One two skip a few 99 a hundred:Day 8,9,10

On day 8 my scale said
Weight 134.2 lbs
Bodyfat: I'm pretty sure the scale is a lie its like 35.5%
I took my 7 day results pics this morning. So far I just see really subtle changes but changes none the less. I think my Bum has received a small lift but that is just my opinion. The pictures arent perfect but I tried to get them as close as possible. Sorry about the quality.

On days 8,9,10 I spent out of town in a hotel and will be there a couple more nights. Fortunately, I was able to keep up with my workouts without a hitch. My only problem is I wait til midnight to do my muscle work. On the upside I even got the boyfriend to start exercising with me... Sort of, he rides an exercise bike while I flop around like a fish for 40 minutes. He even told me I was looking thinner today. Even if he is just being sweet, I totally ate that compliment up:)
As far as my diet goes... Well it just doesn't. There is no microwaves or fridges in the hotel. Instead I loaded up on the fresh fruit they offer, lots of water, and try my best to eat reasonably. When I say best I just mean that I eat one cookie instead of the whole box. So not Tracy approved. I guess it's official that my journey is not by the book. It's just hard for this junkfood junkie to go cold turkey. I always end up jonesing for my chocolate fix. It's terrible, I know :(

Day 7

The scale has risen either from my bad eating, water weight, or I have built muscle wink wink :) It does say that my body fat percentage has gone down:

Weight: 134.8 lbs
Bodyfat: 29.9%

I forgot to mention my new shoes yesterday. I bought the new reebok easy tones. The lady at footlocker convinced me that they were well suited for all the bouncing that occurs during the TAM cardio session. Of course I've already tried them. The verdict says that if you spend most of your time bouncing on the balls of your feet they are perfect. Although, I felt like they could require a little more cushioning in the toes.

Oh and I'm so excited a fellow TAM blogger is my first follower yay!! I visited her blog and was mesmerized by her amazing abs she has posted online. I definitely hope I can get those someday.

I've been a good girl today and followed the TAM diet without any extra goodies on the side. The workouts finally feel doable lol. Yes I know they were always doable but now I don't feel like I'm about to die the whole time. I procrastinated all day. I finally worked out at 10 pm. Which is actually prime workout time for me if I'm not too ... ( insert excuse here). Which could be why the workouts weren't completely miserable. Although I'm sure my "sleeping" boyfriend wouldn't agree. So there you have it I made it a week. Only three more plus a lifetime to go :)


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Happy New Years :Days 5 & 6

The holidays are officially my cryptonite. I did all of my workouts as planned. I also ate all TAM meals except for dinner. Friday I tried to stick to TAM recommendations I got salad with vinegar, vegetable medley and salmon. Of course the salmon came with a small side of bernaise sauce. That small side creamy tangy sauce called my name so loud I could not turn my back on it. There I was doing so good and Bam I failed. Then of course being new years you have to throw a few back. So I ordered 2 select 55's. Then someone bought me a margarita which I kindly drank 1/2 of it. Then today I ate my TAM meals except dinner once again. I had to go to a family function that was based around chili and tamales. I tried just sticking with the chili. Unfortunately, it was so hot I had to tone it down with the tamales. So day 2 I failed miserably.... Booo! The whole situation reminds me a of Cedric the entertainers comedy about being on a diet. He compares it to being like a crack addict. Somehow I can totally relate to that lol. In the morning it will be another day and I will try and try again. I hope y'all had a Happy New Years!!!


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Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Day 4

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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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 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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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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