Muncie is a Mean Man

I just got finished training with Muncie.  He thinks I'm going to call him mean.  He's right.

Leg raises.
Power walk around the gym 5x.
Jumping jacks.
Power walk around the gym 5x.
Squats.
Power walk around the gym with 2lb weights 5x.
Jumping jacks.
Leg raises.
Power walk around the gym with 2lb weights 10x
Squats.
4 rounds in the ring
Power walk around the gym with 2lb weights 12x
Jumping jacks
Power walk around the gym with 2lb weights 12x

Did you see that?  I'm sure you missed it.  4 ROUNDS IN THE RING.  I got in the RING today.  Granted, it was for training and not sparring, but that's not the point.  I. WAS. IN. THE. RING.  I screwed up a couple of times and got jumping jacks for punishment.  Throwing punches in the ring, cool.  Jumping jacks in the ring, not so much.

It was between rounds that Muncie told me that he knew I was going to call him mean.  "But I'm being mean for your own good," he said.  "I definitely am going to call you mean," I told him.

"But I bet I'll be giving you a big hug in 30 days."

I'm Back!

I've been away for a while.  Alright, It's been over a year.  I could make up a thousand reasons, but there is only one:  I fell off.  I was still working out for a while since my last post, but then I just . . . fell  off.

In the meanwhile, I have managed to carefully gain back 5 of the pounds I'd lost.  I've been going hard, but not the way I should be, so I'm determined once more to evolve into living a more productive and healthier lifestyle.  Feh, you say?  It's true.  I joined an organic food & veggie co-op.  But that's not all.

I joined a boxing gym.  Not a fancy-shmancy boxing gym, but a boxing gym with stinky boys & men (and some stinky girls, too), a ring in the middle and no air conditioning.  A boxing gym that held Golden Gloves this past Friday night.  In other words, a real boxing gym.  Don't get it twisted:  you will NOT see me headlining Golden Gloves next year.  I've gotten used to this face over the last 44 years and I kind of like it the way it is --  you know, lump free.  I'm strictly there for the training and workout.

And speaking of workout, Doc -- one of the trainers -- went easy on me this morning and wiped me out.  He and I have different definitions of easy.  In the scheme of things, I suppose he was going easy on me, but I'm out of shape and it most definitely did not feel easy.

But I had such a good time, I'm going back tomorrow after work.  I'm a glutton for punishment, what can I tell you.

Day 30 -- 3/29

Well, I'm 1/3 of the way through my 90-day self-challenge and generally I'm feeling good, but jeez did I struggle to get through my workout this morning.  Like I've said before, normally after the first 15 mins I go into a zone and I'm good to go, but this morning was a real mental struggle.  I'm feeling very tired and, frankly, I'm looking forward to taking tomorrow off from the gym.  

I keep a few down-size articles of clothing in the closet that I try on every couple of weeks to see if I can get in them.  No good news on that front, but I'm using them to gauge my ultimate progress since pounds lost does not necessarily define size(s) lost.  Because I didn't take body measurements when I started, I can't tell you how many inches I've lost, or how much fat I've lost vs. how much muscle I've gained (which skews the pounds lost results), but the clothes, however, will let me know whether or I'm on the right track.

So what did I eat today?

• Water: 20 oz
• Multigrain oatmeal with a cup of coffee.  About 300 cals.
• Baked chicken breast stuffed with veggies with pepperjack cheese on top.  About 550 cals.
• Banana-coconut protein smoothie.  About 250 cals.
• Whole grain pasta with spaghetti sauce, no meat.  About 350 cals.

Total of 1450 cals less the 343 cals I burned off (not including weights) = 1107 net cals.

Day 29 -- 3/28

Today was weigh-in day and I'm DOING MY DISCO DANCE!  2 pounds down!   *oooooooo oooooooo*

So, at least for now, whatever I'm doing is working right.  I plan on making an adjustment to my workout come April 1st.  I don't want my body to get too used to doing the same thing all the time - then it just gets easy.  Exactly what that adjustment will be, I'm not sure, but I'm researching my options.  Stay tuned!

I was running a little late this morning and wanted to make sure I got the weights in, so I cut the cardio to 20 minutes.  While I still got a workout, 20 minutes always leaves me feeling like I didn't go hard enough.

So what did I eat today?

• Water: 20oz
• Multigrain oatmeal with a cup of coffee. About 300 cals.
• A piece of brownie.  About 125 cals.
• 1 Girl Scout Samoa cookie.  About 70 cals.
• Garden vegetable lasagne.  About 300 cals.
• 1 medium banana.  About 120 cals.
• Baked chicken breast stuffed with baby spinach, baby bok choy, mushrooms & roasted red peppers, topped with cheddar cheese.  About 550 cals.

Total of 1465 cals less the 241 I worked off (not including weights) = 1224 net cals.

Total pounds lost since going hard =

Days 27 & 28 -- 3/26 & 3/27

Saturday, 3/26 --

No gym today, but that doesn't mean I wasn't working out.  Spent the day running up & down the stairs doing laundry, cleaning up & then driving The Boy to his gig. Relatively uneventful day, but I'm not mad about it. :)

So what did I eat today?

• Coffee.  About 100 cals.
• Golden flax cereal with 1/2 banana in almond milk.  About 350 cals.
• Banana protein smoothie with almond milk.  About 250 cals.
• Two Girl Scout Samoa cookies.  About 140 cals.
• Brown rice with Chinese mixed vegetables in brown sauce.  About 400 cals.

Total of 1240 cals.

Sunday, 3/27 --

I didn't get to bed until around 2:30am, so I slept in until around 10am or so.  After running out to tend to some beauty stuff, I came back and made an absolutely delicious breakfast sandwich of 1 egg & bacon on Tuscan pane.  For the record (and I can't say it enough), everything is better with bacon.  EVERYTHING.

The Man and I hit the gym this afternoon, cardio & weights, but what was cool was that while I was waiting for him to finish his weight training so we could go for a swim, I went back on the elliptical trainer and put in an extra 10 minutes of light work to kill  time.  I'd never have done that before, but I'm trying to really get into this.  If I didn't think it'd be such a decorating faux pas, I'd put an elliptical trainer in my living room.

So what did I eat today?

• Egg & bacon sandwich on pan-seared Tuscan pane.  About 550 cals.
• Coffee.  About 100 cals.
• Banana protein smoothie in Coconut Dream.  About 250 cals.
• Arroz moro, tostones y chicharron de pollo.  No idea, but going to realistically guess about 1200 cals.

Total of 2100 cals. less the 439 cals. I burned off (not including weights or swimming) = 1661 net cals.

Day 26 -- 3/25

*Note:  I completely forgot to go live with this post!

I got my workout in this morning and I'm feeling good, although I am so incredibly glad the weekend is here. I have a lot of grand plans about what I'm going to do this weekend, most of which I'm pretty sure will not get done.  You know how it is -- something always comes up.  What will get done, however, is shuttling around The Boy.  He's a DJ and he's got 2 parties this weekend.  At 15, we're still his primary mode of transportation, so when he has a gig, so do we.  Check him out on on Facebook (CheeseTheGrate). He frequently does live streams, so be sure to tune in.

So what did I eat today?

• Ginger-almond granola in almond milk (thought I was going to say multigrain oatmeal, didntcha?  HA!)  About 300 cals.
• Cup of coffee.  About 100 cals.
• Leftover Thai vegetable gyoza & chicken cilantro wonton.  About 350 cals.
• 1 medium banana.  About 120 cals.
• 2 Girl Scout Samoa cookies.  About 140 cals.
• Turkey & swiss cheese wrap with lettuce, tomato, black olives, oil & vinegar.  About 500 cals.

Total of 1510 cals. less the 342 I burned off this morning (not including weight training) = 1168 net cals.

Day 25 -- 3/24

As always, I was sooooooooo tired this morning.  I don't mind the weight training so much, but ramping myself up to do the cardio is always the trick.  I keep telling myself, "It's only a half an hour . . .".  Once I get started, I'm pretty ok.  It's just the getting started part.

Well, not only did I get it done, but I made a bit of a change.  Remember how I've been changing levels every 3 minutes?  Today, I changed level every minute, like so:  L1 for 3 mins (warm-up), L3, L5, L7, L9, back down to L3, L5, L7, L9, repeated until the workout was over.  First of all, I think only went up to level 9 once this whole time, but hitting it in 1 minute increments was hard, but ultimately manageable.  Best of all, I burned off even more calories than the way I was doing it before. *fist pump*

I altered my weight workout as well.  On each set, I started off with my regular weight for that particular exercise and did 15 reps.  The next set, I upped it to the next weight (10 or 20 pounds depending on the machine) and did 10 reps.  Then I went up one more weight again and did 8 reps.  I'm feeling it today, so it worked :)

So what did I eat today?

• Water:  16.9 oz.
• Multigrain oatmeal with a cup of coffee.  About 300 cals.
• 2 chicken patties on 1 slice of toasted Tuscan pane with lettuce.  About 425 cals.
• 1 medium banana.  About 120 cals.
• 1 tiny piece of a Girl Scout Samoa.  About 25 cals.
• Thai vegetable gyoza and chicken cilantro mini wontons with dipping sauce.  About 450 cals.

Total of 1370 cals. less the 344 cals. I burned off (not including the weight training) = 1026 net cals.