We're 4 days in to 2015 and I'm hoping that the rest of the year is half as awesome as the last week has been.
I spent the majority of last week at weightlifting camp! 3 training sessions a day x 7 days. Now, don't get crazy, I didn't go to the 9am sessions because yours truly needs more beauty sleep than the average bear. But, I did go to the 1p and 6p sessions. I was able to snatch 34 kilos twice without pain in my shoulder! which isn't 40 kilos but that will happen this year, too. I had to widen my snatch grip to make it collar to collar, but I can snatch 85% of the time without any discomfort again! I PR'd my power clean at 52 kilos, which was unexpected. I'm a bro-cleaner aka it's like a reverse curl for me but it doesn't feel like that's what I'm doing. Back to the point, camp was da bomb. I learned a lot and got to talk to and lift with some really cool, incredibly strong people. Plus, any time I get to sleep in and then go lift and eat...well, that's a good day in my book.
Speaking of what I'm doing, I joined @Lindseylosingit's diet bet which started yesterday I think! I have 28 days to lose 4% of my weight. It's not an insane amount, but it's a little tricker than I thought. My papaw always says that only fools bet, but I hope he's wrong. I mean, it's kind of like you're betting on yourself. I don't play the ponies on the reg, whatever that means (I'm thinking like the Kentucky derby?) so hopefully we're all good here. If I do lose my 4% I get my money back + a portion of the bank from the people who didn't lose the weight. I also am doing the 21 day squat program/nemesis/challenge thing, so hopefully a metric shit ton of squats will aide me in my quest to get skinnay. I actually never imagined this day would come, but I actually like squats. As many of my faithful followers here know, I absolutely loathed squats for a LONG time. It only took 2 and 1/2 years, but I've come around.
As I sit here typing this, I have everything weighed and measured out and ready for tomorrow. Back to reality, which kinda sucks but that's okay. It's gonna be a good week. I'm sticking to weight watchers at the moments and I lost 3 pounds last week. I'm weighing myself daily so I get used to the fact that it's literally just a number. Like the speed I drive to work, I should have no emotional attachment to that number. I'm a really good person if I weigh 500 pounds just like I'm a really good person if I weigh 50 pounds. Goals are goals, and this year I'm going to meet all of mine. I'm not good at making long term goals with numbers related to my lifts. Nick and Tamara say a 40 kilo snatch isn't a "long term" goal. I would like to hit 40 soon, and by the end of the year maybe 60. Who knows, apparently I don't know my own strength sometimes.
Anyways, I made some really good chicken. You just throw some boneless, skinless chicken bewbs in the crock pot, add in reduced sodium chicken broth plus taco seasoning and let it boil (pronounced bol) for a few hours till you can shred it with forks. I'll eat that for lunch the next couple days in a salad or over some preportioned tortilla chips that I crush up to make me feel like I get more bang for my buck. Over the last few years I've picked up a lot of fun tricks to help make eating better (relative term) easier. Like sugar free jello and popsicles are my jam. 15 calories each, no fat or carbs, so you can legit eat like 5 and be fine. I've also learned there are certain things I can't keep in my house, like cereal. I will eat an entire box in a day, and I haven't met a cereal I don't like. Raisin bran, special K, corn pops, frosted flakes, fruit loops, apple jacks, Oh's, reese's puffs, captain crunch, you name it and I will most likely eat it, cereal wise. So I just don't buy it anymore.
Well that turned in to a lot of rambling to say this. The start of 2015 has been great, and the rest of the year is going to follow suit. My next weightlifting meet is sometime in March, the sanction has to get approved and all that, so it's on like donkey kong.
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