Girl Meets Camera

Ok yall, I’m finally getting back into the workout groove and am really excited about starting the Live Fit Trainer program. I’ve been looking at it for probably 8 months now but never actually got on board. Either I wasn’t strict enough, couldn’t give up the cardio, or was working on the New Rules of Lifting program. Whatever the reason, it never happened.

But now it’s on!

The Live Fit Trainer is a workout program/eating plan created by fitness model, Jamie Eason. The whole thing is only 12 weeks long. That seems like nothing compared to the 6 month NROL. It is broken into 3 month long phases.

Phase 1:  Intro to lifting heavy and learning to eat clean. NO cardio.

Phase 2: Add in the cardio and cut back on carbs.

Phase 3: Carb cycling, high-intensity interval training, and supersets

There are recipes, videos, a food list, shopping tips, emergency at home workouts when you cant get to the gym…lots of good stuff!

I’m really excited to start this on Monday!I think a workout program is a workout program and the real results will have everything to do with committing myself to a clean eating lifestyle.

Phase 1 is all about eating clean and lifting. Week 1 and 2 will be 4 days a week while weeks 3 and 4 move up to  days a week.

I’ve been pretty much addicted to the MyFitnessPal app/website. I track pretty much everything I eat. I get so many eye rolls when I say that but really it’s not hard. Once you add in the things you eat often it is all saved there for you…and if you have an iphone the app has a barcode scanner which makes tracking seriously painless. I just scan the barcode of whatever it is I eat and it saves it. Too easy! If you use it too you should be my friend…GirlMeetsCamera is the use name

The eating plan is pretty much just the best way to eat anyway, I think….not an actual diet. Everyone should eat clean. Clean = no sugar, preservatives…avoid packaged foods and anything with ingredients that you can’t pronounce. I’ve heard if it didn’t have a mamma or come from the ground don’t eat it. Easier said than done!! I’m learning though that there are plenty of tasty options without the junk. Even some sweet treats to make.

So…clean eating. Check. Eat within an hour of waking up. Eat every 3 hours. Drinks TONS of water…I think the ‘rule’ is half your body weight in ounces. Or you can just shoot for 8 cups a day.

Eating is going to be the hardest part for me. I need to make sure I get my veggies in. I think the key for me will be to prep some things on the weekend to have portioned out and stored in the fridge for my mid day meals every week. I’m going to try that this weekend.

I’m thinking meat loaf/turkey muffins, salsa chicken,  protein bars, and wash and chop veggies to bag up so its all right there and ready. Chopping veggies is the worst for me…Id rather just not eat any than have to get it all out and chop it. If I do it ahead of time and bag it all up in portions then it’s there and ready.

Something we have that I think is a lifesaver in the veggie department is the microwave steamer.

I hate 99% of raw veggies and this is so fast and easy and  no mess…love it!

So that’s it for now I think. I am planning on a big update after each phase and will probably post a lot of randoms about it through out the whole process. SUPER excited!

Also, I’ll be back tomorrow with Find It Friday! This week’s word is FAST

I said it was coming…and I am actually following through

Blackhawk Timmy

Pit Stop!

Lined up.

BFF Skype date.

Rainy day at the bus stop.

New wheels!

Pyeongtaek. 7-11!

Tunnel to Daegu.

Derby Layla

Farms

Timmy’s masterpiece. See how he colored the eyes, mouth, nose, and ears? Proud mamma.

Just finished Week 2 of C25K

I love skate days

Our little one lane road. I dont know where this person thought he was going. My tahoe is clearly bigger and already coming down the road…We had a stare down until the car behind him finally backed up to the side.

Still lining things up.

Kimbap. I discovered the wonder of Korean Frying deliver. My kimbap and a friends bulgogi and rice delivered to my house in 15 minutes. For under $10.

This weekend was one of those rare weekends that we actually had a day together as a family. T ended up not golfing on his normal Saturday golf day (he golfs Saturday, I skate Sunday. No weekend free time.) It also just so happened to be the day that some of my Osan derby team mates were going to be skating with the ROK Derby teams in a scrimmage in Daegu.

Daegu is about 2.5 hrs away by car. If you take the KTX (bullet train) you can get there a LOT faster…but I’m cheap, T likes to drive, and we wanted to be able to get around and do more down there than just ride down, watch, and ride home. So we (we means Thomas) drove down there.

2.5 hrs is a long time I admit at about an hour in I started second guessing our big family day trip and was ready to find something to do in whatever town we were passing at that moment. “We’re not even HALF way there! Ugh….” Poor Thomas.

But it was worth it The kids slept most of the way there which was pretty awesome.

There were some tunnels we went through at some point. Made me miss Hawaii a ton.

Doesn’t it almost feel like you’re on the H3 headed toward Kaneohe? Maybe? A little?

Only when you pop out the other side the clouds don’t part and angels don’t sing and you don’t see the view that you see in Hawaii coming through that tunnel.

We did pass a random little waterfall though. Not that it’s the same at. all.

And some bridges

Korea is kind of pretty

I liked Daegu.

I like Korea as a whole a lot more now that things are growing and blooming and everything isn’t brown.

Is that a kid in a booster seat in the front? Weird.

Wait…what the…

Awesome

At this point Layla is whining a LOT. She didn’t feel too hot..but thankfully no puke. We needed OUT of that car.

After some Googling on our drive down there I found the Daegu National Museum on lonelyplanet.com

Using Google Maps on our phones we tracked it down and were very thankful to finally be somewhere and not sitting in the car.

I loved it there! This was outside the front of the building. I could live in this little tunnel

The main inside area. I liked the stairs

There was a lot of really neat and REALLY old Korea things there. Ancient pots to more recent (does the 1800s count as recent?) books and clothes. Lots to learn about!

This was pretty neat

Stamps for the designs on the clothes

Lots of neat hair pins and ornaments.

Belt dangly things

A whole section on Buddah and religion

And this is how most of the rest of our time was spent..Layla running ahead and Timmy chasing her.

No Skating -

Finally made it back around to the car

Just thought this was neat. I think I remember a spot in Hawaii where the lanes were split by a median with trees.

Checkin his flip phone

This reminded me of Hawaii too (A lot of Korea does)

These little guys creep me out. Robot flag wavers. Very creepy at night when they just stand there in the dark.

We were sitting in traffic next to a flower shop. Ignore the white blown out flowers

Why wouldn’t a random whale float be driving down the road?

And the whole reason we made the trip to Daegu…

two of our Osan skaters (#11 Bull Lee and #58 Oh Hell No Kitty)

were joining up with the ROKDerby league to skate in their scrimmage.

There are 78 pictures  **HERE** of that if you are interested

Friday again. Where do the weeks go?!

I need to plan out some blog posts so I can keep this thing regular.

Find It Friday! Opening. 

Not the picture I had planned but it all works out the same

Next week is *LOVE*

Ok.

Photo dump time! Looking at what I’ve loaded to Flickr lately…

Pyeongtaek…the bigger city near us. Marked all of the skate rink/tracks I could see so I could go test them out

We got a package from Jill with a bunch of flops and tshirts for Layla since I suck and didn’t pack/send any sandals for her…she also snuck in a package of Kachow unders for Timmy

Cars. We can’t leave the house now without his gallon ziplock bag full of them.

Posing for me…

So what if his face is all blown out and there’s an orange-y cast to it. I snapped when he was actually being cute!

Last friday night T and I went to stay in Seoul for the night to attend the aviation ball. I didn’t take any pictures except for a few in the room. I suck.

Sunday our lil Derby team that could headed up to Seoul to practice with the ROK Derby team. Holy moly theyre tough! SO tiring!

One last hoorah for my long hair

Yesterday my good friend Molly hacked my hair off!

Pretty sure I lost about 10 lbs.

Looooove! Too bad Thomo doesn’t.

And that’s all for now. I have some more posts I need to get to though! Hopefully I do. I’m such a lazy butt lately. Sorry y’all!