HighOctane Progress Thread

[highoctane]

Sounds like girls night out!!!!
GO BIG OR GOOOOOOO HOME...
Ferrari IS RED!!!

LOL....I couldn't agree more....

 

[highoctane]

2/20/2007
1 coffee with splenda and milk
1/2 cup oatmeal with splenda
12 mini breton garden vegetable crackers
45g Allegro skim milk cheese
1/2 cup grape tomatoes
1 apple
1/2 cup non fat cottage cheese
2 cups salad with 1 small chicken breast
2 Tbspn red wine vinegar
1 Diet coke
1 Protein Bar
1/2 cup no fat vanilla yogurt
5 almonds

Little did I realize I ate almost the exact same thing today as yesterday...but whatever works right.

Multi
2 Burners
5g Glutamine - Morning

8 Minutes Recumbant Bike - Warmup
40 Minutes Stairmaster

Thoughts: Well. Overall today was the shittiest day I've ever had at work...so the entire day I was jonesin to get to the gym. It was everything I had imagined it would be, LOL! I don't really have a whole lot to say. Tomorrow is the second day on my new strength plan so we'll see how that goes. If I recall (haven't looked at it in 3 days), I believe it is Back/Bi day (yay!).

Side Note: I just bought a house. Which is a great accomplishment and I'm very proud of it....but I NEVER imagined how much freaking work it would be. Every night I come home from a 9-10 hour day, and before the gym I'm like "what chore am I going to do now". The days are flying. It feels like I go to work in the morning, come home and clean/eat, go to the gym, then go to bed. It's really insane! So, as a new homeowner, if any of you lovely women have any suggestions on how to clean faster/more efficiently...please feel free to share. I know this sounds like a dumbass question, but no joke...I'm exhausted every single day of the week, and if it's not dishes, it's laundry or washing the floor. I swear...the first time I wore my boots in, I called my mom and apologized for the many years that I'm like "Oh I'll just take them off once I set my bag down 1/2 way across the house." I think that brought tears to her eyes.

 

[Kabeetz]

Nice log. Nice pics. Nice effort. As for fitday, if you enter everything in as a custom food and also get a digital food scale like at say costco.. you can get as accurate as you could ever possibly imagine. Subscribed.

 

[highoctane]

Nice log. Nice pics. Nice effort. As for fitday, if you enter everything in as a custom food and also get a digital food scale like at say costco.. you can get as accurate as you could ever possibly imagine. Subscribed.

Thanks for the support! I'm shocked I've been logging since the 5th...almost becoming a habit...and you people holding me accountable has helped.

I'm still having a hard time logging into fitday every day. With that being said I still have no idea whether my diet is dialed in like it should be. But for now...I'm logging every day, and working out every day....so that's HUGE for someone who used to say "work is too busy to work out". So fitday can wait a little bit longer.

 

[treilin]

2/20/2007
1 coffee with splenda and milk
1/2 cup oatmeal with splenda
12 mini breton garden vegetable crackers
45g Allegro skim milk cheese
1/2 cup grape tomatoes
1 apple
1/2 cup non fat cottage cheese
2 cups salad with 1 small chicken breast
2 Tbspn red wine vinegar
1 Diet coke
1 Protein Bar
1/2 cup no fat vanilla yogurt
5 almonds

Little did I realize I ate almost the exact same thing today as yesterday...but whatever works right.

Multi
2 Burners
5g Glutamine - Morning

8 Minutes Recumbant Bike - Warmup
40 Minutes Stairmaster

Thoughts: Well. Overall today was the shittiest day I've ever had at work...so the entire day I was jonesin to get to the gym. It was everything I had imagined it would be, LOL! I don't really have a whole lot to say. Tomorrow is the second day on my new strength plan so we'll see how that goes. If I recall (haven't looked at it in 3 days), I believe it is Back/Bi day (yay!).

Side Note: I just bought a house. Which is a great accomplishment and I'm very proud of it....but I NEVER imagined how much freaking work it would be. Every night I come home from a 9-10 hour day, and before the gym I'm like "what chore am I going to do now". The days are flying. It feels like I go to work in the morning, come home and clean/eat, go to the gym, then go to bed. It's really insane! So, as a new homeowner, if any of you lovely women have any suggestions on how to clean faster/more efficiently...please feel free to share. I know this sounds like a dumbass question, but no joke...I'm exhausted every single day of the week, and if it's not dishes, it's laundry or washing the floor. I swear...the first time I wore my boots in, I called my mom and apologized for the many years that I'm like "Oh I'll just take them off once I set my bag down 1/2 way across the house." I think that brought tears to her eyes.

O.k. first is first per request... I placed your food into fitday just to see about how many cals and macros you were at.... You are wayyyyyyyy to low still!
You are at about 1200 calories at a % 28P/40C/32F
Hon I have no idea how u will ever get a good cut in before your show if you are already this low on calories. You need to up those babies!!! Your protein is also WAY to low. Try slowly increasing your cals by 50 a week until you hit about 1700 at the lowest-1800. While doing so up your protein levels. One piece of chicken a day, cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese, and a protein bar is not the greatest sources of protein. Eat more lean chicken, add in some egg whites, fish, lean turkey, add in a whey/casein protein shake or 2 if needed. Move your macro ratios to at least a 40P/30/C/30F. Once you get your protein a bit higher you could even increase the carbs a tad and decrease the fats if you want I had pretty decent muscle gains with that.
Some people have allergies to milk protein, and some people can't lose weight with that in the diet. So I would at the very least drop some of that dairy out and take a calcium/magnesium suppl. at a 2 to 1 ratio (1000/500mg) for starters.
You have chemical fillers as well = splenda and diet coke. I would also monitor how your body reacts to those compounds. Including acne, lethargic, etc.. Switch the diet cokes in for water or green tea.
Splenda is o.k. in moderation but it also will spike the insulin a tad it is after all made from sugar and I have known people having issues (including myself) from using it.
I would toss those crackers as well. Use old fashioned oatmeal, or shredded wheat, or brown rice, sweet tatos, etc... to get your complex carbs. Plus you'll get more food that way as well.

Your meal plan in general is lacking all over.. the bits of food here and there really do not create any real meals.

Try
M1 Meat and carbs
M2 Meat and (Fat and/or carbs)
M3 protein shake and carbs
Weights
M4 protein shake and carbs
M5 Meat and fat
M6 Meat and fat or just fat
Bed

I'm not sure when your weight session falls but try and get in your food to supply and refill your muscles.

O.k. work on that stuff...



As far as the house... LOL
I have set days. your schedule I'm sure is no busier then mine it's called getting a planner and being OVERLY organized.
I used to clean 4 days a week (yes I'm a clean freak). I had to let some of that go because it was just impossible. So.... I try and clean up after myself right when I'm doing something. Like make food, clean dishes put away (do not rley on dishwasher because they will never leave the dishwasher it will become a permannet cabinet for them). Laundry is thrown in sunday a.m. while I get ready, then can be tossed in dryer while I'm walking out the door and wil be dry when I get back. While cutting sometimes I'll do my a.m. cardio while my food is cooking in a 45 minute cooker, and my washer is washing a load. Off the tread food is done, clothes go in dryer, another in washer. I can also get in some reading while I'm on the tread if I need to catch up on anything... so could be accomplishing 4 things at once.
It's all about time management. It will take a bit to get a routine that works for you down.

 

[jenscats5]

I agree 100% with what Treil has said........

 

[highoctane]

First of all, Treilin, THANK YOU for the post. And Jen I'm glad you agree. But with that being said I have no freaking idea how to eat like that. I'm going to have to come up with some new ideas. I thought I did well baking up like 8 chicken breasts, but if I have to convert a few more things I'm going to have to find a way to put more time into cooking and prepping (WHICH I AM OK WITH). Today again I didn't eat enough. I find I lose track of time at work, and sometimes it's 3-4 hours before I eat something...so I'm working on that.

Overall I know I have to work on it...so your continued advice would really be appreciated. I'm still not quite sure how to break out into that new meal plan. I have to go grocery shopping.

I'll post more of my thoughts in my log tonight. Thanks ladies.

 

[highoctane]

No log for yesterday in terms of food. Not feeling 100%. Feeling a little burnt out, called in sick to work today and am taking a day of rest. I'll post the details of the workout later. I did eat clean however, but just not tracked.

Edit: Ok living in fairy tale land. I can't call in sick to work so I'm freaking going in anyways.

 

[Gymgurl]

(((HUGS))) Congrats on the house! You deserve a rest....buying a house and crappy days at wrok can be stressful!!

 

[highoctane]

I will post, I've just been stupid busy. I even have updates on BF%. Later tonight I'll spend some time on a decent update.