This page made me feel better.

Tuesday
Morning - Shake
Snack - Cheese stick
Lunch - Corner Bakery chicken caesar
Snack - Shake
Dinner - Fish and nappa cabbage
Exercise - weights

Wednesday
Morning - Shake
Lunch - Red Robin chicken caesar salad
Dinner - Ribs and broccoli
Snack - Yogurt (for my stomach)
Exercise - 40 min elliptical, weights

Thursday (not the cleanest TNT day)
Morning - Shake
Snack - Cheese stick
Lunch - Chinese food - including some noodles and deep fried won-tons)
Dinner - Shrimp vegetable stir-fry
Exercise - morning yoga

Friday
Morning - Shake
Snack - Cheese stick
Lunch - Dave and Busters chicken caesar
Exercise - Weights

Benchpress - reps 4, wt
Squats/overhead press - reps 4, wt 15
Split squats - rep 4, wt 15

Week 17

My new slacks are a little tight around the waist. But, I can see my abs getting more compact - at least they feel that way. My arms and legs are definitely getting more muscular from yoga and doing hand weights at home. I was joking around that I could probably crack shells with my thighs or look like a cast member of the 300.

The weekend was great. Took yoga both Saturday and Sunday...Sunday's class was the best, we did a lot of push ups in between our poses which were just killer. Because the room gets so warm during class, you can actually push your body to new limits with the stretches. I had a dream on Friday night that I was able to do the splits and could actually feel my body doing it. Unfortunately, it was just a dream.
Anyway here's the recap.

Saturday
Breakfast - shake
Lunch - Chicken caesar from Nordstrom's Cafe
Snack - shake
Dinner - ribs, salad with feta, pecans
Snack - pecans and half a chocolate chip cookie (thank god D caught me eating half a cookie in my moment of weakness..it could have been three)
Exercise - yoga

Sunday
Breakfast - shake
Snack - shake
Lunch - 1/2 chicken caesar salad and half an ahi tuna patty from Gulfstream. glass of wine.
Dinner - Athens West combo salad.
Snack - 1/2 pita and yogurt (from my stomach hurting)
Exercise - crazy intense yoga

Monday
Rest day
Breakfast - shake
Lunch - El Torito Chicken taco salad
Snack - Shake
Dinner - Chicken and asparagus


Tuesday -
Morning weights
Breakfast - shake
Lunch - salmon patty and broccoli
Dinner - carnitas, two magaritas from happy hour :(


Wednesday
Breakfast - Shake
Lunch - Chicken thigh, 2 eggs
Snack - Cheese
Dinner - Chicken breast, asparagus
Exercise -
Morning weights:
Power Yoga

Thursday
Breakfast: Shake
Lunch: salmon patty
Snack: Shake
Dinner: Mediterranean salmon salad from Caffe Pannini, glass of wine
Snack: Three pieces of bread with butter and jam (WTF)
Exercise: Morning weights, three miles and yoga

Friday
Breakfast: Shake
Lunch: Shabu
Snack: Shake
Dinner: Salmon and broccoli
Snack: Cheese, Shake
Exercise: Weights and ran three miles

Week 16

Four more months till Hawaii. I've been getting refocused on my diet and exercise since Wednesday of last week. I've been skimming through a new book for weight training for women - getting new ideas for strength training workouts at home. So far, it's been good. Over the past year, I've forgotten how rewarding weight training can be at home - it's convenient and still kicks my ass.

I had a pretty packed weekend planned - but my main Saturday and Sunday plans got cancelled last minute. It was a blessing in disguise since both plans involved tempting carb-filled foods. On Saturday, I was supposed to go to this new afternoon tea place with my cousin for my belated birthday celebration - but she cancelled on Thursday with a cold. On Sunday, my yoga friends and I were supposed to head over to Julian, a quaint old gold mining town near San Diego for a four mile hike to a waterfall and then for apple pie. On Friday, we got an e-mail from our hiking leader that he injured his neck while sleeping after yoga. So, whew...saved me from the temptation of being near fresh baked pies and apple cider donuts.


Thursday
Breakfast - protein shake
Lunch - Wendy's chicken caesar salad
Snack - protein shake
Dinner - Panini Cafe salmon salad
Exercise - yoga


Friday
Breakfast - protein shake
Lunch - Corner Bakery chicken caesar
Snack - protein shake
Dinner - Newport Seafood and had kung pao chicken, salt and pepper shrimp and sauteed pea sprouts
Exercise - ran 2-3 miles and did weights:
3 sets each
12 squat/overhead press combo with 12.5 lbs
10 bulgarian split squats (each side) with 7.5 lbs
15 RDLs with 17.5 lbs handweights
15 Chest press 17.5 lbs
15 Bent over rows 15 lbs

Saturday
Breakfast: protein shake
Lunch: chicken caesar salad at Costa Mesa Omlette Parlor
Snack: protein shake
Dinner: Shabu
Exercise:
6 mile run to the beach
3 sets of:
10 shoulder split squats 12.5 lbs each leg
20/10 Diamond push ups (first two sets on my knees, last set on my feet)
10 skull crushers 10 lbs (each arm)

Sunday
Breakfast: Protein shake
Snack: Protein shake
Lunch: Fried calamari and scallop bacon salad at Macaroni Grill (not the cleanest tnt lunch)
Dinner: Shabu
Exercise:
Yoga - I got a free week pass to YogaWorks and took Nora's Vinyasa Flow Level 1 and 2It was great for really loosening up my hip flexors and hamstrings. My back felt so much better too.

Week 15

It's great that YoungVeezy keeps track of his weeks, b/c I am horrible at it. But I know definitely that I am one behind him. Changes in my appearance has been slow, but I'm not discouraged. In fact, this week I can see and feel a difference in my triceps from doing more push-ups and weights. My legs are firming up too. So, I'm trying to stay focused on the little victories. I have to since our trip to Hawaii is four months away.
Random articles:
I read another great article (it's old) on the science behind eating and eating right for your particular body type. The more I read, the more happy I am with being on TNT.

Back Pain

Ugh, I hope its temporary. What I've noticed is that once I started my bad habit of sleeping on the couch and sleeping on our old bed, its been really hard to sleep because of pain to my lower back and midsection. What I may start doing is sitting on my balance ball or a hard chair to prevent myself from getting in bad form. This too has been affecting my sleep at nights.
I haven't been doing this, but I am going to start to do more core work to help out my back muscles. Running has also been putting stress on my lower back as well. Speaking of back pain..I have to run to my chiropractor now. Hopefully he can straighten things out in the meantime (no pun intended)