The Struggle

Today, is a "Struggle day", you the type of day where fitness is the FARTHEST thing from your mind, and even if you fight through and make it into the gym, you don't feel better even after you start working out. You literally have to just struggle through it until you've satisfied yourself (or your trainer) enough to go home... Well that's what today is for me, I'm seriously channeling Bruno Mars, his Lazy song is my anthem today. Its my day off and I slept in until RR literally dragged me out of bed, made me put on work out clothes and hit the gym. We've switched up my workouts so that they're more cardio based than strength based. But being groggy and being put the ringer of Robsanity workouts was NOT fun. I got through it, although not without a lot of whining and complaining, and...

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Kicking and Screaming

The security guard at work who sees RR and I entering and leaving the building together everyday, made a comment to me about how I'm losing weight and looking good. True to form, I jokingly responded along the lines of "Well you know... I do what I can..." He laughed at me and almost immediate turned to RR and said "Its clear you're taking good care of her, keep it up". After some ribbing about why he attributed my weight loss success to RR and not my own hard work, we parted ways. Later in the car, I realized that I really can't take too much credit for my fitness success/progress. I mean I can but... to do so would downplay AAAALLLLL of the the hard work and effort RR puts into helping me achieve my fitness goals. And that wouldn't be fair to the man who drags me (occasionally) kicking...

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Backsliding

So a few weeks ago I made real progress, finally broke my plateau and saw numbers on my scale as low as 138.6. Then the bakery got kick started and the weekend hit, and I didn't work out, ate greasy and sugary (yet delicious) "fake" Thai food from the mall food court, honey mustard chicken wings and fries from wings to go, had a market fresh sandwich from Arby's and Vanilla shake from McDonalds. Since then there's been a steady breakfast of grands butter tastin' biscuits, turkey sausage and egg sandwichs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch, and Madelienes! Fortunately, I'm back in the gym, but unfortunately its all soo much harder and the fact that RR is making me lift heavier than normal and do super sets isn't making it seem any easier either. :-/ Ah well, I gotta get these...

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Balancing Act

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Girl Scout cookies: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Its that time of year (well one of many) when sweets and sugary goodness are all around. More specifically Girl Scout cookies! Trefoils are my FAVE!! Fortunately they seem to be one of the better choices according to SparkPeople's best and Worst Girl Scout Cookie List. Trefoils are probably the safest since they're winning in several categories including Lowest Fat, Lowest Calorie, and Shortest Ingredient list. Shortbread (Trefoils) Shortbread (called Trefoils in some regions cookies) contain just 4.5 grams of fat for a four-cookie serving. As a bonus, the Shortbread variety is also the lowest-sugar Girl Scout cookie, containing just...

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MILESTONE!

I haven't seen a number in the 130's on my scale in... at least 6 years. This morning I woke up, stepped on the scale and this is what I saw! (please disregard my unpolished toenails!)I promptly hopped off the scale and did a happy dance! :-D Well tried to but quickly discovered my calves and hamstrings are sore from last nights work out. I then text RR this pic (because he'd gone downstairs and I was too lazy.. i mean sore to run downstairs and tell him. He then came up and tested out his new calipers on me, to measure my body fat percentage. I'll give you a few minutes to guess which category I fell into.(if you click on the image you can...

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Food dairy 2/23

Breakfast: Protein shake (1 scoop Banana Cream flavor Muscle Milk, a whole banana, and approximately 10 oz of water - 255 calories) - Total 255 CaloriesMorning Snack: Yoplait Thick and creamy Vanilla low fat yogurt - 180 caloriesLunch: Lean Cusine Chicken, spinach and mushroom panini- 310 calories; Safeway Organic Creamy Garden Tomato Soup ~3/4cup - 239 calories; TOTAL - 549Took my vitamins and allergy meds at lunch. (60 mg Ginko Biloba, 1200mg Fish Oil, Nature's way Alive! Women's energy Vitamin) - TOTAL 12.5 caloriesDinner: Homemade Chicken Wrap - Chicken marinated in McCormick's Mesquite Marinade mix (baked) - 290 calories, Sargento Low fat Mexican cheese 1/8 cup - 40 calories, Canola Oil Mayo - 40 calories, Mission 100% Whole Wheat Tortilla 0 130 calories TOTAL - 500 caloriesAfter Dinner...

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Updated Goals.

So in my head I look like this everyday.... However, my blog post below made me realize her abs are better than mine, but I think my quads/thighs are better. :)Long Term though, I want to look more like this. With everything defined, but not too defined. I'm especially in love with her qua...

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Results and lessons

Its been 5 months and I'm back! I'm happy to report that I'm officially 5lbs lighter than I was last time I blogged. Other good news, I entered a "Biggest Loser" competition at the gym during the month of Dec and I WON! I lost 4lbs from my Dec. 5th weigh in (~148 lbs, I was up a few pounds from thanksgiving) to ~144lbs Jan 8th. Which is pretty darn good progress considering I had a birthday, Anniversary, Christmas and New Years all in that 30 day span. :-) I now have a free personal trainer for a month, which I plan to use a closer to bikini season. ;)Since then, I've worked my way back and forth between 140.0 and 143.0 Mind you these are...

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