Figure/Physique Countdown 2010

Good Start. Was hobbling around the office icely with DOMS today & did chest & tris this morning. Diets coming together also, made a huge batch of chilli & ratatouille at w/e so potions in the freezer ready. Will try to cook a big batch of a recipe each w/e to have lots of back up plans in the freezer.
Seeing PT Sunday morning.
40 mins cardio tomorrow
Back & Bis Thursday
40 mins cardio Fri
Swim & steam, mayb spin sat

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Loving your idea of batch cooking, I try to do that myself but usually end up eating the leftovers the day after for lunch!!

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how are you getting on? Getting organised for your diet?
I've just been out today and bought a pile of tubs for food "on the go". Hopefully I'll use them too 

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Hehe, that's the trick isn't it?!
I'm great at spreadsheeting all my diet & WO details, now if I can just bloody stick to it!
But yes, there's minimal treats left in the house just mini green & blacks bars, & I have 8 portions of low fat chilli in the freezer that I made at we.
Wot do you do over in Norway?
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Why don't you freeze the Green & Black bars too for a treat??

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Ooo, hadn't thought to do that?
Is that good yeh?
I'm not really a cold dessert kinda person........
ah ha all the more reason to freeze them?!?
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Today's gone well. Enjoyed cardio this morning; 20 minutes 6.2km/p/hr walking on between 3.5% incline, 10 minutes cross train stepper thngy & 10 minutes rowing L5 2.35p/500m.
Diet good. S'not as strict as I had planned but hey it's only week 1.
Had beef (sliced packet stuff) 100g with salad &lots of mushrooms (cooked) & tsp EVOO & tomi K dressing. Then 1/2 a maximuscle bar with my espresso.
May have some grapes/satsumas later.

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Diet this Week:
Meal 1: Pre WO - 5.45am
1 x Oatibix + tsp sweetener + 200ml skim milk
Shake - 20g CNP whey+Espresso
1 x YellowHaze

7am - 1000mg VitC (fizzy tab in 100ml water) with 2-3g Glutamine
7.15am - Shake - 20g CNP Whey+½ banana

Meal 2: Post WO (Brekkie) - 7.45am
Protein Porridge (30g oats made with water & 20g CNP whey) + tblsp seeds (pumpkin & linseed) + tsp sweetener+Cup of T with 100ml skim milk

Meal 3: AM Snack - 10.00am
150g Fat Free Cottage Cheese with 1 portion fruit (1 banana or 3 apricots or 3 plums)

Meal 4: Lunch - 12.00pm
120g raw stirfry veg + 180g tin tuna+120g cooked weight (45g dry weight) brown rice+10 green & 10 balck olives in brine+ tsp EVOO & tsp balsamic as dressing.

Meal 5: PM Snack - 3.00pm
150g Fat Free Cottage Cheese with 1 portion fruit (1 banana or 3 apricots or 3 plums)

Meal 6: Dinner - 7.30pm
120g chicken/ turkey/ salmon/ prawns/ fish + veg/ salad (if not fish maybe little low fat cheese on ratatouille) + sugar free jelly

Meal 7: Pre Bed - 10.30pm
Had planned to have a Propeptide shake but wanted a cup of T so had ½ maxi muscle bar.

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Week 1

Couldn’t really have wished for a better first week. Been to gym 6am every morning & diet’s been good.
Had planned to have a Propeptide shake before bed, but have wanted a cup of T sat in bed surfing forum, so had ½ a maxi muscle bar. Progress is that at least I only had half.
Fri/ Sat/ Sun have had dark choc covered coffee beans after dinner but stayed in control & showed progress by counting out 10 & only having those.
Have had a headache most nights this week. Have changed my contraceptive pill so could be that, but I think it’s caffeine withdrawal from having an espresso in my pre WO shake with the yellow haze fat burner. Gonna ditch the fat burner for now, prefer the espresso!
Saw PT David this morning, f*~>k me, he nearly killed me! Was GREAT, lol!!!
Did a total Bridget Jones getting off the Power Plate!
New Leg WO is:
Squat with just the Olympic bar: 7, 7, 7, 25
Stationary Lunges with kettle bells (1 each hand: 12kg each!): 7, 7, 7
    Then final set 25 with 6kg DB’s
Deadlift with Kettlebells: 7, 7, 7, 25
Polymetric squats: 7, 7, 7, 25
Leg Press 50kg: 7, 7, 7
    Then final set 25 with 20kg
    These are super-set-ted  with static squat wall holds for 10sec
Kettlebell swings: 7, 7, 7, 25
    Super-set-ted with power plate deadlift - 30sec
Power plate squat: 30sec action + 30sec deep static hold.

Look forward to being able to get down stairs tomorrow, but even more so Tues, eh!?!
Chest + Tris in the morning & booked into spin pm, but will have to see how I’m holding up (4 the spin). Had a good session in the steam room after today & am about to have hot bath.

Seeing David in 2 weeks for new chest + Tris WO & 2 weeks after that for Back & Bi’s. He’ll check my cardio sessions one morning this week when we’re both in, legs'll be reviwed in 6 weeks. He's keen to give me some extra free session also as I'll be good for business if he can show a BB're in his portfolio, kule!

Scales said a 5lb weight loss this morning, but I was ‘due’ last weekend & with the excess carbs & alcohol, it’s prob mostly fluid, but psychologically s’good non-the-less! Have measured & done photos, so certainly will do measurements next week, prob photos after a month.

Did another batch cook today, Spanish chicken. Have had for T tonight + there’s 4 portions to go in freezer.

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Spanish Chicken

12 chicken thighs
2 red/ yellow/ orange & green peppers
2 corgettes
2 onions
pack of celery
2 Tblsp marigold stock
2 tins toms
Tblsp paprika/ garlic paste/ tom-chilli-garlic sauce/ tom puree
3 Tbsp sweetener

Did half in the slow cooker with chicken & half in pan.
I know thigh's fatty but's tasty & I drained all the liquid off before serving, so nearly all fat should be in that.
Portioned out into 150g servings of chkn with lots of the veg.

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Sounds like you have had a great week.
Spanish Chicken sounds yummy,  may give that a try during the week.

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Wot do you do over in Norway?
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 I should prob change that actually. I am Norwegian, but I live in Scotland and has been for the last 2 1/2 years :-) I work and study here, and intend to stay as long as I enjoy it :-) Got myself a lovely Scotsman too, so it looks like it might be a while LOL :-)

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Fi - WOW!!!!! Talk about putting a plan into action!!!! Now do one thing...as painful and disheartening as it will be. Take some pictures. You don't have to post them but keep them. This is your starting point. Their will come a time when the hill will get steeper and the destination will seem sooooooooo far away but these will show you how far you have travelled so far. Photos is probably the best piece of advice I had given to me. Measurements are another...you can spreadsheet them LOL

Also make sure you know how much pro, carbs and fats you are having per day so that when you need to adjust your diet you know what you have been having and it makes it easier to tweak.

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Have photos from last July when I was around same weight & stats so will just use that, can't face taking another fat photos, next ones WILL show progress!
My eight week ones last year were great so just need to do that again & then keep momentum going.

Have all food spreadsheeted out as you say, lol! so know pro/ carb/ fat p/day. Carbs seems quite high at mo, but want them to be so if I can lose weight on this split then great! No point in getting emotionally low carb just yet if I don't need to.

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Wot do you do over in Norway?
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 I should prob change that actually. I am Norwegian, but I live in Scotland and has been for the last 2 1/2 years :-) I work and study here, and intend to stay as long as I enjoy it :-) Got myself a lovely Scotsman too, so it looks like it might be a while LOL :-)

Was only after I posted that I started reading last years journal entries on various journals & realised you worked at a store in Scotch-land.

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Sounds like you have had a great week.
Spanish Chicken sounds yummy,  may give that a try during the week.

Forgot to add aslo that obviously I ditched all the skin!
We added 100g of new potatoes each as the carbs, I guess you could have woteva,
& it was very yummy!
Good low fat comfort food for this time of year
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Ooo, 4got to mention...
On my journal foraging over x-mas noticed Flick having egg white & oat omellettes each morning, so tried them also this w/e.
RESULT! Even hubby liked them, so that's kule, used 6 whites & 2 whole eggs & 30g-ish oats (pre-soaked in hot water) btween us & added spring onion, sweet pointed peppers, seasoning & a Laughing cow light triangle each.
Thanx Flick! xx

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Flick is a bugger for getting people hooked on those omlettes without even knowing it

Love the sound of that chicken!

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Legs feeling better today, about to have another bath. Missed cardio this morning but that’s ok, having done legs Sun I can have today off. Will do cardio tomorrow & Fri & back & bi’s Thurs.
Scottish Equitable rep took the admin girls out to lunch today. I again showed control & only had 1 piece of garlic bread & 1 calamari ring to start & then had a (carb free) poached salmon salad, that refreshingly didn’t have a lot of dressing on it. There was about 200g of salmon! Tho if that’s the badest I am at the mo then I’m ok with that. & I felt good this afternoon whilst the others felt really sleepy with all the carbs.
Rest of the diet to plan pork salad with chilli mango dressing for T.

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