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AJ Loves Bootcamp- 12 Days of Holiday Shred – Day 3*

My.

Quads.

Are.

KILLING.

Me.

I woke up this morning feeling pretty good actually- and then I decided to take the stairs (I live on the 2nd floor) 500 times as I was running errands all day.

Not a good idea.

Up is slow, but fine.

Down is bloody murder. I actually took the elevator once just to avoid going down the stairs.

When I got to class tonight, I was happy to see almost all the other people from class also with quad pain.

We did alot on the bag again tonight, and used these straps that were hooked to the wall to do pushups and reverse crunches. WOW. I could do the reverse crunches OK, but the pushups were almost to hard to do. I could barely stay in a plank position!

We ended with partner stretches. I was drenched and stinky– I felt bad for my partner.

I came home, took a nice warm shower and climbed into my jammies. I had a #WWGE dinner of leftover pork, broccoli and brown rice and 2 tiny oranges for dessert. Oh, and lots of water.

The trainer tonight told me to take 3 Motrin before I go to bed, along with a ton of water to help the leg pain. I have a feeling that the Mortin will help take care of a few other aches and pains too… :-)

I am proud of myself for today. I got alot of things accomplished that have been on my to-do list (partially because the cats had me up at 5:45am this morning). By 3 I was beat and got a good 1 1/2 long nap in.

I love naps.

Anyway, I am going to curl up in a chair and read a good book. We DO have bootcamp tomorrow night, so I am going to go ahead with my plan of hanging IN tomorrow night – me, popcorn, a diet coke (first one in 4 days! Go me!) and movies that I have been wanting to see. We have an awesome movie viewing room in the condo building so I am excited to check it out.

PLEASE be safe tomorrow night what ever you do!

AJ

* With my legs this sore, I swore today was day 5 of the class. But alas, only day 3. :-)

December 30th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: bootcamp, workout, WWGE | One comment

AJ Eats What Grandma Would Eat – Meal 1 (in pictures)

Choosing- a plate or a bowl?Choosing- a plate or a bowl?

Bowl of broccoli after it is cooked- I added a small amount of cracked pepper and lemon.Big bowl of broccoli after it is cooked- I added a small amount of cracked pepper and lemon

Before- the crockpot meal. Just boneless porkchops, 2 cans (drained) mushroom pieces, 1 can cream of mushroom soup, water; then an hour before it is done, add 2 cups minute brown rice.Before- the full crockpot meal. Just boneless porkchops, 2 cans (drained) mushroom pieces, 1 can cream of mushroom soup, water; cook for about 6 hrs on High. An hour before it is done, add 2 cups minute brown rice. (PS I use crockpot liners, that is what the plastic bag thing you see in the pic is. Best invention ever!)

WWGE meal= before I cut the pork chop in half.WWGE meal= before I cut the pork chop in half. (I chose the plate)

After I cut it in half. Messy, but you get the jyst!After I cut it in half. Messy, but you get the jyst!

Forgot to take a picture of the leftovers, but I have 3 more WWGE sized meals and an extra  porkchop from  all this. I am content, not full. I think I will need something sweet later, but I have some greek yogurt that will do the trick!

PS: Sorry this post is so wonky– I am trying to work out the kinks with the Picasa photo feed.

December 29th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: WWGE | One comment

AJ Loves Bootcamp- 12 Days of Holiday Shred – Day 2

New insturctor, new kick @ssedness.

Each day we will have a new instructor– yesterday was a former Chicago Heavyweight boxing champion — today was a tiny woman who was a Drill Sargent– and I loved her.

Lunges, lunges, squats, squats. The dreaded mountain climbers. Squat holds. Bicep curls. Something called “reptile pushups”.

It was crazy-balls, but I did it. My stomach muscles are sore and my arms are jello right now, but I am pumped.

Day 2 is over, and I did it.

I DID IT.

I have the biggest smile on my face right now. I am so proud of ME.

Tonight I am working off of my self-made #WWGE diet:

  • Crockpot pork  – cooked with 1 can of cream of mushroom soup and a bit of water (1/2 a chop)
  • broccoli (1/2 the serving I would normally eat)
  • brown rice – cooked with the pork and soup (1/2 a cup)
  • 12 oz of water

Since I worked out tonight, I might end up eating a bit more broccoli to fill me up, but we shall see. I will photograph my plate(s) before eating.

I am so excited, soon my camera will be automatically transferring my pictures to my computer– I got a deal on an Eye-Fi card through a Google thingy-madingy. I should get the card soon and will have a full report as soon as I use it the first time. :-)

Off to eat dinner!

AJ

December 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: bootcamp, Done with diets, Excercise, WWGE | One comment

AJ has another small (weight loss) epiphany

Christmas Day was great, my grandma and I spent most of the day at the nursing home with my grandpa. My grandpa’s sister and her husband ate dinner (which in Iowa speak is lunch – evening meal is supper) with us.

The food was fine at the nursing home, but I had mixed emotions about eating there. The food was plated for us and we each received 2 small squares of ham, 1 small portion of sweet potato, a tablespoon of corn, and 1/2 piece of rye bread. Oh, and 4 cooked baby carrots. Desert was an 1/8 of a lemon meringue pie.

Here lies the mixes emotions.

I had TOTAL PORTION CONTROL. I was satisfied but not stuffed after dinner. I wasn’t sluggish or tired. I felt THE WAY PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO FEEL AFTER EATING.

But I wasn’t MENTALLY SATISFIED.

Where was the mashed potatoes and gravy that we always have at Christmas time? The turkey? The second and third helpings? Unbuttoning of my pants and eating pumpkin pie just to have some even though I am so full I could yack?

I had arrived “home” with the mentality that I was not going to eat healthy—that this was going to be a “fluke” in the month and I could have whatever I wanted – it’s Christmas, right?!?

But my grandma (and the nursing home dietitian) got in the way.

My grandma eats like a bird. Her portions are almost laughable—until you measure out the “recommended” serving sizes and see she is SPOT ON. On Christmas Eve I tweeted this:

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She decided not to cook this week (other than “a” pork chop in the crockpot for us to share) because with just the two of us eating, it made no sense to cook a big meal. I completely understood, and just let he dictate the meals.

I couldn’t believe that I was feeling GOOD (not bloated, crabby, tired) like I usually did during the holidays—then I realized—I had BEEN EATING LIKE MY GRANDMA! She was fixing my plates, making sure I was eating mostly veggies and protein and we had been drinking only water (she doesn’t keep soda in the house anymore.)

Then, on Saturday night, we decided to get tacos from my favorite local joint, and I got a diet soda since I had a headache that would not quit (that I chalked up to a caffeine-withdrawal issue).

Seriously, within an hour of eating 3 beef tacos and a diet coke, I was over-full, bloated, gassy and crabby.

I hadn’t eaten any veggies and the protein was crap. I had soda which I swear was making my stomach hurt.

I realized, eating grandma-like portions (which may look crazy-small initially) was the way to eat all the time.

She eats chocolate.

She eats bread and white potatoes.

She partakes in all the “forbidden” foods…

She just eats the correct portions!!!!

Seriously, I am going to follow her eating patterns for a few weeks and see how I do. I will tag my posts with WWGE (what would grandma eat?) and see if I notice a difference*.

Would you like to join me? It’s just committing to eating much smaller portions than you are now and leaving the table satisfied but not full. That’s it! let me know if you want to join in!

*Cavaot: 12 days of Shred bootcamp starts tomorrow – 12 full days of bootcamp with only Sundays off—this may cause me to eat a bit more protein than grandma would, but she is not working out like a fiend either…

December 28th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized, WWGE | 4 comments