BodyPump Rocks!

I woke up this morning feeling super excited to start my day with a BodyPump class! I had my breakfast first of course, the "plan" wants you to eat within the first hour of waking up. So I had my normal breakfast of egg whites with some spinach. I upped the whites to 5 which the plan suggests. I took a few sips of coffee, a big glass of water with my vitamin and fat burner and out the door I went!

BodyPump is a LES MILLS barbell class. It is known to sculpt, strengthen and tone your entire body, fast!
You do squats, presses, lifts, curls, situps, pushups...every muscle group is challenged. The reason I love take the class is because if I workout on my own, once the burning of the muscles begins and the going gets tough...I stop! With taking a class, there are several people all doing the same moves so if you stop you stand out like a sore thumb, therefore it pushes me to my limits. Almost throwing up each class and sweat dripping down my arms is a sign that I am pushing myself and THAT is exactly what this lazy girl needs!!

After class, I went to GNC to look for the Egg Protein, which I have heard might work vs. the Whey protein that ROCKS my stomach. I know GNC is so ridiculously over priced, but I wanted to see if maybe they had a sample of their brand to try or something. The salesperson was a younger gentleman, I asked if he had any Egg Protein and he said, "Yeah, it's over here, however I wouldn't buy anything from GNC! They are so over-priced!" He continued on a 15 minute rant about how I shouldn't buy anything from there! I couldn't believe it! I told him I knew they were over priced however, it was convenient vs. waiting 5 days for a shipment. He said, "Well, I would wait the 3 days if I were you." Haha! I left the store empty handed and let my husband know what happened. The hubs didn't like that at all so he called the store manager/owner.

My afternoon consisted of making Turkey Balls for this next week and the carrot cake protein bars. Should I post recipes? The pumpkin protein bars are SOOO much better than the carrot cake ones. The pumpkin ones were so moist and delicious, slap some cream cheese on them and you have pumpkin bread. Yum. (Of course, I am just pretending I have cream cheese on mine). The carrot ones are fairly dry.

For lunch, I made a turkey burger with a side salad. I just used the left over 6 oz of turkey from the balls and threw in some chopped onion, celery, pepper, chipotle pepper, garlic powder and dry yellow mustard. BOMB. So good! I was so pleased with my concoction, I took a pic!;)

I went to a movie with the hubs today..."The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" and we weren't impressed. There were a few funny parts. While the hubs was noshing on popcorn and peanut M&M's, I drank my water. Tonight we will go to a place called The Oyster Bar and I will enjoy seafood of some sort. Looking forward to it actually, hopefully making up for the oil drenched fish last night.