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lizzyb

Halloween was a blast both for my kids and for my hubs and myself! My two children had to be the most excited and enthusiastic trick or treaters out there....was so funny to watch the two of them going door to door.....the people on the other side of the doors were never too sure what to expect from my two......my daughter at first was competitive complaining that she was "there first" about other kids who happened to share the same doorstep....my son was perfectly content to accept just ONE piece of candy from each household, clearly my children need more practice at this, lol!! Their stamina have doubled since last year too.....by the end of the evening their bags were so heavy my husband and I had to carry them for them and I finally said if you aren't able carry your own loot, then I guess it's time to go home.....my husband and I fatigued from being the baggage handlers for Sleeping Beauty and Buzz Lightyear called it a night, lol!
Now there is waaaaaaaaaaay too MUCH candy and chips in my household!! My hubs will polish off the chocolate in no time, my kids will widdle away at the suckers and rockets and stuff......the chips? Well they haunt ME Evil or Very Mad

I love salty crunchy so this is wee bit daunting, but I know I'm stronger than all that so the threat is minimal to my resolve. What does bother me is that my darling hubbydoo keeps throwing sweets at ME every time HE goes to get some for himself.....nah, I don't eat it I just let it stay right where it falls.....I just see it as sabotaging and resent his efforts to thwart mine. I know where it's coming from though, and it's not really personal....he's just trying to feel better about eating the stuff, and if I eat it with him, then it can't be sooooo bad right, lol!!! Yeah whatever, lol!! Rolling Eyes

I have just started my program for November today as I just wasn't able to give it the time over the week-end as I had hoped for......took a couple of days rest (well sort of just not on plan and relaxed workouts) to get ready to switch gears yet again.

So here's my Day 1

1A) BB Squat: 5x8@105
1B) BB Chest Press: 5x8@75

2A) OH BB Press: 4x6@45
2B) Deadlift: 4x6@65

3A) DB Preacher Curls (singles): 5x8@15e
3B) Nose Crushers: 5x8@25

4A) Full Sit Ups: 3x30
4B) Hanging Knee Raise: 3x15
~could have gone heavier with most of these lifts.

today's cardio: 25mins (yes, you read that right, lol!!)
elliptical:10mins level 3
10mins level 6
5mins cooldown.

today's eats:
m1) oatmeal w/dried cranberries and maple syrop
m2) PWO Shake
m3) beans and rice
m4) 1/2 yam, tuna
m5) emu stew
m6) protein n' milk + glutamine b4 bed

~Goal for the winter months will be to try to maintain bodyfat at present while adding more lean 'tone'.

britbabe · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:58 am Post subject:

LizzyB - we didn't get a single knock at the door on Halloween - not one!!

Anne-Marie · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:11 am Post subject:

25 minutes of cardio? down a bit from 83 minutes!!! lol!!!

lizzyb · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject: Wk1 - Day2

britbabe neither did we.....of course we were both out with the kids so that may be why (I think hubs planned it that way just so he could keep all the sweets to himself, lol!) Wink

Anne-Marie tell me about it!! I think every fibre of my being is singing Hallelujah!! Laughing

So here's some fun, I weighed myself this morning for fun and I weighed 121lbs and my b.f read at 16.8% Amazing what difference between pms and afterwards. I don't really get hung up on the numbers though, really. I truly just go by what I see in the mirror now.....I know I'm not perfect, nor will I ever be. I could be just as happy to maintain what I have now, but I choose to continue to strive ahead and onward to see how far I can go.....I love muscle and I'm not of the genetics or the frame that can look really huge anyways.....just not the way I am made.

I gotta tell you, this month's plan is soooooo what my body needed right now!! The workouts aren't very long, but are very efficient. My cardio is the same....not long, but very efficient if you push hard enough. I have 4 days lifting and I even have 1 day prescribed to do yoga!!! Yes, that's right.......YOGA Cool

My every pore is breathing huge sighs of relief......how cool is all of this?? And the diet? I even get to eat breads, and cheese......CHEESE!!! I love cheese, lol!! Anyways......it's a real nice change just when I needed it, so a great call made by Linda, as it was her idea to slow things down a bit.....she further agreed to this after seeing my pics for October saying that I've tightened up nicely, but that my muscles were getting a little relaxed looking......I hadn't really noticed because my eyes are mainly focusing on my abs and my legs right now (my percieved trouble spots), that's why I enjoy having her perspective as she sees things I may not see.

Today's training got done in probably 90mins total..... Cool

1) Chin Ups: 3x 1.5 full chins, 3 negatives

2) DB Deep Squat and Press + Calve raise (one fluid movement): 3x10@ 12.5e,15e,15e

3A) DB Reverse Fly: 5x8@20
3B) DB Hammer Curls: 5x8@15e

Cardio same as yesterday: 25mins - elliptical - manual mode (note: max level is 8 on my machine)
10mins - level 2
10mins - level 6

today's eats:
m1) chicken breast sandwich (whole wheat bread -was out with hubs this a.m for breakkie)
m2) 1c ff yogurt + 1/2 scoop p.p
m3) ham sandwich (1slice rye bread) lettuce and tomatoe and 3/4oz cheese Razz

m4) 2 rice cakes + 1tsp p.b on each
m5) protein fortified rice
m6)...supposed to be chicken breast and tomatoe, but I'll most likely have shake and a small pc of fruit instead could even still be a tomatoe....just my tummy doesn't take to solids too well b4 bed.
5mins - level 1: cooldown

Sophie · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject:

Looking good in here!! I LOVE cheese.

lizzyb · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:32 pm Post subject: Wk1 - Day3

Yeah cheese is awesome!! Cool

Now that the weather is getting colder (much, and faster it seems), I really have little motivation to even go outdoors anymore Confused

My daughter doesn't care about the temperature so much, but I am such a wimp about the cold, lol!! It's just the transition in seasons coupled with the time change and I always seem to find myself a little out of sorts this time of year.....takes me a week or two to adjust to the time change, and when the first snow falls I regain my zeal for the outdoors.....it's just this in between stuff I don't like.

Gee today's workout was done so fast, I had to check to make sure I hadn't left anything out, lol!!

Clap Push Ups (used incline): 100 (done in 20-25increments and rest pause of 3-5secs)

A)Sissy Squats:3x10@25
A)Upright Rows:3x10@30

B) DB Kickback: 4x8@15
B) Side Delt Raises (1/4's): 4x8@20

Cardio: 20mins in total
10mins max incline (10%)
3mins: 4.5mph@5% then to 8% for 1minute more (dropped speed to 3.9)
1min: 2mph @5% (walking lunges)
2mins: 5mph@2%
1min: 2mph@2% (walking lunges)
Cooldown for 2mins
~was sweating like a pig after this little diddy! Cool

today's eats:
m1) oatmeal w/raisins and maple syrup
m2) 1/2c yam and 2oz chicken
PWO shake
m3) beans n' rice
m4) same as m2)
m5) shrimp and squash stew (ran out of red meat)
m6) protein n' warm milk + glutamine b4 bed

Gotta get some groceries done sometime soon, I'm runningout of alot of staple items. I'm going to be getting my hair cut and hi-lighted tomorrow, so maybe i can fit in groceries sometime after that on my way home, perhaps.......then hubs has the day off, so we or he will need to head into town to collect rent from some tennants and mediate a dispute btwn two tennants as well....oh joy! Saturday I'm gonna try to hook up with my mom for dinner, we usally do a pizza night with her on the week-ends, and then Sunday or Monday hubs wants to go to the cottage to drop some stuff off, and to check his work with our skylight he installed if it is still leaking (we arrived last week-end to find the kitchen ceiling had collapsed from all the water that leaked inside Shocked

). I may or may not go along for this ride.....it's getting a little tedious to me this time of year to be going up there.....can't garden anymore, grass isn't growing so can't ride the lawn tractor.....I just end up being the glorified babysitter for the kids all day long while he fadiddles with this and that......I love to play with my kids, don't get me wrong......but I don't want to be playing all the live long day either!! Wink

I can balance it out between my own needs and the kids much better at home than I can there this time of year that's for sure!!

kbeaudoin · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject:

I hear you! It's like taking the job on the road without all the conveniences...however you spell that.

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lizzyb · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject:

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Oh my, Lizzy!! That book does sound interesting!! Is it based on a true story or is it fiction?[/quote]

Helen it is a novel, but is so well written. I just finished it last night too. The author has a Phd in neurosciences and did alot of research on this topic. She tells the story from the perspective of the character who has early onset Alzheimer's. A really great read, and like I said, my grandmother lived with the disease for many years and though she is dead now, I was able to gain a different perspective on some of her behaviours at the time and a newfound compassion to what she might've been feeling and struggling with over the course of her disease. The book has an interesting ending as well, not at all what I was expecting.

Now I'm moving on to a novel with humor (The Nanny Diaries)....I'm not even 5 pages in and I am already laughing.....

lizzyb · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:23 pm Post subject:

Lol @ K!! You've got that right!

Wk2 - day1 "SEALS"

Well last week was 50/50.....meaning, I was stellar on my workouts......ahem, when I actually did my workouts I wasn't feeling on top of my game as I felt I was coming down with something, but never really got hit with anything.....then that DAMNED halloween candy I have eaten more than I should have there too, lol!! Hey, I'm not perfect either I do have those moments too.....I guess to remind me that I am human and it does help my resolve afterwards. So I got in 3 out 5 workouts last week, and 3 out 5 cardio days too......my own fault too. Not a time issue or anything like that......I simply dropped the ball. It's all good, though......now I can and have resolved to resolve on this little setback. Hence just starting up on week 2 and forget about the lost workouts of last week.......this week's stuff will certainly help to burn off that stooopid candy (so disappointed in me, I'm not usually a candy person, more of a salty crunchy gal...oh well) Anyhoo.....got my workout done today

Wk2-Day1: SEALS

1 arm pushups (elevated) using Smith: 10 per side
Jump Squats: 60secs @ 20,15,10
Horizontal Chins: 4x8
V-Sits: 60secs
Twisting Plank: 10per side
High Knees: 60secs
Repeated this circuit for 3 wave-throughs
Finished with 200 crunches

cardio: 25mins - elliptical
10mins level 3
10mins level 6
5mins level 1

eats were a little suckie today too as I missed 1 meal and one snack being on the road this afternoon. Tried to make up for losses with a shake the minute I got through the door, but who am I kidding right? Anyways.....I do resolve to 'fix' this........I haven't come this far to f*** it all up, you know what I mean?

gfraast · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:19 am Post subject:

i had to laugh about your "f*** up" post, its so true!! and i'm sure you won't, you are doing great!! just read it again: you "only" got in 3 weight workouts and 3 times cardio last week...thats 6 workouts total, and that is more than most people do! it was just one week, maybe less than you normally do, but it was great anyway!!

lizzyb · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:54 am Post subject:

lizzyb · Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject: Wk2 - Day2

Wk2 - Day2

Feeling much better this week......I swear I must've been coming down with something last week. Either that or my hormones are playing tricks on me, lol!! Not important either way, today I feel better and that's what's most important. Still a little haunted feeling over these candies and chips lurking about my house, but my DH is doing his darndest to eat them as fast as he can ( Razz

) so they shouldn't be around much longer, lol!

Was going to repeat yesterday's workout today as I have the choice to be able to do that, but I opted to alternate instead. Happy to note though, I have not cheated ONCE today with any little rockets, or Smarties or chips.....and am just chewing my s.f gum again. Some have said that s.f gum could actually be the culprit in my having sweet cravings after allowing some real sugar treats into the scene. I'm not 100% a believer of that theory....yet, but I can say it could be possible, I'm just not gonna test it out to see either Wink

On with the day's stuff: Day2

50 mtn climbers
DB Chest Press: 1x60secs@15e
Hands to Feet Ball Pass: 1x60secs
Underhand Row: 1x60secs@25
jax: 1x60secs
Spider Push-ups: 1x60secs (9sec rest pauses here and there, first time doing these babies!)
Jump Rope: 1x60secs
~Repeat Cycle 3x

today's cardio: same as yesterday - 25mins elliptical
10mins level 3
10mins level 6
5mins level 1 - cooldown

today's eats:
m1) oatmeal, raisins and maple syrup (s.f maple syrup like product, lol!!)
m2) 1/2c yam and 2oz chicken
m3) sandwich on rye bread w/ mustard and cheese and lettuce
m4) PWO - 1/2c yam and PWO shake
m5) protein fortified rice
m6) protein n' milk + glutamine b4 bed

lizzyb · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject: Wk2 - Day3

What a super day today!! I brought our kids to lunch with my Mom and a mutual girl friend of ours. We went to Red Lobster, I just love that place!! It was probably the 2nd time I've taken my kids out for lunch on my own, without my DH. It used to be more difficult when they were smaller.....my kids are 15months apart, so once upon a time ago it was double stroller for just about everything! A real hassle to go anywhere socially on my own like that, just simple needs like needing to use the fascilities was near impossible with two very little ones. Now it is much easier, allbeit still a challenge as kids are kids and all, but at least I can manage the two of these busy little machines of perpetual motion more easily. Afterwards, I took the kids back home and I let them run loose in the park for an hour or so.....they are looking pretty tuckered out now, lol!! I get a real kick out of my kids too....they are a very super friendly bunch and not shy at all with other children. They adore babies and younger ones than themselves......which to me is great. However, to the other more type B's out there, mykids can be rather off-putting and intimidating by the amount of attention they like to give other little ones. It's hard as a parent, I mean what do you do? It's hard to reign them in because I know that their little hearts are in the right place and they are not coming from a place of mal-intent. In their own eyes they are trying to be helpful, and inviting.......and adoring, lol!! And that is exactly what they are doing too......*sighs* lessons to be learned later on in school, on theplay ground I guess Rolling Eyes

Workout has gotten done and eats are quite clean and on plan so far.....what I really appreciate with my new plan is that I have a flex day with my meals....not so much a cheat 'day', but eat whatever cheat is planned for the day, and then follow the flex for the rest of the day....which means the rest of the day is pretty tight....makes you feel better for eating whatever. Mind you I didn't have any awful choices either for my lunch.

Today's workout: Day3

100 crunches
100 V-sits
100 Bicycles
Goodmornings: 1x20 @25
SLDL: 1x20@40

Today's cardio: 20mins - treadmill

10mins: 8% incline @ 3mph
3mins: 5%incline @4.2mph
1min: 8%incline @4.2mph
1min: 5%incline@ 2mph - walking lunges
2min: 2% incline@5mph
1min: 2% incline@ 2mph - walking lunges
2minute cooldown - 2mph 0% incline

today's eats:
m1) 3ew, 1 slice rye toast w/ 1tsp honey
m2) Red Lobster: grilled salmon w/ asparagus, tomatoe and rice (peppercorn sauce on fish), house salad w/ balsamic and 1/2 cheese bun
m3) protein n' water + 10 almonds
m4) PWO shake
m5) roast beef, sweet potatoe and green beans
m6) optional if not hungry.

So there you have it......

gfraast · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:31 am Post subject:

you are so motivated and straight, i love reading your posts, that motivates me!! good job!!