L-E-T-S-G-O

Alright, so I took some time away from tracking every calorie and I've been working really hard to try to get a job.
I passed my test!! So, it's official, I am a CERTIFIED FITNESS TRAINER through the ISSA. I've applied at several gyms, though I REALLY want to work at the one with my mentor... it's just a matter of that fitness manager giving me an official start day (since I can't just wait around). So, that is TBA.

Anyhow, I'm going to keep track of what I eat each day. I'm going to keep working out really hard and aiming for around 1800 calories every day... not net, total. Days when I do EXTRA big workouts I'll be upping my intake and allowing a cheat now and then... but I really feel I need to focus if I want to be able to compete in the near future. I need my body to even out. What I mean by this is that before I was doing too much cardio to try to lose weight... I'm going to be lifting a lot more. Integrating my hypertrophy lifting with endurance sets as well so that I'm maximizing fat burn and paying better attention to what I eat right after each workout as to take most advantage during the metobolic spike post workout.

Also, I'm going to be trying out some meal prepping. I'm going to buy a bunch of tupperware and try to make a bunch of meals so that I am set for a few days...and don't let myself snack. I've been slipping a lot recently with snacks and allowing naughty foods because I know my body needs something and I don't take the extra few minutes to make something or go into an actual grocery store and grab the right thing (I've been grabbing what I think I'm craving instead of what I know my body needs).

So, I don't think I'll be posting every single day with what I ate (unless I get to a point where I feel like I need to keep myself publicly accountable)... but I will be posting more recipes and meals that I prep once that starts. I'm trying to record more of my workouts and I'd really like to get into posting more of that sort of thing...

I really want to be strict with myself this month. My plan is, for the first time in my life, to have a costume that shows off my stomach... but I'll change what I'm doing last minute if I'm not feeling confident enough!

So... October... Let's Go, Let's Go, L-E-T-S-G-O!

Few days to recollect

New approach to this blog coming after the weekend.
Hope everyone is healthy, happy and moving forward! Live out loud.

9/17

Oats & coffee this morning
Chocolate
Apple
Went to the gym for almost 3 hours. Worked shoulders, tris and abs. Had a great time with the gyys... I'm SO sore from yesterday!!!
Had kind of a binge though... 2 snack wraps and a mcdouble w/o cheese and just half the bun...plus a snack size mcflurry
Finished my essays for ISSA
All I have left is the assessment + 12 week training programs for the 2 case studies!
Chocolate
Salad: spinach, 1 egg & 1 white, sweet potato, mustard, grape tomatoes, vinegar
oats & apple sauce

Working legs again tomorrow... gonna focus on hammies (deadlifts) but MAN I'm sore from Monday!! Looking forward to lifting with new people. Should be fun :)

9/16

Overall a great day...
Oats ... then went back to sleep
Oats & Greek yogurt 3 hours later
Studied and hung out with a babe.
Went to lunch and loaded up on some carbs.
LEG DAY!
Sexercize warm up, squats(lots), smith reverse lunges, donkey kicks, hydrant kicks, leg extensions, walking lunges, squat jumps, step ups
Came home (longest drive w/city traffic ever)
Slaw, half avocado, jalapeño, tofu, mustard, vinegar, pepper & spices

Started my ISSA CFT test...it takes a long time!! I'll finish this week... 99% sure I'm starting at the gym I really want by next month!! :)))

9/13

Friday the 13th!!!
Life can be scary. New things can be terrifying. I'm so excited about new endeavors but scared at the same time. I'm fighting off self doubt... needing my confidence to shine!

oats, instant coffee, apple
popchips
Kombucha
Brussels sprouts, avocado
Apple
Chocolate
Brisket, salad, sweet potato
Arctic zero

Day off from any sort of working out felt weird...but I slept like crap last night and used today to spend quality time with somebody I really care about. Gotta kick my ass tomorrow with cardio, core and maybe some arms.

9/7

Went out with friends in town from SLC and drank...then scarfed Subway late. Bad. Feeling so soft today, but not gonna get mad. I'm focusing and scrounging up every ounce of will power to behave.
Big breakfast.
150 - oats
50 - 1/2 scoop protein
200 - 2 bananas

-400 4.5 mile walk

80 - apple
80 - pear
180 - protein bar
100 - pop chips

8:00
350 - unwich
160 - 2 apples

-200 6.5 miles biking
-500 arc trainer, arms and abs

11p
100 - bag Cole slaw
100 - sweet potato
100 - 1/2 medium avocado
30 - lime & mustard

400 - 2 cookies
150 - Arctic zero

Emotional eating 9/6

Yesterday was weird for me...I didn't go to the gym for the first time in months...I was doing well with food til later in the evening when I ate some junk before a date...idk what that was, but then this morning I let myself go to 7-11 and buy more junk. Well, I'm done. I have been twisting all sorts of ridiculousness around in my head...and I know this unconscious, irrational eating is a result of that.
I had a binge-y morning...but I'm caffinating myself and getting ready for a day full of calorie burning.
No more yo-yos. I will never be fat again. I have chosen to live a happy, healthy life as a fit person and I want to inpire others.
The rest of today will be tough...I need to eat, but minimal calories and burn as many as I possibly can to get rid of the 1200 I shoveled in this morning.

Walk to gym (2 miles)
RDLs, good mornings, hamstring curls, lateral leg raises, wide pull ups, trx hanging rows, reverse fly, bosu burpees, donkey kicks, hydrant crossover kicks
Walk 6.3 miles
-1000

5:00
105 - protein shake
150 - 4 medium zucchini w/Pam & Mrs Dash
Net.455.

9/5

7:30
150 - 1/2c oats
50 - 1/2 scoop protein isolate
80 - 1/2c crushed pineapple

11:00
150 - 1/2c oats
25 - 3 medium egg whites
25 - nutritional yeast

I might actually take today off from the gym...first time in a long time. But I'm gonna be social today...part of focusing on me :)
-300 biked 11 miles
200 - 2 vodka sodas

6:00
100 - bag of broccoli slaw
100 - 1/2 medium avocado
20 - tomato
75 - chia & nutritional yeast
.675.

9/4

7:30
150 - 1/2c oats
80 - 1/2c pineapple

10:00
220 - dark chocolate

1:00
50 - 6 medium egg whites
50 - peas & mushrooms

Bike to/from gym
.5 mile jog warm up. Bench warmup w/bar. 3x10 @ 80lbs, 3x12 20lb dumbbell incline fly, 40lb straight bar upright row, pushups, 3x10 15lb seated dumbbell press, 3x10 flat dumbbell fly, 3x10 10lb dumbbell lateral raise, 3x10 75lb cheat press machine, 3x10 55lb fly machine, walking pushups ( 4 passes [10ft] 5 pushups each pass)
- 400

4:00
40 - 2 bags butter lettuce
325 - guacamole
200 - deli ham

3 mile walk
-?

8:30
55 - 1/2 scoop new whey protein isolate
100 - greek yogurt
150 - 1/2c oats

9:30
150 - 1/2c oats
55 - 1/2 scoop protein isolate
100 - banana
1275

Sexy September

Well...I caught a buzz last night and definitely ate way too much stuff... prob about 1000cals, but I'm not going to be mad at myself. I knew I shouldn't drink after my mom went to bed. I know how to set myself up for success...so it's a new month! Time to learn to feel sexy.
Sexy is complex. It is a noticeable confidence that only radiates when the mind and body feel good simultaneously...that's my goal for this month.
Sexy September.

9:30
50 - 5 large egg whites
20 - tomato
80 - apple

11:30
100 - pb
200 - chicken breast
100 - pistachio thins

Run 2.2miles to gym
Lunges, step ups, bosu lunges, bosu side lunges, back squats, Russian twists, full extensions, suitcases, posterior leg raises and hydrant cross kicks.
Walk/jog 3 miles home
- 800

3:30
200 - 4oz chicken
50 - salad (kale, wasabi, vinegar, tiny bit of feta)
100 - pb

5:00
100 - sweet potato
100 - biscoff spread
200 - 2c grapes

7:00
150 - oats
300 - halibut

Prob 1000 Snacks & drinks w/the neighbors :-/ fully carb loaded for the week ahead!