Day 9 - Left Overs

Cardio

15 mins on stationary bike on level 5


Strength Training

50 crunches

15 mins of this video. I got 10 reps for each thing done =] It makes you break a SWEAT

100 'criss cross' bicycle crunches

20 squats on my toes (really tightens the booty good)


I thought I was going to do the other part of that video but didn't. I got a lil lazy hehe.



Meal Plan

Break Fast
3/4(? I donno) cup Frosted Mini Wheats


Lunch
Rice with peas
1 1/2 Tuna Cake


Dinner
Rice with peas
2 small grilled basil fish fillets


Snack
Hot Cocoa with marshmallows
some kettle cooked popcorn..only like 1/2 a cup or so, it was sitting on the table
some jalapeno chips hehe

Today was a day of light cardio but I did break a sweat during the strength training portion. Now it was only 15 mins long but wowee can you say sweat baby sweat? I did about 3-4 sets of the ones with push up on my knees and the rest were on my toes. I was going to do part II of that video later in the evening but decided not to. I felt a little lazy and didn't feel like breaking a sweat again. All my food today was pretty much left overs from what I made earlier this week. Boo! But it was pretty tasty still. It's a lot smaller than what I would normally eat but I must say drinking a glass of water before the meal helps fill you up! Also I drink water throughout the meal and take time to chew out the food and taste the flavors instead of just gulping it down because I'm hungry. If you pace yourself, you don't get hungry. My snacks were a fail haha but I have no fruits or anything that is a 'healthy' snack around here right now. I'll get something this weekend.



JB

Day 8 - Week 1 Update

Cardio
30 mins on elliptical

Strength Training

10 push ups

40 bicycle crunches

10 diamond push ups (on knees)

50 side crunches (25 on each side)

50 crunches



Meal Plan

Breakfast
an apple

Lunch
1 1/2 Tuna Cake
Basmati Rice

Snack
kettle corn popcorn

Dinner
Leftover from what was lunch, I don't have time to cook more than once a day!

-Back to doin some cardio. I have never cooked rice before, it came out very mushy. It tasted terrible. Hopefully I will get better at it. If you haven't noticed I have no had any salad either. I'm trying to stay away from being too plain and eating salad everyday or a sandwich and venturing off into new types of foods and cuisines. I need to go grocery shopping soon! My kitchen cabinet is so empty right now but I'm trying to substitute many things and getting creative with my small budget and lack of ingredients.

-It's been a week since I started this and here are my results. I can see a little more definition, nothing drastic.

front

side

side angled

I like this picture. I can see the line where my abs will be defined one day!

back

arm
I swear it already looks flatter!

It looks like my arm is glowing. I have a bad camera.

Flexing. This is about as good as it gets for me.

You can't really see too much difference in a week but I can definitely FEEL the difference. My body gets sore and I have to spend a lot more time stretching. It feels great though.


JB

Day 7 - Fasting?

I didn't mean to but I ended up fasting til almost 9 pm today. EEK!

Dinner
Grilled fish with a delicious basil garlic and ginger sauce.
Wild Rice

I had no idea what kind of fish it was, I forgot what I bought. Oops but it wasn't salmon.


Recipe!
Salt fish to taste then place on grill until each side is cooked. 8-10 mins total on medium heat
Then just pour the sauce on top and let it simmer down until it gets a little thicker. 8 minutes

Sauce:
1/4 cup sushi vinegar + normal vinegar (rice vinegar is preferred but I didn't have any available)
Pinch of sugar (brown sugar preferred but I didn't have any lol, gotta make do!)
1 big garlic clove minced
1 tbsp of ginger minced (I used sliced sushi ginger because that's what I had in the fridge)
1 tbsp of low sodium soy sauce
1 tbsp of kikoman thai style chilli sauce
a few sprinkles of crushed red pepper to make it spicier
a pinch of cayenne pepper to spicen it up more
2 tbsp of basil (use fresh!! sadly I had dry basil lol. You can use cilantro too if you don't like basil)
1/4 cup water

mix these all together and let it sit while you grill the fish. After fish is grilled pour sauce all over and swirl it around some. Let it simmer a few mins on medium low heat. And you're done!








JB

Day 6 - I like big butts

Cardio

20 mins

Dancing
Jump Roping
Jumping Jacks

-you can hardly call this a cardio workout but my heart was pounding and I broke a sweat.


Strength Training

-today I focused more on lower body and abs (a lot of ab work today)

10 push ups

100 crunches

10 diamond push ups

100 bycycle crunches

10 wide push ups

100 side crunches (50 on each side)

20 of EACH of the exercises shown in this video. It HURTS.

100 Russian Crunches (40 with 5 lb dumbells, the rest with hands up)
-I had to do them slowly and take a few breaks
-here is a video on how to do them

Breakfast
1 cup of Frosted Mini Wheats

Lunch
Chicken n Lime and Fettuccine

Dinner
Left over from lunch lol, I was too lazy to make more food

Snack
Bubble Tea - green tea flavor


-I'm pretty sure my abs and legs are going to burn tomorrow, yay!


JB

Day 5 - Sunday Blues

Sunday I left during the evening from my little weekend at home with the fam.


No workout today. I'm Pooped.


Brunch:
-frozen berry shake

Dinner:
3 big samosas. They were supposed to be appetizers but I filled myself up with them and got too full after. I love potatos now. I know it's not the best thing to eat but it's not like I eat them everyday, right?

Snack:
-toast with margarine

I had way too many carbs for one day. It was so good. Gotta get back on track tomorrow!

JB

Day 4 - weekend is dangerous

I visited some friends and family this weekend. It is so very hard to stay loyal to your routine when away from my place. Ah!


No Cardio


Strength Training

10 push ups

40 bicycle crunches

10 diamond push ups

50 sit ups

10 wide push ups

100 crunches


-these I could easily do in my room without being asked questions




Brunch:
Large mixed berry shake

Dinner:
Pita bread + curry style chicken kabobs
Cucumber salad

Snack:
-toast with ginger preserves
-toast with margarine

It was a relaxing weekend. We watched a movie, hung out, and caught up. Relaxing is important.

JB

Day 3 - Burger King Got His Way

I did NOT feel like working out today at all...but I did anyway. I'm kind of proud of myself. I kept up with it 3 days in a row haha.



Cardio
30 mins on tredmill



Strength Training

Legs: In and Out thigh machine- 1 rep of 15 for in, 1 rep of 15 for outties

Arms: machine that works deltoids- 1 rep of 15

Leg: leg press - 1 rep of 15

Arms: machine that works chest muscles/shoulders - 1 reps of 15

Abs: lay down flat, grasp medicine ball b/w feet and lift - 1 rep of 10


- for strength training today I focused on legs and arms because my abs were aching from the day before



Breakfast:
none..I know I know..

Lunch:
protein shake

Snack:
2 medium samosas

Lunch:
Burger King chicken sandwich - complete fail.

My food intake was absolutely horrendous today. I feel like all the calories I burned today were wasted when I ate the burger king sandwich. Very disappointed but I feel like I was soo busy today running around everywhere! I had to grab something quick and it was 11pm by the time I got to dinner.



JB

Day 2 - Samosa Day

I had an Indian friend stay with me today. She bought a packet of mini cocktail samosas. They are pure carbs filled with potato but the back of the bag said 5 mini samosas were only 1g of fat. I ate 10-12 for lunch with extremely spicy hot sauce. It was soo good but it burned so bad.

Here is my work out and diet of the day.


Cardio:
30 mins on elliptical

Strength Training:

10 push ups
-my arms were in aching from yesterday!

50 side crunches (25 on each side)

10 push ups (on knees)

40 crunches

5 push ups (on knees)

40 bicycle crunches



Breakfast:
vitamins
1/2 c of mini wheats cereal

remember how having tea in the morning made me throw up last time? haha none of that this morning!

Lunch:
12 mini samosas with spicy sauce
1/2 of an oatmeal cream pie (those debbie snacks) I found one while cleaning my cabinet today, it made me super happy

Snack:
-some kettle cooked jalapeno chips again
-a special K fiber bar

Dinner:
14 mini samosas (Each side is like 1" in length. They have 3 sides.)
I had to drink A LOT of water with this batch because the sauce somehow got spicier. It made my..digestive system work very well though haha.

-we decided to go ahead and finish the packet of samosas she got


JB

Day 1 - Get Started TODAY

Rule #1: You have to start today. Right NOW. There is no tomorrow. "Tomorrow" will never come.

Sometimes it is the hardest thing to actually start getting healthy. You think about it all the time. Trust me, I know. I read about it all the time. Then it hit me, reading and buying a dvd isn't going to do shit unless I put what I learned into use. So get up and get movin! TODAY. It does not have to be a long period of time. Take 30 minutes, 15, 10 whatever! It's only ten minutes. In the past I thought, oh it's just 10 minutes, I'll do it later. Later never came.

Don't think twice, just do it NOW.

Here is my health schedule from today


Cardio
35 minutes on level 5 and 8 (alternating every 5 minutes) on an elliptical machine

-I picked one of the Fat Burn options on the machine. That way I did not have to mess with the levels on my own or keep track of time. It did it for me! These machines were made to make life easier. Use it!

-I picked one that alternates because alternating speed during a workout is actually supposed to help burn more calories. We will see.


Strength Training
10 push ups with one leg raised

50 bicycle crunches

10 push ups

50 side crunches for obliques, 25 on each side

10 push ups done slowly

40 crunches

-It took me maybe 15 minutes total to them all. I would take a break in the middle of each set and sometimes just sit there listening to the music. lol.



You don't have to do cardio and strength training on the same day. Do what feels comfortable to you. If you feel like walking for 10 minutes then walk for 10 minutes. For a first day I was going to only do 20 minutes of cardio and end with 10 push ups and 50 crunches. Then I decided that I might slack on another day. I had time today and I was motivated so I went ahead and did more. Doing less is easy. Push yourself to see if you can do one more set or 5 more minutes. You might be surprised!

Meal Plan

Breakfast
- I didn't have time so I made green tea. It actually made me throw up. Not doing that again. I was becoming more late thanks to the extra trip to the bathroom so I ate a handful of granola cereal straight out of the box dry on the way out. It wasn't that bad. Me gusta.


Lunch
- A slim fast shake. The kind you make with the powder and water or milk. I ran out of milk. It was disgusting but again I didn't really have time to eat lunch. My timing is very off.


Snack
- Sometime before dinner I ate some kettle cooked jalapeno chips. It wasn't much but it looked so yummy.


Dinner
- Wheat penne pasta with spring veggies sprinkled with natural parmesean cheese. It was delicious to me and finally..FOOD!



I kind of failed at the eating healthy part. It's okay, one step at a time! I tried to drink a lot of water today though. I'm positive I drank a good healthy amount. I am very bad at keeping up with drinking water but maybe my skin will look better after this too!





This is the part Faceless Fit becomes a reality to me. Pictures. I would normally dread the idea of posting my body up for the world to view but here I do not have to show anything, yet I'm showing everything! This is my body. My Jelly Belly.

front with arms up

side

front

Now let's take the shirt off. No whistling please.


front


I decided to wear pink. I makes me happy and feel girly.


angle


side


side with arms up


back


arm


arm


Flexing . This is about as good as it gets for me.

I'm not that bad considering I don't exercise or eat healthy. I think. Please agree with me before I cry. I am quite soft all over. With lovely stretch marks and dimples starting to form. I have never hade a child. I know I can do better for my body and I will. Cutting a little bit of fat and having more definition is the ultimate goal for me. No 6 packs, no weight loss, no super model. I'm hoping that changing my diet will help shed a little bit of the fat and working out will firm my jelly.



I would love for you to share your day 1 and photos with me. Remember, this whole thing is anonymous. No one will know who you are. It does help a lot with the motivational factor though when you know there are others doing this with you!

email: jellybellyblogs@gmail.com

-JB

Hey there Jelly Bellies

Hey there Jelly Bellies!

I have created this blog for myself and people like you. I had this crazy idea that I wanted to start a blog so that I may keep a record of my healthy life style. Which has yet to start. I would like to take pictures of my journey and I would love for you to keep up with me. We will all be faceless. We will all be one and the same. Jelly bellies! It's sad but very true. It's time my jelly belly ripens into steel, how about yours?






I am an ordinary person just like you and I just want a healthier lifestyle. We've all said it before and even tried to start it a hundred times but how many of us really keep up? I've never been trained or had a trainer. I look forward to trying out many different techniques and exercises, "diets", and recipes (mmm!) during this journey. I will try to make everything as simple as possible and without all the gimmicks. Hopefully this will be a smart move for me and a smart move for you too. Instead of picking up addictions that include excessive shopping of shoes, clothing, and beauty products (yes I am a beauty junkie!) I would like to concentrate on a different part of life. Finally make healthy living a habit.

JB