Chillicat's journal

[Chillicat]

I think the Halloween cupcakes over the weekend have completely ended any desire I have for sugary treats - I've just had to walk out of a welcome we are having for some foreign visitors, because the smell from the plates full of cakes was making me feel sick - sickly sweetness permeating the room, it was awful.

And no, I'm not pregnant

[Chillicat]

Today's efforts:

Tried a pull up with no success, so did a few assisted 20kg 2x8 and 15kg 1x3

Chin ups: 4

While I was there I did a few bodyweight dips too, 3x8

Lat pulldowns - 35kg 1x12, 40kg 1x8, 42kg 1x5

Cable rows - 35kg 1x12, 40kg 1x10, 42kg 1x8

Bent over rows 32.5kg 4x8 PB

Narrow grip cable curls 15kg 3x12

EZ bar 5kg 3x21s (instead of the 2 I've done the last few times!)

Concentration curls 6kg 1x8, 7kg 8/7/7

Today's food:

1. Oats (40g), milk (25ml), PP

2. Tuna

3. PS

NO Shotgun pre workout

4. Tuna and avocado

5. Sludge

6. Hamburger patties (no buns!) and lots of salad

7. Sludge

Calorie wise I can fit in another shake somewhere, so I might save it for later on, as I've been getting a bit peckish later in the day, and I don't feel like I need it right now. Maybe instead of a full water shake, I might do a half a milk shake before bed. Same calorie wise (but more carbs) - see how I go.

[Sunshine]

Today's efforts:

Tried a pull up with no success, so did a few assisted 20kg 2x8 and 15kg 1x3

Chin ups: 4

While I was there I did a few bodyweight dips too, 3x8

Lat pulldowns - 35kg 1x12, 40kg 1x8, 42kg 1x5

Cable rows - 35kg 1x12, 40kg 1x10, 42kg 1x8

Bent over rows 32.5kg 4x8 PB

Narrow grip cable curls 15kg 3x12

EZ bar 5kg 3x21s (instead of the 2 I've done the last few times!)

Concentration curls 6kg 1x8, 7kg 8/7/7

Today's food:

1. Oats (40g), milk (25ml), PP

2. Tuna

3. PS

NO Shotgun pre workout

4. Tuna and avocado

5. Sludge

6. Hamburger patties (no buns!) and lots of salad

7. Sludge

Calorie wise I can fit in another shake somewhere, so I might save it for later on, as I've been getting a bit peckish later in the day, and I don't feel like I need it right now. Maybe instead of a full water shake, I might do a half a milk shake before bed. Same calorie wise (but more carbs) - see how I go.

Hey ya...your so good having your shake with water,well done!

In in your menu for the day you say PS what does that stand for?

[Chillicat]

Hey ya...your so good having your shake with water,well done!

In in your menu for the day you say PS what does that stand for?

PS = protein shake

I worked my way up to having full water shakes - Started will fully milk ones, then worked on watering them down bit by bit, week by week, until they were virtually all water. There's one brand, Horley's Sculpt, that I think tastes vile with water, so if I have that, I just have it with milk - but all the rest I just have with water now without giving it a second thought. The water has to be cold though, otherwise it's fairly horrible - so when I finish one shake, I fill up my shaker and put it in the fridge to chill til I'm ready for the next shake!

[autechre]

Tried a pull up with no success

Good effort! Keep at them, you'll get up there eventually

Chin ups: 4

While I was there I did a few bodyweight dips too, 3x8

Sweet 8)

[Chillicat]

Tried a pull up with no success

Good effort! Keep at them, you'll get up there eventually

The odd thing is that I can manage a whole 2 pullups at J'ville City Fitness, but none at Bodyworks! Maybe it's a psychological thing - the pullup bar is very private at J'ville, so maybe I just get a bit self conscious when I'm at Bodyworks. Or maybe it's the type of bar - I just use the pull up/chin assist station thingy at Bodyworks, but an actual pull up bar at J'ville. Can't seem to manage them on the assist machine for some reason. Odd.

[Draft]

Maybe it's a psychological thing

I think this has a lot to do with it. I found I lift less when out of my comfort zone (like at a new gym) has led to some embarrassing experiences. :oops:

[bar-belle]

Today's efforts:

Tried a pull up with no success, so did a few assisted 20kg 2x8 and 15kg 1x3

Chin ups: 4

While I was there I did a few bodyweight dips too, 3x8

Lat pulldowns - 35kg 1x12, 40kg 1x8, 42kg 1x5

Cable rows - 35kg 1x12, 40kg 1x10, 42kg 1x8

Bent over rows 32.5kg 4x8 PB

Narrow grip cable curls 15kg 3x12

EZ bar 5kg 3x21s (instead of the 2 I've done the last few times!)

Concentration curls 6kg 1x8, 7kg 8/7/7

Nice work on the bent over rows :nod: PB whoop whoop

and the 21's...man they do the trick don't they :twisted:

[Chillicat]

Yay, my powdered egg whites finally arrived, sitting here on my desk first thing this morning. So now I can revamp my eats so that I can try cutting out the oats in the morning and have omelettes instead.

I have discovered the yummiest healthy way of having eggs - by making them into a wrap and filling with sludge! 2 whites and one whole egg (well, that's what I've done it with so far - might try it just with whites and see how it goes) - cook it so that it's flat and tortilla shaped, then spread it with sludge and roll up. I'd been missing my peanut butter wraps with my new lower carb eating, so this is a nice way of getting something similar. I read a slightly different version of it, where you put the protein powder into the egg mixture and just spread it with peanut butter - but since I generally make up my sludge in 5-serving batches, I think I'll stick to doing it my way - works out the same anyway!

Trying to decide if I can be arsed with spin tonight - I don't really want to go. Have already been to one non-Maria/Ashley spin class this week and don't think I can face a second in one week. I don't mind another instructor every now and then, but twice in a week will potentially make me stop going to spin altogether again, as I only do it because I need the CV fitness and fat burning it gives me - not through a love of cycling.

So perhaps I'll just do a slightly longer lunchtime session and incorporate a wee bit of cardio so that at least I'm doing some. Hmmm, will ponder it I think.

[teamfatboy]

Trying to decide if I can be arsed with spin tonight - I don't really want to go. Have already been to one non-Maria/Ashley spin class this week and don't think I can face a second in one week. I don't mind another instructor every now and then, but twice in a week will potentially make me stop going to spin altogether again, as I only do it because I need the CV fitness and fat burning it gives me - not through a love of cycling.

So perhaps I'll just do a slightly longer lunchtime session and incorporate a wee bit of cardio so that at least I'm doing some. Hmmm, will ponder it I think.

I see it's Liz tonight.. I've been tempted to bring a pillow to her classes, they're so boring. I'm sure she's a nice person, but she never gets 'out there' enough to make me want to give more than I can...

[Chillicat]

Trying to decide if I can be arsed with spin tonight - I don't really want to go. Have already been to one non-Maria/Ashley spin class this week and don't think I can face a second in one week. I don't mind another instructor every now and then, but twice in a week will potentially make me stop going to spin altogether again, as I only do it because I need the CV fitness and fat burning it gives me - not through a love of cycling.

So perhaps I'll just do a slightly longer lunchtime session and incorporate a wee bit of cardio so that at least I'm doing some. Hmmm, will ponder it I think.

I see it's Liz tonight.. I've been tempted to bring a pillow to her classes, they're so boring. I'm sure she's a nice person, but she never gets 'out there' enough to make me want to give more than I can...

I went to one of her classes the other week, and I didn't mind it too much - well, at least I quite liked her music because she had proper songs. Went to Nat J's class on Monday, and although I like her, I really didn't like her music. All doof doof doof musicy stuff - not proper songs with words - I like proper songs with words so that at least if I'm bored with the cycling (which invariably I am) I can at least sing along in my head, and I know when the end of that track is coming. The trancy stuff just seems to go on forever and bores me - I don't know when it's going to end, and it's all a bit samey.

That's what I love so much about Ashley - both her as a person (she makes me actually enjoy spin class with her infectious enthusiasm and general character!), and her music - Scissor Sisters and silly stuff like that that I can hum along to throughout my pain.

[steak]

How do you find the NO Shotgun as a preworkout supp matey?

[Chillicat]

How do you find the NO Shotgun as a preworkout supp matey?

Well, the tingling feeling has gone that I got the first time I used it - that was odd! But to be honest I'm not sure that I feel much with it, that it's doing anything much. With Superpump 250 I felt really energized with the caffeine hit (I don't like coffee, so can't do the cuppa before a workout option!) and felt as though it was giving my workouts a boost - but I'm not so sure with the NO Shotgun. I've got 3 tubs of the stuff (3 for 2 special on bb.com!) so I'll carry on with it - but once I'm done with it I don't think I'd bother buying it again. I might cycle it with Superpump if I can afford more Superpump (which sadly bb.com won't send to NZ, so have to pay inflated NZ prices) .

[Chillicat]

Bloody good workout this lunchtime, with PBs all over the place (small gains, but still gains)! Maybe that NO Shotgun is working, but so subtly that I don't realise it til I see the numbers!

DB shoulder press 10kg 3x10 - PB (previous PB 3x8)

DB upright rows 10kg 3x10 - PB (previous pb 2x8 at that weight, or 5x5)

Lat raises 5.7kg 3x12 - kind of a PB (previously did 4x8 at this weight. Have managed a couple of 6kgs, only 8 then 5 - so this PB is a bit borderline!)

DB front raises 4.5kg 3x12 - PB (previously did 4x8 at this weight).

Also did 4x8 split squats at 10kg, just because.

Then did 18 mins of hard out cycling to make up for not wanting to go to spin tonight. Haven't entirely earned my quesadilla tonight, but I've had 3 low carb days so could do with a medium carb day before I cut out the oats and get really low in the carbs.

[teamfatboy]

Well, would you look at that - PBs all over the map! Well done, CC :clap: :clap: :clap:

[Sunshine]

\:D/ yes well done!!!

[Chillicat]

Thanks guys! Going to do a pump class today. Had a meeting scheduled right on pump time, but managed to get out of it - yay!

Had egg white omelette for brekkie this morning, the first time I've started my work day with no carbs. Will be good to see how that goes. Feel very satisfied though. Calories are slightly higher than my normal brekkie (but only by about 20).

My carbs are right down today, and only add up to around 20g - the most in one go is the vege carbs I'll have with my dinner, which is about 10g, and the rest is just all the 1g here and there from the PB I use to make my sludge, or from protein shakes - so I reckon that's about as low as I can go carb-wise - so losing the 27g from my oaty brekkie makes a big difference. I'm going to stick with this breakfast for the rest of the year while I'm doing this summer cut.

[emmzies]

Had egg white omelette for brekkie this morning, the first time I've started my work day with no carbs. Will be good to see how that goes. Feel very satisfied though. Calories are slightly higher than my normal brekkie (but only by about 20).

Egg white omlettes definutly keep me satisfied for far longer than a bowl of oats. You won't regret the extra cals. Do you put anything decently exciting (i.e with flavour) in yours?

[Chillicat]

Had egg white omelette for brekkie this morning, the first time I've started my work day with no carbs. Will be good to see how that goes. Feel very satisfied though. Calories are slightly higher than my normal brekkie (but only by about 20).

Egg white omlettes definutly keep me satisfied for far longer than a bowl of oats. You won't regret the extra cals. Do you put anything decently exciting (i.e with flavour) in yours?

Yep - sludge! Yum!

[emmzies]

You cook the sludge INSIDE the omlette? Whattt?

[Chillicat]

You cook the sludge INSIDE the omlette? Whattt?

No - though that might be worth trying! I just attempt to spread it. I don't have time to make omelettes in the morning before work (I'm an up and leave asap kinda girl), so I made one last night and pre-spread it, so that I can just gobble it down when I get out of the shower and when I'm getting dressed, and that worked well. Did warm it slightly in the microwave for 10 secs so it wasn't fridge-cold.

Also brought a pre-prepared one to work today, but that didn't work quite as well - I left it in my bag til lunchtime, and it was a bit liquified through not being in the fridge Still tasted good though - but I'll remember it needs to stay in the fridge to stay intact

[Sunshine]

I bought weight watchers chocolate dessert yesterday to put in my sludge but it's a wee bit high in sugar, it's got per servings 12.1g? what do you use chillicat in your sludge?

[Chillicat]

I bought weight watchers chocolate dessert yesterday to put in my sludge but it's a wee bit high in sugar, it's got per servings 12.1g? what do you use chillicat in your sludge?

Mine's mostly pretty plain - just peanut butter and vanilla protein powder and water. But sometimes I'll put in a boysenberry from my 4 berry frozen pack. I like it just fairly plain though. But I'm going to experiment with flavoured protein powders. At the moment I've got strawberry and pina colada flavours.

[runveerun]

I bought weight watchers chocolate dessert yesterday to put in my sludge but it's a wee bit high in sugar, it's got per servings 12.1g? what do you use chillicat in your sludge?

Weight watchers hot chocolate in sludge is very good no sugar etc

[Sunshine]

I bought weight watchers chocolate dessert yesterday to put in my sludge but it's a wee bit high in sugar, it's got per servings 12.1g? what do you use chillicat in your sludge?

Weight watchers hot chocolate in sludge is very good no sugar etc

Thanks I'll have a look out for that.