My name is Shelby and this is my fitness oriented Tumblr to keep me motivated in my quest to finally be FIT! I am a twenty year old Canadian girl working towards a degree in Nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. My main account is shlebyc.tumblr.com. My ultimate health goal is to adopt an ovo-vegetarian diet, or a full vegetarian diet. Ideally, I'd also like to go gluten free. CURRENT GOALS are to deadlift and squat my body weight in the next couple months and to stop lying on myfitnesspal because I refuse to accept how much chocolate I actually eat. MFP: stcender Twitter: stcender Fitocracy: fitness-sc .
to being lactose intolerant, or having a lactose allergy.
I am going to try to cut out all dairy for a few days and slowly re-introduce some foods to see what ‘sets me off’. If it persists, I will go to the doctor to see what my options are, but I know he’s just going to tell me what I already know on handling it.
Finally getting more weight on my deadlifts. I did 125lb x 3 today, which I am very happy with! Mitch helped and I was able to do them without straps, but an alternate grip instead.
Tracked a workout for 782 pts
Making lunch for the next two days so I do not get tempted by all the goodies at work! I usually have a variation of the following for a full day shift:
- brown rice or quinoa (flavoured/with soy sauce, because I hate the taste of plain quinoa) mixed with some sort of bean or legume.
- steamed veggies (broccoli, asparagus, carrots).
- steamed sweet potatoes, white potatoes, or rutabaga.
- fruit (apple, orange, banana, pear, etc - apples usually with a nut butter)
- raw chopped veggies or high protein granola bar.
Here I’ve made:
- quinoa with navy beans.
- steamed broccoli, carrots, and asparagus (nothing added).
- organic pink lady apple with 1 TBSP natural peanut butter.
- organic spinach and romaine lettuce salad with dried cranberries, feta cheese, chopped almonds, and a few blueberries (about 1 TBSP of each)
- 2 TBSP light poppyseed dressing on the side.
I am very excited about the deliciousness tomorrow brings.
Went shopping today at Forever 21 with Mitch! Bought a whole bunch of stuff for SUCH great prices, including this whole outfit! Finally, summer clothes :)
Chest today, getting back into things.
Tracked a workout for 884 pts
Wake up, tumble for 25 minutes, rushing to get ready for work.
My life.
Had an egg wrap with salsa, cheese, onions and peppers. I am stuffed. It saved me from buying frozen crap at work for lunch!
I realize I have been slacking on my workouts, but I am trying to go when I can. Did legs today and it felt awesome. Squats were perfect and I threw in some front squats just to try. Love ‘em! Feeling strong. Ps - walking barbell lunges are probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
Tracked a workout for 1,034 pts
When asking people (especially women) about their goals with weight loss and fitness they normally respond with, “Well, I’d like to tone up.” Like “clean eating,” the term is ambiguous. Google it, you’ll get THOUSANDS of articles. “Want to lose cellulite? Tone!” or “Tone up those problem areas!”…
I don’t sit there and say ‘Wow, so you eat really shitty, huh? You’re always eating crap food. You must be really unhealthy’ in a smug voice when I see you in the staff room eating your giant bag of chips and food court/frozen meals.
So please, don’t condescendingly and smugly tell me the same of my healthy lunches that I work hard to make (‘Wow, so you eat really healthy huh?, etc). I really don’t take it as a compliment when you speak to me that way. There’s a difference between being interested in what people eat/carrying a conversation about food and health than bluntly commenting in rude tones (are you jealous?) on someone’s choices. I would and will NEVER comment on what/how people eat because it’s THEIR choice (excluding my parents, may I continue feeding you healthy meals against your will forever).
/rant
I told my Mom and she said I should take it as a compliment, but peoples mannerisms just irk me so much that any potential meaning behind their words are lost depending on how they speak or express those words.
I posted earlier about how I feel like I get a much greater calorie burn from cardio than weightlifting. In 31 minutes of running I used ~310 calories, BUT today from 61 minutes of weightlifting I used 580 calories. Both workouts burned ~10 calories per minute.
So I take back what I said. Both weightlifting and cardio can burn the same amount of calories depending on the intensity and time. The above calorie burn only includes calories burnt in the gym/on the road as measured by my HRM, but we all know weightlifting increases resting metabolic rate .. so more was probably burned after I finished lifting.
Yaay exercise.
Today was my day off so I forced myself to have a FANTASTIC workout! Having the whole day off and not having to worry about time constraints was awesome. I did back today but my deadlifts and t-bar rows were not fantastic, most likely because I haven’t done back in over a week but that’s okay. Somebody broke the seated cable pull machine so I had to skip those and just for the hell of it (because I was feeling GREAT) I added bicep curls (arms need working on) and close grip lat pulldowns. I then proceeded to take a nice warm shower at the gym (something I never do) and run my errands for the today.
It rocked.
Tracked a workout for 1,070 pts
My name is Shelby and this is my fitness oriented Tumblr to keep me motivated in my quest to finally be FIT! I am a twenty year old Canadian girl working towards a degree in Nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. My main account is shlebyc.tumblr.com.
My ultimate health goal is to adopt an ovo-vegetarian diet, or a full vegetarian diet. Ideally, I'd also like to go gluten free.
CURRENT GOALS are to deadlift and squat my body weight in the next couple months and to stop lying on myfitnesspal because I refuse to accept how much chocolate I actually eat.
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