Monday: 6 vita tops (600), cheese wrap (210), recovery formula (220), Pistacchios (180), 8 oz chicken tenderloins (220), 1420 total calories consumed, 2995 calories burned, 1575 deficit
Tuesday: 8 oz apple (133), 15 oz banana (392), Vitatop (100), had a grilled chicken sandwhich and fruit cup at a restaurant, giving it IHOP's caloric equivalent (440), cheese wrap (210), recovery formula (220), couscous (300), chicken tenderloins (110), total 1905 total calories consumed, 2577 calories burned, 672 deficit
Wednesday: 16 oz apple (267), 15 oz banana (392), beer (110), 3 oz champagne (63), 10 slices lemon (27), 2 recovery formula (440), had grilled chicken sandwhich and turkey sandwhich, going to call is 960 calories, although it's probably much much less, Dove dark chocolate (42), 2301 total calories consumed, 3341 calories burned, 1040 deficit
Thursday: 3 protein bars (630), 16 oz apple (267), 7.5 oz banana (196), 2 Dove Dark Chocolate (84), 3 egg whites (48), 2 Flatout Bread (180), peanuts (301), 2 slices wheat bread (130), total 1836 calories consumed, 3175 calories burned, 1339 deficit
Friday: 8 oz apple (133), 12 oz banana (312), Dove dark chocolate (42), 3 cheese wraps (450), Yogurt with nuts (estimating 400 calories), recovery powder (220), couscous (600), total 2157 calories consumed, 2775 calories burned, 618 deficit.
Saturday: 15 oz banana (390),
5244 deficit in 5 days, hitting goal, and I was out and about in a different state without supermarkets, so I'm calling it a win.
Eventful week. Let's take it a day at a time, a lot of stuff to write about.
SUNDAY: Schwinn Indoor Cycle training. I'll go ahead and describe the day then write my thoughts on it. It was pretty much split between sitting on the floor and on the bike. We learned how to quick fit the bike and how to do a fuller fit, and after the fuller fit where they set me up to numbers that fit me well I discovered I had been using the right numbers after all. Learned a trick where the pedals go at 3 and 9 and you put your heel flush with the pedal and use a washer to make sure the knee and the middle of the pedal are on a straight line. We had about a ride and a half and the rest of the time was bookwork.
Here's one of the most important lessons I learned in that class. You may be the only compliment that person gets the whole week. You never know when you'll have the opportunity, the gift really, to change someone's life. We don't give ourselves credit for all the power we have in creating changing in the world. Just that simple concept for being grateful for having the chance to someone's life and be that one positive person they can count on week after week.
During the second ride the trainer did one of the best cycle classes I've ever seen. She likened going up a hill in spin as going through a problem in life. You can either go up the hill or around it, but once you climb that first hill, you find it in you to go another hill, and yet another, and another, and slowly you become someone who goes up hills instead of around them, and in the same token you become someone who faces problems head on instead of ignoring them, and this whole philosophy jibes with me. Also the whole gym/life parallel.
She also did something else that was really cool, and that was to allow us to use the song right before the cool down to do whatever we wanted, to go into our heads, which I thought was perfect after that particular class, and I enjoyed having that time to myself in class with everyone around me.
Those were the main things I got out of cycle, and oh, the best song in the world, Alive by Meatloaf (and I hear it's a total change in style for him). That has become my life anthem.
But the whole you can be the only compliment that person hears that week, that was powerful. And the second ride reenergized my drive to keep going up all the time.
On to the rest of the week. Boot Camp gets blurry by now so I really will be better about updating it daily. This week was just crazy with three certifications in an eight day period. So I'm not going to have as detailed BC impressions. But a highlight of the week is that I ran a mile in 9:25. Going for under 9 on Monday. On Friday we went up hills with a tire tied behind our back and I made it all the way to the top. That was nice. I had to sit down on the way back and I want to work on getting down rocky hills (small pebbles all over) standing without falling, I have a fear of slipping on rocks (since I was little).
The Zumba trip was absolutely totally awesome and yet another life-changing experience. And I find myself calling every day a life-changing experience but I think this whole journey has changed me in a way that I just find lessons in everyday things, and I'm more open to life period, so maybe I'm just attracting them (as much as I think The Laws of Attraction is a bogus concept). We left Tuesday afternoon and got there around 7p (left around 2p). Unloaded and went to dinner.
In this trip I had to eat out a lot. And it really is a whole change in mentality. When I get to my goal weight and muscle I'm going to have to teach myself to eat normally, and even that is going to be an adjustment. But I was happy how the trip turned out food-wise without a refrigerator or supermarkets. Tuesday I had a grilled chicken sandwhich and fruit bowl for dinner. I was blown away in that restaurants that offer fruit bowls will most of the time allow you to substitute your fries with fruit. That was awesome. On Wednesday I had a lunch of a turkey sandwhich and for dinner I had a grilled chicken sandwhich. On Thursday I had a breakfast of three egg whites with two slices of wheat bread and black coffee with Splenda which was wonderful. Any meals not mentioned were protein bars, apples, bananas, my usual fare. Even had alcohol, 3 oz champagne and 2 55 calorie beers.
On Wednesday we spent all day in the training then that night we went to the beach and I climbed some rocks. On Thursday morning back to the beach and climbing some more rocks and beach running and a lot of walking. The view was amazing. We had breakfast on Thursday morning overlooking the ocean and that breathtaking. I enjoyed every second of that trip.
The training itself was great and it really drove home how simple Zumba is to teach and to choreograph, and how we shouldn't make it a difficult process or do difficult choreography. Learned how to dissect a song. Took it with the creator of Zumba, Beto, and I got two main things out of that training: If you doubt, you die. Take life by the horns. And that saying helped me in a seminar I had Friday night (more on that later). The other one is how you can take any exercise you do in class and do it halfsies or do it all the way and to just go all the way on it, so that's just reinforcing a message I've been getting a lot lately. Now I take gym classes boot camp style, and I go all out of them. I give it my all just for the warmup and it's all I can do now to get through the class because I'm not reserving anything.
But here's the best thing that training gave to me. I was on the stage with a group of people, and each of us picked a move, and there were over 100 people down there following my one move. During AFAA I lost my fear of performing in front of people. During Zumba, I gained a love for it. I want more of that. And I think it was great to have AFAA first and then Zumba. EVERYTHING I've done has built up to the next thing and I have gotten things just when I needed them.
On Friday night I went to a BodyJam and BodyAttack info seminar where LVAC checks you out and then tells you if you want to teach for them. For some reason it seems that LVAC is more touchy-feeling with the whole changing lives things than 24HF is. They talked and what they said is what I say in this blog, they speak my language. But 24HF will always a special place in my heart. And we got into mini-groups and we had to introduce ourselves and lately I still get nervous but something switches on and I get over it and go. They asked me why I wanted to teach and I gave them a mini version of how I got started and how group classes changed my life (I conveniently left out I was a 24HF girl) and it was great, it just flowed out.
So that catches us up to the present. willPower and Grace training Sunday. Taking Saturday and Sunday off from work. That finishes the trainings for now (and hopefully restarts in April with both Les Mills ones (the LVAC ones)). I will be better in writing about Boot Camp daily because I really do learn something each day and I love it.
Started ChaLean Extreme Deluxe yesterday with cyber-friend Christina (FB friend). Looking forward to doing it with someone. Don't like the first routine of 9, but sticking with it. Time to build some muscle. Since 3/1 not only did I not lose any weight, I gained 2.5 lbs, up to 149 lbs right now.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Saturday morning brought Boot Camp. We ran up and down a hill for 50 minutes, some of it backwards, crab crawls, bear crawls, etc. Then I threw around a weighted tube for awhile, used a heavy sandbag for dead lifts, did skull crushers with a 15 lb weight, and did chest presses and flyes with 2 15-lb weights. Boot camp has shown me that I can lift more than I can. Saturday Boot Camp always wears me out more than M-F boot camp. Then I went to Julie's TKB, which was awesome. First time with her, but I had heard wonderful things about her, and they were true. Then slept a little, then went to see Clint Holmes perform, then off to bed to prepare for Sunday's training. CED (ChaLean Extreme Deluxe) had a rest day for Saturday. Today Sunday I was at an all-day training for willPower and Grace, and tonight I do CED Burn Circuit Two and thinking about doing a Zumba.
So I went to the person who decides who teaches at 24HF and asked her how much lead time she needed to schedule an audition, and she said that they had a surplus of instructors right now and not really hiring and there would be no point in auditioning if I can't get classes and to take my time preparing. So pretty much "Don't bother." So there's the second training out of five that finds me crying in the bathroom. I swear I didn't used to be this emotional before.
There's one thing that hasn't changed about me. I hate being told no. Can't stand it. And it pisses me off more than anything in the whole entire world. You want me determined to do something no matter what? Tell me I can't do it. So now I have to prepare the most kickass, mind-blowing cycle class in the history of the world and give her an audition she won't soon forget. I'm going to create a class so special, she will have no choice but to hire me. Now all that's left is to create such a class. I'm blessed in that Denise, who did our training, has agreed to mentor me from Utah. Will even tape myself doing a class (by myself) and uploading it to YouTube for her to critique. I love the Internet.
So I learned two things about me today, and in the spirit of truthfulness, here they are. Maybe they will help somebody else. I never said I was doing things right, the purpose of this blog has always been to share the experience, good or bad. It's a window to what someone went through in a particular moment in time. I'll start with the second thing because it was the most striking. I've been feeling people pulling away, and I haven't been able to figure out why. And someone told me today that it was because I act with fitness like someone acts with a new boyfriend - I want to tell everybody every single detail about it. And to draw people to you you talk to them about themselves, not you. So maybe I've been oversharing on Facebook and in real life. I almost feel like I should post a message on Facebook apologizing. So from now on this blog is going to be my outlet for all my fitness endeavors and I'm going to stop posting about it on Facebook and talking about it, and I'm going to start focusing on other people. Thanks Rubi for telling me what other people have probably been thinking for a while and something I honestly didn't realize myself until it was pointed out to me. I make a commitment to myself to change that starting right now.
The other thing I learned is that maybe I have a problem with exercise. Someone told me I should slow down for a while and I told him I couldn't, that I loved my three hours of exercise a day, and he said that if I couldn't do that then maybe I have a problem. Also said I shouldn't be having 1K deficits, but I decided to have them anyway. He's a personal trainer in fantastic shape.
That's the one theme. I don't know if I'm doing things right or wrong, but they're my choice and the way I chose to do it and I always want to have control over my own body.
Sunday was the training for willPower and Grace. I am so not in shape. That training was described as cardio for mind-body people but I think it should be described as mind-body for cardio people. I hate yoga and don't care for Pilates but I could embrace wP&G. Going to do it on my two CED rest days and Sundays, and hopefully I get better. I really enjoyed the class and I got a class on DVD as part of the program. The message I got from it was I AM. Doesn't matter where you are of who you are, embrace it. And pay attention to how you act when you don't think people are looking. Not as life-changing as cycle, AFAA, or Zumba, but gave me a mind-body class I can do and a message of positiveness.
