The Next Level

It's true. I'm starting a new journal.

Thanks to dvlmn666 for inspiring me to come up with a cool name for this thread. And the hubby helped brainstorm as well.

I called this thread 'The Next Level' because I feel the need to get more serious about my level of fitness. I have been doing pretty well, but I can do better. I can eat cleaner, I can lift heavier and harder, I can run faster.

I know I CAN do it, but the question is, WILL I do it? I am hoping that this journal will provide me with some accountability. I am also hoping that people will post in my journal with thier thoughts and advice on how I can improve.

As some of you know, I am currently on Body for Life. Today is Day 47 of my first 12 week challenge. I am enjoying it so far, and do feel that I have made progress. I see more definition in my arms and abs. My legs, I'm not so sure about.

Strength: Dedication to fitness. I wake up M-F at 4:40 to go to the gym and workout. I eat clean most of the time. Which brings us to my...

Weakness: Sugar. As in jellybeans. Lollipops. Hershey Kisses. Starburst. Peppermint Patties. I could go on, but do I really need to?

I'm rambling now, so I guess I'll stop. I will post food for today shortly.

Friday, 03/22

Meal 1: Three eggs omelette (all whites, no yolk), half an apple
Meal 2: Four scrambled eggs (three whites, one yolk), 1/2 cup oatmeal with honey/cinammon
Meal 3: 1/2 cup cottage cheese, banana
Meal 4: One piece honey wheat bread, sliced Boars Head chicken breast, green beans
Meal 5: Four hard boiled eggs (all whites), whole apple
Meal 6: Chicken, potatoes, broccoli, challah bread, craisins, chocolate cake-type things

Reasons why today was not a 'clean' day: four hershey kisses, six or seven small pink wafer-type things, one chocolate nougat thing, one starburst lollipop

Workout was upperbody. Consisted of chest, shoulders, back, triceps, and biceps. I just don't feel like posting the details.

I am very,very,very,very tired right now. Luckily I can sleep a little later tomorrow morning. But not too late, since I want to get to the gym around 8:00am.

awwww shucks, I didn't do anything. But cool name for the thread I like it.

Hey you forgot twix, reeses, and gummybears heeheheh

hmmm gonna have to cardio extra tomorrow just thinkin about all these cool things heheeh

Glad you came over here, It's alot more relaxed and layed back. Just look at my post total and you'll see that, I'm almost at 3/4 of what I had over at the other place in just over a week lmao

and to save kuso the time I'll say it: post a pic of your legs and we'll decide for ya

Thanks for that dvlmn

A new journel to pornalize! Mmmmmm....just what the doctor ordered lol

I`m kinda surprised your avatar is still up Miss P............... did it start to grow on you?? It is VERY nice

Hey, we are both going to have to do some serious cardio tomorrow? I already have mine all planned out and it my pre-packed gym bag. That is one of my favorite things about BFL, to plan your workouts ahead.

I do like it here, it seems less populated.

I need to take some pics of my legs. True.

Here we go. Leg pics taken about ten minutes ago. Note the socks, they are quite the fashion accessory.

Side pose of legs.

Infamous bootie of Miss LeDix

Originally posted by kuso
Thanks for that dvlmn

A new journel to pornalize! Mmmmmm....just what the doctor ordered lol

I`m kinda surprised your avatar is still up Miss P............... did it start to grow on you?? It is VERY nice

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kuso, what have you done to dvlmn? He seemed like such a nice guy...until he got to know you! I should have warned him about you.

What if we make a deal, kuso? For every pornal comment you make, you also have to make a fitness/health related comment. That way, it's a win/win situation. What do you say?

How could I forget Miss LeDix herself?

hey now, what's this "seemed"

and your right, your legs are almost as white as mine **s** but not quite. But I do think they are well defined.

ouch still hurtin from the "seemed" over here,

oh yeah cute pup

Originally posted by Miss LeDix


kuso, what have you done to dvlmn? He seemed like such a nice guy...until he got to know you! I should have warned him about you.

What if we make a deal, kuso? For every pornal comment you make, you also have to make a fitness/health related comment. That way, it's a win/win situation. What do you say?

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Um....I think thats just dvlmn`s real character coming out now

At least you replied to this post....I was begining to think I must be on your ignor list

A deal.....I`ll try...hows that??

BTW.......nice butt

Sunday, 03/23/02

Day 48 of BFL

Did thirty minutes of intervals on treadmill and about five minutes of intense ab work.

Meal 1: Three egg omelette (all whites), half an applie
Meal 2: Cottage cheese, banana
Meal 3: Sliced turkey, one piece of honey wheat bread, steamed broccoli, a few woven wheats, a small bit of humus
Meal 4: Four boiled eggs (three white, one yolk), apple
Meal 5: Chicken, green beans, one piece of honey wheat bread



So far, so good on the sweets..have only had about eight skittles Also had one tootsie pop, and two zotz. Kuso, know what zots are?

Originally posted by kuso

I`m kinda surprised your avatar is still up Miss P............... did it start to grow on you?? It is VERY nice

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kuso, I changed it! To a cute pic of you-know-who. I'll be taking my eight week photos soon, maybe I'll change it again then.

Hope you're not too disappointed.

Oh NOOOOOOOOOO .......what happened to he avatar!!!!

Looks to me like you`ve got a serious body hair problem happening there.

BTW...what are skittles?

how the heck can you only eat 8 skittles? lol, that's why I never even try to get some because the whole bag would be gone lol

www.skittles.com lol can't beleive you haven't heard of skittles kuso, they have been around forever

Originally posted by dvlmn666
how the heck can you only eat 8 skittles? lol, that's why I never even try to get some because the whole bag would be gone lol

www.skittles.com lol can't beleive you haven't heard of skittles kuso, they have been around forever

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I was lucky with the skittles today..I was at a nail salon and they had a machine where you paid a quarter and got a small handful of skittles...I think only about eight came out...

yes, kuso, what up with that? Skittles rock! Er, I mean, they suck.

Originally posted by kuso
Oh NOOOOOOOOOO .......what happened to he avatar!!!!

Looks to me like you`ve got a serious body hair problem happening there.

BTW...what are skittles?

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A post from kuso that has no pornality. But yet, no fitness/health subject matter either.

I guess it's a start!

Originally posted by Miss LeDix


A post from kuso that has no pornality. But yet, no fitness/health subject matter either.

I guess it's a start!

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Hey

Do you realise just how hard that was to post without being pornal?????

You want a health tip???? After some extensive reaserch, helped by dvlmn, my tip for the day would be....don`t eat Skittles

Er, yes, I know that I should not eat skittles. But you see, I have this addiction to sugar.

Hello. My name is Miss LeDix, and I'm addicted to candy. And I also have too much body hair (according to kuso).

Thanks, Dr. Kusoness, for that diagnosis. Jeez!

well kuso, glad I could help ya with that. **efg**

and ok, now I know why you only had like 8 of them. proud of you for not getting more then

Okay, okay...fess up..what does 'efg' mean?

I`d tell you, but I`m not allowed to post pornal comments it seems.

BTW.....it must be almost midnight over there....what are you doing up?????

Miss D.....when you're ready to take it to the next level....let me know and I'll fix that diet for ya

Originally posted by kuso
I`d tell you, but I`m not allowed to post pornal comments it seems.

BTW.....it must be almost midnight over there....what are you doing up?????

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You better tell me what efg means.

Actually, it was after 1am when I posted last...can you believe it? I took a two hour nap yesterday afternoon, so I was up way late last night. Shocking!

I must go reply to w8's post..the implications of it scare me.

Originally posted by w8lifter
Miss D.....when you're ready to take it to the next level....let me know and I'll fix that diet for ya

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This posts scares me and excites me at the same time.

w8, as you may know, I'm on Body for Life right now. I'm in my 8th week of a 12 week program, and I want to finish it so I can say I stuck with it and did not give up. The basis of the BFL diet is to eat six meals a day. Include a protien and a carb at every meal, and to add a vegetable to two meals. Does that make sense? And does that coincide with your diet princapals?

So, that's what I've been aiming to do. On weekends I usually only get five meals in, since I sleep later than I do during the week.

Please also keep in mind that you've only seen two days of my diet in this journal. I have over four weeks 'journaled' over at mm.com.

I am interested to hear what you have to say. Thanks in advance for the help.

Sunday, 03/24

No workout today...day off after six days in a row at the gym.

Meal 1: Four egg omelette (three whites, one yolk), with a small bit of turkey added. Also had half of a smoothie I made for my husband. Smoothie was made with 8oz oj, 4oz milk, 1 banana, a handful of frozen strawberries, and honey...it was yummyness!

Meal 2: Chicken, 1/2 cup oats with 1 tbs of peanut butter and cinammon. The oats tastes so nasty that I did not even finish them. Yecch!


I am going to the grocery store today. I think instead of eating sliced turkey on bread during the week at work, I will start eating half a can of tuna. Much more protien and much less sodium. Anybody else agree on that?

Fair enough....I checked out your other journal....same shit, different board LOL....j/k, overall, your diet isn't that bad, just needs a bit of tweaking if you really want to get to the next nevel. You have been eating virtually the same thing since you started. It's time to mix it up a bit!

I can understand wanting to stick w/ the BFL and I respect that. I'm not gonna ask you to change much. 6 meals, 5 on w/e is good. I agree w/ the protein at every meal of course. I don't think the carbs at every meal is good and I see a definite lack of fat in your diet!

However, despite this, if you really want to take it to the next level, you need to get control of your unmentionables! Until you do, you will not reach the next level! I am not trying to be mean or scare you, I'm trying to help. Every time you eat sugar or a high glycemic food that converts to sugar rapidly, you release insulin. YOU CAN NOT BURN FAT IN THE PRESENCE OF INSULIN!!! I capped that cause it's important. Every time you release insulin you halt fat-burning for several hrs...if you've got sugar in every meal, which you do BTW, you are not burning fat!

So the key to losing fat, and not muscle, is controlling insulin. How do you do that? Protein, fibre and fat will blunt a response from a carb. As long as your carb is slow-burning (low GI) and sugar-free, you will be able to control your insulin response and stay in fat-burning space.

So my suggestions for your diet would be to include fat in every meal and get rid of the sugar/high GI carbs. An example tweak would be:

Meal 1: Three eggs omelette (all whites, no yolk), half an apple

5 eggs, 2 yolks, 1/2 cup oats w/ cinnamon, no honey! This eliminates the sugar, ups your protein and adds the necessary fat

Meal 2: Four scrambled eggs (three whites, one yolk), 1/2 cup
oatmeal with honey/cinammon

Try to mix up the diet a bit, you seem to eat the same things over and over...just like training, your body will become acustom to the diet! Try some chicken here, or whey protein, tuna, etc...anything but eggs.

An example:

30 grams of protein of choice
1 tbsp of natural peanut butter or tbsp of flax seed oil
Veggies
Strawberries


Meal 3: 1/2 cup cottage cheese, banana

If you're going to eat cottage cheese (it does have lactose=sugar), make it full fat and add some more fat....natty p/b or flax, etc. A banana is not good at all! A sweet potato, 1/2 cup brown rice or 1/2 cup oats would be good here

Meal 4: One piece honey wheat bread, sliced Boars Head chicken breast, green beans

Sugar = honey bread! I like your suggestion of eating the tuna (whole can) instead....add full fat mayo or olive oil for fat and flavour. Green beans are good. You could also have an apple, 1/2 grapefruit or strawberries here.

Meal 5: Four hard boiled eggs (all whites), whole apple

Make it 6 w/ 2 ylks or add fat from other source, Or you could add your chicken here. No apple...fat, protein, veggies

Meal 6: Chicken, potatoes, broccoli, challah bread, craisins, chocolate cake-type things

cake? pototoes...bread...craisins Chicken, broccoli are good, best to have protein and fat right before bed

Your thoughts?

Ahh! What a long and informative post. I may copy and paste the whole thing into my Palm so I can read it whenever I want.

I really enjoyed the part about insulin and sugar and fat loss. I know I shouldnt' eat so much crap. I know. But I just get so weak when it comes to that kind of stuff. It's something I need to work on. I don't know what else to say. It sucks.

I like your suggestions. There are two things I want to mention. As you may have read over on mm I have Chrone's Disease. Which means I do have to be a little more careful with my food than a person with a healthy gut! The main things I have been told to stay away from are raw veggies. I also do not eat read meat. And I also seem to have problems with nuts and certain fruits. I have no idea if you've ever heard of Chrone's, you can read about it here if you so desire:
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1680.50985

Anyhoo, I also *think* I am much shorter than you. I'm about 5'5 and my wieght fluctuates between 118-122...approximately. So I many not need to eat an entire can of tuna...or as many eggs as you suggest, no?

I'm really not trying to make excuses, I just thought the Chrone's and my size were worth mentioning.

On to the 'meat' of the post. How's this for an example day, I'm going to add the times so you know a little more detail.

Meal 1 (usually eaten around 5:00am, before I go to the gym):
**the issue here is that I like to keep this meal fairly small and on the light side, since I am at the gym and working out about thirty minutes after I eat, I do not want to feel stuffed while working out**
Actually, I guess I'm confused about what to put here. I need more help with this one. Being so early in the morning and being pre-workout.

Meal 2 (usually eaten between 8:00 and 8:30, at work):
Five eggs scrambled (three whites, two yolks), 1/2 cup oats with cinammon only (no honey)

Meal 3: (usualy eaten between 10:30 and 11:30, at work):
Cottage cheese (full fat?!? ), and an apple?!? I need some help on the carb suggestion here, since it is still morning and a sweet potato or rice, do they go with cottage cheese?

Meal 4: (usually eaten between 1:30 and 2:30, at work): tunafish (half a can, yes?), made with real mayo , green beans or peas (those are what I eat all the time at work, since they come in small cans with no salt added, and they are easy to make in the microwave)...and for the carb? How about whole wheat bread, as oppposed to the apple? I get my bread from a local bakery here and I'm *pretty* sure there's no sugar in it. And I would use one piece of bread, not two.

Meal 5: (usually eaten between 4:30 and 5:30, either at work or in the car) 4 or 5 hard boiled eggs sounds good, but I am once again confused on the carb. Need help please...

Meal 6: (usually eaten between 7:30 and 8:30, at home) chicken, a veggie, and a carb....broccoli most times as the veggie, as far as the fat to add, I'm not sure.

I could look into purchasing some Myoplex shakes. The only one I have tastes is the Low Carb Chocolate Fudge ready to drink variety. It was awesome!

Of course you had to pick a Friday night dinner at my parent's house to critique. Those are always full of shit. That really is a rare occurence. But let me tell you how much my husband loves going over there to eat. He loves to get away from our psuedo-healthy kitchen.

This is long, hope it makes sense. Please give me your thoughts of these example meals I have laid out.

Once again, I really appreciate your help!

WOW, do you mind if I borrow a few of w8's suggestions?? Those are great!

MissD... are those your recent pics? ~~ Still looks like your kickin' some butt! Right on