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Soy latte

Blackberry Surprise smoothie-Learn the surprise on Thursday!

Life is Peachy smoothie-Recipe will be posted Thursday!

2 Hail Merry raw & vegan chocolate macaroons

Salad made of mixed greens, butternut squash, cherry tomatoes, avocado, and a dressing of dijon mustard, honey, olive oil, liquid aminoes, fig vinegar, and Spike seasoning.

Workout

2.5 mile sprints

20 minutes on elliptical (levels 17, 12 with 6 resistance, 10, 9, and 3 for cool down portion)

Hanging leg lifts

Crunches

Rotary Twist machine with 35 pounds

Lunges

Back extensions with 20 pounds

Arm raises with 5 pounds

Leg lifts on abench

1.5 power walk

I also cleaned the apartment with my boyfriend from 3-6!! We’re talking major mopping!

I’m not going back to posting my workouts and eats every day, but I do want to give a few days to it.

This morning I made my boyfriend breakfast. Let’s here it for pancakes! I love pancakes, but rarely indulge in them because I’m sensitive to wheat, gluten, and they’re not exactly healthy. Buuutttt… They are soo good. I ate 3/4 of one, and loved every but of it.

After my workout my boyfriend took me to a local version of Pinkberry, only the yogurt is even lower in calories. I had the original tart vanilla one, topped with pineapple chunks, blueberries, and 2 maraschino cherries. I drizzled a little raspberry sauce, along with Melba sauce. Um…freakin delicious, especially on a day like today. It’s more than 90 degrees in New York!

My workout

1.2 mile power walk

2.7 mile run with brief breaks of walking on a high incline of 6.

30 minutes on elliptical

Standing side leg raises

Donkey kicks

Rotary twist with 35 pounds

Arm raises with 3 pound weights

Back extensions with 20 pounds

80 hanging knee raises

Crunches on abench and stability ball

Lunges

Stretches

I am super sore. I want to enter Warrior Dash this summer, so I’m working running with no breaks. Yesterday I clocked myself. I did one mile in 11 and 40 seconds, with one break at the 1/2 mile. I ran between 5.4-5.6 mph. I think 6mph will be my final goal, and I want to be able to run 3 miles without stopping. I’ve been working on strength training, but I’ll have to start cleaning up my diet.

Summer is one of my favorite times in terms of food, because there is so many delicious and light fare around. On the other hand, it’s also ice cream season, potato salad season, and a bunch of yummy things I love.  Summer is the one time that I don’t mind being a little strict about my vegan habits. I only have ice cream about once a week during the summer. It’s a tradition of my boyfriend and I. As for the potato salad I only eat it when my mom makes it, which isn’t so often since 1) I don’t live at home and 2) Homemade potato salad takes mad long to make, which means my mom doesn’t bust out the potato peeler every day.

Anyway, I’m going to get back to being more mindful of my protein intake. I will also be more mindful of simple carbs. Sorry, Pancakes:(

3 mile run at 5.5mph, with mix of walking on .5 incline at 4.9-5.0mph

30 minutes on elliptical (levels 10,12,9,5,3,10)

Crunches on abench

Hanging knee raises

Back extensions with 20 pounds

1 mile walk with jumping jack arms

Arm raises

Butt raises

All I have had to do was a soy latte, a lite coffee drink from Starbucks, and a gram cracker with peanut butter. I’m not very hungry, to shoot it straight. I’ve been running around like a crazy person on a mission, and food has been far from my mind. Still, I plan to force myself to eat something healthy and substantial sooner than later. Now, what to have???

1.5 walk with arm jabs, black swan arms and walking jumping jacks

2.5 mix of walking on a high incline (4-6), and running between 5.4-6.3 mph. For some reason I was really tied today. Not unmotivated tired, but the type of tired that comes when you feel like you’re carrying extra weight. I think my  body was really feeling that level 6 resistance from yesterday, and was sort of “out of it” today.

20 minutes on elliptical (levels 10, 12, 9, 17, 3)

13 minutes and 51 seconds on row machine, which burned 100 calories, which was my goal. My arms and back are going to be so sore tomorrow. Loves it!

Standing side leg raises

Donkey kicks

Arm raises

Shoulder raises

Back exercise with 20 pounds

Crunches on abench

Lunges

Leg lifts

Russian Twist with 8 pound medicine stationed on stability ball

Standing side twist

Crunches on stability ball

Hanging knee raises

Stretching.

Going to shower and make a protein shake soon. I’m sort of craving a blueberry one. Yum!!!!

Breakfast:

Large soy latte

1/2 can of 100% pineapple juice (50 calories)

 Lunch:

Remaining 1/2 can of pineapple juice

Dinner:

A salad made with 2.5- 3 cups of Mesclun greens with 1/2 an avocado (chopped up), green peas, 1/3 cup of rice, and dressing.

1 fudgecicle 

1.5 mile warm up walk with 2 pound weights to use while I jabbed. I know it’s not a lot, but my arms are going to hurt tomorrow.

2.5 mile run mixed with power walking on slight incline.

30 minutes on elliptical, levels 10,12,9,5 and 3. If on level 12 (which works gluts and quads) I hit up the resistance to 6-Ooh, baby!!

Standing side leg lifts

Lunges

Back extensions with 30 pounds

Donkey kicks

Lateral raises with 3 pounds

Arm raises with 3 pounds

Crunches on abench

Leg lifts on abench

Hanging knee raises

Ab exercise with 30 pounds

Oblique crunches on stability ball

Stretches

Completed two finals this week!! Fuck yeah!!! I really have to thank God, because I was struggling with the second, which was a take home. The exam was for literary theory and criticism; by far my most difficult class. I definitely was divinely inspired, because at a certain point the material just clicked, and I was able to pound out 11 pages.

As for my workout:

2 miles of power walking, with jabs and black swan arms

2 miles of endurance running. I did 2 rounds of sprinting, but mainly focused on just running.

30 minutes on elliptical

Crunches on abench

Leg lifts

Hanging knee raises

Stability ball crunches and oblique twist

Standing side leg raises

Lunges

Arm raises

Last night I got really sick. It came completley out of the blue. I was in the midst of eating a granny smith apple, when suddenly-pukesville.

Totally random act of regurgitation.

I ran for 1.5 miles today with little stopping!!! I think I stopped for a total of 1 minutes. Pretty freaking good. So…

1.5 power walk

2.5 endurance (ran pretty smooth for 1.5 miles. Walked and ran for the remaining mile.)

Crunches on abench

Leg lifts (straight legs mixed with the ones where you curl your butt upward).

Crunches on stability ball

Oblique twist on stability ball

Standing side twist with 6 pound medicine ball

Back extensions with 12 pound weights in each hand

Standing side leg lifts

Donkey kicks

Lunges

30 minutes on elliptical

Hanging knee raises

Crunches with 30 pound weights

Arm raises with 3 pound weights

In other news, today was the last official day of classes!! Hell to the fucking yeah! I celebrated by mixing pineapple with Malibu, over ice in a short glass. I’ve been nursing this baby for about an hour. I cleaned up my apartment, which was terribly necessary. I still have finals to deal with, but it’s still very lovely to have an evening to relax, have a drink, and watch Delores Clairborne.

I went to Walmart yesterday and purchased a bunch of beauty crap. Acne Stress Control Triple Action Toner by Neutrogena, Brown Sugar Vanilla body cream by Bodycology, and Coconut Almond body scrub by Bodycology. Bodycology is pretty much the designer impostor of Bath & Body Works, but brand really isn’t that bad. I don’t go to the mall often, so I basically relay on holidays, occasionally splurges, and my birthday to get name brand products. On the “off season” I depend on the stuff I find at Walmart, Rite Aid, and CVS.

Anywho, I’m a little tipsy. I’m off to take a shower. Oh, and if you’re interested in knowing more about me, my life, and the other things that interest me besides fitness, click here.

Update first!

I’ve been crazy busy since…I don’t even know. Between school and a family emergency I was MIA from my fitness routine for 2 days in a row. I got back into the grove today, taking some of my homework to read at the gym. I must have looked corny as hell reading Sister Carrie on the elliptical, but you know what? I don’t care!

Workout:

1 mile power walk with arm jabs

2.5 mile run (hit incline at some point for a break. Went up to an incline of 4.5 and walked at 4.5mph)

Crunches on abench

Leg lifts on abench

Back extensions with 10 pound weights in each hand

Side twist with 8 pound medicine ball

30 minutes on elliptical (20 minutes was on program 6, which works the glutes. 10 minutes were performed on manual.)

Rotary Twister with 25 pound weight (this was pretty easy, so I think it’s time to increase my reps or weight.)

Hanging knee raises

*Hours later I did some more toning work for my legs, butt, abs and arms.

Food:

Breakfast- Trail mix and soy latte

Lunch: No lunch today. I was in such a rush to get to class that I even forgot to grab myself some water. I guess I paid for it because later in the day I drank half a can of gingerale. I occasionally will have diet soda (yes, yes, liquid death), but I don’t remember the last time I had more than a sip of the regular stuff.

Dinner: Salad made with mixed greens, 1/4 cup of brown rice, chopped avocado, hummus, and topped with cooked broccoli and tofu with onions, (courtesy of my mom who still makes me food to take back home whenever I come to visit:)

Dessert: 2 Reeces pb cups

Power walked for .75 miles

Sprinted for 3.5 miles

Elliptical for 30 minutes

Leg raises (did the ones where you lift and raise your bum than slowly raise it down)

Crunches

Rotary Twister with 25 pounds

Hanging knee raises

Back exercise

Standing side leg lifts

Donkey kicks

arm lifts

Crunches on stability ball

Side crunches with lifted leg on stability ball

2.5 mile run

30 minutes on elliptical

crunches on abench

leg lifts on abench

1.5 mile power walk

arm raises

hanging knee raises

abdonminal exercise with 20-30 pound weight

Crunches on stability ball with 10 pounds

Food:

Greek Style Coconut yogurt (plain flavor) mixed with honey and peanut butter and raisins

Rice chips from rice works

Vegetable pot pie from Amy’s, and hummus

Chocolate chip cookie

More hummus, raisins