double your cardio double your fun

I had my meeting with Darin, and my seven point pinch test. The results are great! I'm down to 13.84% body fat. I've gotten to the point where you can see veins in my hands and forearms and on my hip bones. It's weird. Loosing the last few percentages are going to be rough. But I'm tougher than most.
I have been geeking out on the internet and researching body building more than I care to admit, and have come to the conclusion that at this meeting Darin was probably going to tell me that I had been doing too much cardio and need to cut back. I was really looking forward to hearing that. UGH. set myself up for a let down there. Instead, what has now happened to my program is that I'm doing twice as much cardio. It's a lot to wrap my brain around right now, but I'm going in today to talk with him and get it all laid out and figure out how this is going to be physically possible. And on Sunday I have a date with him in my undies. Clearly, I have no problem being in my undies anymore, so why be embarassed now. The nice part is that we're not having the underwear party in the gym, we're going to his private studio. But it would be impossible for Darin to be more professional so there is no reason for worry. It just sounds funny. We are going to be going over poses and looking at my body to see what muscle groups need to be built up more.

28 is great!

Today is my 28th birthday and it has been great!

I had an amazing weekend in Anchorage. I went to a musical(I love singing and dancing) but this musical had puppets in it- awesome!- and they were singing and dancing about inappropriate topics. Too funny. Saturday I went to Anchorage's dog show and geeked out on dog breeds. Sunday I went snowboarding in Girdwood and it was SUPER windy! It was so windy, I literally felt like I was being blown up the mountain. It was crazy. crazy fun, but still crazy. I stayed on plan all weekend. No real cheating. Phew. After last weeks pooping and puking escapade, I think I've learned my lesson. But the hotel that I stayed at Saturday night makes fresh cookies at 7:00 and sets a huge platter of cookies in the lobby. I didn't know about that or I would've avoided the whole situation, but I came back in from dinner just as they were placing them out. I was good. Honest, not even one cookie. But they smelled sooo good. I could've done work on that entire tray.
                                               

This morning the girl at the gym's front desk asked how old I was, she guessed 22 first. If that doesn't make your day? I told her I loved her.

I've got some measurements to share.
           11/13/210     11/23/2010     12/3/2010     12/23/2010     1/15/2011
chest         40                  38                       37                  36                        35.5
waist          34                 32                       31                  29                        29
hips           47                  45                       44                  42                         41
thigh          29                  28                        27                 26                        25.5
bicep         14                  13                        13                 12.5                     12.5
calf            18                   17                       17                 16                         16


-4.5 off the chest
-6 off the waist
-6 off the hips
-3.5 off (each) thigh
-1.5 off (each) bicep
-2 off (each) calf

wowza. fat test tomorrow. I can't wait!

size 6

I got a stack of clothes from my friend Kelsey and am proud to announce to the world that I am wearing a size 6 pair of jeans. DO YOU KNOW the last time I was a size 6?!?!?! NEVER. I was pretty much born a size 14. Ask my mom, she'll verify.  I kind of want to tell everyone who looks at me, but I'm aware that most people don't find this as monumental as I do, so I'm trying to keep it in check. Not something I excell at.

Other big news, I talked to Darin and asked him how much more weight he thinks I need to cut. 15 to 20 pounds to go. I've never been so close to being done loosing weight. I can't quite wrap my brain around it. I feel like I've been on a diet since 6th grade. Now what?

Wish me luck this weekend. I'm going to Anchorage to celebrate turning 28 and am really going to try to stay on plan. I have to stay pretty honest, I have a fat test the day after my birthday.

food poisoning, the flu, or bender induced?

I didn't eat very clean this weekend. It all started on Friday when one of my aides turned 50 at school. She brought in rootbeer floats and cupcakes. I don't know what it was about those darn cupcakes but I really wanted one, so I did eat one. And by one I mean three. And I had a rootbeer float too. And by too, I mean two. AHHH crap! So of course I go home and start feeling like shit, my body just can't handle the junky food like it used to. I went to the gym and felt uber bloated and disgusting so i didn't last long there. But we had gone swimming that day at school, so I think my muscles were also tired from that. meh. Now I'm just making excuses. Saturday- I was pretty good all day- hitting the protein shakes hard. Until the evening when I had two omelets instead of one. Whoops.
Sunday woke up really early, really hungry. I went to Harry's Family Diner and I got a house omelet and pancakes and ate it all. It was amazing! Then, the pooping started. I pooped my brains out all of Sunday night and on Monday I started puking too. After nearly 48 hours of pooping and then puking my brains out, I've decided that no omelet is worth it. I'm back on track folks. Look out.

holy cow!

Finally, I've gone up in weight on the bicep curl. 40 pounds! eat your heart out.


Ten weeks till the competition in Anchorage.

 Dear thighs,
please shape up.
Dear abs,
please show up.
thanks,
me.

whole lot going on back there

wowza. 

brace yourself, this is funny.

small celebration

I weighed in at 178.2 this morning. I think every crossing into a new tens digit place is worthy of celebrating. I can't even tell you the last time I was in the 170's. High school? Running is going well for me. I do 30 minutes on the elliptical and 30 on the treadmill. I still hate the elliptical, but I view it more as a warm up. I usually get to the gym at 5. And it takes me at least 15 minutes to even warm up and feel like my legs are awake. And then the good news is that I only have 15 minutes left on the dumb machine. My foot is still a little sore, but nothing like before. Phew. I take an aleve when I wake up to help, but honestly I don't really think it does anything. I would probably feel just the same taking a placebo.
My new find is a little amino acid called glutamine. I don't know much about amino acids, but I do know that this is one that has been recommended to aide in recovery. Its given regularly to burn victims to help with tissue growth. So I thought, what the heck, I'll add it to my plan. I bought a little bag of glutamine chews and have been eating one a day after I run and before I lift for a week. I am happy to say that I am noticeably less sore. Now, this again may be all mental. But at this point I'm a little mental so it all works out.
Also, strawberry protein shakes.....blah. Not as bad as banana, but not something I look forward to. I think I should avoid fruit from here on out.

london bridge is falling down

I had the weirdest experience last night. I went to one of the first Peter Pan practices where we were blocking out the scene, so I was on my hands and knees a lot. (ouch)  I was wearing the smallest pair of jeans I own and felt a weird sensation going on down there. I'm trying not to panic, but I think my underwear, just fell down....inside my pants. I quickly check to make sure my pants have also not fallen down, nope- jeans are still up- thank goodness! I couldn't believe it. How weird is that? I quietly excused myself to the bathroom and fixed the situation. But it just kept happening. It's official, I've lost my butt. So I threw away my underwear in the high school girls bathroom. They clearly weren't working. I think its time to go shopping.

leftover benders

I made it through the holidays relatively successfully. I stuck to my plan on Christmas. I ate normal food, combined with my protein shakes and really watched my portion sizes. And then the day after Christmas....sigh. I took a few things of leftovers from both of the places I went to and left them in my fridge. Well....I ate them all in about 20 minutes. It was AWESOME! Let me just brag for a second the quantity that I consumed. I had two really big pieces of this yummy egg bake, a ziplock baggie of turkey and a few pieces of ham, and then all hell broke loose when I ate- no joke- 3/4ths a circle of monkey bread. It was nuts. I just couldn't stop. It wasn't that I was hungry, it was just poor timing. I can't be left alone with all that food. What's a girl to do. So, almost immediately after eating it I felt really sick. My stomach was not happy with me. I thought drinking a lot of water would help. Wrong-o. That made it worse. So I went to yoga class, and felt super sick there. I know my mom is going to think I'm bulimic after reading this- and I swear I'm not- gross. But I did get sick after yoga. It didn't help though. I still felt like crap. I didn't really learn a lesson. I'd do it all again in a heart beat. But since then I've been pretty good. It was hard to stick to the diet without work to fill in the time gaps between meals. I'm actually glad winter break is over. Its easier to stick to the plan when I'm super busy. However, all the naps throughout the day were marvelous. Muscles grow when you're resting was my mantra.
New Years Eve: I did eat a normal dinner and had a few drinks. Nothing too excessive. just enough to have a good time.
Workouts: Things are going great in the gym. I'm noticing lots of gains strengthwise. I'm lifting more in almost every muscle group. My legs are getting ripped. I can leg press 670 pounds and that was my third set of 8. I have no idea what my max would be. But I feel like its safe to assume if a small car falls on you, I will be able to leg press it off. Unless, I already did my workout that morning. My shoulders have really nice definition. You can already see the seperation of the three muscle heads on top of my arms.  My biceps though....not much going on there. I'm not really much stronger doing a bicep curl now, than I was two months ago. I'm not sure why that muscle group is on strike, but it's frustrating.
Peter Pan: practices are starting up this month pretty hard core. It is going to be challenging to maintain my diet and workout schedule, but I'll figure it out. I'm the crocodile and Nana the dog. I'm super excited.
Random question from my mom this week: "are you using needles? You aren't doing steroids are you?" No mom. I'm all natural...except my tan. But I live in Alaska so you'll have to cut me some slack there. "did you get married?" ummm, no. wait I mean yeah sure- send cash gifts to my po box. :) I know its her job to worry. but these were too funny not to share. Don't worry Mom, I'm healthy and happy- and drug free. well, except the cocaine. Did you know there are no calories in cocaine? Juuust kidding!!! I'll get some pictures up later, and also some measurement changes. I've been doing that twice a month and the progress is pretty rad.
I can't wait to see an ab. I'm really close. I think for my birthday I'm going to have abs. well at least one. If all else fails I'll draw them on. That counts right?

schweat on my friends.
kimout.