Inscrutable's Journal ~ Irony at it's best.

[Inscrutable]

I was encouraged to post a journal here to better achieve my goals, get advice, and show some accountability. Made sense, so here I am.

Do not have all my stats, yet. Sorry.

What I do know...

5'6"
134 #s

Weakness:
My love for Wine and Lindeman's Kriek & Pomme Lambics. *sigh*


Supplements I am taking as of right now:
**100% Gold Whey Protein
**twinlab Energy Fuel from time to time when I need a boost.
**Daily multi-vitamin

Health:
**Anemic (pretty bad, really)
**On and off thyroid issues (a result from Anemia and poor nutrition/activity level ratio)


Workout routine as of this second:
**Body pump 3x a week
**Kickboxing 2x a week
**Power Yoga 1x week
**Elliptical 6x a week for 30 minutes on cross-training setting

Needs:
**Sleep more

**To improve my diet. No fad diets... They all work... until they don't. lol

**I need to alter my routine to add weight training again. I love everything I am doing now. It is possible for me to do full body workout mon/wed/fri and then do back to back KB and BP on tues/thurs. This will force me to push Power Yoga to Saturday mornings, but absolutely doable.

Books I purchased today to help me eat more and put together a killer workout for WT are:
**The complete food counter by Natow & Heslin
**101 Workouts for women by the editors of Muscle and Fitness Hers.

Subscribe to:
**Muscle & Fitness
**Yoga Journal

Will be back later this evening to add everything I ate.

TIA for all feedback.

[Lencho]

[Turco]

in before spirit & mjw

[Inscrutable]

Looking forward to hearing your feedback, guys.

[Lencho]

Originally Posted by Inscrutable

Looking forward to hearing your feedback, guys.

Looking forward to the progress pics.

[Inscrutable]

Originally Posted by Lencho

Looking forward to the progress pics.

I know you are. lol

[mjw8204]

Originally Posted by Turco

in before spirit & mjw

WTF..

Why you just assume I'm gonna show up in here??

[Inscrutable]

While looking over new workout book, I realized I do just about all those exercises now in body pump.

So, do the same exercises, up the weights and lower the reps?

[Inscrutable]

Originally Posted by mjw8204

WTF..

Why you just assume I'm gonna show up in here??

Ummmmm lol

[Lencho]

Originally Posted by Inscrutable

While looking over new workout book, I realized I do just about all those exercises now in body pump.

So, do the same exercises, up the weights and lower the reps?

[spirit3530]

Originally Posted by Turco

in before spirit & mjw

CLEARLY I was NOT invited.

[Lencho]

Originally Posted by spirit3530

CLEARLY I was NOT invited.

It was open invite in the rantz, brah.

[mjw8204]

Originally Posted by Lencho

It was open invite in the rantz, brah.

Of course, it now begs the question of how he found his way in here to begin with...

[Inscrutable]

Originally Posted by Lencho

It was open invite in the rantz, brah.

This.


To be perfectly honest, I figured you would be one of the first to post.

[spirit3530]

Originally Posted by Lencho

It was open invite in the rantz, brah.

Originally Posted by mjw8204

Of course, it now begs the question of how he found his way in here to begin with...

link via the "rant" cave

Originally Posted by Inscrutable

This.


To be perfectly honest, I figured you would be one of the first to post.

You thought MJW would be here first?


Second page no workout or meals eaten today.





Disappoint.

[Inscrutable]

Originally Posted by spirit3530

link via the "rant" cave

You thought MJW would be here first?


Second page no workout or meals eaten today.





Disappoint.

Rant cave? Interesting...

Noooo... You.


Still page 1 for me. Next post will be updates.

[Inscrutable]

Workout:
5AM - 30 minutes on elliptical - cross training setting

10AM - 100 squats, 50 calf raises, 50 leg lifts on each side (was bored and wanted to kill time.)

Will go downstairs to workout here shortly. (have my own equip)

Diet:
breakfast: Oatmeal and fresh fruit - green tea

24oz. coffee - 3 splendas

Snack: lowfat yogurt with fresh fruit straberries, blueberries, raspberries- water

Lunch: 1 med. sized grilled chicken breast with 1 serving angel hair pasta

Optimum Protein shake blended with 1 tbsp natural PB, 1 tsp instant coffee, water, ice

Dinner: 1 grilled Tuna Steak, 1 grilled yellow squash, 1 serving Black beans


**fighting the urge to pour a glass of Kriek Lambic.

[spirit3530]

...and yet there is still no esstential fats in this meal plan. As well as a lot of simple carbs being eaten today.

[Inscrutable]

Originally Posted by spirit3530

...and yet there is still no esstential fats in this meal plan. As well as a lot of simple carbs being eaten today.

I just bought the book. I was winging it today. I plan to put together a meal plan, then a grocery list... Have some faith in me. I can do this.

[pecan]

Originally Posted by Inscrutable

10AM - 100 squats, 50 calf raises, 50 leg lifts on each side (was bored and wanted to kill time.)

oh my gosh, 100 squats!?? the thought of that makes me bored, lol! well, props to you

your meal plan looks pretty good. are you tracking your macros with fitday or a similar program? honestly, you can get those essential fats in pretty easily with a handful of almonds/walnuts/whatever nuts you like. or some avocado. and fats before bedtime is never a problem because they digest slowly, thus you won't gain weight from it, but you won't get hungry through the night either.

[Inscrutable]

Originally Posted by pecan

oh my gosh, 100 squats!?? the thought of that makes me bored, lol! well, props to you

your meal plan looks pretty good. are you tracking your macros with fitday or a similar program? honestly, you can get those essential fats in pretty easily with a handful of almonds/walnuts/whatever nuts you like. or some avocado. and fats before bedtime is never a problem because they digest slowly, thus you won't gain weight from it, but you won't get hungry through the night either.

I have an excel spreadsheet that I plug in all my calories for food I eat. It then charts it for me.

I did buy some almonds, avocados, oatmeal, and long grain wild rice at the store today.

I love doing squats. Lunges are y arch nemesis, though. lol

[Inscrutable]

Exercise:
9AM - 30 minutes on elliptical - cross training setting
10:30AM - 1 hr of Body Pump


Diet:
Breakfast: Oatmeal w/fresh strawberries

24oz coffee with splenda

Snack: Apple with Natural PB

Lunch: Spring leaf salad with avocado, cucumber, green pepper, and grilled chicken with fat free poppyseed dressing.

Optimum whey protein shake with ice and skim milk, 12 almonds

Dinner: 2 Steak shikabobs with bell pepper, squash, and zucchini and long grin wild rice

3 1 qt bottles of smart water and 1 bottle of green tea, so far.

[Inscrutable]

Originally Posted by Inscrutable

Workout:
5AM - 30 minutes on elliptical - cross training setting

10AM - 100 squats, 50 calf raises, 50 leg lifts on each side (was bored and wanted to kill time.)

2 sets, 12, then 10 reps on each of the following:
bench press (barbell) 75#
incline bench press (dumbbell) 30# on each db
one-arm over head dumbbell extension 25#
lat pulldown 85# (could go higher)
lat raise 65#

squat 60#
lunge w/ 25# dumbbells
single leg w/25# dumbbells
deadlift 60#
calf raises 50x ea. of straight, toes in, toes out w/25# db

50 crunches holding 20# weight
50 decline bench crunches holding 20# weight
50 reverse crunches

I think I need little help with routine. I felt little lost, so I was winging it.




Diet:
breakfast: Oatmeal and fresh fruit - green tea

24oz. coffee - 3 splendas

Snack: lowfat yogurt with fresh fruit straberries, blueberries, raspberries- water

Lunch: 1 med. sized grilled chicken breast with 1 serving angel hair pasta

Optimum Protein shake blended with 1 tbsp natural PB, 1 tsp instant coffee, water, ice

Dinner: 1 grilled Tuna Steak, 1 grilled yellow squash, 1 serving Black beans


**fighting the urge to pour a glass of Kriek Lambic.

updated

[Turco]

Originally Posted by Inscrutable

I did buy some almonds, avocados, oatmeal, and long grain wild rice at the store today.

I like boil-in-a-bag brown rice. The kind with nothing other than rice inside the packaging packaging. No salt, no seasoning etc. Cooks pretty fast in microwave or stove-top.

+ sweet potatoes are great for you. You can wrap one in a wet paper towel and nuke for ~8 minutes, and it's ready to eat. If you have time, they're much better baked @ 450 degrees for ~50 minutes.

Make sure your oatmeal is just oatmeal. Don't get the sugar loaded kind.

[Inscrutable]

Originally Posted by Turco

I like boil-in-a-bag brown rice. The kind with nothing other than rice inside the packaging packaging. No salt, no seasoning etc. Cooks pretty fast in microwave or stove-top.

+ sweet potatoes are great for you. You can wrap one in a wet paper towel and nuke for ~8 minutes, and it's ready to eat. If you have time, they're much better baked @ 450 degrees for ~50 minutes.

Make sure your oatmeal is just oatmeal. Don't get the sugar loaded kind.

I love sweet potatoes. I bought steel cut oatmeal.

[Inscrutable]

Yesterday was not a good day for Diet and exercise. Started off okay with 30 minutes on elliptical on cross-training setting and a bowl of oatmeal. Then it all went downhill from there. Nothing for lunch because I was contending with storm damage, and I managed to eat a grilled chicken ranch BLT sandwich from McDonald's without the ranch or bacon for dinner. Other than that it was coffee and water all day.

[spirit3530]

Originally Posted by Inscrutable

Yesterday was not a good day for Diet and exercise. Started off okay with 30 minutes on elliptical on cross-training setting and a bowl of oatmeal. Then it all went downhill from there. Nothing for lunch because I was contending with storm damage, and I managed to eat a grilled chicken ranch BLT sandwich from McDonald's without the ranch or bacon for dinner. Other than that it was coffee and water all day.

[Inscrutable]

Today was still a busy day, but managed to take time to eat "right"...

30 minutes on elliptical at usual setting.
Body pump for 1 hr tonight.

Diet:

Breakfast: 3 eggs 1 yolk omelet style with spinach and feta

Snack: Yogurt and berries with coffee w/ 2 splendas (working on reducing splenda a little at a time to go straight to black)

Lunch: Cobb salad (spring leaf mix, cucumbers, boiled egg, avocado, tomatoes, grilled chicken, feta, and fat free poppy seed dressing)

Protein shake with natural PB, water, ice, tsp instant coffee blended

Dinner: grilled salmon steak with lemon squeezed on top, 1 squash cooked in olive oil, serving of brown rice.

Protein shake to follow workout (mixed with water)
Twinlab energy fuel drink

Working on 4th 1 QT size bottle of Smart water

[Inscrutable]

Originally Posted by spirit3530

It was a really bad day.

[Turco]

What happened to this journal?

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