So, let's see. I think I pretty much seem to always be saying that I fell off my wagon, had a slip up, made some bad choices, and just lost self control. Well, this post isn't gonna stray from the formula. I was good all week with the exception of some wine Thursday night while I caught up on my DVR'd Desperate Housewives. Friday was good, but had more wine (that I didn't plan on having). Saturday we went up to see my grandma in Houghton Lake. It's just over a 2hr drive from where we're at. Well, she wanted to go out to the 'Burger Bust' at the Eagles so of course we went. And I got a burger....and onion rings....and 2 beers! The only reason I ordered the beer is because my grandma was having one and I could tell she didn't want to be the only person having one. (She kept asking us if we wanted one) I didn't have to order the second though. Then we came home and played some Yahtzee (I'm so exciting I know!). Which I totally suck at by the way. Well, I had 1 more beer with her then too. The next morning she made us breakfast. Now, my grandma absolutely does not believe in anything 'diet'. If you open her fridge you'll find butter, vitamin D milk, full flavor beer, cheese, some kinda sweet rolls and other fattening (albeit tasty) foods. We had ham, potato bread toast (with butter), hash browns and I had 1 whole egg and 3 egg whites (like it even mattered at that point).

On the way home we decided to stop off at the Birch Run Outlet Mall to do some shopping (well, we were passing it why not?) I picked up some organic coconut oil from Vitamin World. It was on sale for $7.99! Score! It actually smells like coconuts. My other container (different brand) doesn't have a smell at all? I don't understand it, but I tried it in my protein pudding and holy crap was it good! We got a few other things and decided to leave so we could stop in at Bronner's. If you've never been there, or heard of them, it's a HUGE year round Christmas store! You can find an ornament for ANYTHING in that place! It's neat to walk around through. They even play Christmas music over the loud speakers so it definitely feels like Xmas there no matter what month it is!

Before we hit the road we made the terrible decision of eating at Tony's Restaurant. They pride themselves on ginormous portions. I got a Philly steak sub, Mike got some Italian sub thing, an order of onion rings (we were on an onion kick), a diet coke (coz calories count! lol!) and we got mister Gregman some spaghetti. It came to $34 bucks! Holy smokes! I don't think I've ever paid that much for some sandwiches and pasta! It wasn't even that great. That's the part that sucked the worst. Most of their dishes are too big to eat, so I guess it's like you're getting 2 meals out of it (although I totally killed my sub! I'm not proud of it, I was just HANGRY!)

All the sodium and carbs was killing me by time we got home. I could not get enough water! It was starting to hurt my stomach how much water I was drinking. Talk about feeling like crap. That was my weekend, a crapfest of food.

Today was 100% on track, so at least the guilt I'm feeling is doing good. Today was leg day and I don't know if it was the bad weekend, but I just didn't have the drive I usually do to get in there and push some weight around. Mike was feeling the same way so I think it must be because of the food (if you can call it that) we ate.

This is the second week I've used my 5 fingered shoes for leg day. I LOVE them! I used to do leg day in my socks, but my foot always slid around a little. With these I feel like I'm gripping the floor! I tried jumping rope in them = I like. Then I tried the elliptical = doesn't really make a difference. Last, I did inclined treadmill = not so good. My heel kept rubbing and I had to end the cardio session early to go change my shoes.

Now, it's time to pick up around the house a little, then relax with a book. Every once in a great while I like to try picking up a book, but usually never finish'em. I decided to get Breaking Dawn (I know, I know, don't judge me. A lot of people like it though). I figure if I get something that sparks my interest more maybe I'll actually finish! I'll keep ya posted. I already know what happens for the most part, but want to read it anyway:)

Oh, I had a question in my Formspring. I am way too tired to go into answering it right now, but I wanted to let that person know that I will definitely answer it soon! I'll try my best to be back tomorrow, but in all honesty it may be a bit longer. I promise not to wait too long! :)

Morning Glory!

Good morning bloggerland! It's not really that early, but I'm up and ready to get things going! I have only had 1 cup of coffee and no breakfast yet, so maybe after that I'll get going?? I had another night of awesome sleep! I have been getting really bad sleep lately (waking up a lot) and decided to start taking my ZMA again. I used to take it during prep, but it made my restless leg syndrome act up a lot. Maybe it was because of all the stress I was putting on my body, because now it's awesome!

I decided to step on the scale this morning, only to see it's gone up a pound! WTF!?!? I know my weekend was bad, but I figured by today I would have dropped any water I was holding from it. I know I didn't eat enough to gain the weight. Poo! :( My scale is pretty old (8 yrs is old isn't it?) so maybe it needs to be recalibrated? If you can even do that with a digital scale?

Today my plan is to go to the gym (make sure I do more cardio!), get some clean eats in, and clean up my house! It's takes no time whatsoever to turn it upside down. I hear we're supposed to get freezing rain and sleet today so I might try to do any running around I have to do early. I'd love to make it movie night tonight, but I have been having a really hard time staying up past 9:30-10:00. Here's hoping!

Hope you're all off to a great morning!

Haters Gonna Hate!

Wanna know what irritates me to death??? Haters. I just think that if they put all the energy and time into themselves they'd be to busy to care about what others are doing/not doing and just be focused on themselves! Why do I bring this up you ask? Well let me tell you....

I train a friend, at the gym she teaches classes at, once a week. I go just for her. Well, miss hater came in the trainers office while I was putting my things away and I asked if I was in her way. She said no, but she just didn't expect to see someone in HER office (it says "Trainers Office" on the door btw). So whatev, I decided to give her attitude the benefit of the doubt and introduced myself. She gave me a wet noodle handshake and then proceeded to start interrogating me about why I have been coming in there and what my intentions are. Excuse me, wha? I told her I am only on the floor for the one hour I train the one person and that's it. So she needn't worry about me trying to steal any clients (that's not my style anyway, but maybe it's hers??). It really irritated me because who is she that I have to answer to anyway? Oh, and it gets better. Apparently there's another trainer there (who also has the same attitude) and I heard he actually called somebody in one of his classes fat!?!?!?!? What kind of trainer does that? What kind of person does that? Well, word is that these two got are in cahoot's and now one of them is always there when I am. Srsly!? There is so much potential clientele at that place their dance cards should be too full to worry that I come in for one person. Come on people, grow up! There's a little bit more about them I heard, it's juicy, but it's also hearsay. I don't like to repeat things like that unless I know fo sho it's true.

Whew! Glad to get that out! Haters gonna hate I guess, but it's still annoying. My food has been on track and training on point too! I am super hungry right now, but I really don't want to eat anything right before I go to bed. The only thing that was kinda sucky was my back workout, and I only say that because I didn't have my straps. I thought Mike had lost them (he losses a lot of stuff!), but sadly I have to confess to being careless with them. I had used them with a client during a training session and must have just left them on the floor. Well, I went back and checked today and wouldn't ya know it.....somebody actually turned them in! I thought they were gone fo sho! Too bad I didn't check before my workout:(

Time for some ZMA and off to bed. I gotta start trying to post in the morning, my brain feels pretty shut down by now and I know I kinda go all over the place then. Oh well, that's how I roll I guess!

Bad Weekend, Back on Track!

I have been so tired lately that by time it's time to post I'm whipped and just wanna go to bed. Well, I'm still tired but still have motivation to keep going. My workouts have been going great! I am actually really starting to look forward to my leg days! I'm starting to really see them change. I am kinda bummed now cuz I feel like my upper body is lacking (I am never happy). My food has been pretty on track, but this past weekend was a complete dietary disaster. I didn't log anything (with hopes I'll block it out) or take pics, or keep any evidence around. I am still holding water from it! But, as they say, today is another day.

We stopped at Old Navy this weekend. They have all their clearance an additional 50% off! I am all about a good deal! Now, their stuff isn't the highest quality but hey what d'ya want for a $3 dollar tee? I really like their print tee's so I got a couple of those for a couple bucks each and some regular cute little tops. And in line for check out, I grabbed me this little keeper for my tea and coffee. I have a Hoops and Yoyo one now, but I lost the bottom (that sang a song) and it's nice to have a trade off when one is dirty, and for $5 bucks why not?

I srsly need to get myself away from my protein pancakes. I can't stop eating them! I need to find some other way to cook my oats and eggs to switch off so I don't get sick of these. For my next meal I tried some pasta, chicken, with creamy sauce (low fat of course) mixed with veggies. It was okay, but needed some salt and it hardened up when it got cold...like room temp. Don't know if I'll try that one again.

I decided to bust out some peppers I had frozen a while back. They were on sale so I stocked up and froze'em. I do that with berries too when they go on sale for like a buck. I just had this with some garlic olive oil and some more chicken. Speaking of my garlic olive oil, I tried making some more but it didn't turn out the way I wanted. It burned.

Here's what it looked like when I first got it going.

And here is what it looked like after I starting paying attention to something else.

This I had yesterday, but wanted to share anyway. I actually went to the store to buy more asparagus so I can make this again. Just chicken, roasted asparagus and onion, and oil It was yumolicious! Nom, nom, nom!

Post gym I had my usual.

I get the EAS shakes at Sam's Club. I wish they carried vanilla, but I'll take what I can get. I have found that this shake is the only one that masks the taste of my BCAA's. So I usually take one and a baggy with the BCAA's with me to the gym.

Din, din was some more cabbage soup thawed from the freezer with some sirloin patties I cooked up the other day.

And for dessert

I love the honey!

Well, that's my day. I feel kinda bad about half ass coming clean about my weekend, but I just can't bring myself to say out loud how bad I was. Bad food, bad drinks and too much! I think I'll wait until next week to weigh myself.....I'm still too scurred!

Too.tired.must.get.sleep....

Sorry if there's typo's or if things just don't make sense. Too sleepy. Will correct later.

Nighty nite!

So, totally falling off the resolution/goal train here. In one of my previous posts I mentioned a little something going on with me which was the main reason I was planning on competing at Nationals this year. Well, life has thrown yet another curve ball at me and I am officially not competing this year. Things didn't work out well, and as of 3 weeks ago things went downhill and it's all a no go now. That was a big part of why I wasn't on here. I didn't really feel like blogging about anything and pretty much didn't feel like doing anything at all. Don't think I really left the house but once the first week. But, like with everything else, life goes on. I am back in the swing of things. Back to the gym training, and training clients. The eats have actually been really good. I am not tracking calories or macros or anything. Just trying to eyeball the balance. I weigh my food enough during prep, I think I'll live if I just eyeball on the off season:)

Well, even though I'm back but I don't plan on making this a long entry. Just wanted to a least pop in and say HI! I'll leave you with some randomness on the food I've been eating. Sprinkle in a couple glasses of wine, a bowl of cereal once or twice, and some pizza yesterday (partied too hard on Sat, needed recovery food!) I also just got done with some Greek yogurt with stevia and cinnamon with some craisin's! Yum-o! (you must try the yogurt with protein powder! Yowza! Got the recipe off siouxcountry.com and it's AMAZING!!)

Had some wheat crackers in the pantry, so I busted'em out with some laughing cow cheese wedge's. Not a bad snack. The cheese is good, just wish the flavor was a tad stronger. Strong like bull.....not cow:)

They're flip flopped, but the other day after the gym I was S-T-A-R-V-I-N-G! I could not wait to prepare anything at home. So, a tasty little chicken sammich from Subway fixed me right up. And an apple for dessert. Btw, during Feb, ALL of their subs are $5 for a foot long. Try the Angus, it tastes so much like a whopper! Hopefully the stats are not the same......

For some reason I have been lovin' me some soft boiled eggs lately. I know I shouldn't be eating all the yolks, but it's just yumminess in my tumminess!

Okay, this is partly taken from Genie. She made up some cabbage soup and posted the pics....so of course it looked awesome! I had to make me some too! What a cheap soup to make, and in the winter I like me some soup! Some people I know are afraid of cabbage because of the gassiness. Well, never fear! A G.I. Dr. told me that you can drink Pepto to conceal gassiness. It won't make you less gassy, but it will stop you from clearing a room (i.e. it masks odor). We also make turkey patties often (Mike wants to make them a staple in the fridge). We mix 93% turkey with Emeril's Original Essence and some fennel seed and cook'em up. This time I broiled them and they came out really good. Maybe we don't have to grill out in the wintertime after all??? I chopped one up and tossed it in the soup. My own version of Thick and Chunky:)

Just wanted to share a great deal I got on some DD coffee! I had been looking everywhere for pumpkin flavored coffee during the holidays and was never able to find any! Maybe they were just always sold out? Cuz I found Mocha Mint AND Pumpkin flavored DD coffee on Manager's Special! Say wha?!?! It says 'was $6.99', but the tag said $8.69) either way score for me!

I decided to bake up some of those Krusteaz Apple Cinnamon fat free muffins, but I added a few scoops for protein powder to the mix to make them a little more worth eating. They were pretty good, I used a little Brummel & Brown on'em. Yum!

This doesn't look as good as it was. I am still on my Italian green bean kick and decided to mix in some lentils with them. I had the lentils in the pantry and decided to cook them before having to toss them. Crazy I know, I actually wanted to use up something before it made it's way to the trash can? I mixed them with some coconut oil and voila! I've eaten this a few times now.

There's a few other things too that I didn't get shots of. I made an English roast in the slow cooker with onion soup mix. It was good, but I used beefy onion soup mix and that just grosses me out for some reason. I mean, I'm cooking it with beef so I don't see the problem but it's hard for me to get it down. Maybe it's beefy overload? Idk, but going forward I'm just using the regular onion soup mix.

Well, that's my rap. There's more gaps to fill, but I can't think of them right now, and I said this wasn't gonna be long anyway. This is why I need to stay on top of this. I forget too much! I can be such a ding dong sometimes! (ooooh, ding dong's so good, don't they?) At least this time there was a justified reason for being away.

*edit* I had a question in my Formspring but it just said Hi.....so to you......Hello!