Adios Burritosssss

Since bringing on my Nutrition Coach, I’ve been really careful not to put myself into harm’s way. AKA within 100 ft of a drive thru. Tonight, thanks to a 6 year old that sleeps so deep he still needs overnight pull-ups, I had to make a late night stop at Wal-Mart. There it was. It was like running into an ex. Of course, in true EX fashion, it was looking brighter and more popular than ever. Oh Taco Bell, you fucking devil you.

I had literally 4 things to get at Wal-Mart: Pullups, GF Waffle Mix, Sugar Free Syrup & Apple/Cheese snacks for Tim. The ENTIRE TIME I just kept fighting my inner monologue known as FABS – aka FAT BABS.

Fabs: “hey, it’s Sunday. You don’t weigh in again until SATURDAY..you can cover this, just hit some extra cardio”
Fabs: “Think about the cheese…and the sauce…and the well…all of it”
Fabs: “It will be ok, I mean you’re not really hurting anything with just one right?”

I literally battled this as my car swooped by the Purple glow of the Sign. I threw on my newly found Motivational Speeches playlist and literally shouted out the window… ‘NOT TODAY TACO BELL!!!”

I drove off feeling like I’d won some kind of victory. Like Taco Bell was sitting their dumbfounded holding a beefy Five Layer out the window that I had just given the finger to.

No matter. I still won this one.

Yes,You Need A Personal Trainer/Coach.

This is Brian. Brian is a Turd..er Coach. He makes me laugh, cry, swear and pissed off He is my greatest advocate, healer, teacher and fitness friend as well. All of this is for the greater good known as: “Babs Becoming BEAST”

In case you’ve ever wondered what goes through the mind of anyone with a personal trainer, this sums it up nicely. There is a fine balance between “Oh Yeah…let’s do this shit” and “This may be the reason I’m in a motorized cart for the rest of my life”.

My husband battles with understanding the importance and worth of a personal trainer. Every month. When the billing hits our checking account. Like clockwork. It’s Battle Royale of the “Why is this necessary? You don’t get anything from it?! It’s just time with a trainer?”

Well, my husband of 10 years who should know by now that I remember every single frivolous purchase you’ve made in the past 15 years, Personal Training / Fitness Coaching will be the most Tangible yet Intangible time you will buy. What you actually get is so much more than time.

I was reading the posts from Fat Girl Wunning and I was hit with one of my “why’s” Why do I put myself through the soreness? Why do I fork out cold card earned cash every month for my Coach? This is WHY:

Personal Trainers are Motivators, Dictators, Friends and Mortal Enemies. They are exactly what we need to push ourselves to the new limits required to meet our goals. It may feel like we’re dying, but they would never push us to injury or harm. They will however make you swear like a sailor and sweat like a hooker in church.

Check out Fat Girl Wunnings recent musings with her personal trainer. They are brilliantly hilarious…and real life.

Fat Girl Wunning

So in my last entry, I wrote about how all I do is complain to Franz, and when it really hurts, he doesn’t believe me. Well, after that blog came out, a loyal reader (Hey, Katie!) suggested that we come up with a safe word to use. You know, the one word that I’m allowed to use to tell him that NO I’M DEAD SERIOUS, I’M DYING.

When I walked into training on that Wednesday, I proposed this idea to him, and he laughed. Then we both threw out words to use… at the same time. His was ‘Nutella’. Mine was ‘Marshmallow’. The first thing I thought was, I need a s’more.

After this, he proceeded to kick my ass, and I couldn’t use my legs for two days, and I never did get my s’more.

By the way, when Katie suggested I use a safe word, she also…

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The Morning Before The Beast.

Early Morning…getting ready for three of the busiest days left in 2017. Thanksgiving will be a time of resting my mind from work, but powering up my mind and body for the ME work.

I’m such a technical person that I spent all weekend with my head in a textbook learning about #ATP, #Glucose, #Glucogenesis and every other process the body uses to fuel itself in relation to #Macronutrients.

I’m literally the girl who reads instruction and user manuals. 🤓

So now that’s it’s time to start #ketodiet, I feel ready to battle the change that comes first.

Then all of a sudden…BOOM. I knew everything EXCEPT what to Actually put in my mouth and how much.

Thanks to @ketocounterculture for his guidance I have a foundation in place. #Macros are set in @myfitnesspal and my coach has a copy.

Excited to see my training progress and with the future keto results (fat loss / less inflammation / etc) 2018 is going to be #BEAST.

I’m 6mos out from my first meet with @usapowerlifting (MN Raw June 9th), I’m ready to kick down some body fat and lift some serious weight.

But first…Grocery Shopping and meal prep while enjoy my last empty carb filled cup of joe. Mark tomorrow, NOV 21st, 2017 down. Tomorrow is the start of #BabsLettingTheBeastOut

Week 2 Weigh In: Sh!t Just Got Real

Alright, it’s week two and Weigh-In time. After 7 days, 3 hardcore workouts, 1 extra cardio session and clean eating…oh and I may have eaten a corn dog and a PB&J (not at the same time)…

The Official Weigh-In:

Week 1: (Starting Weight)

Week 2: -4.2 lbs

First Goal: Lose 10 Lbs for Trip to Nashville: 19 Days to go 5.8 lbs to go

Day 4: Beast Mode – Salad Style

Today was a pretty good day other than the -22 temps and -50 wind chills. ugh. My workout with Ben was good. If there’s one thing that challenged me today, it was my hunger. I ate on plan all day and I was constantly hungry. It was like I would eat and my system would forget I had eaten five minutes later. This wasn’t a “oh you’re telling yourself your hungry” or “you’re bored and your brain says to eat” kind of hungry..this wasn’t emotional. It was CARNAL to say the least. This is a good sign that it’s all coming together. My body is starting to amp up the way it needs in order to burn fat and start building up new muscle.

When I left Rejuv after my workout, I stopped by the local Grocery and picked up a decent sized salad I fashioned from their faboosh salad bar. Romaine, Spinach, Mixed Greens, Mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, egg, chicken…oh the list keeps going. At this point, my hunger was ROARING. You could hear my stomach. When I got back to work, I grabbed a fork and knife, sat at my desk and this occurred.

I swear if anyone or anything had come between that salad and I, it would have been grim.

I didn’t post my Current Stats from Day 1 (Friday, Jan 3) so here we go:

Neck: 15
Chest: 50
Waist: 52
Hips: 59
Thigh: 28
Calf: 18
Bicep: 15.5

BMI: 43.1
BF%: 45

Weight: 300.4
Height: 5’10”
Age: 33

Introduction to shopping for Clean Eating & Paleo Diet

Rejuv Medical’s Ben, along with other trainers and nutritionists, will conduct Grocery Store Tours Bi-weekly. These are fantastic for clean eaters and even Paleo dieters. You’ll walk through the entire store learning the difference between clean and non-clean products, you’ll get the best advice for shopping for a cleaner pantry of goodies for the whole family.

Plus, they’ll help you learn to REALLY read a label and show you what products/ingredients to watch out for and which ones you want to make sure are present! It’s great! I’m going to be attending the next session on Wednesday, Dec 11th at 7pm and if you want to join me, print the photo/coupon that I’ve got attached here and get signed up! You’ll get the tour for only $25 instead of the normal $75!

if you can’t get into the gym to sign up (it’s a small class, spots fill fast) you can express sign up by calling (320) 281-5100 and giving them the code “Brook’s Blog” to receive the discount.

This discount is for NEW CLIENTS only, if you are an active client of Rejuv, you most likely have the class included in your package already 🙂

Hope to see you next week!! 🙂

I Forgot My Lunchbox. (Insert Foot Stomping & Tantrum Here)

So my lunchbox. Yeah, about that. Totally forgot it today. Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s not the end of the world. When you’ve been on point all week with your eats, however, it seems devastating. You’ve told yourself all week that you’re making the right decisions and you’re excited about it. Then you forget your lunchbox filled with Brown Rice, Steak, Homemade Beef Noodle Soup, Clementines, a Cliff bar, Mio and other essentials. A nice Clean Lunchbox. Now what?

Jimmy Johns, Erbert & Gerberts, Subway, Green Mill, Chinese Takeout, Cupcakes in the breakroom, vending machines, soda, a granola bar smothered in chocolate someone left in the studio: that is what.

This is the part of the day when your stomach starts to talk back to everything you do, you start to feel light headed and all these food temptations that are NOT part of plan start to hover around you like a bad after school special on drugs and peer pressure. C’mon Brookie, everyone’s doing it.

It’s almost infuriating. Studies show that “habits” take days if not weeks to become the ‘norm’, but let’s be honest with ourselves here, once a Carb Fiend, ALWAYS a Carb Fiend. Having been through the weight loss journey once already, I can affirm that although we lose taste for much of the ‘bad’ in the food world, are we really going to turn down a caramel roll fresh out of the oven with our coffee the next time we visit mom’s house? The answer isn’t YES, it’s MAYBE.

Life is too short to deprive ourselves 100% of the time of the things we’ve grown to love. It’s not about NEVER eating things we love, it’s about moderation and timing. Eating a fast food lunch only 4 days into my new weight loss journey is much more detrimental to my emotional and physical success than it would be 3 months down the line. I know for a fact that I will beat myself up over it and then battle the “give up and start again tomorrow” mentality.

I don’t know why I do it, but I procrastinate the success. “Well, that wasn’t on plan. I’ll start again tomorrow.” Why tomorrow? Why not immediately following. I know why. I try to make it perfect. After many conversations with Ben and my other support systems, I’ve come to the glaring conclusion:

IT’S NOT GOING TO BE PERFECT. THAT’S PERFECTLY OK.

Now, don’t get me wrong, this new mantra doesn’t mean I’m going to eat a doughnut with my coffee every morning, but it does mean that I’m going to try and mentally prepare myself for slip ups and when they do happen focus on the moving on part, rather than dwelling.

Now, back to the matter at hand: lunch. I’m about to pass out or break something if I don’t get this blood sugar up, so I’m contemplating taking my cookies out into the -7 F temp / -24 F wind chill of MinneSNOWta to go to the Pacific Wok just down the street. I can at least get steamed veggies, chicken and brown rice…AND it’s on plan. I guess I’ll be asking Santa for “Pacific Wok Delivery without the $50 minimum”.

***UPDATE***

yeah. I got Erbert & Gerberts. Spartan on Wheat with Tomato Basil Soup…and are you sitting down? A Diet Coke. I may start a Diet Shaming Website that will rival that of every dog that ever ate the trash.

On a positive note, I didn’t harm anyone or passout.

Food Prep: Mason Jar Salads

This is a great idea! It’s so simple, yet isn’t it always the simple things that we never seem to think of? I’m taking the Rejuv Shopping Tour to review Clean Eating & Paleo options next Wednesday, Dec 11th at 7pm. If you want to join me call Rejuv at (320) 281-5100 to sign up! I would love to have you there too! ❤

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”

Or at least in my case you do!

I have a really hard time with cravings. It’s probably my biggest challenge when it comes to a healthy lifestyle. One thing that I recently tried is planning my meals for the week. This personally helps me tremendously. While browsing Pinterest one day I stumbled upon these adorable (and totally genius) mason jar salads. Prep all at once, and eat healthy for the week! Perfect! Here’s what I put in mine:

Southwest Salad
-romaine
-southwest blend cheese
-southwest corn blend
-chopped green peppers
-shredded carrots
-quinoa
-ranch
-BBQ sauce

When it comes to the dressing, I found a zero calorie ranch dressing that actually looks pretty clean, and a BBQ sauce that’s low in sodium!

Summer Poppyseed Salad
-romaine
-strawberries
-pineapple
-mandarin oranges
-quinoa
-poppyseed dressing

Tips
-Dressing first, Greens last!
-Put…

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Adios Burritosssss

Yes,You Need A Personal Trainer/Coach.

The Morning Before The Beast.

Week 2 Weigh In: Sh!t Just Got Real

Day 4: Beast Mode – Salad Style

Introduction to shopping for Clean Eating & Paleo Diet

I Forgot My Lunchbox. (Insert Foot Stomping & Tantrum Here)

Food Prep: Mason Jar Salads

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