I did everything I was supposed to and I actually made it to the gym while traveling.

Food
Breakfast - Slept in
Snack - Slept in
Lunch - Vietnamese Noodles, Ice Coffee
Snack - NA
Pre Workout - Protein drink
Post Workout - Optimum Protein Drink, Vitamins
Dinner - Watched the UFC fight at Barnacles (my free meal), dozen raw oysters, peel and eat shrimp, 2 jalapeno poppers, 1 cheese stick and 1 potato skin... mmmmmmmmm so good.

Sunday, August 10, 2008
Workout
Day of Rest - wow.... apparently I did have a pretty good workout last night, I almost hit the ground this morning when I first got out of bed. My legs haven't hurt in a while - I'm thrilled!!!!

Food
Breakfast - Slept in
Snack - Slept in
Lunch - Vietnamese Noodles, egg rolls
Snack - Dragon Fruit, Almonds
Dinner - Cheddar Cheese Combos
Snack - Bree