For some reason Thursday's for the 3 weeks have just turned into Franday aka Fran lol. The good news is that I cut serious minutes from my time. Same weight, same bands. I did squat to the box instead of going too below parallel to save my knee. Overall I had a great morning. Tonight, on the other hand, I had no desire to do my second workout. I causally used my bike for 15 minutes and did some pushups and pullups. 

Morning Workout:
Fran
21-15-9
thrusters 45lbs
pullups
14:18  5 min 42seconds off last weeks time!

Then 7 min app workout
weighted situps

Evening Workout:
Half ass attempt at spinning  15 min
20 pullups
30 pushups
GHD situps

In case any of you guys were wondering where the magic happens! LOL

Today is the 20th day I have been logging everything! I feel like I just started yesterday. OK, back to business.

Morning Workout:
50 jumping jax
15 kb swings
10 burpees
10 back extensions
10 pullups
10 pushups

Plank holds and leg raises
30 situps with 5lb ball
30 twists with 5lb ball
5 turkish get ups (each side) with 5lb ball
30 pushups
10 1 arm kb clean & jerks
40 kb swings
10 dips
 then a 7 min app workout
whew

Afternoon workout:
1 mile run 11:25
bleachers

OUCH! LOL Yes I am so sore that my poor legs can barely move. I blame yesterdays lunges. 

Squat total

Morning workout:
run the driveway
30 squats EMOM for 8 min (Every min on the min)
Guess what!? So sore could not do 30 squats in a min. This is what I did instead (see pic)
Then 10 Rounds of 10 pullups 10 push press at 25lbs
30 situps with 7lb weight

10 RFT Pullup/Push Press

Afternoon workout:
30 min easy pace elliptical 

Sunday was truly a rest day. I did nothing! It is not good to beat your body up without a break. I did buy some exercise equipment this day to get the week started in the right direction. I also spoke with someone who inspires me and it just made me feel really good.

Monday
morning workout:
21-15-9
squats
pushups
lunges
12:44
Have I ever told you how much I hate lunges!?!
7 app workout (7 min)
50 situps
30 pullups



evening workout:
25 min on the bike 175 cal burned
11 min on treadmill 125 cal burned

This was at work today! I did not have one tiny bite! I don't have time to be messing around with donuts. Friday & Saturday I ate breakfast out and had a pancake with syrup. I felt so crappy after that. Today, while I was running, I felt GREAT. Let's keep this going!

OHH! Download this free app called 7 (seven) This is what it looks like. It gives you a full body workout in 7 minutes. You can do it for longer if you'd like. I did feel the burn after 7 minutes especially since I did it after my workout. 

-1lb this wk
-4.2 total lbs lost

Friday
Afternoon workout:
60 min on spin bike

Saturday
supposed to be a rest day but I still did the bike for 15 min 
air squats
10 deadlifts 70lbs
one arm snatch 5lbs 
still having knee pain  
weigh in day 216.8 

Sunday will be a rest day. I'm icing my knee as I write this. This week's plan is 2 workouts Mon-Thurs. I'd like to lose 2lbs this week. I did eat out on Friday for breakfast and Saturday breakfast and movie theater popcorn. Back on track tomorrow. 

Goodnight peeps.

My box AKA garage 

Wednesday

Morning workout:
warmup
Grace 30 clean & jerks 
7/23/14 45 lbs 5:59  (TODAY)
previous times:
7/16/12 40 lbs 4:55
5/27/14 45 lbs 4:25

50 situps
30 pullups

Afternoon workout:
400m run
20 min on Jacob's Ladder

My poor fingers taped since the blisters hurt

Thursday
Morning workout:
Having some serious knee pain today
5 pullups
10 pushups 
15 situps
5RFT (rounds for time) 14:43

Afternoon workout:
45 minutes on spinning bike

Today I was just feeling crappy. Like I will never reach my goal. I guess maybe I should set a goal to reach. That might help me out. My ultimate goal is to be 160 by my wedding. That is 58lbs. It is do able but hard. I'd be happy at 170 but my ultimate goal is 160. But since 58lbs seems crazy let's set a smaller goal shall we. By my 32nd birthday on Sept. 19th the goal is to be 199. That is 19lbs from where I'm at today (218) from (221). 

New addition to my collection

spinning, spinning, spinning

Today I redid Fran. 21-15-9 thrusters and pullups. The pullups are getting easier. It still was 20 minutes though. I didn't document last weeks exact time. Today's time was 20:10. A tad frustrating but it is ok. This is not going to be easy. Tonight I rowed 4k meters in 21 minutes. My goal is to workout twice a day at least 3 days a week. The rest of the days can just be a one workout day. I'm tired but I need to do this. I've been hooked on watching extreme makeover weightloss edition. If they can do it so can I. Here I am after Fran kicked my ass:

morning workout:

warmup

wallballs

Fran 20:10

evening workout:

2k row: 10:41

2k leisure row: 11:00

Weekly Recap: 217.8 lbs

This was a hard week. One day I woke up and went to work out like I do every day and it just was not working for me. I just did not have the energy, the motivation, I was really unhappy with myself. See pic of me laying on the barbell! lol Still, I made my omelet and counted my calories and went to the gym on my dinner break at work. I even indulged in a grilled cheese sandwich yummy! Hmm maybe for this upcoming week I'll take a pic of all my workouts and share them here. 

Today's workout was Fran. For my non crossfitting friends let me explain what that is: thrusters and pullups, 21-15-9 (reps of each).  A good time to complete this workout is about 5-7 minutes. It took me 20 minutes today. I was about to give up at the first set, when I got to 11 thrusters I thought to myself "Instead of 21-15-9 just do 11-11-9." I put the bar down. I saw how much time had passed. I made excuses to myself for the longer time: I'm just getting back in the swing of things, the bar is 45lbs, the bands aiding my pullups were not strong enough (a green & blue band). Then I said no, you are going to do this if it takes an hour without cheating. Later I looked at my previous Fran times. All were under 9 minutes. It is true I usually did 15lbs or 35 at most so 45 was challenging. I needed another resistance band for my pullups. I cheated myself and skimped on the set of 21. NOT TODAY. Today was about completing something I started. The only competition was with myself and that seems to be the hardest contest yet.  I say all of this to say DONT GIVE UP. Just keep moving. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

As of today I have been logging my food/exercise on myfitnesspal.com. (MFP) I will update on this blog around once a week. It is too time consuming to track everything on MYP and then do it all over again on here. Right now I'm feeling good, like I'm going to stay on track and not be so harsh on myself. Usually I'm an all or nothing kind of gal. I'm trying not to do that this time around. So here are this weeks highlights:

*workout every day
*had to eat out for a coworkers birthday-looked at the menu before going and checked the calories 
*pull-up station at home finally up!
*healthy snacks

Here are some pics!

I promise I cant go through the window. This is the garage and it is boarded up.

Workout

Sweat Angel

Black bean, corn, onion & peppers

Mini Meatloafs

Wake Up Call: Day 0

I haven't written here in a loonng time. Tonight I'm writing because I'm frustrated. I'm frustrated because I feel like I am sabotaging myself. I'm getting married in 1 year. I have been engaged for 2 years. I have only bitched about getting married my whole life. Now that it is here, I'm in denial. I'm depressed. I'm eating bad. Working out less. This is the one thing I have wanted my whole life and I can't even work towards my goal?! I don't need to be 100lbs but damn it I would really like to not be 221 lbs. I had done really well doing crossfit and eating paleo. I went down to 180 in about 8 months. Then I switched jobs, had a new schedule and yada yada yada. Apparently, depression to me means eating cupcakes and chips and fast food. I'm tired. I'm tired of being mad at myself about my weight. I'm just going to change and do it. Maybe if I write about it it will keep me going for longer than my 11 day streak since my last post in September 2013. Tonight I took my measurements. Tomorrow I will find my old notebook and compare them to where I was a year or 2 ago. Each day I'll log my food with myfitnesspal.com - I mean, I could share it here, that wouldn't hurt I guess. I will say that it is not like I hate myself but I just am a tad disappointed because I know better and yet here I am once again. Alright, enough rambling for now. Here are my stats:


5'7''
221 lbs

belly button 46’'

high waist 36’'

boobs 44’'

hips 49’'

thigh 28’'

arm 13’'

neck 13''

Did I really have to measure my neck lol! Should I include some pics? Dare I call them before pics? Since it's 11:58 tomorrow will be day 1.