Grocery Shopping!

I'm 2 weeks out from a photo shoot and thought i would share what i bought for groceries this week! (i have to buy for my husband as well so not everything is for my consumption)

1 pacakage of chicken breast

3 bags of frozen chicken breast

4 gala apples

4 jazz apples (new kind i found!)

1 small seedless watermelon (for watermelon steak salad)

dole spring salad mix in a bag

organic oatmeal

2 greek yogurts (blueberry)

bulk walnuts

2 rolls of ground turkey (99% fat free, jenny'o)

deli turkey meat

surgar free popsicles

honey bbq chicken strips (tony's)

4 white potatoes (the kind wrapped up to throw in microwave)

4 cans of diced tomatoes

2 cans of tomato paste

3 Rachels cottage cheese, 50z container(all different flavors, trying them out hopefully will be something to share with clients if GOOD!)

feta cheeze (for watermelon steak salad)

smuckers sugar free jam (apricot, love it on oatmeal)

peperoncini's

coffee (french vanilla)

cyrstal light

dried berries and apples

strawberries

plums

mushrooms

eggs

sliced cheeze, reduced fat (for tony's turkey sandwiches)

sugar free chocolate pudding (tony's)

red onion

lemon juice

there you have it!!

client lunches?

Ok folks i need some help with this one!! i have been hearing the excuse "i can't eat healthy because i have client lunches" can someone please explain this to me?? i will plead my ignorance here, is a client lunch when you go to lunch and talk business? is it rude or offensive when you eat with a client to choose healthy food? do you go to places that don't serve chicken or fish? i would think a business client would envy the fact you make healthy, smart choices and maybe you take care of business the way you take care of yourself. Then i hear "well when you eat out at client lunches everyday (really?, everyday you have client lunches?) its boring to eat chicken salad. Ok first who said you have chicken salad everyday, second I think being unhappy with the way you look and feel is boring AND depressing. I believe, and these are my beliefs so you don't have to agree, eating for excitement needs to be chosen wisely, weddings, birthdays, baby showers, date night with spouse, you get it right? If you have client lunches "EVERYDAY" and you can't eat healthy 90% of the time then boy oh boy ....

motivation

 Turn off the TV!! this has to be the biggest motivation killer!

  i get a lot of motivation from the people in my life, i like to lead by example. having the ability to inspire others is a gift and i feel blessed to have it. thats a big motivation!

  i love to read magazines, any kind of fitness magazine. (Oxygen being my favorite) i always turn to the work out sections looking for new exercises or old ones i haven't used in a while.   i go through phases of jumping on the scale EVERYDAY, yup  i do it, i know i teach people not to do just that,(weigh yourself everyday) but for me... it keeps me in check.

   i try different work out supplements, i never stop taking my "fitness stack" from Cyto-charge, (www.cytocharge.com) but i do like to shake things up every once and a while by trying different pre work out drinks, "Super Pump" being one of my favorites...need to get some "Smash" from axis labs. i do get a kick out of "trying to feel the pump?" LOL!

  i am also a people watcher, this works in two ways maybe even three... first, watching people at the gym is always more exciting then whats on TV. second, watching over weight people is such a big motivator to "keep the body moving" third, spotting the "in shape" people for sure makes me push a little harder!

  i track my calories burn for awhile then i might switch to tracking my heart rate then i might switch to tracking my caloric intake.

there are so many ways to stay on top of what you are doing to the body it never gets boring!

but really people, try turning off the TV!!  (no tv until the sun goes down) and see how much more active your day becomes. That is the bottom line, we must stay active. Im not saying you have to go to the gym more but just keep moving!

I'm not a super hero

Sometimes i feel like getting into competing in fitness and figure has been one of the worst things i have ever done. I wonder when the day will come when its ok (with me) to live , look and eat like everyone else. I feel like i have caused people to have  huge expectations of me, they always want to see how i look and what i eat. I, myself, am annoyingly aware of how i look and what i eat and yes i do feel guilty when i don't make the best choices or put on a few pounds, but to have people say "i can't wait to see what YOU order" when out to eat is a stab in my heart. I love that i can inspire others to be healthier but, the people pleaser in me is scared that i will disappoint the ones i inspire if i don't look and eat a certain way.  When asked what do you EAT?!, how shocked they are when i tell them i'm no different then anyone else. I, probably more then most try to live a balanced life. Competing is so off  to one end that when i'm not getting ready to get on stage i try to live every day as balanced as possible and enjoy  the family bar-b-q's , birthdays, nights out with friends, baseball games.... i still workout nearly everyday but really hate myself on the days i don't feel like getting out of bed! Some might look at this like "thats good you need to stay active and fit and healthy. i wish i could make myself  go workout" but to live with the feeling of disappointing the people around you and yourself can't be good right? I live to inspire others and teach them balance in life but wonder if in the end this will be what kills my spirit...the feeling other letting  the ones i want to inspire down because i'm not a super hero. You may laugh at that last comment but its true, someone once said to me..." i forget you are human"

June 10 120.5

5:00am 2 scoops of cyto-whey, 1/2 scoop of muscle milk

30mins of step mill

8:30 protein pancake

2:45pm  5oz of ground turkey,3/4 cup of rice (white) 1/2 cup of chopped aspargus

5:30 peach

7:30 1 corona,  few tortilla chips and salsa, steak salad

was out to dinner with long time friends!

few jelly beans on the ride home. 

june 9 123lbs

6:00am 2 scoops of cyto-whey, 1/2 scoop of muscle milk

11:00am protein pancake

2:45pm 5oz of ground turkey w/diced tomato, 5 aspargus stalks, 3/4 cup of rice (white)

3:45pm 30mins on step mill

4:30pm leg workout

5:30pm apple

7:45 5oz grilled chicken breast,sliced cucumbers and radishes 

sugarfree creamsicle (20 cals.)

june 8th 122.5lbs

6:00 2 scoops of cyto-whey, 1/2 scoop of muscle milk.

9:00 protein pancake

11:30 spin class

12:30 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and 5oz sweet potato 

2:45 (i was hungry!) 5oz of ground turkey cooked with a can of diced tomatoes, 3/4 cup of rice (white), 5 stalks of asparagus 

6pm apple

7:30 3 hard boiled eggs (yolks too!) 1/2 cup of broccoli

sugar free creamsicle  (20 cals)