"She's a real Goal-Getter, that one..."

[Jill]

Neat-sf icecream. Im not really a big icecream fan though, really. Thats Greeky! Im sure all those chemicals would hurt my sensitive tummy though. The consistency sounds funny!

What did you get from the grocery store?

 

[GoalGetter]

Neat-sf icecream. Im not really a big icecream fan though, really. Thats Greeky! Im sure all those chemicals would hurt my sensitive tummy though. The consistency sounds funny!

What did you get from the grocery store?

You're not!? For some reason I thought you were! haha! Woops! I'll make sure to point it out to greeky.

The chemicals - they all seem to be fillers for the most part. SERIOUSLY you should see it! it's like it "bounces" back into shape! made me laugh.

Grocery store purchases:
9 chicken breasts

2 cartons of extra lean ground turkey (Jenny-O Turkey Store)

Tabboule (LOooooove this stuff, and I never eat a whole serving of it, I actually dress my chicken or turkey breast with it)

SF/FF Jello cups (the pre-made ones, since i'm always on the go)

ff cool whip

strawberries

spinach

romaine lettuce

EFA caps (Sundown blend: Flax, Fish & Borage Oils -- i just didn't feel like drriving to Wild Oats just for Udo's today, so these will have to do)

Oh and paper towels haha!

Exciting stuff, I know.

 

[Jill]

Thanks for all the info!!! I just went and picked up some shrooms, and canned pumpkin

Did you up your calls a bit today?

 

[GoalGetter]

Thanks for all the info!!! I just went and picked up some shrooms, and canned pumpkin

Did you up your calls a bit today?

Sounds like you're gonna make some more of that "you'd swear you're cheating on your diet" pumpkin pie! haha! I have yet to try it, not a huge pumpkin fan, though. Maybe i'll sub it with blanched/boiled/purreed sweet potatoes.

My cals - yeah I did, but not by much after all was said and done: 1208, oh wait and the 35 cals from the ice cream sample, so um.. 1243 cals. I have to cook some more proteins, didn't have much on hand in the middle of the week. Tonight I'll cook up some ground turkey and that bison I bought earlier this week.

What are you up to tonight?

 

[GoalGetter]

Workout and Food - Sept 23

Workout:

Chest/Back Super Giant Sets:

Bench Press (1 x 10 x 75lb, 2 x 10 x 65)
Close Grip Pull Down (3 x 12 x 60lb)
Chest Press (3 x 15 x 70lb)
Seated Row (3 x 12 x 60lb)
Cable Crossover (1 x 12 x 40lb, 2 x 12 x 20lb)
Wide Grip Lat Pulldown (3 x 12 x 50lb)

Abs - Hanging Knee Raises (3 x 12)

Bicep/Tricep Super Giant Sets:

Bar Curls (3 x 15 x 30lb)
Cable Pushdowns (3 x 15 x 60lb)
Revers Pushdowns (3 x 15 x 30lb)
Hammer Curls (1 x 15 x 15lb dumbells, 2 x 12 x 15lb)

45 second rest between sets.

Cardio (did it before weights today to use time "wisely" since i was there early, and realized quickly what a mistake it was): 15 minutes, not-so-HIIT jumprope.

I am also about to jog over to a friend's building and back - about a mile, total.

Food:

Breakfast - 630 AM:

1/2 cup Oatmeal
1.5 scoop protein powder, 8 oz. water
Udo's Choice 2 caps

Mid-Morning - 930 AM:

1 small Apple
1 cup broccoli
3 slices oven roasted turkey

Lunch - 1230 AM:

5 oz. Chicken breast (3 oz grilled 2 oz. canned)
1/4 cup oatmeal
1 cup salad with red onions
1 tbsp pesto dressing

Mid-Afternoon/Pre-Workout - 440 PM:

1/2 MRP shake
Sample (generous serving) of sugar free ice cream at super market (kindof like a cheat I guess, but what a lousy cheat it was)

Dinner/Post-Workout - 740:

3 oz. Tilapia
1/4 cup Pearled Barley
1 cup Broccoli and onions

Total Calories: 1243

 

[fantasma62]

Hey Hon, how are you tonight? Boy have I had a full day....

How was your day? Are you feeling better? So many questions.....
So this sucks, now we have a hurricane that will slam into SoFla at some point tomorrow late night. I hope that you'll be Ok, and now my diet goes to the $hits.....
So, we'll see what's doing tomorrow....I'll catch up with you later...

Hugs.....

 

[GoalGetter]

8-Week Pictures

Alrighty then... I put up some pictures. If I'd "tanned" you could see the progress better, but since I didn't, oh well.

 

[GoalGetter]

Hey Hon, how are you tonight? Boy have I had a full day....

How was your day? Are you feeling better? So many questions.....
So this sucks, now we have a hurricane that will slam into SoFla at some point tomorrow late night. I hope that you'll be Ok, and now my diet goes to the $hits.....
So, we'll see what's doing tomorrow....I'll catch up with you later...

Hugs.....

Hey Tony! I'm alright - still with this cold/sore throat, and now with a cough, too. but i'm hangin' in there.

Busy day, eh? Looks like it! Barely heard a peep from you today on here!

Yeah this hurricane bullshit has gotten old QUICK! I'm not evacuating this time. Screw it.

It's like Hurricane Jeanne was heading north and suddenly says, "Oh crap! What am I doing! I forgot Florida!" and then made a u-turn. That dumb bitch.

Your diet/workout - hey man do the best you can, and just be safe with your family. We should all be pros at this by now!

Big hugs....

 

[BritChick]

Your pics in your gallery are great GG... looking hot!

 

[GoalGetter]

Your pics in your gallery are great GG... looking hot!

Thank you! Gettin' there!

(wish I had tanned for the photos... really... damn i'm so lazy today).

 

[fantasma62]

Hey Tony! I'm alright - still with this cold/sore throat, and now with a cough, too. but i'm hangin' in there.

Busy day, eh? Looks like it! Barely heard a peep from you today on here!

Yeah this hurricane bullshit has gotten old QUICK! I'm not evacuating this time. Screw it.

It's like Hurricane Jeanne was heading north and suddenly says, "Oh crap! What am I doing! I forgot Florida!" and then made a u-turn. That dumb bitch.

Your diet/workout - hey man do the best you can, and just be safe with your family. We should all be pros at this by now!

Big hugs....

Hey kid, you be safe too. I am so tired I think I am off to sleep. The workout really kicked my ass today....
We'll talk tomorrow...

BIGGER HUGS

 

[camarosuper6]

You Look FANTASTIC!

GREAT LEGS !

 

[jstar]

Hey Jstar!

Thanks! It's so awesome to "hear" things like that. Keeps a girl revved up! Good stuff to come back and read through when my spark's out!

As for changing my diet - thanks for your suggestions. I was thinking something along those lines - something early in the morning, bigger breakfast, and/or bigger post workout meal (like what i'm about to have now -- rawr!).

Confession: For some reason in my illogical mind, I still fear that eating more will make me fat. I'm scared of making a mistake with my diet and screwing up the progress along the way. Like I'll wake up back at 135lb in a few days or something!

Sounds like a plan!

I have similar thoughts. Sometimes I dream that I cheated on my diet and it makes me feel all anxious the next day. Weird, huh?
I think this is where visualization comes in. If you close your eyes and envision exactly what you want to look like (and do this a few times a day or as often as possible) then you start to believe you can do it. You change your self-concept. That is what they say when overweight people sabotage themselves on their diets..because there is a certain amount of anxiety that comes from change. Any type of change too, good or bad.

You'll just have to keep telling yourself "I AM a lean, muscular hottie" now repeat after me...

 

[Jill]

Great new progrss pics.

You have to be careful with your cals being too low thats for sure-you dont want to lose anymore muscle. We work so hard to build muscle (women in general) the last thing you want to do is 'lose' it.

You are very thin now. How much smaller do you really want to be?

 

[GoalGetter]

Great new progrss pics.

You have to be careful with your cals being too low thats for sure-you dont want to lose anymore muscle. We work so hard to build muscle (women in general) the last thing you want to do is 'lose' it.

You are very thin now. How much smaller do you really want to be?

Thanks, Jill.. Actually it's not so much "thin" as "lean and muscular" that I want to get. If I see that I start looking way too THIN without any real muscularity, then I'll have to change things up. Right now, I'm gonna try to get to 12% while still trying to build up the muslces, and see how that looks on me, and see if I need to change things up a bit.

 

[Jill]

I much prefer the muscular look over the thin look anyday.

Keep lifting hard and heavy to build!

 

[fantasma62]

You aren't evacuating?

Nena are you insane?

You've got to get out of there....

If you don't, please know that I'll be thinking of you, you freaking nut

Tried sending you a pm, but your box seems full

 

[GoalGetter]

You aren't evacuating?

Nena are you insane?

You've got to get out of there....

If you don't, please know that I'll be thinking of you, you freaking nut

Tried sending you a pm, but your box seems full

Just emptied my PM box. Try again

As for the hurricane - Nah. Im staying. I just have this feeling that I'll be ok. ("famous last words!")

My mother formo tremendo drama, lecturing and yelling at me on the phone, saying, "Don't you care about your parents? Don't you care that we're going to be out of our minds worried sick about you while this is happening?" And you know? Yeah I care, and I'm happy that someone cares about me, but if I were in another state, far far away, and there were some natural disaster and I were still there, unable to come home, they'd have to deal. This is me being my stubborn, independent self. Que te puedo decir...

I'm going to be fine. And if I'm not, then I'm not. At least this isn't a trailer park. you know? And I"m not facing east or west. I'm facing north. The security guard here already took down my name and my signature, consenting that I'm staying here voluntarily (along with a handful of other hotel guests who didn't want to leave either).

I hope (well i KNOW) you and your family are already hunkered down, prepared and safe... I'll be thinking of you folks.

Oh! Think of it this way, I can keep an eye on your parents' building! haha!

 

[Jill]

Where are you supposed to go??? I dont really know too much about hurricane stuff.

 

[GoalGetter]

Where are you supposed to go??? I dont really know too much about hurricane stuff.

Well, because i live in Miami Beach, which is a barrier island, and is classified as "Zone A" for hurricane evacuation purposes, I am supposed to leave miami beach. Where i go is up to me. I could go to a shelter (no thanks), or I could go hang out at my parents' house which is a little further inland.

Basically people are strongly advised to leave any area along the coast, all islands (like key biscayne, miami beach, etc.) and go inland.

 

[fantasma62]

Well, because i live in Miami Beach, which is a barrier island, and is classified as "Zone A" for hurricane evacuation purposes, I am supposed to leave miami beach. Where i go is up to me. I could go to a shelter (no thanks), or I could go hang out at my parents' house which is a little further inland.

Basically people are strongly advised to leave any area along the coast, all islands (like key biscayne, miami beach, etc.) and go inland.

...and Ivy is a nutcase, a rebel without a clue....lol

Listen nena, just be safe. If you stay together with your crew in the building you'll at least not be bored....
Either way, if you need anything out there let me know, and I'll see what I can do to get into the beach. I have a big ole' pick up truck that will get thru anything.....either way, my other crazy "tia-prima" is staying at the Mar del Plata, so you'll have another bunch of nuts in the Mar del Plata along with the nuts in the Casablanca....

 

[GoalGetter]

...and Ivy is a nutcase, a rebel without a clue....lol

Listen nena, just be safe. If you stay together with your crew in the building you'll at least not be bored....
Either way, if you need anything out there let me know, and I'll see what I can do to get into the beach. I have a big ole' pick up truck that will get thru anything.....either way, my other crazy "tia-prima" is staying at the Mar del Plata, so you'll have another bunch of nuts in the Mar del Plata along with the nuts in the Casablanca....

Thank you Tony, I really appreciate it, but you're an even bigger nutcase if you drive out here for ME hahaha! If worse comes to worst, PM me your tia-prima's name and I'll walk over there and introduce myself (especially if they have power and I don't! hahahahaha!)

Incidentally... I just leaned out my window and took a few pre-hurricane photos of all the construction stuff at the Akoya - you know, potential projectiles. Just in case something ends up in my apartment later tonight, I have proof of where it came from There are pavers, tiles, cement blocks, port-o-potties (yes, three of them i think)...

And the beach looks AWESOME. I'm almost sorta kinda excited to see how a hurricane looks from the inside, well as "inside" as I can be, here since it's not really going to go over miami beach. Every time there's a hurricane, I'm well out of harm's way. I'm curious to see what this will be like.

 

[fantasma62]

Curiosity killed the Cat....don't be crazy....

You know, I am a closet storm chaser. I love to chase storms, however, I don't like it when they chase me and my family.
Do you have shutters in your apt? My parents bought the apt. and it came with Roladen shutters (yeah ), you know, the ones that you press a button and they go up and down. Easier for me to deal with.
We'll be in touch throughout the day....

Again, don't be brave and please stay away from the flying $hitters...

Thank you Tony, I really appreciate it, but you're an even bigger nutcase if you drive out here for ME hahaha! If worse comes to worst, PM me your tia-prima's name and I'll walk over there and introduce myself (especially if they have power and I don't! hahahahaha!)

Incidentally... I just leaned out my window and took a few pre-hurricane photos of all the construction stuff at the Akoya - you know, potential projectiles. Just in case something ends up in my apartment later tonight, I have proof of where it came from There are pavers, tiles, cement blocks, port-o-potties (yes, three of them i think)...

And the beach looks AWESOME. I'm almost sorta kinda excited to see how a hurricane looks from the inside, well as "inside" as I can be, here since it's not really going to go over miami beach. Every time there's a hurricane, I'm well out of harm's way. I'm curious to see what this will be like.

 

[GoalGetter]

See? It's not so bad... sorta missing miami, we're only gonna get winds and rain, not the "hurricane" part of it. if that makes any sense:

 

[jstar]

Be careful GG - we will be thinking of you

 

[GoalGetter]

Be careful GG - we will be thinking of you

Thanks Jstar!

 

[GoalGetter]

Workout and Food - Sept 25

Workout:

Cardio -
10 minutes/1 mile jogging, early morning before the hurricane crap.
20 minutes, HIIT Jumprope in the evening.

Abs -

Crunches on stability ball (2 x 30)
Reverse crunches on stability ball (2 x 30) - i really hate these, gotta find something else for lower abs to do at home.

Food:

Breakfast - 930 AM (yes I slept in, courtesy of Nyquil):

1/2 cup oatmeal
3 servings of Egg Beaters
1/2 scoop of Protein Powder in my oatmeal
Udo's Choice, 2 caps

Lunch - 1230 PM:

3 oz. Turkey Breast
0.5 oz. Tilapia (leftover)
1 cup Spinach
1/2 cup Tabboule
1 tbsp Pesto Sauce

Mid-Afternoon - 330 PM:

1/2 cup oatmeal
1 scoop protein powder

Dinner - 630 PM:

3 oz. Tilapia
1.5 cup Broccoli

Evening - 930 PM (if I'm awake):

1/2 MRP shake (myoplex lite)

Total Calories (if I drink the shake at 930): 1069

Yeah the cals are still low. I am just not hungry... this cold is killing me. I've also done horribly on the water drinking today. Every time I drink or eat anything I feel queasy.

 

[Jill]

Is everything ok dispite that biotch Jeanne in your neighbourhood?

 

[GoalGetter]

Is everything ok dispite that biotch Jeanne in your neighbourhood?

Funny you ask... She didn't even come close! haha! I was all psyched to be weathering a hurricane, and being "in" it and all, and nothing happened. She went north of here. Like central florida. All we got was a rainy, windy night. I haven't even checked the television for news to see what happened where she DID hit, but I'm guessing it's not pretty

Good morning!

 

[GoalGetter]

Discovered a MAJOR F*CK UP with my calories

You know how earlier this month I asked about cooked vs. raw brown rice? Well, I should have realized that the same rule applies for oatmeal. But of course, I only realized that this morning when preparing my oatmeal, and glanced at the nutritional info label. I noticed the word "raw", and reality hit me.

So I've been OVER calculating my cals! No wonder I lost a pound of muscle, I'm borderline-starving myself. I eat oatmeal like twice a day sometimes, and both times I've been adding the calories of RAW UNCOOKED OATMEAL. I did a quick search on Fitday, and learned that when cooked the cals are reduced to about HALF, and the carbs, too, so I've been overcalculating carbs, too... In reality I've been taking in like 75 cals and 20 grams of carbs LESS per 1/2 cup helping of oatmeal. It adds up.

For example, yesterdays calories, which were already low by my regular calculations, actually come out to 934!!!!!!! I'm going to go huddle in a corner and cry now. I feel like such a moron. Really. Wow.