Lets face it I can't blame anyone but me

Yep that's the battle cry of mine. I can't fault anyone or anything but me. My weightloss, my workouts, etc. are all me. I appreciate when I have someone to workout with because it makes time go faster and seem more productive.

So onto other news I'm now unemployed I was laid off and for now I'm going to enjoy having time off. I have money to survive for a while plus I'm hoping for unemployment. So in the mean time what I'm going to do because I'm expecting a new job to start up around the first week in January.

But lets face it I have to have a back up plan if all else fails.Which is to join either the Army or Navy. I think I'm in a prime position to get ready right now. So I am planning on getting all Biggest Loser on my ass. I will be working out 2-3 times a day.

So anyway that's my plan. I went to the gym tonight at 8pm and got my week 1 going.

Until next time my friends!

Quick update

Well I'm not really trying to type a whole bunch here. But anyway my friend and I have been meeting up 2-3 times a week and doing 40-45 minutes of cardio on the treadmill/bike. I feel bad though she prefers the elliptical but I'm just not ready for it yet. But I've come up with a game plan for this next week to do 5 minutes each day on the elliptical and add 1 minute each week after and build up.

I am also needing to incorporate the nautilus machines and get back in the pool too. So anyways for now that's where I leave you until next time.

Take care all!

-B-

Week 3 & 4 a bust ... ramping it up and changing

I can count on 1 hand how many times I worked out this past 2 weeks. I'm running into a burn out again. I am finding my timing to be the biggest factor. So I have a new plan of action.

0500 (5am) - Circuit training for 1 hour

0700 - Breakfast

0830-1700 (8:30am-5pm) - Work (lunch/dinner around 1400(2pm) at work)

1730-1800 (5:30pm-6pm) - Cardio

2100 (9pm)- Pool

AND ... the cool thing is I have someone meeting up with me at 5:30pm to do the cardio. So I'm looking forward to it!

So basically breaking up my workout into 3 parts during the day. I'm not sure if this will cause burnout quicker throughout the day but I want to test it. Because I know doing the workout in 1 visit burnout happens quick. The mentality is "HAVE TO" instead of "WANT TO". So we'll see what happens.

In regards to food intake. I'm trying something a little different. Breakfast I get the Subway breakfast 6" Flatbread, Ham, White Egg, Pepperjack Cheese, Bell Pepper, Onion, and Jalapeno with a bottle of water. Then usually around 2-3pm I get a footlong club (ham, turkey, roast beef) with all the veggies & mayo/honey mustard that doubles as a lunch & dinner.

So once I re-introduce exercise I expect this alteration to make a difference.

So wish me luck and I'll update ya next week.

Brandon

Goodbye week 2, Hello week 3

Well week 2 was a total bust! It didn't go at all the way I thought it would. The week started great:

Sunday - Upper body (2 sets of 10) + pool

Monday - Cardio (1 mile @ 4mph) + pool

Tuesday - Abs (2 sets of 10) + pool

And that was it. Something fubar'ed after that and I can't pinpoint it. I know Wednesday for a fact I was tired out of my mind and my intention was to go to bed early at get up at 4:30am and doing the cardio but it just didn't happen. As far as Thursday & Friday goes I have no excuse I could have gone and didn't.

So tonight I begin week 3. This is irregardless of the days missed so that means the sets go up to 3 and I push myself a little harder on the cardio. Not really ready for it but we'll see what happens.

The plus side of food I can say that I am happy for the most part this week the boss brought his lunch, I brought mine so I managed to stay on target for the daily food intake. So I'm happy about that. Yesterday(Saturday) I introduced the HCG drops into the mix that I found online. The only thing is I don't plan on fully following the HCG diet because I disagree with the 500 calorie diet for like a month. So I'll more or less keep my usual intake and keep the drops going to see what happens. A bit of a scientific experiment lol.

Until next time my friends.

Week 1 in review, Week 2 starting

To start this 5 pound weight loss for the week!

I absolutely love the 1st week of working out because its only 1 set of 10. But I held true to my workout regiment and it started last Sunday (26 September) and this is what it looked like:

Sun - Upper body machines (1 set of 10) + pool

Mon - Cardio (1 mile @ 4mph on treadmill) + pool

Tues - Ab machines (1 set of 10) + pool

Wed - Cardio (1 mile @ 4mph on treadmill) + pool

Thu - Strength training (upper & ab machines 1 set of 10) + pool

Fri - Cardio
Sat - Cardio

Friday and Saturday was kind of unique. #1 I didn't get my cardio at the gym. On Friday I we had a new contract to start at work and we had to do the tour at the sites. So we walked for a total of 3 hours between the 2 properties. Then Saturday I took my mom to Six Flags discovery Kingdom and well we were there for 7 hours and I did a TON of walking.

But #2 the other unique thing is Saturday was SUPPOSE to be a day of rest and light stretching and ended up cardio.

So in regards to dieting for the most part I kept my diet on track with what I normally eat. The only thing that changed is Saturday I took in a little more on Breakfast, no lunch, and a big ole 12" sub for dinner. And I think there might've been 1 day where the boss bought something bad and I didn't say go to hell.

So week 2 starts tonight. Ramp up 1 more set of 10 (total of 2). I'll probably keep cardio on the treadmill where it is until my back gets back in shape. Because right now my back hurts walking too much which is from regaining all that weight back. So I gotta recondition it.

So until next Sunday my friends, be well!

A New Start - Week 1 Day 1

Well I am disgusted, disappointed, disgruntled, and probably some more "dis" words I can't think of about myself. So here goes.

So apparently I took a 3.5 month hiatus from working out. I can't believe I took the summer off from it. There's no reasonable excuse that I can give except this one.

I BURNED OUT

I was going 7 days a week. I was doing:

30 min circuit training on the weights
PLUS 25 minutes of cardio
PLUS 9 laps in the pool
PLUS 15 minute cool down in the spa
PLUS showering.

Outside of working out I was

Volunteering at IBRRC
PLUS Working Full Time
PLUS going to school full time

So I burned out and unfortunately working out took the backseat. I'm rather disappointed that I let that get the backdrop.

Onto my workout. I have decided that I need to go strictly off of my best friend's workout routing that he gave me which he used in getting fit for the military which is (pool part is my additive):

Day 1 - Upper body machines + pool
Day 2 - Cardio (2 miles) + pool
Day 3 - Core training (ab machines) + pool
Day 4 - Cardio (Windsprints) + pool
Day 5 - Strength (1 set of upper & ab machines) + pool
Day 6 - Cardio (2 miles) + pool
Day 7 - Rest/Stretching

So today I did my 1 set of 10 on the upper body machines and my pool laps. I love week 1 lol because it goes so quickly. I have to build back up to 5 sets of 10 which is depressing lol.

So onto why I'm all those "dis" words about myself. So apparently from early June when I took my hiatus until now I managed to pack back on 24 pounds!!! The gym scale says I'm 353 which I haven't been since 2006 when I became a security manager.

Here is what I have to do to get back on track.

1.) Stick strictly to my daily intake that I have planned out

2.) Tell my boss to go to hell when he tries to buy fast food crap breakfast/lunch

3.) Stay on track with my workout plan and not add onto it that doesn't need adding

I'm also looking into something that is bound to spark some controversy and some possible "don't do it Brandon". I have recently been told about HCG drops / liquid diet kinda thing (www.yourhcg.com) I welcome opinions. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

Until next time my friends. Much love.

I'm gonna post weekly most likely so don't freak out if I don't post daily lol just check my Myspace/FB status to check in on me to see if/when I go to the gym

Week 7

Well I decided to reduce down to a weekly post on my progress. Week 7 has been rather taxing on me. There has been some changes and some stresses in my life that all attribute to the way the week went.

First off I began volunteering at IBRRC (International Bird Rescue & Research Center) in Cordelia on Saturdays from 0800-1200. Which has been a little bit of a God send I am loving being back around animals and being permitted to handle them with my prior experience at the wildlife center and the very little (to none) I got at SFDK.

Second we had a brand new post begin at my job (security) in Alameda. Despite repeated efforts to get an ad put up on Craigs List it wasn't posted until 48 hours before the post started this past Friday. Which meant I spent all day Thursday interviewing and hiring people. Also one of our patrol guys quit so I was working on his replacement as well.

Third I have gotten back into school and am now working on my PhD in Public Policy and Administration with focus in Criminal Justice. Needless to say the work load makes my bachelors and masters degree almost look like my associates degree in terms of work load! Unbelievable.

So if memory serves I actually worked out 2-3 days this past week. However, thankfully the boss wasn't in the office all that much (leaving me with all the work) BUT it also allowed me the chance to stick to my diet.

I will be weighing in Monday morning (as this is now Sunday night that I am posting this). I meant to weigh in Saturday morning as is my normal routine after my last chance workout nights on Fridays.

I'm also going to condense my weigh ins located on the left of this blog to a monthly weigh in. I'll post the weekly's until the end of the month then combine them into 1 posting for the month. That way my blog isn't so cluttered.

Anyways until next weekend my friends I bid you good night! (I'll add a front/side view of me tomorrow didn't get a chance and I just worked out so wouldn't be very accurate).

Week 6, Day 5-7 hmmm

Okay well I'm not sure what direction I want to take this blog in from here on out. I missed my workout on days 5 & 6 because honestly I was too tired to go. This is a crappy reason to not workout.

However, I can say that I did keep my diet going all 3 days thus far. Sadly fitday.com I haven't kept it going.

So Friday night I did my last chance workout and had a great workout. I was soaked from head to toe in sweat.

I did learn something about circuit training. I noticed the weight machines I use have 3 rows.

Row 1: Arms, Shoulders, Back, Chest, and Legs

Row 2: Arms, Shoulders, Back, Chest, Legs, Abs

Row 3: Arms, Shoulders, Back, Chest, Legs

So I think I might go this route for my circuit training. Day 1, row 1 etc. etc. So this week that is my goal.

I will do my best to keep this and FitDay updated. I might switch to a weekly posting or maybe monthly like my friend is using.

So anyway lessons learned.

1. Opposed to sectional training (i.e. upper, abs, lower, etc) I am thinking I might have a better work out the new way.

2. I wonder if my cardio workout before and after the weight machines might be too much. I mean 48 minutes total. I wonder if I should go to 30 min before and then hit the pool after. (I welcome feedback)

3. I really am doing better at staying on track. Surprisingly the boss has been eating his packed lunch so its taken some of the influence from that off my shoulders.

So until next time I close with this ... 1 pound weight loss!!

Week 6, Day 4 (Legs & Arms)

I notice that as time goes on and the days I do not have to contend with the boss I stay on track. I was missing a few items for my lunches and opposed to just packing what I had and take it to work I just didn't make anything. Which in a round about way worked out. I was slammed to the wall busy!! I managed to get next door to the convenience store and got a bag of chips, dip, and a Dr. Pepper.

But as we all know that if you are busy and don't get food things can go down hill rapidly! I was irritable and a smidge dizzy! I wasn't getting the nutrition I conditioned my body to get. So lesson learned ... MAKE SURE TO PACK LUNCH AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE SOMETHING GET IT!!




My friends I'm upset with myself! I left my backpack with my laptop locked in my office at work! Which makes telling you my circuits tonight a smidge difficult. Basically though I had to make up for Monday which was leg day, and then do today which was arm day. But let me see if I can do this!

Workout

Bike - 24 min - 90-100rpm (5.25 miles!)

I'm using my memory to remember the order the machines are in lol...

Leg Circuit

Circuit 1: Leg Extension, Laying Leg Curl, Calf Extension

Circuit 2: Seated Leg Curl, Seated Leg Press, Glute Isolator, Hamflexor

Circuit 3: Outer Hip Abuction, Inner Hip Abduction, Seated Leg Press, Leg Extension, Seated Leg Curl

Arm Circuit

Circuit 1: Tricep Extensions, Arm Curl, Overhead Press, Seated Row, Chest Press

Circuit 2: Tricep Extensions, Arm Curl, Lateral Raise, Lat Pull Down, Chest Press

Circuit 3: Triceps Dip, Overhead Triceps, Overhead Press, MD 216 Low Back, Pectoral Fly Frontward, Pectoral Fly Reverse, Chest Press

Bike - 14 min - 80rpm (I was whooped doing 2 days in 1)


Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

Lessons learned about holidays. When the boss gives me permission to work 4 hours and the gym has limited hours arrange to come to work after the workout!

Week 6, Day 3 (Memorial Day)

My friends, my friends in my world of dieting and working out HOLIDAYS SUCK!! Let me enlighten you as to what I am talking about.

Given it was a holiday I "could have" had the day off from work, without pay. Whereas the corporate big whigs (including my boss) gets paid to take the day off. So I was hell bent that would be in for this holiday. I could not afford to take it off. Supposedly the boss tried his best and could only approve me for 4 hours.

I went to work at 0830 (8:30am) until technically 12:30pm (I managed to sneak out early with the boss' blessing and got paid the full 4 hours). The problem is that 24 Hour Fitness due to the holiday closed at midnight Sunday and was only open for this day from 0800-1300 (8a-1p). So by the time I got off from work and back home to grab my gym bag I would have had about maybe possibly 30 min to workout. Just didn't seem viable.

The outcome ... Double the workout Tuesday! OYE VE!

So anyway I relatively behaved this day. Check it out. By the way substitute the Alfredo with Marinara (according to the bottles the cals are the same, I'm just too lazy to input it.



I spent the remainder of the day loafing and watching Band of Brothers on USA (Channel 42). Really enjoyed it but I was bored to death. I had to stop myself from binge eating! NO BUENO!!

Week 6, Day 2 (Ab Circuit)

Howdy my faithful readers. I guess I'm a smidge behind to post this. Now grant it I can change the post time which I do to show when it should be posted. The actual date is 5/31/10 around 3:39pm (Memorial Day). So writing as if it is still Sunday will be a bit difficult to do.

Lets start with what I took in:

Breakfast - 1 glass OJ, 1 pancake w/Sugar Free Syrup, 1 breakfast sandwich (wheat muffin, 1 egg, 1 turkey bacon, 1 piece of jalapeno cheese).

Snack - Granola Bar

Lunch - Sandwich (Wheat bread, 1 piece roast beef by eating right, 1 piece of provolone cheese, dijon mustard), 1 serving of chips, 1 diet pepsi

Snack - Granola Bar

INDULGENCE - Subway foot long Oven Roasted Chicken Breast, all veggies, honey mustard, light mayo, wheat bread...1 serving of chips, 1 diet coke medium

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken marinara

WORKOUT

Today was ab day which is brutal in and of itself but I have been pushing and punishing myself for missing a workout 3 days last week. So here goes:

24 min on Bike 90 rpm incline from 1 to 10 then back down to 1

5 set of 10:

Circuit 1 Ab Crunch, Nitro Abdominal

Circuit 2 Ab Crunch, Nitro Abdominal, Ab Core

You read that right total of 100 crunches, 100 nitro, and 50 ab core! Felt great!

24 min on Bike 90 rpm incline from 1 to 8 down to 1, back up to 5 down to 1

Pool work

1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

As I was leaving the gym I saw that the gym was set to close at midnight and reopen at 8am and then close at 1pm for the Memorial Day holiday. Knowing that I had to go into work from 830-1230 I knew right then that working out on Monday was out of the question.

My plan to make up for it is to wake up at 4:30am on Tuesday do my Monday workout, go to work, come home, nap, then go back at 9pm and do Tuesdays workout. Needless to say I'll be sore!

This is how I feel when I go to workout. Feel like I'm not trying hard enough and want to tell myself to shut the f*ck up and do it:

Week 6, Day 1 (Upper Body Circuit)

Well I held true to what I put in my last blog. I decided to punish myself something fierce for missing 3 days. So lets get on with this. Here is my intake:





My workout. Now what I did this time is I did circuit training method. Now grant it the typical circuit is upper body, lower body, cardio, etc. But I did it in a different way. So here goes:
Cardio

24 min on the bike 90 rpm.

Strength Training

5 sets of 10

Circuit 1: Tricep Extensions, Arm Curl, Overhead Press, Seated Row, Chest Press

Circuit 2: Tricep Extensions, Arm Curl, Lateral Raise, Lat Pull Down, Chest Press

Circuit 3: Triceps Dip, Overhead Triceps, Overhead Press, MD 216 Low Back, Pectoral Fly Frontward, Pectoral Fly Reverse, Chest Press

Cardio

24 min on the bike 90 rpm.

Pool Work

1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

Yes I gave myself a good beating but I'm not done. Tomorrow I'll whip my ass on the ab machines. I'll be doing doubles on the abs so yes that mean 10 sets of 10 on the 3 ab machines. And yes continue to to whip my ass on the bike like I have been.

I had to cut out the treadmill for a while as my knees are killing me and the bike seems to not hurt as much.

Anyway until next time!

Here's this week's pic. Home scale says 330 which means a 2 lb weightless.

Week 5, Day 7 (Shoulda been Last Chance Workout)

I'm so disappointed in myself I can't see straight. It was Friday I mean its suppose to be TGIF right I should be full of energy. What the hell happened to me this week is just crazy.

Today's food intake was stupid ridiculous. I ate stupid. I didn't get my workout in because I crashed out when I got home. So the last chance workout didn't happen.





So lessons learned I guess. I need to quit making excuses and just do it each night. There's no reason why I didn't do my workouts this past week seriously. So Saturday is a new day and I'll start over again. I'm gonna push myself crazy hard this week and add some weights to the machine to increase my intensity to sorta punish myself and push myself to go further.

Week 5, Day 6 (Shoulda been Lower Body)

Well my mom was suppose to have surgery on Thursday and instead a series of events happened and her surgery didn't happen. My day was a little hectic that started at 0430am. I got off work and went to bed and slept through the night. So needless to say my workout didn't happen.

So here is the extent of what happened.

Week 5, Day 5 (Shoulda been Abs)

So Wednesday was a little unusual. I slept til about 7:30am got up with enough time to make breakfast, brush teeth and run out the door. Well the twist to what is normally a usual day is after work I picked my mom to come over for the night. She needed to take a shower at my place (I have her shower chair) and then she was set to have her surgery to remove her gall bladder in the morning.

I did not go and workout Wednesday night. Reason being is mom was over and I was enjoying spending time with her. It had been a long time since she stayed the night. Also given she was having surgery and I would not see or talk to as frequently during her recovery I opted to stay home and result in a double workout on Thursday night.

Anyway onto my intake. Click the image below for a larger pic. The boss wanted Jack in the Box for lunch I made him buy me 2 grilled chicken sandwiches. He was a good boy and bought them lol.





Like I said there was no workout today but Thursday I'm fully planning on a double workout lucky me lol.

Week 5, Day 4 (Legs & Upper Body)

I tell myself this everytime but I never seem to listen to myself. But lets try again. I swear I'll never miss a day of working out again! Its so brutal to make up 2 days in 1 visit to the gym!

I've decided though to post my food intake like this because it gives me (and you who actually read this) a view as to what FitDay.com puts my intake at so here goes (click on it to see a larger/readable pic):




And my workout consisted of:

24 min on the bike @ 85-90 rpm

24 min on the treadmill @ 3.5 mph

5 sets of 10 on upper body machines

5 sets of 10 on the lower body machines/legs

Pool work is always the same lol

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap


After the gym I had my yogurt and granola bar but its in the list up above.

Have a great day all!

Week 5, Day 3 (SLACKER!!)

The good news for this is that I followed my diet as I set forth to myself. Which is awesome. Where I went wrong is from not getting in a good night sleep on Sunday night I was exhausted last night and couldn't even begin to wake up last night nor this morning to go workout. So I'll be doubling up my workout tonight after watching season finale of Biggest Loser & NCIS.

My intake:

Breakfast - Breakfast sandwich (muffin, egg, bacon, cheese), 1 pancake

Snack - Granola bar

Lunch - Homemade sandwich (bread, ham, cheese), Apple slices, Chips, water

Snack - Granola Bar

Dinner - Chicken fettuccine Alfredo (1 cup)

Snack - Yogurt

FitDay.com says 1398 Calories. Given everything I had I inputted directly into fitday that is accurate!

Lessons learned for today. I was an hour away from my workout time when I decided to nap before going. When its that close to time I need to just stay awake and go! I know that given my history if I slack off too much then I'll have to start over from square 1 which is what I do not want to do.

Week 5, Day 2 (ABS)

Abs, abs, abs ... oye ve! When you max out 5 set of 10 is a little painful lol. Anyway because of my intake I'll break it down the old way.

Breakfast - Breakfast sandwich (muffin, egg, bacon, cheese), 1 pancake

Snack - Granola bar

Lunch - Homemade sandwich (bread, ham, cheese), Apple slices, Chips, water

Snack - (not really a snack) 12" Oven Roasted chicken sandwhich (subway), 1 bag of chips, diet coke (blew all my calories in 1 meal!)

Dinner - Chicken fetticini alfredo (1 cup)

Post workout "snack" - granola bar, and yogurt

FitDay.com says I really screwed up today 4,595 calories. Disappointing that you can blow all 1600 anticipated calories in 1 simple meal from Subway...GRRR

So anyway my workout:

24 min on Bike (80rpm)

24 min on Treadmill (80rpm)

5 set of 10 on abs equipment.

Anyway I'm having severe allergy problems today and cant breathe through my nose at all. The lack of oxygen is making me incredibly tired. So good night...I hope!

Week 5, Day 1 (Sets Maxed Out)

Well today started Week 5! Which means I have now maxed out my sets. Based on the workout given to me by my friend,  I have maxed out to 5 Sets of 10 Reps.

I'm keeping my intake simple. Here is a "snapshot" from FitDay.com of my intake :-) Yep I'm being lazy. (Click on it for the larger pic, for those interested)





I kept my calories under 1600 like I had planned all along.

So anyway my workout:

24 min on Bike (80rpm)

24 min on Treadmill (80rpm)

5 set of 10 on upper body equipment.

So lessons learned over this last week. Subway while its my favorite and only fast food I need to be a little more cognizant of what I order from there. Now that I'm using FitDay.com and I am being brutally honest and inputting everything into FitDay as I find it. Here I thought even on my subway days I was under my 2000 calorie goal I have actually been OVER, WAY OVER.

So anyway I'll be doing my weigh in tomorrow morning and get ya'll my side/front pics.

Much love and good night to all!

Week 4, Day 7 (Last Chance Workout)

I'm rather disappointed in myself. I didn't manage to get my Thursday night workout done. The alarm never sounded and next thing I knew it was 6:30am Friday. So my leg workout didn't happen.

As you can tell this is posted on Saturday. Well its because I couldn't bring myself to wake up for my normal 9pm workout. So instead I did it this morning at 4:30am. So anyway here's what I took in on Friday!

Intake:
Breakfast - Breakfast Sandwich (whole wheat muffin, 1 egg, 1 turkey bacon, 1 cheese), and 1 pancake with orange juice

Snack - Dorito's Cooler Ranch, Pepsi,, Reese's Peanut Butter Cup (not good but I forgot my lunch at home), Fritos Jalapeno Cheddar

Lunch - Baked Lays Sour Cream & Onion, Doritos Collisions, ,Chiquita Apple Slices, Sandwich (Eating Right Ham,Lucerne Pepperjack, Safeway Dijon Mustard, Safeway Butter Top Wheat Bread)

Dinner - Chicken Fetticini (Safeway Alfredo Sauce, ,Safeway Rotini,
Safeway Chicken Breast)

According to FiDay.com my calories totaled: 2,485


Workout
24min Bike 80-90rpm
24min treadmill
4 set of 10 on all upper body machines (16 machines)
4 set of 10 on all leg/lower body machines (13 machines)
4 set of 10 on all abs machines (3 machines)

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap


I'll weigh in tomorrow morning. If there is no results then I'll switch to once a month. Anyway Happy saturday to all!

Week 4, Day 6

Just a reminder to those who didn't see it on Facebook but I remembered a site where counting calories is very easy now! Its FitDay.com you can make your custom foods where you can enter the specifics of the calories, fat, etc. Check it out!

Today was an early workout day to make up for yesterday. But as expected I got way too tired to go workout at night so I'll try this getting up early thing again tomorrow and do today's workout and then tomorrow night come hell or high water I have to go do my LCW (Last Chance Workout!!!!!!)

So the workout:

24min on bike @ 90-95rpms (inclined from 1 to 11, then 11 to 1, then back up to 5)

24min on treadmill @ 3.5mph (1.25 miles)

4 sets of 10 on ab machines

Pool work

1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

Given that I worked out first I thought it only appropriate to now mention the food second. So here goes:

Breakfast - Breakfast Sandwich (egg, turkey bacon, cheese, whole wheat muffin), 1 pancake with sugar free syrup (4" pancake)

Snack - None =(

Lunch - Home made sandwich (pepper jack cheese, 2 slices of eating right ham, 2 slice wheat bread), 1oz of chips, 12 apple slices, 1 bottle of water

Snack - 4 reese's peanut butter cups, 1 12oz Dr. Pepper (I know SOOO not good)

Dinner - 12" Sandwich from subway (Oven roasted chicken, pepper jack cheese, light mayo, honey mustard, all veggies, pepper, vinegar), 3 chocolate chip cookies, 24oz Dr. pepper (again NOT GOOD)

I have to give major acknowledgement to my good friend who told me that the Subway sandwiches were off the charts high in calories but it wasn't until I inputted it in Fitday.com that I realized how right he was!!

According to FitDay.com inputting all the food I took in into its "Custom Food" section I took in 4,414 calories. Which as I have learned 3,500 calories = 1 pound weight gain. So technically I gained 1 & 1/5 pounds of weight today without the exercise.

Now this is where FitDay and I get into an argument. If you go there they let you input your exercise into it. HOWEVER, it doesn't let you customize like for instance input your particulars on the bike or the treadmill it gives set numbers of calories. It says I burned more on the treadmill & bike then they said at the gym. Odd really But I'll go with it.

They also use a "average" calorie burn through your daily life doing regular day to day things "Sedentary" Lifestyle which after you input your workout it takes the leftover time in the day and figure how many calories you burn.

According to FitDay.com Sedentary 3,202 calories burned, 952 calories burned in exercise total of 4,443 calories in a day. Which would lead you to believe that I burned everything I ate. But somehow I find a flaw in that!

So anyway I'm pretty wiped out tired and have to be up in under 8 hours. So I bid you goodnight (sorry no pic tonight I'll make up for it tomorrow!)

Week 4, Day 5

I'm falling behind on my blogs which knowing my streak means I'll fall behind on my workouts which scares the ever living out of me. So for this Wednesday I was able to keep it simple given that the boss wasn't at work to tempt me with things I shouldn't eat!

Breakfast - 1 pancake, Breakfast sandwich (1 egg, 1 whole wheat muffin, 1 turkey bacon, 1 slice cheese), 1 glass orange juice

Snack - (NONE Forgot to buy at store grrr!)

Lunch - 12" Oven Roasted Chicken all veggies, very light mayo & honey mustard, 1 bag of baked lays bbq chips, diet coke

Snack - (NONE Forgot to buy at store grrr!)

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken fettuccine

Sadly I was very tired at the time of this blog. I have been taking naps after work from like 7pm-9pm before going to the gym. I find as a result I am either a) going to the gym by 10pm or b) talking myself into doubling up the next day. I think either I need to stay up and go to the gym or revert back and go to the gym at 4:30am again.

So needless to say I'm going back to bed and then I'll go to the gym at 0430, then go to work, come home and hit the gym again at 9pm. Its really frustrating me. I am thinking I need to go back to early morning workouts.

The problem I see in there is that on Saturday I'll max out my sets which is 5 sets of 10 on the weight machines. Which obviously means I'll have to spend more time at the gym. Which means if I go in the morning I'll have to go earlier and earlier.

I just dunno I'm falling behind and its not a good thing. This Friday is "Last Chance Workout" as I like to call it before I weigh in on Saturday and I can't do LCW at 4:30am it just takes too long with ALL the machines. So we'll see, we'll see.

Week 4, Day 4 (Kickass Workout!)

Its always nice when the boss doesn't come in you can take care of yourself better as it relates to the diet! Except, I didn't go to the store and had to go to Subway again. Which as my great friend pointed out there are alot of calories if you don't order your sandwich right!

Anyway I'm tired as heck so I'll keep this quick today.


So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 2 Breakfast Jacks (I overslept and was on the run, not a good excuse & again didn't go to safeway to buy what I need to make my breakfast)

Snack - None

Lunch - Footlong Ham on Wheat (light mayo, light honey mustard, all veggies), baked barbecue chips, diet coke (i'm cuttin back really)

Snack - 1 granola bar

Dinner - 2 Lean Pocket (Turkey/Ham w/lowfat cheese = 520 calories) ate after gym when I went to the store...FINALLY

Post Dinner Snack - None (went to safeway and had dinner) but had like 2 bottles of water I was thirsty as hell!!

My Workout KICKED ASS I really put alot into it!

Workout:

24min Bike 90-100rpm!!! rotating incline up to 10 then back down to 1 then back up to 6 (24 min total rotating up/down)

24min treadmill (4mph)

4 15sec Windsprints @ 6mph

4 set of 10 on all upper body machines
Chest Machines
Chest Press *3 (3 chest press machines)
Pectoral Fly Frontward
Pectoral Fly Reverse

Back Machines
Seated Row
Lat Pull Down
MD 216 Low Back

Shoulder Machines
Overhead Press (1)
Overhead Press (2)
Lateral Raise

Arm Machines
Arm Curl 1
Arm Curl 2
Overhead Triceps
Triceps Dip 1
Tricep Extension *2 (two machines)


Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

Overall I put alot into it and my shirt was drenched in sweat! So I have a good feeling this week.

But I'm keeping my promise to my friends if this week's weigh in is a failure I will discontinue to weigh myself. OR if I do weigh myself I won't post/complain about it.

Week 4, Day 3 (2 in 1)

Gonna make this quick. I should have posted after the gym but sadly I had a bad night at the gym. Someone stole my cell phone and had me really distraught.


So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, Breakfast sandwich (1 egg, 1 whole wheat muffin, 1 turkey bacon, 1 slice cheese), 1 glass orange juice

Snack - NONE

Lunch - foot long spicy italian, bag of baked chips, diet coke

Snack - NONE

Dinner - NONE (like i said bad day)

Workout:

24min Bike 80rpm rotating incline up to 5 then back down until I reached the 24 min.

10min treadmill (3mph)

4 set of 10 on all ABS & Lower body machines which are:
ABS Machines:
Ab Crunch
Ab Core
Nitro Abdominal

Lower Body machines:
Outer Hip Abuction
Inner Hip Abduction
Glute Isolator
Seated Leg Press (1)
Seated Leg Press (2)
Calf Extension
Laying Leg Curl
Seated Leg Curl
Hamflexor
Seated Leg Curl (1)
Seated Leg (Curl 2)
Leg Extension (1)
Leg Extension (2)


Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

Anyway no pic here except here is a pic of my $113 phone that was stolen

Week 4, Day 2 (a day off)

I had an unusual level of soreness on my body so I decided to take the day off. So this instead is what I did this Sunday.

So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, Breakfast sandwich (1 egg, 1 whole wheat muffin, 1 turkey bacon, 1 slice cheese), 1 glass orange juice

Snack - granola bar

Lunch - homemade sandwich, chips, water

Snack - 1 granola bar

Dinner - 2 cups of pasta salad

Workout:

Took the night off (which means double up the next day)

Week 4, Day 1

Weekly weigh in: 332 which is a +1 lb weight gain. 2 lbs gained in 2 weeks. Not amused.

I have been told by numerous people to quit weighing myself. Which I need to do. I've also been told muscle weighs more than fat, which I need to start believing.

So week 4. Add 1 set of 10 to my machines, and 3 min to the cardio machines. WHICH I'm happy to say I finally got a list of the machines that I use.

So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, Breakfast sandwich (1 egg, 1 whole wheat muffin, 1 turkey bacon, 1 slice cheese), 1 glass orange juice

Snack - granola bar

Lunch - foot long spicy italian, bag of baked chips, diet coke

Snack - 1 granola bar

Dinner - (ate after gym) i binged and had taco bell's crunchwrap, crunchy taco, med. pepsi, 2 cheese roll ups (no i'm not happy with myself for doing it - but it was good lol)

Workout:

24min Bike 80rpm rotating incline up to 5 then back down until I reached the 24 min.

24min treadmill (3mph - my heart wasn't in it so i didn't give it too much today)

4 set of 10 on all upper body machines which are:
Chest Machines
Chest Press *3 (3 chest press machines)
Pectoral Fly Frontward
Pectoral Fly Reverse

Back Machines
Seated Row
Lat Pull Down
MD 216 Low Back

Shoulder Machines
Overhead Press (1)
Overhead Press (2)
Lateral Raise

Arm Machines
Arm Curl 1
Arm Curl 2
Overhead Triceps
Triceps Dip 1
Tricep Extension *2 (two machines)

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

As weekly promised...I just don't see a change

Week 3, Day 7 (Last Chance Workout)

Week 3 Last Chance Workout. I decided to quit calling it the gauntlet. Reason being is I've been inspired by The Biggest Loser might as well use verbiage from it lol. My weekly weigh in will be in the morning when I wake up.

Breakfast - Subway's breakfast sadwich (muffin, egg white, cheese, ham) & a diet coke (yeah I caved again)

Snack - Granola Bar

Lunch - Homemade sandwich, chips, apple, water

Snack - boss bought Taco Bell. In some weird way I convinced myself with last chance workout tonight it was okay. I was wrong ugh

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken fettuccine alfredo

Post Workout Snack - yogurt & granola bar

As I put in the first day of week 3 I have added a set of 10 to each of the workouts. So because of that my workout took like 3 hours! So here goes.

21min Bike 80-90rpm 4.62miles (168 calories burned)
21min treadmill (3.5mph = 1.21 mile, 216 calories burned)
3 set of 10 on all upper body machines (16 machines)
3 set of 10 on all leg/lower body machines (13 machines)
3 set of 10 on all abs machines (3 machines)

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

I'm very whooped right now and ready for bed!

As always I will post a current side/front pic of me with my current weight.

LOL can't seem to find a good pic for today I'll try to make it up to you all tomorrow.

Week 3, Day 6

Well less than 24 hours until the "LAST CHANCE WORKOUT" before the weigh in on Saturday morning!

I was asked today by an employee of mine what motivates me to go 7 days a week. I said there is 2 things. The 1st is I've been carrying around this excessive weight for many many years and its time for it to go. The 2nd is the show The Biggest Loser, hense why I call my workout on Friday night the Last Chance Workout.

I have realized in my efforts though the reason that they lose double digit weight on the show and at home its NEARLY impossible. The reason is 1) they are monitored by a doctor, 2) their diet is strictly regimented & they go through dietary education, and 3) they workout far more than your average person, they workout 6-8 hours a day the average person works out 1-3 hours a day (or less).

Anyway on with my usual post.

Today was LOWER BODY DAY.

Lesson learned: Actually today I remembered my sugar free gum and the granola bars to work.

So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 whole wheat muffin (with 1 egg, 1 turkey bacon, lowfat cheese), & 1 glass orange juice

Snack - NONE (forgot the darn granola bar yet again)

Lunch - Home made turkey sandwich, chips, water, apple slices

Snack - 1 granola bar

Dinner - Foot long spicy italian from subway and a diet soda (yeah i caved)

Post workout snack/meal - vanilla yogurt, granola bar


Workout:

21min Bike 80-90rpm incline up to 11 then back down

20min treadmill (3.5mph no incline)

3 set of 10 on all lower body machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

Alrighty well I have to be up early tomorrow. My mom has been diagnosed with Gallstones and needs to see the doctor in the morning and I'll be taking her. So good night!

I mean seriously I find it horrible that in this pic I look as wide as the Walrus! The walrus in this pic though is 1500 lbs luckily I was only about 340ish.

Week 3, Day 5

Its always nice when the boss isn't in the office! I can usually stick to my diet then. The problem is when he's there he likes to "surprise" me with lunch or breakfast. When he buys its usually mcdonalds, burger king, or jack in the box. So I have to be careful when he does stuff like that to cut it in half and keep the other half for dinner.

I changed my breakfast a smidge lol. I substituted the wheat toast with a whole wheat muffin. I took the egg, the turkey bacoon, and some lowfat cheese and put it all together in a weird looking McMuffin lol.

It was Ab Day today so anyway here goes!

So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 whole wheat muffin (with 1 egg, 1 turkey bacon, lowfat cheese), & 1 glass orange juice

Snack - NONE (forgot the darn granola bar yet again)

Lunch - Home made turkey sandwich, chips, water, apple slices

Snack - 1 granola bar

Dinner - 1 cup chicken pasta salad (pasta, chicken, salami chunks(small), cheese), 1 serving of rice with pepperjack cheese on it

Post workout snack/meal - vanilla yogurt, granola bar

Workout:

21min Bike 80rpm

21min treadmill (3.5mph)

3 set of 10 on all ab machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

I'm happy to say the post workout "snack" really helped to stop the craving! Anyway I'm learning to be a bit stronger about certain things like outside pressure to eat bad.

Some motivation. Never again!

Week 3, Day 4

Today was a relatively good day. I finally got around to picking up some yogurt for after work. Only because after the workout I'm a bit hungry which going to bed is difficult.

Lessons learned. My assertive ability with my boss to say no to his offer of food is just not good. I need to work a little more on it. He needs to buy subway or nothing! For God sake I pack my lunch everyday.

Anyway I'm tired as heck so I'll keep this quick today.


So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - flippin boss bought Jack in the Box breakfast burrito, hash brown, and a coke

Lunch - Home made wheat sandwich with turkey, cheese, dijon mustard, chips, apple slices and water.

Snack - 1 granola bar

Dinner -Home made wheat sandwich with turkey, cheese, dijon mustard, chips, apple slices and water.

Post workout snack/meal - chef salad bowl and vanilla yogurt

Workout:

21min Bike 80rpm rotating incline up to 5 then back down until I reached the 21 min.

20min treadmill (3.5mph)

3 set of 10 on all upper body machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

I bid you all goodnight!

Week 3, Day 3

Today was LOWER BODY DAY. The workout was awesome 3 set of 10 on the machines and lets see about 6 machines I think lol I gotta take some paper and a clipboard with me so I can have an idea of what I'm doing lol.

Lessons learned from today!

1. Need to remember to bring my Extra sugar free gum to work with me!

2. Still need to remember to bring myself to Safeway and buy the yogurt and granola bars for after work (or maybe salad).

3. REMEMBER TO BRING MY GRANOLA BARS TO WORK!

So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - None

Lunch - Footlong wheat spicy italian from Subway ... Thanks BOSS! lol no chips drank water with it

Snack - None

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken fettuccine alfredo

Post workout - salad bowl and 2 string cheese

Workout:

21min Bike 80rpm incline up to 10 then back down, last 2 minutes incline back up to 3

20min treadmill (3.5mph no incline)

3 set of 10 on all lower body machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

So another lesson, sort of, I need to remember to bring my Biggest Loser cookbook with me at work to look out during my downtime to re-evaluate my meals and stuff to consider a change.

So here is another pic from Monterey Bay Aquarium from a few years ago. Again I wanna look better than this!

Week 3, Day 2

Today was AB DAY ... ugh lol. Sad thing is that the 24 Hour Fitness in Fairfield only has 3 machines & a leg lift, and incline sit up/leg lift boards. But the one in Vallejo has a few extra machines.

Lessons learned from today! Extra sugar free gum can be found at the $1 Tree Store and it really is an appetite suppressant between meals/snacks. But also need to possibly pick up some yogurt or something too.

So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - 1 granola bar

Lunch - Turkey sandwich (with dijon mustard & provolone cheese -homemade), 1 serving of doritos, 1 serving of apple slices, 1 bottle of water

Snack - 1 granola bar

1 stick Extra sugar free gum

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken fettuccine alfredo

Workout:

21min Bike 80rpm incline up to 10 then back down, last 2 minutes incline back up to 3

20min treadmill (3mph no incline)

3 set of 10 on all ab machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

So I've been thinking that I possibly need to consider changing my menu a bit to keep my body from getting used to a set pattern. Problem is that my fear is that I a) won't figure out what to change it to and b) over do the calories. So I dunno I'm gonna look through the Biggest Loser cookbook tomorrow.

Today's pic back a few years ago I took mom to Monterey Bay Aquarium, pics like this drive me to change myself!:

Week 3, Day 1

So the weigh in. God was I disappointed. It says I gained a pound so I'm up to 331. My friends tell me its because I gained muscle and it weighs more. So we'll see I'm gonna keep going.

Here's the deal I'm going to be adding 1 set to the upper/lower body and ab machines until I max out at 5 sets of 10. The treadmill & bike I'm going to add 3 minutes until I reach 30 minutes each (then I'll add extra inclines).

So here's my intake:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - 1 granola bar

Lunch - 12" Wheat ham with all veggies, 1 bag baked barbecue chips, 1 medium diet coke (I know I said I was giving it up baby stepping lol)

Snack - 1 granola bar

1 stick Extra sugar free gum (subsides the appetite!!)

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken fettuccine alfredo, bowl salad (chicken cesar)

Workout:

21min Bike 80rpm rotating incline up to 5 then back down until I reached the 21 min.

20min treadmill (3.5mph)

3 set of 10 on all upper body machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

As I try to do every week a pic of me front and side.

Week 2, Day 7 (THE GAUNTLET)

So today week 2 gauntlet on my workout! Or as I also like to call it my "LAST CHANCE WORKOUT"! Yes I'm very inspired by The Biggest Loser. I'm doing a weekly weigh in like they do in the biggest loser. So anyway first what I grubbed on today lol.

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - n/a

Lunch - 12" Wheat Spicy Italian, Bag of Lays Sour Cream&Onion (unfortunately not baked when the boss buys), and a bottle of water

Snack - n/a

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken fettuccine alfredo

So the workout the gauntlet or last chance workout which is a culmination of absolutely everything so here goes, I'm gonna get a list of each machine one of these days lol:


18min Bike 80-100rpm!!
18min treadmill (4mph = 1 mile)
2 set of 10 on all upper body machines
2 set of 10 on all leg/lower body machines
2 set of 10 on all abs machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

I tell you the Last Chance Workout always whoops my butt and I'm ready for bed. So I bid you goodnight until tomorrow.

Lessons learned this week. Need to make sure to have the snack there between meals. Because it makes a very very long day lol and makes someone antsy. But also found when I'm not influenced by outside people who buy food I stay regimented. In fact this whole week has been regimented so I'm excited for my weigh in.

Tomorrow I will post a current side/front pic of me with my current weight.

This is me at work one night tired out of my mind lol

Week 2, Day 6 (2 days in 1)

Well I feel like an idiot still from yesterday (Wednesday) can't believe I overslept and missed my workout. Anyway here goes:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - 1 granola bar, 1 cup coffee

Lunch - Sandwich (home made: ham, dijon mustard, pepper jack cheese, wheat bread), 1 serving chips, 4 apple slices, 1 diet caffeine free diet Pepsi.

Snack - 1 granola bar, diet pepsi

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken marinara

Workout:

20min Bike 80rpm (escalated incline by 1 up to 9 min then de-escalated by 1 for the last 9 min)

20min treadmill (3mph)

5min on the Elliptical (all I could stand)

2 set of 10 on all ab machines

2 set of 10 on all leg machines

Pool work
2 breast stroke lap
4 kicking laps
4 butterfly lap
2 power walking lap
2 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
2 underwater only lap

Needless to say I'm whooped from this. Tomorrow is my "Last Chance Workout" before my weigh in on Saturday. So I'm being as regimented as possible tomorrow to ensure maximum weight loss.

Week 2, Day 5 (Wed 5/5/10)

Well sorry to post so late. It was a bad and stupid day lol. Anyway my boss is out of town for family problems so I've been playing his role along with my own. ANywhere here it goes:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - 1 granola bar, 1 cup coffee

Lunch - Sandwich (home made: ham, dijon mustard, pepper jack cheese, wheat bread), 1 serving chips, 4 apple slices, 1 diet caffeine free diet Pepsi.

Snack - 1 granola bar, diet pepsi

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken marinara


Wish I could say there was a workout but sadly there wasn't. Lately I've been taking a nap before my workout so I have the energy.

BUT

I had a SNAFU (situation normal all f'ed up) apparently I didn't turn on the alarm, or the alarm went off and I turned it off or something or another lol. Anyway I missed it and woke up at 6:30am on Thursday grr.

Yep I feel like a Dee Dee Dee

Week 2, Day 4

Just an FYI I had to edit the last 3 days. I changed my workout rotation and I added a set of 10 lol I forgot to put that in!

Anyways I'm rather disappointed in myself but it also told me something about myself. I am finding my appetite is increasing as each workout day goes by. So I need to readjust my budget and my grocery/menu and add some small item (like fruit or yogurt). So anyway here goes today:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - 1 granola bar, 1 cup coffee

Lunch - Footlong subway ham on wheat all veggies, & Sandwich (home made: ham, dijon mustard, pepper jack cheese, wheat bread), 1 serving chips, 4 apple slices, 1 diet caffeine free diet Pepsi.

Snack - 1 granola bar, diet pepsi

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken pasta salad

Post-dinner indulgence - sandwich, chips, diet pepsi

Again I've realized I need to add some healthier stuff in there smaller but that suppress the appetite more. I've read the apple is a natural appetite suppressant.

Workout routine

18min Bike 80-90rpm (escalated incline by 1 up to 9 min then de-escalated by 1 for the last 9 min)

18min treadmill (4mph)

2 set of 10 on all upper body machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

About 3 days (Friday) last chance workout then weigh in on Saturday.


When I look at pictures from my encounters over the last 3-4 years I don't like what I see. The next time I do them I don't wanna look like this.

Week 2, Day 3

Today was good. I think its primarily because the boss wasn't in the office lol. Here's what I'm learning. Is now that I've changed my original workout to something a little more strenuously that I need to add a few extra healthy calories to my menu. Gotta rework my budget.

So anyway here goes:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - 1 granola bar

Lunch - Sandwich (home made: ham, dijon mustard, pepper jack cheese, wheat bread), 1 serving chips, 4 apple slices, 1 diet caffeine free diet Pepsi.

Snack - 1 granola bar, 1 cup o noodle

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken marinara & an Italiano Bowl Salad (ready made salad bowl)



Workout routine

18min Bike 80-90rpm (this time I escalated incline by 1 up to 9 min then de-escalated by 1 for the last 9 min, peak point incline 10)

18min treadmill (4mph)

2 set of 10 on all leg machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

Even my cat needs a diet that's pretty bad huh?

Week 2, Day 2

Alright well I'm proud of myself despite spending a good part of the day at the local theme park I packed what I normally eat and took it with me. So anyway here goes:

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - 1 granola bar

Lunch - Sandwich (home made: ham, dijon mustard, pepper jack cheese, wheat bread), 1 serving chips, 4 apple slices, 1 diet caffeine free diet Pepsi.

Snack - 1 granola bar

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken pasta salad

Weekend lesson learned. I need to have some yogurt or something around. I'm trying to do every 2 hours when I'm home and means I was missing 1 item.

Workout routine

18min Bike 80-90rpm (this time I escalated incline by 1 up to 9 min then de-escalated by 1 for the last 9 min)

18min treadmill (4mph)

2 set of 10 on all ab machines (4 machines)

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap
1 lap lunges

lol not sure what I was getting at in this pic but what the heck

Week 2, Day 1 (Steppin it up)

WEEKLY WEIGH IN!

Starting weight on 4/24: 334 lbs
Current weight: 5/01: 330 lbs
Weight loss: 4 lbs!

As with any workout you gotta change it up a bit. So I'm adding to it and changing the rotation this week. Anywho here it goes. My meals were a little overdone but I "treated" because of my weigh in today.

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - 1 granola bar

Lunch - Sandwich (home made: ham, dijon mustard, pepper jack cheese, wheat bread), 1 serving chips, 4 apple slices, 1 diet caffeine free diet Pepsi.

Snack - 1 granola bar, 1 12" Subway Ham on wheat (light mayo, honey mustard, all veggies), bag of baked lays regular, 1 20oz diet coke

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken pasta salad, 1 cup o noodle

Workout routine

18min Bike 80-90rpm (this time I escalated incline by 1 up to 9 min then de-escalated by 1 for the last 9 min)

18min treadmill (4mph)

2 set of 10 on all upper body machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

I'm beat I know it will be better by the end of the week. But if you read last week you'll notice that I changed the rotation.

As promised the front/side pic.

Week 1, Day 7 - THE GAUNTLET

So today I ran the gauntlet on my workout! Or as I also like to call it my "LAST CHANCE WORKOUT"! I'm doing a weekly weigh in like they do in the biggest loser. So anyway first what I grubbed on today lol.

Breakfast - 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 toast, 1 turkey bacon, 1 glass orange juice

Snack - 1 granola bar & cup of coffee

Lunch - Sandwich (home made: ham, dijon mustard, pepper jack cheese, wheat bread), 1 serving chips, 4 apple slices, 1 diet caffeine free diet Pepsi.

Snack - 1 granola bar

Dinner - 1 cup of chicken marinara (chicken, noodles, marinara sauce)

I guess I should mention that I drink at least 2-4 bottles of water. I must say I overcame a major hurdle. Boss wanted to buy lunch but he wanted Nujo's pizza, I told him unless he ordered healthy I would eat my own lunch. After all today I had to run the gauntlet at night!

So the workout the gauntlet or last chance workout which is a culmination of absolutely everything so here goes, I'm gonna get a list of each machine one of these days lol:


15min Bike 80-100rpm!!
15min treadmill (4mph = 1 mile)
1 set of 10 on all upper body machines
1 set of 10 on all leg/lower body machines
1 set of 10 on all abs machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

I'm pretty whooped but you know its good! I'm a bit hungry so I'm having a few apple slices to suppress it (natures natural appetite suppressant). I will post my updated weight with tomorrow's summation.

Tomorrow I will post a current side/front pic of me with my current weight.

I think I should a been watching what I ate at a much younger age!


Take care all!

Brandon

Week 1, Day 6

Today I tried something different. Initially I was going to work out at 4:30am but today when I woke up at 6:45am my alarm clock was off. So I found out that the power strip isn't working, has a short in it or something. So anyway here's my meals read further to see what I did differently today ;-)


Breakfast - 1 toast, 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 turkey bacon

Snack - Coffee

Lunch - 12" Ham on wheat with all veggies, light mayo, honey mustard, red wine vinegar, and a little pepper, a bag of baked lays sour cream and onion (btw the boss bought this lunch)

Snack - 1 serving doritos chili chips (forgot to bring a granola bar to work)

Dinner - 1 cup pasta salad (containing: noodles, salami pieces, cheese pieces, veggies, fat free italian dressing)


WORKOUT:

So here's what I did differently. I was gonna go to workout after work like I've done in the past week when I missed a morning. Well I got tired of it and was convinced to go later by my friend. So I went around 930pm here's what I did.

15min Bike 80-90rpm
20min treadmill (3mph)
1 set of 10 on all abs machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

So I've decided I'm gonna go at ngiht. It seems to work out a lot better for me. Its easier to go then. The morning is good because no one is there but by noon-2pm I crash and have a hard time keep going. Working the day shift isn't good. So I am hoping this keeps me going.

Tomorrow I run the gauntlet and do upper, abs, lower, cardio workout! Saturday is the weigh in.

Week 1, Day 5

I'll keep this short and sweet here goes:

Breakfast - 1 toast, 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 turkey bacon

Snack - Coffee

Lunch - Sandwich, Chips, Apple pieces ... I'm sad to say this next part, the boss said he was buying lunch and promised something healthy next thing I know he bought me 2 regular hamburgers, 1 angus burger, 1 reg. fries from Macdonalds (total calories for McDonalds 1420 sad just sad)

Snack - Granola bar

Dinner - 1 cup pasta salad (containing: noodles, salami pieces, cheese pieces, veggies, fat free italian dressing)


WORKOUT:

15min Bike 80-90rpm
15min treadmill (4mph)
1 set of 10 on all upper body machines

Pool work
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

I have decided after today that when the boss says he's buying lunch I'm going to tell him if its not Subway I'm not interested. This is irritating he's not helping me at all!

Just to say I added a pic here goes

Week 1, Day 4

Howdy all. So as I journey to find myself there comes speed bumps in the road to slow ya down somewhat. Here is the run down:

Breakfast - 1 egg, 1 bacon, 1 pancake, 1 toast, 1 glass Orange juice

Snack - NONE (coffee don't think it counts but oh well)

Lunch - 12" Spicy Italian (boss treated)

Snack - Granola bar

Dinner - 1 cup chicken pasta salad (noodles, chicken, salami, cheese, veggies)

I think overall thats not bad, it ain't great but not bad. Compared to yesterday anyway.

The gym was unbelievably busy today. You had to sign up to use a cardio machine so I got almost all done. The pool was packed to so no pool work so here goes.

Workout

15min Bike @ 80-90rpm

1 set of 10 on all leg machines


That was it. Wish I coulda got more workout in. But like I posted on facebook better 2/3 the workout than 0/3 the workout.

Looking at this picture of me makes me happy and sad all at the time. I was happy doing what I was doing but sad because I want to look good in a wetsuit!. Until next time I bid you farewell.

Week 1, Day 3

Okay so today was disappointing. I am very very disappointed in myself. I need to learn to have more restraint when it comes to offerings of people buying me meals/food. I also need to start being more disciplined about what time I wake up. I am shooting for an 0430 wake up/workout time but thus far the temptation to hit snooze or reset to 0630 had just been too much.

So therefore I'm moving my cell phone and alarm clock across the bedroom!!

So here is what happened today:

Breakfast - Jack in the Box, 2 sausage breakfast jacks, hashbrowns, and a diet coke

Lunch - Nujo's pizza 3 slices all meet pizza

Dinner - (sad to say) 3 leftover pieces of the pizza

WORKOUT

15min 4mph on treadmill
15min 80-90rpm on bike
1 set of 10 on all ab machines

Unfortunately they had an adapted aquatics class going on so I wasn't able to go in the pool. Just kinda added to my disappointment.

But for every failure comes opportunity. Lets see what tomorrow brings.

Week 1, Day 2

Week 1, Day 2
As promised. Today wasn't so good my sinuses are going haywire so I had to add 1 or 2 things to the food to try and clear it up.

Week 1, Day 2.

Food Intake

Breakfast - 1 toast, 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 turkey bacon

Snack - Cup o Noodle, 1 granola bar

Lunch - 1 sandwich (wheat bread, 1 piece of ham, 1 pepper jack cheese), 1 serving of chips, 4 apple slices

Snack - 1 granola bar, Subway 12" spicy italian (i indulged)

Dinner - 1 cup chicken pasta salad (small pepperoni pieces, chicken pieces, small cheddar, noodles, fat free italian dressing)

Workout

15min 4.0mph on the treadmill

15min 80-95rpm on bike

1set of 10 on all upper body machines

POOL WORK:
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap


I like this picture as it looks "studios" but obviously I'd like to have a picture where I don't look like I have breasts lol. I'd like that "triangle" chest/body lol.

Week 1, Day 1

Okay so I figure if I force myself to blog about it perhaps it will keep me more accountable for myself so here goes.

Week 1, Day 1. Home scale claims 330 lbs

Food Intake

Breakfast - 1 toast, 1 pancake, 1 egg, 1 turkey bacon

Snack - 1 granola bar

Lunch - 1 sandwich (wheat bread, 1 piece of ham, 1 pepper jack cheese), 1 serving of chips, 4 apple slices

Snack - 1 granola bar

Dinner - 1 cup chicken fettuccine w/veggies mixed

Workout

15min 4.0mph on the treadmill

15min 80-95rpm on bike

1set of 10 on each of the leg machines

POOL WORK:
1 breast stroke lap
2 kicking laps
2 butterfly lap
1 power walking lap
1 porpoising(up&down free dives) lap
1 underwater only lap

Okay so more to come hopefully daily!

This picture below is what pushes me to want to change.