Week 3 & 4 of 10 - Pancakes as a Metaphor

Note to self:  Proclaiming that you'd like to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks is easy.  Actually doing it is really hard. 

Why is it so FREAKING HARD!?!?!?!  I'm ANGRY over it.  Of course that just makes me want to drink a caramel frosty shake from Wendy's (yea... last night).  I haven't blogged since before Thanksgiving week, mainly because of the stress that was last week, so I'm going to cover the last two weeks of my 10 week struggle.  We'll try to figure out how I freaking gained 3 more pounds instead of losing anything...  that makes for 13 pounds that I have to lose now.  Again.  Angry.

Thanksgiving week, as it's been for the last 3 Thanksgivings, is a week all to myself.  My handsome gentleman goes off to kill things, so I get a nice, relaxing week to do what I want to do.  And this particular week, I wanted to work out.  So I did.

My workout log for the last two weeks has been really impressive.  I'm proud if it.  And maybe that's why I've gained weight, because my quads are nearly back to their original "hardness."  I've been sticking to Chalean Extreme and after Week 4 of 10, I'm into the third week of the first phase.  Here's my workout log for the past 2 weeks:

Week 3
Monday:  Pushups and Ab Intervals
Tuesday:  30 Minutes of Chalean Extreme Abs (and walking around with my friend!)
Wednesday:  Chalean Extreme - Burn Circuit 3
Thursday:  Chalean Extreme - Burn Intervals (Cardio)
Friday:  Chalean Extreme - Burn Circuit 1
Saturday:  Chalean Extreme - Burn Intervals (Cardio)
Sunday:  Chalean Extreme - Burn Circuit 2

Week 4
Monday:  REST
Tuesday:  Run 3.12 miles
Wednesday:  REST (more like a mental health day... I went to Best Buy and bought a new laptop)
Thursday:  Run 2.61 miles and Chalean Extreme - Burn Circuit 3
Friday:  Run 3.1 miles and Chalean Extreme - Burn Circuit 1
Saturday:  REST
Sunday (Today):  Later, at the HG's house planning Chalean Extreme - Burn Circuit 2

It's not like I've been sitting around doing nothing...

It has to be what I've been eating.  Or maybe I am just rebuilding my muscles and they haven't had a chance to burn the fat yet.  It would take a long time to talk about all the food I've been eating.  I really did behave during Thanksgiving week except for the AMAZING food that I partook of with my friend down in Connecticut.

This past week, not so much.  HG came back from his trip which lead to extra snuggly happy time, which snowballed into not getting to the grocery until Wednesday night, which lead to eating out...  Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday...  so I didn't really get back on track food-wise until Thursday.  And then yesterday was a little screwy.  I'm going to try very hard to make today a good day.

I get in these moods when I've gained weight where I just don't want to consume things.  I feel like I'm way too full.  So this morning, when I normally would have a protein shake and then at 10:00 have some more breakfast, I decided to combine the two and make protein pancakes...

And then I looked at my list of recipes, which you can now view at this link, and I noticed that I didn't have a recipe for protein pancakes!?!?!  How on earth could that be?  So here's one...

Chocolate Chip Protein Pancakes

120 grams of Bisquick Heart Healthy
1 egg white
2/3 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 scoop Designer Whey chocolate protein powder
1.5 Tbsp mini chocolate chips

I decided to use my Blender Bottle to mix it up... I'd seen a Pinterest pin about making pancake mix in a blender bottle.  And we all know I try things so you don't have to...  I wouldn't call it a disaster, but you do have to dig the little metal ball out and continue to mix it.  But the pouring really helps!  No dripping and no mess.

By now, if you read my blog, you know how to make pancakes.  I pretty much rock at pancakes.  Which is funny.  I used to suck so bad at pancakes because I'm sort of impatient.  You have to wait for one side to cook and you have to be good at knowing when that is based on what the raw side looks like.

I'm stuck in this rut of weight gain in the same way it takes practice to learn how to make pancakes really well.  I am out of practice.  The weather is colder.  I'm discouraged.  I'm burning my proverbial pancakes.

But it will get better.  I'll get back on track.  Things are falling into place and I just need to get to where my brain catches up with me.  And eventually, these muscles I'm building will help me.  I'll get back to normal.  Here's to hoping that Week 5 has some better news.