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NYTC Day1 Food Journal

By Angela on January 7, 2013

I got my new workout shirt in the mail! It came from cafe press and is gray and white striped with strong is the new skinny screen printed in ombre blue. I love the screen print but the rest of the shirt was disappointing. The fabric is not soft and stretchy like I was expecting and is the kind of knit that doesn’t hold it’s shape. The shoulder straps grow as I wear it. I may be able to adjust things with my sewing machine but for $22 I was expecting quality more like my awesome Addidas ribbed tank.

Breakfast: 6 oz plain nonfat Greek Yogurt sweetened with 2 tsp stevia. Topped with 3 oz fresh blackberries (Aldi!) And a sprinkling of a little more stevia.

Pre-workout snack 1 rib of celery 2 Tbs of peanut butter and 1 Tbs and 1 Tbs of raisins. I wanted to show you my tiny measuring cup. It is 1/8 of a cup–the same as 2 Tbs. I use it for salad dressing, peanut butter, and dried fruit. I have 2 :).

I ate half the celery before my workout and the other half after my workout. I ~~had~~ got to work this morning (zero hour choir) and then when I arrived home had a few fires to put out related to my new menu website. By then I was STARVING–so the half before workout, half after was a great solution. Then my boys decided that they would like a snack just like mine….Felt like I would never make it to work out. Just a reminder that the earlier I do it the better.

The extra boy on the right is our cousin to play for the day :).

I just finished my workout of the month B. I had to modifiy some things but finished it all. Even Grant (20 months) did T-ups with me. I wish I had a video camera for that one! so cute!

Now to hit the shower. TMI? I always wonder how other people do their schedules so I’m just going to lay mine out there. I leave for work with 5 sometimes 6 kids in tow before 7 am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I no longer shower in the morning. I shower right after my workout. And I love morning sleep too much to get up in time to workout before work. Bad things happen to my skin if I get this out of order since I seem to be allergic to sweat. Don’t laugh, I’m serious here :P.

Anyhoo, hoping this update and my shower will keep me busy enough that I won’t think of food until lunch time. The first week of a new fitness routine is the hardest for me. I have extremely strong hunger pangs even when there’s no reason for them. I’m going to hit publish now, but will update throughout the day as I eat more :).

Lunch: 3 oz romaine; 2 oz Aldi canned chicken breast; .5 oz toasted pecans; 3 oz (half) a chopped apple; 1 Tbs craisins; 2 Tbs Fit and Active French dressing.

Snack: Detour bar and a cutie.

Dinner: 3 oz romaine, 4 oz black eyed peas, 4 oz ground turkey cooked together with green chilies, cumin and cilantro; cilantro (lots) and Jack’s garden fresh salsa. With a side of baby carrots for more color.

Evening snack: 1 oz beef jerky and a whole grapefruit.

I have been extremely busy today. So even though my calories ended up on the low end for me (Seriously, before today I was close to 2500 a day) I really haven’t felt too hungry. I’m sure it will balance out later as my schedule clears a bit. I’m relaunching new parts to old businesses and building websites talking to programmers across the sea and contemplating how to spend thousands of dollars in a hundred different ways and freezing up with fear as soon as I think I might really do it. But if we do get a tax refund this year, I’m buying front doors with glass that actually seal. Either that or fix my car. Or….

Ok, so here are my fitness pal screen shots for the day. They should enlarge if you click on them, but I’m not promising.

I know my calories are low, but other than that I’m pretty happy. I nearly reached my 100 g of protein goal. I stayed away from all sugars and BLTs (bites licks and tastes) and I had a great time with my motivation calendar and the dry erase marker :).

Free Printable: Getting Ready for Monday

By Angela on January 5, 2013

Monday starts the challenge. Registration ends Monday at 1:30 eastern time (that’s 12:30 round here.) I’m signed up. My before pictures are taken–can’t wait to compare then to the afters!

Holly really recommends we write down somewhere what workout we are supposed to do each day ahead of time so we don’t have to think about little details and can just do it. I never have until now. My last challenge my life was so nutty that I couldn’t remember what workout I had done just the day before and started to feel confused when it was time to workout again the next day. Sometimes I used it as an excuse to skip. Lame, I know.

So I made this:

It has 4 weeks of motivational phrases for me. And places at the bottom to check off when I drink a class of water, take my vitamins and track my servings of produce and protein.

I printed it on 11×17 paper at Kinkos for $.25. My frame was 11×14 so I used the cardboard backing to trim it to size.

I had the frame in my attic with a photo in it from my 4th year of marriage. We looked like kids! I was pregnant with my 3rd baby! I did save the photo but don’t feel like hanging it up right now. Anyway, the glass makes the calendar a dry erase board. But it gets better.

I put post it notes (dollar tree’s version anyway) over each square and then on the post it wrote the workout I was supposed to do for the day. WOM A means workout of the month A and INT A means interval A. I wrote in a previous post more specifically what that means, but this is enough to remind me what to do.

Then when I finish the workout I can peel off the sticky note and read the motivational phrase below like: “You Go Girl!” This is going to be fun!

If you’d like to print your own file, you can download it here: FYM Goal Check off calendar

The Plan

By Angela on January 3, 2013

I have some big goals to achieve this challenge. Here’s how I’m going to do it.

For the first 3 weeks, I will use clubFYM’s January workout of the month. It is 5 exercises each performed for 50 seconds with 10 seconds of rest before going on to the next one. After the 5 are completed there is 1 minute of rest before starting the cycle again. I plan to do 3 cycles for the first 2 weeks and 4 for the last week. I will do this 3 – 4 times a week.

On the between days, I will do intervals with 60 seconds of work and 30 seconds of rest for 15 minutes. I will alternate between running stairs and burpees on A days and Mountain Climbers and jumping jacks on B days.

February 1st I will change my work outs to prevent plateau :).

There are several challenges I face: I love food–especially sweet treats and I have 7 other family members that do not need to lose fat and have high metabolisms. They need more healthy carbs than I do. The challenge will be to feed them well and ~~not tempt myself too badly~~ feed myself well even though our needs are different.

To help with my cravings I’m deciding ahead when I will have my planned indulgences (foods that wouldn’t normally be on my fitness plan.) I’ll start with 3 a week and then evaluate how it’s going. I’ll also have some calorie neutral foods available like baby carrots, celery sticks, apple slices, peppermint tea and warm broth available.

My workout challenge is muscle soreness. The more children I’ve had the more sensitive I’ve become to pain. I’ve stocked up on epsom salts for muscle soothing baths. When I get really sore, I just want to quit. I’m preparing myself psychologically to press on.

Meet Holly–My Trainer

By Angela on January 2, 2013

I have a fitness trainer that I’ve never met in person, but talked to many times. She trains me via the internet and helps connect me to other women going through the same things I am. Want to meet her? You are going to love her as much as I do-and wait until her youngest son comes on camera. He’s so adorable!

You have from now until January 7th to join the New Year Transformation Challenge with me and Holly and hundreds of other women reaching for our fitness dreams. If you join by grabbing Holly’s ebook and video set, then the first month of clubFYM is free. You will kick yourself if you do this backwards.

Click the icon below to go to the ebook sales page.

If you are reading this after January 7th, it’s too late to join this challenge for prizes, but not to late to join and follow along with us. And there will be another challenge starting soon after this one ends. So no need to wait on your goals–just start now wherever you are in your journey.

It’s Assessment Day!

By Angela on January 2, 2013

Today it doesn’t matter what size I ended other challenges. It doesn’t matter what I looked like when I got married, or before my first baby was born. All that matters is today, where I’m beginning now. I can’t change the past, only learn from it. I choose to embrace myself as a wife and mother, daughter, sister, friend, aunt, teacher, and business woman. I am more than a set of numbers. I am a complete person, whose value comes from my creator, not what I look like, or what I do.

But today I choose to make choices that will make me healthier, and make the rest of what I do easier and more effective. To evaluate my progress and to see what works, I will use numbers and photos. This is hard for me, but gets easier each time I do it. The first set of assessment pictures I ever took was emotionally crushing and very motivating at the same time. I felt a lot more attractive than I looked! But I couldn’t argue with my pictures!

Where I began my FYM journey May 2011

Where I begin today:

Starting Picture for the NYTC 2013

Stats:

36 years old

Height: 5 foot 6 inches

Weight: 145.2 pounds

Natural Waist: 33 1/4 inches

Mommy Tummy: 38 1/2 inches

Hips: 39 inches

I have 6 children. My youngest is 20 months old and has been weaned for 4 months. I did all my previous challenges while nursing.

We moved to our new house last year on New Year’s Eve. The New Year transformation challenge of 2012 was the first challenge I totally bombed. I underestimated the stress of moving and having 2 houses to remodel simultaneously while homeschooling and working part time. (What was I thinking, honestly?)

So this year finishing the same challenge strong, is important to me, just to prove that I can do it.

New Goals for the New Year

By Angela on December 29, 2012

Hi I’m Angela Coffman :).

This is my food and fitness journal. I’m participating in the New Year Transformation Challenge (aka NYTC) at clubFYM and have some specific goals to reach.

My primary focus is strength and then fat loss. Here are my goals:

1. To be able to do 15 “man style” push-ups in a row with good form.

2. To achieve 1 good form pull-up without assistance

3. To do 20 burpees in a row

4. To improve flexibility and eventually do a front right leg split.

5. To lose 10 fat lbs and lose inches in my belly, waist, and hips

The NYTC registration starts January 2nd and ends January 7th. There are two ways to join– 1. you can just head to clubFYM.com and sign up. Or 2. you can purchase Holly’s ebook and video set and get your first month of clubFYM for free. I recommend the second option as her ebook set is amazing and important to understanding her program. Besides who wouldn’t want a free month of club fym?!

If you purchase her ebook set through a link on this site, a portion of the sale goes to support my family.

I’ll be starting up the blog on January 7th when the challenge begins. I will take my starting stats on January 2nd and will update those here. Until then subscribe in the box on the right and my daily food journal with recipes will come right to your inbox!