4th of July in New York

I went to New York on Monday because I had some meetings and since it was my mom's bday on the 4th, as a b-day surprise I bought her a plane ticket to go with me! We turned into a girls vacation since my aunt and nieces tagged along. We saw a lot of things in only a couple of days. I was only able to get in one workout but honestly with how much we walked, I did not feel so bad about that. My shoe even broke just to give you a little insight of the excessive walking that was done. I have blisters on every part of my feet.

Now as far as the nutrition goes, I am very happy because I did not over indulge. I was able to stick to clean-eating as much as possible. I did, however, have little bites here and there of dessert, pizza, fires, burgers that my family was eating. Just little tastes and that was enough to keep me satisfied. We went to Bobby Flay's restaurant " Bar Americain" and the food was delicious. I ordered the Florida grouper and it was amazing. My niece ordered the ribs and those things where to die for. We also ate at Mario Batalli's restaurant "Otto's" I did have a slice of pizza because it was just so darn interesting. It was a pizza with an egg on top. It was a thin crust and the slices where very small.

We even had tea at the American Girl place and it was such a fun, girly thing to do. We had a blast. The most amazing trip, although it was definitely not relaxing in the bit, it was unforgettable. My meetings went very well and I am very happy with the outcome of it....stay tuned for all the wonderful things coming!!

Day 43

I was really tired this morning when I went to the gym, it also did not help that today's leg workout was killer. Its funny because I looked at it last night and thought " Oh there is barely any exercises...this is going to be a breeze". Boy was I wrong! Yes there were only 6 exercises but each one was sooo long and tedious.... glad I got that out of the way. This afternoon I will be trying out a new spinning class at SlimCycle, I'm pretty stoked about it. It's in the new easy rider bike, hopefully I won't fall off. I am going with my mother, niece and friend (goes to show you you can workout at any age)

I also started counting calories and I still haven't gotten the jiff of it. I am always hungry and I have been eating a little more which is scaring me a bit.

Today's Meal (High Calorie)
Breakfast: 5 eggwhites
                Oatmeal
                3/4c berries
                1 tsp coconut oil
                1/2c caffe latte w/ almond milk

Snack: 2 rice cakes w/ 1 tsp SF strawberry jelly
            Tuna w/ mustard

Lunch: 4oz Sweet Potato
            2 of Jamie Eason's Turkey Meatloaf Muffins
            1/2 c greenbeans

Snack: 4 of Jamie Eason's Lemon Bars

Dinner: 6oz Jamie Eason Monster Meatloaf
            veggies

 Seems like alot right??? That doesn't even add up to my 1750 calories I need to consume today!!!

June Foodie Penpals

So sorry I have been MIA lately, I've just been extremely busy. But I am back and with some great goodies from Carrie's Sweet Life. She sent me some delicious goodies that u can not wait to get my hands on on my cheat day!! The cereal is made in her town ad well as the chocolate and taffy! I even got a spatula which I was actually in great need of! Can't wait to try it all.

2nd Week of Phase 2

Wow! I can't believe how fast time passes. I am already on the 2nd week of the Livefit. Next week I start counting calories..not excited about that.

How was everyone's weekend? Mine went by a little too fast for my liking. Had a fashion show, birthday dinners and was able to catch up on my "Fifty Shades of Grey". I am actually on the 3rd book already.
I am completely and utterly in love with Christian Grey. I have my fingers crossed that they will pick Ian Somerhalder to play him. I think he is a perfect 10.

Well today I went to the gym at 5am and did a great chest workout and ran for 30minutes. Boy was that tough though. I really don't like running on the treadmill. It's so boring and monogamous. I prefer running outdoors and changing the scenery.  I also made some yummy PROTEIN BARS INSPIRED BY jAMIE eASON.

Chocoberry Nutty Protein Bars

1 cup Oat Flour

 4 Egg Whites

2 scoops Vanilla Whey Protein Powder

½ cup Splenda, Truvia, or Ideal

½ tsp Baking Soda

¼ tsp Salt

1tbsp PB2 Peanut Butter

8oz Berry flavored Baby Food

3 tbsp Baking Cocoa

4oz Water

1 cup strawberries cut up into small pieces

Directions:Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Mix dry ingredients (oat flower, vanilla whey protein, baking soda, salt, baking cocoa, and PB2) together in a large bowl.Mix wet ingredients (egg whites, Splenda, Berry flavored Baby Food,Water) together in a medium sized bowl.Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix together.Then add starwberriesSpray cooking dish with a non stick butter spray and add batter to dish.Bake 20-30 minutes in oven.Makes 16 squares, serving size=2 bars.

Day 33: Shoulders and Cardio

Just got back from the gym and I am dead. I did a shoulder workout and went up n weight so I really shredded those muscles. I also did 30min on the stair master at LEVEL 16....WOW is all I can say hahaha



I haven't exactly weighed myself yet but I do feel a difference. I am going to get my body fat done on Monday ... I am a little nervous.
 BTW who is doing the Love my body challenge?? I love my hair..i just got it done haha

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  Smith Machine Military Press

  1 warm-up set, 3 sets of 10 reps

Superset:

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  Upright Dumbbell Rows

  3 sets of 10 reps
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  Standing Dumbbell Military Press (shown seated)

  3 sets of 10 reps

End of superset; resume normal sets

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  Incline Bench Front Dumbbell Delt Raises (go light)

  3 sets of 10 reps
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  Rear Delt Cable Flyes

  3 sets of 10 reps
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  Lateral Raise

  3 sets of 10 reps
  Last set is a drop-set.
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  Rear Delt Raise

  3 sets of 10 reps
  Last set is a drop-set.

Love your Body

I'm so sorry I've been lost these couple of days. Work has had me going crazy! I was filming the movie "Pain and Gain" with Mark Wahlberg. I can't wait until it comes out. It's going to be a great movie. The movie is a dark comedy based on body builders...it's actually a true story. I just found out a friend of mine used to work at the gym of which they speak about in the movie...small world. I've also been doing various fitting for fashion shows and some photo shoots, but I am back.

I wanted to talk about a very important topic that every person, male or female, seems to be a victim of. That is, saying negative things about your body and always hating on it. Being in the industry that I am in I see this a lot and I am also a culprit of it. We always seem to be our hardest critics. We always compare ourselves to others and wish we had smaller thighs, bigger lips, tighter abs, etc. I have come to realize that what may seem like a HUGE deal to ourselves, is unknown to others. For example, you may have a pimple in your face and to you it seems like its is the size of a crater and you want to hibernate in your house until you look decent enough to withhold ground in civilization. Truth be told, you show it to someone and they didn't even notice it was there. The same rule applies with our bodies. I am sure that others do not notice our imperfections as much as we do, and because of that pressure we put on ourselves to be perfect, we seem to beat up on our bodies and ridicule it. Constantly saying negative things about it. Without even knowing it, this takes a toll on our bodies. Constantly surrounding ourselves with those thoughts brings negative energy. We are not noticing the wonderful and amazing things are bodies do. How much work goes into pumping blood into our veins, getting air to our lungs and allowing us to have those BIG muscles show through.

If you feel as if you are stumped and have been hitting the gym really hard, eating 100% and doing all the right things, but yet don't see the results you want. Don't go into that negative place and begin hating on your body. Instead embrace it. Visualize yourself with that body you want. In those jeans you wore when you were in high school and tell yourself" I can do it." " I have an amazing body and there is no reason as to why I can not look  like those girls I see in fitness magazines." Envision yourself  having those abs and tight buns, and I promise you you will get there. I will let you in on a little secret: When I was preparing for Miss Florida Usa and got down to the thinnest I have ever been...around 9% BF I always envisioned the body I wanted. I had vision boards all over my room and bathroom. Whenever I felt like given up, I would look at those pictures and tell myself that I could do it. I saw myself flaunting those abs around that stage. I barely ever said negative things about my body in that time period, and look how far it got me.

Now I would like to challenge everyone to this (It was my New Year's resolution), you must say one nice thing about your body on a daily basis. It may be anything such as "I love my eyes" but its just to help us get out of that mind frame in which we are constantly being negative.

Here's how it goes:

Love My Body Challenge

-Everyday post something you love about your body.
-You can either post it here under comments
- Post it on my  Facebook wall
- Post it on my Twitter with #lovemybodychallenge
-or e-mail it to me and I'll post it on here with your permission of course

Who is with me??

POWERMEAL CHALLENGE

First off, I would like to congratulate the lovely Olivia Culpo our new reigning Miss USA 2012. She is absolutely stunning and did an amazing job answering a very difficult question. She took her time, gathered her thoughts and did not stutter once. Congrats on a job well done,

Second, I just read about powercakes "Powermeal Challenge" and I am really excited about doing it. It is a wonderful way to get everyone to incorporate healthy food into your meals. For the month of June she has a color for everyday; today being yellow. We are supposed to have diverse colors on our plates when we go to eat, and I think this is the perfect way to get everyone on board. If you haven't already done so, check out her blog Here

Lastly, I am very excited to start Phase 2 on the LiveFit trainer. Today begins my first day of cardio. I am thinking of doing zumba for 30min. I have already started to notice a difference in my body which is making me a very happy girl.