Start Date of Body For Life Challenge: January 7
Days Left: 7
I officially signed up for Affiliate Cup Team Tryouts on Saturday, April 10th. No more flying under the radar during CrossFit workouts when I am feeling too tired. I think the real work is just starting. More weight! Go faster! I have a feeling I am really going to get beat me up over the next couple weeks.
When the weather recovered from the snow we had last weekend I considered going on a sunrise hike before work today. Here is my view of our alley this morning:
So much for that idea. Remember the pictures I posted the other day of the flowers in my flower bed? Here is my flower bed this morning:
Start Date of Body For Life Challenge: January 7
Days Left: 8
Start Date of Body For Life Challenge: January 7
Days Left: 9
The head trainer and owner of Flatirons CrossFit asked if I wanted to try out for their Affiliate Cup Team to compete in the 2010 CrossFit Games in California in July. Tryouts are in less than three weeks. On one hand I feel not ready at all for that. Three weeks is not a lot of time. On the other hand I suppose I have been training for it since January on some level. They only have 3 spots to fill plus 3 alternates. I guess it wouldn’t hurt to tryout…
Days Left: 10
Ten days left and one pound to go. This morning at CrossFit we repeated a workout that was part of a competition over the weekend. I found out that if I had competed I might have finished in the top 10 for that workout!
The workout: For 10 minutes do as many rounds as you can of:
6 squat cleans – Boys: 135# Girls: 95#
9 chest touches bar pull-ups – kipping/butterfly are allowed
12 box jumps – Boys: 24†box / Girls: 20" box
It was brutal. This is a squat clean:
WEEKLY WEIGH-IN:
Starting: 157
Last week: 139
Original Goal: 137
Today: 136
New Goal: 135
Start Date of Body For Life Challenge: January 7
Days Left: 11
It is normal to want to quit during a workout or not to want to start at all. It is tempting most mornings to sleep in or to come home from work and veg-out. The inner-strength comes in doing it anyway knowing the benefits outweigh the costs.
Start Date of Body For Life Challenge: January 7
Days Left: 12
Today I will play in my second Queen of the Beach Volleyball Tournament this year. I am excited. There is nothing like being able to play at an indoor beach in your shorts and a tank top when it is 32 degrees outside. Plus, I am in so much better shape than I was last time. I am moving faster, jumping higher, and hitting harder than I have in a long time. The tricky part is that what people are capable of and how they actually perform can be two very different things. We will have to see how it goes today. I will have an update this afternoon.
UPDATE: 24 girls played this morning. We are put in groups of 4 and play one game with each person in that group. If you win you go up. If you lose you go down. In my first round I played horrid and barely broke out of the bottom. I went into my second round ranked 4th of the 4. I turned it around though and ended up 1st in that group and then again took 1st in my final group with a fairly high points total. So I should end up somewhere around 9th of 24. Not too bad!
Last week in the garden:
This week in the garden:
Tomorrow is the first day of Spring? Ugh! I have had flowers blooming in the garden for weeks now. Today they are frozen solid. If I flicked the petals on these flowers they would probably crack. Not exactly the weather I was hoping for. Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE when it snows. It is just that time of year when I am ready for Spring.
Days Left: 13
Days Left: 14
The picture from the other day is of The Master Cleanse Diet. For 10 days you are supposed to have nothing but water with lemon, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper! People have been known to stay on it for as long as 90 days! Can you imagine? Proponents say the diet helps cleanse the body of harmful toxins while losing weight. But opponents say starving yourself makes you lose weight anyway and that your body has natural mechanisms to remove toxins. I tried to do this diet once and I don’t think I lasted through the first day. I would never survive a diet like that. I love food too much not to eat. It always makes me laugh to hear someone say “I got so busy I forgot to eatâ€. That is probably the one thing I am never in danger of forgetting to do.
Days Left: 15
It was really hard to stick to the diet once the original excitement of starting the challenge wore off. I fell off the wagon several times in February. Now that I am used to it, it isn’t too bad really. Regular food seems to taste better. I looked back in Daily Burn to see what a typical day has been like. It looks about like this:
8:30am
3/4 C Kashi Go Lean cereal
1/2 C skim milk
1 egg (hard boiled just because I can prepare a lot at once)
1 serving of fruit
10:30am
1 vanilla protein shake (after awhile without junk food these start tasting like ice cream)
12:30pm
4 oz chicken breast (pico and adobo seasoning, marinara, or whatever) 1 large salad
1 serving of fruit
2:30pm
1 small banana
1/4 C cottage cheese
6-10 almonds
4:30pm
1 chocolate protein shake
6:30pm
Beef tenderloin, salmon, shrimp, something like that
Sautéed mushrooms
Asparagus or broccoli
Sometimes a salad too
If I still feel hungry I will have another banana and some more cottage cheese.
Total Calories: 1618
Protein: 101g
Carbs: 195g
Fat: 47g
Days Left: 16
The nice thing about having 12 weeks to lose 10-20 pounds is that I am not on any ridiculously strict diet. Recognize the diet in the photo? Forget that! For me, no major food groups are restricted. I eat high protein and go easy on the bread but carbs are not off limits. I do try to eat them more in the morning and get most from fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds. I eat a lot of black beans, pinto beans, bananas and almonds. Like most diets I stay away from real junky food like sweets and anything deep fried. But a free day once a week means even that stuff is not totally off limits. Interestingly, this far into the challenge that stuff doesn’t sound as good as it used to.
