Kea's journey

Today was a great day. I got to the gym, went on the bike for 24 minutes (8.5 miles), using the hill program at level 1.0. That may seem to be very low, but for me, that's an incredible feat. At about 18 minutes, I wanted to quit, but I pushed myself the last 6 minutes and got through! Then worked only my back and abs.

Lat pulldown 3 sets of 15 @ 20 pounds I think
Back extension 3 sets of 15 @ 120 pounds (yes really 120)
Ab crunch machine 3 sets of 15 @ 20 pounds


Also, I have a new short term goal, thanks to a friend of mine. On the 30th of this month, I'm going to walk in a 5.0 mile walk for the March of Dimes to help premature babies. If anyone wants to sponsor me (even if its just $1), the link is in my sig.

I'll post my meals later.
 
Bleh...today was such an off day. I got to the gym at 5:30 AM as usual, then realized I locked my keys in the car. I went inside, tried to bike for 25 minutes but couldn't concentrate, and didn't have the heart. I went to the treadmill, got a mile done in 17 minutes before I lost heart in that too. By this time it was almost 6 AM, so, I left the gym and hiked the 2 miles to my home. Fortunately by this time my fiance and daughter were up, so I was able to get his keys, then got a ride back to the gym from my neighbor. So, I did get my cardio in today, but no weight training.
I'm tempted to go to the gym and just soak in the hot tub there tonight. I might do that tomorrow after I do my weight training I missed out on today.
 
Only had 4 meals today. Today's menu was:

meal 1: 1 cup oatmeal (bleh, how do you guys choke that stuff down?!) and 1 cup of whole milk 270 cal
meal 2: Soy protien bar 180 cal
meal 3: cubed steak and baked potato 730 cal
meal 4: 6 baby carrots (25 cal)

About 80 oz of water.

Total cal: 1203 calories
 
Went completely off my diet today, had a baby shower for my sister, so food consisted of chocolate covered cookies, Chex Mix, Coke Zero (not that bad tasting), half a turkey sandwich, some carrots, cauliflower, and a stick of celery. Breakfast though was one egg white, a large egg, and a protien bar. I'm guesstimating my calorie intake was about...1600 today, maybe more. I didn't really eat that much, only picked at the snacks we had at the baby shower.

I walked 1.64 miles in 30 minutes, not very fast, but an average of 4.1, with an average incline of 1.0. I'm going to try to start jogging tomorrow, as I can't seem to get my heartbeat above 110 at 4.0 and an incline of 7.0, so maybe jogging is what I ned to get my heartbeat into the fat burning zone. I've tried the elliptical, and it seems to go way too fast for me to do more than a minute on it.

After my "cardio", I worked on the hip abductor (50 lbs, 3 sets of 15), the hip adductor (50 lbs, 3 sets of 15), lying leg press (60 lbs, 3 sets of 15), some glute-hamstring machine (30 lbs, 2 sets of 15 on each leg seperately).
 
Today was a really icky day. I woke up for my normal 5:30 AM workout at the gym and my tummy was really hurting me, probably from yesterday's junk food attack, so I decided to take today off, which would be the first time in a week I haven't been to the gym. I really need to sit down and work on some sort of workout routine and stick to it. I've been sort of just winging it, and that's not working for me because I don't know what kind of progress I've been making or not.
Today I started out good on food with my cottage cheese (I really hate the no fat kind, it's super salty to me), and a cup of mandarin oranges. From there, I went to the huge bowl of chex mix and cookies from the party yesterday. BAD GIRL! I feel so bloated and full and icky from eating all that stuff.
 
I've had an awesome day today. Went to the gym early this morning, even though I wasn't feeling particularly motivated. I started on the C25K program for running this morning. When I was driving back home, I was completely psyched that I had been able to jog that much.

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30 minute jog/walk combo - 8 minutes total jogging, 22 minutes total walking - 1.77 miles.
20 minutes of weights - biceps, triceps, anterior deltoids, and chest.

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meal 1: no-fat cottage cheese and one cup of sliced mandarin orange.
meal 2: 1 slice WW bread with natty PB.
meal 3: WW turkey sandwich with mustard and light mayo, cup of cherry tomatoes with light ranch dressing.
meal 4, 5 and 6 haven't been eaten today yet. :)
 
I got up at 5:00AM and went to the gym per my usual routine, though it was very difficult motivation-wise. I've been horribly off my diet, as the junk food from the baby shower was still around, however, I ate the two cookies still left, and dumped the now stale ChexMix in the garbage, so, no more junk food for me.

At the gym I did a forest run program on the TM for 25 minutes, ran for about 9 of those minutes interspersed with walking. I shaved 3 sec. off my mile time which is now a 16:53 mile, lol, slower than a turtle.

After that I worked on my back and abs.

Back extension 3x15 @50 lbs.
seated row 3x15 @30 lbs.
ab crunch machine 3x15@50 lbs.
 
Hey Kea,
Well I really think you should listen to them when they say you should up the calories a bit. To at least 1500 a day. I was like that though , well still am a bit, about not being to eat any more? But I found that it was the choices of food that made all the difference.

You're diet looks like its totally lacking on the lean protein. And definately not enough variety. But once you really start getting into shape, you will need some protein so you should up the calories with very healthy stuff. Not just fill that last 500 cals or so with junk or stuff that has no nutrients.

Who am I to give advice??? Well I only know from experience!! That I was like oh Hell no I can't eat all that crap they want me to eat they are friggin crazy! Then as soon as I got a real schedule going on, I lost a pound.

And I have two kids they are 4 and 2 . I was stuck at 150 for the longest after having my kids, then got down to 117 while totally screwed up on speed, then I got back to 150 again within a month after that, then I got down to 112 during my anorexic phase within 6 months, and stayed there for a few months, then started recovering from that and got up to 124, now my body is finally adjusting and I'm back to 122 with a body fat % of 17.5

So my point is , you should add more variety and a bit more weight training to your schedule , and make a plan for gym days and stick with it . You'll get there ;)
 
Today's menu:

meal 1: one orange and one Bally's protien bar (265)
meal 2: the last of the two sugar cookies (238)
meal 3: tuna with light mayo and mustard on WW toast and a can of V8 juice (~400)
meal 4: slice of WW bread and 1 tablespoon of peanut butter (165)
meal 5: 7 small meatballs on hamburger bun with cheese and mustard (~400)
meal 6: cup of applesauce (100)

Total of about 1600 calories. Looking over it, thank god the two sugar cookies are gone, now I can start eating a tad healthier.
 
At the gym early this morning. Jog/walked 27 minutes, for a 15:52 mile (shaved an entire minute off my time, awesome!) and 1.7 miles. Then had my leg day today.

Hip abductor, hip adductor, leg press, calf raise, and leg extensions. Still fiddling through my actual weight routine.

For breakfast I've had no-fat cottage cheese and a cup of orange slices.
 
Went to the gym at 5:30 this morning as usual, went on the TM to jog and had this strange popping in my inner ligament behind my left knee everytime I'd take a stride. I went down to a walk and everything was fine, so I tried a few more times to jog throughout the 25 minutes and had the same results, so I stuck to walking. Could be a hamstring problem since I didn't properly stretch out prior to running this morning, but I'm not really sure. After the 25 minutes on the TM, did 10 minutes on the stairmaster. wow, I've never done the stairmaster before, that was kinda rough.

So far for meals I've had:

meal 1: Honey Bunches of Oats and whole milk (~250 cal.)
meal 2: 6 baby carrots (~30 cal)
meal 3: tunafish sandwich on WW bread, toasted (~180 cal)
meal 4: 1 cup of mini pretzels and 1 tablespoon of crunchy peanut butter (~180)
meal 5: 2 medium broiled boneless, skinless chicken breasts (~550 cal)

So far I'm at about 1200 calories today, about 50% protein, which I am very pleased about. I do plan on eating some sort of veggie or fruit tonight for my 6th meal.
 
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Found out that the popping behind my knee was my hamstring, I can feel the tightness now. Going to have to find some way to get the pain down a bit.
 
Wow, this week has been crazy. Monday I went in for an interview, Wednesday was my first day on the job. 5 days a week, almost 12 hours a day. I get up at 5 AM, spend an hour with my daughter feeding her breakfast and playing, then get ready for work while scarfing down some sort of nutritious breakfast, usually some fruit with either cottage cheese or a ww english mufflin, or maybe cereal with milk. Drive 45 minutes to work, work almost 11 hours, drive 45 minutes back. Get home just early enough to give my daughter a bath and a bottle, then put her to bed. After that I eat dinner, and by 8:30 PM, I'm too tired to go to the gym.

Today though, I was able to go to the gym, run 2 miles on the TM, and do some strength training.
 
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