Josalin's excellent adventure.(Or bogus journey, if you prefer)

[JosalinGoBoom]

Starting Measurements:

neck 13.5

shoulders 43.5

ribcage 33.5

bust 39

biceps 13L 12.75R

waist 33.75

navel 37.75

1in below 39

hips 41.5

thigh 23.25L 23.5R

calves 15L 14.5R

weight 163

Body Mass Index: 26.4 kg/m2

Waist-to-Height ratio: 0.51

Percent Body Fat: 35.8%

Lean Body Mass: 104.6 lb

PICTOORS(side note: don't mind my toilet, it's the only room with a decent mirror that wouldn't involve waking up my boyfriend):

Will add weight and bf% when I go to the gym today and check it.

Health Goals:

1 Work out at the gym 3 times a week. On at least two off days take a walk, or go for a jog.

2 Continue integrating a Paleo style diet.(eat ALL the meats!) Should add less beer to this one. Just because friends are involved doesn't mean I have to drink with them. They'll drink anyways and have just as much fun making fun of me for drinking water as they would if I drank with them.

3 My last goal is one real manly push up! Like the MANLY men do it, RAWR.

4 ????

5 Profit!!

Life goals:

1 Clean apartment once a week. Preferably not the day before Sean's(my boyfriend's) friends come to stay over and make a mess of the apartment.

2 Wash dishes every night, even though I hate to.

As a little reminder to myself that this is already working, these were last weeks measurements

neck 13.5

shoulders 44

ribcage 33.75

bust 39

biceps 12.8R 13L

waist 34

navel 38.5

1in below 39.5

hips 41.5

thigh 23.75 both

calves 15R 15.5 L

weight 163

Body Mass Index: 26.4 kg/m2

Waist-to-Height ratio: 0.52

Percent Body Fat: 36.1%

Lean Body Mass: 104.1 lb

[Loren Wade]

Great goals! Let me know if I can help you with anything!

[JosalinGoBoom]

Thanks Loren.

Figure I should add my reward in if I do good: Going to dye my hair blonde, or at least something more exciting then..well...brown.

Good news is I've already cleaned around the house some today, and all the dishes are done. Of course, dinner is what usually makes the biggest mess.

Next challenge, getting my boyfriend to stop being lazy so we can leave the house already. Wish me luck!

[MrHyde]

Manly pushups? Right there with you.

Out of curiosity, is that a corn snake I'm seeing in your avatar?

[JosalinGoBoom]

California king snake. She's almost 14 I believe. We have a very tentative relationship.

[Kain]

Good luck on this challenge. Should try to bond more with the snake.

[MrHyde]

California king snake. She's almost 14 I believe. We have a very tentative relationship.

I have a couple of snakes myself. They make for very interesting pets, to say the least. One of mine likes to bite smokers; how cool is that?!

[JosalinGoBoom]

I have a couple of snakes myself. They make for very interesting pets, to say the least. One of mine likes to bite smokers; how cool is that?!

That's pretty funny, but the fear of biting is what kind of keeps me at bay.

Should I add bonding with TS(her name is The Snake, and yes I know, my boyfriend has an awesome imagination...) as one of my life goals? Helping me get over a fear and what not.

[MrHyde]

That's pretty funny, but the fear of biting is what kind of keeps me at bay.

Should I add bonding with TS(her name is The Snake, and yes I know, my boyfriend has an awesome imagination...) as one of my life goals? Helping me get over a fear and what not.

Well, you do have an empty No. 4 goal .

If you do add such a goal, don't worry about the biting too much. If you've never been bitten before, for most snakes of that size it's more annoying and shocking than it is painful. It's unlikely to go any further than a bunch of snake-jaw shaped red dots and minor discomfort for a day or so.

[JosalinGoBoom]

The empty #4 goes with number 5. It's all the questionable things I do to "profit" or in this case "look like a damn fine lookin' woman"

[MrHyde]

Yes, I know; 4 is the black-box step that leads to magical profit. It's just that you see that kind of arrangement in nonsensical money-making websites whereas here you actually have a reasonable set of goals, and thus need no magic step .

[JosalinGoBoom]

Today's Workout:

Deadlifts – 4x8 - 55lbs

Standing military press - 4x5 45lb

Russian twist w/ medicine ball - 4 x 10

Alternating DB lunges - 3 x 10 10lb

BB bench - 4x5 55lb

Smith Machine Pronated and Supinated "pull -ups" 4x5

Decline Crunches 2x8

Hanging Leg Lifts 2x5

Tricep Ext 2x10 15lb

Also, have kept up to date with dishes, and apt still looking mighty fine.

[nightlight]

awesome goals. you can totally rock those pushups!

[Starbuck]

Nice workout!

If you do add such a goal, don't worry about the biting too much. If you've never been bitten before, for most snakes of that size it's more annoying and shocking than it is painful. It's unlikely to go any further than a bunch of snake-jaw shaped red dots and minor discomfort for a day or so.

You would also be able to say that you've been bitten by a snake, which just sounds ultra hardcore.

[JosalinGoBoom]

So I dun me some learnin stuffs today. Apparently one should not follow an all protein breakfast(hardboiled egg and 3 pieces of bacon) with coffee(which has a scoop of whey protein in it.) I was super jittery. Pretty sure my thought process was "run to ALL the places!" Not a good thing when all your patients are old, lol.

[Kain]

Are you sure it was the protein? I can eat almost a pound of chicken for lunch and never get those, and I never have caffeine.

[JosalinGoBoom]

I have coffee every morning, and hardly ever have that much protein. It was my first time having any whey protein. I forgot to mention, I'll never buy the gnc brand again, it tastes awful.

[JosalinGoBoom]

Warm up: 3min Jump Rope and 2 min Stretching

BB back squats – 4x8 50lb

a) Incline DB press - 8/5/4 15lb

Standing calf raise 3x10

a) Stiff leg deadlifts 3x10 60lb

Decline sit ups - 2x10

a) Hanging Leg Lifts 2x3

Seated DB shoulder press - 2x12 10lb

a) Weighted Lunges 2x10 10lb

Reverse crunches - 2x10

Also, I've been taking the stairs whenever I have a reason to at work(not too often, only when I need to run to the pharmacy.) Well, today I got to 3 times, and we're talking 3flights up, and then 3 more back down, so that was a nice treat.

[Kain]

It is amazing how small changes can transform you. Stairs are awesome and worth traveling when possible (which should be a lot).

Edit: Had to add something at the end to fill in the parenthesis.

[JosalinGoBoom]

neck 13.25

shoulders 40

ribcage 34

bust 38.25

biceps 12.5L 12.75R

waist 33

navel 37

1in below 38

hips 40.75

thigh 23.25L 23.5R

calves 15L 14.75R

Body Mass Index: 25.4 kg/m2

Waist-to-Height ratio: 0.50

Percent Body Fat: 34.4%

Lean Body Mass: 103.1 lb

Weight: 157

While I did not do very well in any of my goals, I am still very happy with my results. WHY? Because putting myself through the shredder at this point in the game would only cause me to give up hope, which I do not want. My diet was okay, did pretty good the last two weeks, and I've been craving more real food. In fact, my cravings for things I used to love are down to a minimal. Maybe a piece of dark chocolate here or there, but nothing like it was.

Work outs were kind of screwed the past three weeks. First I ended up drinking a little heavier(a LOT heavier) then planned while wearing my vibrams. This ended with me getting some form of Turf toe, or tendonitis or some such thing. First week I could hardly walk without limping, second week I still could not bend my toe without pain, which meant things like stairs were better off avoided. Did not get a lot of working out at that point.

Last thursday, at about 2am, my grandmother fell. She ended up fracturing her hip. She got surgery on Friday, and she is currently still in the hospital. As the person in the family who works in the hospital, I have been going in to work early and staying late to see her, and try and catch the doctor. I lost one grandmother to a fall in January, so my family and I are all very worried about her. So, send your best wishes, thoughts, juju, what have you, her way. She could certainly use it right about now.

BUT I am not giving up!

In fact, I just got an application for the local Volunteer Fire Department, which I shall be turning in tomorrow as a step towards leveling up my life.

There is no true way to put everything that has or has not happened over the past 6 weeks in here. Needless to say it has been a hectic time in my life, but I am happier for the experience, and I will never give up.

[cacodaemonia]

Also, I've been taking the stairs whenever I have a reason to at work(not too often, only when I need to run to the pharmacy.) Well, today I got to 3 times, and we're talking 3flights up, and then 3 more back down, so that was a nice treat.

Woo, gotta love the incidental exercise! It's the best.

How is your grandma doing? Better, I hope. Sending good thoughts!

The Snake is so pretty. I adore snakes, though I've never had one as a pet. Have you bonded more with her at all?

And do you have a thread for the current challenge? I'd like to keep up with it.

[JosalinGoBoom]

Unfortunately I am not doing a challenge this time around. My grandmother, who seemed to be doing okay, passed away on sunday. To put it mildly, life has been thrown into chaos. I'll hopefully be doing the summer 2012 challenge instead, and I should be posting in there.

Thanks for the support.

And yes, I did spend some time with The Snake too. She hung out on the couch with me, and we got along quite well(even though she kept trying to explore the insides of the couch.)

[cacodaemonia]

Oh, I'm so sorry. Let me know if I can offer support somehow!