Sam's from Chunk to Hunk Journal :)

I have to agree it works so much better when we track it & are accountable with what we eat. Something about seeing it in writing just makes me want to eat less. Have you trying tracking it online? I used the one on Sparkpeople since most of the stuff I eat is on there or I have added it already. Heard Fitday is pretty popular... dunno. Good luck.

You are doing great & we will be struttin hot new jeans before Britney can buy a new Mercedes! :D
 
Hey...

Been a little MIA for a few days. For some reason, I felt like posting in every else's journal except my own. I figured I better check in. So, was pretty sore most of last week for getting back into the weights routines, I had kind of been slacking in that area for a little while. I somehow managed to get my lazy butt to the gym on Friday night for 45 minutes of cardio. I ran again. I finally had a good run. It felt great. It also made me remember how much my body and my mind love cardio (when I do it regularly).

Eating has been tough, as usual. I need to start my food journaling ASAP. I also want to start writing out my workouts for the week, and sticking to it.

I've been thinking about it a lot the past few days, about how much I want to get the rest of this weight off and get a lot more toned in the next 3-4 months, just in time for the summer months. I'm really going to work on getting into a solid routine and sticking to it.

Sad song... I think my ipod is breaking again. I'm on like my 4th one this year already. Luckily I bought the warranty when I first purchased my original Ipod. However, it does expire in the middle of March, so if my ipod is really breaking (which it probably is, it constantly freezes up and pauses for no reason)... I had better act fast and get it in to get "fixed" so they can give me another broken, I mean "refurbished" one..... :rolleyes:

Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend. I'm pulling an all nighter tonite at work and it SUH-CKS!!!!!

-Sam
 
Sam, I was up all night as well. My niece and nephew stayed over last night. They are 2 and 3 and would NOT go to sleep. I had to sleep on my downstairs couch with Izzy, and it was like the kid from Big Daddy where he keeps rolling around and won't lay in one spot. I'm a very light sleeper, too. Ahh!

Hope you got some sleep today!
 
Hey,

Made it to the gym this morning. Did circuit training with PT. Wore me out! He must of had a rough night or something and decided to take it out on me first thing this morning. I then followed that with 25 minutes on the treadmill. Feel really good and I hope the exercise helps me sleep tonite.

Plan on eating well today. Brought healthy foods to work with me to eat, so I don't get tempted to go out and get something bad. When I get off work I plan on steaming some veggies (either asparagus or broccoli) and having a chicken breast. Pretty boring but, I gotta do what works. Maybe I will put some of the FF Feta cheese I have to good use and put some on the broccoli or something....

I live with my bros and it seems we always have junk in the house because they aren't too concerned with what they eat. We also always seem to have lots of beer in the fridge and I have no problem resisting that (I like beer, i just don't drink very often)... I just wish I could always resist the ice cream! That is my downfall.

Tomorrow I'm not sure what I'll be working out at the gym. Probably see if we can do plyometrics or core. I need to start working my core every other day like I'm supposed to.

Hope everyone is having a great day! Im stuck at work till 10 and its only 2 right now........

-Sam
 
sammyboy24 said:
I've been thinking about it a lot the past few days, about how much I want to get the rest of this weight off and get a lot more toned in the next 3-4 months, just in time for the summer months. I'm really going to work on getting into a solid routine and sticking to it.
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Hey hey beautiful,

well damn... looks like we're in the same boat. haha I've been doing a bunch of thinking as well. I just want to get my shit together and slim down/ tone up a bit before summer time. That's it... we're going to have to come up with "The Fabulous Mission to Look FIERCE By Summer Challenge." hahaaa! Keep it up with the gym and eating healthy, honey. WE've come a long way and we're so close to our goals! :hug2: Btw... your av... is RED HOT, baby. Big difference from your last av.

-Sheryl
 
Hey everybody.

Thanks for all the compliments on my avatar. I thought it was time for a new one and kinda liked that picture.

So, made it to the gym this morning. This snowy morning. I did some pretty hardcore plyometrics and sweated my ass off. If you want to sweat, do some plyometrics, and its amazing how it really works your whole body. I'm usually a good sore from head to toe the next day.

Been eating very well, imo. Here is yesterday's menu, just for shits and giggles:

1015am Protein Shake with 2 scoops EAS Choco. Protein, 1 cup skim milk, and 1/2 cup of raspberries

1230pm 1 can Progresso Hearty Tomato Soup with a string cheese melted into it, 8 saltine crackers

415pm Large Fuji Apple, FF Yoplait Yogurt

6pm Turkey Sandwich on White Roll, with a little mayo, lettuce and tomato

9pm 1 cup LF cottage cheese with 1 small can pineapple chunks, drained

1030pm 20 spears of asparagus with a tiny pat of butter

1715 calories, 127 grams protein

Pretty good if I do say so myself. I need to get to the store so I can stock up on supplies to help me keep up the eating 5-7 times a day thing. I seem to do pretty well with that when I do it.

-Sam:)
 
Hi Sam...

When I used to do track we would do every kind of plyos you could possibly imagine, so I know just what you're talking about with the sweatyness and such. :)

String cheese melted into tomato soup sounds delicious!!! I might have to try that. Actually, all of your meals sound good to me. Maybe you should be my chef?

Have a good night.
 
kristib135 said:
Hi Sam...

When I used to do track we would do every kind of plyos you could possibly imagine, so I know just what you're talking about with the sweatyness and such. :)

String cheese melted into tomato soup sounds delicious!!! I might have to try that. Actually, all of your meals sound good to me. Maybe you should be my chef?

Have a good night.
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Heehee Kristi. I can barely even be my own chef. I usually let my bro do the cooking in our house, if there is any. But since I am trying to eat healthier now, I don't really let him cook for me.

No gym today. Plyometrics left me pretty sore today, which I was expecting, because they never fail to do that. I like it though. It's so funny how jumping around and jumping on things and stuff can leave muscles sore you wouldn't expect it to. My abs always hurt the next day, and my shoulders, chest and even my biceps too this time. It always really kills your legs though. It's so funny how as soon as I get out of bed in the morning and start walking around I can feel it all. It usually disappates some during the day. I'm pretty much always sore, in one way or another. Usually it's not that bad, a stiffness I can live with. I even kind of miss it when I don't have it. I just reminds me how much and hard I have been working at the gym. Wow, that was a crazy ramble.............................................

Ate a couple of enchiladas for lunch... Not so good but, that is all I have really eaten for today and it's like almost 8pm... There were some rice and beans, and a few tortilla chips too. Can't excuse that. Can't beat myself up about it either because I will still probably come in at my 1800 calorie range today, even if it all didn't come from 5-6 separate smaller meals. I went to lunch with my Dad, which I love to do and don't do too often anymore.

Can't wait to get into some new jeans. I want to get into a size 32 so badly. I've been looking at jeans online and want to buy some so bad. I promised myself i wouldn't though, until I know I've lost weight and inches. It'll come though. It'll come.

Hope everyone is having a good day. Today is my friday at work and I just have to make it thru two more ours and i'm done till Monday! I have some obstacles this weekend: a birthday party, a baby shower, and another birthday party at a bar. I plan to eat good before I attend these things and also get to the gym those days as well and run my ass off! Hopefully it all works out. I'm going to weigh in at the gym tomorrow anyways, to make sure.

-Sam
 
Keeping at 1800 daily cals on a day where you got to eat enchiliadas is impressive! You easily could have done way worse & its not like you do that daily.

Good luck with this weekend. I know you will do fine...just think of those new jeans! Course if you slip, just pick yourself back up. You'll get through it. Focus on the people & making memories & forget about that food & drink. :D
 
Hello all,

So, made it thru my weekend. Pretty interesting. Did okay with most of it and made it to the gym on Fri and Sat. I was a little hungover on Sunday so I didn't go... On Sat night I did drink, only beer and probably had a couple too many. It was so good though, the atomosphere and seeing all my friends together that I don't get to see that often, it was great. Plus we were all VIP, so it was the shit!!!

Before the bar though on Sat. I went to a baby shower during the day. It was for my friend's little sister, she is only 20 and it's her first baby. Well, my friend also has another sister who is pregnant as well, and due at almost the same time as her other sister. So funny, so the other sister (not the one the baby shower was for) went into labor at the shower and gave birth to a baby girl later that night (actually next morning)... Crazy timing, maybe you just had to be there...

Food was pretty good last week, and this weekend i definitely indulged some. I weighed myself at the gym on Sat. morning and I was down to 212, which is my absolute lowest yet. So, tomorrow when I go to the gym and meet with trainer, I'm going to weigh myself again and see what I am down to. Hopefully around 212 or so again...

Got some new awesome music put on my ipod, so I don't have any excuse whatsoever to not have my ass tied to that treadmill and be running for my life.

Hope everyone is having a great Monday!

-Sam:)
 
hey all.

Woke up and went to the gym this morning. It was a pretty good workout. I went in there thinking I would do chest/back or legs. I was looking forward to neither, lol. My trainer says we should do core. He put me thru a pretty intense core workout. The one today ended with me trying to do situps on a decline bench and my core being so spent that I had to have him help me with a rope, lol... I made it thru it though, and then went and did 2.75 miles on the treadmill. I didn't run all of it but, I ran more than half. Felt good.

Food has been kind of bad today. I'm still within the limit I set for myself ( I like 1800 or less but will go up to 2000 on some days) but my day has been filled with small portions of unhealthy foods like a praline, some licorice, and a 1/2 of a small order of french fries.

Stuck at work for a few more hours. Going to go home and try to go to sleep earlier tonite because I am tired.

-Sam
 
Hi.

So made it to the gym this morning. Did a 30 minute aerobic workout with my PT. It included running ladders, tons of lunges, up-downs, pushups, crunches, etc... It was tough and I went thru a whole liter of water with just that workout... I've been doing that a lot lately. Didn't stay longer and run on the treadmill after.... Probably should have.

Food has been alright. It's a little after 8pm and I had two cans of soup today, and a few other things. Last night I binged a little and I'm trying not to feel too bad about it. I just have no defense it feels like when I am around candy... especially Snickers bars.

It snowed like hell here today, after two semi-nice weather days (clearer skys and 40 or so) so guess that sucks... I'm lucky it didn't hit in the commute, and I don't leave work until 10pm, so there are a lot less idiots driving in the snow for me to get hit by, lol (knock on wood). I'm so sick of the snow!!!!

-Sam
 
Be careful in all that snow... scary driving so sure, even if you are not behind the wheel.

Just wanted to drop by & wish you a HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! Hope you celebrate the spirit of love in a way as special as you are. & itsn't it all just about love... which starts with ourselves! Indulge in something fantastic that makes you smile (hopefully not food related, but hey whatever!?!) & if it includes someone else even better, but the most important thing is to spend the day with a smile on your face! You deserve it!
 
Thanks Moon, you are so sweet.

I made it home from work last night luckily. The freeway was so snowy it was scary. I even have some decent snow tires on my car but, it was no match. I pretty much white knuckled it the whole way home (all 40 minutes or so) but I made it and thats all I care about.

So, stuck at work till ten again tonite. Everyone at work is talking about how they are going out to dinner with their special someone tonite.... Sorry, I can't relate I guess. I hope they all have fun and I'm not really bitter about it. Hopefully I will have different circumstances when the next Valentines Day rolls around :)

Didn't make it to the gym today. Shame on me. I know. I've been pretty sore today. My ass is sore like you wouldn't believe and I'm trying to pinpoint the exact exercise that I did yesterday that is causing this, lol. I still can't.
Plan on getting to the gym tomorrow again though. I need to run again.

I'm planning on drinking some wine when I get home tonite. I haven't had any in awhile and it sounds good. Drinking wine and watching Celebrity Rehab. Sounds kinda weird and twisted doesn't it? I know. I can't help myself though, hehe.

Hope everyone has a nice Valentines Day!

-Sam
 
I'll totally have some for you. Celebrity Rehab is so crazy. I have even gotten my little bros into it and they HATE reality TV. I'm hoping there is some wine left. My bro bought it and said he'd try to save me some... It's a ginormous bottle too. I asked him how much he planned on drinking.... I hope there is at least enough for me to have a big glass ;)
 
I just wanted to pop on quick and say thanks for stopping by my diary! I have to get to work, but I'll read up on your diary and post something more meaningful next time!

Oh and I wrote a lil bit about the cost of the bikram yoga here on my diary for you!
 
Hey everybody...

Been doing alright the past couple of days. Kind of depressed... I know a lot of you can relate. Still been making it to the gym though, and doing great on my workouts. I just need the food side of things to follow suit. I had a talk with my trainer and he was pretty understanding. He's lucky. He can eat whatever he wants and not gain an ounce (he has 3% BF)... Lucky him!

Yesterday I did triceps and biceps. Today we did an aerobic workout, which I followed with some more cardio (40 minutes). I'm trying to eat better today, I went grocery shopping last night. Part of me just wants to go eat something tasty and bad though. I'm not giving in.

I plan on trying my damnedest to get to the gym in the morning. I find it exceptionally hard to get out of bed in the morning to go to the gym and workout. If I have a PT appt. in the morning it's easier because it's something I cannot miss. If it's just me though it's a different story, lol. I'm going to try really hard tomorrow and get there. I also have to get my car inspected tomorrow as well.

Yesterday I ate really badly. I had a crown burger for lunch, with fries and fry sauce (so so bad) and then I ate a candy bar, chips, and ice cream later that night. I felt like i was on a bender or something. I weighed myself today at the gym and was up to 217.3... Not happy about that at all but, I want to get down to 210. So, I'm changing my ticker to reflect the smaller goal and see if that works.

Hope everyone is having a great day! It's cold as hell and ugly here in SLC.

-Sam
 
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