Oh My God Becky....

.... Look... her Butt lost another POUND!  

Yeah, I know you are thinking WHAT????  But yes, my friends, this morning's weigh in, delightfully, was a full pound less than yesterday! So in 48 little hours I got rid of almost 5 pounds of junka lunka...

I tell ya this clean eating is program is onto something.  Like maybe this is how we should eat anyways!  

What can I say today?  Well, I feel great!  I believe if everyone would give clean eating a try for just a week, they would be amazed at how much better they feel as a whole.

Today's breakfast, steel cut oats with 1 tbl wheat germ and 1 tbl flaxseed (ground version of both) with a tsp of agave syrup and 1/4 cup of unsweetened almond breeze vanilla almond milk (weggies natures marketplace).

Snack was a banana

Lunch will be a chicken breast salad with feta cheese today, and again this is a late night for me, so probably a heartier snack around 3 and maybe a greek yogurt with peanut butter for dinner.  

One of my favorite snacks that pack a bigger punch are the larabars.  They have around 200-230 calories and are made from absolutely all natural ingredients!  guess where I get them...yep WNM (from now on know as Wegman's Nature's Mktplace).  They are great for on the go meal or snack replacements.

Remember you don't have to go as hard core as the book suggests and on a scale of 'Hard Core to Barely Clean' ... I am pretty much on the Hard Core end.  But, remember that I have been doing this stuff a long time.  My body responds very well and very quickly to clean eats and I have an intuitive relationship with my body.  If your progress is not quite as quick as you would like remember that it is recommended to lose 1-2 pounds a week for lasting weight loss.  However, doesn't mean that a few weeks of 'rapid blissful pounds droppin' off the post-holiday bod infused with foodlike substance' won't do the body good!  Not to mention it is not bad for the mind or ego too!

So, until tomorrow my friends... have an AMAZING day and eat clean!!

Trace

Now That's What I'm Talkin' About!

I love Day 2!

Why do I love thee, Day 2?

Because after a few weeks of crappy food and ONE day of clean eating, your body sheds a buncha gunk!  I lost 3.9 pounds in ONE DAY!  Yippee!  It is a fantastic jump start to the 21 day challenge.  

Now don't get too excited.  Tomorrow it will probably be something like (.03) or something, but I'll take it, take it, take it!

Today for breakfast I had 6 egg whites with grilled shrimp and onions and 1/4 cup of feta cheese.

A.M. Snack is an apple (not as active today and yesterday so I just grab for the piece of fruit w/o peanut butter.

Lunch is going to be a red bell pepper, mushroom and jalapeno stir fry using 1 tsp olive oil, some spices and 1/4 pound of Helen's Veggie Ground (found at Weggie's in Nature's Marketplace).

Not sure about dinner yet, missed my bowl of steel cuts this morning so maybe it will be breakfast for dinner.

How is your day going?  Any big overnight weight loss??

Trace

DAY ONE.... BRING IT!!

Good Afternoon!

Well I am heavily into day one of the 21 day challenge.  

I began my day with a 40 minute run on the treadmill.  Before my 7:00 am start I had a bowl of steel cut oats with a tablespoon of natural peanut butter!

I had a banana around 10 am for a snack.

My morning appts are now finished and I am enjoying my lunch of the following:

4 oz grilled chicken breast
2 cups of spring mix lettuce
1/2 cup grilled onions
1 cup grilled mushroom buttons
1 tsp olive oil
fresh ground pepper

I put the grilled onions and mushrooms (which I grilled in the tsp of olive oil) right on top of the salad, it sort of acts as a dressing!

More training to do and then dinner will be light tonight.  I might do an egg white omelet with bell peppers.  I don't get done until 7 so I will probably have a 150-200 calorie snack around 3:30 to tide me over.

Oh, by the way, I usually eat about 1200-1600 calories a day to lose weight at a rate of about 2 pounds a week.  This first week will probably be more just because our bodies hold on to alot of the sodium and crappy food we eat around the holidays.  Some people refer to this as 'water weight' I refer to it as 'food-like substances' weight.


Already feeling great!  Can't wait to see if I lose any weight between today and tomorrow!


How is everyone else doing??


Trace

21 Day Challenge!

Good Sunday Afternoon, My Friends!

Here is the scoop, beginning tomorrow I am starting a 21 day, Clean-Eating Lifestyle.  This is 'normally' what my daily diet consists of, however, I usually have the weekend 'cheat days'.

I have a trip to visit my bro in Oregon (the one who has lost 73 pounds since August) and then Hawaii towards the end of this month.  I WANT TO DROP THAT 12 POUUNDS OF CHRISTMAS that I talked about in my last post.  

So HERE IS MY DEAL.... I promise that each and every single day for the next 21 days, beginning tomorrow 1/3 and ending on Sunday 1/23 I will blog the following:

1. My weight loss progress in pounds (may not be available on travel days between 20 & 23, but other than that I plan on weighing myself EVERY DAY.  Sometimes this is a good idea when you want to be very strict with what you are doing, otherwise once a week is ideal.

2.  I will post at least 1 of my clean eating meals every day with the hopes of having entire days of my clean eats right here on this blog to give you all ideas!

SO....  my question.... WHO IS WITH ME?  You can post your comments and questions right here on the blog and even share your own progress.

Come on, let's do it!!  No, there isn't some big monetary prize at the end of it all, but I figure that fitting into my damn jeans again in time for bathing suits in Hawaii will be worth way more than any monetary prize. :)

Again, WHO'S WITH ME!

Make the commitment!

You can buy the book "The Eat-Clean Diet: Recharged" by Tosca Reno for best results on the plan but I will attach a summary of what you have to do on my website as soon as it goes live...

We can definately lose 5-10 pounds in these 21 days!

It's NOT EASY... But YOU'RE WORTH IT!

Can't wait to hear from you all.

Traci

'The 12 Pounds of Christmas'

Merry Christmas Eve to all! 

I thought before my day went into full swing that I would sit down and blog for 10 minutes.  

Around this time of year I reminisce the past 12 months and contemplate the next.  The new year is upon us and that makes me very excited!  I am a person who loves newness (if that is not a word, it is now).  I love new calendars, new appointment books, new puppies! (although I doubt I will get another one next year..haha), new clients, new classes, new building for our studio, new, new, new!  I am not sure what it is about the 'new' but I have always found excitement and inspiration in new experience, fresh ideas and certain kinds of change.

I truly believe that one of the reasons my clients like coming to train with me is because there is always something new going on, whether it is a new class, a new exercise or a new program, I love keeping things interesting by constantly changing it up.

There also must be 'something' about the 'new' numbers I have been seeing on the scale this holiday season.  I won't say that I have been very excited about that particular 'new', but somehow I find that once again at the end of a year I have managed to find 10 pounds!  Isn't that wonderful? ... NOT.

I realize the title of my blog is not the '10 pounds of Christmas' but I figured '12' is way more in line with the parallel to the '12 days of Christmas' and I also figured that by Jan 1 that darn scale will most likely read '12' ahead of my sleek, toned, amazing post-Utah bod.  There will be cookies and wine and dinners and chocolate and more wine over the next 8 days... I am sure of it.  

So, at the end of the festivities, I will make my best attempt to put a smile on my face as I step off of that darn thing, write down the 'new' composition of myself, and move forward with the best intention into the new year of 2011, which I know has many wonderful things waiting for me to achieve and experience!

Have a fantastic holiday season, and the MORAL to this story is... in the ups and downs of life and weight we must be kind to ourselves and others, embrace our changes, revel in them, learn from them, and use them to make a better tomorrow for ourselves and the people who mean the most to us.  We've only got this one life...let's make it the best life!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Traci

Sending it out to the universe......................

my tip of the day (that I just have to get off of my chest :) )....


Be kind and be generous with your heart. Jealousy and a bitter and vindictive mind will only come back and bite you in the ass. It's called KARMA. Life is not worth wasting valuable energy on such feelings of ill intent. Ask yourself how you would feel if the object of these hurtful thoughts and actions were to fall upon tragic times. We are all good people by nature. Let it shine through and LET IT GO. It's never as bad as it seems only as bad as you make it so.

If you don't understand that, don't worry. If you do, hope some good positive energy from the universe finds its way back to you.

Until later....
Trace

Exciting News!

One of the reasons I have been SUCH a blogger-slacker lately is because of the energy I have been expending on my big news....

My business, Live Fit Training, will be merging with my bestest friend, Trish O'Neill to form INSPIRE FITNESS on 1/1/11.

If that is not exciting enough, we will have a new location in a commercial studio on Washington Ave in Endicott, NY!

We are so stoked! 

Also in the works is a brand new website, which I promise will be kept up to date on a regular basis.  A monthly newsletter.  A client of the month feature.  Many new and innovative classes Monday - Sunday.  And, we will work hard to give back not only to the immediate vicinity of our new stomping grounds but to Broome County in general through our communtiy efforts to help those in need.  It will become a very big part of our mission to spread our love of fitness and better health all around!

What can you do?  Spread the word!  Link up my blog and also become a fan of Inspire Fitness on Facebook.  I will be posted more information on our progress as it happens.

Looking forward to the New Year and a lot more blogging! 

Until then,
Traci