All Smiles

I just love that picture! It makes me laugh every time! Hope everyone else is enjoying their Saturday as much as I am! Fast 6 was AMAZEBALLS!!!!

So yesterday's workout went pretty well! I was afraid I wasn't gonna make myself go to the gym, but when my boss let us leave at 3:30 I got a huge burst of energy and thought to myself "Let's do this!" I hit the gym and there was hardly anyone there! Which was totes awesome because I hate going to the free weights section when all those muscle heads are there. Definitely makes me feel super inadequate and like they're all judging me. I'm all like "What are you still doin' here muscle man...you're done!"

Anyway, I've been doing a bunch of research lately on weight training and what works best. I've really gotten into the Tabata training. Has anyone ever heard of that? Basically its doing a group of exercises like 4 or 5 in intervals and then moving on to the next groups then repeat. But its 20 secs doing the exercise 10 secs off. It's a great way to keep your muscles burning and really gets you a great workout because you are basically moving non stop for those two to three minutes even when you aren't performing the reps because your switching your weights out.

This was from my workout Friday which consisted of 13 minutes walking/running on the treadmill and the rest of the time lifting weights.

My weight workout looked like this:

Total Arms:

20 secs on, 10 secs rest, 3 x through resting 2 mins between rounds

Seated Shoulder Press - 10lb dumbbells

Tricep Kick Back R - 8 lb

Tricep Kick Back L - 8 lb

Lateral Raises - 5 lb

One Arm Row R - 10 lb

One Arm Row L - 10 lb

Front Raises - 5 lb

Reverse Fly - 5 lb

Upright Row - 10 lb

Twisting Hammer Curls - 10 lb

Skull Crushers - 15lb (just one dumbbell not both)

Arm Circles - 3 lb

OOOOOOOOO it burned so good! I downloaded an interval timer app on my phone, set it to 10 secs rest, 20 secs work. The 10 secs gave me just enough time to switch weights or positions and get back to work!

This awesome calorie burn was from this morning! Woke up and started my day with a 2 mile walk. My time was a little slower than last time. But my goal is to beat my time every time I walk around the lake.

Not a bad time/pace for a newbie. I went back to the house and started my kickboxing session with my girl Jillian. But I could only get about 11 out of the 20 minutes done, I was SOOOO tired and still had my 75 squats to do (I'm doing an awesome 200/30 day squats challenge). I needed to have read this first:

So this squat challenge is pretty awesome. I've done one before but it was all regular squats. This one made way more sense to me because it is 5 different types of squats and that will help keep your body guessing. The 5 are: narrow squats, narrow squat with booty kick, regular squat, regular squat with side leg lift, and sumo squat. If you interested in doing it yourself you can find it here! Trust me it works! Super sore at first, but it's definitely getting better and going to be totally worth it! 

Until next time!

It's Friday Friday, Gotta Get Down on Friday!!!

SOOOOOOOOOO glad it's Friday!! I'm definitely a workin' for the weekend kinda gal. It has been a long week. 

But my honey and I have plans to go see Fast 6 tomorrow and then I would LOVE to hit up the jewelry store to see about having my wedding bands made (mmmhhmmm Trevor I know your reading this, hint hint, nudge nudge :) )

Well yesterday wasn't the best diet or exercise wise. I had Ghenghis Grill for lunch which we all know is loaded with sodium. Then had a nice big bowl of ice cream for dessert. But I thought no big deal I'll just work it off tonight. Then I remembered :

But  girl can try right???? Well not really but whatevs. So I get started with my workout, it was a light day, and about 15 minutes into it, my HRM quits reading my HR. I didn't get the strap wet enough to make a good connection. So i fiddled with that for a good 8 minutes then picked it up and did round two. 

All in all I only burned 210 calories. Which isn't great but, at least I got something done right?

All I can do now, is get back to it tonight and get a better workout in. I have a much better one planned for today, so I'll probably readjust yesterdays the next time I do it and add more to it.

It's a learning process. And it's only been 3 consecutive days of working out. I'm trying and I'm moving and that's really all I can ask of myself. 

Am I disappointed? Heck ya, I wanted a bigger calorie burn! But I got something done, I didn't just sit on my butt then go to bed. 

So I'll call that a WIN! Kick @$$ Chels: 1 - Lazy @$$ Chels: 0

Happy Friday!

You don't have to go fast, you just have to go

So yesterday I got a wild hair up my butt to go for a walk after work! I texted the honey and he wasn't interested (he works outside all day, duh he didn't want to go back in the heat!). So I told him I was heading home at 8 so I could go for a walk around the neighborhood before it got too dark.

Now let me preface this with I did not have that in my workout plan. Yesterday was just supposed to be a quick kickboxing session with my gal pal Jillian Michaels and some squats. But I got the urge to walk so I thought why fight it.

The start and finish are at the same spot 

Wasn't really sure how to pace myself but I felt like I did pretty good for it being my first time, just a little under 4mph pace. I would have liked to get more in but it was starting to get dark and I still had to get some kickboxing done. The walk felt great though! All the right muscles were burning!

 So over all, 603 calories burned in just under 50 min! I'll take that as some major progress! I stayed under my calorie limit (which is 1600) by 184, and that included a cup of Blue Bell Dutch Chocolate :) After adding in my exercise for the day I was pretty pumped to see that MyFitnessPal suggested that if everyday were like yesterday I would be on track to lose 11 lbs in 5 weeks! Now I'm a realistic person Jack, so I know I'm not going to burn 600 calories everyday for the next 5 weeks or eat under my calories. But the thought of it being possible is super exciting for me!

After I got done working out I iced my shins (helps with my shin splints), I had made a homemade ice bag that you can mold even after frozen (3 parts water to 1 part rubbing alcohol). Anyways Momma told me to put a towel between my skin and the ice pack or I would burn my skin. Of course I didn't listen because I am 23 and all knowing ;) but really though I thought with my years of high school icing experience (you know those huge bags of ice they saran wrap to your shoulders and knees to look super awkward walking around the halls?) I would be fine. Turns out alcohol and water freezes at a lower temp than plain water, thank you chemistry. So I get up stairs and notice my skin kinda hurts. Well what do you know I freakin burned my skin just like Momma said I would....yes Mom you were right (if you're reading this). I had welts on my shins that were like burning, they looked like hives minus the itch add the burn. 

Awesome...well I don't have to be hit up side the head more than once to learn a lesson, next time I'll use a towel.

Feeling like you're in trouble

Does anyone else ever get that in trouble feeling when you know you should be doing something but you keep putting it off? Like when you know you have a test the next day and you haven't started studying yet. Or you just did whatever you were told not to do and now you're just waiting to get busted?...No? Just me?
Well that's how I felt last night before I went to work out. Trev decided he didn't want to go because his back was hurting him and so I was like oh ok well I don't need to go either. Even though I had already "scheduled" my gym session. The whole time leading up to the time I had planned to leave and head to the gym I had that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach that I had something I needed/should be doing and I was ignoring it.

But I decided I wasn't going to plan my workouts around anyone else anymore. We can't always go do everything together. Plus I'm doing this for me. I love that picture at the top. It's so true! Why should I complain about something I'm not even putting the work in to change?! So I changed my clothes, filled up my water bottle and out the door I went. As soon as I hit the gym parking lot that nasty feeling in my stomach went away. I was taking care of business because I knew I needed to and I had PLANNED it! And you know what that got me?! 490 calories burned in 46 minutes!!

I'm definitely ok with that! BTW everyone should invest in one of these puppies! They are amazing! Last night was my first time to use a HRM and it actually made me work harder because I wanted to see that calorie count rise! You can getcha one here! 

So now that I got in my workout for last night, I also logged all my calories for the day in MyFitnessPal. Which is another goal of mine. AND I drank 100 oz of water yesterday, surpassing my 80oz goal.....btw don't drink the last 25 within an hour or two of bedtime...you'll be up 5 times a night in the bathroom...geeze it was worse than being a pregnant woman! (I am assuming here :) )

So over the last two weeks while I've been thinking about fitness and getting healthy and doing a TON of workout research and clean eating research (you'd think I'd get in shape just by all the reading I've been doing on it!) I've come up with a list of very attainable goals that I would like to meet by the time my wedding dress comes in some time in September. Now these are very attainable goals as long as I commit, and actually do my workouts!

GOALS:

1. Drink 80 oz of water a day

2. Workout out at least 5 times a week either at the gym or at home doing Jillian Michaels DVDs

3. Log all my calories in MyFitnessPal daily (if I bite, I write)

4. Lose 20 lbs.

See, super attainable goals!

Lost My Motivation

It's been a really long time since I've posted on here so I thought it was time for an update. 

So far I've gained back EVERY pound I've lost plus 4...yay me. I have no idea where my motivation went....oh ya, it hits REALLY hard at 10 am (right in the middle of the work day) and then totally disappears until the next day. Excuse me boss man can I take my lunch break at 10 so I can get my workout on please?!..........No? Ok....

I've been literally addicted to reading a ton of really inspirational weight loss blogs lately.
Megan at Skinny Meg has lost over 100 lbs and is a workout BEAST! Amber at Crafty Healthy Mommy just celebrated her 2 weight-lossiversary with 100 lbs lost and is working towards losing the last few lbs to literally be half the weight she was.  Brandi at Mama Laughlin has lost 60 lbs and just spent the last 6 months weight lifting and toned up so much she weighs the same and went from a size 10 to a size 6.  Amy at The Diary of a Fat Mommy has literally shrunk before my eyes since MARCH!! I get all pumped when I'm reading them and think to myself "these women lost A TON of weight just by diet and exercise, I can too!"..but then I don't ever get off my lazy butt to do it. I can't make myself get out of bed in the morning to go, or make myself get off the couch at night! I literally only feel the want in the middle of the freakin work day! Yes, work day....as in if it's the weekend: DON'T THINK SO JACK!

Mom finally made me go wedding dress shopping in May. She said if we didn't get a move on I'd be wearing a burlap sack down the isle. Which was probably true...would fit better too haha.
So we found THE dress with the second one I tried on. Ordered it and was in and out in under an hour. Apparently I shop for wedding dresses like I shop for clothes, in and out as quickly as possible. And since this wonderful body of mine is so awesomely shaped, I had to guess what size to order!
My boobs were a size 10, waist was a size 8 (can a get a whoop whoop!), and my booty a big ole size 12!
So we went with the middle number a got a size 10. So I started doing really well with picking back up with the diet and exercise so my big butt would fit in my dress. I started the Ease into 5k app again (I like that one much better than c25k). I was doing awesome the first two weeks. I even did an outside run one day and had a faster mileage split than I did on the treadmill. But then came week 3. AWFUL shin splints, horrible hip pain, and some pretty bad knee pain. But I kept trucking. I finished the first 3 min run..barely, started on the 2nd run of the series and BAM ate it right there in the middle of the road in front of all the people driving by. But I wasn't gonna let that stop me even though I landed on my hip (which was now throbbing) and scraped up the palm of my hand so that it was bleeding and had chunky skin coming off. I got up finished the walk part it was on and took off running for the 2nd 3 min run....BAD IDEA. My shins and hips were in so much pain I couldn't keep running if someone had been chasing me! So that was the last time I ran or worked out...almost 2 weeks ago.

I've been slacking on my calorie counting, working out, and just all around trying to be healthy again. The only thing I've been decently successful at is drinking half my body weight (in ounces) in water most days. I know what to do, I guess I'm just still to lazy to do it. And that really sucks!

I just need to find that WANT so that I will MAKE myself get to the gym and count my calories and fit in to that damn wedding dress!!!

But most importantly: