WOTD ~ 12.04.12

Today started the challenge I told you about. And guess what...someone at work made my department a lemon cake. Boo! Me no touchy!

So I got up this morning to get my sweat on. I started with Turbo Fire's HIIT 15 and Stretch 10 then followed with Tone It Up's Holiday Hottie circuit and finished with Tara Stiles yoga.

Oh and I found a new workout...its called 30 Day Butt Lift from BeFit on YouTube. I plan to start it tonight ;)

What's Going on Today 08.30.12

If you read my previous blog, you'll already know that I woke up at 4am today...YES 4 A.M. You might be asking yourself, "Stephanie, why the hell are you waking up that early?!" After listening and watching Eric Thomas yesterday I was motivated to get things done. I don't want to be broke anymore...

So what the heck does one do when she wakes up that early? Here you go:

• 4:15am - 5:45am: worked out
• 5:45am - 6am: breakfast (TIU Banana Split & Coffee/Protein)
• 7:00am: Bombshell Spell (TIU morning drinky drink)
• 9am: snack (medium peach & mango coconut water)
• 12pm: lunch (eggwhite omelette with ham & slice of provolone / homemade refried beans / salsa / bag of veggies (cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, orange bell pepper) & kombucha)
• 3pm: snack (Luna bar)
• 6pm: dinner (homemade quesadilla - low carb/high fiber tortilla wrap, egg white omelette, 2 slices of thin provolone, refried beans, salsa)
• 9pm: snack (i froze a chobani champions yogurt and added some dark chocolate chips)
• 10pm: snack - AGAIN (handful of dark chocolate chips)

So what are your dreams? What's the life you wanted to have but haven't made the decisions to get it? Why haven't you bought that dream home or that dream vacation? Are your kids going to college with the help of loans because you weren't able to afford putting away a little money for a fund?

These are all questions I have struggled with. Struggled with facing the reality that I haven't saved for college, we aren't in our dream home yet, I don't have the "job" that I would ideally want to be in. So how do I plan to make these dreams a reality?! By sharing what I believe are the best health/fitness products. Are you into health/fitness? Who isn't? WE all want to live a healthy fit life and we want our families to do the same. So why not ask me what I do...I DARE YOU!

In the meantime, I leave you with this video...

"don't cry to give up, cry to keep going..." ~ Eric Thomas



Feelin' Good

I'm back on it guys...I can just feel it!

I have this feeling within me that I haven't felt in a long time. And I think it's because I've lifting weights. I love lifting...it just gives you this instant gratification that I don't feel with cardio. You can feel your muscles getting bigger and working hard. I LOVES IT!

Lift Weight to Lose Weight...



Yesterday I signed up for Tone It Up's Beach Week and I'm super stoked about that. We'll start the 5 Day Slim Down on Friday (EEKK!) and end just in time for Labor Day weekend. I'm going to go hard core with it because there are prizes - YIPPEE! Talk about mo-ti-vation people...FREE stuff...I'm all for that! Wish me luck...LOTS OF IT...please!

Today's morning bootycall consisted of the following TIU videos:

I had originally planned for just the Summer Sweat Session (1st vid up there) plus some Turbo Fire, but I really got in to the joy of TIU workouts and just did all of these instead. It felt good to workout with them on YouTube...I haven't ever really done that before. I just normally use the printouts they offer.

I gulped down my BCAAs while I was working out. Then afterwards I had to recover and feed my muscles some protein so I had a yummy coffee shake with Gaspari's Myofusion in Cinnamon Roll. This flavor is freakin' delish...seriously!

Before walking out the door I drank my TIU Bombshell Spell. Then I ate my breakfast at 8am which was a banana split. I had a large Pink Lady apple around 10:15am for a snack. Lunch time consisted of a salad that I don't think I can ever get tired of...romaine lettuce, shredded carrots, cherry tomatoes, 1/4 of a large Hass avocado, cajun turkey breast lunch meat, 1 slice monterrey jack cheese, salsa, and lime juice with 1/2 of a Luna bar and green tea with stevia for a drink. At 3ish I ate the other 1/2 of the Luna bar as a snack.

It's a HOT one...

I'm writing this blog as I wait for my daughter's next game to start. May I tell you how freakin' hot it is out here. We've been here since 7am and it is now 5:20pm. This is the life of a softball mom! I must tell ya that I wouldn't have it any other way.

This morning I woke up anxiously at 5am to do my Insanity workout and followed it with HIIT 15 from Turbo Fire. It was an intense workout. It's weird, but I've noticed that I burn more calories when I workout after work versus first thing in the morning. Downside is that IF I don't workout first thing then I may or may not get that workout in. And if I don't...then I'll regret it big time.

My eating today has been ok. I had a Vega One protein shake after my workout. For breakfast I made a sandwich with 1 egg, a thin slice of provolone cheese, 3 slices of brown sugar ham lunch meat on 2 slices of light honey wheat bread. Then after our first game I ate 1/2 of a sausage wrap with mustard. For lunch we ate Subway where I got a footlong turkey, bacon & avocado on honey 9-grain bread. I only ate 1/2 the sandwich! I added provolone cheese, spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and light mayo to it. I then had a banana when we got back to the fields and some strawberries after their game. Then I NEEDED a refreshing pina colada snow cone after their 2:30pm game. I was starving at 6pm so I had a pink lady apple - my fav.

A Little Road Trip...

Yesterday we left our great city to head up to Houston for my son's Lacrosse games. I did my morning workout yesterday and started the day out with good intentions...as many of us do. Fast food quickly made it into my mouth and good decision making went out the door. I'm also feeling the effects of not drinking enough water.

BUT today is a new day and I started it off with Fire 45 and Stretch 10. Drank 32 oz of H2O in the process and followed it with a chocolate Shakeology made with H2O and ice. I'm going to try to concentrate on choosing better food options as well ;)

So...moral of the story is....although you may be away from home you can ALWAYS take your workouts with you!