You Be My Adam, I'll Be Your Eve

Chad Smith

So Tim and I are walking over to the equipment and I see my favorite male specimen. He looks like Chad Smith, the robot guy from Step Up 3 and LXD. Beautiful face with a tall muscular but slender body. He's meticulous with his workout. He carries around his backpack from station to station so he can write down his exercises into his leather-bound journal. I whisper to Tim while we are still a safe distance away, "There's my future husband".  Indiscreetly Tim says, "Who Adam?!?!" Mortified! I like to think that he didn't hear that over his headphones but my paranoia made his glances toward me that much more painful.

I finish my resistance training and go to my usual corner spot on the elliptical. I've got a great view of God's greatest gift from there. I'm having to avert my stare between his pullups, pushups, and deadlifts but I don't think I was successful. I even got a smile by the end of my workout.....Maybe someday I'll work up the courage to say, "Hi" instead of drool and lick my lips from afar.....or maybe not, sometimes fantasies are best kept just that, fantasies.

Someone Get Me A Freakin' Cheeseburger!

I'm not typically one to post Scripture or publicly request prayers, but if there was such a day, it would be today. After a week of stresses both professionally and personally, I turn to the best way I know how to soothe my anger and strengthen my resolve, through music. Though only a 10 minute project, it helps.

"Father give me strength, to do what I must do....Father guide my footsteps, hold me to the road......Father let me see the good and beauty of this day....And if I'm tempered Father, Father stay my hand.........Let not anger be my guide.......Any smallness Father, please cast it out."

Progress Report

Tim totally kicked my butt today. He had to push back my appointment a half hour due to a conflict so I did my cardio first knowing full well it meant I was going to be suffering through a strenuous half hour resistance training with Tim afterwards. He pushed me so hard I thought my esophagus was bleeding from the panting.

Today was also my 2nd monthly assessment. Here are the highlights compared to last month's assessment. I lost a 1/4 inch in my upper thigh, 1/4 inch from my chest, 1/2 inch from my hips, 1 and a 1/4 inches from my waist and 2 inches around my shoulders.  I also went down .8% in body fat.

In total, since this all started, I've lost 22.3 lbs, 3.3% body fat, 3.5 inches in my chest, 3.5 inches in my waist, and 3.5 inches in my hips. I'll say this, at least it's not all leaving one place making me uneven or lopsided.

Tuck & Roll

So over the last week I kind of had a relapse in diet ad missed going to the gym on Thursday and yesterday (a first since I started). I didn't really fall off the wagon, I kind of LEAPED, tucked and rolled off. That pizza was delicious though. After a good week maybe a week and a half of avoiding a weigh-in  I was dreading that couple foot walk to the scale this morning. It's like a walk of shame even though no one is around to see it....I look at the number. WHAT?!?! I lost a pound? 2.2 lbs away from my next reward!

On My Own...Sort of

So yesterday, I am doing my resistance training on my own and Tim happens to actually be working out at the same time. I'm doing well with the millions of different types of squats each with different kettle ball weights. I move on through my list taped on to my water bottle that he wrote out for me on Wednesday. Next up is the treadmill. I hop on and try to challenge myself with going faster than he had me do last Wednesday then all of a sudden Tim gets on the treadmill next to me and starts talking to me. So not only am I attempting to run faster, breathlessly, but I'm supposed to be able to carry on a conversation? I don't know if this is normal or just residual military habit but its second nature to fall into step with the person next to me. So now I'm also running with the same rhythm. (Of course his strides are like twice the size of mine). I finish the assigned distance and went back for the second round of resistance while gasping for breath.

Tick, Tick, Tick

Time is running out, one month left until my big trip back to Cali for my friends' wedding! Progress has got to go a little faster so I can look fabulous at this big reunion. It will have been just over two years since I've seen any of them and my biggest fear is I won't look any better then when I saw them last...maybe even worse.....but hey Megan, you'll be a beautiful bride!

Jumping on the Bribe-Wagon

Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards (Animals Print)

I got a random package in the mail from my sister's sister-in-law! I was so wonderfully surprised to see she had thought of me and was showing support for my struggle toward a better me. I immediately sent a giraffe print card back in thanks of her generosity. Now if only this weight would fall off quicker so I can find out what presents are next. :-)

Happy Birthday Tim

So yesterday was Tim's birthday. It was perfect because it was also my training day so I was able to give him his card and prepaid visa along with the tiny tiara I got him.....He wore the tiara in his hair the entire session! I think I made his day.....on the flip side, he made me do three different kinds of squats twice, run on the treadmill further than ever, and do some sort of angled pushup using the TRX straps among many other tortures. This is what I get for wishing you a happy birthday Tim?

Progress

Today's work out was INTENSE. It included among others, chest presses with 20lb weights in each hand (more than usual), we did rows with maximum tension for the longest time, 5 flights of stairs, and one of the worst things we did today were one legged lunges. He started me out easy by letting me steady my free foot on the stability bench. I start doing the lunges trying to keep my balance and a random stranger yells "Woo you can do it girl!" She must have seen the look I gave him when he told me what I was going to do. Tim then graduates the difficulty by putting the free foot in the stirrup. This girl starts clapping now distracting me so I almost fall, thankfully Tim was there spotting me. My workout ends with planks, after already doing side planks for 30 seconds on each side earlier. This time it was regular planks and he made me do it for a whole minute. Thinking it would make me feel better Tim says, "Here I'll do it with you." Yeah that doesn't really help, at this point misery doesn't like company, it likes peace. I'm moments from fainting I pushed so hard and Tim's giving me all kinds of adulations while I'm just trying to stay coherent he then says, "Hey you know what I didn't have to say even once today?" I look at him with a question mark because I can't speak and he says, "Watch the head!".......Very funny Tim, but I guess that's progress.

Milestone Achievement

February 24, 2012

April 30, 2012

So for the longest time now, I've been dreading pictures because of this double chin in which the second chin looks like it's trying to swallow the first. No matter how creative I get with the angle of the camera it's still there following me like a pair of eyes in those creepy paintings. Finally, I took a picture the other morning with NO double chin! I no longer have more chins than a Chinese phone book....at least not at this angle. :-)