June 30, 2009 Day 9

People are really starting to notice that I am losing weight! They want to know what my secret is . . . . . http://www.mylondonpersonaltrainer.com/

Well I am back from the field. I was away Sunday, Monday and today Tuesday, work outs were challenging but I did a ton of walking in steep terrain. I came home yesterday briefly and stepped on the scale 176 down from 176.4. so I was pretty pleased with myself. Today we surveyed Red Rock Coulee near Medicine Hat. My pictures didn't turn out that well so here is one from http://gateway.cd.gov.ab.ca/siteimages.aspx?id=422 This place is very Cool!!

Food Today Carb day

cantalope

1/2 cup yogurt

apple

1 cup ckick peas with 1 tomato cut up with olive oil and lemon1 cup

buffalo stew no carbs just celery, onions, peppers and broth and some tomato sauce

I was really full! It was really hot and we surveyed all day, so drank more than 3 L of water.

June 29 Day 9

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1/2 cup ground buffalo with celery and onion
apple
cantalope
grapefruit
beef broth
grapes (not to many)
buffalo stew with no potatos

POWER Circuit - Pyramid - Meltdown

Now for bed! Up at 5 am!!

June 28, 2009 Day 7, 8, 9

www.mylondonpersonaltrainer.com Well I was in the field all day today, and will be in the field Monday Day 8 and Tuesday Day 9. I'll try to blog for these days, but internet access is limited. Just to let you know everything is going well. Will record my measurements for Thursday and my new weight. Today I weigh 176.4 down form 176.8.

Diet very ED friendly can't wait to have carbs on tuesday.
Exercise going well, but feel sore.

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I am so happy today to step on the scale and see a loss. How many times have I dreaded to step on the scale? Countless. On DAX's program, I actually look forward to getting on the scale in the morning to monitor my results AND what results! Not only do I see them in myself but others too. Check out their blogs for some truly inspirational stories. WE are all different but we all have the same weight loss goal and with the help of DAX we will achieve our desired weight.

The first couple of days were tough . . . I was tired, sore and overwhelmed. The first thing I did was clean out my fridge and establish a workout space. Then I cleaned up the entire house. Clutter tends to cover my tables, desk and other areas of the house, so I de-cluttered, so I would have a nice stress free space to relax in. Once I got started I found my groove and got into a routine. I am hardly hungry, but my face broke out a bit and was quite red. I guess that is from detoxing during the first few days. It is fine now. I am in bed by 10:30 and sleep very well. Now that the first week is over there is no stopping me now. DAX introduced new exercises that I am eager to try out and a new diet formula. I'll spend tomorrow buying food for the week and acquaint my self with the new exercises. I have not weighed under 180 for a very long time! It's hard work but it is working!! I am very grateful to be DAX's guinea pig! Trainhard everyone!

DAY 1/ DAY 3/ DAY 4 /DAY 5/DAY 6/Total inches lost

Chest 41 / 40.5 / 40.5 / 40.25/ 40/ -1
Waist 36 / 35 / 35 / 35/ 35 / 34.5/ -1.5
Hips 44 / 43.5 / 43.5 / 43.25/ 43/ -1
Thighs 26 / 26 / 25.5 / 25.5/ 25.5/ -0.5
Calves 15 / 15 / 14.75 / 14.75/ 14.5/ -0.5
Arm 12 / 11.5 / 11.5 / 11.5 / 11.5/-0.5

Weight 179 / 178.6 / 178.6 /178.2/ 176.8/ -2.2lbs (I couldn't believe the scale this morning!!)

DAY 1/DAY 2/DAY 3/DAY 4/ DAy 6
MD1

51/48/56/56/52
56/51/58/53/40

MD2

59/59/58/60/63
55/59/48/49/43

MD3

55/53/51/46/45
32/22/45/43/43

MD4

32/32/46/39/36
54/55/51/54/39

ICP

June 22 2:46

June 23 2:14

June 24 2:07

June 25 2:18

June 27 2:18

PC
June 22 20 reps each

June 23 25 reps each

June 24 30 reps each

June 25 35 reps each

June 26 40 reps each

June 27 45 reps each

Morning

Mint and AVEDA tea throughout the day + 3 L of H2O

9:am 1 cup ground ultra lean buffalo with a bit of celery and red pepper light sauteed

12:00 pm juiced 1 cucumber, celery stalks

3:00pm 2 hard boiled eggs, watermelon, cantalope, grapefruit

7:00 Buffalo roast, advocado and salad

June 26, 2009 Day 5 Slow but sure

The inches are coming off check out http://www.mylondonpersonaltrainer.com/ to find out how!

DAY 1/ DAY 3/ DAY 4 /DAY 5/Total lost inches
Chest 41 / 40.5 / 40.5 / 40.25/ -1.25
Waist 36 / 35 / 35 / 35/ 35 /-1
Hips 44 / 43.5 / 43.5 / 43.25/ -1.75
Thighs 26 / 26 / 25.5 / 25.5/ -0.5
Calves 15 / 15 / 14.75 / 14.75/ -0.25
Arm 12 / 11.5 / 11.5 / 11.5 /-0.5
Weight 179 / 178.6 / 178.6 /178.2/ -0.8 lbs

Since June 17 184 lost -6.8 lbs
6am -7am Boot camp
Mint tea
Morning
1/2 cup yogurt
1 apple
1 tomato
1 egg boiled
2 rice cakes

I have to go out in the field this morning. So will post more later!

I just got back from the field. I got up this morning did my 6am-7am boot camp which is pretty hard core. Lots of squats, walking lunges, pushups, jumping jacks, burpees etc. I got home and had my breakfast and then I got a call and had to be in the field immediately. I had to find the boundaries of a previously recorded site that was recently zoned for a subdivision which is about 1.5 hours away from where I live. I brought for Lunch celery sticks, a cumber, an apple and a grapefruit. Plus a thermos full of mint tea. All this to say I didn't do workouts 1 and 2. I did however, shovel test all day which is very physical. Not to mention all the walking I did carrying my gear that weighs about 25 lbs. I just got home. 7:48 pm and my husband is trying to get some dinner together. Organic ground buffalo pattie with peas and potato. Then I will do Workout 3 then to bed. Maybe a movie if I can stay up! I am as you say in London knackered! Below is a picture of me doing a shovel test today, I did about 10 of them! Train hard everyone! I promise to make up the missed workouts tomorrow.

June 25, 2009 DAY 4 Is that a collar bone?

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DAY 1/ DAY 3/ DAY 4 /Total lost inches (lost day 2)
Chest 41 / 40.5 / 40.5 / -.5
Waist 36 / 35 / 35 / -1
Hips 44 / 43.5 / 43.5 / -.5
Thighs 26 / 26 / 25.5 / -.5
Calves 15 / 15 / 14.75 / -.25
Arm 12 / 11.5 / 11.5 / -.5
Weight 179 / 178.6 / 178.6 / -.4 lbs
Boot camp 6am-7am
DAY 1/DAY 2/DAY 3/DAY 4
MD1
51/48/56/56
56/51/58/53
MD2
59/59/58/60
55/59/48/49
MD3
55/53/51/46
32/22/45/43
MD4
32/32/46/39
54/55/51/54
ICP
June 22 2:46
June 23 2:14
June 24 2:07
June 25 2:18
PC
June 22 20 reps each
June 23 25 reps each
June 24 30 reps each
June 25 35 reps each
MEALS
Mint tea
half an apple
grapefruit
1 cup yogurt
1 cup chicks pea
1 tomato
2 rice cakes
Don't know what dinner will be, but FOR SURE it will be ED friendly!!

June 24, 2009 Day 3 Tired and Sore

THIS IS MY FRIDGE AFTER IT WAS CLEANED OUT ON DAY ONE! DON'T WORRY NOT EATING THE STUFF ON
BANNED LIST!
http://www.mylondonpersonaltrainer.com tired and sore, but that's the price you have to pay to lose 30 lbs in 30 days. I have worked out more in 3 days then I normally do in two weeks! The workouts are hard, but short. You sure do work up a sweat. The hard work is paying off and I think the key is consistency. I have already seen unbelievable results in myself and others:

Weight 178.6 down from 179
Chest 40.5 down 1/2 inch
Waist 35 down 1 inch
Hips 43.5 down .5 inch
Thigh 26 same
Calf 15 same
Arm 11.5 down .5 inch

Results are only after 3 days! Other participants have also seen dramatic results in only in three days. This real! Check out their blogs too.

I was really tired and sore this morning so I skipped boot camp. I finished workout one and two and tonight before bed will complete workout three. I have added ten reps to each exercise so far.

Morning
Mint tea
Juiced some celery before workout
1/4 watermelon
8 celery stalks

Afternoon
Mint tea
Awesome salad with lettuce, apple, celery, red onion, a boiled egg crumbled on top, tomato with a dribble of olive oil and lemon for flavour.
2 organic rice cakes spread with homemade hummus


Evening
Aveda soothing tea
potato salad (boiled potato, celery, onion, egg spices and a bit of olive oil mixed together)
1 lean beef sauage
green salad
1 rice cake
olives
humus

3 L of water

TRAINHARDER!! WE CAN DO THIS! YA TEAM!

June 23, 2009 Day Two

Good Morning,
Boot Camp this morning 6am -7am and here is my workout one for today.
Yesterday results vs. today

MD1
PU 51, 48 (went down deeper today)
SQ 56, 51 (we did a ton of squats at bootcamp so feeling the burn)

MD2
SP 59, 59
BL 55, 59

MD3
SM 55, 53
STL 32, 22(I did them wrong yesterday)

MD4
SQ 54, 55
CP 32, 32

1 bannana before boot camp 5:30 am

Breakfast 7:45 am
1 avocado
1 tomato
1 egg
2 organic rice cakes

Snack 10:00 am
Apple

Lunch 1:45 pm
Chicken steamed 3oz on top of a organic rice cake
1/2 cup yogurt

Workout Two 6:15 pm
PU, SQ, SM, RT, SP 2:14

Dinner
Salad with lots of fresh veggies with a dribble of olive oil mixed with lemon

Water 3 litres or more

Today was crazy. I had to go back up to the "vision quest" site which is ca. a two km hike up the Seven Sisters Mountian. Boy was I tired when I got home. Also we had the antique show this weekend so I had to help unload the trailer. I just finished my workout two and had dinner. Still have workout three to go. I am very sore, but I pushed through workout two, but didn't do as well as yesterday. Has it only been two days? LOL, I am looking forward to workout three as I love stretching and yoga, so will do it just before bed. I will have no problem getting to bed early tonight. Good Night.

June 22, 2009 DAY ONE DAX's 30 in 30

Here are my measurements in inches

Chest 41

Waist 36

Hips 44

Thighs 26

Calves 15

Arm 12 (not flexed)

Weight in lbs 179.0 on the button, which is awesome because a week ago I was at 184.

This mornings workout 6am 7am boot camp then home to do Dax's workout 16 min of circuits was pretty warmed up so got right into it.

Meltdown uno: Pushups 51 Squats 56

MD2: Shoulder Press 59 Step Back Lunge 45

MD3: Spiderman 55 STL 32 (not sure I did this right, but saw video and will make adjustments

MD4: Curp and press 32 Squat 54

I am planning to do all my workouts in the moring. will post more later. Here are my before photos.

Just finished Workout Two Individual Circuit Program

Pushup 43

Squats 38 with 10 pound dumbell

Spiderman 39 (all together not each side)

Russian Twist (23 counting right 1 left 2)

Shoulder Press with 5lb weight 43

Circuit done in 2:46

June 20 and 21 2009 Happy Solstice Everyone

Well went for a 5km run this morning, when I say run it is more like a light jog. Then came home and got ready for the Antique show here in town. We had two booths and had to get them set up. It was a crazy weekend. Saturday was spent all day at the Antique show then Sat night it was a friend's birthday party, but had to duck out early. I had to leave for a special site visit at 11:30 pm . There is a line of cairns or rock piles on this hill near the Sundial Butte Medicine Wheel that my boss believes is a solstice line of some sort. So got my gear together to go camp out at the site and watch the sun rise. I brought some people I work with from the TLU office on the Blood Reserve. So we drove out (about 1 hour drive) and tried to located the site. It was pitch black and there was cloud cover so my GPS wasn't working too great. Anyways we located the site around 2:30 am and set up camp. We were exhausted so went to sleep. I got up to flag the cairns and make tea for everyone one. We all gathered at 5:20 am to witness the sun rising over our line, but it was rainy and cloudy so we couldn't see it! UGH! Anyways we thought we would go visit the Medicine Wheel, which is about 3 km away (you have to picture this is in the middle of nowhere in a sea of prairie, so not many people around). We arrived and there was a group from Red Crow College doing a ceremony at the MW. They had tea and coffe and we knew alot of the people so it turned out to be an awesome experience. I was really tired though. Got home at 8 am (June 21) then crashed for 3 hours, then went to the antique show and then was in bed by 8 pm. The picture is of my coworkers walking around the Wheel. You can see the central cairn.

June 19, 2009 I'm Picked!!

WOW Dax picked me to be a part of his program 30lbs in 30 days. I am so excited! I am soo excited. Actually ever since he mentioned this "contest" I have been eating super clean. NO sugar, alcohol, wheat, and caffeine. I started out at 184 and stepped on the scale this morning and weighed in at 178.6. WOW. I haven't been under 180 for the longest time. Now I am so pumped to get started on DAX's program.

I started this morning off with a 5-6km run follow by a 2km hike up a mountain which was work related. That's one of the reasons why I have to stay in shape. My work demands a lot of physical exercise from shoveling testing to hiking up very steep terrain. We checked out a vision quest site that might be distrubed due to the logging activity in the area.

Basically I have been eating a protein shake in the morning followed by fruit. Lunch is a big salad with some sort of protein. A snack is usually almonds and an apple. Dinner stir fry with rice or buffalo with salad. I am not sure what the next step is of DAX's program, but I am sure my entries will be more detailed. WE START MONDAY!!!!!!!! Thanks DAX Tainhard!

June 18, 2009

Just came back from a 2 hour rehearsal for a belly dance gig we are doing for Canada Day. Feeling pretty good about it. I weighed in this morning 181. So I actually lost 3 pounds this week. I plan to weigh myself every Thursday morning. Tomorrow I will take official measurements and before photos. The garden is looking good. It is so exciting to see something grow from a tiny tiny tiny seed. This weekend is going to be busy-- starting tomorrow morning. I am meeting "H" for a run. She is also training for the same half marathon that I am. She is an awesome lady and is very motivating. Plan to hit the hay pretty early tonight and gear up for the weekend. We have two tables at the antique show and it starts tomorrow night. It will be a long day. Just planning to run this weekend as we start boot camp on Monday early. Well goodnight.

June 17, 2009

Just came back from yoga. Love it! Next session starts on July 15, so will be practicing on my own for awhile. That's okay . . . translates into great "me time" where I can mentally reaffirm my goals and reflect on myself. Boot camp starts again on the 22nd so gearing up for that. Yesterday went well, I had a protein shake for breakfast, small stir fry for lunch (no rice), salad and fish with a bit a buffalo for dinner and wine of course, but no more wine. I won't be drinking for the next 30 days. Also removing from my diet, starting tomorrow, because I already ate a peanut butter and banana sandwich for breakfast, coffee, wheat, sugar and cheese. I like yogurt and cottage cheese and I hoping that is allowed on Dax's diet, but I am thinking probably not, so that is also going to have to go :) I have also started a garden, which I am really excited about. I recently bought a small house in which I intend to resell. I am currently living in a loft and have no real yard. I have never really had my own garden and I have planted everything under the sun. Not much of a green thumb, but we'll see. I will post some pictures tomorrow. 30- pounds in 30 days. Whether I get picked or not for this experiment I am going to be committed to losing a significant amount of weight in the next 3o days. Yay me! The picture above is me when I was in really good shape. I was running and riding almost everyday. This was taken in Turkey where I was teaching English. I am using this picture of me as my inspiration to get back to my old self.

June 16 Tuesday 2009

Just finished 4 weeks of boot camp and start the next session on June 22. It tough especially since it starts at 6 am. Not a big fan of early morning workouts, but after I dragged my butt out on to the field and start feeling the blood pumping I am happy that I came. During this short break I plan to get stretching in, such as doing some more yoga. I am also a belly dancer and we have a couple of big gigs coming up so planning to watch what I eat more closely. Since it is summer there is a lot of fresh produce to choose from. I eat mostly fruit in the morning and munch on veggies during the day. However, the problem is at dinner. My husband is French and must have a full on dinner with all the trimmings and of course wine. Usually we eat quite late and I know that is not helping me either. Anyways he is on board with helping me loose the weight and has promised to help me prepare leaner suppers. Bon appetite!