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The Battles Continue: Negative Nance-hole vs. Positive Polly, Dove Dark vs. Energy Bite, Red vs. Black

February 26, 2013 · Filed under Derby, Menace's Musings, SUCCESS!, Total Body Transformation · Tagged almond butter, apex jump, banana, basketball, chia seeds, clementine, cucumber dill, Dove Dark Chocolate, energy bite, faux pas, homemade salad dressing, hops, milk, Negative Nancy, Positive Polly, protein shake, Red Wine, salad, salad dressing, smoothie, spinach, strawberry, tofu, treats, wine

Food: 2809

Honey Nut Cheerios w/ 1% milk, coffee, carmel macchiato sugar free creamer
apple, yoplait greek w/ fruit and granola. 2 clementines.
Turkey, Reduced Fat Swiss, Spinach, Cucumber, Mushroom and Cucumber Dill Greek Dressing on a Sun-dried Tomato & Basil tortilla with Sparkling Ice Lemon Lime and two baby energy bites
Spinach salad w/ almonds, strawberry, clementine, tofu and Cucumber Dill dressing
Natural Almond Butter, milk, banana, whey protein, chia seed and Hershey’s Special Dark smoothie/protein shake
Red Wine

Exercise:

50 toe pushups
50 situps (25 leg lifts, 25 cobras)
Reilly walk (short)
2hr. Sweets practice
1hr. scrimmage

After sitting down and writing all about being positive, I had a major Hulk Menace negativity slip. 😦 Oops.

Huge food success yesterday. 2800+ healthy calories. I have decided to experiment with wraps, so yesterday I smashed myself a turkey-swiss spinach wrap. I’ve never been good at rolling burritos and I always overfill my tacos. These skills translate to wrap-ping, so I struggled and designed a cucumber-dill dressing disaster. Oddly enough, after being refrigerated all day, it stayed together well. And was filling. Despite the lack of bread-stuffs. I’m quite pleased with how it turned out, and have another for today. It kills me that 6 tortillas cost $3.59 and a loaf of bread is $1.99, though…

I brought clementines and energy bites to ward off the Dove Dark Chocolates (the stash of which Karen refilled yesterday.) Success! Those energy bites rock. Remind me again why I didn’t make them the past few weeks? I jammed on a spinach salad and a smoothie-shake (what’s the difference?) before practice yesterday. Waaay more than enough, even for a 3hr. night. I didn’t have a snack before scrimmage, or even afterwards. Chia seeds keep your blood sugar regulated, and your tummy full. Considering they were in everything I ate yesterday… must be true. 🙂

Practice was… practice. My backwards skating has improved tremendously the past week alone. Misto hugely helped last Thursday. When crossing over, she told me to keep my feet on the ground. Aha! I can still only do it going the correct direction, but yesterday I worked on the foot movement to cross the wrong direction and improved. Baby steps. At scrimmage… well first I was pleased to have four refs. Really. It was such a relief seeing them all show up. I’d have been happy with three, four was amazing! Yay. I played… okay. I fucked up a few times and did some good things as well. But. Positive Polly focuses on the things she did well, so…

I didn’t give up. Jamming against a Sweets-Nona-Bijou-??? wall I pushed and pushed and fought and fought and got a high block and went to the box. But Sweets said it wasn’t really a high block. 😀 Regardless: I didn’t give up. I kept pushing and pushing and maybe I didn’t get through, but someday soon I will.
Cass jamming… seconds on the jam clock. I dropped back and nailed someone out of Cass’s way so she scored her points as time expired. I’m not so good at the drop back (the clockwise “danger zone,” so to speak,) so this was pretty cool.
Last jam, power jam Menace. I get out of the pack and look at the jam clock. 8 seconds to get back around and through again. Fuuuck. My instinct is to conserve energy, w/ 8 seconds I’m not getting around the track and back through… but I’ve seen She Who lap a pack and score in 8 seconds, so fuck it. I sped up, got around the track, and with the help of an amazing offensive hit from Cass, scored my 5 points. Fuck yeah! … and that was the end of scrimmage. 😀

I’ve still got an Apex-Jumping mental block. I think I have to skip practice tomorrow (we’re hosting a playoff basketball game. They haven’t asked me to run the clock, perhaps due to the faux pas from Saturday… perhaps b/c they think I intuitively know to be here… not sure.) So maybe I’ll hit up Saturday Scrimmage and focus on my hops. (My hops, my hops, my lovely lady hops?)

Almond Shake

February 24, 2013 · Filed under Derby, Recipes, Total Body Transformation · Tagged almond butter, almond milk, bananas, chia seeds, Food, healthy, hershey's special dark syrup, milkshake, protein, protein shake, shake, tbt, whey protein, yum

Almond Shake

Blend Together:

1/4 cup Almond Butter
1 cup Almond Milk
1.5 bananas
2 tbl chia seeds
2 tbl whey protein
Optional: 1 tbl. Hershey’s Special Dark Syrup

* That’s not Starbucks in my cup… 😉

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Karma sucks when you’re an asshole. Apparently I’m an asshole.

January 30, 2013 · Filed under Derby, Menace's Musings, Total Body Transformation · Tagged almond butter, annoying men, asshole, cream cheese, Dove chocolates, exercise, honey, karma, lox, PBJ, salad, salmon, spin class, staring, tofu, triscuits, wine

Food:

honey nut cheerios w/ 1% milk, banana, coffee, hazelnut creamer
apple, greek yogurt w/ fruit and granola
salad w/ tofu and light balsamic vinegar. VitaRain Zero.
natural almond butter with honey and simply blackberry jam on wheat w/ 1% milk
Triscuits w/ reduced fat cream cheese, english cucumber slices, and smoked salmon.
Wine. Chocolate Peanut Butter Moose Tracks Ice Cream. Dove Chocolates

Exercise:

50 toe push ups
50 situps (25 crunches, 25 cobras)
Short Reilly Walk
Spin Class

Spin Class was great, but… weird. Leslie class, so it was fabulous. My seat was taken when I got there, so I had to sit elsewhere. So did five other “regulars.” There’s this fat guy that’s been coming since the new year. Sometimes he stares at me. But when he notices me notice him staring, he looks away. You know, like you’re supposed to do. Yesterday he had to sit in front of me, so that was a relief.

I talk about him like I’m being judgmental. I’m not. I’m proud of him. It’s clear Spin Class is so difficult for him. Sometimes he has to sit out for drills, but he never gives up. He’s always there, on time, he stays the whole class, and even when he sits out for part, he keeps riding. And he’s lost some weight already.

So I was cheering when he sat in front of me, since it meant he couldn’t stare at me. Then this other dude, who annoys me, sat on the other bike in front of me. He annoys me b/c he wears his cycling outfit to class. And he shaves his legs. And he puts a pedometer on his bike. And he sweats puddles onto the mat below him (it’s gross.) None of these things would be such a big deal, and weren’t, until yesterday. He was late. Leslie was instructing us during our warm-up, and I felt eyes on me. He was on his bike, fully turned around, neck craning, giving me a cheesy grin. I met his eyes, grimaced (gave him my fake “wtf do you want stop staring at me asshole” grin), and looked strait back at Leslie. He continued craning and staring.

😡

Eventually, he turned around. But continued to annoy me by first not doing the things Leslie instructed us to do. When she says stand: fucking stand up, asshole. When she says sprint: fucking sprint, asshole. Etc. W.T.F. ??? If you’re too good for my teacher and this class, go ride a bike somewhere else. Period.

Then I caught this dipwad staring at me in the fucking mirror. I’m the only one who gets to stare at me in the fucking mirror. Look away, asshole. Look away.

I go there to workout. I go there to forget evaluations and Contenders and Practice Squad and Fight Club and the fight I had with Tim and Reilly pulling on her leash, etc. I don’t go there to bat eyelashes at some fucking bald jock in his damn cycling outfit who’s craning his neck to look at me and trying to make google-y eyes in the mirror.

I was pissed. But I just stared at Leslie and ignored him. The staring and craning continued the full hour. (As he poured sweat like a fire hydrant onto the mat below him. Gross, dude. Gross.)

So then I go to drive home, right? Yeah. Totally almost killed myself. It was blizzardy on top of ice, and there’s a sharp turn w/ a cliff as you exit the Rec Center. I was only going 20, but my brakes/steering wheel picked that moment to freeze. My brain was processing whether the yellow-black caution sign things would hold my car when I slammed into them when I finally made the hard left and came to a stop at the curb. (5 feet from death. Or at least a major fucking accident and the death of my car.)

Then I went home and showered and ate salmon triscuits and ice cream and drank wine.

Here is a picture of the “cliff” from Google Earth. It was much scarier in a blizzard. At night…

I’m not starting til Monday! But….

January 3, 2013 · Filed under Derby, EPiC Fail, Menace's Musings, Total Body Transformation · Tagged almond butter, derby, dirty martini, exercise, Food, honey, lazy, lethargy, Olives, rambling

Food:

Egg, 2 pieces wheat toast w/ butter and simply blueberry jam, four turkey sausage links
Honey almond butter and simply blueberry on wheat
Chocolate… bacon cheese ball… triscuits (those are healthy!)…
Dirty assed martini with extra olives (apparently olives are healthy, too.)

Exercise:

2.5 mile Reilly walk
Nona League Practice

Oi. Practice last night. Nona ran a back to basics practice, that was full to the hilt and left me waking up with that train-wreck feeling. I’ve only been a lazy slug since we went on derby break—Dec. 21. If you don’t recall, I continued my workouts and ate mostly healthy through the 21st. Why? Well I had big exercise plans for break, but then I got sick, and then I got lazy, soo… yeah.

Anyway, 10 days off. And in those 10 days, I hit a Speed Skating class, a Spin class, and a scrimmage. So I wasn’t even that much of a lazy slug.

But fuck. We did 50 laps, broken into 20-10-20 last night. My back screamed at me the entire time. I didn’t get winded at all, but my back was like “fuck you, fuck you, fuck you” with every stride. Rowdy tried to save me–we tried to partner and lap each other at every corner. It worked for about three laps, but there were too many other people lapping us also for us to maintain our pattern consistently. I also got some nice encouragement from Gaygan and Pippi (so glad to have Pip back) which was nice, but I wasn’t feeling very tough last night.

Sooo… basically what I’m saying is, even though I’m a lazy fuck, I am excited about re-focusing on eating and exercising because I don’t like how I have been feeling lately.

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