Day 12, 13, 14: Ugh!

Well, Thursday, before I left for Baton Rouge, I did do my P90X: Legs and Shoulders. It took everything in me but I completed it. I held off doing my crunches until today. I had a 1/2 protein bar for breakfast and some vegetables, coconut soup and spring rolls from Thai Cuisine. For dinner, my grandmother cooked Crawfish Etouffee, Peas and Carrots, Salad, Corn, and Rolls. I ate half of what I would usually eat including half of a roll. She made Rum Cake just for me so I had to have a small slice. Ive been eating healthy for almost 2 weeks now and so this food really just doesn't satisfy me like it used to. My sister and I stayed up and watched, The Proposal, so we got a little midnight munchie and I had 1/2 banana with peanut butter and some chocolate milk.

Friday, morning we had coffee with the grandparents, and then came the bad stuff. She made biscuits, grits, bacon, and scrambled eggs. I portion sized this but the bad stuff didnt come until later. Around 3 me and my sister were craving mexican. Uh oh! I ate a lot of chips and salsa... it gets worst. I limited myself to 2 fajitas. I went to whole foods and picked up my favorite high protein yogurts...but then found the cake balls and got 2 and some chocolate milk...do i need to continue ...this is why u never have a splurge on your life changing plan especially when you are only on week 2. I have been reminded of this and am very ashamed! I will really be kicking up my game now!

Friday was counted as my day of rest. I woke up Today feeling extremely lazy! I hate skipping a workout! I forced myself to do KenpoX and Abs X since I didnt do Abs on Thursday. I had a handful of slivered almonds to give myself energy before I started. I feel so much better after this workout. For lunch I made homemade chicken whole wheat noodle soup! (Recipe after this blog. ) Yum I have been really craving this and gumbo...so I opted for this! :) It was delicious and I had a jello indulgence cup after. Well I will be eating off of this soup for the next few days. I have work tonight and I will be starting week 3 tomorrow. Core Synergistics! Yea Baby can't wait to see more results my abs are getting a little flatter.

Recipe:

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons (2 turns around the pan) extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 medium carrots, peeled and chopped
• 1 parsnip, peeled and chopped
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 ribs celery, chopped
• 2 bay leaves, fresh or dried
• Salt and pepper
• 6 cups good quality chicken stock
• 1 pound (the average weight of 1 package) chicken breast tenders, diced
• 1/2 pound wide egg noodles
• A handful fresh parsley, chopped
• A handful fresh dill, chopped

Directions

Place a large pot over moderate heat and add extra-virgin olive oil. Work close to the stove and add vegetables to the pot as you chop, in the order they are listed.

Add bay leaves and season vegetables with salt and pepper, to taste. Add stock to the pot and raise flame to bring liquid to a boil. Add diced chicken tenderloins, return soup to a boil, and reduce heat back to moderate. Cook chicken 2 minutes and add noodles. Cook soup an additional 6 minutes or until noodles are tender and remove soup from the heat.

Stir in parsley and dill, remove bay leaves and serve. This is a thick soup. Add up to 2 cups of water if you like chicken soup with lots of broth.

Day 11: No more sun salutations for me Thanks!

I woke up ready to go and really ready to get Yoga over with. The dvd did pass by faster than it felt like it did last week. I didn't forward through the dvd much, I only forwarded through the last 2 positions in the salutations. For breakfast I had a bowl of fruit (fresh pineapple, grapes, strawberries, and kiwi). For lunch I had a grilled chicken salad with peanut vinaigrette. I went to work and came home and had some sardines will multigrain townhouse crackers and sardines. I had some SF chocolate milk. I feel good and am extremely tired! Cant wait to hit the sack! Lets hope I don't sleep in, bc you guessed it, its raining!

Day 10: Never will sleep in again!

I always know when it is raining in the morning because I wake up and look at my alarm clock and I have slept in. I don't even remember my alarm going off and I set 3 alarms! I had an hour before class so I had Quaker Weight Control Cinnamon Oatmeal made with skim milk and 1 tsp of ground flax seed. This kept me full until I met with Anita at 1230. We went to Zea's and we split a chicken almond salad with the dressing on the side and I only ate one crispy noodle bc it accidently got in my salad ha.

When I finally finished school, I was exhausted. I knew I still had to workout but I had to get a little nap in. Well it ended up being an hour instead of the twenty minutes I planned...oops! I woke up and it took everything in me to workout because I was starving! So I took some advice and had a handful of almonds and a few cashews and started my workout! Today was Arms, Shoulders, and abs of P90X. I really do enjoy this workout. I stuck with mostly 10 lb. weights this week instead of switching a lot between 5 lbs. and 10. The abs, I could still only do 15, suck!! Oh well hopefully next time there will be an increase.

For dinner I had a handful of grapes and 2 scoops of Champion Nutrition Cookies and Cream Whey Protein Shake blended with skim milk and ice. I probably wont have a protein shake for dinner again because I feel full but I dont feel satisfied if that makes any since at all.

Also, I will never sleep in again because I forgot how much of a fight it is to workout in the evening.

Thursday and Friday I going to my grandmothers....and you all know what that means! She is going to cook amazing food and I can't not eat it because well she is Cecile Vizinat and you do not do that! She will end you and you will still have to eat after. I will be portioning my food and only eat a good portion size and the same goes with the ginormous breakfast she makes for me and my sister. Oh I am salavating just thinking about it, but aggravated bc I can't follow my diet to a T. No P90X on those days but I will be running Friday morning!

Night Everyone!

Day 9: Cardio cardio cardio

Day 9 has begun! I only slept in by 5 minutes today! I am getting better at this! I woke up, had my cup of joe, and put on my cardio x dvd. This is about 45 minutes long and really knows how to get my heart rate up! I feel like the DVDs this week are passing by so much faster now that I know what I am doing somewhat. It's amazing though when someone walks in on me doing my workout I completely forget what im doing. Thats why I get up at the butt crack of dawn!

For breakfast I had a cookies and cream champion nutrition protein shake made with skim milk! This was so good and I have a whole tub of it! I went to class and had lunch with Bekah at Deano's Pizza. I got the grilled shrimp salad, like always, with tomato basil vinaigrette and 1 1/2 little pieces of wheat french bread sprinkled with a little cheese. I was a little naughty and had 2 of Bekah's sweet potato fries; however, if you have ever had sweet potato fries from Deano's you would thoroughly understand! I stayed active all day running around, doing errands. I did buy a dress from Target and got a little discourage because no size reduction yet! Tip of the Day: Do not go clothes shopping until your present clothes are falling of your body!

For a snack I had some cashews and dipped some croutons in a little hummus. For dinner, I had 1/4 lb. of exta lean burger I grilled on the George Foreman Grill, a small light caesar vinaigrette salad, and some green beans. By the way learned in foods class that green beans are a fruit! That really sucks because I counted on those suckers as a veggie serving! Any who I ate that and had about a cup of SF chocolate milk and one of my indulgence jello cups. As you can tell I was a little hungry, I need to work on this a bit!

I had to go train for headwait tonight and didn't get back until 1130. I was a little hungry so I had 5 grapes and 2 strawberries and felt full! So now im going to bed because I am extremely exhausted, GOOD NIGHT!

Day 8, Week 2; More reps come on abs!

Day 8, Week 2... I feel like it should be long but its nice to have week 1 over with! I slept in today, and so I put my workout off until later in the day. My roommate is coming home and I had to scrub her house from top to bottom! Ugh! I pray that the soulmate God has for me is loaded so I can afford a maid. Haha! So, I counted that as my cardio workout today; clean the way Deidre wants you to clean and you will count it too! ;) Before I started to clean, I had 2 kashi blueberry waffles with honey drizzled over them and sugar free chocolate milk.

When lunch time rolled around, I had 1 1/2 hours before I had to start my workout; so I opted for an EAS chocolate peanut butter crisp low carb protein bar. I had that with a cup of milk and felt good after eating it. Today was core synergistics, I pushed out a great deal more reps than last weeks and really worked up a sweat this time. This is probably because I knew most of the moves and was able to start when they did. Great workout, and cant wait to feel the soreness tomorrow! (Never thought i'd say that!)

For dinner I had an Asian Chicken Salad, this contained: Mixed Greens, Carrots, Toasted Almond Slivers, Cucumber, Hemp Seed, Croutons, Steamed green beans, 4 oz of left over chicken from Carrabba's, and Newman's Own light Ginger Sesame Dressing. This was a really good salad and I will definitely be making it again! For dessert I had less than a cup of sugar free chocolate milk and the Dark Chocolate Jello Sensations Mousse Cup. Really good!

I have work tonight and when I get home I will have a yogurt but with no grapenuts tonight because I think I had enough carbs today! Until tomorrow my prettys!

PS Yesterday, I stuck to my diet at the restaurant, I did have a White Sangria and one piece of the bread, but I limited myself to one! Also, the greatest news of all! I turned down cake! Thats Right DANNI TURNED DOWN CAKE! It's a break through and never has been done! I'm not going to lie I did have a small bite, just to appreciate homemade german chocolate cake, but that was it! Hoorah, hopefully its the first of many great hurdles cleared!

PSS...I need a snuggie and want to have a snuggie party....that is all!

Day 6 & 7: Kenpo X Baby and REST! O yes!

Yesterday, I did Kenpo on P90X. This was by far my absolute favorite workout. I could do this workout everyday if I could! It' s full of kicks and punches and it really made me break out a sweat! I had to open so I couldn't get my run in; however, one Kenpo exercise and you will realize you don't have to run that day your heart rate is up for real during this workout! For breakfast, I had a EAS Cookies N Cream Protein Bar with 1 cup of milk. I absolutely love these protein bars, they are low carb, low sugar, low fat, and only about 200 calories making it a perfect meal replacer with milk added! For lunch I had a small slimntrim chocolate smoothie from smoothie king with diet down and made skinny. This tastes just like a tootsie roll! Yum! I had a Skyr Blueberry Yogurt at work for a snack and for dinner I had 4 oz of Rotisserie Pork Loin with Green Beans and sliced cucumber with italian dressing. I feel good and my great value pink lemonade little packets i've been adding to my water for dinner are really curing my sweet tooth!

Today, DAY 7, Finally! REST! Oh I love it! I slept in today and went to cafe des amis in breaux bridge! I got a tasso caramilized onion omelette made with egg whites and swiss cheese. It was served with grits and wheat toast. I ate half of my meal to make sure I was getting the right proportion. I had to have a cafe au lait before my breakfast and I did drink ALL of that! Delicious! For a snack I had a 60 calorie sugar free Jello Indulgence Mousse in dark chocolate. For lunch I had 1/2 turkey sandwich made with honey oat bread, pickles, lettuce, mustard and turkey. I ate this with about 9 pretzel honey mustard and onion nibbs. For a little sweetness I had 1/2 recipe of my Frozen Cappucinno.

I have a great deal to clean today in the house so I will be active! Tonight is Carrabba's for my friend's birthday. I will be getting the herbed grilled chicken with grilled veggies and a house salad 0r minestrone soup. I will be staying away from the bread, though I may allow myself one little piece and I may have a white sangria. I will report on what I ate exactly tomorrow.

I am definitely going to enjoy the rest of my day relaxing and truly relishing my day off! But its not over guys! It begins tomorrow again week 2 day 8 core synergistics baby!!

Day 5: Rain ruins everything!

Yesterday I didn't write because I literally had no time to workout. I was gone from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed. This just shows that everyone is going to have a day where they can't workout atleast it wasn't because I didn't want to. I did however eathealthy, I had a protein shake, chocolate peanut butter banana gladiator from smoothie king, and salmon green beans and 1/2 sweet potato for supper. I hope I never have to skip a workout again though because it was harder than hell to start my workout up again. Laziness is still living in me we must kill it!

Today began with me oversleeping an hour, great I had really had to rush now. I started with my morning crack ha and did P90X. Today was legs and backs and abs. I got really aggrevated because my roommate woke up and decided to watch me workout. I have to workout by myself, I just prefer it because othewise I dont get the crap done! So, I did this but I couldn't do the pullups because I couldn't find the pull up bar. I did this and completed more abs than last time! This stuff is working.

I didn't get to go run today because there was a monsoon in Lafayette, LA! Like for real, it was raining like in Jumanji, I was waiting for that huge crocodile to float down Johnston St.

This is what I ate today: Breakfast-Oatmeal with skim milk, Lunch-Slim N Trim Smoothie from Smoothie King with diet down splenda and gladiator protein powder. When I got to work I was starving so all I had to eat was 4 Saltine Crackers. It's amazing how you can be surrounded by food and not be able to eat anything. For dinner- Grilled Chicken Salad with pecan goat cheese.

I feel good about today! I really really can't wait for the results, day 6 tomorrow and ITS ON!

P.S. You know you are waiting on some seriously weird people when you greet the table with "Good Evening" and the answer, "What Up". Then, they ask if (bonefish grill) has an arcade . And lastly they ask for crayons, since you dont have an arcade, to draw on the paper on the table. What did they draw you ask. Well they wrote the word "F*ck" in huge bubble letters, a gigantic marijuana leaf, a girl with a big naked booty, and other foul things. Gotta love it! HA!