Chillicat's journal

[rose]

I'm really pleased with how things have gone and am feeling great

Good update. You're doing well chick :nod:

[Chillicat]

Rest day today.

Food:

1. 2 poached eggs on toast

2. PS

3. Yogurt with PP

4. Really nice Hoki dish my husband made, with veges. Recipe called for streaky bacon on top of the fish, so I asked for no bacon, and for mine to be cooked in a separate dish so his bacon fat didn't contaminate my clean food. I feel very virtuous.

5. Cottage cheese wrap

I didn't touch the bacon he ate, the brownies he made, or the bottle of wine he opened. And I'm really glad about that, as I'm keen to go to the gym tomorrow, and I know I always feel crap on a Sunday if I've overindulged in alcohol. Or even underindulged these days, since my tolerance is now pretty low.

[Chillicat]

Went to hubby's gym today, which doesn't have all the same things as my gym, and annoyingly some of the weights are in pounds instead of kilos, but hey ho, a workout is a workout.

Started up with a whole 2 chin ups (I think that's right - chin ups are the narrow gripped palms towards you and pull ups wide grip palms away, right?), and 2 half pull ups. Actually, I think 1/3 would be more accurate than 1/2

Bent over rows 20kg BB 3x8, 1x6, 1x5

Lat pulldowns 60lb 1x8, 75lb 1x8, 3x5

One arm rows DB 9kg 3x8, 10kg 2x5

Arm curl biceps 50lb 1x5, 37.5lb 4x5

Bicep curls EZ bar 5kg 1x5, 2.5kg 4x5 (the EZ bar was a lot heavier than at my gym, so had to half the weights I put on, and even then it was still hard!)

Bicep curls DB 7kg 4x5, 8kg 1x5

Food:

1. Protein shake with half a banana - yum!

2. Peanut butter wrap

3. Protein shake with half a banana (still yum)

4. Small tin of tuna

5. About to have a chicken and tomato wrap

6. Will probably have yogurt and PP since I've had a couple of wraps already today

[autechre]

Started up with a whole 2 chin ups (I think that's right - chin ups are the narrow gripped palms towards you and pull ups wide grip palms away, right?), and 2 half pull ups.

Nice work! Pullups = wide grip, chins = narrow

See the discussion here about chins vs pullups.

[Chillicat]

Started up with a whole 2 chin ups (I think that's right - chin ups are the narrow gripped palms towards you and pull ups wide grip palms away, right?), and 2 half pull ups.

Nice work! Pullups = wide grip, chins = narrow

See the discussion here about chins vs pullups.

Thanks for pointing me to that. Now I'm very confused! But I agree with the final point that it doesn't matter so much what you call them, as long as you know what each one is doing.

But prior to last week I thought they were just two different names for the same thing (like pushups/pressups - but I might be wrong about that too), and now I know better. Always learning!

[runveerun]

These peanut butter wraps and cottage cheese wraps you speak of, are they just wraps with either thing spread in them? Sounds good!

[GreekAdonis]

Just another tip for the bodyfat scales. Try sitting down for half an hour or so and then measuring yourself as all the kinetic energy in your body can screw with the readings. 8)

[Chillicat]

These peanut butter wraps and cottage cheese wraps you speak of, are they just wraps with either thing spread in them? Sounds good!

Yep, just like that. The peanut butter ones are my fave =P~

[Chillicat]

Just another tip for the bodyfat scales. Try sitting down for half an hour or so and then measuring yourself as all the kinetic energy in your body can screw with the readings. 8)

So would doing it immediately after getting up deal with that? That's what I'm doing at the moment, as it's the only time in the day when I haven't eaten for a few hours as it says you should do.

[GreekAdonis]

Just another tip for the bodyfat scales. Try sitting down for half an hour or so and then measuring yourself as all the kinetic energy in your body can screw with the readings. 8)

So would doing it immediately after getting up deal with that? That's what I'm doing at the moment, as it's the only time in the day when I haven't eaten for a few hours as it says you should do.

Yeah doing it then every day should give you consistent readings. 8)

As long as youre not hungover!

[Chillicat]

Just another tip for the bodyfat scales. Try sitting down for half an hour or so and then measuring yourself as all the kinetic energy in your body can screw with the readings. 8)

So would doing it immediately after getting up deal with that? That's what I'm doing at the moment, as it's the only time in the day when I haven't eaten for a few hours as it says you should do.

Yeah doing it then every day should give you consistent readings. 8)

As long as youre not hungover!

Aiming not to drink enough to get in that state anytime soon...

[rose]

2 chin ups

Advance to Trafalgar Square chick. If you pass go you may collect two hundy

8)

[Chillicat]

Didn't have time at work to update this, and gym bag is at work, so will have to try and remember to check all weights and reps/sets tomorrow.

(Now edited with weights/sets/reps added)

Chest press with 12kg DBs 4x8

Flyes DB 8kg 3x5, 9kg 2x5

Tricep kickbacks 6kg 4x8

Tricep extensions 10kg 1x8, 1x7, 1x6, 1x5

Arm extension 25kg 5x5

Tricep pulldown 20kg 5x5

Regular pushups 2x10

Tricep pushups 3 Total failure unfortunately. I guess it's because I did them last and I was utterly fatigued - can normally do 10 (the last few are a bit iffy though). Next time I'll do them before the regular ones.

Food

1. Oats with yogurt and PP

2. Tuna/chickpea wrap

3. PS

4. 1/2 peanut butter wrap

6. Apple, mandarins

5. Beef stew on a bed of spinach with beans

6. Before bed I'll have yogurt and double PP

I couldn't fit in another meal today, the normal #5 -I still felt full and never really felt like I could eat until about 5pm when I was on the train home. I knew that would happen, so I made sure I had some fruit with me, but didn't see the sense in having more tuna when I was about to have dinner. So I'll get the extra protein I've missed out on by putting a double scoop in my evening yogurt and all will be square.

Normally on a Sunday/Monday I weigh the heaviest of the week - generally the scales show a couple of extra kilos as a result of letting myself go over the weekend, and then by Friday things have evened out again after a work-week of good eating. But this weekend I ate really well, and now I find myself half a kilo lighter than I was last Monday. Very odd, as I'm feeling full a lot of the time - certainly never hungry, and I have to set my Outlook at work to remind myself when it's mealtime, and I generally would prefer to wait 30-60 mins to eat, but can't or it'll bugger up my hunger level at the gym - I'll either be too full or too hungry at gym time, so I just go ahead and eat something even though I'm not hungry.

[VampireChick]

2 chin ups

Advance to Trafalgar Square chick. If you pass go you may collect two hundy

8)

:clap: \:D/

Well done chick!

[Chillicat]

Thanks! Now I've got to work some more on mastering the pull ups as well as chin ups (not that I'd say I've mastered chin ups yet) - my next aim is to do half a pull up, as oppsed to a third of one

[Chillicat]

Nice lower body workout today:

Smith squats: 50kg 4x5, 53kg 1x5

Smith lunges: 20kg 4x8

Seated leg press: 124 4x8

Lying leg curls: 30kg 2x5, 35kg 3x5

Seated calf raises: 20kg 2x8, 22.5kg 1x8, 25kg 1x8

Sumo squats: 10kg 1x8, 12kg 1x8, 15kg 1x8, 17kg 1x8

Bridge: 4x8

Standing calf raises: three positions, 2x10 each

The lunges, bridge and sumo squats are all new for me to work glutes. I've been neglectful of my butt for a long time now, mainly because I have bad knees and always used to have problems with doing lunges. So I've gone really light on these for now to see how the old knees cope with it all.

Food:

1. Oats, yogurt and PP

2. Chicken/corn/tomato wrap

3. PS

4. PS

5. Yogurt and PP

6. Tuna with pumpkin, chickpeas and a bit of pasta and green beans

7. Probably cottage cheese

Had 2 protein shakes instead of my usual one as I knew dinner would be a bit low on protein. It's a dish that we had a ton of leftovers of, and I knew it was heavy on the pasta and light on protein, so I split mine in half (so I would only have a bit of pasta) and added the tuna and beans to bulk it up. Will have the rest tomorrow, so therefore double protein shakes again.

[Chillicat]

Ooooh I can feel my glutes and calves this morning! And I fear it's only going to get worse...But of course that's a good thing

[Chillicat]

Cardio and abs today.

20 minutes on the bike. Just at 12 - tried following laurasaur's example and doing it on 16, but lasted about 20 seconds before I thought 'bugger this' and went back to a nice 12

Did about 15 mins of abs, bit of a mixture of things.

Food is the same as yesterday.

So nothing more to say.

[teamfatboy]

How're the legs now after the cardio

[Chillicat]

How're the legs now after the cardio

Pretty dead! I'm just glad the walk home from the train station is almost all downhill!

[Chillicat]

Lower half of my body still sore today!

Today's workout:

Chin ups - 2.5 \:D/

Bent over rows 20kg 4x8

Deadlifts 20kg 4x8

Seated cable rows 35kg 8/8/7/6

Lat pulldowns 35kg 8/8/6/6

EZ Bar 5kg 4x8

Arm curl machine 15kg 1x8, 20kg 2x5, 15kg 1x8

DB curls 7kg 1x5, 6kg 4x5

1. Oats, yogurt, PP

2. Tuna

3. PS

4. Peanut butter wrap (half)

5. Tuna

6. Fishy soup

7. TBA - probably cottage cheese to finish it off

[Chillicat]

Did shoulders yesterday, and I don't know why but I found it really hard and had to keep lowering the weights :?

Seated shoulder press 10kg 8/7/5, 9kg 2x5

Dumbell upright rows 7kg 2x8, 8kg 2x8

Lat raises 6kg 2x8, 5.7kg 1x5, 5kg 8/5

Shoulder press machine 25kg 2x8, 2kg 2x8

Press ups (legs raised on swiss ball) 2x10

But even though weights were lower I can still feel my shoulders this morning, so better than nothing.

Food:

1. Oats yogurt and PP

2. Yogurt and double PP

3. PS

4. Half peanut butter wrap

5. Fish soup

6. Tuna

7. Yogurt and PP

At work drinks I drank coke zero (don't even start littering my journal with the aspartame debate, I've read everything and I'll make my own decisions about that!). The caffeine made me super perky and energised and I shaved 5 mins off the walk home It's normally 22 mins, so 5 mins off is pretty good!

I also admit to having a couple of tiny triangles of pita dipped in yogurt dip. Since I look after social club, I'm the one who normally goes out and buys the drinks and nibbles, so I always make sure there's something on the healthier side to nibble on, so I picked a yogurt based dip with low fat/carbs. Mental note: next time remember to start getting the mini carrot sticks again. In the past I used to munch in rice crackers, but I made sure I flipped my fish soup and tuna meals so that I had a good amount of food before drinks so I wouldn't be so hungry that I'd consider drinks nibbles to be dinner as I normally do.

I must note also - I didn't even have the tiniest bit of cheese, and cheese is my favourite, so I'm very proud of me :nod:

[runveerun]

Hey well done on steering away from the work-food stuff! Hummus is a good dip too! I don't think there's anything wrong with a coke zero every now and then, better than alcohol and if it's knocked 5mins off your walk home that's great! (Kudos for walking home too!!!)

[poos_n_wees]

Lol, I drink Pepsimax like its water. Hey, if it stops me reaching for the donuts than it must be OK!

I must note also - I didn't even have the tiniest bit of cheese, and cheese is my favourite, so I'm very proud of me :nod:

\:D/

[Chillicat]

Lol, I drink Pepsimax like its water. Hey, if it stops me reaching for the donuts than it must be OK!

Here's me thinking I'd be told off severely for going near it! I used to be a total diet coke/pepsi max addict, but that's another thing I've weaned myself off this year. Now it's just on some weekends - I used to drink it constantly on weekends as I had no energy from the alcohol the night before :roll: But now I'm not drinking I'm fine with water and herbal tea most weekends.