Thanks for all your thoughts on hunger yesterday. It’s quite interesting how we all deal with it (or not LOL).
Lifting day. We should make some kind of theme song for lifting day, don’t you think? I drank a protein drink (15 g of protein) and headed out. It was somewhat dark when I left for the gym. Bye-bye daylight 🙁
| Exercise | Set/rep/weight | Muscle worked |
| Barbell Squat | 1 sets of 10 with 50# bar
2 sets of 10 with 60# bar |
Lower body |
| Seated cable row | 3 sets of 10 at 50# | Back |
| Lying Flat Chest Fly | 3 sets of 10 with 15# DBs (30# total) | Chest |
| Decline Sit ups | 3 sets of 10 | Core |
| Lying Triceps extension | 3 sets of 10 with 10# DBs (20# total) | Triceps |
| Hammer Curls | 3 sets of 8 with 15# DBs (30# total) | Biceps |
| YTWL | 3 sets of 4 with 8# DBs (16# total) | Shoulders |
| Good Morning | 3 sets 10 with 55# bar | Low back and hammies |
This was tiring! I need to work my squat weight back up again. Then I hopped on the treadmill for a bit.
Since I have quite a few new readers and it has been a while since I have posted it, here is the video for the YTWL. I learned this move while doing the New Rules of Lifting for Women and kept this in my rotation.
Always light weights on this one. Shoulder muscles are delicate!
When I got home, it was time for breakfast. Yesterday John and I both said we would eat eggs for breakfast today for something different. I made up a little frittata for myself, which I finished up in the toaster oven. Don’t you love this little cast iron skillet? 6 inches. Perfect for a single frittata.
Mine had some sauteed green and red peppers and was topped with sharp cheddar cheese.
This was good, but I am not sure I liked the peppers with breakfast.
Sharon asked a question yesterday about my plate sizes. Most of you know I eat off of smaller plates so the volume of food looks like more and also to help with portion control. The plate above is 7.5 inches. My eyes like to see a lot of food, so the smaller plates help keep me from heaping food on my plate – because I am a plate cleaner!
I ended up sort of swapping breakfast and lunch. We have bananas on the edge of over ripe, so I made a coconut flour banana bread pudding for lunch.
Topped with some peanut flour for protein. It’s a lifting day, so I try to get in extra.
Today went by fast. Not sure why, but it did. I had an almond milk latte while Pixie snored on all day.
If she isn’t on my lap, she is always in that spot. Ah, the life of a cat.
Tonight was the night for John to eat his crow – or rather buy my football dinner. I had decided on a small downtown place. The Chocolate Mill. Then we got there and they stopped serving dinner as of October 1st and just had desserts. Ooops. Plan B:
Restaurant 99. This was at the mall. I actually like it here because the service is always fast and the food is usually pretty good. Popcorn appetizer!
We barely got the popcorn and our meals came out. I don’t even think it was much more than 10 minutes from the time we ordered!
I decided on the Shrimp Bruscetta. It was grilled shrimp with a warm tomato topping served on rice with a balsamic glaze. With steamed broccoli!
Closer?
I ate all but a few of the tomatoes. I can’t believe I even ate the tomatoes because that is a veggie I don’t normally like all that much. After John paid (hahahaha!!!), we shopped around the mall. I picked up a workout shirt for $10! JC Penny has some awesome prices at times.
Plus we went to Target where I stocked up on more pumpkin. I could have rolled around naked in this aisle:
Look at all of that candy corn! Yum! Didn’t buy any, though. And neither did I roll around naked 😀
Now it’s time for Project Runway and a snack tonight.
Pink item of the day: Knockout Rose.
Not a fan of the YWTL combo–I’m good for the YWT, but the L is beyond my coordination abilities. 🙂
I think of you every time I see the candy corn at the store–and it’s EVERYwhere!
Do you know how many people associate me with candy corn? It’s an embarrassing amount!
The YTWL looks like something that would confuse me…I would doing TWLYs, WLTYs etc. It does look really good for your shoulders though.
Great dinner! I had shrimp tonight too…and I steamed some broccoli for The Boss.
Yikes to all that candy corn. I try to pass quickly through those aisles! Your workouts are way beyond mine! I am still a beginner with weight training in some respects.
Totally laughing at you rolling around naked in the candy corn row. Fun to see you lifting again. And that shrimp looks totally delicious. I am hoping I can find something like that this weekend!
The theme of Rocky always does the trick for a workout song 🙂 We can call it Lori’s theme.
Dinner looks very good Lori. I had to laugh at the candy corn: that’s a lot of candy corn. Our supermarkets are so much smaller that I never will see so much of the same product.
Fran – have you ever been to the US? I think you would probably pass out at some of our super stores (or restaurant portion size, for that matter).
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten at 99 and we have some around here – but your shrimp dish is making me want to go 😀
I laughed right out loud at the thought of you rolling around naked in the candy corn. I can just imagine the overhead announcement “Security! Crazy lady in the candy aisle!” LOLOL
99 is actually pretty good. We have never been disappointed there and the prices are really reasonable.
Yes, I also associate you with candy corn! 😛 Glad you didn’t roll around naked in the store…
Do you let Pixie sleep with you guys at night? My fiance wants none of that but I would love to have her snuggle up with us. He says that cats are nocturnal and just want to play all night. I told him it was worth a try though! 😉
We don’t let Pixie in the bedroom because John has allergies and he needs one room in the house that is allergen free. She would love to be in there. Our other cat we had would spend one weekend a month in the bedroom and she loved to sleep on us. Cats will be up at night, but the do sleep *a lot* LOL.
Mmmm. Candy corn. Fall’s perfect dessert 🙂
I love your workout videos. You should start your own lifting class for wimpy women like me! 😉
I still want a candy corn candle. I will pass on the actual stuff though so you can have all those bags to yourself!!
Ah, the life of Pixie! Love that!
Hey, how come here they are always short on candy corn?.Is it because your area hogs it all!;-) They do however manage to stock all that designer candy corn in different flavors & super expensive, go figure! 😉
well that’s just perfect. Now I wants some popcorn. Like right now. And some cheddar cheeses, too. 😉
Hi Lori! You’re doing so great on your weightlifting! I call that being a girl monster in the gym. <3
I have *not* done that particular series of shoulder exercises, but it sounds like a smart set to do. I think that everyone should do shoulder exercises because it is a joint that can easily get injured if not strong or flexible. I actually have to restrain myself regarding shoulders. I do lots of dips, push-ups, bench presses, and flies that put a lot of stress on shoulders. My back poses in yoga that require a lot of shoulder flexibility. So I always have to be careful to not do lots of dips on a day that I do a lot of push-ups, no push-ups on bench press day, etc… I love all this stuff and don't want to overdo and get an injury.
🙂 Marion