Kid #2's 4th birthday is today and the party is tomorrow. I've just spent the last hour putting brownie goodie bags together. Oy.
Anyway - lots to say, but no time to do it.
Did want to say that like probably a lot of PCPers, I'm thinking 3 things. 1: Why didn't indulgence #3 come a couple of days sooner (ie - thanksgiving day??) and 2: Since I went slightly off the PCP wagon on Thanksgiving (not horribly, just a little bit), I'm feeling slightly guilty about turning around and having a big blow out meal a couple of days later....
and finally - trying to figure out if turkey gravy is a veg, a protein or a carb. Answer - none of the above, unfortunately!
JFD, team Cookie Monster, JFD!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
I fell off the horse, but got back on...
I thought the weekend was going to start out ok, until it wasn't.
Was crazed all Friday and knew by 3pm that day that I wasn't going to get to my workout that day. Fine, but then I went to dinner that night at a friend's house. She was concerned about PCP and wanted to make sure I had food to eat that fit the program. That was great, but then I couldn't help myself and had to eat some of the apple/pear crisp I made and brought for dessert. Ugh. Got home, ended up staying up until 3am to work on a cake that I needed to have ready for Saturday morning.
Got 4 hours of sleep, and finished the cake. Meals were off since I was sleeping weird (delivered the cake, slept from 12:30 to 3pm) and then had to work on another cake for that night (a bday party for a friend). Got home that night around 10:30 and then did my work out, but I was so annoyed with myself that I did a really crappy job at it.
Sunday was filled with nothing at all, but still I never got a chance to do my workout. Planned on doing it after the boys went to bed, but 30 mins after all was quiet, kid #2 started crying! I laid down in bed with him and that was it - I slept last night from 9:30pm until 7:30am this morning.
I missed my regular early AM jumping session (I actually had neighbors ask where I was!) but the good news is I jumped while #2 was taking a nap and finished my whole workout before #1 came home from school. So nice to finish it before the nighttime!
Anyway - I realized two things. Making cakes and PCP don't really mix. It's less the temptation of eating things I make, and more that my weekends get completely sucked up by cake making and in the previous 3 weeks it's thrown my eating/sleeping/workout schedule all out of whack. The good news? No more cakes (except for my son's bday cake next week) until Dec. 18 - AFTER PCP is over.
Other thing - I've gotten better picking up and moving on. Tomorrow is a new day and just because I fuck up today doesn't mean it's the end of me.
Thinking about all my teammates today - hope all are hanging in there.
Just need to fucking do it for 21 more days!
Was crazed all Friday and knew by 3pm that day that I wasn't going to get to my workout that day. Fine, but then I went to dinner that night at a friend's house. She was concerned about PCP and wanted to make sure I had food to eat that fit the program. That was great, but then I couldn't help myself and had to eat some of the apple/pear crisp I made and brought for dessert. Ugh. Got home, ended up staying up until 3am to work on a cake that I needed to have ready for Saturday morning.
Got 4 hours of sleep, and finished the cake. Meals were off since I was sleeping weird (delivered the cake, slept from 12:30 to 3pm) and then had to work on another cake for that night (a bday party for a friend). Got home that night around 10:30 and then did my work out, but I was so annoyed with myself that I did a really crappy job at it.
Sunday was filled with nothing at all, but still I never got a chance to do my workout. Planned on doing it after the boys went to bed, but 30 mins after all was quiet, kid #2 started crying! I laid down in bed with him and that was it - I slept last night from 9:30pm until 7:30am this morning.
I missed my regular early AM jumping session (I actually had neighbors ask where I was!) but the good news is I jumped while #2 was taking a nap and finished my whole workout before #1 came home from school. So nice to finish it before the nighttime!
Anyway - I realized two things. Making cakes and PCP don't really mix. It's less the temptation of eating things I make, and more that my weekends get completely sucked up by cake making and in the previous 3 weeks it's thrown my eating/sleeping/workout schedule all out of whack. The good news? No more cakes (except for my son's bday cake next week) until Dec. 18 - AFTER PCP is over.
Other thing - I've gotten better picking up and moving on. Tomorrow is a new day and just because I fuck up today doesn't mean it's the end of me.
Thinking about all my teammates today - hope all are hanging in there.
Just need to fucking do it for 21 more days!
Saturday night's cake
Saturday morning's cake
Friday, November 19, 2010
it's the very little things...
today I put pumpkin pie spice in my smoothie instead of cinnamon. Quadruple yum. Highly recommend...
(the depth of my blog posts sometimes astounds even me!)
(the depth of my blog posts sometimes astounds even me!)
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Day 64 - FOOD!
My food consumption seems like it's doubled this week. Not that I'm complaining, but Patrick, if you realized you made a mistake and gave me Alex C's food instead, I'd figured I'd let you know now before I start getting used to eating carbs at every meal, and 3 egg whites a day!!!
:)
:)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Missing my PCP peeps
It's a gloomy day here and I am very happy just to have jumps today (already did them this am). The last couple of days I've been doing the strength training part later at night and it SUCKS, but that's really the only time when I can get an hour+ to myself, no kids, no car pool, etc.
Happy that it's now my second week in a row that I managed to get all the workouts done on their assigned day. I originally thought the idea of a "perfect PCP day" was silly - how could each day NOT be perfect. Realizing as we get further and further into this that perfection is very difficult to obtain. But I keep getting back on the horse. My slip ups are never major (too much applesauce at snack, stealing bites of my kids' noodles at dinner, adding honey to my yogurt on a regular basis, eating morning snack at 1pm, followed by lunch at 4pm), but they're slip ups just the same - another day that goes by w/o perfection. It's a good goal to have, but I can probably count on one hand the number of days I've been PCP perfect.
Anyway - thinking about all my other team Cookie Monster/JFD team mates.
Jack - your progress is AMAZING. Photos look great and you still manage to blog regularly, in addition to all of your school work. A+!!! :)
Susan and Ian - hope jet lag has been gentle on the whole family and you're getting back into the swing of being a family of 3 again:)
Erin - I think of you and little Vincent all the time. I have done the newborn thing twice and know where you're at (but in my case, I had 9 months to prepare, sounds like you had a couple of days, which is even harder!) Anything you're able to do PCP-wise is just gravy - the good stuff is in that little bundle who's going to call you Mommy very soon:)
Alex - bad elbow and hospital? Blech. Hope each recovery is quick and easy and that you get back up on the PCP horse very soon.
Nicole - hope PCP is treating you well - and when are we ever going to see some photos of your fabulous PCP self??
Fish - so impressed that on top of the PCP you're getting out to volleyball games every weekend (or more!) I can barely get my exercises done, so the idea of doing things on top of that has me bowing at your feet:)
Brian - Every time I go to the grocery store and see Greek Yogurt on the shelf, I think of you. Love your photos, love the beard. Perfect winter attire:)
Ok, lovefest over. Want to rant about one thing. It's been said that pregnancy/breastfeeding wreaks havoc on one's boobs, but in my case, PCP has been my #1 boob wrecker. Don't get my wrong, I've never had huge boobs, but now? Holy crap - where the fuck did my boobs go? Ugh.
Happy that it's now my second week in a row that I managed to get all the workouts done on their assigned day. I originally thought the idea of a "perfect PCP day" was silly - how could each day NOT be perfect. Realizing as we get further and further into this that perfection is very difficult to obtain. But I keep getting back on the horse. My slip ups are never major (too much applesauce at snack, stealing bites of my kids' noodles at dinner, adding honey to my yogurt on a regular basis, eating morning snack at 1pm, followed by lunch at 4pm), but they're slip ups just the same - another day that goes by w/o perfection. It's a good goal to have, but I can probably count on one hand the number of days I've been PCP perfect.
Anyway - thinking about all my other team Cookie Monster/JFD team mates.
Jack - your progress is AMAZING. Photos look great and you still manage to blog regularly, in addition to all of your school work. A+!!! :)
Susan and Ian - hope jet lag has been gentle on the whole family and you're getting back into the swing of being a family of 3 again:)
Erin - I think of you and little Vincent all the time. I have done the newborn thing twice and know where you're at (but in my case, I had 9 months to prepare, sounds like you had a couple of days, which is even harder!) Anything you're able to do PCP-wise is just gravy - the good stuff is in that little bundle who's going to call you Mommy very soon:)
Alex - bad elbow and hospital? Blech. Hope each recovery is quick and easy and that you get back up on the PCP horse very soon.
Nicole - hope PCP is treating you well - and when are we ever going to see some photos of your fabulous PCP self??
Fish - so impressed that on top of the PCP you're getting out to volleyball games every weekend (or more!) I can barely get my exercises done, so the idea of doing things on top of that has me bowing at your feet:)
Brian - Every time I go to the grocery store and see Greek Yogurt on the shelf, I think of you. Love your photos, love the beard. Perfect winter attire:)
Ok, lovefest over. Want to rant about one thing. It's been said that pregnancy/breastfeeding wreaks havoc on one's boobs, but in my case, PCP has been my #1 boob wrecker. Don't get my wrong, I've never had huge boobs, but now? Holy crap - where the fuck did my boobs go? Ugh.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Kick ass blog post, not my own
Great blog post today, from one of my favorite websites, Jezebel.com about women, strength, body image, etc. etc.
A favorite line:
Highly recommend.
A favorite line:
Highly recommend.
Friday, November 12, 2010
59.5 - ok, i take that back
Tonight's work out was started at 11:14pm and I just finished, at 12:02 (jumped in the am). I guess some things (like 150 lunges) take longer than others (7 sets of incline pullups).
Off to do 8MA to celebrate (I could get used to this)....
Off to do 8MA to celebrate (I could get used to this)....
Day 59: everyone done in under an hour? Uh-oh....
I agree with Jim - last night I worked my butt off and had a very intense work out, but it still took at least 1 hour 20 minutes. Wasn't able to jump in the am, so did jumps immediately followed by my workout. Started around 8:45, finished at 10:15. Didn't take a lot of breaks, timed the seconds in between sets to a T, etc. etc.
Anyone else???
Anyone else???
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
The best thing....
is when you struggle through all the shoulder exercises, thinking three more bicep exercises are to follow, only to discover just abs are left!
it's the little things at this point...
to celebrate, I'm going to do 8MA.
it's the little things at this point...
to celebrate, I'm going to do 8MA.
Eat Twinkies, lose 27 pounds
Man eats junk food for 2 months, loses 27 pounds. Thoughts?
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/11/09/2010-11-09_lose_weight_eating_junk_food_nutrition_professor_drops_27_pounds_on_twinkie_diet.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/11/09/2010-11-09_lose_weight_eating_junk_food_nutrition_professor_drops_27_pounds_on_twinkie_diet.html
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Music, music, music
I have tried a couple of times to listen to music while jumping or doing my workout, but headphones annoy me and I didn't have a lot of luck putting together a good work out mix on my ipod.
New favorite thing: Pandora on my blackberry. Specifically the "80s pop radio" station. Michael Jackson, Prince, all of my high school favorites. Slightly cheesy, but it works:)
New favorite thing: Pandora on my blackberry. Specifically the "80s pop radio" station. Michael Jackson, Prince, all of my high school favorites. Slightly cheesy, but it works:)
Today I'm starving!!
Not sure why, but I can't seem to get enough food today. Finished dinner (apple, yogurt, egg white) and immediately wanted to eat my evening snack. Waited an hour, and literally just inhaled it (sweet potato chips - the PCP friendly version). Still antsy/hungry. Still have yogurt to go, but it's only 8:30, so I need to slow down:)
Looking forward to starting the new diet tomorrow - and eating protein/AMAYW veggies again at dinner. But also thinking, does this mean we're as lean and mean (weight wise) as we're going to get? The next month is more and more food? Bah - I'm not doing something right, because I feel like my body hasn't changed all that much in the last 2-3 weeks - feeling flabbier than ever!
Looking forward to starting the new diet tomorrow - and eating protein/AMAYW veggies again at dinner. But also thinking, does this mean we're as lean and mean (weight wise) as we're going to get? The next month is more and more food? Bah - I'm not doing something right, because I feel like my body hasn't changed all that much in the last 2-3 weeks - feeling flabbier than ever!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Sleep or eat??
Got home late-ish tonight and didn't have a veggie snack prepared. So now I'm staying up late so I can roast some sweet potatoes. But I'm tired! Should I have gone to bed instead???
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Snap, Crackle, Pop - what is that??
Now more than ever my knees are talking to me - either when doing my leg exercises, or even going up stairs, I hear a yucky crackily sound. It's not painful, just weird.
Have had these noises before starting the PCP, but they've definitely gotten more noticeable as I'm paying more attention to my legs.
Hoping it's a good thing (!) and that I'm not doing damage.
Thoughts?
Have had these noises before starting the PCP, but they've definitely gotten more noticeable as I'm paying more attention to my legs.
Hoping it's a good thing (!) and that I'm not doing damage.
Thoughts?
Monday, November 1, 2010
Day 48ish
workout done - wasn't as cold as I thought.
Lunges go by a lot faster if you've got the room. I warned the neighbors and lunged up and down the street. Beats going back and forth 17 times in my back yard.
Decided after this shitty week that tequila of some sort will definitely be part of my indulgence.
My roasted asparagus is almost done. Time to go eat and sleep. New pictures are up!
Lunges go by a lot faster if you've got the room. I warned the neighbors and lunged up and down the street. Beats going back and forth 17 times in my back yard.
Decided after this shitty week that tequila of some sort will definitely be part of my indulgence.
My roasted asparagus is almost done. Time to go eat and sleep. New pictures are up!
Day 48 (or 47)
It's 10pm at night and I'm procrastinating. I'm a day behind in the workouts (again, for the second week in a row - weekend cake baking is my downfall) so I'm doing yesterday's workout today with no break on Tuesday.
But it's 38 degrees out (3 celsius)! I don't want to go out. Haven't had time all day and I've just got to do it. I think I'll warn the neighbors that I'm going to be doing my lunges out in front of the house tonight - that way I won't have to do as many back and forths (can get about 10 steps in my back patio). They already think I'm crazy for jumping, so this shouldn't be too much of a stretch.
Was thinking of blowing my indulgence on a meal completely made up of Halloween candy (I'm surrounded by it, and have yet to have one piece - I can't believe it!), but probably a nice restaurant is a much better idea.
Ok - time to freeze. JFD.
But it's 38 degrees out (3 celsius)! I don't want to go out. Haven't had time all day and I've just got to do it. I think I'll warn the neighbors that I'm going to be doing my lunges out in front of the house tonight - that way I won't have to do as many back and forths (can get about 10 steps in my back patio). They already think I'm crazy for jumping, so this shouldn't be too much of a stretch.
Was thinking of blowing my indulgence on a meal completely made up of Halloween candy (I'm surrounded by it, and have yet to have one piece - I can't believe it!), but probably a nice restaurant is a much better idea.
Ok - time to freeze. JFD.
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