GG's IM Competition Journal

[Jeanie]

Hey chickie! Read about your 1.25 hour your cardiofest! hahaha!

Oh, and it was good I thought this journal was a serious one?

 

[GoalGetter]

... someone else who goes to bed early like us.

I have a hard time believing you're an "early to bed" kind of guy! haha! but if you say so!

 

[GoalGetter]

Thanks! I too am a measuring freak, I even measure my cinnamon for my oatmeal (obsessive, yes, but I don't care ) Can't wait to make these tonight. Funny you should mention putting the cinnamon in the barley, my boyfriend's mother is Greek and she puts cinnamon in all her rice dishes. I thought it was odd at first, but it does actually taste good. Who wuold have thought

OK you are officially worse than me. You measure your CINNAMON?!?! That's got like a negligible amount of anything! hahahaha!

Yeah... cinnamon in rice and barley and oatmeal and eggs and chicken and and and... YUMMMM!

 

[GoalGetter]

I was soooooo sick yesterday. Didn't even work. But, I'm feeling better today! Didn't end up doing much this weekend. It's really cold out too, but I'm liking it........... for now

Oops I missed this one!

Wow. well i'm glad you're feeling better today! I was all worried that something'd happened to you over the weekend. No posts from ya for days! Enjoy the cold weather! I'm jealous! Laugh at me all you want, but i am!

 

[Luke9583]

hahahhahahaha!

oh wait. This is my "serious" journal. No kissing in here. I take it back! hahaha!

aww you can kiss! Just no chewing gum

 

[GoalGetter]

Dear Metabolism,

Please hurry up and stabilize. I am feeding you more food. Stop being hungry. You weren't hungry when I had you going at 1100 calories. Now I'm giving you 500 more and you're acting like a greedy little five year old. Seriously.

That shit ain't funny. Get your act together and work with me here.

Thanks much,
Ivonne

 

[GoalGetter]

o! 6 inches, my favorite!

Good looki'n work out Do you still feel the 45 degree incline in your chest? Anything over 30 usually hits my delts harder than anything

Actually now that I think about it, it wasn't 45 it WAS 30. i'm a dummy.

 

[klmclean]

OK you are officially worse than me. You measure your CINNAMON?!?! That's got like a negligible amount of anything! hahahaha!

Yeah... cinnamon in rice and barley and oatmeal and eggs and chicken and and and... YUMMMM!

Like I said, I am a measuring freak. I actually used to measure my salt and pepper too (don't tell anyone ) But I've gotten over that

 

[GoalGetter]

Like I said, I am a measuring freak. I actually used to measure my salt and pepper too (don't tell anyone ) But I've gotten over that

 

[klmclean]

 

[GoalGetter]

Food - November 10 - IM Competition Day 10

Meal 1 445 AM:

Open-Face Egg Sandwich:
1 1/4 cup Egg Beaters
1 slice of Rubschlager Sunflower Multi-Grain Bread
1 tbsp Smuckers Sugar Free Strawberry Jam
6oz. Peppermint Coffee

Meal 2: 8 AM:

4 oz. Tilapia
1 cup broccoli
4 oz. diced new potatoes (Del Monte, washed to reduce sodium) with spices

Meal 3 11 AM:

Stuffed Pepper (my last one! Time to make more!):
4 oz. 96% lean ground beef
1/2 cup cinnamon barley
1 large pepper

Meal 4 2 PM:

3 oz. 96% Lean Ground Beef (leftovers)
1 oz. Tilapia (leftovers)
1 cup broccoli
1/4 cup cinnamon barley

Meal 5 530 PM:

4 oz. chicken breast
1 cup broccoli

Meal 6 830 PM:

4 oz. FF cottage cheese
2 tbsp nat. pb (time to buy more!)
1 tbsp SF choc. syrup

Meal 7 1030 PM:

1 scoop whey
2 fish oil

Total Calories: 1569
Fat: 37g (23%)
Carbs: 114g (24%)
Protein: 196g (53%)

Water goal: 5L

 

[GoalGetter]

The Plan for Today.

The plan for today was to make it an off day. However, I'm gonna throw in some cardio. HIIT either on the stairmaster or the bike.

I really don't like the stationary bike. I don't know wtf is my problem with it. I have enough endurance, and I have strong legs. But for some reason, just the THOUGHT of getting on a stationary bike makes me tired, which is also why I've NEVER taken a spinning class (something I'm gonna do for the first time this month, oh boy).

At the same time that the thought of stationary cycling tires me out, it BORES me and makes me feel like I'm getting an incomplete workout. I feel like I'm only working out from the waist down, as opposed to when I use the treadmill or stairmaster, where my arms are pumping and moving as well. It stands to reason that I'd be more tired if I'm using my entire body, right? I know it's a flawed theory, if I'm working harder on the bike, even if it's from the waist down, I'll be more tired. It's all mental with me.

Anyway, yeah. HIIT today. And abs. Let's see if that damn girl isn't hogging my nat. crunch machine today. Did I mention what a bitch she was? I asked her if I could work in my three sets with hers and she flat out said no. She said she rested too little between sets and would be there for a while. What the fuck? Is she doing 20 sets or something? That's why my ab routine was on the floor yesterday. I hope she's so sore today that she can't move. Bitch.

 

[P-funk]

Let's see if that damn girl isn't hogging my nat. crunch machine today. Did I mention what a bitch she was? I asked her if I could work in my three sets with hers and she flat out said no.

that is cool.....I would have said...."oh, that is alright you fat pig. i don't use machines for abs because I know how to really workout." Then I would have just done weighted sit ups. Screw ab machines.

 

[GoalGetter]

that is cool.....I would have said...."oh, that is alright you fat pig. i don't use machines for abs because I know how to really workout." Then I would have just done weighted sit ups. Screw ab machines.

hahahahahah! I kept my mean thoughts to myself (for once), but i did do weighted sit ups (well, crunches), along with a bunch of other things. hahaha!

P.S. She had braided pigtails, and i felt like pulling her off the machine by the damn things!

 

[P-funk]

mmmmm.........I love braided pigtails.

 

[GoalGetter]

mmmmm.........I love braided pigtails.

Hey Funky... Good to know.

 

[GoalGetter]

Workout - November 10 - IM Competition Day 10

Cardio

Well.... I confronted the bike head on.

I did about 12 minutes of HIIT before feeling like I was gonna pass out -- started out at 30/30, and the last few cycles at 40/30. By the time I stepped off the bike I was drenched. Then I did another round on the stairmaster. 10 minutes, level 20 intervals.

My legs, or rather my quads and hams, feel like they've doubled in size. The "teardrop" part of my quads is huuuuuuuuge. Holy crap i wish my legs looked like this every day. hahahaha!

Abs

Nat. weighted crunches

1 x 65lb x 20
1 x 75lb x 15 <---- was starting to use my arms to pull and rather than lose form, I went back to...
1 x 65lb x 20

Decline Crunches

3 x BW x 25 <----- moderately fast reps, hold for 30 seconds on last rep

 

[Velvet]

Good morning Ivy..yesterday's breakfast looks awesome

 

[GoalGetter]

Good morning Ivy..yesterday's breakfast looks awesome

The egg sandwich? That's today darlin'! November 10!

Unless you meant my oatmeal and eggs from the day before! hahahaha!

 

[tucker01]

Dear Metabolism,

Please hurry up and stabilize. I am feeding you more food. Stop being hungry. You weren't hungry when I had you going at 1100 calories. Now I'm giving you 500 more and you're acting like a greedy little five year old. Seriously.

That shit ain't funny. Get your act together and work with me here.

Thanks much,
Ivonne

This is one of the shitty things about increasing cals. I find myself wanting to eat the most when I am in a surplus of Cals.

 

[Velvet]

ya, Iain, what's up with that??? I'm the same way. sorry Ivy, yep today's breaky sounds soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yummy..mine was good too tho, so can't complain..I had an oat and ew's pancake with natty spread down the middle and made into a crepe..yumm

HEY! Aren't you supposed to be super duper squiddle weedlie busy today and not online?

 

[GoalGetter]

ya, Iain, what's up with that??? I'm the same way. sorry Ivy, yep today's breaky sounds soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yummy..mine was good too tho, so can't complain..I had an oat and ew's pancake with natty spread down the middle and made into a crepe..yumm

HEY! Aren't you supposed to be super duper squiddle weedlie busy today and not online?

Vel: Damn. yours does sound yummy too.

Yes. Shhhhhh. I'm NOT SUPPOSED to be here, but my photoshop file is huge. Gigs-huge. SO every time i save or perform more than one thing on it, it takes forever, even on my supposedly very fast machine. So i have some down time every few minutes. Just have to be quick so my boss doesn't walk in and bust me "not working" even though I am. haha!

Iain: ARRGH. This sucks. It's the first time I do this (conscious of what I'm doing) with my calories, so I didn't know what to expect. And it's crazy. I just ate my 8 AM meal, and normally, I wouldn't even be thinking of food right now on my 1100 cal days. Yet, my stomach is GROWLING right now.

 

[P-funk]

1100 calorie days should never exist.....I could see if maybe it was the week before a contest and you weren't eating carbs or something but c'mon. that is way to low.

 

[GoalGetter]

1100 calorie days should never exist.....I could see if maybe it was the week before a contest and you weren't eating carbs or something but c'mon. that is way to low.

Patrick - I'm not doing that anymore. I'm just referring to when I was. Like, um... up to last week hahaha! I spent almost 3 months between 1000-1200 calories from July to late October.

 

[P-funk]

I am hungry just thinking about it. LOL, my meals are about 650 cals each.....I would be done eating after 2 meals.

 

[GoalGetter]

I am hungry just thinking about it. LOL, my meals are about 650 cals each.....I would be done eating after 2 meals.

Just had another stuffed pepper... last one. So sad.

Man I'm gonna be in a conference thurs-sun and if you can believe this, I have pretty much planned my meals for the next four days, with some wiggle room of course, since there's a lot of "spontaneous" activity that could come up.

Obssessive? Maybe a little hahahaha!

 

[naturaltan]

LOL, my meals are about 650 cals each

... that's a sure way to pack on some weight. My vainty disallows me to have any kind of 6 pack hiding

 

[P-funk]

... that's a sure way to pack on some weight. My vainty disallows me to have any kind of 6 pack hiding

OH man, I am depressed as hell right now. I feel like a fat piece of shit. The only thing is I just keep the goal in mind. I do whatever I have to do to put on size before I diet down. I need more muscle so if I have to gain weight and some BF then I do it. It is depressing but I never let the goal out of my sight.

 

[GoalGetter]

OH man, I am depressed as hell right now. I feel like a fat piece of shit. The only thing is I just keep the goal in mind. I do whatever I have to do to put on size before I diet down. I need more muscle so if I have to gain weight and some BF then I do it. It is depressing but I never let the goal out of my sight.

See what you did NT???

hahahaha!

Funky - i'm trying to get to that mindset - not worry about BF right now and concentrate on muscle, but I freak out periodically.

 

[P-funk]

See what you did NT???

hahahaha!

Funky - i'm trying to get to that mindset - not worry about BF right now and concentrate on muscle, but I freak out periodically.

I freak out all the time. it is upseting. bulking messes with my head. but i just know that it has to be done.