Friday, June 12, 2009

Kick me in the butt please JTrigg

I must say I absolutely loved that last post. :) Cute because I wish everyday at 11:11 too.

This month has been hard on me too, my job at the golf course has picked up and I have been hitting 50 to 60 hours a week depending on what events I work. I am not complaining though; I LOVE IT there. It is the most fun I have had in a while and it is sadly becoming one of my more social things I do! (since any other time I am just trying to sleep or work out)

But I will admit one thing that is KILLING me is that I am gaining tons of weight. And I know some of that may account for eating a little more because I am awake for longer hours... But not 10lbs worth! WTF is this?

I have been doing reading on sleep deprivation in short term studies and they did say that subjects would gain around 1.31 kgs in 11 days. cool cool. but still thats no 10 lbs. I dont know what it is but it's very depressing and stressful.

So my thoughts on ways to fix this are possibly adjust my sleeping patterns closer to those that would compliment my 5 pm to 4 am shifts. and possibly eating less packaged foods in order to reduce toxins in the body. AND IM OPEN FOR SUGGESTIONS OR ADVICE :)

Tomorrow I'm hitting up Hot yoga for the first time in months. So I hope it will be a nice refreshing kick in the butt that I need.


And I can say that there will sadly be no glamour shots coming from me for a while ;) haha

until next time
xo xo gossip girl.

I need to get a life.

And I really do apologize for MIA-ness.

A little Kick in the Butt

Working 40 hour weeks and sleeping a lot less takes a toll on one's motivation. I can personally say this has been a hard month for me, transitioning from living alone at school and organizing my own schedule to coming back home, working and trying to plan around my family's schedule. I must say that it has become tempting to just eat whatever I want to try to get quick energy and a little bit of a sugar high. Things that have kept me motivated (at least most of the time)
1)Rewrite down your goals:
Yeah at 11:11 every day, a.m (and pm if I'm still awake) i wish for certain things, but honestly writing down my biggest goals has, and will help me a lot more than hoping my clock will give me flat abs...
2)Eat a slightly bigger breaky:
Often If I eat a big breakfast (between 350 and 400 calories) I am satisfied until about 1pm or later. Of course I try to eat lunch by one no matter what, but this nice big breakfast really holds me over. It also stops me from snacking in between or overdoing it at lunch.
3)Take a Vanity Shot:
Last week I was feeling great one day and decided to do a few "vanity shots". I got into my bathing suit and took a few pictures. Looking at them has helped me see that I want to stay this way, and helps stop me from binging. I also found it helped to print one of the pictures off and have it in my food journal, as well as an old shot of me (from grad) where I look extremely overweight and unhappy.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Quote of the Day

If you don't grab the reins and take responsibility for your actions, all the advice in the world won't help you succeed

Monday, June 1, 2009

A MUST READ!!




Women's Health Mag.com How to lose weight and KEEP it off!

Such a fabulous article you should treat yourself to reading.

Sprinters Vs Marathon Runners











OKAY FOLKS so here is a little bit of a question you can ask yourself before deciding on what type of training you would like to do. Who would you rather look like? A sprinter or a marathon runner?

You will notice the more lean and muscular body types that the sprinters have and the absolutely tiny frame that marathon runners support. Now they both run, so why do their body types look so different? The key is their training.

Marathon runners do excessive amounts of long endurance workouts where they burn up tons and tons of calories engaging their aerobic systems. Whereas Sprinters focus mainly on intervals which engage both the aerobic and anaerobic systems.