those glasses = totally spicy!!
Nikki: I heart your new pics. You pretty little thing. Glad you had a cheat day. Much deserved with all the work and dieting in here.
I prefer going to the gym in the morning, but I’ll admit I find that it wipes me out for most of the rest of the day. Awesome pics. Love the glasses.
Thank you kindly for the comments <3
I gotta go to sleep in a sec, so try to log my stuff and get through some journals before I start another crazy day.
Well, first I was supposed to wake up at 5, but I do this kind of sleep-walk thing, where I turn off the alarm and return to bed with no knowledge of my doing so. So I got to the gym later than I wanted to, and I had a lot to do today, which meant that I had to cut down a lot of things in my workout.
Well that, and EVERYONE was in a chatterbox mood. I somewhat didn’t mind, my stock earphones broke (I bought some Skullcandy ones after the gym though <3) and I wanted to drop a 50# DB on my foot if I had to listen to another Taylor Swift song the gym was playing. Country just doesn’t pump me up, sorry.
So I was glad for the companionship. But still ended up talking more than I would have liked.
Legs/Shoulders
Squat
Sheesh, I haven’t squatted in forever. Felt very weak.
95 x 4
135 x 5
185 x 3
205 x 1
Deficit RDLs
95 x 8
115 x 8
135 x 7
155 x 5 x 2
GMs
95 x 7
115 x 5 x 2
Prone Leg Curls
60 x 20
50 x 25
55 x 25
GHRs
3 x 12
Single Leg Ham Curl
10 x 25 each
20 x 25 each
30 x 20 each
Standing Leg Press
125 x 20 each
170 x 10 each
Leg Extension
110 x 15 x 2
Single Leg-
50 x 12 each
Lateral Raises
15 x 15 x 3
L-Raises
22.5 x 10 x 2
22.5 x 12
Did 2 tabatas for SOME sort of conditioning, one on bike, one on rower.
I’m still beat though. And my legs are sore already. Shit, everything’s sore.
Luckily, no gym tomorrow.
Is it bad to be anxious for my next cheat meal?
Sadly it won’t be tomorrow, when I’m watching people enjoy brownies and cookies and cream ice cream. Urgh.
Lol! I love how 205x1 is weak. you’re a beast!
Excellent leg day my dear. And I’m with ya, sometimes its nice to catch up with the regulars. Not everything has to be so serious, right?
Sorry about the cheat meal 
You’ll be ok! And just think how much more scrumptuous it will be!
My oh my is that a lot of volume 
Nice work as always.
When you see people eating brownies and other things like that, just imagine how they are going to look 10 years from now. Then imagine how awesome you’re going to be looking because you’ve got things in check
you got a lot done despite the chatting and showing up late - good for you!
I can’t really help you on the diet, I’m all for impromptu cheat meals 
Ever try the protein icecream Ink posted a while back? maybe that could help the craving…
Hey Nikki Your pics are looking GREAT! and X2 on what aquacruzer said
Hope your weekend is good!
Nikki: You’re doing great. Trying to diet when no one else around you is–is no joke. Good for you for having a plan and sticking with it.
Now THAT is a leg day. Nice work! I hope today is going well for you.
I liked the updated pics – the glasses reveal your demeanor, or attitude, so to speak. It’s a good look on you, you should definitely be ready for May at this rate!
Maschy, I like to talk by nature, but it’s not usually for 20 minutes between sets. That was way too long for someone who needs hammie work desperately.
But I do love to talk haha
Lol thanks Aqua, yep I have to tell myself that I’m better off than the others without the brownies =)
N I haven’t even seen an ice cream recipe. Maybe I’ll look one up?
My cookies and ice cream PP is on backorder pout
I bet it’ll be delicious though in ice cream!
What’s funny as all hell though is I don’t even like ice cream.
But I do like “forbidden fruits”, and if I’m dieting and ice cream is forbidden, then I want it.
Thanks coyote, I hope your weekend is even better <3
Thanks Nadia, and being the only one dieting in the house is not fun at all. Especially the sly remarks; “Oh you can’t have this? A bite won’t hurt.”
That doesn’t help.
Thanks Kimba, and I’m trying to make each day as optimistic as possible lol
Chi, I have an attitude? 
Yeah, I love my glasses. They were the first ones I picked up when shopping for them and they were all that I needed to see.
Thank you kindly, always great to hear that :*
Well, I’m super glad that I didn’t disappoint you guys by coming to my log to say that I caved to the dessert. Believe me, it was tempting.
My grandparents came over, so they and my mom were watching Despicable Me. So I was in charge of making dessert.
Lemme paint a picture:
Double chocolate decadent brownies
Warm to the point that a scoop of cookies and ice cream melted at the touch.
With peanut butter caramel chocolate chip cookies standing upright in the ice cream.
Yep, I was exposed to this much chocolate and sugar and didn’t have a bite. Didn’t even lick my fingers.
I don’t know how that happened, but I’m grateful.
As for the rest of the day, I’m completely wiped out.
Woke up early to do my morning cardio. Then it was cooking and cleaning.
Did some homework and worked a little bit.
Ate butterbeans, veggies and turkey breast for dinner.
Washed dishes.
Prepared desserts and while everyone ate, I was cutting up sweet potatos into 150 gram portions for the week.
Cleaned a fish tank.
Now I sit here, completely brain-dead.
Oh, some good news. I e-mailed my suit designer with the suit that I want her to make. It’s going to be awesome!
I just have to wait until next week to send the official order since I’m bloated right now (that time of month ahem) and my measurements are going to be way off.
I want everything to be as accurate as possible, so I’ll wait until Wednesday when this extra weight should be a thing of the past.
I want to tell you guys what it is, but I also want to suprise you with the pics in a couple months =D
Lemme comment logs now.
high five for not succumbing to temptation
Sometimes being lactose intolerant works in my favor, seeing as I have less selection when it comes to treats haha.
Looking forward to the surprise.
iron will ma chere - the stuff the best are made of.
Funny how you can push me to add more weight, go faster, go longer, add reps. But tell me no brownie and I’m like FU man, imma have this here brownie. lol. I think my food wired are wrapped up around my survival ones.
The icecream recipe:
http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/nutrition/protein-ice-cream/
I didn’t do the exact recipe but it still came out ok.
Super high five!!! Good work on staying strong cupcake. That will power is made fr champions! I’m happy for you and I know you feel awesome about it. YAY!
Way to strong in the face of temptation. I’m sure your family is super proud of the transformation that you have made.
Thanks folks.
Awesome-looking recipe N, I’ll have to remember that.
Aqua, my body knows better than to be allergic to anything. I was biologically designed to enjoy all foods, I can eat any and everything <3
Lord knows I have to say “No” to a lot of treats, I’ve been saying no to a lot of things (including my favorite dessert from Chili’s, the chocolate molten cake… yum) but I still celebrate every temptation I turn down.
No use to stop celebrating the small things.
I went into the gym TOTALLY uninspired to train. I felt like shit. I couldn’t believe that I actually had an off-day yesterday.
But I pushed through, and after the rowing, I felt strong and ended up loving my training again. Kicked ass with everything.
I know that pushing through workouts is beneficial and you always feel better for it in the end, but it’s hard to remember that when you want fatty, carb-loaded foods and can’t do shit but eat your oatmeal and do your cardio.
Anyway, today was back width and shoulders.
Morning cardio in the, uhm… morning
Wide-grip Pull-ups, 1 foot on bar
4 x 12
BTN Lat Pulldown
45 x 12
60 x 12
75 x 12
90 x 10
Pendlay Rows
65 x 10
95 x 10
105 x 8
95 x 8
I have a vid of the sucky 105 Pendlays. I know that my form was shot, the 65 and 95s were damn near perfect.
But gotta show the bad and the ugly too, right?
Stretchers (yes, I stole these. And I <3 them)
50 x 12
65 x 12
80 x 12
Next time I’ll be doing the whole stack, with added weight. This is probably the only exercise I’ll ever use the whole stack for… and I’m okay with that
Straight Arm Pulldown
SS
Rope Lat Pulldown
30 x 12/ 30 x 12
40 x 12/ 35 x 10
50 x 10/ 35 x 10
DB Pullover
50 x 10 x 3
Straight Arm Arc DB Row
Sucked it up and did all 100 reps with 15# DBs
Lateral Raises
10s x 15
15s x 12 x 4
L-Raises
22.5 x 15
25 x 10
25 x 12
Smith OHP
20 x 15
40 x 15
50 x 15
60 x 12
Facepulls
25 x 12
35 x 12
45 x 12
50 x 12
55 x 10
Supersetted some sets with rear delt flys.
Did plate pushes, 70#, 10 laps. I don’t know how many yards, but it nearly killed me.
Took ~17 minutes.
I had a lot more energy than I could have dreamed of, hit a lot of rep PRs in there.
Then walk home.
I don’t know if you’re doing it right or wrong or what, but they look fucking awesome! I wanna try!!
That workout was ridic. You fucking dominated!
When do you get your next carb up? That fucking thing would’ve killed me. HAHA! Awesome work girlie
Glad your session ended with you feeling all pumped up
Man that’s A LOT of volume, yet again. I don’t know if I could take that much.
What was bad about the pendlays? I can’t row anything with my back that flat. I do rows at a bit more of an angle
Nice back workout