My Best Body Ever – Week 4 – the power outage!

Week 3

Week 2

Week 1

The start

I can not believe my 5k is 7 days and my photo shoot is in 14 days!!!  I am freaking out!

Ok people so here are the new stats!!! No real physical changes, but I feel a lot stronger… I did crack a few days – so I guess I’m just glad nothing moved upwards!

Date Oct 10,201……Oct 15…….Oct 21……Oct 28

Weight 136.8………….134.0……132.4……same
neck 12″………………..12″………same……same
Chest 33″………………33……….same……same
Waist 27.5″…………..27…………….26……same
2 below 32″…………..31…………….30……same
Hips 37.5″…………….37…………same……same
Thighs – 22.5″………22……….…same……same
Calf 14.5″…………….14.25………same……same
biceps flex 11.75″…11.50…..……same……same

Week 1                 End of Wk 2                 End of Wk 3

This is me today – end of week 3….. time to get serious!

Plan for this upcoming week …

Excercise: I really need to pick things up, I just hope my body will hold up…

  • Saturday – 3 mile road run
  • Sunday – Hot Yoga
  • Monday – 40 min workout by candle light / PM Hot Yoga
  • Tuesday – 20 mins cardio on bikeIntervals with a jog to finish three miles / PM Hot Yoga
  • Wednesday – 20 min pre workout and bootcamp / PM Hot Yoga-30 mins only
  • Thursday – Jog at work / PM Hot Yoga
  • Friday – 20 min pre workout and bootcamp – PM- fly to Chicago for 5k!!

Food over the next week is going to be SUPER tight… Will work on keeping “positive” 😉

Saturday – Got up and got in my ab workout and then my long run and it felt good! Food breakfast – egg whites and asparagus, am snack green smoothie, lunch 4 oz of salmon and salad, Dinner – went to the outback – had a salad, steak and green beans – then some sugar-free coffee ice cream for dessert.

Sunday – Well it’s Sunday and I am here at work, needed to get some end of month stuff done, but as you can see I’m taking care of the really important stuff first 😉    
So last night about 8pm we lost power…. we got NAILED by the snow, this whole area is a complete mess – trees are just down all over the place – I’m afraid to say this could be a 5 day problem for us… WTH! 
Food is going to be challenging with no power but I did get up made some green beans and egg whites on my gas grill :thumbup: I feel kinda McIverish … also made coffee and Mark some pancakes on it… Lunch – we took my aunt out to a Chinese restaurant, but I got steamed green beans, some brown rice and Chicken on a stick – Dinner will probably be salmon and salad – again, meat cooked outside….          

Exercise today – well first shoveled the drive way and then went to hot yoga – power was on in the next town over…

Any way that is it – thank goodness for our gas insert – we have sheets hanging off the doorway to the living room to keep the heat in, and am charging up my portable dvd player…It’s always fun for about a day – but after that …. oy – Wish me luck!

Monday – Ok I guess mother nature didn’t get her treat from the east coast so she played a big trick on us …. Still no power as of this morning…

Dinner last night was a turkey burger on the grill and a big salad which I made by candle light… My 80 year old aunt slept down stairs on our couch – we don’t have heat, but we do have a gas insert in our living room… She is in a trailer and you know it had to be cold for her to ask for help …. brrr

 ladies out there with a bag full of excuses 😉  – I’m not buying them anymore. I got up this morning and worked out by candle light, if you really want something you WILL pull out all the stops to get it done… Oh and since there was no boot camp this morning, Mark spiced up my workout – :yikes: I wasn’t chilly for long…

Food today… made egg whites and green beans on our gas bbq – it has a side burner 😉 am snack will be green smoothie – brought all ingredients  including the blender to work… lunch shrimp and salad, pm snack salad and almonds, dinner will be chicken on the grill and salad… I don’t think we will have power until Wednesday…. but keep your fingers crossed for us ok :smilewinkgrin: Tonight will go to hot yoga again…. feels really good in this cold weather and I might actually be starting to like it – I think it’s one of those things you have to grow to love….

Well that is it for today – this darn weather is NOT going to break me!! 

UPDATE: OK – no carbs with lunch is not good for me – cracked and ate 8 – snack well cookies this afternoon…. tomorrow adding back in 1/3 cup quinoa!    

Tuesday – Ok – I have recovered from my little slip up yesterday… need to stop beating myself up… this week has been very stressful with the power outage and frustration of my plan getting a tad messed up…. So disappointing –  I did not get to yoga last night because I got stuck in trick or treating traffic… went home ate and went up to the mall just to get out of the house – the good news is I got one x-mas gift bought :thumbup:

Today – wahhh – still no power… got up and did about 20 mins on Mark’s wind bike thingy, again, by candle light –  then had to get lunch etc ready and came to work to take a shower… I am a little cranky – mainly because my workouts are getting messed up… might try to get out for a walk today and WILL be going to hot yoga tonight….

Food – green beans and egg whites, green smoothie, shrimp and salad with x-tra veggies, apple and almonds and dinner – not sure yet…. will report back – Ugh – I’m back and not happy – I need to have another pow wow with my Trainer…. I cracked again today – this time cherry pop tarts!  I know – I NEVER eat that stuff – at this rate I’m going to gain 10 lbs by next week … I know my body and mind are stressed by this power outage, my body is craving carbs and my mind is too tired to argue… I need to find some middle ground and fast – lord, please let our power come back on tonight!!! Oh and looks like dinner will be some whey protein and water!

Note: I figured out what happened – I was walking by a box of donuts all day – and I knew there were jelly in there which I LOVE – but never eat…. subconscious won…. poo! …. tomorrow I will be better equipt – and lady at work stop bringing in junk and putting it on the table behind me – your killing healthy LeeAnne!! 

Wednesday – My resolve is dwindling…. last night got home at 6 pm and since we didn’t have any food at the house, I took Mark out to eat – went to Longhorns and had Salmon asparagus and veggies – I so wanted french fries…. No yoga again last night, tough night sleeping last night, the house was pretty cold – aunt Joan down stairs on the couch again, so needless to say I’m pretty tired today…. tried to workout, but honestly my body is shot and I just didn’t have it in me… got through one set and hung up my towel. Was feeling very disappointed in myself, but you know what – sometime I need to give myself a break – I am only human right??

Today I have a new plan as far as food goes, which is I’m adding an apple to my salad and my PM snack includes cashews ( a more satisfying nut  ), raisins and some dk choc…. For dinner I have left over salmon, asparagus and vegetable from dinner last night which I will eat around 5pm so by the time I get to hot yoga, it will be digested..

Also, thinking about trying to push the photo shoot out – my trainer said the pop tarts could have pushed me back two days – oh and the 8 cookies the day before…  if I had know that I wouldn’t have touched them with a ten foot pole… Regardless the photo-shoot will be done before thanksgiving…. going to call today and see what my options are… 

Update: just found out the 11th is a go for Photo shoot… However – I will have one last final photo on Thursday November 24th for my Best Body Ever photo.. 

Thursday – Well it finally happened – full melt down… went to hot yoga last night and really – I just don’t like it…so I just left after the first 30 mins – not sure why I force myself to do things I just don’t enjoy – maybe it’s something I can’t mentally handle after a day at work, because on Sunday’s it’s not so bad… anyway – I am back at day 1 on all fronts – but today is a new day so I’m not going to sweat it – Plus I did finally get some sleep last night – feeling a bit human today :thumbup:  

On the power outage front – We still don’t have any… it has to be today right??  

Food today – egg whites and asparagus, green smoothie, 1/4 sliced almonds and a apple in my salad, pm raisins and 1 oz of cashews with some dk choc…. dinner – hmmmm not sure – no food in the house – everything in the fridge and freezer had to be tossed –  so we may have to go out – but I will eat clean… 

Exercise – brought my stuff into work so I can go for a run outside – I need to keep myself ready for Saturdays 5k… hoping to still be able to get 2 miles in without too much of a struggle – I hoping the crowd will get me through the end along with some good music. 

Update: OMG!! Just got our power back on!! So dinner tonight will be at home and will be chicken tenders and cauliflower rice!!

Friday – Wow – what a week!  Talk about having ups and downs.. This power outage was a killer! With no power food and exercise didn’t go exactly as planned, but I made it through… so here are my official stats for week 4.
 
Date Oct 10,201……Oct 15…….Oct 21……Oct 28…Nov 4

Weight 136.8………….134.0……132.4……same…..133.4 +1
neck 12″………………..12″………same……same
Chest 33″………………33……….same……same
Waist 27.5″…………..27…………….26……same
2 below 32″…………..31…………….30……same
Hips 37.5″…………….37…………same……same……..36.75
Thighs – 22.5″………22……….…same……same……..21.50
Calf 14.5″…………….14.25………same……same
biceps flex 11.75″…11.50…..……same……same

As you can see I am actually up a pound, which I thought might be the case, but I lost 1.25 inches – interesting… I may have lost some off the thigh last week and measured wrong, but who knows – I will take it regardless   Well that is it for week 4, week 5 is going to be super tight – my photo shoot is next Friday!! Yikes!!

 

  
  
  
  
  
 
  

 

  

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