Fit Lizzio Fitness

Being sick is no fun!! This time it got the best of me and I actually have been sitting on my couch since noon hehe.

I did get a great shoulder workout in this morning followed by a low intensity 30 minutes on the elliptical. I ate more calories then i wanted to today (2100) but oh well, not a big deal. (Wanted to eat about 1800) All of it was clean food so it isn’t horrible, and i’m still feeling sick. What the hell else was i supposed to do all day 🙂

Anyways, i’m really really bored now and want to go for a walk or something. I didn’t get anything done today that I wanted to, and now i have watched everything on tv, and surfed every website. I need some fresh air. Maybe just a walk around the block with the ipod will refresh me.

Still sick today, and woke up soooo congested. I took some tylenol not too long ago and it helped tremendously. I am going to get some strength training in today, because I feel up to it and I just am a worrier about losing muscle. I have been realizing lately that I LOVE these muscles I have built on my body. I took yoga yesterday and could see my arms in the mirror and it just made me so damn happy that I have muscle to show off to the world. It takes a lot of time and effort to build muscle, and I am proud of mine and not afraid to tell the world that! So that being said, I can’t miss two days in a row of strength training I will feel like a weakling lol.

Breakfast today was 1 cup egg whites, proatmeal (1/4 cup rolled oats, 1 scoop whey protein, cinnamon), and an apple.

Off to do my strength training, probably won’t do cardio today because I’m not feeling up to it.

Not gonna lie, i was feeling so crappy today that i really just didn’t care about my food intake. I ate 90% clean, but then i will admit i had a clif mojo bar, some trail mix, and for whatever reason i had a smuckers peanut butter and jelly sandwich thing from the freezer (yuckkk.) crappy food makes you feel like…CRAP. who woulda thought hah. I am not feeling too guilty over it, i honestly feel so shitty today that even if i wanted to make myself feel guilty, i couldn’t. One day won’t kill me and i know that i will be back on track tomorrow. Hopefully I will be feeling better, cuz that will make it easier. I just needed to get that out of my system maybe?

Anyways, i ended up today doing 40 minutes on the treadmill, incline walked the first 15 minutes and ran the rest of the way. Then went to a yoga class. Surprisingly, no more exercise for the day for me. (I was supposed to go rock climbing, but i just felt too sick.) I now have an annoying stuffy nose. Ya know the kind when you sit or lay down you can’t breathe out of one nostril…ARGGHH. Going to take some tylenol pm though and pass out.

Hopefully i will feel better in the morning. If you can even handle this my calorie intake today was…………..3,673!!!!!!!!!! That is horendous. I at least kept track, and like I said…most of it was clean foods (lots of apples, oatmeal,) but it was the clif mojo bar, the larabar, the stupid smuckers uncrustable, the trail mix..those all REALLY made it add up. Anyways, not feeling guilty about it. Tomorrow is another day and I think it helps me stay on track if i have a cheat day here and there. That is the first one I have had in like…a month…so that in itself is an accomplishment, as for a while I was in a real rut and was binging like crazy.

Everyone should read this. It gave me some new insights and I think it will do the same for you.

Definitely eating over calories today. I will probably end up in the 2500 range, but I am sick and not binging, just need a day of food in whatever quantity i want lol. Still eating clean foods though.

Ugh! So my room mate has been sick all week and of course, now I am feeling sick. A sore throat 🙁 This is the 3rd time in the last few months. (Luckily nothing bad, but a cold is annoying!)

Note to self: “No Lizzy, feta cheese does NOT taste good with your egg whites”
Do you think that stopped me from eating them? Of course not. 🙂

Today i am honestly going to rest. I am going to a yoga class at 9:30, but thats IT. And rock climbing tonight but what I am trying to say is no formal cardio, no formal weight lifting. My diet is going to be a little cheatful as well. I use that term lightly because my “cheats” are the reduced fat feta i had in my egg whites, and a little low sodium tomato soup i had when I woke up to soothe my throat. I will probably have a protein bar later cuz well…we all know i love those 🙂

Quick question: Larabars are made with simple natural ingredients, so is that counted as a processed food though??? I always want to say no its not, but then again…i don’t know??

“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind”

Off to work 🙂

“Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.”

I like that quote. I can’t tell you how often, family included, tells me that I am “obsessed” with working out and being healthy. I don’t tell them they are “obsessed” with being lazy and unhealthy! Anyways, this quote made me smile 🙂

Breakfast today: 1 apple; 1/2 cup rolled oats with 1 scoop of whey protein, cinnamon and some blueberries, and a hard boiled egg-white.

Off to the gym. I am not sure if I am supposed to work today because usually I don’t work on Tuesdays, but for some reason I thought I was working today. Hmmm..should probably figure that one out 🙂 Anyways, I’m feeling tired and sluggish right now, so maybe I will take today off from any intense exercise, we’ll see, I am no longer going to plan rest days, because it never seems to happen!

Hello everyone!!

Okay so good news! Saturday was my weigh-in day. I posted about it and had said I weighed in at 136 pounds and I was hoping so badly that it was muscle and that I had lost fat. WELL…..

Today I got my body fat taken at the gym with the calipers. I told him (good friend and a trainer there) that i didn’t want him to make me feel good…I said grab that fat and give me the real number!!! I was literally shaking i was so nervous!! So nervous because I didn’t want to feel like I have been working this hard only to find out that I didn’t lose any body fat……so the verdict…..

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22.2%!!!!
Down 2% since my last BF test back in I think October-ish? And the best part is that I still weigh the same that I did then! Meaning I am putting on muscle and losing fat! About 3 pounds of yucky ugly gross FAT is GONE!! :):):):)

My goal by competition time is 15%, so my short term goals are this:

19% by February 12th (1 month from today)
15% by March 20th (1 week away from competition)

I believe I can do it. I have been at 18% body fat before, however I weighed 128 pounds and didn’t have as much muscle. Needless to say I got that low in only 3 months 🙂

I am very excited and am on cloud nine today! I did the test before my workout and it made my workout that much better. Eating healthy is THAT much more gratifying today and I really am excited.

On a VERY DIFFERENT note..i am looking for an unbiased opinion here about something…

Do you ever go through times where you just really don’t want to be around your family? I have a wonderful family but also many family issues…my mother is a severe alcoholic(i am currently not speaking to her because of this), parents are recently divorced, my dad is now the king of dating..everyone…and i love my brothers and sister to death and have no issues with them but lately i am just not wanting to be around them. I want to just keep some distance for a while. I love my dad and we get along well but I have no idea why, I just dont want to be around him either. Has anyone else ever experienced this? I just want to not speak to them for a while(excluding my sister and brothers, because they are my back bone and the reason i am still sane today after going through the childhood ive been through)

Anyways….is this normal? is this okay?

Would like to get some opinions…..

So i failed at resting today. I ended having an amazing leg workout….bar bell squats, DB squats, step-ups, curtsie lunges, decline hack squat machine…leg extensions….some other random stuff. I was doing triple drop sets and really had an excellent workout. I also did 45 minutes on the elliptical and 18 minutes on the stair stepper.

So in essence…i “failed” at resting, but i wouldn’t come close to calling it a failure. I will just take a rest day this week when I have a busy day. Maybe tuesday or wednesday?

I am watching Almost Famous right now. Love this movie 🙂