Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Oh hello!

Helloooooo overdue blog post.  Nice to meet you.  (This is allowable when you only have one reader who is your best friend… shoutout Bon Bon!!)
73 DAYS!!!! 
Or 10 ½ weeks.  It’s easier to keep track of weeks when your brain is low on carbs.  Last time I dieted my manager asked me how much longer.  My reply?  “7 weeks!! Or 35 days!!”  Apparently weeks only have 5 days in them when I get less than 50g of carbs..  Anyway, 10 ½ weeks til the first show of the season in Idaho Falls.  I am superly duperly excited.  But I am also getting nervous that I’m not hitting it hard enough.  I can feel a difference, my abs have decided to reappear (hi abs!) but I am caught once again on weight.  Last time I dieted it didn’t budge for 6 weeks.  This does NOTHING to reassure me, however.  The curse of the scale while dieting…ugh.  I should throw that booger out.  But it’s so pretty with its chromy metal and glass surface..  so it stays for now.
I would like to give a big thank you to Forrest’s mom for giving us a sit-down bike!! (Not that she’s going to ever read this..but maybe someday).  I can now watch the TODAY show (huge fan) while I do some fasted cardio!  I would rather it be Regis and Kelly, or Kathie Lee and Hoda at least, but that makes me getting to work wayyy too late.  Brewster (puppy/dog) would be in his kennel for an excruciatingly long time at night if I did that.  So actually, it was the local morning news at 6:30am yesterday before the TODAY show even started.. but I’ll take it.  This makes cardio in the morning a LOT more appealing!  No shoes!  No makeup!  No pants!  ..wait, what?  I mean..  ;)  I didn’t do fasted cardio last time until 4 weeks out, and I ended up being as lean as I wanted.  Well, I also hit the high intensity intervals a lot harder last time too at this far out, so I feel like it is necessary.
I am currently addicted to pumpkin protein pancakes!!  I still do the chocolate casein ones too, but these add for a good switch up right now.  Here’s the recipe:
1 scoop vanilla protein (whey or casein)
3 egg whites
¼ c. pumpkin pie filling (the one without sugar)
Dash of cinnamon
¼-1/2 c. oatmeal (optional – depending on bfast or carb days.  I used a sugar free cinnamon flavored packet… DELISH)
Splenda (optional)

(Picture of pre-flip pancake...I'm not a great flipper so they always look way worse after..)

Blend and cook away!  They are even good by themselves cuz the pumpkin keeps it moist, but I did add some sugar free syrup. J  MMmm mmm!!  I can’t wait to get home so I can cook up some more. J 

My weight on Sunday morning was 142.0lb and it was my high carb day.  Monday it was 143.0lb, as was it today.  I didn’t get to lift yesterday so I plan on burning that glycogen UP tonight!  Tear those muscles down!  Plus I have a basketball game, so bonus cardio.  My butt is feeling a little leaner, but I can’t wait til my ‘fat pants’ don’t even stay up anymore.  They are slightly loose now, but I also never wash them, so it’s hard to tell.  I got a great deal on some Big Stars in Portland at Nordstrom The Rack that should fit me for a while, they are nice and tight right now.  Fannntastic! 
OH!  And Portland went very well…foodwise.. there was quite a consumption of alcohol Saturday, which resulted in a split open chin and several bruises… in other words, a GREAT time.  I kept food pretty spot on though, so that helped make it not such a set-back.  I’m thinking a glass of red wine a week sounds amazing, til like 3 weeks out.  That’s very doable.  I went cold turkey last time, and well, I had no life.  I didn’t even want to tempt myself.  So I figure that one glass keeps me happy and social, cuz who wants to have no life??
BFF Bon and I in Portland...PRE-bruises and chin splitting.

Here’s what my macros have been looking like:
1/18
Calories: 1515
Protein: 215g
Carbs: 93g
Fat: 39g
1/19
Calories: 1825
Protein: 219g
Carbs: 114g
Fat: 42g
1/23
Calories: 2059
Protein: 169g
Carbs: 218g
Fat: 42g

There are a couple days just to show the variation that I throw in there.  Lately my calories have been higher than my target of 1700.. so I really need to get that back into form.  I like to rotate my carbs, but any lower than 75g is really hard for me.  And with my metabolism, I don’t see why to torture myself at this point.  We’ll see.. I might try a few just to see what results I get.

Progress 10 1/2 weeks out!  (please ignore the nasty headband and face...just got done washing my face ;)


I’ve made my goal for the BB.com Employee Challenge 8% bodyfat.  (Repeat in head “figure suit onstage, figure suit onstage…”) I’m guessing I was about 18%ish when I started on January 4th.  Forrest got his tested yesterday on base in a bodpod and it was 15.9%.  I’m depending on him to win us a trip to the Olympic for the challenge, btw. Hehe  I’m going to be doing some internship hours in the Human Performance Lab on campus as BSU, which has hydrostatic weighing and a bodpod, so I’m hoping to get mine checked here soon.  I’d rather not have a random trainer at Gold’s caliper me.. not my favorite after doing the other ones.   

Forrest is going to start working legs with me so he can spot me and I can up the weightizzle to try to put some more mass on.  Woohoo!!  Can't wait to see if I can tell a difference here soon!!

2 comments:

  1. HOLLA BFF!!!!!!!!! way to go!!! :D one day i'll be doing this with you...... COMPLETELY!

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  2. also...... you make me want to barf for having such a perfect body. If i didn't know how much you worked for it i'd be jealous times 10000. haha

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