Valentine's Day dress...

Ok - so Friday Dan and I are going out to Peterson's which is a very expensive Steak & Seafood place here in Indy...then on Saturday we are going to Bucca Di Beppo with his Brother, Sister-in-law and his parents (it's their anniversary)...

Thing is, I tried on my "little black dress" that I realllllly wanted to wear - and while it "fits" - meaning I can put it on...it's very tight. :(

I really shouldn't wear it until I hit about 170 lbs.

But at least it's something to look forward too!

I went to spinning class tonight at the gym and it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all. later!

Positive Re-enforcement

quick and short blog:


So one of the girls at work today told me she can totally tell that I'm losing weight.

I LOVE hearing that from people - it just makes me feel so awesome!


3 more weeks until I can get on that scale. It's SO hard not to check now. but I won't!


more later!

L-Glutamine

Ok, so I went and bought a little thing of powdered L-Glutamine. This is to help out with making sure I don't lose all the benefits from resistance training.

Here is information on WHY L-Glutamine is a great choice!

L-Glutamine

off to the Vitamin Shoppe for one more....

Ok - so last night I was reading more on vitamins and I believe there is ONE more that I would like to start taking.

The Vitamin L-Glutamine. Aside from MANY great reasons to take it - the main two are this:

Exercise recovery: As stated before, L-glutamine will repair and preserve muscle tissue. Since exercise can cause microscopic tears in the muscles, which is needed to improve strength and endurance, your body will increase its demands on L-glutamine. Taking a supplement will help your body build more muscle instead of breaking tissue down for energy.

SUGAR CRAVINGS: According to Dr. Atkins’ book, Vita-Nutrient Solution (page 169), he states that when a “sugar urge emerges, take 1-2 grams of L-glutamine, preferably with some heavy cream and just a touch of nonsugar sweetener.” The immediate desire to eat something sweet will pass.” 

So I def. think this one will help - especially for the exercise recovery.

Speaking OF exercise, I am a little upset that I didn't get to go to the gym yesterday - but it's cool - my parents were here and it took FOREVER for the windows guy to get to our house (just to tell us it's too damn expensive and we can't afford new windows...)

But I really wanted to start the "STTS" workout plan - "Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday"

but - then again - I'd only just decided that on wednesday so last Sunday and Tuesday was already out...lol.

But this week is a brand new week. So, asides from cardio (which I will start doing 10 minutes of warm up + 20 minutes of 'hard' cardio after my resistance training) - I plan on really focusing on resistance training.  I got a lot of GREAT ideas from www.bodybuilding.com that I am going to be using when I go now...I love that I've finally found "plans" on what to do when I go to the gym instead of going and not really knowing what to do.

A'ight that's all for now. Later!

Weber Grill, dessert and a MALL!

Ok - so my parents came in to town today and we went downtown to the Circle Center mall and went to the Weber Grill for dinner. I had a very yummy Grilled Chicken with sundried tomatoes and spinach on the side. What sucked, though, was the bread basket on the table - which I did NOT touch but ooooooooh so wanted one.  Unlike the other couple of times we've gone out - this time was much harder NOT to touch the bread basket. But I didn't do it. :)

Also - Dan had a beer - which looked REALLY good...and my mom ordered dessert that she and my dad shared - but it was this "trio" of desserts - a chocolate cake with hot fudge - a little tiny piece of key lime pie - and some apple pie - and OHHHHHHHHHHHH my god did I want some! but nope. I didn't even touch ONE.

THEN we went into the circle center mall and entered in RIGHT at the cinnabon and like three other chocolate stores right there all in one spot. i RAN from there asap!

for some reason I'm just TOTALLY craving sweets - of course, though - being SURROUNDED by all those sweets didn't exactly help...

but I made it through. NO carbs OR sugar tonight...so I am good! :)

it does suck though...but i know it's NOT worth it!

Cinnamon, CoQ10 & Bodybuilding.com

Ok - so I've been reading a LOT about how Cinnamon can help you control your blood sugar as well as help you drop weight. I've also read about how CoQ10 gives you energy...

So I went to the Vitamin Shoppe here in town and got some MORE vitamins to take. :)

I really hope the Cinnamon helps - i love how the pills smell! lol.

But I am now taking:

Breakfast-time:

1 Women's One-a-day Multivitamin

1000 iu Vitamin D

1000 mg Fish Oil

500 mg Vitamin C

Lunchtime:

1000 mg Metformin (prescribed)

50 mg CoQ10

1000 mg Cinnamon

250 mg L-Carnitine

Dinnertime:

1000 mg Metformin (prescribed)

Actually - as for the Fish Oil - I was at the eye doctor's today and he told me that for my dry eyes issue that I have (which I now have prescribed eye drops for before I can get my left eye enhanced for lasik...) that Fish Oil and Flax Seed Oil are two essential vitamins I should be taking! I told him I already take the Fish Oil and that I eat Flax Seed as bread. :)

I have also made myself a profile over at Bodybuilding.com and I did this so I would have a place to put all of my workouts in from the gym. Plus - in the past, it's pretty much always been just cardio for me with a LITTLE bit of resistance training thrown in - but I really didn't know what I was doing. Plus - I've always liked to have a "plan of attack" so to speak when doing resistance training and that website has TONS of already made workouts as well as pics of workouts I can print off to know HOW to do them correctly. :)

As I stated in my last blog, I want to workout STTS and I figured, yesterday - why not start then? So yesterday, being Thursday - I went and did an upper body resistance training workout along with 20 minutes of cardio.

I'm also NOT TOUCHING THAT SCALE! Which is REALLY hard because my pants are getting VERY loose :) but I will NOT get on that scale until March 1st. 

that's all for now! lataz!

STTS exercise...

Ok - so I am going to challenge myself to workout "STTS" - meaning for the next THRE weeks, I will ONLY work out on:



Sunday

Tuesday

Thursday

Saturday



That is 4x/week and that will give me the 12 days needed to meet my goal this month. I REALLY hope I can do it!

exercise and vitamins

Ok - so I've been taking a multi-vitamin for one of the first times in my adult life for a few weeks now, and this past week I've also introduced the following as well:

1000 mg Fish Oil (w/Vitamin E)
1000 mg Vitamin D
500 mg Vitamin C

these three are takin at breakfast with the Multivitamin.

Then between lunch and dinner, around 3 or so, I'm taking
L-Carnatine 500 mg with 10 mg Vitamin B6

not to mention, of course, my prescribed Metformin at 2000 mg/day (2 500 mg at lunch and 2 at dinner)

ANYWAYS...my multivitamin has the following in it:

Supplement Facts
Serving Size: One tablet
Amount Per Serving
% Daily Value
Vitamin A (10% as beta-carotene) - 2500 IU - 50%
Vitamin C - 60 mg -100%
Vitamin D - 800 IU - 200%
Vitamin E - 30 IU - 100%
Vitamin K - 25 mcg - 31%
Thiamin (B1) - 2.4 mg - 160%
Riboflavin (B2) - 2.7 mg - 159%
Niacin - 10 mg - 50%
Vitamin B6 - 3.2 mg - 160%
Folic Acid - 400 mcg - 100%
Vitamin B12 - 9.5 mcg - 158%
Biotin - 30 mcg - 10%
Pantothenic Acid - 5 mg - 50%
Calcium (elemental) - 300 mg - 30%
Iron - 18 mg - 100%
Magnesium - 50 mg - 13%
Zinc - 15 mg - 100%
Selenium - 20 mcg - 29%
Copper - 2 mg - 100%
Manganese - 2 mg - 100%
Chromium - 120 mcg - 100%
Guarana Blend: Guarana Seed (powder & extract), Caffeine - 180 mg

SO ANYWAYS...
I took all my vitamins this morning BEFORE eating and this happened like the second day I was taking JUST the multivitamin, but because I hadn't eaten yet - it only took a few minutes and yeah...it came right back up! ugh. :(

so I had to call in late to work and I let my stomach settle down a bit before I could eat half of my breakfast (as Petey, our pug, ate the other half when i wasn't watching! lol.)...

but yeah. so that's my vitamin post for the day. I LIKE the fact that I'm taking vitamins, but I have to learn how/when to take them.

EXERCISE

Ok - so exercise...I normally love exercise, when I'm doing it - but man, it takes me a LOT to get motivated to actually get my ass TO the gym at night. :(

I haven't gone in over a week and looking at my exercise blog for the year so far, it's been 1 month and 4 days into the year and I've only exercised 11 days out of 34 so far.

SO. I am challenging myself in February to try and hit at LEAST 12 days of exercise this month.
And consiering February is only 28 days and we're already in 4 days...that's only 24 days left in the month - so that's every other day of exercise. I CAN do it.

a'ight - i need to get to work.

LATERZ!!

NO-SCALE CHALLENGE

Ok, so it is Tuesday February 3, 2009.

I weighed in on saturday and I was down 8 pounds :D!!!

However - I have decided, I am NOT going to weigh myself for one month. February is the shortest month of the year, so I can do this for 4 weeks.

I've put my scale high up in my hall closet and I'm NOT allowing myself to weigh in again until Sunday March 1, 2009.

I'll let you know how it goes! :D

"flax seed bun" OMG!!!

ok - so i was making burgers tonight for dinner and eating a burger with a fork is getting "old" - i just really felt like I needed SOMETHING to put the burger between...so I googled and found this recipe on recipezaar:

VERY LOW CARB BUN

Here are pics of what my dinner looked like tonight:

Yeah - this is ABSOLUTELY a new "staple" in my low-carb diet...of course, I do think though that I'm going to be "good" and only allow myself this like maybe every OTHER day and only ONCE a day...it's pretty much PURE fiber as it is made from FlaxSeed but omg. I'm SO happy! :)