The Journey towards my Dream Body

[missleo]

Today's my start day...I feel kinda gross and all bloated...but I'm recording my stats of this morning anyways:

Stats:

Bust: 36"
Natural Waist: 28.5" (eek! I'm hoping it's the bloat!)
Stomach (belly button): 30"
Hips: 37.5"
Right thigh (widest point): around 24", but I had my PJ bottoms on.

Height: 5'5 and a half
Weight: 138lbs/62.7kg (yikes! bad bloat ugh...well we'll see what happens next week)
BF %: 28.2%

Breakfast: tuna sandwich (with a little cream cheese and skimmed yogurt), 1 slice of fried tempeh, a glass of milk (~500kcal)

Lunch: 3 soft boiled eggs (yolks included), 1 tsp soy sauce, 1 slice multigrain bread, 1 cucumber, 1 small biscuit, 1 tsp nutella (bad me!! bad!!) (~470kcal)

Dinner: protein shake, roast beef, salad

Calorie intake goal: 1350-1400kcal

note to self: no more nutella, no more biscuit tommorrow, must slowly elimate bad carbs

Work out today:
Weight training, whole body +
Brisk walking for 1.5-2 hours
pedometer goal: atleast 13000 steps today

[missleo]

I know why I feel so heavy and bloated...my period's due in less than week...ugh...did my weight-training workouts...I skipped squats and did this exercise I watched somewhere where u go on all fours kick your leg back...its supposed to be good for the butt and its not as tough as squats...I'm scared of doing squats...I'm so new at this I'm afraid I'm not doing it in proper form, so those will have to do for now. Lunges are terrifying to me too, but I managed to do 2 sets of 10...I had problems balancing and my knees felt wobbly, but I'm hoping I get better at it with time. Another problem I have is with bench presses...I don't exactly feel them in my chest...I do them lying down on the floor since I don't have a bench.

Here's my workout for today:

Warm up 10 mins + stretching

Upper body workout - bicep curls, tricep extensions, lateral raise, front raise, bench press, bent over rows (2 sets of 12 for each using 3 pound dumbells)

Jog in place 5 mins

Lower Body work out:
Lunges with dumbbells(2 sets of 10), Leg kick backs (or whatever they're called, 3 sets of 12), sit-ups (3 sets of 15)

Cool down 5mins

will be doing cardio (brisk walking) tonight for an hour.

[missleo]

My Goals:

Goal 1: I will- Fit into a size 6; take atleast 1.5" off my stomach; have more toned and slimmer arms and thighs, and my muffin top will have melted off; get BF% down to 25%

Goal 2: I will fit into a size 4 (even if it's a tight size 4, whatever); take another 1 or 1.5" off my stomach; get BF% down to 23%


Goal 1 start: July 15 2008, Goal 1 accomplished: Sept 15 2008

Goal 2 start: Sept 15 2008, Goal 2 accomplished: Nov 15 2008

[missleo]

Good morning...it's a new day...felt nauseous waking up so I had a glass of hot chocolate, I use Nesquik powder and high protein skimmed milk...it's very sugary and bad I know...oh well..guess I'll just have to strictly watch the carbs for the rest of the day and try to take in more protein. My butt feels sore...which is great! I didn't think I was doing the lunges correctly...the weird thing is it's only my butt that's feeling sore lol (my thighs feel a little sore too...just a little)...I'll have to do more reps next time for the upper body work outs...next weight training day: Friday 18th July.
Didn't get to do my 1hr briskwalking last night and I only did 30mins...I was way too sleepy by 9.30pm (early to bed early to rise! gotta make sure I complete my exercise goal for the day next time before I start to get sleepy)...total pedometer steps: 8000...5000 steps short of my goal. I'll have to do better today...13000 steps, here I come!
It's 9.05am and I'll be making breakfast in awhile...it's gonna be tuna sandwich again like yesterday except with salad.
From today on, I'm going to be jotting down my protein and carb intake for the day.

[missleo]

I didn't have a tuna sandwich for breakfast, I had some steamed tapioca and 85g of tuna instead.

calorie-count says 85g of tuna solids (drained from oil) is 168kcal (need to to get tuna canned in water next time)
tapioca would be...HOLY CRAP!! 544 kcal per 152g!!

that brings me to a grand total off:
210kcal (milk with nesquik) 10g protein, 40g carbs
168kcal (tuna) 25g protein
554kcal (tapioca) 0.3g protein, 135g carbs (!@#$$!!)

thats 932kcal!

that leaves me with about 500kcal today

guess its just gonna be just protein shakes/egg whites and salads for the rest of the day!

I have 4 meals left for today.

goal calories for today: 1400
goal protein intake: 75g atleast
goal water intake: 3L

next meal at 1pm, then 4pm, 7pm, 10pm

*found out I ran out of Vit C...must get those later today

Tommorrow: must keep total carb intake for the day beteewn 100-140g, and protein intake between 90-100g

[missleo]

I found the most excellent 'daily nutrients calculator' for me:
Daily Nutrients (Macronutrients - Carbohydrates, Protein, Fat) Requirements Calculator: Fitness calculators - New Body Diet

Now I can keep track of how many grams of what I need to consume (need to get a food scale too...heck I'll have to make a list of what I need to shop for in awhile).
Looks like I'm 'low-fat'ing today because I had way too many carbs.

I like the Zone's 40-30-30 ratio best...I always thought the Zone was low carb anyways...should be low carb enough for me for now atleast, I'll go lower when I start stalling in seeing results.

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quadruple post

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Things I need to buy today:

- Food scale
- Vitamin C
- Cucumbers and celery
- Lots of water packed tuna
- chicken breasts (fat and skin removed)
- lean beef cubes
- canned mushrooms