Day 199 - Almost the big day!

Well I haven't decided how I'm going to celebrate tomorrow but unfortunately tonight I am running low on exciting news and energy again. Today was a pretty good day. Ate at weird times but still healthy foods. Need to cut down on the carbs still, I think. Some days that's harder than others. I'm still hungry all the time, I don't know what the deal is with that. Did the TT workout Total Body Ten and it was pretty cool. I wanted to change things up so it is a circuit of 10 bodyweight-only exercises with no rest in between, then 1 min between circuits, done 3 times. I was toasted afterwards so it was a nice cardio workout as well as resistance training. We'll see just how good the training was tomorrow when I find out if I'm sore or not. That's how I judge workouts these days. Anyway, rest of the day was pretty mediocre. Tomorrow I have a dentist appointment so I am not looking forward to that and may be very unhappy come tomorrow night but I'll continue to think positive until then. So that's all for now, I'll be back tomorrow. Happy shredding!

DAY 31 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	6a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	9a - egg salad sandwich	1
Meal #3?	12p - sunchips	1
Meal #4?	3p - tilapia, quinoa, salad	1
Meal #5?	6p - chicken, caesar salad	1
Meal #6?	9p - low fat ice cream	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	TT Total Body 10	1
Cardio or Rest?	rest	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	12 of 12
	Cumulative:	327 of 372
	Compliance:	87.9%

Day 198 - Not much new

Well I must have talked myself out last night because I feel like I have very little to say tonight. I am tired, though, so that is part of it. Had a good day compliance wise and thoroughly enjoyed my "free" meal. Maybe should have saved it for the weekend, but I needed it today for some reason. Anyway, I guess I will just say here are the pics and log for the day and wish you all happy shredding!

DAY 30 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	6a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	9a - pb toast, banana, egg	1
Meal #3?	12p - "free" meal	1
Meal #4?	3p - cheese & apple	1
Meal #5?	6p - taco salad	1
Meal #6?	9p - cottage cheese, oranges	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	Jujitsu	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	12 of 12
	Cumulative:	315 of 360
	Compliance:	87.5%

Shredder Council 2.0 Accountability (Day 1)

Hello everyone! Monday, April 28th marks the start of a very important day in shredder history. I am proud to announce that I am one of the 11 fantastic shredders who have been given the opportunity to become part of the next generation of shredding - Shredder Council 2.0. Every candidate was hand-selected by Adam Waters based on their commitment to daily accountability and shredding over at least 100 days. The details are explained in this post on Adam's blog. The next four weeks will determine who is in and who is out. We have this time to prove that we can be over 95% compliant to our daily posts, pictures, and support of other shredders to make it into the coveted Council Boardroom. For me, it will be the next step in this wonderful shredder journey so far. This post is to introduce all of the other candidates and for myself, to pledge to achieve 95% compliance not only in the next month, but continuing beyond to cement my place on the council. This is no easy feat - 95% compliance only allows for missing 1 or at the most 2 days in a given month. My track record in the past has not been this good, so I need to be totally on top of things to make this work. But for me, shredding is a way of life, so just to add that little extra step of posting daily is a discipline I can pick up. I have done it in the past, I have just let myself go at times. So it's now or never. I have full confidence in myself and all of the other candidates that we will be able to make it as a whole, since we are all very dedicated shredders to begin with and we all understand what a great honor it will be to be in Adam's Inner Circle. So here we are at the start gate: LETS DO THIS!

PS - For continuity's sake, I will be posting weekly accountability posts and pics separate from my current BBS mission. So I have a mini-shred within the larger BBS, but they both end at the same time, so after these next 4 weeks I will begin a new mission with the Shredder Council 2.0 Members! Please see my sidebar for all of the candidates and support them in their daily journey - again, this isn't easy, and we need all the help we can get!

Day 197 - My soapbox

Well today was better compliance wise, but I didn't get in my workout because I had to pick up my nephew from school unplanned (he got in trouble) so it messed up my schedule. But the meals were go so at least I am back on that part. I appreciate all the input about doing better on the weekends, it looks like it is a common issue amongst the shredders. I just fall into that trap way too easily and I need to plan for things a lot better. But I am getting a lot of things in my life in order these days so I feel confident that I will come around eventually. Even if it is not for this mission in particular, it is still a growing process for me so every day I learn something new to apply to future missions. Life is always happening. I want to get to bed early tonight but I did have something that has been on my mind since Friday that I wanted to get your guys opinion/comments on as well.
What happened was that I went out to lunch with one of my best friends and she was talking about all of the problems she has been having with her weight. She hurt her back some time ago and has been on disability from work for probably a year now and had steadily gained weight in that time period. Then she quit smoking and gained another 30 lbs on top of that so she was at about 220 at her highest. She is about my height so her ideal weight is probably somewhere around 140-150. Anyway, she has, in her words "tried everything" to lose this weight and is now under some kind of doctor's care. This "doctor" has her on some kind of pill to lose weight and told her that she doesn't need to change her eating habits at all, just take this pill and she will lose weight. He gave her a general eating plan to compare with how she is eating now and it was mostly comprised of carbs. He said something like "have 2.5 cups of cereal in the morning" - any kind of cereal. I don't know what kind of doctor he is but it sounded like such a bunch of crap to me - what kind of plan is this? She is excited because she lost 8 pounds in the first few days but I told her that would have happened no matter what she did because when you change anything you usually lose water weight, plus she started walking 3 miles a day so that alone could have done it. I was so shocked at what this guy was telling her to do and she wouldn't listen to a thing I tried to tell her about this group of shredders, the info we have available, the results we have shown, my own weight loss, etc etc. Wouldn't hear of it. Swore she had tried everything. Even Hydroxycut. Yikes! So my question I guess is, have any of you come across someone like this in your lives? Someone who you care a lot about and want to share this information we have learned with who won't take your advice? Who prefers to do some dangerous magic bullet type thing instead of trying for long term loss? She is getting married in a few months and is desperate, but I feel like there will always be something coming up that she will want to continue taking this pill for and she will never learn actual good eating habits. My heart breaks for her. At least she is over the hurdle of wanting to change, which is a big one for some, but she's doing these horrible things to her body that I feel will make it harder for her to lose real weight in the long run. She swears by this pill because a friend of hers took it and lost weight. But yet she won't listen to the way that I lost weight? Actually it kind of hurt my feelings but there was not talking to her about it. I dropped the subject eventually because it was just killing me. Anyway, thoughts? I just get so frustrated sometimes because it's either a scenario like this one or someone does ask me what I am doing/have done to lose this weight, I tell them, and they look at me like I have 2 heads or something. Like it's not obvious that this is the safest and most natural way to lose weight. Umm, eat the right foods, lift weights, cardio. This is not new, but people act like it's some crazy plan. I have no idea, it just gets so sad because I want to help people and they are just not listening. How can we get through to people that fads don't work? Or else they are just a different way of packaging the same things that you should have been doing all along. Take this P90X thing. Now, I'm not bashing it, I don't even know that much about it, but it seems to be the newest all the rage thing these days, I keep hearing about it. Don't know how long it's been around, but I have had my brother in law on a, I think, great program for the last month that he has said over and over that he likes the challenge, etc, and seems to be getting results from. But yet his friend bought P90X and all of a sudden he's jumping on the bandwagon, wanting to do that instead of what he has been doing. I mean, nothing was wrong, but it's just the shiny-newness I guess that intrigues him. I hope it does work for him but I bet it's much of the same that he has been doing already, just better marketed. I am guilty of that sometimes as well, or at least I used to be, until I realized that I was not giving programs sufficient time to even show results before I was on to the next thing, and I never really knew what worked and what didn't. Sure, you should change up to keep your body guessing, but to just overhaul everything without having good/bad results to back up your choices is just setting yourself up for failure. I don't know, maybe I'm just getting too into my soapbox tonight, but that seems to all be related in my book. Just stick with what works. The tried and true methods, because if there was a real magic bullet, the nation would not be as obese as it is now. It comes down to hard work. Some may see this as a bad thing, but I think I've said this before: nothing worth having is ever easy. You'd never appreciate it anyway. So be thankful for your hard-fought progress, how ever much it is, because you my fellow shredders have done it the right way. And you will reap the benefits from that for a long time to come. Congratulations on not falling prey to the hype - you know what it is really all about. And you are living it every day, as best as you can, and in your own unique way. Shred on!
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Update: Here are my latest measurements
Weight: 146 lbs (loss of 1# this week, loss of 3# in BBS)
Omron bf: 23.4% (loss of 1% this week, loss of 1.2% in BBS)
Bicep: 11" (loss of .25" this week & in BBS)
Chest: 34.5" (no change this week, loss of .5" in BBS)
Waist: 27.75" (loss of .25" this week & in BBS)
Stomach: 31" (no change)
Hips: 37" (no change)
Butt: 40.25" (loss of .25" this week & in BBS)
Thigh: 24.25" (loss of .25" this week & in BBS)
Total: loss of 1.25" this week, loss of 1.75" in BBS
Okay so I don't know what is going on - I have what I feel like is a horrible weekend compliance and I lose inches for the first time since the beginning of the BBS!? I guess it's just the cumulative work from the past 4 weeks catching up to me or something...I still need to do way better though!

DAY 29 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	6a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	10a - omlete	1
Meal #3?	12p - shrimp pasta	1
Meal #4?	3p - salad	1
Meal #5?	6p - chicken, broccoli	1
Meal #6?	9p - cottage cheese, strawberries	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	skipped	0
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	11 of 12
	Cumulative:	303 of 348
	Compliance:	87.1%

Day 196 - Still behind

Well today wasn't what I thought it would be - it was relaxing to some degree but not at all on plan and I didn't get done anything that I wanted to do today. So tomorrow will be better but I did at least want to get my logs and pics up before I fall further behind. I didn't do well over this weekend again on my compliance - anyone else out there have that problem? During the week is so much easier to stick to a plan. The days are much more predictable. But weekends are just all over the place. What are your strategies for dealing with this? Any suggestions would help, especially with this next 4 week sprint toward the end of the BBS and the beginning of SC 2.0. I have got to get my weekends under control or I will not be able to show enough progress, that's for sure. So let me know what you think. And I'll leave you with my log for today (numbers really tanking, I have got to get my groove back!) and pics, and I have put in the rest of the weekend's info into their respective days. See ya!

DAY 28 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	9a - pancakes	1
Meal #2?	1p - cheese & crackers	1
Meal #3?	3p - pineapple	1
Meal #4?	6p - shrimp pasta	1
Meal #5?	9p - dessert	0
Meal #6?	none	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	skipped	0
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	10 of 12
	Cumulative:	292 of 336
	Compliance:	86.9%

Day 195 - Busy busy

Well this weekend has been a lot of catching up around the house and haven't been in front of the computer so sorry for the lack up updates. I will get more up tomorrow afternoon since it will be the relaxation day but for now I'll just say things are going well and I'll have more going on to talk about later. Also I will put up my log for yesterday and today and my pics. So stay tuned, be back soon!

DAY 27 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	9a - shredded wheat	1
Meal #2?	12p - tuna on crackers	1
Meal #3?	2p - cottage cheese, pineapple	1
Meal #4?	6p - ribs	0
Meal #5?	9p - dessert	0
Meal #6?	none	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	skipped	0
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	9 of 12
	Cumulative:	282 of 324
	Compliance:	87.0%

Day 194 - Log only

DAY 26 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	9a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	11a - peanut butter toast	1
Meal #3?	2p - cobb salad	1
Meal #4?	5p - cottage cheese, pineapple	1
Meal #5?	8p - "free" meal	1
Meal #6?	10p - nuts	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	skipped	0
Cardio or Rest?	rest	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	0
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	10 of 12
	Cumulative:	273 of 312
	Compliance:	87.5%

Day 193 - Tired

Well I am pretty beat. Jujitsu was great tonight, one of my the other senseis was teaching so I got to partner up with one of the brown belts and really get in a good workout. I don't get to do that when I teach so it was a welcome change of pace. You'll probably be able to see the bruises in tomorrow's pics :) Today was a pretty good day - there was a birthday at the company where I do my accounting work so I had a half a brownie there but I'll go ahead and count that as another free snack because I think I still have one left. So it's all good! Was behind in my water until after Jujitsu and I filled back up with water and green tea so I made up the difference. Another 12/12!
Anyway, I am really tired now so I'll just get up my pics and log and say good night to all. Got a compliment tonight on my guns from one of my students. Yay me! TTYS.

DAY 25 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	9a - peanut butter toast	1
Meal #2?	12p - shrimp on salad	1
Meal #3?	2p - "free" snack	1
Meal #4?	4p - cottage cheese, pineapple	1
Meal #5?	6p - chicken caesar salad	1
Meal #6?	10p - nuts	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	Jujitsu!	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	12 of 12
	Cumulative:	263 of 300
	Compliance:	87.7%

Day 192 - The 10:30 pm craving

Things were going well all day, lots of things to do, feeling like I am getting a handle on stuff, did my workout, had a great motivational meeting with my MK National, etc, and then on my way home from that meeting, BAM - had to have a milkshake! I have no idea what my deal was, I had been craving stuff all day, and had a danish earlier in the day that I thought satisfied that. I was going to count that as my free snack and move on, but after that meeting, it's 10:30pm, and my stomach had actually been killing me for about 3 hrs, ever since dinner, and for some reason I was on a mad quest to get a milkshake. I kept telling myself it would settle my stomach - what kind of logic is that? Serious demon in me...anyway, I went to Baskin Robbins and got one, it actually helped a little but not that much especially since I felt bad about having it and it ruined my 12/12 for the day. Poop. But it was done and I had to move on, so here I am now. Have tons going on and this next week will be crazy I think so I may be kind of short on my posts, but I will be here at the least with pics and log. So here's that for Wednesday, see you all later!

DAY 24 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	6a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	9a - omelet & grapefruit	1
Meal #3?	12p - grilled chix salad	1
Meal #4?	3p - "free" snack	1
Meal #5?	6p - chicken & veggies	1
Meal #6?	10p - milkshake :(	0
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	TT Original B	1
Cardio or Rest?	rest	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	11 of 12
	Cumulative:	251 of 288
	Compliance:	87.2%

Day 191 - On a Roll!

Happy Earth Day! I did nothing to celebrate it with the exception of just telling all of you to be happy :) My husband works for a power plant, so the environmental consultant there gave everyone a solar-powered cell phone charger. Interesting...so if you're outside and need to charge up, it's got your back. Moving on...
Something happened to Boomshuffle, because my mix is gone and the site doesn't load the same anymore. Well, it was a beta, I guess something happened, but I am sad :(
Besides that, though, things are going well now. I am catching up on all the shredder blogs but still haven't been to see some of my favorite people. If I haven't been around lately, sorry for that, but I will be shortly, I had a backlog of over 160 posts to read through as well as some new entries into the ShredderSphere to read up on their entire 30+ day journeys so far. What a lot to take in! I am down to under 100 still left to read. So I am pretty beat and have to get to sleep or risk my accountability score, but just wanted to say thanks to all of you who have been keeping tabs on me and encouraging me during the tough times as well as the good. That's what makes this group of people so successful and special, because we all genuinely care about each other's progress. So thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I have been studying up on fighting my fears and getting myself organized lately with a few books I picked up over the weekend after my latest personal crisis, and they are really helping me. Hopefully in the next few days I will be able to share some of the insights I have received so far from reading them. I really enjoy self-help kind of books in general, but these two are really more about the actual activities and making progress instead of just talking about things. I'm all for the thinking side, to my own detriment usually, so sometimes you just have to get in there and do the work. So that is what I am trying to get through right now, all the work that I have let pile up lately during my undisciplined times. Thus the lack of interesting commentary, because life lately has been about grinding out some tasks that I have had sitting on my to-do list for too long. So sorry for the uninteresting posts, but that's what's going on with me. Another great score today, though, so I'm excited to be slowly inching up my percentage. What a hole I dug myself into. But climbing is good exercise, and I have a bunch of it to do to get myself back where I need to be. Here's the log and pics for today, and I'll be back tomorrow!

DAY 23 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	6a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	9a - eggs on wheat muffin	1
Meal #3?	12p - chili	1
Meal #4?	3p - cheese stick, mango	1
Meal #5?	6p - wheat pasta w/ meat sauce	1
Meal #6?	9p - almonds	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	Rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	30 min walk + Jujitsu	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	12 of 12
	Cumulative:	240 of 672
	Compliance:	87.0%

Day 190 - A good day

Well today I am back with a vengeance and a 12/12! Woo hoo! Unfortunately, according to the math, the best I can get to by the end of this BBS is 94.6% and that's with every day being a 12. What a tall order. But quite a good challenge to keep me on top of things. I will need to do my best every day and that's what my life needs to be about from now on anyway. I have been giving myself way too much leeway lately to get away with things and not being self-disciplined, so now is the time to push myself beyond my comfort zone and achieve things I have never achieved before. I am excited to be making this journey and to have all of you here to help me through. Here's my log for the day. Talk to you soon!

DAY 22 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	6a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	10a - mexican eggs	1
Meal #3?	1p - grilled chix salad	1
Meal #4?	4p - almonds	1
Meal #5?	6p - free meal	1
Meal #6?	9p - fruit bar	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	TT Original A	1
Cardio or Rest?	TT Advanced A	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	12 of 12
	Cumulative:	228 of 672
	Compliance:	86.4%

Day 190 - Recommitment

Wow 190 days - almost to 200! That's just crazy...never would have thought I could do it...just getting to 100 was big and each milestone feels better. Now I just need to make the results I want happen and I can be even prouder of 200. Anyway...
Okay everybody - so far today has been good. Granted, I've only been up for 2 hours but that's a win in my book the way thing have been going lately :) Already did my AVP and had my protein shake, updated the past entries with pics, and ready to do my TT workout. I need to work very hard at my workout because they are not like the workouts I have had in the past and I think I am not pushing myself enough since some of them are bodyweight exercises. Need to really concentrate on hitting the correct muscle groups. Also I was thinking I might add in one of the MS workouts during the week when I am not doing a TT workout because then at least I would be doing some heavy weights some of the time. Not sure, but for right now, I just need to get a workout of any kind in so the regular TT will do for today. Way too much else going on to worry about tweaking that right now.
Did my measurements this morning, and nothing changed, except my weight and bf%, which both went up. Not good, but it is to be expected since I didn't work out most of last week. Glad it's not worse. And the bf is not totally reliable because I did that after I already had my shake and I am supposed to do it before eating anything so that might be a hydration issue on that one. But here's the numbers:
Weight: 147 lbs (gain of 1# this week, loss of 2# in BBS)
Omron bf: 24.4% (gain of 1% this week, loss of 0.2% in BBS)
Bicep: 11.25" (no change)
Chest: 34.5" (no change, loss of .5" in BBS)
Waist: 28" (no change)
Stomach: 31" (no change)
Hips: 37" (no change)
Butt: 40.5" (no change)
Thigh: 24.5" (no change)
Still have a long way to go in the next 5 weeks!
I'll be back tonight with my log, gotta get to my workout, but here are today's pics:

Day 189 - Issues Issues

Well sorry I have been so out of commission here lately, things have been crazy busy and I'm still trying to work it all out. And to top it all off, right now my memory card isn't working so I can't even post the pics I have taken the last few days. I will eventually put them up on the days I missed, but for now for the sake of efficiency and my sanity I am going to condense the last few missed posts into this one. I'll just say that a lot has been going on personally and professionally lately and the issues aren't really resolved yet so I may be pretty brief in my upcoming posts. I am certainly still committed to the NY4BBS, though, even though it may not look like it to the casual observer. The last few days have also wreaked havoc on my accountability log, not so much that I was not doing well (although that was the case sometimes), but that right now I am not going to put myself through trying to remember what I ate for every meal the last 5 days. So I'm just going to make things easy and say that I know that I was not totally compliant in either eating or workouts with all of this other "life" going on, so I'm going to give myself an 11 for the last day I counted (day 185-Wed) and a 9 for each day the rest of the week and start fresh with tomorrow. Today I made an all fruit day because I just felt like I needed to reset everything, so meals for today were of course very weird. So that puts my score currently at 216/252 or 85.7%. Not good. But I can make it back.
My workouts have been inconsistent lately too, so first thing tomorrow I will be getting that routine back as well. It was just that so many things that I don't usually deal with are happening that my daily routine went right out the window. But I won't despair, I still have time to make this shred awesome so pray for me and I'll be back soon with updates. Thanks to all who have checked in on me and commented - it means a lot to have you all seeing what I am (and am not!) doing. Talk to you soon. Promise :)
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Okay, well I thought that I had taken more pics this last week...man I was really off in stress-land! Anyway, here's today's pics and I am good after this!

Day 186 - Pics Only

No difference I can see...

Day 185 - Back on track

Okay, well, it's only 10:30am so I don't have much going on yet, but wanted to get everything set up for today and be back on a good schedule. Haven't done my workout yet today, so that's not good because usually if I don't do it in the morning, I don't get it in at all, but I had to sleep in this morning, I was dead tired after yesterday, and I had a lot to take care of this morning, and wanted to get this blog up to date, so here it is now back in real time and I'll be back later with an update. I will plan on getting my workout in later tonight. Can't believe it's already been over two weeks into the BBS, I have got to really get rippin here! Here's the plan for today:

DAY 17 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	8a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	10:30a - omelet	0 or 1
Meal #3?	1p - chicken, salad	0 or 1
Meal #4?	3p - cottage cheese, carrots	0 or 1
Meal #5?	6p - chix & veggies	0 or 1
Meal #6?	9p - protein bar	0 or 1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	0 or 1
Weights or Rest?	TT Original A	0 or 1
Cardio or Rest?	TT Original Interval A	0 or 1
Sleep?	8 hrs	0 or 1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	0 or 1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	0 or 1
	Daily Score:	0 of 12
	Cumulative:	0 of 672
	Compliance:	%

REWIND: Day 184 - AAAAH TAXES

Okay well I spend pretty much all day doing my taxes, nothing like waiting until the last minute, huh? Never again, that was ridiculous. I was up until 11:30 pm getting them sent in and the website was soooooo slow because everyone else and their brother were trying to do the same thing. So yes, I need to be more organized. Something I am working on. I didn't even go to Jujitsu tonight, had to call another sensei to take over the class, because I just couldn't fit it in and get this done too. Sucked because that was my workout for today. Oh, well, it's over now, and I am so glad. I have so much to catch up on now, I was starting to get on a roll with doing some more Mary Kay business and then had to stop to do the taxes so now that that is over with, I can concentrate on it again. Along with the other 30 things I am trying to do. But need to focus for sure more on this shred - kind of have been half-hearted about it, especially today because I was so stressed out. Letting the free meals get a little too free...So now I will be able to get back to some serious shredding with all that behind me. Shoo what a relief! So here's the log (gotta get back into the 90s!) and pics for Tuesday:

DAY 16 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	6a - apple oatmeal	1
Meal #2?	9a - skipped	0
Meal #3?	12p - "free" meal (Taco Bell!)	1
Meal #4?	3p - cheese	1
Meal #5?	6p - soup	1
Meal #6?	9p - fruit bar	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	0
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	skipped	0
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	9 of 12
	Cumulative:	169 of 672
	Compliance:	88.0%

REWIND: Day 183 - Work in progress

So here's the updated entry for Monday (added log and pics):

Hey all I'm still here just very very busy with my taxes right now. Feeling better, thanks to all for the well wishes, I don't know I think I'm just stressed out. Talk to you soon! :)

DAY 15 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	6a - protein shake	1
Meal #2?	9a - omelet	1
Meal #3?	12p - chicken	1
Meal #4?	3p - nuts	1
Meal #5?	6p - chicken, green beans	1
Meal #6?	9p - fruit	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	0
Weights or Rest?	TT Original B	1
Cardio or Rest?	Rest	1
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	11 of 12
	Cumulative:	160 of 672
	Compliance:	88.9%

REWIND: Day 182 - New tattoo!

Hey, here I am catching up on these past few crazy days. This was Sunday, family still visiting so food timing and type not the best but I did as well as possible. We did a lot of activities today, though, so that was good because I got in a lot of exercise. We went frisbee golfing and Jedi went, too, so he got exercise as well! By the end of the day we were beat but it was nice to be able to spend time with everyone.
So here's my close up pics of my new tattoo! Thanks to all who commented on it, yes it's real and it says "nana korobi ya oki"! NO, I didn't get the name of my blog tattooed on me, it has been kind of my motto for quite some time and I was planning on the tattoo for a long time, but my husband wasn't that excited about it. So I finally talked him into it, but in the mean time, I had changed my blog name to it as well so it kind of looks like it was the other way around. Anyway, for those of you who may not have caught it when I first talked about this saying, it means "fall down seven, get up eight" as an expression of perseverance beyond all obstacles. That is how I plan to live my life - no matter how many times I stumble along my path, I will always keep going. The dragonfly represents change, since they go through a metamorphosis in their life cycle, and also wisdom and luck. So I got it to remind me that life always changes and you have to be okay with what comes along, and hopefully weather it with a little wisdom and luck. Finally, there are sakura (cherry blossoms) around the outside, and that represents the transience of life (since they only bloom for a short time) and serves as a reminder that I don't get much time here on Earth, so I should make the most of it while I am here. The tattoo artist added the one petal falling to be artistic, but it ended up fitting right into the symbolism of the whole thing because the flower already has a petal falling, so it adds to the urgency of it all. So did you get all that? I like my tattoos to have meaning, I wouldn't get one if it was not important to me, so that's why I got this one. It was my last. It stands to remind me of all those things each time I think about it or see it, and it is a commitment to follow through on all of those promises for my life. Here are some pictures of me getting it done, and how it looks now (still healing!):




And here's my log and daily pics for today:

DAY 14 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	slept in! no meal	1
Meal #2?	10a - omelet	1
Meal #3?	12p - grapes, cheese	1
Meal #4?	3p - lean hamburger	1
Meal #5?	6p - soup, sandwich	1
Meal #6?	9p - "free" snack	1
Water?	96 oz - 16 oz/meal	1
Weights or Rest?	Rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	various activities	1
Sleep?	8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	0
	Daily Score:	11 of 12
	Cumulative:	149 of 672
	Compliance:	88.7%

Day 181 - Hmmm what's different?

Well the family is still visiting, here watching the NASCAR race right now, so I don't have much time, but here's the log and pics for today. Didn't feel well today, and didn't exercise. Will make up for it tomorrow (I hope).

DAY 13 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	7a - hot tea, cheese	1
Meal #2?	9a - protein waffle, grapes	1
Meal #3?	2p - tortellini	1
Meal #4?	4p - apple	1
Meal #5?	6p - pecans	1
Meal #6?	9p - chicken caesar salad	1
Water?	not enough	0
Weights or Rest?	rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	skipped	0
Sleep?	7-8 hrs	1
Accountability?	pics, blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	10 of 12
	Cumulative:	138 of 672
	Compliance:	88.5%

So, notice anything different in the pics?

Day 180 - Log only

Posted this late - this is from Friday...
Today was a very busy day with family, friends, and fun, so here's my log for the day and I'll be back with the Saturday surprise! As you can see, the day went downhill food-wise after lunch. We got together with some family that we haven't seen in a while and there was nothing but junk food. So I chose to eat it. So I am paying for it in accountability but I will make up for it in exercise tomorrow - it's supposed to be a big sports day with all of them! We'll see...

DAY 12 OF 56	NOTES:	POINTS:
Meal #1?	8a - peanut butter, banana	1
Meal #2?	11a - grapes, cottage cheese	1
Meal #3?	3p - "free" meal	1
Meal #4?	6p - none	1
Meal #5?	8p - hot dog	0
Meal #6?	10p - hamburger cheese dip	0
Water?	not enough	0
Weights or Rest?	Rest	1
Cardio or Rest?	Rest	1
Sleep?	8 hrs	1
Accountability?	blog, chart	1
Visualization?	1 hr AVP	1
	Daily Score:	9 of 12
	Cumulative:	128 of 672
	Compliance:	88.8%

Damn it the 90s didn't last long did they? Well, I'll get back there, it's a journey not a sprint so I do the best with what each day brings and I refuse to make myself feel guilty about it. I knew what I was doing when I was doing it, and I can always do better, so no use worrying about the past. Here's to a new day...