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Fitness With P90X: Day 36 Core Synergistics and More new Foods

02/14/2010 By 1 Comment

 

Yesterday was hard for me. I had to work a busy shift at work from 10-6 and then rush home and cook dinner for the family. I did cook dinner for them and me, but. . . I think I ate a little too late. Well, I waited an hour and 1/2 after dinner to exercise, but I think that was not enough time for my tummy to settle. Why, well while I was working out during core synergistics from the p90X I was feeling a little bogged down and I think it was due to my food still trying to digest. Needless to say I only made it through 40 minutes last night. I stopped because I did not want to make myself sick.

I learned a lesson which is not to exercise to closely after eating. Not a good mix. Other than that error I made healthy food choices and my water. . .  I still need to work on getting 72-80 ounces of water in. I don’t know why I can’t seem to do it but I feel so full when I do that and then I am not able to eat the small portions of food made and when that happened I am a bit hungry. Any suggestions? My meals for yesterday where:

  • Breakfast: Spinach Scramble, milk and grapefruit
  • Snack: Protein Bar (atkins)
  • Lunch: Turkey Burger with provolone cheese, coleslaw and red pepper soup
  • Snack: Missed (busy day!)
  • Dinner: Halibut, with Mango Ginger Sauce, wild rice and asparagus

So, that was my day yesterday. I swear I was so exhausted I showered and went straight to bed and slept in until 8:30 this morning which is late for me with a 6 year-old son, lol. Well. I will be back to post about today in a bit. Must polish my nails and work on some beauty blog post. Chat later

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Fitness With P90X (Day 35 Rest Day, Week 5 Results & New Foods!)

02/13/2010 By Leave a Comment

 

Hey all yesterday was my rest day and the end of week 5 of the P90X program for me. This week was fun seeing myself improve and challenge myself with the cooking. I tell you of all the cooking was well worth it because I was not retaining as much water this week. You may ask retaining water? Well, this week is my pre-menstruation time when I start to retain a lot of water and hence water gain with the scale and this week that did not happened!! Yey!! I guess the science behind it all is when you eat healthy and clean, drink water and exercise your body will not retain, so that is a great thing for me because I decided to weight myself to see if I lost any pounds this week. Well. . .  This week I lost another pound!!!! I am so excited about that. So, in 5 weeks I lost 4 pounds and I will take it along with the muscle gain too! I am noticing that my arms and legs are starting to get more lean and my abs are also reduce in size, so program is working for me for sure! I will give you me details on my video in a bit.

Stats Thus Far:

  • Jan 8th: Start weight: 198lbs
  • Jan 15th: 198lbs (no gain/lose)
  • Jan 22nd: 196 (-2lbs) Yeah!! A loss and I will take it!
  • Jan 29th: 196 (no gain/lose) But I lost inches!!
  • February 5: 195 (-1lbs) totaling 3 pound for the fist 4 weeks!
  • February 13th: 194 (-1lbs) totaling 4 pounds in 5 weeks!

This week I changed my meal plan and went according to the nutrition guide and I believe by doing that I was successful in the weight loss. Speaking of the foods that you may prepare from the meal plan. I recommend to have lots of Tupperware to store you food or freeze. You will make lots of soups and sauces throughout the first week and hence a lot a servings for leftovers. So, make sure you have freezer safe containers to store. The will preserve your food and in the next week you will have left to thaw instead of having to prepare new soups, rice, and sauces everyday.

What I ate today was:

  • Breakfast: Soy muffin my version with milk
  • Snack: Protein Bar
  • Lunch: (My favorite) Steak and Arugula Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette!!
  • Snack: String cheese (don’t like turkey jerk)
  • Dinner: (the sauce was yummy!) Chicken breast, Honey Chille sauce, Quinoa(different, but tasty) and snap peas

Pictures of my main meals:

All in all, the meals were yummy and left me feeling full and never hungry, so I was glad about that. So going into week 6 I will continue with the meals and prepare for more success! How did your week go? Anyway, check out the video for more :)

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Fitness With P90X: (Day 31 & 3rd Day of Nutrition Guide)

02/09/2010 By 3 Comments

 

Yesterday, will be short and sweet. It was day 31 of the P90X program and a CardioX day. In week 5 I will stress again that I am able to work harder and burn more calories than ever!! Honestly I was so glad that I did my workout before going into work because when I returned home I was ready to rest for sure!

It was also another run and the nutrition guide and this time around the food was still yummy however, I could not eat everything. I was full fast and felt satisfied throughout the day minus my sweet treat in the evening. I had a musketeer bar. I should have had a protein bar, but you know the rest. I decided to give myself that one treat so that I would not go crazy and binge later in the evening and it worked like a charm.

Meal Plan was yummy! I have not had fresh squeezed juice in a long while and the fresh squeezed  grapefruit was delicious. Here is my meal plan for yesterday:

  • Breakfast: Chicken Scramble, turkey bacon and fresh squeezed grapefruit juice
  • Snack: Protein Bar
  • Lunch: Vegetable soup + protein powder 1tbsp and tuna salad with lettuce
  • Snack: Soy nuts
  • Dinner: Halibut, brown wild rice, zucchini
  • sweet treat: musketeer. (I will not do that too often)

Pictures:

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Fitness With P90X: Day 28 (Lesson Learn & Results)

02/06/2010 By Leave a Comment

 

Hey all, yesterday was my rest day and it was definitely needed. I totally enjoyed it! I have to say I learned a lot during the first 4 weeks of the P90X program. I learn about myself and how far I can push myself through the workouts and how much my strength has improved over the 4 weeks which is amazing! I can do things that I could not do during the first week. I have the strength to lift things and I can also lift my son who is very tall and solid for the age of six. He is 4 feet 5 inches tall and weight 85 pounds. He totally takes after my hubby who is 6 feet 4 inches tall. I was so enjoyable to pick him up and hugs him while we were celebrating his wonderful day at school and his color belt graduation for taekwondo. His is now a camoflauge belt and a new member into the ATA taekwondo Black belt training so I was very proud of his!! He was also shocked and happy that I could lift him and give him a bear hug!!

The other few things I was proud of is that I can do yoga and enjoy it! Holding the crane pose was a major accomplishment for me. Then KenpoX and doing the kicks and having great balance was awesome!!

The other things I was glad to notice and work on is my meal plan which i will talk more about in the video below. Going forward I will be going according to the meal plan in the P90X nutrition guide. Why? Well, for one things I feel like the meal plan I was using was not giving me enough energy to make it through the entire works or day. I also learned that I was not getting enough protein throughout each day. Lastly my diet was too high in sugar and sodium hence I was retaining too much water and not shedding fat like I think I should. So with that said I will be following the nutrition guide 100%!!

My Stats thus far:

  • Jan 8th: Start weight: 198lbs
  • Jan 15th: 198lbs (no gain/lose)
  • Jan 22nd: 196 (-2lbs) Yeah!! A loss and I will take it!
  • Jan 29th: 196 (no gain/lose) But I lost inches!!
  • February 5: 195 (-1lbs) totaling 3 pound for the fist 4 weeks!

Watch the video below for more of my thoughts and reflections so far:

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Fitness With P90X: Day 25 (StretchX Workout) Nice. . .

02/03/2010 By Leave a Comment

 

Yesterday was better than expected! It was the first day of my diet changes and the first time I popped in the StretchX DVD from the P90X program. People! I totally recommend this workout, don’t skip it! If you are feeling sore from you other workouts in this program this is a must. The StretchX workout is about 58 minutes in length. Intially I thought the workout would be short in length because it was just a stretch workout, but know I understand why the workout is as long as it is. There are so many different muscles in our bodies that are challenged everyday with or without working and this DVD stretches every last muscle in your body. Man!! I needed this workout. Each stretch felt soooo good! I was sore from the previous workout and man today I feel great, relaxed and ready for cardio X!!

Anyway, my meal plan was delicious yesterday! I felt full with adding the extra protein with meat/dairy or protein powder. My meal plan was:

  • Breakfast: Muscle Milk Protein Shake in Vanilla Creme with 1/2 banana, 1/2 serving of strawberries, milk and 1/2 cup of ice. It was delicious and packed full of protein!! Water
  • Snack: Special K protein bar and water
  • Lunch: Lean Cuisine’s Beef Chow fun 15g protein, then I added 2tbsp of protein powder 10g, 1 serving of soy nuts. Man was this meal filling. If I did not add the extra protein I most likely would have been hungry in a 1 or 2 of having this meal. So, it is needed for sure
  • Snack: String cheese and water
  • Dinner: chicken breast, green beans and butternut squash soup + 1tbsp of protein powder. The soup recipe from the P90X book, yuck!! I must not like butternut squash, it was gross and I will have to make a substitute for this one. I was grossed out! and of course water

So, all in all I felt satisfied and today I am no longer sore, so maybe the extra protein works and the recovery drink works too. I tried a sample of a friend of mines and I may have to get it too! We will see. But anyway. I better get to my cardioX before I get to work today. I hope that you all are doing well and please let me know how you are does thus far. P.S. my scale is moving a bit!! Excited!!

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Fitness With P90X: Day 23 (Core Synergistics & Diet Re-Evaluation)

01/31/2010 By 8 Comments

 

Hello my fitness chameleons! How are you all doing today? I hope well and ready to focus on getting in the best shape of your lives this new year. Well, today I had to do something thinking and re-evaluating of my current diet with P90X. A lovely subscriber to my youtube channel, name figuremom pointed out some interesting thoughts on my current diet with P90X. First, of all I thought my low fat diet would work well with this program, but after 3 weeks on it I am starting to wonder maybe not. Figuremom took a look at my diet and as it stands right now I am not intaking enough protein for this type of program. I kind of knew that could be part of my problem. The workouts I did while I was on nutrisystem was not as intense as P90X so the meal plan worked fine with that. But with the P90X program my body will need much more protein in order to maintain the workouts and to burn more fat efficiently. So, hence a trip to the grocery store for me. Before I talk  more I just wanted to thank Figuremom so much for taking the time to check out my diet. I totally appreciate it so much and I am excited to see how the changes effect me. Thank you , Thank you :)

Before I went to the grocery store I re-read the the nutrition plan book and made up a list of things I did not have and went on a healthy food haul, lol. I am so used to saying makeup haul, lol :) Anyway, the things I purchased was:

I already had my fridge stocked full of fruits, veggies and meats, but I needed a few more things. So I gathered some things I hope to find to be a key to my success:

  • Some special K  protein bars for my snack. I am still looking for a recovery drink, so if you have any suggestions let me know?
  • Picked up my favorite Muscle Milk protein drink in vanilla creme
  • Bob’s Red Barn Mill Soy protein powder
  • Bulk of brown wild rice, couscous and soy nuts (I found these at H-E-B, wow!!)
  • Cottage cheese and string cheese
  • More chicken I was running low. I also will eat pork tenderloins, fish, and lean beef too!

This week will only use lean cuisines only if I was unable to prepare something, but I will make sure that is at a minimum. I think cooking the meal yourself will give you the control of knowing what is going into your meals.

My meal plan today: (My last meal plan the old way)

  • breakfast: Special K cereal and blackberries and water
  • Snack: Special K cereal bar
  • Lunch: Protein Shake and banana, water
  • Snack: Soy nuts (I had to try them, lol. Not bad), water
  • Dinner: Pork tenderloins, sweet potato, green beans and water

Well, I am out for today. Before the grammy’s come on I will be doing my core synergistics workout. Chat soon, Tasha :)

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