Week 10 is here

Time is flying by. I have just one week before I go on my beach vacation. And only 3 weeks until the end of the Summer challenge. My free day was much better this week. I stuck to my schedule of only eating junk during 3 2-hour blocks on Sunday. I ate a lot of junk but it could have been much worse. My ankle is black and blue, but it doesn't hurt to walk or run on it. It seems to only hurt when I touch it...so I guess I'll stop touching it :)

I had a great workout this morning. I followed it up with 40 minutes of ab work and 60 minutes of extra cardio. I think the 7 meals on weight lifting days is going to help a lot with energy and lifting. BF is going down according to my caliper reading. I might treat the end of this week like the end of a challenge and take some Xpel and eat nothing but chicken and broccoli on Friday and take Ab Challenge pics on Saturday. I think this Saturday is the end of the Ab challenge.

I've been doing a lot of food experimentations lately as I try to wean myself off the Myoplex shakes. I want to find a good protein muffin recipe or protein bakie recipe next.

Apple Pie Filling Dessert

Wendy (georgiagirl) posted a apple pie filling recipe on the Glamazons recipe post on Tracker. It looked and sounded really good. I plugged it into my nutrition software and it came out like this:

protein: 16 grams (23%)
carbs: 38 grams (60%)
fat: 9 grams (17%)

I wasn't happy with that so I modified it a little and increased to 2 servings and got:

1/4 cup sugar free pancake syrup
1 apple (I took the skin off but not sure if it matters)
1 cup Fat Free cottage cheese
1 Tbsp natural peanut butter
2 scoops vanilla protein powder (I used Body Fortress Vanilla from Walmart)
splenda to taste
cinnamon to taste

blend it all together and pour into 2 containers and freeze. Eat like ice cream...yummy.


Per serving stats:
Calories: 308
protein: 37 grams (48%)
carbs: 27 grams (35%)
fat: 6 grams (17%)

You could probably reduce protein powder to 1.5 scoops and get closer to 40/40/20 and reduce calories at the same time if needed.

Transformers - go see it.

What an awesome movie. My 16 year old and 9 year old both said it was the best movie they've seen this year and I loved it as well. It's an action/comedy/romance/GM commercial rolled into one. The special effects were great and it was non stop action. GM must have invested heavily in this flick because they really focused on all the new GM vehicles, including the 2009 Camaro concept car, which is pretty slick looking. It made me miss my 1977 camaro...my first love :) It definitely made me hit GMs website too.

Oh, now for the reason of my blog. I had an okay workout this morning, followed by 40 minutes of extra cardio and ab work. With my new power rack, I'm still experimenting with the weights I should be using since I only had access to a Smith machine at my gym, so free weights are slightly different. It's awesome working out at home though...I don't have to worry about forgetting anything and can shower and change in the comfort of my home :)

Frickin free day. I went overboard yesterday and feel bad today. I will have to start limiting my free day eating with 5 weeks left...not to mention a week long vacation coming up in August where eating 100% won't happen :)

I have a big deck

My deck is finally done. It took me 2 weekends to prime and paint all the railings. And my entire weeks vacation last week to replace the top boards. If a salesman tries to convince you to buy the invisible fasteners that you attach the boards to the joists from underneath the deck, run away...run away fast. I could of had the thing done in 2 days at the most, but the invisible fasteners took 5 times as long to do and was a pain sitting and crawling under the deck.


Here's the steps leading up to it...my best friend lays in wait for me :)


Here's the custom gate I made to keep the dog off the deck if we have friends over for a BBQ.


Here's the finished deck boards. They're the fake composite boards. Notice...no nails or screws showing.


Here's some shots from the back of the house



Here is what the fasteners look like from underneath. I had to do a billion rows of these fasteners.