Time flies when you're having fun...or not

Wow, how time flies. I am doing research for a blog we are setting up for work and realized that I haven't posted here since march. It might be because that was the last time I thought I was going to do something with my fitness "career". Each day I am inspired by someone to get off my diff and start training again only to be beat down by some injury or annoyance. I know, I know, excuses, excuses. I have never been very good with just working out because it's good for me. I need to have a goal and I need to focus.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that regular submissions resume shortly as I am always trying to get re-started.

Thursday...a day late

So I realized after I turned the light out last night that forgot to make my entry for Thursday. It was a hectic day that seemed to fly by.

9:30 am Coffee

10:30 am 4 egg whites, 1 whole egg, 1/2c rice

1:30 pm 1 bbq chicken breast, 1/2c rice, 1 can green beans

4:00 pm TRAIN - Legs

5:30 pm 1 scoop Syntha protein w/ water

8:30 pm 4oz pork loin, 2c spinach salad

Ah, Wednesday...

The end of the week is typically the hardest for me - eating-wise and working out. Don't get me wrong, I love the weekends but there's something about Thursdays and Fridays that just doesn't feel good for working out....and Wednesdays can sometimes start it off. I am starting my log a little later than normal. It's almost 8pm and I usually like to add to it during the day and finish up right before bed. Today was just a little hard to write anything before now. It didn't help knowing that due to a prior commitment that I wasn't going to make the gym tonight - instant downer when you are trying to be sure you stay on track.

So, as best I can remember for times today...

6:30 am Coffee

8:30 am 4 egg whites, 1 whole egg, 1 packet low sugar oatmeal, green tea

12:00 pm - 1 can tuna, 1 med apple, 2 thin mint girl scout cookies

The morning just flew by and I knew I had to eat (even was hungry) but needed to get through some stuff at work.

2:45 pm 4 oz tilapia, 1c rice, 1c asparagus

5:15 pm 1 scoop Syntha protein, 1c 2% milk

I experimented with making a warm protein shake...similar to a hot chocolate. It kinda worked but you still have that protein shake smell so it kind of kills the experience. I was really hungry too so I was hoping the milk would help curb the hunger knowing that I wouldn't be eating again until after 8p.

8:45p 4oz pork loin, 2c spinach salad, 1 sugar free jello cup, water

I am almost convinced you can teach any man to grill properly with the Webber Grilling Cook Book. Thanks babe for the delicious dinner :).

So, I am happily in bed before 10:30 pm and actually quite tired today. I am working from home tomorrow so I know I will be able to hit the gym. It's a leg day. I had a hard start to the day when I put my pants on and they felt smaller in the legs - ack, really? 3 weeks of training at high rep with moderate weight and this is what I get? So in a panic email to my trainer and good friend, I pitch my sob story. The result - lower reps with higher weight. Huh? I am confused, but I trust my trainer/friend so tomorrow I, fearfully, load up the weight and hit legs. I think I get it but can't explain it right now. I may bring the jump rope and do active rest. Hmm.

I am finding this blogging thing quite therapeutic in the evening. Not that anyone really reads this or cares about what's going on in my head throughout the day and I'll probably regret having had this on the internet at some point in my life. Although, aside from being appalled at the writing, not too much of interest for future issues.

Seriously, day two and still hungry?

I have forgotten just how hungry you can get. Seems ridiculous since I haven't eaten this much in a single day in a long time. Amazing how your body just soaks up the good stuff.

6:00 am Coffee

7:30 am 3 egg whites, 1 whole egg, 1 packet low-sugar instant oatmeal, green tea

9:30 am 1 Cape Gooseberry fruit bar (100% fruit, no additives - 60 cals, 13 carbs - 4 fiber, 5 sugar)

I just realized why I was already starving...it's already been two hours since my last meal. Will wait until after my 10a conference call to have the tuna and apple.

10:45 am 1 can tuna (w/ 1T light miracle whip and dijon mustard); 1 med apple

Seriously when you start this you are in the kitchen all the time! I think part of the workout is having to get up from your desk every half hour to eat or use the restroom. ?!

1:00 pm 4 oz Tilapia, 1C rice, 1C asparagus, water

2:30 pm Small, sugar free, fat free, mocha (absolutely awful and such a let down)

I was at a meeting and thought it would be nice to have something different yet sugar free and non-fat. Um yeah. Never again.

5:30 pm 1 Scoop Syntha protein

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Train (Back and abs)

9:00 pm taco salad with 10 tortilla chips, ground beef and 2.5C spinach

11:00 pm Bed

Back on the wagon...

Geez, after looking back at my blog entries, it's been almost a year since I've been here. How very sad. :( As I sit at work during my lunch hour, I wonder what I can write to keep myself inspired and motivated to reach the goals that I have. I have been lucky over the last two and a half years of not training consistently to not have gained any weight. As a matter of fact, I lost weight, and am thankful for that. But there are challenges that accompany that. How to get back to it and not gain weight in the areas I lost(legs) and put on sustainable size in my upper body.

I have been back at the gym 3-4 nights a week for the last three weeks doing mostly conventional training and keeping my cardio to a minimum - 20 min warm-ups usually on either the bike or treadmill (running 60-80 sec intervals). I have since been advised to chill on the running and for good reason. I can't afford to lose muscle in my neurotic effort to keep my legs down.

I am making every effort today to watch my meals, not that I was eating poorly - just not enough. I have already noticed that after two meals I am still starving. I am trying to figure out what the heck I am going to eat while at a work event for 3 hours this afternoon so that I am not starving by the time I get home (usually the biggest deterrent to going to the gym but I am so hungry I am sick). I am also wondering if I should switch my training to one that we worked up last year. I will be out of the gym for 9 days at the end of March on a trip and I am beginning to think that a kick start to the metabolism might be a good idea.

Maybe it's all of the Arnold Classic vibes in the air. I dunno, but I am shooting for June and going to make every effort to get it right this time around.

6:30 am - Coffee

7:30 am - 1 whole egg, 3 egg whites and 1 packet of low-sugar oatmeal, green tea

10:30 am - 1 can of Tuna, 1C spinach, 1 med apple

12:30 pm - 3.5 oz pork loin, 1/2C rice, 1C green beans, 1 Hershey's miniature chocolate (yeah, yeah).

I have yest to figure out how best to curb the sweets craving after a meal. And really, it usually is only after a meal. I don't want a lot. Usually a hershey's miniature is just fine. I could never get into the sugar free jello kick - just doesn't do it for me...grr.

Ah, spent 2.5 hours at an event listening to the Lt. Gov. of California talk about education. Interesting stuff. Didn't get home until after 6p and was, of course, hungry.

6:30pm 1 Scoop Syntha protein powder

7:15 - 8:30 pm TRAIN (I didn't do calves like I wanted...seriously EVERYONE was doing calves at 8:30 p m last night - what the heck?!)

9:00 pm 1 BBQ chicken breast, 2C spinach salad, 1/4C nuts (I was so hungry after the chicken and couldn't think of anything else to eat that might help fill me up quick)

11:00 pm Bed