Day 89

I tried my best to eat right, but I seemed to always not do so well. Today was my class packed day from 830am-9pm. I woke up around 8 and had breakfast, Cereal and Skim Milk. For Lunch I had a tuna sandwich w/ the V8 Fusion. But then an hour later I had lunch again w/ my friends. Chicken Salad Sandwich and a side salad. It was unnecessary and I wasn't even hungry. I don't know what came over me. I felt like crap after eating. Dinner came by, and I stopped at Subway, but then I found something unpleasant in my sandwich and that was from the first bite, so I ended up getting my money back and getting two kolaches, a bag a chips and water. Then two hours later I had dinner again w/ my friends at the dorm cafeteria. At night while studying I was munching on tortilla chips and salsa. Total Calories were way over 1500.

Jocelyn from the 24 hour fitness told me to record what I eat to help see where my intake is, and from the looks of it, I need to be stronger.

NEW UPDATE!

I am having problems right now. I am slowly gaining my weight back. I am not eating right. I have not been exercising. School has started last week, stressed has built up, and my old ways are coming back. I need help. I need to figure out a plan to eat right, work out, w/ my hectic, chaotic schedule. I don't want to ruin all the hard word that I have been doing for two months now. I will have to talk to Seth about all of this on Tuesday.

This is a rough draft of my schedule and eating schedule and working out schedule.

Monday
8AM Breakfast: Cereal, Skim Milk, Banana
830AM Class: Restaurant Layout and Design
10AM Class: Professional Selling
1130 Lunch: Tuna, Wheat Bread, V8 Fusion
1PM Class: Leadership
230PM Class: Advance Hospitality Operations Management
4PM Mid-day Snack: Fruit/Vegetables, Water
6PM Class: Beverage Marketing
8PM Dinner: Protein Bar, Water

Tuesday
10AM Breakfast: Cereal, Skim Milk, Banana
12PM Workout: Seth
1PM Lunch: Protein Shake
230PM Class: Hall of Honor Management
530PM Dinner: Tuna, Wheat Bread, Avocado, Fat Free Mayo, V8 Fusion

Wednesday
8AM Breakfast: Cereal, Skim Milk, Banana
830AM Class: Restaurant Layout and Design
10AM Class: Professional Selling
1130 Lunch: Tuna, Wheat Bread, V8 Fusion
1PM Class: Leadership
230PM Class: Advance Hospitality Operations Management
4PM Mid-day Snack: Fruit/Vegetables, Water
5PM Workout: Cardio
7PM Dinner: Small Portion of Dorm Food

Thursday
10AM Breakfast: Cereal, Skim Milk, Banana
12PM Workout: Seth
1PM Protein Shake
4PM Work: Freebirds
[Break] Dinner: Tuna, V8 Fusion

Friday
930AM Breakfast: Cereal, Skim Milk, Banana
1045AM Work: Freebirds
[Break] Protein Bar
3PM Workout: Cardio
5PM Dinner: Small Portion of Dorm Food

Saturday
11AM Breakfast: Cereal, Skim Milk, Banana
12PM Work: Freebirds
4PM Workout: Weights
5PM After Workout: Protein Shake

Sunday
10AM Breakfast: Cereal, Skim Milk, Banana
1045AM Work: Freebirds
3PM Lunch: Tuna, Wheat Bread, V8 Fusion, Avocado
5PM Workout: Cardio
7PM Dinner: Small Portion of Dorm Food

I hope this works..

Day 83 & Day 84

Tuesday I had my training session with Seth, but I felt defeated because I was hurt. My joints and parts of my body hurt so much. After working out with Seth, my elbow and hamstring are extremely not well. Today I am still taking classes, but in the evening I will go work out. I am having a difficult time with food, but so far today, it has been going very well. Internet at UH has been awful, so I might not update so often as I'd like, hope it gets fixed.

Day 81 & Day 82

Did some light cardio going around campus. Today was my first day of school and I have got to say. My nutrition and meals have all been good, bad, and ugly. I need to plan out my meals in advance so that I don't drift into any temptations that may occur on campus. I still have one more class right now, which ends at 9pm. Mondays are my rest days, so tomorrow, I have my work out with Seth at 12pm, class at 230, and then studying. woo.

Day 80

I had one of the insane workouts today. I didn't have breakfast, so I was nauseated while I worked out. I was tired, full of sweat, and loved every minute of it. I hope Seth can keep this momentum up, as well as myself. I need to build up my stamina and cardio, and gotta get some...uh...some sort of undershort/wear that will prevent chaffing, because that stuff gets annoying after a while. Now I have to do yard work...pack my stuff, and go to school.

20 more days until I hit Day 100. It would be pretty epic if I can lose 10 lbs in 20 days and reach my goal. Then I want to set a new goal after that. I am think 25 lbs more to lose making it 75 lbs. I just hope I have the motivation, effort, and money for it.

Day 76 - Day 79

I am not going to lie, I hadn't worked out on days 76-78. On Day 79, I did my cardio for the day, and went to work afterwards. I also got my key to my dorm room, which I will really be moving into tomorrow. So tomorrow I will have to mow the yard, clean my room, pack, pack my car, work out w/ Seth, and go to UH and do the actual move in. It was funny getting my key today, there were all these hispanic people outside of the doors of the dorm, trying to "help" people with their stuff, whether is was wanted or not. It looked like the dorms turned into home depot today. I on the other hand offered to help and helped one girl get her old huge TV to her room...on the fourth floor....w/ no Elevator. Until tomorrow!

Day 75

It has been 75 days since I have started the weight loss journey and today, everything or at least most of the things in my life are coming together. I will be starting school soon, work has been amazing, and soon my health will be at an all time high. Today I had my training session with Seth, and today....we finally got to workout on the bench press. Even though I could only do the bar, with no weight, it's one small step toward getting stronger and maybe I can add weight to it as time goes on. After work, I did yard work....in the rain. and I cleaned the inside of my car. What a work out today. I also got some protein bars and new protein powder for the next coming months and I'm just excited to keep going and see what results I can get by continuing on in this journey.

Day 72, Day 73, & Day 74

I am not going to lie. These days were spent dealing with stress, work, finances, and it was like an emotional roller coaster ride. I did not work out during any of these days. On top of that because my family ate all my food I purchased for the week, I mainly at out, and...tried to eat healthy. But I think this will me my R[est] and R[elaxation] from working out for this month. I have a personal training session tomorrow with Seth at 3pm. So I will post more this week.

Day 71

It seems like these days are so boring to me. It's like the same thing over and over again and no change, even though there has been much change in my life lately. This morning I did absolutely nothing, I went to work around 3pm, got off work, and went to work out without my work out buddy because he was dehydrated. I had a good cardio and light workout day tonight. I got home around 1am. [I wonder sometimes if working out at night is a good thing?] When school starts in a couple weeks, I am hoping I can maintain everything. I kind of fear that it will be too much for me. I think the only thing I need to maintain this last semester in college is:

1. Eating Healthy
2. Working out [w/ Seth, Reyes, or just by myself]
3. Getting enough sleep.
4. Studying enough so that I can graduate.
5. & working at Freebirds too.

but I guess I won't really know how any of this will turn out until I start my first week of school. Now I am going to sleep, and have a training session with Seth at 3pm tomorrow.

Day 70

So today was quite an interesting day. I went to work out before work and did the weight loss program on the ellipticals. Work went well, was kind of slow, and after work I went and did Cardio again same program before work. Is that good or rather detrimental to doing Cardio for the day? That was pretty much it. More tomorrow.

Day 69

Woke up. Had Cereal. Went to the grocery store. Had a sandwich w/ veggies and a glass of V8 Fusion. Went to work out w/ Seth. Home. My day has been really uneventful, but tonight I am going to try and figure out my schedule for the next couple of months and make it work. I'm hoping it all goes smoothly like this summer. Work > Working Out > School. Now I am trying to incorporate it all in one week. This is what I am thinking about.

Monday - School, Rest Day
Tuesday - Work out w/ Seth, School
Wednesday - School, Cardio
Thursday - Work out w/ Seth, Work
Friday - Work, Cardio
Saturday - Work, Workout
Sunday - Work, Cardio

That will start in two weeks, and we will see how that goes.

Day 68

Today I woke up and actually had breakfast, a real breakfast I should say. One cup of Kashi Go Lean Crunch, One Cup of Skim Milk, and a Banana. I am actually glad my friend Nick from work referred me that cereal. There is a similar cereal Kashi Go Lean, with more protein and fiber, but it doesn't taste so great compared to the Go Lean Crunch. So I ate the cereal and with the leftover milk in my bowl, I placed that and the banana in "The Magic Bullet" and had a banana smoothie. yum. [next time I'll add strawberries or blueberries to it] I took a final for my summer school course, and I got an A in the course! So no more school to worry about until I start again in two weeks. I did an hour of yard work, and now I am about to make myself some lunch. After I eat, I'm going to go to work, and after work I will head to the gym to do some much needed weight training.

Day 66 & Day 67

Yesterday was quite a long day at work from 10:30am - 10:00pm. My back was hurting after work, I was just glad I had a chance to at least sit in my car during one of my breaks. After work I did cardio w/ Reyes, 15 minutes on the Treadmill, 15 minutes on the Ellipticals, and the rest on the Rowing Machine. I was beat. Did some core workout towards the end on the dreaded swiss ball, and headed out afterwards. I wasn't feeling to hot afterwards, most likely because I didn't eat....all....day...so I did what I thought was the best thing for me at that time, and it was to go get some "healthy" McDonald's. Today is my rest day, and also my day off. So I will now relax, veg out a little bit, and maybe go to the park.

Quick Tip of the Day: V8 Fusion and Smoothies!

A great way to get a daily serving of fruits and veggies with some great taste is by getting V8 Fusion. Doesn't taste that bad and really cheap and convenient. If you do have the time and money, you can get fresh fruit, veggies, and make your own smoothie for the day!

Day 64 & Day 65

Yesterday was okay. I simply did cardio after work. Not much to it. But today was one of the best days I have had in a long while. Today I worked, and it was a bit tiring and fun, but after work I got to go work out with one of my co-workers, and new friend, Reyes. We decided to go work out afterwards, and after having a burrito from work, we better had worked out. We did a light warm up on the ellipticals, lifted some free weights, and mainly worked out on our core. It was great working out with someone [not that I am saying working out with Seth isn't awesome] but working out with someone that has similar goals. Reyes hadn't worked out in 9 months [even though he purchased a three year contract w/ 24 Hour Fitness] So we are going to plan working out after work whenever we have similar schedules. I need to plan out when I can work out, eat, and all that good stuff again now that I have a new job and also I am about to move. One of my other co-workers from work, Nick, gave me some good advice on my nutrition w/ low cost and high results. He suggested I eat Kashi Cereal, V8 Fusion Juice, Fruit Smoothies, Protein Bars, Protein Shakes, and still consume normal healthy lunch/dinner. I am really excited I got a work out partner, I found some new motivation and this will definitely keep me on track and toward the road to SUPER SEXY-ness! woo.

Day 63

Today was a good day full of productivity and having the puzzle pieces in my life right now fall in place [like Magic!] I had a training session with Seth today, it was pretty good, but for some reason I felt so tired and exhausted. We took my measurements for today and found that I lost .02 percent of fat. Which equates to 7 lbs of pure fat gone. I need some time to adjust to my new work schedule and eating schedule as well since I'm no longer waking up at 5am any longer, which means I get more sleep now. Now I am off to work, but one last thing before I end this update is that I am going to be upgrading my membership from one gym to all gym access. I have found that many different gyms have different hours of operations, and since I get off work somewhere around 8-11pm, I need a 24 hour gym to work out at. So I will be testing out the Galleria 24 Hour Fitness Sport Gym, and see if it's the same.

Day 60, Day 61, & Day 62

I am a little bit disappointed in myself because I have been slacking off really badly. I don't want to blame it on changing jobs or not having any money, but they are factors of it. Friday was the first day of my new job at Freebirds and it was amazing, fun, and all in all pretty neat. Good People, Good Place....maybe not the BEST food for my diet, but that just means I just won't eat there. Another thing that has been bothering me is that I have tried going to work out at 24 hour fitness, but on the weekend it closes at 8pm. So I am considering on getting the all 24 hour fitness package. It's a little bit more, but then again, a little bit goes a long way. I still want to continue my training with Seth, but I need to tell him that I need hardcore workouts because I think I am plateauing....no bueno. Saturday is my day of rest and today I did some yard work and also some dancin'! [and also work.] Tomorrow I have a session with Seth and right now I am going to check on the 24 hour fitness website and see what the other club hours look like.