Moot Court Competition

These last couple of weeks have been crazy. I have been organizing a moot court competition. Moot Court is the second most prestigious organization at the school. We practice appellate advocacy - basically arguing before a panel of judges. I was in charge of try-outs. Over the last week and a half I have been responsible for finding judges, rooms, and time for about 200 different arguments. I have had to deal with students and faculty upset when the cuts didn't go the way they thought they should. Today all my hard work comes to end. In a half hour, my last 6 competitors will argue against each other in front of the whole school. I have an actual justice from the Utah Supreme Court, 2 professors who clerked on the United States Supreme Court, and the assistant Attorney General coming to judge the event.

Why do I tell you all this? Because although working out has been tough, I'm sure I have lost weight from all the stress. More importantly, come tomorrow I can start working out regularly again.

One week left.

-Adam

Ps. I broke my diet today and had some luke-warm Dr. Pepper. So worth it.

Fajitas.. yum.

Last one. I am excited to see pictures next week.

I only ate like 7 chips while at my parents house.... until we went to El Torrito and then I ate almost 3 baskets of chips. Also, if you go I got the chicken fajita salad and it was awesome. Seriously better than my hubby's crab enchiladas.

Anyways, I was so scared that I was going to gain 5 pounds while I was there, that I lost 2! WOOOOOO!

See you next week. :)

I have a problem....

nuf said

California

Went on a road trip to California. On there way there we stopped at Jean Phillipe and ate gourmet chocolate cake and Gelato ice cream. When we got to California we ate chocolate-covered strawberries at Alisha's house. Also went to Disneyland where I chowed down on ice cream, cotton candy, bacon-wrapped asparagus, chocolate-covered pretzels, etc. I sat in a car travel for over 30 hours in the past week. So as you can see I am winning this competition. :)

Well, I'm here

To the house of chips and ice cream. I've only had 3 chips, and it's raining.

This is my update.

Diet

Generally I don't believe in diets. I think they don't work, I think they are unhealthy, I think they are for 14 year old girls. I am certain that the Atkins diet will cause half our generation to die horrible horrible deaths at the age of 65.

All that being said, my diet is atrocious. Just plain awful. So here is a list of staples in my diet that I am cutting out:

Taco Bell

Gandolfos

Little Ceazars Pizza

BYU Chocolate Milk

BYU breakfast sandwiches

Soda

Just 2 weeks left.

Two weeks left!!!

I'm glad everyone is still so fired up about this competition. For those who are still committed to their goals and to their performance enhancing drugs I think we can all see a recognizable difference and say with confidence that we are much better people than the rest of our friends. One big lesson that I've learned is that diet is just as important as the number of days working out. You can't have a high cheese diet and expect to lose stomach fat. Also, mayonnaise is bad. Planks and running are much better for defining abs than doing crunches, and eating whole grains instead of white flour leads to greater regularity which is always a positive thing to have. For those who are still participating, let's make these last two weeks count so we can be in tip top shape for our 3 month pictures. Thank you

Look, another post. :)

I ran 6 miles today. That is all. 

House of Chips

Last week was awesome workout wise. Not so great food wise (mostly the weekend). But the cinnamon rolls were awesome.

I have to be super great this week because we are leaving for California on Friday morning. That means 2 days of food in the car. And then, 6 days at my parents, which is made of chips and ice cream.

Hey, we're almost done! :)

Though I have not been a faithful blogger

I know I have not really posted but I weighed myself this morning and have lost about 10 pounds since we started this. I'm not really sure what I did or how I did it because I have not really been trying but it happened.

Who's judging the competition?

What are you guys' thoughts about who should judge the competition and how?

I thought about sharing this on facbeook....

With only a few weeks left in this funny thing where so many people forgot that they signed up for weekly blog posts (not facebook posts...), I thought I would share with you guys something to never ever do. Unless I am there to watch. Because, I like to laugh this hard all the time.  But now that you guys no longer need to be scared of failing at this, you can start to work out again, and tell us about it 

:)

Didn't see that one coming...

For my update... I accidentally had a rough couple of weeks which resulted in... a lot of thinking about working out vs actually working out. BUT... last night I started the week of right with a nice 2 mile run in the snow.

Brr!

So, I'll just keep doing that. Minus the snow.

Also, I'm still laughing at the man in the video.  


And, can someone please tell me who the H Tony is?  All I know is that he is "The Man" and he's mean and funny.

Chelsie is a slacker

Yes, I have failed this competition. I haven't worked out much for the past month and I am pretty sure this past weekend I stuffed myself with Camille's wonderful chocolate cheesecake bars. I am not embarrassed. Chocolate heals the heart and soul.

Does the Wii "Just Dance" game or Western Swing count for exercises? How about running around my office at work getting meetings set up? Either way I am pretty sure I am not winning this battle.

Back to working out

All of my blood tests came back negative... this means no autoimmune or thyroid disorders whew! Such a relief, so I am back to 100% almost.
I have had a kind of bad food week... oops, so this week to repent I am doing carb (grain) free. It's hard but it's worth it.
Funny story.
Yesterday at the gym I doing my intervals (to max my calories burned) on the treadmill I had just finished a minute and a half sprint when I felt the jello legs coming on. I started to reduce the speed, but it was NOT going  fast enough! I grabbed the handles and started to jump to the sides to straddle the belt. My left foot landed successfully on the side while I found my right foot being pulled behind me at 8 MPH (I know in your car this is slow, but on a treadmill it's kind of scary!) I spent the next several seconds or so trying to get control over my right leg and minimize the damage done to my body. Finally I found myself clinging to the left hand rail my arms wrapped totally around it and both feet on the ground.
The girl two treadmills over looked at me and asked if I was ok. Funnily enough she was the only one in the entire gym who had seen or heard me nearly dying!
So the lesson is that you should probably wear those little safety things they have on treadmills.
The end

Adam's getting a little bossy.

Dear everyone who feels angry with my lack of postings on this blog, (Adam)

Ahem. I totally work out. Almost every day. Just so you know. And while I may have had to withdraw from the 10K I was SO looking forward to running this Saturday morning (I actually was looking forward to it. No sarcasm.) beause I'm the world's most dedicated employee and must go train my ex-boyfriend all weekend on how to do his job this summer, I'm still working out.  And running.

Moral of the story: never date a co-worker. It's just awkward to tell him where to go and mean it afterward without being...hahha...oh wait. This isn't my journal or my personal blog. This is half the reason I run. Just take my word for it.

Adam made me post. So if you feel uncomfortable with all this information, go ahead and take it up with him. :)

I'll run my own personal 10K sometime next week to make up for it. (The fact I didn't run and the fact I didn't just erase most of that post. I don't like my efforts wasted.)

The end.

"I hate it, but I love it"

P 90x today:

263 Push-ups

71 pull-ups

110 reps of lawnmowers, flys, etc.

In honor of today's work out I will share some classic Tony quotes.

"I hate it, but i love it"

"Like a ptreodactly backing out of trouble"

"If anyone does 26, I'm coming to your house"

"Get Sexy with it"

"Posing for the cover of downward dog magazine"

"Tip of the day - don't smash your face"

"Is that a bandaid??...Dude, Dude, Dude."

"What's up knee caps?"

"This isn't part 1 or part 2 people, its part 2"

"I like to do fancy hands"

"The only reason I work out is for the recovery drink"

"Wow! and what's wow backwards? Mom"

"Lets work the other leg because we have two of them" (the guy next to him has a prosthetic

leg)

"You make Gumbi look like the Tin Man"

"I think I just blew out my esophagus"

"Nice shoes...but not as good as mine."

"Ya you could cool down here...Or you could get your FREAKING KNEES UP!"

Only a few weeks left - it's go time. "Do your best and forget the rest"

LSD and bicep curls

Well... here are the up dates. I have been sick, and like I said lost some unhealthy weight, don't worry my strength is coming back, maybe even better than before! I dead lifted 120lbs! I am amazing :)
Anyway, back to the title two semi-worthless exercises LSD and bicep curls.
Long Slow Distance...now all of you marathoners don't freak out. Just stop and think about it for a while, now lets say you run just under a 10 minute mile, not too bad, this means if you run 6 miles you are working out at a SLOW pace for just under an hour! Research shows, you burn about half the amount of calories that you would have burned had you done interval training in about half the amount of time! So the next time you decide to go for a run set you iPod to some up tempo music and start sprinting! Another bonus of interval training is that your metabolism is boosted for two days after... meaning you will continue to burn an elevated amount of calories for TWO days after you work out. SO worth it.
Now to the bicep curls, the only reason you should be standing around doing bicep curls is if your ONLY goal is to have huge biceps. Not only is it a very small muscle, and bicep curls have basically no functionality when applied to real life, but you burn hardly any calories! Try to do exercises that work multiple muscles, pull ups, push ups, or even just do some split squats while doing bicep curls. So easy, basically try to cut out any and every exercise that only works small muscles and replace them with exercises that work muscle groups. Your workout will be twice as effective, and you will see results MUCH faster (promise)

Last month of the competition!!!!

I have gotten a lot busier with school and have dropped from 4 or 5 times a week at the gym to 3 times a week during the last month. I don't think I've seen any more results during the last month but I have maintained what I had gained through daily doses of green smoothies, doing planks, and trying to work in some cardio. I really need to step it up during this last month. Everyone needs to recommit themselves so that we can be motivated to take our 3 month picture. What do you say everyone? Can we do it? I declare that we can... and we must. Thank you.

Struggling

Last week was horrific from a physical fitness standpoint. I know better than to make excuses but it really was a series of unfortunate events which included having the week off of school, hurting my knee, and catching a cold. I am thinking about following Jason's lead and buying some Human Growth Hormone to overcome my physical frailties.

Would you take spinning with Dwight?