Weekly Wrap Up 1/21-1/27

Monday - 

I tried to walk the dogs on Monday but failed. Well, I didn't fail, but it was just too cold for the pups. We made it about a block away from the house before we had to come home. 
Good news is that I played soccer instead and OMG it was an intense workout.

Tuesday -

Same story with the pups today, it was just too cold. We didn't even attempt to walk. 


SWOD
BS 5x5 
115#, 135#, 165#, 175#, 165#
WOD
AMRAP in 20 mins
12 Box jumps 24/20 
9 HRPU (hand release push-ups)
6 Power cleans, 135/95 scale to 85#

6rounds + 2 cleans 

Had to really focus on keeping my knees out during the SWOD. It's different. My knees have always "wiggled" back in when I stand up and now I have to think about it so much. I know that eventually it'll become second nature but it's always weird to change something after doing it a certain way for so long. 
During the WOD I felt really good. I'm finding that my conditioning is improving and that I'm wanting and willing to push myself harder than I have in a long time. 

Wednesday - 

With a continuous running clock
EMOTM for 15 mins 2 front squats  115#
Then 8 min AMRAP of 
10 Goblet squats, 70/53 26#
10 Pull-ups RX
Then 2 mins max burpees
Score is reps and weights

I scaled the goblet squats, mostly because hanging on to the 53# KB was so hard! Gotta work on that grip strength. I felt really good about this WOD as well, which makes me think that I'm getting stronger. Which means, I'm getting better. 

Thursday -

REST DAY! Well, sort of. Took the dogs for long walks, almost 5 miles. They were happy and I felt good. Nice to "relax". 

Friday -

Snatch balance
1-1-1-1-1-1-1
45#, 50#, 55#, 60#, 65#, 70#, 75#

WOD
Row 1K
then 
21-15-9
Lunges
Pull-ups
Sit-ups

Ooh! Snatch balance was tough. As the weight got heavier and I got out of my head, I started to feel comfortable with the movement. Felt pretty good going into this WOD, minus rowing. I'm terrible at it but I did alright. Lunges I can rock out no problem, pull-ups and I don't necessarily get along but I was excited for the opportunity to get better and well, I suck at sit-ups, or so I thought. Yvette actually said "Nice sit-ups Paige" and that is officially the first time any has ever said that to me. Then I tore my hands open so half way through the WOD I had to switch to ring rows. 

*Lesson here, take care of your friggin hands. This is the MOST annoying reminder ever.*

Saturday -

Saturday was a busy day. Got in a good 4-5 miles first thing in the morning, really tuckered the pups out. Moved a treadmill into the basement and shit it was heavy! It was a busy but relaxing day. 

Sunday - 

Got up early and took the pups for another walk. Man they're spoiled! Can't wait to have the treadmill upstairs so we all can use it. 

20 Min AMRAP
10 Front Squats (50% 1RM) 60#
10 Box Jumps (24)

Completed 9 rounds + 1 front squat 
I really wanted to get 10 rounds but it was exhausting! Now I have new goal to work towards. Later that evening I played soccer. What a long day! 


Now will I update this weekly? Hell no. It's taken me 3 days to write this anyways. But I thought it would be nice to write out but then I did it and I don't think I like it. I'll continue to use my notebook to write my WODs in and MapMyRun to log my dog walks. 

Long Time No Post

Life life life. 
Well planning a wedding and having a life and keeping this bad boy updated has been tough. So today I decided to update it, with no real plan as to what I'm going to write about. 


I guess I'll start with some accomplishments... 

• Last week I broke into the 130s, which was awesome!!! 
• I purchased my first few size 4 pieces of clothing
• I put on my prom dress from my sophomore year prom/junior year homecoming
• Reached a new PR for my 1.5mile of 12:57

I have also decided on some new goals to get to in the next 365 days

1. obtain arms, a la, Jennifer Aniston 
2. drop another 15-20pounds (which would make a grand total between 55-60pounds) but honestly anything under 135 is amazing
3. drop my 1.5mile time to below 11 minutes (current PR is 12:57)
4. drop my 5k time to below 26 minutes (current PR is 28:18 or something)
5. complete a half marathon
6. beat Eva in abs at least once, but mostly get a nice stomach

So to get where I am right now I have done the following

Exercise

Pay attention to what I've been eating

Make my health a priority 

No seriously, that is it. Nothing complicated. 

I work out 3-7 times a week. 

I log EVERYTHING I eat, even if that includes a candy bar or cookie. 

Each weekend I sit in bed with Nick and make a meal plan for the entire week and purchase only that stuff. 

Each evening or morning I make a lunch, including snacks for the day. I also log my dinner and breakfast the night before so I know how many "extra" calories I have for the day if I am hungry but run out of food. 

Before I eat anything I look at any and all of the nutritional information, so I always know what I'm putting into my body, even if it is that candy bar. I don't starve and I don't keep myself away from just about anything as long as I stay within my tolerances. 

1300 calories a day

30g of fat

65g of protein (or more)

195g of carbs

Truthfully, the one thing that has made the biggest difference in the world, minus the LOADS of support I have from my Body Evolution family, is the fact that I have made all of this a priority. I cannot hit snooze and say "oh I'll workout tonight." or "I'll workout tomorrow" because today is tomorrow and tomorrow is yesterday. 

So I'm currently hatching my plan to run my first ever half marathon. I'm so pumped! So on that note, I will call it a night because I need sleep so I can get up and run with my animals in the morning. 

What I've Been Doing...

So I know I've been MIA for a few weeks and this is to show you all what I've been doing in my time away from this blog. 


First I want to point out that I have still been doing my boot camp and have recently incorporated Tuesday and Thursday morning workouts with my man friend. 


The last time I updated was before we went home to Michigan for a wedding. I had all intentions of sticking to my diet and I did until the wedding. Well that's not true, Friday night I was late to the airport and had to get some food so I had a nature valley bar. Got to my sisters and had a yogurt and then had some cheese, which is not in the diet but I was STARVING. It was better than bread. So in the morning I had a good breakfast and had a great lunch then headed to the dreaded wedding. Well the wedding wasn't dreaded but the food and drinks were. I had salmon, salad, and veggies.. Then bread, and a brownie or two, and plenty of rum and diets. So really, not horrible but not good either. Then Sunday showed up and I said, eh I'll be good.. And that failed. Had some egg bake, which was okay, but it was the birthday cake I had as breakfast dessert that did me in. So Sunday really just fell apart which was fine. Monday we got back on the horse! Then I worked on this... 

These are the fabric flower balls that I'm creating for our wedding ceremony and I couldn't be happier, except that I'll have to "fix" them all before the wedding because they are sort of falling apart sometimes. Oh well, I still love them! 
Then I also worked on some baking so I could elaborate on what I've been "creating" and then this happened... 

Oops!! 

Thursday, October 6th was my birthday, yaaay, and I didn't cheat all day until my man friend took me out for my birthday dinner. We had sushi, a hibachi style dinner, then dessert. Oops! Obviously the dessert was the worst part but really the oil and butter didn't help. Oh well. 

After that we were back on like good kids and so I took on project #2. This was getting a HUGE 100 pound mirror, painting it and then hanging it on my wall. Yay mirror. :) 

Beginning

 Middle, with a sleeping man friend

Finished!!

I will post a mounted photo soon. :) 

So now on to this weekend/week.. See the middle photo with the red chair in the background? Well 4 or more months ago we tested out different paint colors and oddly enough, we have 4 different colored chairs and not a single one is finished. So I started my next project, project #2.4..  I painted all the kitchen table chairs the same black as the mirror, finally, to match the table. No pictures yet, but I will share those soon as well. 

But here is the bad news, well good news as well. Wednesday night my man friend really wanted pizza and I fought and fought and fought him until he finally broke me down and we had pizza for dinner. And cake for dessert. And the next day I had cupcakes and the day after that, candy and then after that I ran a 5k in 31:05, yea that rocked...

 then I had pizza, and cupcakes, then had mexican and then finished the night with some ice cream. IT WAS AWFUL. I felt terrible and the worst part is that I didn't gain more than 1.8 pounds.. WTH. Sunday night before I went to bed I felt so sick and immediately vowed to get back on the diet. I went full steam back into it this week, lots of protein days minus the roommates birthday dinner. We had a cheat meal, which was okay because I'm still losing weight while working harder at boot camp and my alternate work out days with my man. 

This weekend it's our anniversary so we're taking a trip to Atlanta to tour the coke factory and aquarium. 

Oh and the good news is that I'm finally down to 146, which after 3 weeks of half cheating I'm pretty proud of myself. I've finally gotten lower than my lowest weight and my trainer has challenged me to lose 2 pounds this week... We'll see!!! 

Progress

So last week I only worked out 2 of the 4 days I wanted to work out but one day I was sick and honestly, I needed some R&R so I don't feel bad. Especially since I'm down a WHOLE 5 pounds since my last weigh in, which was sometime last week. I've changed my eating habits, salads for lunch and oatmeal for breakfast, with a greek yogurt between those meals. I also have gone on a few walks with the dogs while I wasn't working out because my pups deserve it.
We also got another dog. What we were thinking, I don't know, but she's an amazing little ball of fire.

Welcome Dezzy. :)

So we have progress, I'm excited that I'm getting there. I don't think I'll be making it to an actual gym anytime in the near future, the girl is still too young to be left alone for too long. So in the mean time I'll be running, biking, and working out at home. 

Monday - 2 mile run, arms/shoulders (Dezzy on a short walk, gotta get her used to a leash)

Tuesday - 1 mile run 

Wednesday - 1.5 mile run, abs/back (Dezzy on a short walk, gotta get her used to a leash)

Thursday - off, walk with the dogs

Friday - off, walk with the dogs

Saturday - Bike ride and/or puppy walk

Sunday - off, walk with the dogs

With having 3 dogs now, it is imperative that we get them the amount of exercise they need. So regardless if I like it or not, I'll be walking my way back into shape. Go me!! 

Dinner tonight 

Grilled chicken wings without sauce (for me) 

Ranch for dipping 

Grilled veggies

It's a delicious no carb dinner and low in calories :) :)

Setbacks can EAT IT

Well let's start with the good news, as of today I haven't gained any weight since last week. Yaaaay right? No, not so much. 
My goal is to lose 10 pounds in a month, not losing weight in a week does not help me reach that goal. Not only is that not awesome, work has been so busy that it's completely worn me out every night this week, and I'm hurt. Wednesday I started Week 7 and made it through maybe 8 minutes of running until I had to stop because I was in a lot of pain in my left leg. Yesterday while coaching soccer I had to run back to my car and just that short 400 yards hurt to run. I'm a little deflated over it all but realize that my running 7 out of 10 days and walking the dogs 2 of those "off" 3 days, really didn't help me, it actually ended up hurting my progress. 
Tonight I am going to workout on the elliptical hoping that there is less stress on my injured area than when running. I feel like I have to do something. I'll probably take the weekend off and really rest my injury and start back at Week 7 on Monday. Unfortunately this means that week 9 starts the Monday AFTER I run my 5k. That should be interesting. I'm confident that I will be able to finish my 5k, it just won't be in ideal conditions. I am also planning on doing Warrior Dash in May or July, which is 3.2 mile run with about a mile or more worth of crazy obstacles. It's going to be SO hard but I think it'll totally be worth it in the end. 


So new plan for this weekend... 


Friday - 20 minutes Elliptical, Ab Ripper
Saturday - Arms, Back, Shoulders
Sunday - Puppy walk, rest


Hopefully next week I'll be back on track for realz...


Monday - Week 7 Day 1, ab ripper
Tuesday - Coach soccer
Wednesday - Week 7 Day 2, ab ripper, arms, shoulders, back
Thursday - Coach soccer, lower leg workout
Friday - Rest
Saturday - Week 7 Day 3, ab ripper
Sunday - Rest


I hope that this will become my regular schedule until soccer games start on the weekends, I will have to adjust that depending on my schedule. I'm realizing that when I make time, it gets done (unless I'm hurt). Either way, I'm doing more than I have done in the last 6 months to improve my health and get my butt into wedding gown shape. Small steps. Rome wasn't built in a day. Right?

Steer the course..

It's Thursday, yaaay... One more day until Friday, which is so reassuring. I've been chocolate free for 2 whole days now and it's not as miserable as I figured it would be. I've told the people around me not to offer me any chocolate so I can keep "clean". Yesterday I completed Week 6 Day 1 and felt really good about. I ran on the treadmill which makes me feel like I'm cheating because it seems easier. Today I am doing Week 6 Day 2 with my dogs. They really love the exercise but they're such a pain to run together. I haven't done any weight training this week but I'm hoping to find the time for it sometime this weekend. I'm also considering taking Friday night off of running and then running Day 3 on Saturday and doing my weight training on Sunday with a mile run also. 


Oh and I weighed myself today. Last week I weighed 165 (still) 


Today I am down 1 whole pound! 


I'm not super happy with the results but I'll take any negative(loss) number over a positive(gain). I'm hoping my giving up of chocolate will have some effect on my weight loss. 


A few other goals that are going to come my way shortly (Lent) 
- I'm giving up alcohol for lent
- I'm giving up french fries for lent
- I am signing up for the Warrior Dash in May, its a 3.2 mile course with 6 obstacles in the last mile (waist high water, fire, cargo nets, tunnels, junk yard, wall... etc) It's going to be so hard but I'm so excited to do it. 


All of these things are positive things and they're attainable goals. That's all I have to keep remembering!! 




So here are some short term goals because apparently long term goals scare me into hiding.

• Lose 10 pounds in 4 weeks (Posting weekly loss results here)
• Finish 5k training program
• Run ShamrockNroll in March
• Give up Chocolate for 4 weeks
• Make dinner 4-5 nights a week, leftovers 2-3 nights a week
• Reduce beer intake during the week (No I don't drink every night but I've found recently I have had more than 1 beer after work on more than 1 night a week, not including Friday/Saturday)
• Weight train at least 1 day a week for 40 minutes, if 2 days a week, 20 minutes each day
• Work my abs for 10 minutes or more, 3 days a week

It's a New Day!!

First of all... Happy Birthday to my sister and Happy Valentines Day!! 


So now that we got that out of the way... I DID IT! I started working out again. I took almost 2 whole weeks off from any sort of exercise and on Friday morning I kick started my 5k training back into gear and working out in general. I caught up week 5 days 1-3 in 3 days. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. While I was on vacation I worked out, even getting up at 8am to make sure I could hang out with my mom at 10am. Sunday I jogged for 20 minutes straight and didn't die. I actually did it. I couldn't believe it!! 


Workout schedule for the week :) 


Monday - Off
Tuesday - Coach soccer - Run 1 mile with dogs
Wednesday - Week 6, Day 1, Ab ripper X, Upper Body
Thursday - Week 6, Day 2, lower body
Friday - Run 1 mile with dogs, Ab ripper X
Saturday - Play soccer 
Sunday - Week 6, Day 3, Ab ripper X


Will do my weigh in tomorrow morning, which should be terrible since I'm giving up chocolate tomorrow so I'll probably binge. UGH. 


So here are some short term goals because apparently long term goals scare me into hiding.

• Lose 10 pounds in 4 weeks (Posting weekly loss results here)
• Finish 5k training program
• Run ShamrockNroll in March
• Give up Chocolate for 4 weeks
• Make dinner 4-5 nights a week, leftovers 2-3 nights a week
• Reduce beer intake during the week (No I don't drink every night but I've found recently I have had more than 1 beer after work on more than 1 night a week, not including Friday/Saturday)
• Weight train at least 1 day a week for 40 minutes, if 2 days a week, 20 minutes each day
• Work my abs for 10 minutes or more, 3 days a week

Did I Mention Road Blocks???

Big sigh.... *siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhh*
So last week I was ready to rumble. I was amped up and ready for anything that came my way. Friday night I went out and got new shoes to help with my training. Saturday I played my usual 2 soccer games and actually tried to take it a bit easy because I wanted to stay healthy, imagine that thought process. That bit me in the ass because I just don't have it in me to not 'go hard' at a sport I love. Long story short, I now am the proud owner of a high ankle sprain in my left ankle. 
So me being me, I tried to play soccer on Sunday, failed. I have also planned on running every day this week have just haven't had the pain tolerance to try. I was sincerely planning on trying to run today until friends talked me out of what could have been a bad decision. But since I have amazing friends I have decided that I will still go to the gym tonight, lift weights and ride the stationary bike. It is a good alternative to running and training for my 5k, not good enough, but it'll do. I am also going to look into the pool hours to see if that can be an alternative workout for myself. I really need to let my ankle heal, I know that, I'm just so stubborn. 
Enough whining now. Time to just face the music aka my restrictions and continue on. 
So tonight's plan, ride bike 20 minutes or more. Lift weights for 20 minutes or more. 


Dinner tonight... 


Grilled Chicken Breast
Seasoned & Oven Roasted Vegetables
Pan Seared Red Skin Potatoes


Rough calorie estimate... 498 per serving


YummmO


Listening to - Hey Jude, The Beatles

Progress Report

Alrighty then!! It's week 4 of my couch to 5k training program and I'm still going strong. Week 4 consists of run 3min, walk 1.5min, run 5min, walk 2.5min repeat. Day 1 was miserable. I hated it. Day 2 was much, much, much better. The first day I found that I was counting down the seconds until the timer went off to let me know that I could walk. The second day I felt so much better, when we were finished with the full workout I felt good, my body didn't hurt so bad. Tomorrow we're doing our third day and I'm really looking forward to it, I think we'll be able to make good time on it also.
This week I am starting to incorporate strength training in my weekly workouts. I'm a little nervous to do this because that means I really only get 1 day off from working out but I think I'm okay with that. I run 3 days a week and play soccer 1 or 2 days on the weekend, sometimes up to 4 games on the weekends. Oh well!
Today's agenda is to do some upper body and ab work to jump start my strength training. The only downside to this is that I have no workout partner for strength training, only for running, but that isn't the end of the world.
Lucky for me, Nick and I started carpooling to work and since I can't pick him up until after 5:30 I have more than enough time to get in 40 minutes of working out if not more, depending on his day.
So basically I am going to hit the gym 4 days a week, my evening I'm not working out will be reserved for grocery shopping (yay) and relaxing (very yay). So here's to hoping I can stick with this routine for 60 days and then after that it'll just be a habit right??

Weight: -5 pounds

Starting weight: 165

Road Blocks...

So I've hit about as many road block as one could imagine. While I'm no longer actively doing P90x I am still working out. I just really don't have the time to do P90x, while I loved doing it, an hour or more a day, plus 2-4 soccer games a weekend, it really just takes everything out of me to shower and go to work. So instead I have begun training for a 5k with a girlfriend. 
While I have been doing all of my training my fiance has tore his hamstring, which basically means he was unable to do anything on his own 10 days. So I worked half days at the office, came home, took care of him and worked from home. Also, took care of the house and dogs, it was absolutely exhausting. Then he started to heal a bit and returned to work, so while training still, he was able to help around the house a bit but unable to drive so I cart him back and forth to work, which isn't terrible because I workout on base while he's still at work, 3 out of 5 days it works out really well. 
So then this weekend happened, Saturday morning I experienced my first migraine. This resulted in a cat scan, blood work, and 7 hours at the ER. Today has been better but I've been nauseous and still have a headache, it's not been a fun weekend. So because Saturday I was supposed to run my W3D3, I planned on doing so today, well that didn't go as planned. 
My biggest problem to date is my eating habits which comes down to ME. I have to start making better choices. I really have to because I'm not dropping any weight when I make the choices I am. So starting tomorrow I'm going to keep a food diary on this blog. Keeping myself 100% accountable. It has to happen. So I'm fairly certain that no one reads my blog but if you do, please give me words of wisdom and support. And if you do read this and see that I'm not eating well, call me out. 
So here is to better choices and a better lifestyle. 


PS my 5k is March 13th, 2011 and I'm very excited for it. 


PPS please don't judge me for my poor writing today, I'm on my pain killers, very out of it, in pain, and exhausted. 
tootles