Katia7

OMG! a guy who takes step classes!!! You're AWSOME! I LOOOOVE step classes. Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it soon. And when you'll be able to do all the compex stuff without even looking at the instructor's feet... that's so fun I can't even put it in words.
Have you ever taken kickboxing? That's my other favorite, but step is #1!

Emma-Leigh

Hey Tom-Tom!!

Just wanted to wish you luck for the rest of your exams.

Relax. Read the questions carefully and don't let your anxiety over-run you. You'll be fine!

The Monkey Man

I was going to ask if you had a Male or Female instructor... but...

I usually only get those type of moves from the Joe Cool macho type of instructor... The guy who just wants to make you feel inferior (because he's so good he does this for a living)

Sometimes I think, it's a territorial thing, like, not many guys intruding into his little world, so he'll make me pay for it???

I don't know if any of this applies or makes sense!?!?

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Tom_B

LOL yes but I'm a little more femanine than other guys .. hell who am I kidding I'm ALOT more femanine than other guys , LOL I'm even more so than some of my friends who are girls
But theres also usually two other guys there too , ones a old man , then there's this HUGE guy I was happy i wasn't the only guy.
I haven't tried kickboxing , there's no classes here for that , sounds like it'd be soo much fun!
Tonight I had the best cardio workout ever , I was drenched! I had antoher step class , and I was doing everything perfectly (will explain in journal post) and everyone had all this energy and we were all yelling , it was great!
Hey Emma!

Thank - you , I had my final exam today - science and I think I aced it (well like around an 80 - 85% if not higher) - and it was the first exam ever that I didn't have to use the 10 mintue grace period!

LOL it kinda does sound the same - except my instructors a girl! She actually owns the gym, So you know becuase she's a "certified personal trainer" and owns her own gym , she thinks she knows everything! Including diet stuff! Ugh anytime I talk to her she'll be going on about "Why would eat all that rabbit food?? You can eat PB & J sandwhiches all day and gain lots of muscles! EWW oats, whey , banana and skim milk , sounds disgusting! Why are you doign those stupid glute ham raises (I'm the first person she's ever seen do them or even heard of them ..) Lying leg curls are alot more efective!" etc etc. And lately she was being REALLY snobby to me , liek I'd go in the gym she'd look at me I'd say" Hi and wave" and she'd like curl her nose up or something and just look away ... so ya. But today she was actually surprisling nice to me (maybe she's finally off her rag LOL) and today in the step class she said "Well I'm gonna go over those new moves we did on Tues" and sure enough I got them

Tom_B

Training - Back - Width
WG Lat Pulldown - *30lbs* 1x12 , *70lbs* 2x12 , 1x9 + 1 cheat , 1x8 + 1 cheat
V - Bar Pulldown - *90lbs* 1x8 , 1x6 3/4 , 1x5
CG Pulldown - *60lbs* 1x12 , 2x9
V- Bar Pulldown on the Floor - *80lbs* 1x9 (form gave out) , 1x7 3/4 (form was crapy) *70lbs* 1x7 (perfect )
DB Preacher Curls - *20lbs* 1x6 DROP *15lbs* 1x9
*20lbs* 1x2 DROP *15lbs* 1x7
*20lbs* 1x2 DROP *15lbs* 1x5
DB Curls - 1x12 , 1x10 , 1x4

Had a REALLY great workout. Except I HATE Close grip pulldowns , they really hurt my elbows and my fingers also started hurting .. probabaly only do 2 sets next time or might try for a full Pull - up
Umm V - Bar Pulldown , had to lower weight to get form and tempo
DB Preacher curls .. I can get all sets at 12 using 15lbs , but can't make it into my RP with 20lbs so I decided to do drop sets
And I don't know why I could only get 4 reps for last set of curl , but then agian my biceps were fired! LOL
I'm also really really loving the fact that I've decided to lower my tempo lots , it feels so much better , I go as slow as I can.


Umm I also got to talk to super super hot guy at the gym yesterday (like seriosuly he competes with Tom Welling!) .... He basically needed a bench so I offered mine .. ok so it wasn't a big deal but shut - up I can dream can't I!
Diet -

Meal 1 - yogurt, oats , whey
*PW* yogurt , oats , whey , grape/strawberry juice
Meal 2 - Muesli mix , EW , olive oil , banana , SF maple syrup (just a little little bit)
Meal 3 - sweet potato ,lettuce, chicken , olive oil , cayenne pepper powder , probiotic pill, apple, fishies
Meal 4 - Yogurt , whey , pysllium , pearly barley , olive oil , muesli mix, fishies
Meal 5 - Yogurt , CC , psyllium , muesli mix , almonds, fishies, whey
Meal 6 - PB , CC , fishies, pysllium


Macros ~
Calories - 2755
Fat - 71G (7G sat)
Carbs - 361G (41G fibre)
Protein - 175G


Water -3L
Additonals - green tea, stevia, vinnegar , ulatra low fat miricle whip
Sleep - 9 hours

Yesterday was tiring Had so much to do! It was soo funny though I hung out with sarah and corey all day (but then again I hang out with them everyday LOL) and Corey triped like 3 times , once at the mall and 2 times down my stairs. then at the theatres when we went to see Mr. and Mrs. Smith (LOL everyone has to see that movie , I loved it!) he was getting resse pieces but he couldn't think of the name of them so he was like "Umm could I ge tthose .. umm thingies .. ugh .. OO RESSE PENIS! I mean resse pieces , resse pieces! ROFL it was soo funny everyone at the theatre jsut cracked up

Tom_B

Training - Step Class - 40 minutes

This was unbeievable , best cardio workout of my life LOL.
The instructor today actually Taught us the movements - she went back and taught us all that crazy stuff she did the other day. We also started 5 minutes late so she put on this super fast song to make up for it , but we ended up going 5 minutes late anyways.
Anyways i don't know what it was but I got everything perfect and normally I'm a little shy about my hand movements and stuff but today I jsut didn't care and was flying all over the place and I kept hoping and everything. I jsut ahd this sudden burst of energy along with like everyone else , we all started yelling out how many more reps of a certain movement or combo there was, oo it was soooo good! My face was BEET BEET red buy the end of it , and my hair looked like I jsut came out of the shower , I was dripping sweat all over the place , loved every second of it!

Diet -

Meal 1 - Muesli mix , EW , olive oil , banana , SF maple syrup (just a little little bit)
Meal 2 - yogurt, oats , whey
Meal 3 - Yogurt , whey , pysllium , pearly barley , olive oil , muesli mix, fishies
Meal 4 - sweet potato ,lettuce, chicken , olive oil , cayenne pepper powder , probiotic pill, apple, fishies
*PW* yogurt , oats , whey , grape/strawberry juice
Meal 5 - Yogurt , CC , psyllium , muesli mix , almonds, fishies, whey
Meal 6 - almond , CC , fishies,


Macros ~
Calories - 2755
Fat - 71G (7G sat)
Carbs - 361G (41G fibre)
Protein - 175G


Water -3L
Additonals - green tea, stevia, vinnegar , ultra low fat mayonaise
Sleep - 5 hours

Today was my last exam!!! That I also aced . Do you guys know what this means?? ALLL THE SLEEP I CAN GET! no more waking up at 5am every morning , no late nights tryign to get homework done , no rushing around like a chicken with no head! OMG I'm sooo pumped not to mention my trip down to Toronot is getting closer and closer!

I also found my new love today .......
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Lip Smacker

Tom_B

Also I had another doc appointment yesterday .. basically to sum it up, he dosen't think there's anything that they can do for me. He says he gets patients all the time that go on medicine but it only works for a couple of months ..
Also I need to get in contact with my hemroid surgeon again .. UGH what if this means I have to take time off again and stay in bed for like an entire week - like okay don't want to get disgusting here (so caution , nasty disgusting stuff ahead dont' read LOL) but when you get surgery done to get it removed , shouldn't it be COMPLETELY removed. When I had it done there was always just this hint of one left , the doc said that it should be there but if it gets larger to contact him .. and well now with this constipation issue it has grown larger .. I haven't looked at it but from what I can tell it's like two bubbles this time or something .. ugh.

Anyways enough of that disgusting stuff. I was willing to try anything to help with the bloat / pain / gas. So he gave me the pill that he's not sure about if it's alright for guys .. it's called ZELNORM. I saw a commercial for it and there were guys in it , so he said there is a new medical study otu that he hasn't read , about zelnorm in guys but he said it's safe and the only side effect could be direhia.
Umm he also said that he thought it was great idea for me to be eatign the bacteria culture stuff , the pysllium and probiotics (why he didn't mention this the first itm I went in I don't know ..) but I also told him lately for some reason after eating all my yogurt stuff I sometimes reguratate a SMALL SMALL amount of my food when I burp. He said to keep my head elevated and on my side wehn goign to bed and not eat so close to bed ..
The reguratating thing didn't happen to me today .. it's only happened like 3 or 4 times so far .. so shoudl I not eat as close to bed (as it usually happens at night) , like say 1 and a half hours instead of one. And when I say it's a small amount I mean really really small like if it was the muesli mix it would be like one or two of the flakes.
So that was my doc appointment .. fun fun.

Tom_B

OO ps forgot to mention that for the last two days now my stomach issues have been really good , not sure if it's the zelnorm or my new diet or a combination but either way it's working. And most of my bowl movements have been really good too it's soo much nicer not being in such damn pain day in and day out , not to mention I'm noticing improvements all over my body

Tom_B

Training - Hammies + Glutes + Abs
SLDL - *45lbs* 1x12 , *115lbs* 4x8
Slit Squats - *85lbs* 1x12 , 1x10 (bad balance on this set) 1x8
Glute - Ham Raises - 1x3 3/4 , 1x2 , 1x1

Abs were just ball pikes , planks , swiss ball bridges.

Good Workout , my SLDL's were really intense , and I really really hit my hammies good , I was wiped after them. Which made my split squats ALOT harder LOL. By the end my hammies were done and as a result my glute ham raise reps were crap


Diet -

Meal 1 - yogurt, oats , whey
*PW* yogurt , oats , whey , grape/strawberry juice
Meal 2 - Muesli mix , EW , olive oil , banana , SF maple syrup (just a little little bit)
Meal 3 - sweet potato ,lettuce, chicken , olive oil , cayenne pepper powder , probiotic pill, apple, fishies
Meal 4 - Yogurt , whey , pysllium , pearly barley , olive oil , muesli mix, fishies
Meal 5 - Yogurt , CC , psyllium , muesli mix , almonds, fishies, whey
Meal 6 - PB , CC , fishies, pysllium


Macros ~
Calories - 2755
Fat - 71G (7G sat)
Carbs - 361G (41G fibre)
Protein - 175G


Water -3L
Additonals - green tea, stevia, vinnegar , ulatra low fat miricle whip
Sleep - 8 hours and 20 minutes

Today's been fun , been handing out with Sarah and Corey there staying the night again. LOL we were really really bored so we went on some sex chat rooms .. and lets just say it got nasty LOL - lots of people wanted to web - espically this 30 year old from the UK EWW it was soo gross!

Emma-Leigh

Hey Tom-Tom!!

Yay!! I'm glad your exam went well!! And your last exam too!! Woo hoo - break time!! You must be so relieved!!

And at the cookie dough lip smacker!! Just as long as you don't EAT the stuff!! I am ADDICTED to lip balm - but I hate flavoured stuff and stick to the plain SPF 30+ boring stuff...

Arggg - I am SOOO jealous of your fun in step!! Although I HATE group classes (I like cycle - but that is because it is dark and you just do your own thing on your own bike - I am such a hermit! )... it sounds like you had such a good workout!! I LOVE workouts where you end up near dead at the end of it!!

Awwww - A new love interest!! YAY! Is he there a lot? Does he train properly? Why not talk to him more - ask him for a spot sometime!!


ps: But who is Tom Welling?

Yeah - unfortunately new ones can form again and the old ones can blow up too...

If you have to have another surgery make sure you stock taking your fish oils ~2-3 weeks out. They can disturb the healing.


Ahhh - right. Tegaserod... That is called zelmac over here. He told you that you can only take it for a few weeks right? (We have a limit fo 12 weeks over here) and that you have to stop after 4 weeks if you do not get any improvement??...

What dose are you on?

Yeah - they use it in guys now too (they have done for about 1 yr I think) and it is safe.

And diarrhoea is the main side effect (but only about 9% of patients get it and it is usually only one episode very early in treatment).

Great!

How much water are you drinking with your last meal? Has it only started since adding in the psyllium or has it been happening for a while? Is there anything that makes it worse?

1-1.5 hrs should give you enough time to digest your food - and I would still elevate your head slightly too... But if it gets severe you should talk to him about it again.

LOL - Don't be sad! Fried legs are a good thing!! The poor glute-ham raises were a reflection of your HARD WORK earlier!! Good stuff!

Did you watch the video of the glute-hammies I posted earlier?

Hope you are enjoying your break!

Tom_B

Hey Emma , I'll reply to your stuff later tonight , I'm running really late for a hair appointment and to prep for Andrew's going away party

Anyways jsut thought I'd post me SCREWED UP weight today! I woke up this morning at ~137lbs Ok this is how my weight's gone in like the last 5 weeks.
~ 139lbs
~ 140lbs
~ 138.5lbs
~ 140.5lbs
~ 137lbs

UGHHHH what is going on??!! why am losing weight then gaining weight , losing weight then gaining weight over and over.
Ok I have a theory as to why I'm losing weight , possibly becuase I'm no eating enough on my cheat days .. like 500 - 700 less than what I should be , but that shouldn't be enough to make a pound.

LOL sorry just needed to have a little rant. Well today is my cheat day I'm gonna try and make it to 2800 cals ... so far not good. I woke up and I had some CC and whey and psyllium and SF maple syrup .. so that meal equaled a whopping 170 calories

BulkMeUp

Hmmm.. cruising in the gym now, are we??????

jaim91

If it's a cheat day, why don't you have like...a peanut butter and jam sandwich, or a bowl of lucky charms with milk. Something "cheat-y"?

Ms. O...HERE I COME! (6 years...?)

The Monkey Man

T...

I wouldn't worry about those fluctuating #'s too much...

When I was closer to your weight, I could lose 7-9 pounds over the course of one day

But I also noticed you aren't consuming as much animal protein,
as your earlier posts... (No more tuna?)

And can you repeat for me what your digestive issues are?
I read back, but didn't see, any TXT on that story...

Keep up the good work!

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Save The Oceans, Save the Planet, Save Your Family, Save Yourself!

Tom_B

I'm sooo pumped , I actually got 10 hours of sleep last night - And I can't wait to go to Toronto , omg it's gonna be soo much fun , LOL not sure what's gonna happen diet wise .. I was planning on just shopping for grocery's but apparently my mom was goning on about how there gonna be feeding me sensless up there with chinese food , cause everyone in my family owns a chinese restaurants. Like ther gonna have banquets and stuff for us So I don't know .. o well still got a month or so to figure stuff out.

LOL nah I don't eat it .. I just kinda lick it .. lots
I was always to scared to use lip smacker becuase of the whole makes your lips shiny thing , but now I just really could care less , I even wear foundation now - REALLY REALLY gets rid of the red in my face , looks soo much better! And no one even notices

ROFL yes I'd probably like the step classes if it was dark in the room too! OMG you have no idea what gross I looked after the step class , my face was BEET red , my hair .. omg my hair it was so bad. Anytime I'm done acardio session strangers jsut stare at me and people I know ask me if I'm alright and what the hell happened to me. Taht's the downside of cardio for me - I envy you girls and being able to put your hair up in ponytails!! LOL


LOL nah not a love interest , I wish though. He's there usually every morning I'm there at around 9 am , since I can actually sleep in now. Not sure if he trains properly , haven't , from what I seen it looks like he knows what he's doing. He dosen't train legs though , probably cause he's on a croutch LOL. I do fidn him staring at me though whenever I do split squats. But then again mostly everyone does. I'm literally the only one at my gym that squats .. and the fact I'm doing a one legged one and panting and grumbling alot and dripping sweat everyone causes for some major stareage. But Considering the fact that's he's like 20 - 23 and more than likely straight I think I stand no chance . O well , nothing I can do.


OMG your like joking right?! He's only the most beautiful thing you could lay your eyes on : He's perfect. And the fact that he plays a young superman in "Smallville" so he's always so nice and saving people make's him even more perfect. Anyways here's some pics
Him with some .. girl pfft
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Ok .. I'll call the doc soon. I just dont' want to take time off of training and have to spend almost a week in bed ..



Yup the phamplet he gave me says 12 weeks only, does that mean the symptoms will be gone after 12 weeks anyways ..and yup to stop after 4 weeks if no improvment. So far so good - my bowl movements are alot better, and so is my bloat and abdominal pain. He only gave me 12 pills so i guess I'l lhave to go out and buy some , he said it's quite expensive ..
Right now I'm taking 2 pills daily.



ya only been happening since I added the psyllium and yogurt. But it hasn't happened in the last two days , so I guess it's jsut stoped Could be I'm use to the stuff now , maybe??




LOL ya but it jsut depressing to be able to only pull out one rep - I wanted more! O well , I was very tender last night and today.

Yup watched the video , it's exactly how I do them

Gonan enjoy my break so much , grading is on friday. And tomorrows father's day so I have to work all day tomorrow, but O well.

Tom_B

LOL well there's this other guy that's from my school , he's hot too and I've only worked out with him twice. But both times , he's looked at me .. alot. Espically the first time when I was working abs , so I had to hang from a bar and my shirt lifted up a little .. Then he always makes sure to use a bench close to me , and when I was on the pull down machine it walked by my lifted up his shirt to show his back , then turned back around and lifted up his shirt again while walking towards me to show me his abs. Then on the preacher machine we don't have a seat , so you gotta stand up bend your knees , stick your but out really far and lean so your arms are on the pad. And there's a huge mirrior in front of you. Anyways so I was doing that , well the guy's getting ready to leave so he has to walk by me. Well what does he do (cause I can see him in the mirrior) stares at my ass , starts to go out the door , then comes back in circles around and stares at me ass AGAIN as he was leaving.
So ya .. it's quite weird.

hey Jaim , LOL sorry I broke the 48 hours rule , I WILL reply to the Pm's tomorrow night after I get to work , it's like 2 am right now sooo tired!

Well today I had lots of treats , more than I shoulda
But see The thing about my cheat days is I only eat until I'm full , then a little more. I don't have a large appetite and can eat very little ..
So on my cheat days I don't start stuffing it in untill later at night when i realised I've eaten only like 1000 calories and it's already like 6 pm.

Tom_B

Well I'm gonna wait and see if my weight next week is 136.5 lbs or 136lbs. If it is that means I seriously need to up cals .. this wasn't in the plan - Well at least it seems like it's been jsut fat I'm losing ..
Ya I cut back on protein, LOL after months of people tellign me I should I finally decided to. And yes NO MORE TUNA! LOL at least for a little while , god I needed a break from that stuff! I really really wish I could afford salmon though

Well my digestive issues are basically alot of bloating , pain , discomfort , gas , belching and constipation - the whole set . Doc said I fit the symptoms of IBS (irriatable bowl syndrome) perfectly ..
It sucks because I have to avoid caffine , refined sugar and red meats , nuts, corn and any seed product. ... I had to give away all my caramel coffee , my precious caramel coffee , omg I miss it!
But it seems to be getting alot better after I've started taking the zelnorm , probiotics and eating lots of yogurt (for the bacteria culture in it).

Tom_B

Training - OFF


Diet -

Well my diet wasn't broken down into meals .. I just ate constanly througout the day. I had yogurt , whey , psyllium , CC , choclate chip cookies (lots of these!!) little bit of dortios and ketchup chips (like maybe 5) , and lots of cake. Espically later at night when i got really depressed. I neede dosme chocolate to cure my blues

Estimated cals were only at 2000 - 2100 for the day though ..

Water -3L
Additonals - green tea, stevia,
Sleep - 10 hours

Well today we had Andrew's going away party it was soo much fun!! We played Disney land monolopy and we ended up all joining into teams. Team 1 was Matt , Sarah and Corey and tem 2 was Me , Andrew and Micheal. We SOOO kicked there asses LOL. I let Andrew and mike do all the finacial stuffed , I just sat there rolled the dice and smiled LOL! we ended the game with nearly 18,000 dollars . Then we watched a movie, which was really funny and then we went outside to my back patio. And we have a pool in my back yard and well I saw this thing floating in it and I didn't know what it was so Corey went to see what it was and well he leaned to far over and lost his grip on the thing and fell into the pool, shoes and all LOL it was soo funny.
Then after Matt and Andrew left we got so depressed , I just kinda fell to the floor and sat there. I had to start cleaning, I had to do something and leftover cake was my friend. So my room is now spotless and I'm loaded on chocolate.
i can't believe there going .. there gonna be gone and It' s just not gonna be the same .. to go to school and not see them. Sitting down and lunch and bitching about how I'm gonna fail my math test so Andrew pulls out my notes and explains everything to me .. it's just not gonna be the same. I almost started crying tonight. They bought us all presents I got this really nice plake thing that says "keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground" and a 5lb rubber weight for humor LOL and a note. I'm gonna miss them so much ..
We putting togehther a photo album of us all and gonna give it to him his last day here.
Ugh I just .. I just can't even imagine them gone . ok I gotta stop writting I'm about to start crying.

Tom_B

nevermind I just turned around and saw the present they gave me , I'm crying now.. god I'm such a loser.