Sunday, January 26, 2014
No Bueno Bodybuilding.com!
So, a few days ago I blogged about some free samples we received in the mail with an order from bodybuilding.com. Beta-trim was excellent! However, there was another sample of a pre-workout energy and focus drink mix. It contained two servings. It is called ON PLATINUM PRE-. I took one serving yesterday morning and felt pretty good as far as energy and focus. I took the second serving this morning....well, it was probably a little more than a serving left in the packet. My last swig burned my throat and tasted spicy. Weird, huh?! Within 10 minutes my face felt itchy and then it radiated throughout my body with a tingly, itchy feeling, that was quite frankly pretty freaky. I thought I must be having an allergic reaction and took a benadryl. Then I hopped online to read the reviews on bodybuilding.com. I would say 99% of the reviews were negative, describing the same feeling I got, except no one mentioned the itchy feeling. I guess it could be described like a sun burned feeling after you have exfoliated your face! No Bueno on that free sample bodybuilding.com and you should take it off the market. It gave me a jittery boost with prickles all over my body and mostly my face. I started to wonder if that is the same feel meth-heads get and scratch and pick their faces!? Anyway, I will not be ordering any of that product-EVER!
Friday, January 24, 2014
Discovery @ #BodyBuilding.com
I'm starting to finish up week 3 of Weight Watchers and I feel so good and healthy! I have not eaten out in 3 weeks and have kept my diet pretty clean. I splurged this past week on a few servings of organic tortilla chips with my black beans (much needed for the fiber). That was only one serving per night for two nights in a row, so I didn't over-do it. My body doesn't feel bloated and my legs haven't had the daily swelling from the sodium intake of processed foods.
A co-worker of my husband's suggested we take #EFA Lean, which is an essential fatty acid blend. It is supposed to help reduce body fat and increase muscle tone. This is of course with a lean and healthy diet and exercise. I started taking it on Tuesday, so lets see how it works out. In the box that came in from bodybuilding.com, they sent a few samples. Ding, Ding, Ding!!! One of those sample packs was #Beta-Stim. A 7 phase thermogenic igniter. I'm pretty sensitive to caffeine pills depending on what is put in them, so I only took one the next morning. Within 10 minutes I felt the "Good Morning World!" I haven't had a 5 am workout like that since I can't remember when. I usually yawn the whole time I lift weights and drag ass on the cardio machines. Not that morning! My cardio was on the up and up and I didn't feel exhausted after waking up at 4 am. I normally get up at 4 and drink coffee for 30 minutes. Coffee is nothing compared to this stuff. I ultimately decided I needed to order some. Well, bodybuilding.com was on backorder for Beta-Stim, so I google searched and #TigerFitness.com had it in stock. Sweet! It is ordered and on the way. And yes, I did some research on trying to find some reviews. Apparently it just came out in November 2013. I think muscle&fitness online did their own research and a review on all Beta-Stim contains and how each ingredient measured up. It got an overall good rating. I didn't find anything on bodybuilding.com, which I'm surprised. However, tigerfitness.com had 2 recent reviews which were pretty good. Let me be the test to that. Today will be my 2nd day trying it out with the sample pack.
Many years ago when ephedra was legal in fat burning supplements, it really helped me get where I needed to be after many years of fighting the bulge and feeding my depression. That was when it was in Hydroxycut. Hydroxycut was never the same after ephedra was banned. I have found from one dose of this Beta-Stim the other morning, that it made me feel exactly like the ephedra based Hydroxycut did like 15 years ago. Where in the hell does the time go?! At least 15 years later I'm still trying to keep in shape and be healthy.
I'll update on the Beta-Stim as I go. Hopefully it gets here in the next few days! I'll post some before and after progress pictures.
LET'S DO THIS!
http://www.bodybuilding.com
http://www.tigerfitness.com
A co-worker of my husband's suggested we take #EFA Lean, which is an essential fatty acid blend. It is supposed to help reduce body fat and increase muscle tone. This is of course with a lean and healthy diet and exercise. I started taking it on Tuesday, so lets see how it works out. In the box that came in from bodybuilding.com, they sent a few samples. Ding, Ding, Ding!!! One of those sample packs was #Beta-Stim. A 7 phase thermogenic igniter. I'm pretty sensitive to caffeine pills depending on what is put in them, so I only took one the next morning. Within 10 minutes I felt the "Good Morning World!" I haven't had a 5 am workout like that since I can't remember when. I usually yawn the whole time I lift weights and drag ass on the cardio machines. Not that morning! My cardio was on the up and up and I didn't feel exhausted after waking up at 4 am. I normally get up at 4 and drink coffee for 30 minutes. Coffee is nothing compared to this stuff. I ultimately decided I needed to order some. Well, bodybuilding.com was on backorder for Beta-Stim, so I google searched and #TigerFitness.com had it in stock. Sweet! It is ordered and on the way. And yes, I did some research on trying to find some reviews. Apparently it just came out in November 2013. I think muscle&fitness online did their own research and a review on all Beta-Stim contains and how each ingredient measured up. It got an overall good rating. I didn't find anything on bodybuilding.com, which I'm surprised. However, tigerfitness.com had 2 recent reviews which were pretty good. Let me be the test to that. Today will be my 2nd day trying it out with the sample pack.
Many years ago when ephedra was legal in fat burning supplements, it really helped me get where I needed to be after many years of fighting the bulge and feeding my depression. That was when it was in Hydroxycut. Hydroxycut was never the same after ephedra was banned. I have found from one dose of this Beta-Stim the other morning, that it made me feel exactly like the ephedra based Hydroxycut did like 15 years ago. Where in the hell does the time go?! At least 15 years later I'm still trying to keep in shape and be healthy.
I'll update on the Beta-Stim as I go. Hopefully it gets here in the next few days! I'll post some before and after progress pictures.
LET'S DO THIS!
http://www.bodybuilding.com
http://www.tigerfitness.com
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Saturday Weigh In & Measurements
This morning was weigh in day. Was it what I expected? Kind of--Not sure if I lost much besides some inches in my bust and fatty hip area. Even though my weight is down, I feel very bloated. I blame the Jimmy Dean "light" turkey sausage breakfast sandwich I had for dinner last night with its high sodium and additives. I knew I would regret it and I do. I was in the process of making a healthy kale and ground turkey vegetable soup that was taking longer than I expected and I was starving! It was 7 pm and I couldn't wait any longer and I do not like to eat past 7 pm. So, I threw in the "light" breakfast sandwich into the microwave, which was 7 points and the remainder of my points for the day. #sodium and #additives in #processedfoods...Uuuugh!
I'm off to the gym in a few minutes. My plan is to sweat out that sodium and additives and get a good leg work out in. Maybe I should have weighed myself after the gym, because now I feel like crap!
I'm off to the gym in a few minutes. My plan is to sweat out that sodium and additives and get a good leg work out in. Maybe I should have weighed myself after the gym, because now I feel like crap!
Friday, January 17, 2014
Been Awhile # 2014 Back on Track and Facebook Free
Wow, time sure does seem to fly! I didn't realize I hadn't blogged since 2012. I'm back on track AGAIN with taking care of my health. I never truly stopped over the past year and a half. I just didn't write about it and the struggles. I continued to run and eat healthy, but still feed my stress. After the holidays and many outfits not fitting as well as they should and the pair of jean capris I could wear over the summer, but were now unable to even go over my hips, I decided it was time to concentrate on me again. As my blog link states, chips-n-dip-hips! This girl loves chips and it is my stress indulgence, which was every single day. Over the holiday break I made the time to go to the gym almost every day, but with the same eating habits. Therefore, I wasn't losing an inch of this muffin top. I signed back up for WeightWatchers Online on Jan. 5 and have been on track ever since. I've already lost pounds and inches. Eating healthy really is key. Plugging that food into the daily tracker really puts your portion sizes and choice of foods into perspective. That is something I just need. Has it been a struggle in the evening when I come home from work and on the weekends? YES! I go to bed hungry and unsatisfied, because my palate wasn't indulged in the bag of chips I really want to eat or those four slices of pizza. On the bright side, I'm not bloated and my legs are not swelling every day from the massive amounts of sodium in the processed foods I was used to eating. I force myself to the gym 5 days a week and those 3 days a week at 5 am are getting easier. I was always getting up at 4 am anyway, but would just sit on the couch and drink coffee and read FB posts and scroll Pinterest.
I decided 2014 was going to be the year I stepped away from being glued to my iPhone with that addictive little social media app # Facebook. I loved it for the networking on craft pages and keeping in touch with family and a few close friends, but it has just turned to crap - or maybe I'm just tired of the negativity and a whole list of things I do not care to mention. I started by removing the app from my phone before Christmas. That way if I really wanted to check it, I had to hop on the computer. I checked the first few days on the computer maybe 3 times a day. Then it went to every few days, to a week, to nothing. That last time I checked it after the New Year and read through the long list of posts, I decided I'm done with it and deactivated my account. I had 142 friends and family on my "friends" list and started thinking, "Are they all really friends? Do they really give a crap about my life? Do I really care about the drama in theirs?" The answer was "NO." I have my own drama and issues. If those so called friends and family really have something to share with me, they can pick up the phone or send a text. Since that time, I've had one out of state friend reach out to me. So, you really do see who are your friends and who really cares, besides the so called "friends" that just troll your FB page without leaving a comment or the ones that have 200 plus friends and probably never see anything you post anyway. I just have to say, it has been invigorating! Now, if I can just find a new position at work, because the place is sucking the soul out of me.
I busted my ass for two years to finish up my BA and move into a different position. Well, I did it! But, I was mislead and the job description I applied for isn't even half of what I have been stuck doing and I'm flat out pissed. And yes I do have a shitty and negative attitude about the whole thing. I put on a smile at work and vent to my few close co-worker friends on my irritation, but I'm really bummed out. Have I tried to do something about it? Find a new position? Yes on both. Am I grateful to have a job? Yes. I'm a doer if I'm not happy with something, but in this city, jobs are sparse and with lay-offs, there are not many options within my company. I'm trying to suck it up, but it is so unchallenging and demeaning to my hard work to obtain my degree. Press on, move on…
Now, back to #Belly Fat. I swear with age, it is harder to get rid of the belly fat! After I had my son when I was 28, my waistline slimmed and it looked as though I never had a kid. Now that I'm 35 and for the past few years, no matter how thin I get, my waistline seems to have disappeared. I put on that bikini (in the presence of my own backyard) and see pictures my husband takes and my stomach still looks like crap. It isn't horrible by any means, but not the long and lean I'd like. It doesn't help that I'm 4'11 - probably shorter at this point. :-) However, I want to look in the mirror and look 25 again. Hell, I see women in the gym older than me with a lean torso. I know I can do it, so here is the start of my journey.
I decided 2014 was going to be the year I stepped away from being glued to my iPhone with that addictive little social media app # Facebook. I loved it for the networking on craft pages and keeping in touch with family and a few close friends, but it has just turned to crap - or maybe I'm just tired of the negativity and a whole list of things I do not care to mention. I started by removing the app from my phone before Christmas. That way if I really wanted to check it, I had to hop on the computer. I checked the first few days on the computer maybe 3 times a day. Then it went to every few days, to a week, to nothing. That last time I checked it after the New Year and read through the long list of posts, I decided I'm done with it and deactivated my account. I had 142 friends and family on my "friends" list and started thinking, "Are they all really friends? Do they really give a crap about my life? Do I really care about the drama in theirs?" The answer was "NO." I have my own drama and issues. If those so called friends and family really have something to share with me, they can pick up the phone or send a text. Since that time, I've had one out of state friend reach out to me. So, you really do see who are your friends and who really cares, besides the so called "friends" that just troll your FB page without leaving a comment or the ones that have 200 plus friends and probably never see anything you post anyway. I just have to say, it has been invigorating! Now, if I can just find a new position at work, because the place is sucking the soul out of me.
I busted my ass for two years to finish up my BA and move into a different position. Well, I did it! But, I was mislead and the job description I applied for isn't even half of what I have been stuck doing and I'm flat out pissed. And yes I do have a shitty and negative attitude about the whole thing. I put on a smile at work and vent to my few close co-worker friends on my irritation, but I'm really bummed out. Have I tried to do something about it? Find a new position? Yes on both. Am I grateful to have a job? Yes. I'm a doer if I'm not happy with something, but in this city, jobs are sparse and with lay-offs, there are not many options within my company. I'm trying to suck it up, but it is so unchallenging and demeaning to my hard work to obtain my degree. Press on, move on…
Now, back to #Belly Fat. I swear with age, it is harder to get rid of the belly fat! After I had my son when I was 28, my waistline slimmed and it looked as though I never had a kid. Now that I'm 35 and for the past few years, no matter how thin I get, my waistline seems to have disappeared. I put on that bikini (in the presence of my own backyard) and see pictures my husband takes and my stomach still looks like crap. It isn't horrible by any means, but not the long and lean I'd like. It doesn't help that I'm 4'11 - probably shorter at this point. :-) However, I want to look in the mirror and look 25 again. Hell, I see women in the gym older than me with a lean torso. I know I can do it, so here is the start of my journey.
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