Day 9

How Day 8 Went:
Started off great! Woke up at 6:00a.m.--had a bowl of Kashi Go-Lean Honey Almond Crunch cereal with one banana sliced up inside. Went to run a 5K for a good cause. Had a pudding snack while I waited at home for my parents and grandparents to get home from the lunch I was supposed to be having WITH them. Went to Olive Garden with Whitney. We each ordered off the healthy choice list, although after our work out for the night we were both pretty much regretting the pasta (However neither of us finished the portions they gave us and we each had plenty to take home AND like Whitney said we didn't even touch the bread sticks) I call that a pat on the back. For dinner I had a salad with 1/4 of the BBQ chicken (but I peeled off the skin and blotted it with a napkin till it was dry and less greasy) I'm still not remembering to drink as much water as I should but BUT I do drink more on a daily basis than ever before so it's a start.
The work out:
Ouch! I knew I wasn't going to like day 8. It honestly wasn't quite as sweaty as some of the other work outs we've done thus far but it was definitly challenging. My least favorite moves from the day were the squat thrusts, squat jumps, close grip push ups, and the leg extensions! My shoulders are already sore and I just know my legs are going to be killin' me tomorrow. We realized tonight that we really need to invest in a mat for the floor work outs. I have 3 huge bruises on my back from all the reverse crunches we've been doing and Whit has some scrapped up elbows from the Plank-Up's tonight (oh yeah...I hate those too) So we'll need to get that before our next work out.
--Lindz did her Day 4 work out today. I was sort of jealous of her. I wanted so badly to say 'Hey I'll trade you work outs!' but at the same time it was kind of nice to be able to see how far I've come. When I was doing Lindz's work out the idea of 20 scorpion push ups sounded like a joke, but they honestly weren't horrible! I also really like that we were able to motivate someone else to do this. It makes me feel an obligation even more to stick with it!
Mom:
I didn't get to go to lunch with yall, but I heard you went to Jardin! Yikes...I'm glad I didn't get to be tempted by the chips and queso there because I wouldn't have been thinking about my work out at that time and I would have more than likely had some and regreted it even more than the healthy pasta we had today. Did you resist the chips? How did your weekend go with grandma and grandpa in town? I hope you were able to stay on the right path and meet your goal for the week. I'm not quite sure if we'll be coming in next Sunday for a work out, but I'll certainly try!
Whitney:
Great work out tonight! Hope you're ready for tomorrow. Don't eat anything you'll regret because I did a little sneak peak and like Lindz pointed out as I was doing my plank up's "tomorrow doesn't look any easier." I won't do the full blown work out summary but I'll just mention the ones that sound the most "fun" to me:
-Jumping lunges
-Butt kicks with shoulder press
-Pike Crunches
But hey...day 10 is OFF! (how exciting)
**Also...I was disappointed to hear that Brian was less than helpful today(to put it mildly) but also really proud that despite the BAD influence you did GOOD and resisted. You'll just have to let Brian know that this is now YOUR life style and NOT a diet! and let him know that support is much more attractive than negative influence**
Tip of the day:
Nothing from Jillian yet but I'll go ahead and just admit that my eating habits haven't been as strict as they were when we first started this thing. I've been cheating a little more here and a little more there and in case you guys are having the same little 'woopsies' as me I thought I would put some words of motivation from a spark people article and a couple good recipes:
9 Cold Hard Weight Loss Truths:
1. You have to excersize more than you think
(An hour a day if trying to lose weight or maintain)
2. A half-hour walk doesn’t equal a brownie.
(I remember going out to eat with some friends after a bike ride. Someone commented on how we deserved dessert because we had just spent the day exercising; in fact, we had taken a leisurely 20-minute ride through the park. This probably burned the calories in a slice of our French bread, but definitely not those in the caramel fudge brownie dessert. Bummer. In other words, to lose weight, you have to cut calories and increase exercise. )
3. You do have time to exercise.
4. Eating more of something won’t help you lose weight.
(The food industry is keen to latch onto weight loss research and spin it for their sales purposes. A prime example is the widespread claim that eating more dairy products will help you lose weight. However, a recent review of 49 clinical trials from 1966 to 2007 showed that “neither dairy nor calcium supplements helped people lose weight.”)
5. Calories in = calories out?
(Whether you ascribe to the simple idea of trying to burn more calories than you take in or focus on avoiding certain types of calories, you want to minimize intake of empty calories, and maximize nutrient-dense calories.)
6. Your body is working against you.
(Most people have noticed that it’s hard to lose weight, but easy to gain it. This is a relic of harder times, when food was not as abundant as it is today. Our genetic taste buds made energy-dense food desirable because it was necessary to pack away calories so we could make it through the thin times. We feasted when we could, in preparation for the famine. But now that we live in a time of abundance, that system predisposes many of us for weight gain and retention. And for obese dieters, this system is even harder to overcome; after weight loss, they become better at storing fat, making it harder to keep weight off. However, this isn’t to say that many haven’t lost weight and kept it off successfully. It just means you have to be diligent.)
7. Our cultural environment is also working against you
(TV would be the biggest culprit, since many food advertisements, especially for children’s junk food, come during this time. Other areas to put on a “diet” are chain and fast food restaurants (where portion sizes are distorted), a bad-influence friend, or driving, which may help increase walking and biking.)
**skipping number 8...it's dumb**
9. This is not a diet; this is your life.
(The diet industry would have us all think that we can lose weight fast, and that’s that. But most people who maintain their weight understand that eating and exercising are not temporary conditions, to be dumped once a pair of jeans fit. Instead, they are lifestyle choices, and ones to be made for the long haul.)

Here is a tasty recipe from spark people for yall:
Bean-n-Guac Rollup
Fill one small corn tortilla with 1/4 cup mashed black beans.
Top with 1/4 avocado (diced) and add 2 Tbsp salsa.
199 calories, 8.7 g fat

Until day 10...
-Mopeah