blacKandi Fitness

I’m back!

Although I didn’t tell any of you about it, but I had a great vacation! Now you all know! I left on June 4 and I’m back as of June 9! I will get straight to ah la point and I just wanted to say in my blog that I didn’t eat right the entire time. I spent five nights away and I came back about 2lbs heavier which is not bad AND I didn’t exercise at all and didn’t exercise a week before that. I will tell you that when I started eating crap I felt sick A LOT! I felt sick the day I left and got a BAD case of gas (tmi I know, but this is my blog and I feel like spilling it all so there). Anyway, I was literally in bed for several hours on one day because I felt so bad. When I got home I got back into my routine and I’m down 6lbs…so it took me about five days to get back into my weight range.

I am totally not trying to lose weight, but I’ve magically gotten myself into the 160s which I didn’t want to go back to. My body and I love being between 170 and 173…my Serena Williams-look size. Anything less I start too look like a bean pole.

I’m still totally in denial that I am 5’10 tall…I always tell people I’m 5’8, but they all know better. When I put on my heels 2.5 I’m like 6’0 tall. I was almost tempted to by a pair of Jessica Simpson platform stilettos yesterday, but I didn’t. I think I was way over 6’0 tall in those…4 inch heels. HOT! I think I’m going to go back and get them in all colors. Talk about c-o-m-f-o-r-t-a-b-l-e and fits my foot perfectly. I wear a 9.5 in them. Lovely!
Hello! Me on June 4, 2009.

Dieting … a pain in the butt!

Dieting is not hard, but I am not afraid of that word. Learning how to diet and putting it to work for you is usually the hard part to get down. But once you understand what you have to do and get it going then it’s rather easy to deal with. All dieting means is not eating junk, crap, empty calories most of the time. That’s it…simple.

My new approach to dieting to not lose weight is backfiring. I only eat when I’m hungry and when I do eat it’s all good stuff. I overate the other night and I still lost weight so counting calories is for the birds. I know now how much of what to eat and I make sure to get in my max protein intake per day and I’m trying to decrease my fat intake and I get most of my fat from Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Natural Peanut Butter. It’s not a big deal though because it’s good fat, but the peanut butter carries a lot of calories and so does the olive oil. I always stick to the proper serving sizes per meal. I have omitted olive oil from a lot of meals since I’ve been bodybuilding so that’s helping a lot so one TBSP of Extra Olive Oil per day is not killing me. I only take in 2 TBSP of peanut butter per day unless I’m making a peanut butter and jam sandwich (1 TBSP of Smucker’s Sugar-Free Grape Jam, 2 TBSP of Smucker’s Natural Chunky Peanut Butter and two slices of 100% Stone Ground Wheat Bread – my treat).

Strength Training w/ a Purpose

I thought I was putting body fat back on throughout the past five weeks, but that wasn’t the case. Sometimes I feel big and sometimes I feel thin…weird. It’s definitely a feeling and when I look in the mirror I see what I’m feeling. Does that make sense to you? No? Then I guess that you don’t analyze your physique as I do. I’m always looking at myself and taking pictures because I am working on changing my body and beautifying my physique. It’s one thing to be fit (it’s great), but to look it too is even better. Believe me, it does. I noticed that I’ve gotten stronger. I can do 3 set of 15 concentration curls with a pair of 20lb dumbbells. I could probably do more, but I didn’t try. I love to feel that burn. Also, my triceps have gotten stronger. When I flex my cuts show MORE. Oh yeah baby! OK so my upper body including my back is doing rather well, but I can’t say the same for my lower body. I have to start a new paragraph for that one.

My lower body sucks. I’ve managed to lift my behind which is nice. Very nice, but I still have a lot of fat to burn in the area. My thighs are not big, but my muscles in those parts are not budding like my upper body. Why? Because working the legs is a PITA (pain in the…) and when I get to really working them they BURN and I just fall on the floor. For me to actually get through a lower body workout is tough and takes a while. Monday night I did a full body split and I started with my legs (compliments of Amy Bento’s Slow Mo Strength Challenge DVD) and she’s good. Very very good. I adore that entire DVD and I think it’s my favorite DVD out of the DVDs I have right now. Anyway, I couldn’t get through the one legged deadlifts, with the lifts and lunge in it to save my life. I was able to do two sets on each leg and I fell short of all the reps in the second sets. Sad! I got through all of the squats that included static squats with pulses AND toes in and out…when I get a battery for my camcorder I will start posting videos of me doing these exercises so you can see what I’m talking about. Intense! Loved it! Was pooped when I got to the one-legged deadlifts which was neat. Did I feel that I worked my legs enough?? No. But I was done with legs by that time…moved onto upper body in a hurry.

My core muscles still need a lot of work and I won’t get into that right now…later. I love ab work with a passion. I’m stilling working on my knee and calf muscles, pray for me. Oh and life is good!

Fitness DVD Video Reviews on Youtube, maybe?

Speaking of Amy Bento and all of my DVDs I will have to start doing some reviews. I think I’ll do video reviews because when you type too much nobody wants to read … except for you of course. My darlings. I will think about this. Coming up with video topics that are useful are not easy. I’ll have to think about this and come up with some plans first. Moving on…

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OK that’s all from me today! Have a great hump day!