Day 25 - Ouchies

So I went to my consultation/assessment last night with personal trainer Damien Woodson...and it was definitely a learning experience. We spent some time talking about my past exercise and eating habits, my goals for the future, and what I wanted to get out of the session with him. Then we moved on to the "assessment". I immediately had flashbacks to 6th grade PE class with Mr.Young yelling at me to do a pull-up...didn't happen.

In addition to measuring my weight and BMI, Damien had me do a variety of different exercises to test my balance, core strength, arm strength, leg strength, and cardio fitness. After all was said and done, I thanked him for workout and he responded, "Yea, that's a good base line workout. Come back tomorrow for the real workout." REAL workout?!?! FML. I could hardly get out of the bed this morning because my butt muscles hurt so bad! But my job hooked us up with this free assessment and a free week of classes so I'm not missing out on this opportunity to get out of the gym and work with a professional. I just highly doubt I'll be able to lift my arms to wash my hair tomorrow morning after the upper body and core workout I'm going to get tonight!

As promised, for the BMI......34.5% body fat. Yikes. The healthy percentage for a 5'6, 177 pound, 24 year old female (aka ME) is around 23%. I've got some work to do! Damien also showed me some interesting numbers....about 116 pounds of me is pure lean muscle...which leaves about 61 pounds of fat. So if I had zero percentage body fat, I would weigh 116 and probably be dead. He said the next step is to determine how much we want to lean muscle number to go up and how much we want the body fat to go down, because after all muscle burns fat.

I will be completely honest about something. Whereas I had hoped I would leave the consultation session feeling empowered and rejuvenated, I only kind of felt depressed. Not only am I not losing anymore weight while working my butt off, but I almost feel like I failed the test. I know it was a test, it was an assessment. But my competitive nature was pretty disappointed in my performance. I was so exhausted after the assessment that I could only spend about 20 minutes on the treadmill before I wanted to collapse and curl up in a ball in the corner. But my determination WILL outweigh the pain and all of this WILL be worth it in the end. Or at least that's what I'm going to keep telling myself. I won't let me head get in the way of my progress:

If I can lift my arms enough to reach the keyboard tomorrow, I'll let you know how the workout goes.

Yesterday's Recap:
2/8
Breakfast: Banana
Snack: Mandarin orange
Lunch: Progresso Light Soup: Italian style veggie with some leftover rice-a-roni.
Snack: Grapes
Dinner: Ground turkey casserole....SO GOOD (see below for recipe)
Water: five 24 oz. bottles
Exercise: 1 hour assessment with pt and 20 minutes on treadmill

Ground Turkey Casserole (it doesn't sound good but trust me it works and it is the best casserole ever...and so easy!)
Brown 1 pound of ground turkey. Add between 1/4 - 1/2 chopped onion and lightly saute with turkey. In a glass dish, mix turkey & onions with 1 can Cream of Celery soup, about a cup of cooked brown rice (make sure it is cooked...I've made that mistake before), and a couple splashes of low sodium soy sauce. Top with some shredded cheese and baked at 350 for 30 minutes. ENJOY :)