so today was meal prep day, I am determined to be as strict as possible for the rest of our challenge and knew that food is one of my biggest down falls. I have no problem making sure to work out 5 days a week, but when it comes to eating, I know that I am easily side tracked. So this week on the menu for breakfast I have boiled egg whites, and cut up fruit. For lunch I made grilled pesto chicken with broccoli some days, and other will be grilled chicken salads. for dinner I made turkey burgers (no bun) with broccoli some days, zucchini others and sweet potatoes. My snacks I also have covers, carrots and hummus and all natural peanut butter for those times that I am craving a reese peanut butter cup hahaha.
so our work out two days ago, I thought was the hardest thus far, until todays work out...... for the last two days, walking, sitting, using the bathroom, even sudden movements, caused pain in my legs, most within the thigh region. multiple times though out the day I found myself saying "screw stacy" because of the pain. I know that the pain means its working, and tomorrow I most likely will be the most sore I've been in a really long time after both of these intense work outs. on paper, they don't seem like much, but when the sweat is dripping down your forehead, you begin to realize just how hard each work out actually is.
so, last week I feel off track not only while on vacation exercise wide, but also with blogging. Last week I was in texas, and while I did my best to eat as healthy as possible, i did fall off the wagon a few times. eating voodoo donuts, and brunch that stacy most likely wouldn't approved off. while away, although I was not able to keep up her work outs, I did stay very active, not only did we go on a hike, but most of the trip we walked all day long, weather is be shopping, or just around the city. This week, I have a lot of making up to do, and tonights work out was most certainly a very big step in the right direction.
So I have kind of fallen off the wagon with blogging, mainly because I have been running around getting ready for vacation, and partially because I have been laying in my bed complaining about craps the last few days and not really doing much. all in all the last few days I have been doing pretty well eating wise despite my wild cravings. This week at my weekly dinner with the girls (my usual cheat mea) I actually ordered shredded chicken seasoned with thyme and lemon, and a side salad. It wasn't as satisfying as my usual wednesday meal, but I knew today that I had brunch plans with my friends, and I wanted to use this as my cheat meal. Today I was able to get in a good workout and I plan on kicking it up a notch tomorrow and tuesday right before vacation.
Todays work out:
5 minute burpees 4 minute rest 4 minute jumping jacks 3 minute rest 3 minute high knees 2 minute rest 2 minute push-ups 1 minute rest 1 minutes sit ups aka hell todays work out was most certainly a challenge for me all around, the work minutes seemed to be never ending, and the breaks didn't seem long enough. all in all though, I pushed my hardest and tried to keep up momentum throughout the whole work out. the burpees and pushups are definitely the areas I struggles in the most, I am not sure if I will ever be good at pushups. so over the weekend is when I usually struggle the most in sticking with my diet, and this weekend was no different. I am very proud of myself for sticking well almost all of saturday to my healthy eating habits, even while out to dinner with my girl friends. however, when dessert was served, I did indulge. I had three bites, one of each type of dessert that the table was splitting. I finished off the weekend with food shopping for nothing but healthiness, and meal prepped for the week. I also cleaned the cabinets of anything that could resemble temptation. this up coming weekend I won't be going out of town, and will do my best to cut the habit of letting the weekend be my down fall.
so last night, I rolled over onto my stomach mid sleep, and woke up due to my abs being so so so sore. Jessica and I did our work out two days ago, and still my abs are unfire. Tonight I had to work late, so I was unable to make stacys work out, but I more then made up for it at the gym, I started my work out with 30 minutes on the stair master, did a 45 minute virtual cycling class, and then did 10-15 minutes of abs. I thought I hated ab work outs the most, and then I tried spin. My butt hurts sooooo much, that I'm not sure its something I will do again, but it is definitely a grey work out.
so today Stacy had us work out on our own, because jess and I both were looking for an earlier work out then usual. She send us a text with what we should do, an how long we should do each exercise for. upon receiving the text, jessica responded with "thats it" and I was a little surprised at how simple it seemed as well. let me tell you something.... we were wrong, it was super intense, and I am very happy that jess and I were able to Skype with one another and get it done. Alone, I most likely would of taken a million breaks, and prob half assed some of the harder parts (jump squats). this work out took us a little over a half hour, and was deff on par, if not harder then some of the work outs we do with Stacy.
so today was the moment of truth, as to how I have progressed over a little less then a month, and although I did have results, not the best of results, but results non the less. it is actually very motivating, and makes me want to make sure that this month, I do everything in my power to stick to my diet as best as I can, because my results could have been even better.
Measurments weight: 181 to 175 chest: 43.5 to 43 waist: 45 to 43.5 thigh: 27 to 26 calve: stayed at 15 biceps: 12-11 today after work I went shopping, and picked up nothing but healthiness for the week, and am going to do everything in my power to cut out any temptations. meal prep has deff made it easier for me to eat better, but I have been going down to NYC a lot lately, and I know forusre when down there, I do not eat the best, so I a going to have to figure out a way to bring food with me if and when I go down to visit my family this coming month. |
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