lose weight

ive been consistently doing my assigned cardio workouts every day – havent missed ONE in two weeks, and they say it takes two weeks to make something a habit :) i was REALLLLY sore from an intense leg workout and i still managed to bang it out today

goals for the week:
+ keep on workin out – no slacking!
+ go back to more of my GOOD eating habits

for the month:
+have fantasticly toned abs
+trim down to 26inch waist (lose 1 inch)

today is the first day in a few weeks i really WANTED to get up, eat healthy, do some real work at skating, and work out. I guess I just needed a few weeks after nationals to mentally get back into things.

i worked pretty hard this past season to try and lose fat/weight and be my strongest and best, but i think i can do better and that my body can get better. i want those nice long lines!

even though i’m not really catholic anymore, i gave up ice cream/frozen treats for lent because thats one of my worst vices when it comes to sweets. i think i seriously had ice cream or frozen yogurt almost every day for the past month before lent started and thats obviously not good!

maybe being sick and having a cold will make me less hungry :) trying to not be miserable!

today being fat tuesday i completely fell off the wagon and ate really poorly. half a bag of jelly beans and some ginger snaps is NOT dinner.

even though i’m not really catholic anymore, maybe i can use this season of lent to push my diet back to the healthy me.

its not that i dont eat a LOT of good foods, i just eat a lot of good foods, and then slip up with a couple bad things every day, which bring me past the point of weight loss and i just pretty much stay the same.

processed sweets are ADDICTIVE. if i can stay away from all of them for a couple days, i wont even crave them anymore. its just that once you let your body get used to eating them again, you want them all the time.

just back from nationals and then a week of lazy vacation where i ate all kinds of fun food and didnt work out or skate at all!

today was the first day back to training, but we didnt do much on ice. i did a hard upper body workout i know i’m going to be sore from and then 40 minutes of cardio- 5 min bike, 20 min elliptical, 15 min stairmaster.

food so far (4pm)
9am:pear + coffee with whole milk and sugar
1130am: banana
1220pm: cliff bar, water
245pm: 6oz blackberries, honeycrisp apple
330pm: 2C minestrone soup, 1.5c lettuce/tomato/carrot/pepper mix with balsamic ginger dressing (35cal/2T)

and i’m snacking on some lucky charms, my sweet treat while i read a book :)

(natalie dee comic)

its taken me about 5 months and i have officially lost 3.5 pounds.

from 130.5 to 127.
my bodyfat percentage at 130.5 was 18.8
my goal bodyfat percentage is 15

the physiology lab people we worked with told me that the most i could lose without losing muscle would be 6-8 pounds and that it would take a while but i didnt think it would take this long… the good news is that when i tell people i’ve only lost about 3 pounds they’re shocked. i know i’m not losing muscle – i actually have gotten stronger and feel like ive gained a little.

i’m really writing this because the last 1/2 pound was recent and i am pretty excited. once the semester is over i’ll be able to bump up my cardio again and hopefully lose a pound by january :)

because my fall semester with competitive figure skating at 20hrs/week at starbucks gives me very little time to do anything else, i got super organized and made a shopping list of things that i eat normally that i can flag for things that i need every week. note that it is entirely vegan so i am getting closer and closer to complete veganity(?) !

i also made notecards with mealplans on them every day so that i dont have to think about what i'm going to eat that day, and so that i have enough calories of HEALTHY food to bring with me in my schedule of insanity.

my trainer and another girl she was about to work with that i have known for a while commented on how skinny i was looking (in a good toned way) and i laughed saying how id only lost 2 pounds all summer.

my trainer was like youve had to have lost more weight than that! and i explained how i weigh myself every day and on a good day it shows that ive lost two pounds, while on a bad day i can be four pounds heavier than that (like when i eat late at night). and she was like “well, you’re definetly reshaping which means you’re gaining muscle so good job!”

so i guess i’m doing my job. i just wish the scale would show a smaller number sometimes!!!

so my scale says i’ve maybe lost 1-2 pounds.
my clothes are lookin pretty good. not falling off of me, but fitting a lot better… and i think my boobs got smaller! and i got a lot of compliments at competition saying i was looking good, so hopefully this all means i’m getting rid of some of my body fat and maybe gaining some muscle! still aiming for 12-14% by our next body composition test.

food ~ 2000 cals
exercise: 3.5hrs skating, 30min upperbody with trainer.
skipped out on cardio…bad day, stupid of me! i did get PT on my ankle though which was good

830am: coffee with skim milk and 3 raw sugar packets, grapefruit, cashew lara bar ~400

1020am: carrots, cherry tomatoes, 1/2 vegan scone with 1/2TB nutella! ~200

11am: FREE 6oz SLURPIE!! happy 7-11! 100

3pm: boca burger with 1pc wholewheat bread, ketchup and sprinkle of parmesean and a handful of pretzels ~350

545pm: coffee with vanilla creamer ~50

supplements: flaxseed oil pill, Bmultivitamin, viactiv
liquids: 48oz water, 8oz powerade! ~60

activity: 3.5 hours skating, lowerbody workout with trainer, off-ice mirror work

mmm hungry hungry now! time to make dinner

today was a lapse back to my bad eating habits…ending up in heavy eating at the end of the day, which is no good! :(

reporting this backwards:

6-9pm: dried papaya, raw almonds, 1c cereal mix, 1c pasta, tomato sauce, frozen grapes, nectarine,baby carrots w/hummus, cherry lara bar[900+]

4pm: 1/3 jumbo cookie, 10 sour patch kids, 1tb PB, 1c cereal mix [~400]

8am-3pm: grapefruit,apple,blueberries,cherries,
carrots, cherry tomatoes, 1/2pc bread, banana, 1/2 jumbo cookie, coffee [550]

liquids: 64-80oz water, 12oz diet drpepper
vitamins: multi-B, flax seed oil, calcium

activity: 3.5 hours skating hard, 30 minutes cardio at 75% of my max heartrate, 45min ballet class