Well the pounds are still coming off, just more slowly today. The scale says:
Weight: 133.2 lbs
Bodyfat: 31.8%
I may or may not have been the one who stole the cookies from the cookie jar last night. It was all Tracy approved but maybe not Tracy endorsed. I switched my meals around yesterday since I woke up so late in the day. Which means I didn't eat the 2nd salmon meal of the day. Instead I made the Choco chesnut pudding to shut up my outer fat girl. The evil little girl kept blabbing about French fries, spaghetti, and tamales. She just wouldn't quit til I gave her the fat girl pacie... Chocolate. Tracy talks about how you shouldn't say never when it comes to food. She explains that your body will just want what it is missing. Boy oh boy did my body want, want, want! So there you have it my biggest addiction is out on the table... Food. I think about food all day long. I watch food network and try every restaurant in town. Although I love the food I've been eating it is difficult to stay away from the oh so good staple diet I've been on.
The boyfriend is back in town for the weekend. Oh temptation city here I come. Don't get me wrong he is completely supportive but he needs to eat too. So it's time for me to get it in gear exercise, laundry, eat,shower, and clean house before he gets here.
Which brings me to the cardio today. I can usually make it full out the first 30 minutes but on the last ten I struggle and stepping it out just makes me feel lazy. I decided to do some fast ghetto booty dancing for the last 10 minutes. That is when I made this amazing discovery.... I have an ass!! A big jiggly ass that is fully capable of the ever amazing booty shake:) While I'm not extremely proud of my weight gain, it's pretty amazing I was able to grow an ass. Just so you understand I was born blessed with a big top and a flat ass. Which is not impressive when you do a booty shake and instead of shaking your booty your tatas go flying everywhere. Just like the desk toy that shows how energy transfers, my Bum is able to jiggle for days.I should have been aware of this sooner. Especially when my boyfriend told me a couple of months back that I have a fat ass lol. I know what your thinking ... How mean! I thought so too until he explained he meant it as a complement,since I usually get picked on for my deficiency. Aww how sweet haha... I told him to never repeat that statement again to any woman if he didn't want to get slapped lol!!
Next I did the muscle work. It was amazingly not as difficult as I predicted it to be after cardio. I expected to be nauseated, exhausted, and unable to finish it. I was so wrong on that one. Except maybe a little exhausted I had no other complaints.
Today's meals so far have been a little messy but good all around. The kiwi gazpacho was not bad but extremely tangy. I could eat it in moderation perhaps but not by the gallon or anything.
See ya tomorrow :)
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Day 3
I just want to know who hit me with a ton of bricks. I feel awful today. I feel like I'm dehydrated but I'm drinking a million gallons of water. Is this the work of the TAM flu or my midnight torture (work)? Well if it's the TAM it's been doing it's work...
The scale says:
Weight= 133.4 lbs
bodyfat= 31.3%
I have moved my reps up to 25 today. Can we say progress... Maybe? Can we say hell... Most definitely. As far as the cardio goes I'm already bored with it. I absolutely need to spice that junk up! I did order cardio II but the TAM company is slow as molasses about shipping it out to me. On the upside I love all the food so far. It is exactly what I would eat all the time if I could. My only problem with it has been that I can't eat it all. I usually can get 3 meals in but eating the fourth makes me so uncomfortably full I just can't do it. It seems that I'm one of the few with this problem:(
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The scale says:
Weight= 133.4 lbs
bodyfat= 31.3%
I have moved my reps up to 25 today. Can we say progress... Maybe? Can we say hell... Most definitely. As far as the cardio goes I'm already bored with it. I absolutely need to spice that junk up! I did order cardio II but the TAM company is slow as molasses about shipping it out to me. On the upside I love all the food so far. It is exactly what I would eat all the time if I could. My only problem with it has been that I can't eat it all. I usually can get 3 meals in but eating the fourth makes me so uncomfortably full I just can't do it. It seems that I'm one of the few with this problem:(
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The morning after day 2
Woohoo!! The scale says
Bodyweight: 134.4 lbs!!
Bodyfat: 32.3%
Down almost 2 lbs in a day. Is it water weight or actually fat loss? I'm not sure. Either way it makes me feel good. I've drank plenty of water throughout the day so I shouldn't be dehydrated. Except for my upper abs, my body really isn't all that sore. I credit that to doing one of the Tam videos on YouTube with higher reps a few days beforehand. If anything I just feel a general weakness throughout the body.
I have to work a 12 hour shift tonight, which means crunch time. I have about 3 hours before I go in to shower, prepare meals, workout and iron my clothes.
Which means my inner procrastinator is telling me stay in bed. Ugh!!! I don't want to do anything.
I eventually get out of bed and do the workouts and make the food. Today felt so much harder. My legs felt like giant weights during the cardio. I ended up finishing the muscle work and a portion of the cardio due to time constraints. I told myself I would do it in the morning but at 12am I'm already ready for sleep. I just pray I make it home without crashing. The food has been great all day so far... Very very filling. I can't hardly eat all this food. I can't wait til tomorrows results and... I'm equally excited for bed.
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Bodyweight: 134.4 lbs!!
Bodyfat: 32.3%
Down almost 2 lbs in a day. Is it water weight or actually fat loss? I'm not sure. Either way it makes me feel good. I've drank plenty of water throughout the day so I shouldn't be dehydrated. Except for my upper abs, my body really isn't all that sore. I credit that to doing one of the Tam videos on YouTube with higher reps a few days beforehand. If anything I just feel a general weakness throughout the body.
I have to work a 12 hour shift tonight, which means crunch time. I have about 3 hours before I go in to shower, prepare meals, workout and iron my clothes.
Which means my inner procrastinator is telling me stay in bed. Ugh!!! I don't want to do anything.
I eventually get out of bed and do the workouts and make the food. Today felt so much harder. My legs felt like giant weights during the cardio. I ended up finishing the muscle work and a portion of the cardio due to time constraints. I told myself I would do it in the morning but at 12am I'm already ready for sleep. I just pray I make it home without crashing. The food has been great all day so far... Very very filling. I can't hardly eat all this food. I can't wait til tomorrows results and... I'm equally excited for bed.
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Monday, December 27, 2010
The war begins : day 1
Xmas has come and gone and now the only thing to come between me and my goals is my love of entertaining and New Years Eve!!!
Starting measurements:
Arms: 12 in.
Chest: 40 in.
Ribcage: 34 in.
Waist: 30 in.
Belly button abs: 33 in.
Hips: 38.5 in.
Thighs: 23 in.
Butt measurements:
Cheek width - 13.5 in.
Cheek length - 11 in.
current weight: 136.2 lbs
body fat: 32.6%
pictures...I will post them as soon as I can get them from my computer to my phone since that is where I do my blogging. It's amazing how a camera can always expose the truth. When I look in the mirror I see a slightly bigger version of me that is fit with some curves. When I look at a picture I see a totally different person. I see the person who is so exhausted everyday that she never leaves the bed once she is home.I see the person who believes that walking the halls of a hospital for 12 hours will make up for 30 hours of sitting in a classroom. I see someone who doesn't take care of their self plain and simple. The pictures have made me realize that taking care of others all the time has made me forget about taking care of myself. I'm finally at a point that being careless is no longer an option I can get away with. On this day I'm going to be selfish, I'm going to dedicate this blog to no one other than myself. I vow to love and cherish this body god has given me before it wastes away. I know that all this gibberish may sound silly to most and I completely agree with you. It is so silly that I have been hiding from myself for so long. I should have never let it even get this far.It is time I made a change and I hope that maybe a little change in me can inspire a little change in you.
Wish list- abs, shoulders, inner thighs, butt
Meal review:
due to the fact that Xmas was Saturday Kroger was completely out of certain foods so I had to do some switching and subbing. Everything was within the Tracy meal plan so it's not a huge deviation but it's not T-totally exact. Either way the food all tasted amazing and was pretty filling for me.
Exercise review: I began my muscle design sequence with a brief warm up and proceeded to do 20 reps per move. Which is the starting reps that is recommended and it still kicked my butt. I increased the heat in my room in order to get my sweat on. Unfortunately it just made me feel like a highschool wrestler who wanted to spew her brains out the entire time. Despite the nausea, I did complete the muscle design sequence but I took a break to gather myself before the cardio sequence.
After about an hour of downtime I took on the oh so dreaded torture of cardio. I was pleasantly surprised to find it wasn't that horrible. I stepped it out about 25% of the time and produced a nice sweat. Maybe it's because I have a dance background but I feel like running is so much harder to do than the TAM dances. The moves were fairly easy. If you can jump rope then you can master the moves. Jumping and moving your body in several directions is all it really is. Tip of the day: bouncing up and down actually makes the moves easier to do than stepping it out. Just trust me ;)
Daily thoughts: I think my body has gone into shock from no caffeine, bread, or anything junky. I've had a headache for the latter part of the day. Overall I think I can see this to the end... Wish me luck
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Starting measurements:
Arms: 12 in.
Chest: 40 in.
Ribcage: 34 in.
Waist: 30 in.
Belly button abs: 33 in.
Hips: 38.5 in.
Thighs: 23 in.
Butt measurements:
Cheek width - 13.5 in.
Cheek length - 11 in.
current weight: 136.2 lbs
body fat: 32.6%
pictures...I will post them as soon as I can get them from my computer to my phone since that is where I do my blogging. It's amazing how a camera can always expose the truth. When I look in the mirror I see a slightly bigger version of me that is fit with some curves. When I look at a picture I see a totally different person. I see the person who is so exhausted everyday that she never leaves the bed once she is home.I see the person who believes that walking the halls of a hospital for 12 hours will make up for 30 hours of sitting in a classroom. I see someone who doesn't take care of their self plain and simple. The pictures have made me realize that taking care of others all the time has made me forget about taking care of myself. I'm finally at a point that being careless is no longer an option I can get away with. On this day I'm going to be selfish, I'm going to dedicate this blog to no one other than myself. I vow to love and cherish this body god has given me before it wastes away. I know that all this gibberish may sound silly to most and I completely agree with you. It is so silly that I have been hiding from myself for so long. I should have never let it even get this far.It is time I made a change and I hope that maybe a little change in me can inspire a little change in you.
Wish list- abs, shoulders, inner thighs, butt
Meal review:
due to the fact that Xmas was Saturday Kroger was completely out of certain foods so I had to do some switching and subbing. Everything was within the Tracy meal plan so it's not a huge deviation but it's not T-totally exact. Either way the food all tasted amazing and was pretty filling for me.
Exercise review: I began my muscle design sequence with a brief warm up and proceeded to do 20 reps per move. Which is the starting reps that is recommended and it still kicked my butt. I increased the heat in my room in order to get my sweat on. Unfortunately it just made me feel like a highschool wrestler who wanted to spew her brains out the entire time. Despite the nausea, I did complete the muscle design sequence but I took a break to gather myself before the cardio sequence.
After about an hour of downtime I took on the oh so dreaded torture of cardio. I was pleasantly surprised to find it wasn't that horrible. I stepped it out about 25% of the time and produced a nice sweat. Maybe it's because I have a dance background but I feel like running is so much harder to do than the TAM dances. The moves were fairly easy. If you can jump rope then you can master the moves. Jumping and moving your body in several directions is all it really is. Tip of the day: bouncing up and down actually makes the moves easier to do than stepping it out. Just trust me ;)
Daily thoughts: I think my body has gone into shock from no caffeine, bread, or anything junky. I've had a headache for the latter part of the day. Overall I think I can see this to the end... Wish me luck
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Setting the kitchen table
Tomorrow is my official start date. I received the book in the mail, skimmed it over, and made the grocery list for the first week. The grocery list in itself was a major task. There is pre made lists on the Internet which can save you a ton of time. Unfortunately I'm a little type A at times, therefore I need precise measurements for everything. The lists on the net just weren't specific enough for my taste. After about 1.5 hours and 70 items later, my list was complete. Off to kroger I went with my list in hand and a grouchy boyfriend at my side. Apparently going 40 minutes out of our way wasn't what the boyfriend signed up for. He just couldn't understand why walmart was not an option. After a complete guilt trip about the fact that walmart just doesn't carry very many fruits, vegetables, or specialty health items he gave in to the idea.
While my arguments were mostly right, even Kroger doesn't carry everything, which means I didn't get a few key items from my list. In the end it took me about an hour to fill my cart and $151.00 to pay for it. I decided from the start that I would follow the plan to a T but unfortunately the start has proven to me that isn't always possible. The whole process would have been easier if the book had included a weekly grocery list with exact amounts. The problem is that even some of the recipes don't specify exact amounts for the main ingredients. While the meal plan provides a great deal of variation it also requires an extreme amount of pretty expensive ingredients that are not friendly to the average user. I just hope and pray that all this money and time I have already committed is worth it. Stay tuned for my day by day review and wish me luck :)
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While my arguments were mostly right, even Kroger doesn't carry everything, which means I didn't get a few key items from my list. In the end it took me about an hour to fill my cart and $151.00 to pay for it. I decided from the start that I would follow the plan to a T but unfortunately the start has proven to me that isn't always possible. The whole process would have been easier if the book had included a weekly grocery list with exact amounts. The problem is that even some of the recipes don't specify exact amounts for the main ingredients. While the meal plan provides a great deal of variation it also requires an extreme amount of pretty expensive ingredients that are not friendly to the average user. I just hope and pray that all this money and time I have already committed is worth it. Stay tuned for my day by day review and wish me luck :)
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Friday, December 24, 2010
Humble pie
After trying to do some research and coming up with very little hard evidence, I have decided to try the Tracy Anderson method for my self. Besides a few good blogs out there and a facebook page, there is less than a handful of logs that chronicle the progress of individuals who have been successful using her unconventional methods. The ones I have seen show amazing results.... So maybe I can do the same. I don't know if anyone will even want to read this but maybe it will help someone who is interested in seeing real results from a real person. I hope you enjoy reading about my misadventures in achieving a rockin body.
First things first a little about me... I'm not the most active person in the world. I have been a dancer the majority of my life but It has been a long time since I have performed anything. I used to run but a nerve injury ended that and life has pretty much gotten in the way of....well, me. Oh did I mention I am an avid eater of anything that comes from someone else's kitchen and Im completely addicted to chocolate .I've been known to eat chocolate for every meal for days at a time until I ween myself off it lol.So needless to say but I have gone from a gooey 115 lbs to 140 over the past 2 1/2 years.
I'm only 5'3 with a very small frame which means even a 2 pound gain can look drastic on me. I'm actually quite ok with my weight until I see pictures and I don't see me but some other being who has taken over my body. I guess the real wakeup call was when I walked through an entire mall trying on clothes. I could only find one shirt that didn't make me look like I was 4 months pregnant. So here I am now trying to get back to the real me. Not to mention I'm going to Hawaii in march and I want to look slammin in a Bikini but thats besides the point ;)
As of right now I have been just doing one of the Tracy Anderson muscle training YouTube videos with some on and off again healthy eating. It may be only one clip but it is kicking my butt literally. My neck, abs, arms, and hips are ridiculously sore. Im going to continue the exercise daily until I get my book in the mail and then the 30 day journey will officially begin.On that day I will give you my stats and maybe a before picture if I'm brave enough.
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First things first a little about me... I'm not the most active person in the world. I have been a dancer the majority of my life but It has been a long time since I have performed anything. I used to run but a nerve injury ended that and life has pretty much gotten in the way of....well, me. Oh did I mention I am an avid eater of anything that comes from someone else's kitchen and Im completely addicted to chocolate .I've been known to eat chocolate for every meal for days at a time until I ween myself off it lol.So needless to say but I have gone from a gooey 115 lbs to 140 over the past 2 1/2 years.
I'm only 5'3 with a very small frame which means even a 2 pound gain can look drastic on me. I'm actually quite ok with my weight until I see pictures and I don't see me but some other being who has taken over my body. I guess the real wakeup call was when I walked through an entire mall trying on clothes. I could only find one shirt that didn't make me look like I was 4 months pregnant. So here I am now trying to get back to the real me. Not to mention I'm going to Hawaii in march and I want to look slammin in a Bikini but thats besides the point ;)
As of right now I have been just doing one of the Tracy Anderson muscle training YouTube videos with some on and off again healthy eating. It may be only one clip but it is kicking my butt literally. My neck, abs, arms, and hips are ridiculously sore. Im going to continue the exercise daily until I get my book in the mail and then the 30 day journey will officially begin.On that day I will give you my stats and maybe a before picture if I'm brave enough.
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