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Post by TaQuilla on Apr 18, 2007 13:49:59 GMT -5
Well, I've been super slack in logging my meals. But I will try to do it as often as I can. If for no other reason than to hold myself accountable. So here goes today: scrambled egg 2 slices homemade ww toast w/butter and jam multi and b-complex vitamins water coffee half & half, w/rapadura water protein shake w/strawberries and yogurt Workout: full body water protein shake mixed w/water for quick absorbstion water 1 mini reese's cup turkey sandwich on homemade ww bread carrot sticks water 3 crackers w/cheese water ground turkey burritos (homemade ww tortillas) refried beans apple slices water bowl cinnamon toast crunch w/ skim
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Post by TaQuilla on Apr 19, 2007 7:11:06 GMT -5
Homemade ww coffee cake coffee w/half and half water & vitamins
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Post by TaQuilla on May 3, 2007 8:14:55 GMT -5
Today:
Homemade Cinnamon Roll coffee w/lowfat milk water and vitamins
protein shake
Workout: abs circuit
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Post by TaQuilla on Jun 7, 2007 7:40:26 GMT -5
OK, so I'm really gonna try to post a FULL day's worth of what I ate, for a change LOL starting w/yesterday coffee w/skim milk Workout: 10 min cardio hip hop dvd Kashi Go lean crunch Protein shake w/yogurt and blueberries Workout: Weight lifting - chest, triceps, abs (all while talking to my mom on the speaker phone ) Protein shake mixed w/water Grilled cheese (lowfat cheese, homemade ww bread) apple slices 1/4 cup unsalted sunflower seeds & water tuna steak w/brown rice and veggies Workout: cardio kickbox dvd (15 min) 2 Trader Joes vanilla cookies hot tea I did it! One full day of meals!!!!
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Post by TaQuilla on Jun 7, 2007 7:42:23 GMT -5
And today:
coffee w/half &half homemade ww english muffins w/ butter and 100% fruit spread
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Post by TaQuilla on Jul 18, 2007 8:16:04 GMT -5
Yesterday:
homemade rye toast w/organic strawberry fruit spread scrambled eggs w/onions coffee
protein shake
Workout: LEG DAY ~ I have this huge love/hate relationship w/leg day. I hate doing the work, but I (and I must say my hubby) LOVE the results! My hubby has told me that hands down, this is the body part that he's noticed the most improvement in this year (he frequently mentions the "chicken legs" I had in high school when we met ). I usually do one heavy and one light day per week (totalling 2 leg days) because these are a problem area for me. Being short (and genetics doesn't help much either) my hips/butt/upper thighs are the first to show the extra weight, so I have to work hard at keeping them in check. I combine shoulder workouts w/light day for legs.
protein shake immed. after mixed w/water & creatine (taking for 1 mth)
ww pasta w/homemade tomato sauce
5 dried apricots date honey tea
Alfredo sauce over grilled chicken breast ww linguine and veggies (spin, broc, grn bn mix) *my hubby bought some Ragu alfredo sauce for me to make for a quick meal, since I'd been packing and we had a basketball game to go to last night, and someone wanting to possibly come see the house. Well I made it, and this morning (as we all ran straight for the bathroom, doubled over in pain) we made a family vote to NEVER do that again! I usually make all of our sauces and such from scratch, using lower fat, and more nutritious ingredients, and our bodies could obviously tell the difference! What a horrible experience, I thought my cramps were coming early this month, until the guys woke up and were complaining of the same pain.
80 oz water total multi, b complex, and flaxseed
ANOTHER FULL DAY!!
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Post by TaQuilla on Jul 18, 2007 8:17:32 GMT -5
Today: hmde coffee cake muffin coffee protein shake Workout: Chest, triprotein shake immedieately after creatine 2 oz Chicken sauteed in evoo over 1/2c ww linguine (leftover from yesterday, but minus the Ragu ) Dried apricots and cherries Rest of the chicken and linguine (2oz Chicken-1/4 c pasta) homemade turkey meatballs over brown rice 1/4 c almonds 1/4 c raisins Multi vitamin, b-complex, fish oil total water (so far) - 80 oz (goal-96oz)
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Post by TaQuilla on Jul 19, 2007 10:05:02 GMT -5
OK so now that I'm done messing around w/this forum. I'll post up my meals so far: corn biscuits and eggs scrambled w/tomatoes, red pepper and mushrooms Coffee Protein shake Workout: Back, and Bi so far... My eyes are starting to glaze over from staring at this screen , I need to break, go workout, and finish my tasks around the house. I'll update you later on how the day is going. I really need to get in some cardio at some point today...
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Post by TaQuilla on Jul 20, 2007 10:51:43 GMT -5
I'm pretty sore today, so I think I'll just do some type of active recovery workout, like plyometrics or cardio of some sort. Oh, how I love cardio, I'll probably throw in some ab work too. I'll update later.
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Post by TaQuilla on Jul 24, 2007 20:24:48 GMT -5
Ummm, it's that time of the month, so I'm gonna do us all a favor and not even try to log some of the crap that has gone in my mouth . But believe it or not, I have actually still been working out or active in some sort of way over the weekend and the past couple of days. It's been hard, and I have no energy at all, but I've made myself at least try, that way, if I'm too weak to continue, I can't say I didn't try. It worked out pretty well yesterday, I got in a really good arm workout, and today I actually hung in there for some pretty intense cardio. I did end up doing plyometrics on Fri, which kicked my butt, btw. I can't believe I've accomplised that with the cramping and everything else. I just keep telling myself that maybe it'll help me feel better. Yeah....right...
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Post by TaQuilla on Aug 6, 2007 8:51:12 GMT -5
I didn't work out w/weights at all over the weekend, just light activity around the house prepping for open house and such. I worked out m-f though pretty hard, so my body needed to recoup. I'll be back at it again today and the rest of this week. I haven't figured out my workout schedule yet, as far as what body part split, I'll be using this week. I usually revamp my routine every 4 weeks or so, so that my body doesn't adapt to doing the same thing over and over. Once I figure out my routine, I'll post it. Today so far, I've just had some leftover coffee cake from yesterday (homemade ww) and a cup of coffee w/1/2 & 1/2 (and trust me, I NEEDED that cup of coffee this morning, lol!)
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Post by TaQuilla on Aug 17, 2007 7:01:31 GMT -5
OK, I was about to post what I ate, and then I realized that it would look exactly like my previous post, lol, seeing as I just ate the exact same thing - coffeecake and coffee (don't know if I've posted that coffeecake recipe yet, but I'll have to soon). My current routine looks like this (probably for another 3-4 weeks): M - Chest, abs T - Back W - cardio, abs Th - Legs Fri - Arms/abs (shoulders, biceps, triceps) Sat - off Sun - moderate activity of some sort (i.e. playing basketball/riding bikes w/AJ, etc) I've been doing some form of cardio each morning, immediately upon waking (6am), for extra fat burning effect. Then I eat breakfast, study the Bible, get morning chores done, and then hit the weights at like 8-9am. I do this every couple of months in order to keep the belly fat in check. This is first and foremost where my fat begins to collect, due to a surgery that I had for my endometriosis a couple of years ago, it left me w/a little pouch that likes to collect fat due to the scar tissue that formed there (similar to a woman whose had a c-section). So even when eating really healthy, after a time, fat deposits still stop there, and I just have to help them along and try to shrink them the best I can. I am ok w/the fact that it may never be a six pack, but it just gets uncomfy sometimes, (you know, at the belt buckle/button of jeans pinching it) so that's when I know to kick the cardio into high gear again. I just don't do it all the time, because I don't want my body to adapt to the cardio, then my shocking method wouldn't work as quick, and I'd have to do like 60-120 minutes of cardio for the same effect. And cardio is so NOT my thing, lol.
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Post by TaQuilla on Sept 5, 2007 8:06:19 GMT -5
OK I know it's starting to get old, but I swear every time I log on and decide to finally post my meals, IT'S THE EXACT SAME THING! You would think that all I ever eat is coffeecake and coffee, I promise you I don't. I do prepare it often though, because it's made ahead, and I can get up and get a quick cardio session in while it bakes. So anyway, here's what's been happening:
There's been ups and downs here lately. The ups: my muscle definition and lean muscle mass is increasing steadily. The downs: so is the scale . The whole muscle weighs more than fat thing is kinda annoying at times, and Satan is really using it as a tool to bring me down. I look in the mirror while I work out, and can vividly see the muscle that I'm working and get pretty siked because of the tightness in the muscles, then I go to take a shower, step on the scale, and forget everything that I saw in the mirror, and become instantly depressed because the scale seems to be moving in the wrong direction. ~Hey, isn't there a verse about that in the Bible I mean, not the scale part, but about the man (or woman that looks in the mirror and walks away and forget what he (she) looks like (I'm thinking James 1 or so). Anyway, this is especially true of my legs, I naturally have big butt, hips, and thighs (runs in the family, although at times I wish it would run away from me ) so lifting has given them great shape (meaning they're tight and not saggy) if I'm wearing shorts or something. The problem is when I go to put on pants, it just looks like I have big legs, and since I'm short they make me look bigger than I am. I actually had to go buy pants a size bigger, because all that squatting has lifted my butt so high (think donkey) that they won't fit in my old jeans (low rise jeans just never cut it for me anyway - WAY too much junk in the trunk, lol). So, I'm hoping that A) if there is extra fat over the muscle that the extra cardio I'm doing will help to lean them out, or else B)I may have to modify the way I train lower body (light) versus upper (heavy), since lower responds so much quicker. This way I can be more balanced for my height.
So for now, in addition to the morning cardio, now that I've built mass in my legs, that I'll go back to training them twice a week (one heavy, and one light session) as this seemed to give me the best results, rather than one heavy session.
So my new schedule looks like this: M- Back/abs T- Legs (hvy) W- Arms/abs Th - Legs (light) and shoulders Fr- Chest/abs
10-30 minutes of cardio first thing in the morning
I'll try to post my meals throughout the day (that aren't coffeecake,lol)
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Post by TaQuilla on Sept 6, 2007 22:24:04 GMT -5
Well today went according to plan (except the cardio), and guess what, I didn't eat coffee cake! I worked out shoulders and a light day of legs.
Today I ate:
2 homemade ww blueberry muffins coffee
homemade strawberry yogurt
protein shake (post-workout)
organic PB&J on homemade ww bread
5 organic cheese crackers
homemade pizza (family movie night, we have pizza every Thurs)
homemade brownie
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Post by milgurl on Nov 26, 2007 8:25:39 GMT -5
Hey there, I havnt been around in a long time, but just got on and been reading your journal, you seem to be doing great! How are things still going? Well have a great day!
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