Past the half way point...

This past week began with a gum shopping spree, I wonder what the Target checker thought......perhaps extreme halitosis?  Caloric deprivation for 4 days M-Th had me speeding the week up, it was a happy moment when breakfast came on Friday morning.

Coach begins the training week with "we're not trying to break any records this week", in other words it will be a push.  I did not keep track of my daily sets/exercises, mainly focused on keeping the last two sets of each exercise heavy doing 12-15 reps.  Amazing compliment of the week  "your legs have never looked this good since I've known you", being that it was after 2pm, thank you hubbie! Cardio for the week involved two different apparatuses, either elliptical or sprints on the treadmill (30 sec. sprint then 30 sec. rest up to 9 mph), coach made mention of adding another day of cardio for next week.......I'll let you know how it ends up!

Broccoli consumption is at all time high, now that I've been eating it twice a day for many weeks and have become quite the connoisseur......spicy brown mustard makes the best accoutrement, with the occasional dash of ketchup. Although I would love to indulge Patty and Eli's request for a 5:30am drinking game, try another stall tactic Eli.......one more set of lunges you'll thank me later!

Here we go....week 8 begins!

Week 9 had it's challenges of recovery and managed just 4 days of cardio.......this week calories will drop to 960 keeping everything else the same, I see a lot of gum chewing in my future!!!  Rest will be my main focus outside of training as I will start to focus on posing in the up coming weeks.

No highlights to report for training this past week, I tried to conserve energy to prepare for the last half of my show prep.  A quick thank you to everyone for all your positive support, cheers!

The Food Dreams Begin

Week 10 was so great I thought I'd do it again, the real week 9 begins on Monday 6/13!  After the 5 days of cardio this week, and last weekend's deficit my weight clocked in at 123.5.  My body fat is now at lowest mark on our measurement chart, I had often wondered what that would feel like.... Still no food cravings just dreams of shoving m&m's in my mouth, go figure I don't even like chocolate!  We will see what tomorrow brings after the cupcakes come out, as our beautiful Tess turns 17!

Training was not what I would have liked this week, although, my squat was once again the highlight - 275lbs x 6 x 4 (up 10lbs from last week).  Thanks mom (aka Nana) for adding some west coast cardio and huge congrats for your 33lb weight loss!

Drawing inspiration and strength from the Parks and Rakis families, whom are both in the midst of great challenges, keep me grounded beyond words.  Thank you Gibari for your philosophies and putting such great perspective on life, one love.

Made it to the single digits!

Week 10 now complete, added an extra day of cardio for weeks 11/10....week 9 I increase cardio to 5x per week, I'll let you know how that works out!  Yesterday and today was met with the "not so happy" decrease in calories (980), since they are non lifting days and I also sleep a little more (well kind of!).  Thank goodness for my supportive family, they keep telling me the food commercials are not "all that" and "it taste so gross", my food wish list on the night of 8/13 continues to grow!

Training went well most of the week, hanging on to my 265lb squat makes me feel amazing!  Favorite comment of the week, Linda telling me "your looking so compact"!