Day 19: Cardio Fix AND Upper Fix + The start of something...well, something.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!  I've almost made it to the end, and now I've hit the home stretch!  To celebrate, I started the 3 Day Quick Fix meal plan, to put a little "oomph" towards my final results :-)  (I'm smiling now, we'll see if I'm still alive in two more days.)

First, the workouts:

Cardio Fix oblique knee pulls

Upper Fix rows and lateral raises

And the post wouldn't be complete without a picture of me and at least one of my helpers :-)

Now for the strict meal plan:  

This is what I ate today, and what I'll eat the next two days.  The coconut oil is the only fat I'm allowed, and the only seasonings are spices, or lemon/lime juice. NO SALT.  I worked tonight, so I substituted a couple of my proteins with a protein shake and a protein bar.  It's almost 10 pm now, and I still need one more meal.  I haven't starved at all, its just kind of "blah" food for me.  I haven't steamed any of my veggies, like it says to, I've just eaten raw cucumbers and carrots so far. 

Another confession:  I did bake some chicken in the oven, seasoned with garlic powder and pepper, and I planned to have some of that after work.  But when I got home, Brandon had purchased a rotisserie chicken, so I cheated a little and had that instead :-)  (Shhh! Don't tell Autumn!)  There was definitely salt on the skin, and some yummy juices around there as well, but I mostly pulled my white meat from the inside and didn't get a lot of the skin.  I feel, for that reason, that it wasn't TOO BAD of a substitution.

And that is all for tonight :-)  I plan to have some more chicken for my last meal, with some spinach and a little lemon juice.  And I'll see you tomorrow for Dirty 30 AND Pilates Fix!

Day 16: Upper Fix and Cardio Fix

Be proud of me!  I woke up early enough this morning to get my workout in before work...at 9:00.  But this rarely happens, so I'm happy about it :-)  Progress report: I felt stronger doing my modified push-ups today (win!) and maybe I'm being a little braggy, but I am DEFINITELY loving the definition in my arms!

That was workout #1.  Workout #2 happened approximately 6 hours later after work and lunch had been digested.

I still think these lateral squat thingies are the hardest part of Cardio Fix. And between my gun show up there and my squating here, I feel a little beasty :-/

And  now for food. Meh.  I'm hitting another "I need chocolate to cope with my craziness" phase :-/  There may be extenuating circumstances surrounding that, but those specific imperfections of mine don't need to be dug through right now :-)

I had a simple, light salad for lunch, and for our Friday night family activity, we went to the mall and stopped by Godiva.  This piece of heaven is a "hazelnut something or other truffle maybe of deliciousness."  Mmmm.  (right about now you should hear Homer Simpson drooling.)

Tomorrow: Lower Fix, 10 minute Ab Fix, and a soccer game :-)

Day 9: Upper Fix--Round 2

Hola Friendlies!  Today was a fun day :-)  It was my day off, so I decided to bite the bullet and start potty training Miss {C}.  Cuz, ya know, that's something you do on a day off.  It started off pretty great, the first time she sat on her "portable" potty, she peed.  Which was great, except she peed through her big girl panties and her pants that she hadn't pulled down.  Oh well, we counted that as a win and started her off on her sticker chart (seen here).  And that's how many times she sat on the potty, not how many attempts were successful.  We reward attempts here, too :-)

Yes, this was a spontaneous decision to potty train today.  Can ya tell?

The rest of the day went about as expected.  After potty training {E}, I had a good idea of what was in store; we had a few accidents, she screamed bloody murder went I rinsed her off in the shower, we went through ~5 pairs of panties, blah blah blah. After the 5th pair of underwear, she was tired of the idea, and asked to go back into a diaper.  I said ok, b/c she had alluded to a "stinky" all day, but it never showed up.  I didn't want to clean that out of her underwear, and I think the shower may have traumatized her.  So we called it a day.  It was our first attempt, anyway.  If she keeps showing interest, we'll pick it up again soon.

Now, I know that THAT was what you came here to read about, so I hope I didn't disappoint ;-)  But, today's workout was Upper Fix again.  I really like this workout, b/c I'm starting to get proud of the little grooves and definition that I actually have in my arms now (yay!)  But I'll tell you what, the worst exercise today was the low-plank hold.  I don't know if it's just because I'm over holding plank, after substituting push-ups for that for the last 6+ weeks, or that it's just boring that I'm not moving for a whole minute.  I wasn't able to distract myself thinking about how I was supposed to be doing the exercise.  I just held the plank. *crickets*

BUT, in the way of VERY GOOD NEWS!  I did the push-ups this time around!  Granted, I had to bring over Brandon's weights so that I wouldn't have to bend my wrist hardly at all, and I had to modify on my knees as well, but seriously, I haven't attempted push-ups since August 8th. (I know that because my accident was the next day, and August 8th was the day my brother-in-law got married.  Fun fact.)  Here's photographic evidence.  I look pretty weak, huh?

My meals were, once again, pretty much the same.  But since I had the day off, I actually made dinner: Chicken Enchilada Soup.  It's Fall now, I can make hearty food; it's allowed.  And you can't have chicken enchilada soup without cheese, sour cream, and chips.  That would be sacrilege.  So I was good, and pre-measured my "allowed" portions of those ingredients, and mixed it all together (not the cucumbers) and it was DELICIOUS!  

Now tell me, who doesn't want summa that? 

Oh!  Oh!  Other good news: I hit my lowest weight this morning!  Remember how I was eating terribly last weekend?  Well, I put on a little that weighed me in at more than I started at, but now I have officially lost 2.4 lbs from my starting weight!  *Autumn is not joking around with that meal plan, you WILL SHED those pounds.*  So, it was a good day.  Tomorrow is Lower Fix again.  See ya then!

Day 2: Upper Fix

As the title implies, today was my second day with 21DF, and I did the Upper Fix workout.  I was a little nervous about it, because my sprained wrist is still healing, and I was supposed to use weights with this workout.  I ended up using the weights, but moved slowly and cautiously.  To sum up: I'm still feeling it in my shoulders and abs.  Thumbs up!

Today I actually looked at the meal plan/nutrition guide and made myself more familiar with what each color portion container is for and how many of each portion I should be consuming each day.  That was fun and informative.  I started off so great with my protein shake after the workout, then my Tropical Strawberry Shakeology for lunch with other healthy "nummies."  See?

I'm eating a pear there, not a potato chip.  Potato chips are not part of the nutrition plan.  But after picking {E} up from school and walking the whole two blocks in the beating sun with her and {C}, trying to prevent them from walking in front of cars, I was hungry for some starch and sugar when we got home.  Unfortunately for me, the first thing I saw that met those qualifications was the danish pull apart we bought from Costco.  So...yeah.  That was also not part of the meal plan, but I consumed it anyways.  And yes, it was delicious.

I'm thinking since we had {E}'s birthday this weekend, I should just get rid of all of the leftover sugary treats.  And by "get rid of," I mean consume all of them in one sitting so I don't have to worry about them the next 19 days.  What do you think?