My New Favourite Snacks

These are now my favourite snacks - Sensible Portions Garlic & Chives Pita Bites and Veggie Straws. The problem with them is that they are way too addictive, I can't stop eating them. Each Garden Veggie Straw is made from real potatoes, tomatoes and spinach so you can taste and enjoy their all natural flavor. One bag contains 130 calories, 7 grams of fat, 15 carbs and 1 gram of protein.

I am limited only by my vision of what is possible!

"According to the US News and World Report, a recent study has shown a link between obesity and the loss of neurological tissue. The brains of elderly patients who were obese had on average 8% less tissue than their trimmer counterparts. Overweight patients had brains lighter by about 4%. Just one more risk factor to add to the growing body (no pun intended) of reasons to try and stay trim."

For every excess pound piled on the body, the brain gets a little bit smaller.
That's the message from new research that found that elderly individuals who were obese or overweight had significantly less brain tissue than individuals of normal weight.

I found this interesting, your body is getting bigger but your brain is shrinking!

Week 1 Training

This week was my first training session with my trainer John and he made me do some difficult stuff. I would not have done all those reps if I was training alone. We did some training using the TRX, a lot of core and legs. The most difficult exercise was the suspended crunch(side pic). I have no idea how many I did because I was counting each side as 1 rep and John was counting both sides as 1 rep. I was expecting to have way more muscle soreness but I think taking glutamine helped.


Yesterday I had a rewarded (also called cheat meal to some) and I had some cheesecake. My husband was going to The Cheesecake Factory and he bought me some cheesecake. It’s my fault since he didn’t like cheesecake until I introduced him to cheesecake from there, and now he likes cheesecake.

I have everything I need in me to create everything I want!

It's been so cold this winter and as a result I've been going to the gym less frequently however I've been working out downstairs doing bodyweight exercises and cardio. Next week I have a training session and it's my first with this trainer so it should be interesting. I am extremely selective when choosing trainers since I've met a lot who were not very knowledgeable.
This week I am training 3 days with weights and 2 days of cardio. Two days of upper body and one day of lower body. I am still working on developing my shoulders and biceps. I was doing one arm dumbbell rows this week with 45 pounds and I remember when I only able to lift 25 pounds and I was so excited thinking that was such a heavy weight, I was pretty pleased with my progress.
I am also changing my diet a bit and I am eliminating diary, and processed foods. So far so good!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year
It’s that time of the year again. It’s time for people to create New Year’s Resolutions and hopefully keep them. I can already see an increase in gym membership at my gym. Let’s see how it will be in about 2 months.

Here are a few things on the horizon for my this year.

1. TRX Training: My husband got me some personal training sessions for Christmas so I am going to start TRX training with a trainer.
2. Biosignature Modulation (details to come)!
3. Competition: I am considering entering a competition this year which will be held on May 1st (more to come)!

Below are some interesting New Years Resolutions facts:

The top resolutions usually involve promises to exercise more (37%), increasing the time devoted to study or work (23%), losing weight, stop smoking or drinking (alcohol and/or coffee), and eat healthier.

People make more resolutions to start a new habit (84%) , than to break an old one (16%).

63% of people are still keeping their resolutions after the first two months.

So go ahead, make a few 2010 Resolutions or Goals as I prefer to call them. You have nothing to lose (except maybe a few pounds if you choose)!

TRX Suspension Training

I've been so busy that we were in December already and I had not created a December workout. I don't think I will follow any scheduled workout this month because I have so much going on. My husband gave me his training session with this trainer last week because he wasn't feeling well and he wanted me to try out this new workout that his trainer has him doing. This training is called TRX Suspension Training and I really like it. It really focuses on core training and it appears to be less stressful on your joints. It's basically your body working against gravity using suspension. It was voted the best Total-Body Tool by Men's Health magazine. I think I am going to start doing TRX Training once a week. This month I will not follow any scheduled workout, I will just do whatever I feel and starting January set a 2010 fitness goal. Come January the gyms will be filled with all those people who created New Years Resolutions and by March the gyms will be empty again. Sad but true!Here is what the TRX Training looks like:

Pull-up Chin-ups Anyone?

Attached is a video of me doing pull-ups and it seems like I amaze everyone whenever I do these? So I do know that most women can't do pull-ups/chin-ups and when I first tried to do a pull up I was only able to do 1 but I kept to it, and now I could do between 8 and 10 reps. This past week this lady saw me working out (mainly bodyweight exercise) and said to me "you are so strong and you don't look it, you don't look that muscular". I am not sure what to say about that! I was also told by someone who I work with that I don't look like I weight more than 50 pounds. This I hope, was a joke, and if it wasn't it was just a stupid thing to say. I don't think I will every get used to the ignorant comments I get about my size. It's often the assumption that I don't eat and that because I am small that I am not strong. My response to the person who said that I don't look like I weight 50 pounds nethertheless lift 50 pounds was that I can bench press at least 100 pounds, squat at least 150 pounds and dead lift at least 160 pounds.

I have said it and I will say it again: 1. Lifting more than 10 pounds does not make you big and muscular. 2. Assuming that I am small therefore I don't eat is as dumb as saying that overweight people are fat because they eat too much.
3. Eating several times a day does not make you fat (eating crappy, junky food makes you fat). Someone said to me this week that if they ate as much as me they would be huge. She also went on to say that she has to starve herself to say at her present weight. The said part is that she was overweight so obviously not eating was not the solution!
4. Eat breakfast. So many people skip breakfast, this is unbelievable to me. I normally wake up with a growling belly, so I know I have to eat breakfast. People often tell me that they can't eat that early. I most admit, a long, long time ago I didn't eat breakfast and would say the same thing but not anymore. I forced myself to eat and now I have to eat breakfast each and everyday!