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Banded April 11, 2006

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Shaved my hair off with buzzer

I had to do this. My hair was falling everywhere in everything. I'm not mad. I'm rejoicing now.   First pic was my husband snipping my lock off the back and it made me look like I had a bob.   This pic is the fully finished buzz of #6.       This is me for the next few months, bandana girl!    
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168lbs today

I plan on losing another pound before tomorrow. 7 mile run/jog, 35 mile bike ride dropped lots.   Me today:  
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Does my ass look fat?

Ok, I have to post this. I bought some lacy boy undies. No this is not an attempT to audition for porn. It's just that I have an ass now and I need to see it on a screen so I can criticize it. :heh:   Only a select few of you will have access to this entry.  
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Here's what I did to lose the weight so fast

Exercise Routine & Weight Training Ok, I made up my routine however I did use a Personal trainer to get me aquainted with the circuit machines. My P.T. reviewed proper stance, movement and isolation using free weights. Please feel free to copy and paste my workouts and use them for yourself.   Get a very supportive sportsbra, I would get mine a size smaller than I normally wore b/c it held me together better. Try to get 4 of them, that way there are enough to have for a 4 day per week workout. I have 6. Get a sweat jacket if you can. I used to wear the sauna suits to drop water weight and inches but it got to be too costly as I wrecked those suits every week. I use a sweater or sweat jacket and it works great. Keeps the heat in as I run and workout. Heat also allows your muscles to be less tense and more relaxed, so in other words, it will loosen up your muscles. After I run, I tend to get really cold so it keeps me warm. Just think about boxers in training. They wear sweat jackets, with their hoodies on.   Weight training is great for you, toning your muscles and tightening your skin as you lose weight, however your weight will stall a bit during weight training. You will be building muscle hence speeding up your metabolism, causing you to be hungrier, more often. That's why I eat 6 times per day. I weight train 3x's per week.   Word of advice - if you just want to tone and not bulk up then go with bigger repetitions and lower weights. If you want to bulk up and build muscle then up your weights heaviness and lower the repetition.   The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn. Muscle burns more calories than fat.   Food Choices & Food Portions Try to drink 64fl oz to 128 fl oz (1 gallon) per day. This will keep you hydrated and keep your system clean.   Stay away from sugar and flour products. I stay away from pasta as well.   Eat tuna if you can. It's packed with protein and very low in fat, abvout 1.5g of fat for 3oz. Albacore is the best. Salmon is high in protein and has good fats such as Omega 3's. Lean Chicken or any kind of Lean meats. I eat alot of Spinich leaves. It is high in iron, folic acid and full of nutrients, not like your iceberg lettuce. Iceberg is all water. I will also mix the Spinich greens with a bag of garden salad mix. I use fresh lime juice as dressing or I will use Asian Sesame or Mikoto dressing. I stay away from Italian, Thousand Island, French, Ranch, etc. They are very high in fat.   Try to stay within whatever your nutritionist layed out for you with regards to caloric intake. If she said to stay around 1,000 calories then darnit, you better start counting. Calorie counting is a chore but it works. If you take in too few calories, you will lose weight BUT your body will go into "starvation mode". We don't want that. Starvation mode kills your metabolism and will allow you to survive and maintain at that calorie count. However, you will ruin your metabolism and if you started to take in more calories because you are hungrier then ..uh oh. Weight gain with a slower metabolism. Don't go under the recommended amount. If you are stalling on weight loss and you are taking in 1,000 calories.... crank up your exercise. You will exert the weight off in a healthy way. If you are running marathons or biking, jogging and lifting weights in the same day then you will need to up your caloric intake to over 2k calories. You need to understand that in order to drive yourself to these extremes, you have to fuel your body.   If you are banded and are filled then you should be able to feel restriction and will know when to stop eating. However, the purpose of the band is to help remind you when to stop. You should be aware of portion size as well as be aware of how much you are eating on your own. You should pay attention to how much you are eating and stop yourself before the band does. I mean, we all know when enough is enough right? I got here b/c I had a bottomless pit I think, but I ate good foods, I just didn't know when to stop. I kept eating and eating and stopped exercising.   So review time: Water - Drink lots of water
Food Choices - Eat good, wholesome foods with alot of nutrients and low in fat, low in carbs. Complex carbs are better for you. Complex Carbs - potatoes, pasta, grains, beans, etc. Also may want to invest in some protein shakes. Isopure, Spiru-tein, Myoplex are good protein shakes to check out. Try to replace at least 1 meal a day with a shake.
Cardio - Put in 45min - 1 hour of cardio per day for 5 - 6 days per week (if you can). Weight train at will but alternate muscle groups. Never work the same muscle groups 2 days in a row. It will do more harm than help you. (If you lift weights in a muscle group, you will create small tears in your muscles. This helps to build muscles as they heal. However if you go and weight train the same muscle groups the next day you will hurt that muscle and possibly damage it due to too much work and stress on it. Give it a day or so to recooperate).
Portion Control - Know when you feel satisfied or pay atten to the band. Do not try to pouch pack.
Vitamins - Take a multivitamin. I take GNC's Nature something..I forget it's a women's multivitamin. I also take biotin for hair, skin and nails and my hair is growing back after some recent hair loss. My skin is very clear, even glows and my nails are stronger than ever. I hope this helps a little.
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New Belly Pics

Doo 400 crunches nightly to get rid of the loose skin.   Last night I did 400 and tonight I'm pushing for 500  
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Preparing to delve into bodybuilding

I am at 25.06% body fat from 38% and I am trying to get to 12 - 15% boyfat by Spring. It's time to kick some serious Telly ass.   Been lifting kinda heavy for me. I have been hitting some all time highs with 65 - 95lbs in the arms muscle groups.   Legs - 235lbs leg press Squats - 100lbs (working on 155lbs)   As you can see by my pictures, I am not comfortable with anyone else taking my photos.   Short-term goal: Drop 15 - 20lbs by the first of the year Long-term goal: Drop 10-15% in body fat Long-term goal: Gain 5lbs of muscle         There is a shadow on my bicep, lol..in case you think it's muscle you see here. NOT!:speechles
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Revamped my program

Made a new friend who happens to be a personal trainer as well as a recent former men's figure/fitness natural competition....checked out my program and also my food. I was doing some wrong things. He tweaked it a bit.   Here's my new regimine. I created a personal webpage for my transformation.   http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/tellytell/beginning/
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Supplements I am taking..

A friend asked me..on another forum, what supplements I am taking.. thought I'd post them here for anyone who would like to know.   Fish Oil, 1,000 - has Omega 3's fatty acids, EPA and DHA. Helps to maintain heart and vascular health.   Nitro Explosion - Has creatine, glucuronolactone, vincamine, caffeine and keyt amino acids, including L-arginine which is an essential precursor of nitric oxide which helps maintain blood vessel tone. The formula is equipped with electrolytes that the body can lose during intense workouts. Electrolytes help to regulate body fluids and important functions, such as muscle contraction. So yeah.....it boosts workouts (taken 30 min before) and also helps speed up the recovery of your muscles   Biotin - helps promote growth and health of the hair, skin and nails.   GNC's Women's Ultra Mega ACTIVE multi-vitamin - (This is an awesome new product) - It's premium performance multivitamin formula is for active women. Energy production, electrolyte replacement, bone health and antioxident support.   MRM BCAA+G - An Amino Acid - You probably know that amino acids are the building blocks of protein. When you eat a protein food, it gets digested in the stomach and intestine into individual amino acids and short chains of amino acids that are small enough to be absorbed into the bloodstream. These amino acids have far reaching effects in the body from building and repairing tissues, to producing chemicals that enable our brains to function optimally. Essential amino acids cannot be made by the body. You must get them from complete protein foods or combinations of incomplete vegetable foods. There are 9 essential amino acids: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, and valine. Your body can make non-essential amino acids by itself from vitamins and other amino acids.   EAS - Phosphagen (I dont take this anymore but will again in a few months) Phosphagen from EAS uses carbohydrates for triggering insulin thereby transporting creatine more effectively. Apart from increased creatine delivery, Phosphagen increases cell volume and accelerates muscle gain. You should mix it well in water or juice and drink four servings for 5 days. Gradually decrease the intake to 1-2 servings in a day.   The phosphagens are energy storage compounds, also known as high energy phosphate compounds, are chiefly found in muscular tissue in animals. They allow a high energy phosphate pool to be maintained in a concentration range which, if it all were ATP, would create problems due to the ATP consuming reactions in these tissues. As muscle tissues can have sudden demands for lots of energy, these compounds can maintain a reserve of high energy phosphates that can kick in as needed, to provide the energy that could not be immediately supplied by glycolysis or oxidative phosphorylation.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphagen   I drink:   Isopure - whey protein isolate (more pure and higher quality protein about 90-98% pure and less fat and lactose per serving)   Myoplex Lite - whey protein concentrate (concentrate - about 70-85% pure, the rest, fat and lactose)   Spiru-tein - soy protein - also known as a plant protein (phytoestrogens) which is a plant estrogen.   Lipo6 - Fat Loss excellerator - thermogenics     That's about it I think, lol...
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Updated Progression Photos

145lbs ish...   Weight ranges from 145 - 152lbs depending on how strong my workouts are and how hungry I get after a workout. I am completely unfilled and trying to fight this without the fill.
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Checking in and updating journal

Welp, I just finished Massage Therapy & Entero Lavage Therapy school and I'm all spent. Now I have to play "catch up" with my work load and get back into the groove of things as I prepare for the State Boards.   I worked out religiously most of my time in school with the exception of the last 3 weeks, where truthfully I have been in the gym, maybe 3 times. Tomorrow is back to the workout grind so that I can get my pump back.  
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Eye on the prize

I don't know what it is about running that makes me feel free. It is not competitive. It's free from that. I feel things that I'd like to try and put into words. My heart races within me, fighting to beat through my chest. Beads drip down my neck. My eyes blinded by my own sweat. I feel free of pain. Free of worries. Further down, miles away, I feel some discomfort, pain echoes through me. Pain.. in my sides soon turns into numbing . The numb feeling goes away. My mind ignores it. My feet ... are they mine? I see my knee caps, one after another. My feet, a blurr. I don't know how fast I'm moving but I feel like I'm flying. My head, arms and legs moving in sync to the beat of the song in my iPod. "Turn it up" Chamillionare My arms move with full force, one after another, propelling me forward. Pulling myself forward, faster, harder. I'm growing stronger. I can see it, I've got my eyes on the prize. Miles go by and I'm still alive. The sun beams, burning the nape of my neck, my arms, my chest, my ankles. My sunglasses, shielding my eyes from the rays. Shielding bugs from my eyes. Miles pass by.. My heart races faster, it's not finished but I am for now... I breathe, focusing on my pace, talking my heart back down... I see the prize.....Telly
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Tattoo

Yesterday I decided I wanted a tattoo to kind of cover my diaphram scar. It's color has been bothering me. My skin, pale around my belly and my scar was very dark.   I wanted something significant and relevant to why the scar was there. The scar meant "change". The Scar represents the Changes I wanted in me. I wanted to lose the weight, become more active, live longer, look better. It's the Scar of Change and thats what the Japanese Symbols mean.  
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165lbs

been up and down 5lbs for about 2 weeks now. *sighs* I came in lower today but of course I won't count it. My weight tends to go up 1 - 2lbs per day and then down by the morning to the same weight. No more weighing for another week for me.  
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Old Journal Gone

This journal will fully document what I am doing from here on out. Current weight 173lbs from 240lbs.   Let the new journal begin.
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167lbs today, hot damn!

I hope I can keep this momentum up. If I can, then I won't need a fill anytime soon. I think the last 10lbs will be the ass kicker and that's when the fill will come into play. WOOOOT:scared:
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Tummy Tuck

I had a Tummy Tuck with Lipo on 10/09/06 here in Tijuana with Dr. Romero. What a fantastic surgeon. I will go into depth a bit more once I am off of medication. The doc removed a bit over 4 kilos totaling 9lbs and 3lbs of fat sucked out. 12lbs total. I walk hunched over but I'm doing very well. Will report back with pictures.
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Daily Food & Exercise Entry

07/21/2006 Food Today B - Isopure Protein Shake
S - Light Dannon Yogurt Drink
L - Half of spinich salad, onions, nipple tomatoes, 3 slices of chicken deli meat, 1 slice of American cheese, Asian Sesame dressing with a few dashes of Tabasco Habanero sauce
S - Spiru-tein Protein Shake
D - The other half of spinich salad
S- Light Dannon Yogurt Drink before bedtime
Drank 64fl oz of water or more today Exercise Today 3 miles on the home treadmill 400 crunches 1.5 hour frolicking in the YMCA pool - did some water aerobics while daughter played, not enough to break a sweat
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Fun Pictures

Christmas pictures, compliments of Eliana my 4 year old daughter     The husband and I on bike night, me on my Kawaski Ninja 636 and him on his new Suzuki Hayabusa 1300      
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