The purpose of tonight's post is this: I had a not-so-great weigh in earlier this week with a 2lb. gain. Ugh. I have been faithful gyming it up, but had started straying on the whole no drinking thing and no eating when you get stressed out thing. Honestly, straying.. but not that much. Not two pounds much. So I am speculating that I might be hitting my first plateau in my loss. Or maybe it just feels better to call my lapses in progress a plateau.
And what a better time to hit a plateau than when I am about to kick my life into the highest gear (sarcasm)? Student teaching officially starts Tuesday. What does that mean for me and my fluffy badonkadonk? My thoughts are this: the routine of school will help the diet portion. I control my packed lunch and do not have spare time in which to inhale too many whole grain crackers dunked in hummus as a "snack". That's my thing.. it's not that I don't eat what I should, but if I have too much time of my hands, portions become the issue. I know I am not alone in this struggle. I think portion control is one of the hardest aspects of healthy eating. Now, I am taking a moment to remind myself that this is an area I need to focus on. And although this sounds insane, but just typing that out does something special to keep me accountable to myself.
Secondly, I cannot let myself pass over Brambleton on my way back from Salem in the afternoons without next taking the next left to roll into Gold's. I plan to pack my gym bag every night in order to make this happen. If I go home, it's over and my ass is on facebook and scheming over some trial run recipe for dinner, likely pantless and lifeless. This is the perfect time to pump it up! It's time to up the ante of my exercise routine. Typically, I do 50-60 minutes of cardio + 10-20 minutes of weights/abs, depending on my time... I think the cardio times are okay. I can't see any sense in more than an hour of cardio. My attention span could not hang and my cardio is ass-bustin' cardio and sometimes most efficient kept to 50 minutes, if I have pushed myself hard enough. It's the weight routine I plan to keep extended. I have been trying to focus on abs more, incorporating the ab machine into each workout. However, I have been neglecting my lower abs. This area has plagued me, possibly more than any other body part, pretty much since I can remember being pubescent and probably before that if I had any thought of body image. It's not that that I don't work the lower abdominals, but that I am not doing it every time I go. That is about to change. On a lighter note, I have fallen back in <3 with the hip adduction/abduction machine.
What's pumpin' it up without a positively perfect playlist?!
Bossy by Kelis
Buttons by the Pussycat Dolls
Naughty Girl by Beyonce
Girlfight by Brooke Valentine
Enter Sandman by Metallica
My Prerogative by Bobby Brown
Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes
Get Low by Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz
Like a G6 by Far East Movement
Break My Bank by New Boyz
Back that Ass Up by Juvenile, etc.
Another Night by Real McCoy
Don't Stop Til You Get Enough by Michael Jackson
Shake me Like a Monkey by Dave Matthews Band
Opposites Attract by Paula Abdul
XOXO,
