Diary of MNexercisegirl

rashmi said:
curvie girl does look amazing! i,m inspired to push harder! hope u had a great lift day!
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Yeah, I'm so jealous, but I know that you and I will eventually get there!
Sprite said:
Hey mnexercisegirl ... hope ya having a good week. :) Good luck with that lifting!
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Thanks Sprite!

Lifting
Squats: 115 lbs 5x5
Bench: 75 lbs 5x5 - my 19 month old firecracker wanted to sit on my stomach while I was doing these. I think he was trying to spot me, but I had to close my eyes to keep from laughing. He was making grunting faces at me.
Stiff Leg Dead: 95 lbs 5x5 - I used a different grip on the bar and felt my hams way more. Also stuck out my booty more and really felt it working.

Something to think about: If the focus is fat loss or muscle gain, the key to maintaining or gaining LBM is making sure you experience a steady (but not necessarily perfectly linear) upward trend in strength. You know that your caloric deficit is too severe if you can't at least maintain your lifts.

I felt tired when I started and I think it was because I had not eaten for 4 hours. I'm doing it again with skipping that PM snack. I think it's because by 4 I'm ready to get out the door and I get to my car. I end up driving halfway home and realize that I didn't take that protein bar sitting next to the coat hanger in my cube and when I get home I realize that there are no more protein bars there.

Anyhow, when I started my lifting, I felt pretty weak and grabbed some vitamin water. Chugging some energy down got me through my routine, but didn't have enough time for my barbell rows and military presses. I'll have to do them Friday.

Food
Calories: 1710
Fat: 55
Carbs: 231
Protein: 75
Went out to eat and had Bruschetta and chopped salad. Blew way over onthe fat and carbs and not enough protein. I'll have to make it up today.

On a real personal note: I've been clogged up for 2-3 days and yesterday the coffee helped clear things out. Decided to by some FiberOne and cleared up more stuff this morning. I feel cleansed.
 
4/5/2007

Cardio:
5 min: warm-up
10 min: 1min 6mph, 1min 7mph x5
15 min: 2min 6mph, 1min 8mph x5
3 min: cool down
350 calories, Max HR: 169

Food:
Calories: 1334
Fat: 28
Carbs: 185
Protein: 108

Not getting enough protein in. Didn't get enough calories in. I went to eat at my mom's pretty late last night after mass. She boiled some crab and chicken. I had a whole crab and was totally full.

I've got the day off and the challange is trying to eat every 2-3 hours.
 
4/6/07

Lifting
Squats: 95 lbs 5x5
Bench: 65lbs 5x5
Dead: 65lbs 5x1, 95 5x2

Didn't feel the lifting today and I wanted to make it a light day. I think it was the time of day and the combination of not enough calories from yesterday and barely a breakfast this morning made the lifting not as great.

Food
Calories: 2181
Fat: 66
Carbs: 294
Protein: 105

I was doing great until after volleyball. I had a tuna sandwich before leaving to go play and I was huffing and puffing through some of the rallies. Usually I'm ok, but something's going on. I think it's the less than par calorie intake the past few days and probably also not drinking enough water too.

Tomorrow, possibly spinning and doing some pulldowns and overhead presses. Also have crawfish boil again tomorrow. Just have to remember ~7 crawfish = 1 oz.
 
Saturday

Exercise
None

Food
Calories: 2275
Fat: 66
Carbs: 296
Protein: 124

Without the crawfish today, my protein levels would have been shot. Carbs and fat are way over because of the fruit-filled empanada and pumpkin loaf. I probably should have just eaten one and not both. I also should have just used the drive through instead of walking in and seeing all the items.

Tomorrow I'll try to get in the 8am spin class.
 
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Juliette, Lena and Sprite...Thanks so much for the Easter Wishes!

Exercise
None

Food
Dim Sum
Too much Easter Candy
Fried chicken and rice with papaya salad

I didn't even bother recording my food last night. I had jsut too much from the kid's baskets and ate way too much at dim sum and had a late dinner. Not a very productive day yesterday, but that's what Sundays are for - messing up so you can start over on Monday.:rolleyes:
 
4/9/07

Exercise
Bench: 65lbs 5x1, 75lbs 5x1, 85lbs 5x3

I was not feeling the lifting today.:( I'm thinking either I'm bored or I'm just tired of the Body by Jake weight set. I get so annoyed that I have to change up the equipment for my squats and change it back for everything else. Also, when I'm doing my deads, I'm standing on top of the bench and trying to find my balance. Totally should go to the gym alittle more often.

Food
Calories: 1922
Fat: 54
Carbs: 233
Protein: 124

Killed my fat and carbs today. The pork ribs killed me. I make this vietnamese dish called "thit kho" with pork ribs that are cut into bite size pieces. My family loves them, but I didn't realize that when I put it into Fitday, there's more fat than protein. :eek: But dinner was all gone, not a piece left. But for sure next time I'm making it with the leanner stuff.
 
hey!
confession - since i read about the cheese dumplings in ur diary, it's been plaguing me! it's been on my mind ALL the time!
so, yesterday, i went & got some (actually a lot) & ate it all up- one yummy dumpling after another! mercifully, i haven't put on any weight & i got it out of my system (hopefully!)
 
rashmi said:
hey!
confession - since i read about the cheese dumplings in ur diary, it's been plaguing me! it's been on my mind ALL the time!
so, yesterday, i went & got some (actually a lot) & ate it all up- one yummy dumpling after another! mercifully, i haven't put on any weight & i got it out of my system (hopefully!)
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:) Sometimes you just have to kill the craving! Hope that you're doing well with your workouts!
TomO said:
MMMM, those pork ribs sound delicious. FitDay can be a real eye opener, can't it?
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FitDay is a godsend. But so very depressing when I enter food in for the day. Everytime I eat something I know is bad, I dread putting it in. And, when I input my food in, I don't look at the totals until I'm done. I'm not sure why I'm so scared...:D
 
mnexercisegirl said:
:)Everytime I eat something I know is bad, I dread putting it in. And, when I input my food in, I don't look at the totals until I'm done. I'm not sure why I'm so scared...:D
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Too funny, I do the exact same thing...put everything in, adjust the amounts, close my eyes and hit the "submit" key...hoping for the best....it's like a little cyber santa claus...checking the list to see if I've been naughty or nice:rolleyes:
 
4/10/07

Exercise
None

Food
Calories:1439
Fat: 25
Carbs: 195
Protein: 119

4 days without exercise, but of course, not intentional. The past 2 days have been hectic and I need to get to the gym today. The break was actually needed because I was not feeling the workouts lately. Now I'm feeling the excitement of getting into the gym and doing some good lifting.

As for food, I'm seeing a pattern. If I eat really well, I don't get enough calories in for the day. Like last night, I made some tuna salad thinking that it would bring up my protein and it barely did, even with the salmon I had during lunch and turkey slices I had for breakfast. I ended up boiling some shrimp just to hit over 100 grams, and yet I was still under 1000 cals. I ate an apple and 2 girl scout cookies and that brought it up to my total, but overshot my carbs. Oh well, better luck today.
 
4/11/07

Exercise: Lifting
Squats: 65lbs 1x5, 95lbs 1x5, 115lbs 5x5
Bench: 65lbs 1x5, 85lbs 1x5 & 1x4, 75lbs 3x5
SLDead: 85lbs 5x5
Rows: 75lbs 1x5, 80 lbs 4x5
Volleyball: Possibly

I felt great afterwards. Went to get a NFSF Vanilla Latte and I'm hoping that didn't do too much damage. I've got some salmon that's waiting to get heated up and eaten.

Also, decided to change my goal weight to 120 instead of 115. I was going to see if I could get to 125 first, since I've been stuck in a rut for the past 2 weeks, mostly from my unhealthy eating habits on the weekends. I got on the scale this morning and saw 133.5. Still good, but hoping to get to 132 next week. Drink lots of water and eat lots of protein...
 
4/12/07

Exercise
None

Food
Calories: 1838
Fat: 63
Carbs: 285
Protein: 62

I'm going to declare this week as my break week. It's been a little crazy with me and trying to get a workout in was just not possible. I'm still going to try and get some lifting in today and some intense intervals after work.

Food this week hasn't been consistent either. I still haven't eaten breakfast and it's already 930. Last night for dinner I caved and got a BigNTasty from McD's and fries. I haven't had one of those in MONTHS and it was too salty and too greasy and so hit the spot :p . But it messed up my numbers and I'm still retaining water like crazy. So on with the battle of the bulge. I'm ready to get back to my routines and my timeouts are seriously over.
 
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