Side Track

So my personal life got in the way of me blogging my fitness/nutrition reports. Good news is I weighed in yesterday and I am down 2 pounds already! My calorie intake has been a little too low the last couple of days for the amount of calories I've been burning in the gym, but I've also been busy. Need more healthy on-the-go snacks I suppose. I have been in the gym every lunch break this week. Monday was core focused, Tuesday upper body, Wednesday some nice cardio with a hard run, Thursday lower body and today...maybe just another cardio day on the bike? We'll see.
Tonight will be a little bit of a fudge night as I am going out to dinner/drinks.
As you've probably noticed my mornings are routine with a protein shake. The only change this week was running out of blueberry cocktail and switching to Grape juice (Old Orchard Healthy Balance), of which there is less calories in a 6oz glass.
Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine frozen meals have been on sale at the grocery stores lately so they have been my lunches recently. Dinner...depends on where I am. I did have a great salad at home one night this week with spinach leaves, green lettuce mix, orange and yellow peppers, croutons and light ranch dressing with cottage cheese on the side.
Things will get even crazier in the upcoming weeks with my play's opening night rapidly approaching. We added a rehearsal to next weeks schedule then the following week is "hell week" with set building, technical and dress rehearsals before opening. The show runs for two weekends, Thursday - Saturday nights. Then it's mid-February!

Friday

Breakfast

Vanilla whey protein powder ~ one scoop (140 cal)

Fiber powder ~ 2 tsp (15 cal)

Blueberry cocktail juice ~ roughly 6 oz (81 cal)

Dannon (typically Activia, someone was out) Light & Fit Vanilla Yogurt ~ 2 Tbsp (14 cal)

Lunch

Healthy Choice Sweet & Tangy Bbq Chicken with Potatoes & Corn (320 cal)

Dinner

Will be grilled by my brother as it is a balmy 65 degree January day

Snacks

HyVee Trail Mix (140 cal)

Kraft Cheese Stick (70 cal)

Weekend outlook: Saturday morning I am meeting two cast members from the play I am currently rehearsing for, The Odd Couple, to costume search, have lunch and run lines. Sunday my gym offers three classes I love back to back to back. Do I dare do them all? As I suspected though (I just checked my gyms app) the classes are offered in such a way that you're going, going, going then stretching then dancing your ass off... up, down, up...hm...

1/10/13

I have had trouble sleeping and last night was no exception. I got maybe 3.5 to 4 hours sleep, which included bad dreams. By ten after 4am I was nearly fully awake so I got up shortly after that and got ready for the gym. Thursday mornings at 5:30 they have a 60 minute cycle class that I used to attend. 

Breakfast

Pre Workout

Weight Control Oatmeal (160 cal)

Post Workout

Vanilla whey protein powder ~ one scoop ((140 cal)

Fiber powder ~ 2 tsp (15 cal)

Blueberry cocktail juice ~ roughly 6 oz (81 cal)

Dannon (typically Activia, someone was out) Light & Fit Vanilla Yogurt ~ 2 Tbsp (14 cal)

Lunch

Healthy Choice Fettuccini Alfredo Bake (270 cal) *Not that good in my opinion btw

Snacks

HyVee Mountain Trail Mix (160 cal) 

Fitness

Cycling 60 min vigorous (-710 cal) - 5:30am class

Lunch time/Gym time - Legs Focus
Hip Abduction
Bent-Leg Kickbacks
Deadlift
Clean and Jerk
Leg Extension
Leg Curls
Leg Press
Seated Calf Raise

Accountability

It's a new year and I'm going to start holding myself accountable for my workouts and nutrition. This is a good time to start not only because of it being the start of a new year, but because I have lost lbs anyway and have become more realistic in my fitness goals. I would like to lose a little more, but I would like to focus on toning my body over all. I slacked at the end of last year with doing shows, the holidays, etc so I also lost muscle. There have been periods where I have trained hard and especially in my arms and back achieved a nice sculpted look and I want that back along with a tighter stomach and shapely legs that I don't feel need to be hidden.
With that said I will track my workouts and eating habits here to the best of my ability to get online and do it, but I am always tracking with the app Lose It!
This year for me is about becoming happier with myself inside and out. So that means tackling insecurities and confidence issues as well. With that...

Breakfast

Vanilla whey protein powder ~ one scoop ((140 cal)

Fiber powder ~ 2 tsp (15 cal)

Blueberry cocktail juice ~ roughly 6 oz (81 cal)

Dannon (typically Activia, someone was out) Light & Fit Vanilla Yogurt ~ 2 Tbsp (14 cal)

Coffee/creamer (bad, I know) (100 cal)

Lunch

Healthy Choice Lemon Pepper Fish (330 cal - but I don't eat the dessert)

Snacks

Peanut butter chocolate chip granola bar (100 cal)

Kraft skim milk cheese stick (70 cal)

Dinner

Jimmy John's Beach Club #12 (729 cal)

Fitness

1 mile run at 7.5 mph treadmill 1.5 incline (124 cal)
Weight Lifting - vigorous w/o breaks (150 cal)

Examples:

Chest Fly 3 sets 12 reps

Bent Over Row 3 sets 12 reps
Tricep Extension 3 sets 12 reps
Crunches on Stability Ball
Stretches 

Totals

Food calorie intake - 1,579

Fitness calories burned - roughly 300 for lunch time gym session

Acting Update

'Doubt' just closed this past Saturday evening. I portrayed Sister James in the parable. 

The film came out in 2008 starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. 

The play consists of only the four main characters. It was a different experience for me as I have been in mainly comedies. Being in full habit I had really only my face to work with to convey my emotions. This drama was thought provoking and I was honored to be a part of the cast. I only wish more people would have come out to see it. Comedies do tend to draw a bigger crowd and the crowd is larger still when the title o the play is one in which they are familiar. Steel Magnolias had a wonderful turn out for example. I can only hope that more people will be willing to explore theatre outside the box more often and support their local artists. 

Next on the horizon for me is a full length film. This film originally was a short that we began working on a year and a half ago. As with many of these local, small grouped endeavors the usual issues came up, money being a big one. Now the film has investors, has been expanded, has added a full crew and well on its way with filming beginning the end of October. I am reading through the script now and I will share more details as I embark on this film journey. 

Past that, I know of the possibility of auditions around Christmas time for a play that would keep me busy the beginning of the new year as my boyfriend will be deploying this December. This next year I shall keep myself busy with acting, possibly more modeling and the like in the hopes that it will not only fill my always hungry creative side, but also make time go by more quickly and smoothly while my love is away from home.  

Parenthood Tuesday

So... again... I finally get back on here and I see my "Happy Parenthood Day" post has recently been viewed by someone. What a coincidence that this happens to be a Parenthood Day as well!
The show started back up with its new season on the 11th and last night I finally got caught up on the episodes as I was in a play that just closed this past weekend.
Both of the first two episodes had emotional endings. It's funny how watching a couple on a television show can make you think about your own relationship. It is implied, not actually said, that Christina has breast cancer. With music playing in the over the scene you see Adam notice Christina is not ok and approach her. She says something to him and they embrace. You imagine what he must be feeling hearing this from the mother of his three children and also what she must be feeling after that doctor's appointment. It's heart wrenching.
Tonight's episode will go more in depth into Christina's condition. It's sure to be an emotional journey.
Also there's Victor's story line. He came in so late in the season finale, I had forgotten about him until I saw a Braverman family photo on facebook prior to the season premier and thought to myself, "now who is that little boy?"
This struggle between him and Julia and Joel reminds of pretty much the only other show I watch (but not caught up due to Netflix not having newer seasons so don't share anything with me past season 5, I believe), Army Wives and Joan and Roland when they choose adopt.
Enjoy tonight's new episode!

Long Time, Little Words

I'm going through and feeling a lot that I don't know how to put into words.
The guy in my life is with me all the time and there's been ups and downs like we never experienced before he left for his 90 days training.
It is official as it can be at this point that he will be leaving December 7th. A lot needs to happen in order for us to make it through that time apart with little contact. I know what I want, but there's things that I even want changed now. So will the things that absolutely have to happen, if they happen, make it possible even?