Tuesday

Feeling good today. Weekdays are always SO much easier to stick to clean eating and exercise because I have a regular schedule. This past weekend was chaotic.

Everybody says that you should hang pictures up all over your house of your "ideal body" in order to inspire yourself. This just hasn't worked for me. All it has ever done is discouraged and frustrated me.

Well I was reading about Dara Torres and yes she is ripped. Well I read that she spends several hours a day training and more importantly gets personal massages to help her recover. http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3384672&categoryId=3060647&n8pe6c=2 Apparently, given her age, she needs to do "extra" care for her body like frequent massages to help her body repair from her training. Well I think that if you don't have these same "resources"(i.e. time, professional staff, etc.), but you're still trying to get the same results (look like her) then are you SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE.

Instead, I personally think that you should visualize personal goals that are meaningful to yourself and not just try and "look like somebody else." I am short, 5' 1" and I know that I will never have a body with a long waist. I just won't so I shouldn't even try. I would never look like Dara. I am just not tall enough to have that long lean look. I find it better to visualize what I think MY body would look like without the extra fat and that helps me more than comparing myself to someone else. Just my 2 cents.

And so my TIP OF THE WEEK is this: Think Long and Hard about what these "ideal body" people do every day to achieve their body (and if it is an athlete, then they do a LOT) and be honest whether you have the same resourses available. Yes you want to reach high, but don't go beating yourself up to the point where you are discouraged, especially if you are not a professional athlete.

Bump, Bump

Blah. I am slowly being derailed from my fast track to my dreambody by myself!

Gail!!!!!

Snap out of it! PUT DOWN THE ICE CREAM! Your blowing up like a puff fish! Poof!! See?

STOP IT!

On another note, I wanted to start writing a "Tip of the Week" So here is today's tip;

Cut up a bag of ready to eat spinach and some sweet onion and put in a zip lock bag and freeze. When making egg whites in the morning, just scoop a handful in the pan and cook long enough just to thaw (about a minute), then add your egg whites and cook as usual. It gives boring egg whites a little flavor.

A Dreambody Diva At the Gym

My gym is close to an army base and there are some army guys and girls that come there to workout.

At the gym today, a lady said to me," You're in the army right?"

I said, "Uh no. I'm not in the army."

She laughed, "Oh, I just assumed you were in the army because you worked out so hard."

For those of you who don't know, I am using Tony DiCostanzo of Dreambodies BTS as my trainer. Yeah, I think he is trying to kill me:)

Update

I guess I should update. I pretty much took a whole week off. I ate whatever while I was on vacation and although I did a lot of walking, I didn't do any formal exercise. Oh, I ate a corn dog for the first time in my life. It wasn't all it's cracked up to be. I'd rather just have the hot dog with bun. We also went to chocolate world in Hershey, PA. Of course there was chocolate. And we went out to eat. And ice cream. Lots.

Well I feel squishy and flabby.

So today I will get back at it. I have 3 good meals in today and I exercised. There is still some remaining chocolate in the house that is making it a little hard for me today. I don't plan on getting on the scale anytime soon. Grilled fish and green beans here I come!

Oh and I'm starting to wonder what "maintenance" will look like once I get to my goal weight. I seem to have trouble with that, I'm either "on" or "way off" my healthy kick. I can't seem to find a happy medium. So I am wondering what that will look like.