C2 – Week 7, Day 49 of 84

Cycle Day 20 – Boosting, Weight 138.0

Well, I remained steady for the week again.  Working out hard.  Eating is less than perfect.  I’ve had a high stress week (continuing from late last week) which contributed to a bit of emotional eating.  Do guys do that??

I didn’t do too well with carb cycling this week.  I’ll try to get back to that starting tomorrow.  It’s a short week at work.  Monday is the holiday and Friday around noon, my family and I are leaving to go out of town.  Will try to stay on task with all that’s ahead of me this week.  I was proud of myself for NOT missing a workout while Jodi’s been camping since last Thursday.  Hard to be motivated to workout by yourself when you’re used to having a workout partner.

I completed Buffing last Friday and will start Boosting workouts tomorrow.  Always excited to change things up!

On to week 8.  Although this challenge has been less than something to document.  Sorry.  Just keeping it real.

C2 – Week 6, Day 42 of 84

Cycle Day 13 – Buffing, Weight 138.0

Well, it’s the half-way point and I’m not making much headway.  I was doing REALLY well again this week, until Friday night when I experienced some stress eating.  I am still focused, but it bothers me that I blow it late in the week like that when the scale is being kind to me all week long.

Workouts are going great.  Working hard.  Intervals are also great!!

I’ll continue to do my carb cycling this week.  I think I’ll add one low GI/GL day and remove one higher GI/GL day so my week will look like this:

Monday/Tuesday – Low Carb

Wednesday/Thursday/Friday – Lower GI/GL

Saturday – Higher GI/GL

On to week 7…

C2 – Week 5, Day 35 of 84

Cycle Day 6 - Buffing, Weight 137.5 lbs.

This week I did great with my eating until Friday night when Kale came in and we decided to go eat pizza.  I ate, but didn’t over-eat, and then, Jodi and Gary came and I ate a piece of dessert pizza. But, it didn’t seem to affect me too much on the scale.  I ate really well again on Saturday and this morning when I weighed in I was down a pound for the week.  I expected a little better because I was down as much as a 1.5 pounds earlier in the week.  I did much better with my weak eating moments this week.  From Monday through Saturday, I never had any cheats (with the exception of the Friday night meal).

Workouts:

Monday/Friday – Weights (lower body)

Wednesday – Weights (upper body)

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday – Cardio (BFL HIIT)

I’m back to buffing for the next couple of weeks and I changed up our workouts for this cycle month.  Buffing is circuit work (upper and lower), boosting will consist of compound sets (upper and lower workouts).

On to week 6 …

C2 – Week 4, Day 28 of 84

Cycle Day 28 – Boosting, Weight 138.5 lbs.

Ok, people, I’m ashamed to admit that I’m struggling in the eating department.  Workouts are GREAT! I’m working hard, thank goodness, or I’d be gaining like crazy.  The problem is in my lack of planning and I’m just not “in my head” motivated to eat as well as normal.  I’m up a half a pound this week and, truthfully, it’s cycle day 28, so most of it is hormones, but to be honest, I’ve eaten a few things this week that weren’t typically healthy options.  Don’t get me wrong, overall, I ate okay… but there were some moments of eating things that are just not in the best interest of my hips/thighs.  Just keeping it real.

I did just buy and read “Cheat Your Way Thin”, which I told Jodi is nothing new to me.  I read about this stuff constantly!  The basic premise is eat a very liberal Free Day and then you carb cycle for the rest of the week.  It seems when I think about my week, in my head, from the outset it seems easy to choose all the right foods, but in the middle of the day, when it’s time to get something to eat… easy, fast, and even not-all-that-good-for-you seems to call my name.  This week, baked chips.  They were calling my name. But, that’s where meal planning is KEY!

Anyway. Shake it off, Jacquie.  Regroup.  It’s another week.  On to week 5…