Hiya Kris, it's going!

Been crazy busy the past few days, and had a bad migraine on Sunday, so will have to play some catch up.

But first, for JJ--

Pudding Brownies

Batter:
1c (100g) oats
1/4c (50g) white sugar*
1/4c (22g) cocoa powder, unsweetened
2 egg whites (from large eggs)
125g banana (one big 'un)**
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons baking powder

Topping:
3T cocoa powder
30g brown sugar (~2T)
1c hot water

To make:
Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C)
Dump all batter ingredients except for baking powder in a blender. Whiz a few seconds until smooth. Dump in baking powder, whiz a few more seconds. Pour into an 8"x8" pan that you sprayed with PAM, gently spread it to fill pan.

In a little bowl, mix the topping ingredients well, then pour over the batter.

Bake 20-25'.

Let cool, then stick in fridge for a few hours. These are fine warm, but better cold--you get a nice dry brownie on top, with a fudgy pudding like layer on the bottom. Not too bad for a "diet" dessert!

Makes 8 brownies--macros for one:
117 cals
24.5gC, 3.3g fiber, 4gP, 1.6gF

*what I do now is sub some liquid artificial sweetener for the white sugar, but you could use dex or splenda, depending. I still use real brown sugar for the topping part, though.

**you can sub the banana for equal amounts of flavored yogurt (cherry is a good one), plain yogurt, or applesauce--it's a pretty forgiving recipe. Adjust macros accordingly, but it won't be too different.

Woke up early, ~8am.

-muscles feeling full and pumped, CHECK
-feeling lean, and not bloated, CHECK
Carb load a success? YES

But.....
-massive migraine, CHECK
-stomach upset (due to migraine), CHECK
-loose stool (due to 60+g fiber the past 2 days, plus 30g unfamiliar creatine, :-X ), CHECK

So!

My usual migraine medications didn't help much (altho I see now after talking to Julia that I should have gone in straight away with the big gunz), so I ended up spending the entire beautiful sunny day in bed, striving for unconsciousness. :'(

Luckily DH was home, so he did child-care duties.

The problem with UD2 is it's SO strict, missing a day can potentially fuck up your whole week. I got lucky that the day I missed was the power workout day, so I screwed myself out of the potential for muscle growth, and rebuilding any LBM I may have lost during the past week. :-\

I wasn't able to eat ANYTHING yesterday, until late evening, when I had some gatorade and a McDonald's milkshake, so a full power workout today is out of the question, but I might attempt a PSMF-style w/o tonight....anything is better than nothing.

I'm taking today off (it's a holiday weekend here anyway) to make up family time. I'm debating on where to go from here. I don't want to be a quitter and a baby, but also would be PISSED if I missed a more critical day due to migraine. However, seeing as how I usually only get the bad ones once a month, hmmmmm.

Will think more on it, but am leaning towards trying another week (tomorrow would be cycle day 1 again, anyway), tho I reserve the right to quit if I start feeling too wonky. ;D

Cycle Day
1: 163.5
1: 161.2
1: 159.8
2: 159.8
3: 159.0
4: 158.4
5: 162.2
6: 164.0 perfect refeed!
7: 159.0

Decided to keep going with UD2-




Training:
Depletion, full body
A: Prisoner squats, bodyweight, 60 sec
B1: DB incl press, 3x16.5, 60"
B2: DB incl reverse row, 3x16.5, 60"
C1: Leg Extension, 3x44, 60"
C2: Leg Curls, 3x44, 35"
D1: Calf raise, 3x64, 60"
D2: Resist. Band Pull-Down, 3xband, 60"
E1: Lateral raise, 2x5, 30"
E2: Alt. DB curls, 2x8#, 60"
E3: Tri band pushdowns, 2xband, 60"
then rested 3 minutes and did the whole thing again (insert shooting self in head smiley)

Cardio:
early morning 40' walk pushing kids in stroller,
15' PWO ss st. bike cardio

Foood:
M1: coffee w/.5c whole milk, .5c skim
M2: 200g EW, 4g butter, 7g lite mayo, 1 md tomato
M3: 135g ground turkey taco meat, 2T taco sauce, 20g lite sour cream
M4: 180g roast chicken breast, asparagus
M5: 200g cottage cheese w/20g sf sb jam, 10g reg

1064 cals, 157gP, 44gC, 27gF

Good day. Depletion sucked, especially those hated leg curls, but now that it's done I'm happy. Trying not to think about tomorrow, ha!

Training:
Depletion, full body
Exact same thing as yesterday-
A: Prisoner squats, bodyweight, 60 sec
B1: DB incl press, 3x16.5, 60"
B2: DB incl reverse row, 3x16.5, 60"
C1: Leg Extension, 3x44, 60"
C2: Leg Curls, 3x44, 35"
D1: Calf raise, 3x64, 60"
D2: Resist. Band Pull-Down, 3xband, 60"
E1: Lateral raise, 2x5, 30"
E2: Alt. DB curls, 2x8#, 60"
E3: Tri band pushdowns, 2xband, 60"
then rested 3 minutes and did the whole thing again (insert shooting self in head smiley)

Cardio:
early morning 45' walk pushing kids in stroller,
15' PWO ss st. bike cardio

Foood:
M1: coffee w/.5c whole milk, .5c skim
M2: 200g EW, 4g butter, 7g lite mayo, 1 md tomato
M3: 100g cottage cheese w/20g sf sb jam
M4: 180g roast chicken breast
M5: 200g (raw wt) 5%F groundbeef, asparagus
M6: coffee shake (16g casein van pp, inst coffee, a/s, ice, ooohhh so good!)

1063 cals, 161gP, 30gC, 31gF

Excellent day! Woke up early, feeling pretty good, and surprisingly, barely any doms. Thaaaaaaank goodness. Been REALLY busy around the house, with the boys, planning the upcoming trip.

Training:
None!

Cardio:
early morning 30' walk pushing kids in stroller

Foood:
M1: coffee w/.5c whole milk, .5c skim
M2: 200g EW, 4g butter, 7g lite mayo, 1 md tomato
M3: 180g roast chicken breast
M4: 100g cottage cheese w/20g sf sb jam
M5: 200g (raw wt) 5%F groundbeef, asparagus
M6: coffee shake (16g casein van pp, inst coffee, a/s, ice, ooohhh so good!)

1088 cals, 162gP, 36gC, 31gF

Another beautiful, feel-good day, as long as I don't try to squat to pee or raise my arms over my head, :P Owwwww doms. Not as bad as last week, though. Recovery walk was good.

Looking forward to tomorrow's carbs!

Oh, a nice whoosh today--still TOM and boy is he making up for missing for the past few months, :-X

Look at you go, you are so focused, I am so excited for you and impressed with your dedication!!!

Thank you, Dane. What a great recipe. Glad to hear you are on the mend from your headaches. Congrats on the whoosh

Hey girl, I was just thinking about you! How are things? Training?

I got some great pictures in my gallery if you want to take a gander.

Tried my new jogging stroller out today, (walking) but I'm eager to jog with it. Eager to hit the gym as well. Hopefully soon.

How are your babies?

Thanks Kris! Having a deadline really helps with focus,


Glad you like, JJ. Here's hoping to more whooshes for both of us!
Hey Jackie! Things are great, just really busy. Baseball practice, bike riding, gorgeous weather, That's great about your new stroller! I'll have to come by and check out your new pics!

I understand the deadline, you are doing amazing. I wish I had your focus. I am working on it for sure. You are a true inspiration

Training:
Tension, full body, 1.5-2' RI
A1: Full Squat, 2x6x97#
A2: BB Flat Bench, 2x10x84#
B1: RDL's, 2x8x134#
B2: BOR, 2x10x86#
C1: Push Press, 2x8x64#
C2: BB Calf Raise, 2x12x64#
D1: Leg Extension, 2x12x66#
D2: Leg curl, 2x10x33#
E1: DB incl press, 2x8x23#
E2: Resist. Band Lat Pulldowns, 2x12xband
F1: Seated Calf Raise, 2x12x108#
F2: Side Lateral Raise, 2x12x8#
G1: Alt DB Curls, 1x12x16.5#
G2: Triceps Pushdowns, 1x12xband

Cardio:
early morning-45' road biking hauling 90#

Foood:
LC part of the day-
M1: coffee w/.5c skim and .5c whole milk
Ex.-cardio
M2: 200g EW, 4g butter, 7g lite mayo, 100g tomato
M3: 130g smoked turkey lunch meat

397 cals, 52gP, 19.5gC, 12gF

Refeed part of the day-
M4: pre workout- 200g pink grapefruit w/20g dextrose; 15g whey pp in water, 5g creatine
Ex.-tension workout
M5: during workout-35g gatorade powder, 15g whey pp in 32oz water
M6: immed post workout-30g gatorade powder, 20g whey in water, 5g creatine
M7: post workout- 150g pasta (dry wt), 300g tomato sauce, mushrooms
M8: 100g each frosted mini wheats and NesQuik chocolate cereal, 1.5c skim

2109 cals, 89gP, 416gC, 11gF

Total for the day: 2506 cals, 435gC, 141gP, 23gF, 25g fiber

Notes
Good day! Pretty decent energy, not hungry until after the workout. Just finished M7 and I'm ready for M8 already, ha.

It took me a while to get my head straight,

Hey Dane...gotta love those sweet cereals:
frosted mini wheats and NesQuik chocolate cereal
YUM! You're doing a great job as usual.

I had some workout yesterday. It was my very first official workout at my new gym. He and I worked on upper body and it was without a doubt the most intense workout ever. I did free weights for the first time.

As I sit here now my muscles are all quivering and I am feeling hungry again even though it's only been a few hours since I have eaten. This goes along with Gary Taube's GCBC book that states the body always seeks homeostatis. It could also be the last dregs of TOM or my body adjusting to exercise again.

It's really weird though cause my muscles are quivering internally even as I sit here, I can feel them shaking.

I posted on your home about this also but can you explain further?

Hey girl,

Okay it's official. I'm almost 5 wks post pardum and I'm getting into my routine again. I know you mentioned I needed to start logging my calories to see how much I'm taking in. So I'm starting today...

The only thing that is hard is that I usually only buy food on sale so my food is so random I'm having to log "new entries" in myplan all the time and it's hard with new baby. Any suggestions there...?

I figured that I could make up meals and just eat the same thing throughout the week and then go shopping at the end and change my meals for the next week. hmm...

I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this.

I've also started a very "beginner 10K training program". Simply because I'm so out of shape and there is atleast one race I want to run this year. I also want to try to hit the gym at least 2 times a week for lower body and then upper. Not sure how I'm going to squeeze that in but I'll try. (dangit I need a freakin bow flex or something...)

Anyways your training looks great! Keep it up!