Rest Day

I took a rest day today. I'm sore from yesterday and still easing back into it after my MRSA incidents. Eating has gone okay, water intake has sucked. SUCKED. That's always the hardest part for me but sooo important especially since we're here in the south now where it is CRAZY hot. So what I'm going to attempt to do is to put together my POA for this week.

Monday: Rest day, obviously.
Tuesday: AM Cardio, PM: Back
Wednesday: AM Cardio, PM Quads
Thursday: AM Cardio, PM Chest
Friday: rest
Saturday: Hamstrings/abs/cardio
Sunday: Arms/Shoulders/Cardio

Yes that's five days of cardio, but I am dieting down right now and I don't do heavy cardio every day. I don't even do the same cardio twice in one week. For instance, on saturday when I do hamstrings, I'm probably going to be taking it easy on the recumbant or walking hills on the treadmill. Other options for the week include interval running, stair climbers, ellipticals, and long walks. Mix it up so your body doesn't know what's going on. Also trying to plan out my meals for tomorrow since I'm going to be going going going like crazy.

Wish me luck and remember, if you have any questions, or just a comment, shoot it! I'll answer. :)

Day 2

CD: 19 Weight: 136 BF: 24% 40 to fit day: 2

It's been a rough day. I just plain feel like doo. I honestly considered skipping my gym time today but I know that the hardest time is when you are getting back into the swing of things. So I reminded myself what Michelle's motivational message was today ("Just Do It") and told myse1
)lf the same thing I always do when I feel like this. If I still feel like crap after 10 minutes I'll go home. For the first time ever, I still felt horribly after ten minutes so I put in my leg workout and talked myself into 10 minutes on the recumbent bike before I was sure I was going to vomit everywhere and called it a day. The point to this is that you won't always feel like working out. But sometimes you just have to make yourself try it. Most of the time once you get into it you feel great and just keep going. And the days that you really do feel awful and still feel awful after ten minutes, well at least you tried and that's enough to hold the guilt at bay.

So today I did a light leg day, no need to explain the light obviously.

BB Squats: 12x45, 10x85, 8x85
BB Lunges: 10x30, 8x30, 6x30
BB Deadlifts: 8x50, 7x60, 6x60
Prone Hypers: 3x12x0

10 minutes recumbant bike, rpe 5

Hope ya'll feel better than I do.

Cleared and ready to go!

So, here's an update. We arrived at Fort Polk and got stuffed into some seriously shoddy temporary lodging. After about a week, I developed an absess and my rump, not the best way to spend the 4th by the way. I had to have it surgically drained and the er doc thought it was a brown recluse bite so he didn't give me any antibiotics. After a few days, it just flat got worse. I was in a lot of pain despite the painkillers I was given, and it was itching and throbbing like crazy. So I went back in, got it checked again, and this time the doc decided to culture it instead of assume, and put my on some seriously strong antibiotics and referred me to the surgery clinic. After a week I got into the surgery clinic and started getting decent care. Yesterday I had my follow up appt where they let me know it wasn't a brown recluse, it was MRSA. It's just about compeltely healed now, nothing a bandaid won't fix and I was finally given the go ahead to go back to the gym.

During this time we also got a great house (( five bedrooms! woohoo!)), found the local GNC to replace our supplements that we couldn't bring with us from overseas, and yesterday we drove all the way down to New Orleans to get our van.

So what this all means is that I've been SUCKING. Finally I get to go to a real gym today. Yes you can make do with bands in a pinch, and machines are all fine and well, but nothing and I mean NOTHING beats the feel of some dumbbells in your hands. So here's my POA for today.

Upper Body
Lat Pull downs or pull ups ((depending on availability))
seated cable rows
Bench Press
DB Flyes
AIO Arms, DB


I'm going to go progressive with my weights today, try to gauge where I'm at. I'm also going to do cardio, maybe intervals on an elliptical.
For those of you who don't know what AIO arms are, let me share this with you.

ETA: Gym time went great. I lost strength in some areas, but not all. I also got in 20 minutes of HIIT running. 1 minute sprint, 2 minutes recovery. I'm on the first day of a mitotropin cycle and the first day of buffmothers "40 days to fit".

I weighed myself today and took my measurements and I am NOT happy.
137 lbs, 24% bodyfat. These last few weeks have really done a number on me, but they have also seriously motivated me to get my act together. I'm going to try to post here every day for 40 days to keep myself accountable. you keep me accountable too!

I hate housing, and back day

Really, the housing office at Fort Polk is getting on my last nerve. I submitted our housing application two months ago. We were told our wait would be 50 days. it has been 52 days, and we are still only number 28. This would not make me so mad if we were not number 27 earlier this morning. And this is not the first time this has happened. Every time we take one step forward, we take two steps back. And in the meantime we are stuck in the middle of nowhere, in crappy temp housing with four children sharing two beds in a single room, with giant cockroaches roaming and ants going insane. Call the front desk to complain and they send someone out with a can of raid. That's it. I'm going to SCREAM!! I want my freaking house and I want it NOW. We can't even go off base because there is nothing to accomadate our family for less than 600 OVER our housing allowance. it's insanity. And we've just finished our ten days that the army will cover so from here on out every day we're stuck in this nightmare of a hotel, is coming out of pocket. I'm going to cry. Seriously.

Another reason I'm frustrated is because there is no neighborhood center where they've stuffed us. No gym, no nothing. So I'm still stuck using my bands to get by and I can only fit cardio in on the days my hubby is home and even then it's limited to running or walking. Yes, I know that there are videos and such i can do, but we're upstairs and the people downstairs complain when our kids walk across the room let alone when I'm bouncing along trying to keep my heart rate up.
I will admit that I'm PMS'ing today and that's got a lot to do with my foul mood. But hey, only 3 more days and I can get back to buffing!

My other rant for the day, asking my help to set up a program. I don't mind setting up programs for people. I love to use my knowledge to help others. But don't ask me to set you up a detailed program if you aren't going to follow it. If you've already asked me if it's safe to go to the gym twice a day for an hour each time in hopes of losing a few extra pounds before your event, and I've already explained that I've got you on a low cal diet, and that if you push harder than I've laid out for you, you will ruin your efforts, don't turn around and start asking other people. It's obvious you just want someone to tell you its okay regardless of what you've been told. I helped a woman on a forum I frequent with a plan for a ball she has to attend. I detailed supplementation, diet, weight programs and even cardio. What to do on what day, for how long based on where she is in her cycle. Now when she's soliciting advice on said forum, she's not mentioning her low calorie diet, or the amount of cardio she's doing, or anything other than she wants to lose a few pounds before an event. And of course guess who she'll blame when she runs herself into the ground. Don't ask me to set you up a program, for free no less, if you aren't going to follow it.

Okay, I think I got all my ranting out for the day. SO, here are my stats.

Cycle Day 1
BF% 21.1

Back Day

Pull ups. I don't have a bar to do it here so I pulled the hotel desk out, layed underneath it, grasped the edges and used that. It's just as effective and good in a pinch.

Lat pull downs: This is why I say you can do anything with bands. I attach the soft ankle straps to it and run a broom stick through it. I also do this with anything asking for a barbell

Seated cable rows: again with bands. I get mine from www.Aylio.com

one arm bent over rows
rear fly.

Post WO nutrition is so important so I had a banana creme muscle milk protein shake with some yummy caramel corn rice cakes for my fast burning carbs. So fantastic!!

((in case you were wondering, my tat is flipped because I had to take the second pic in a mirror...lol))

UFC 99 in Cologne

It was AMAZING! I'm so glad that the hubbs and I went. The kids were all dispersed amongst our friends and it was our first vacation without the kids. Like, ever. We stayed at the Radisson in Cologne, and it was a fantastic and beautiful hotel. Okay, so it took twenty minutes to figure out how to turn on the lights because apparently you have to put your room key in a slot on the wall to operate the lights. And the elevator. And really, everything else. I'm just grateful you didn't need the room key to flush the toilet.

We went to an amazing italian restaurant up the road from the Laxness Arena called Diana's. Head west from the arena and on the left hand side of the street, about three blocks down you'll see the sign for the restaurant. If it's sunny, sit outside in the garden. Their tortellini is absolutely amazing, and my husband was a big fan of their pizzas. It was a great way to pass the time waiting for the fight to start. After that we went back to teh arena and got our merchandise, including my hubby's autographed poster and our hats and tshirts. There was still an hour left so we waited it out in the bar across from the arena entrance. Kind of pricey, and if you get the Konig Pilsener, it actually comes in a wine glass and is kind of warm. So unless you want to look weird drinking beer in a wine glass, go for the heffeweisen.

The arena itself was fabulous! BSN had a booth there with supplement giveaways and girls in skimpy booty shorts to take pictures with. Although admittedly they had nothing more than big boobs. Pancake butts should not wear booty shorts. Just saying. They had vendors wanderingw ith kegs strapped to their backs dispensing small beers that were awesome. But they were small. Or you could wait int he line and get a big beer from a shop. The big beers tasted a lot like someone soaked bacon in it, but after your second or third, you no longer tasted it anyway!

Here's a shot of my husband and his friends with the giant beer.

Now, our seats were great! We were on the floor and able to see the fighters as they came in. The first few fights were really good. There was a tall fighter who I honestly thought wasn't going to make it through the third round, he was so bloodied up by the end of the second. But he showed a lot of heart! he came from behind and pulled it off. I missed a few fights waiting in line to refill the beers for everyone. Another benefit of those pitcher like glasses, you don't miss any of the fight while drinking because you can see through it.

We did have the good fortune to meet a really fantastic british couple who were staying in our friends hostel. ((The albert Gasthouse. It's amazing, like a little apartment for only 80 euro which is so much cheaper than what we paid for our fancy hotel)). It addded alot of fun for us to meet them and we exchanged information so that we could meet up again. This would be my big shout out to the british forces who are just as amazing and fantastic as our own american troops. So to Nick and Kerry, we'll have to meet up if you ever come to the states!

All in all, it was an amazing trip. I can't wait to do UFC 103 in Dallas in september. Hopefully it'll be easier to stick to my diet, but if they have wandering beer vendors, I'm not making any promises.

FireCRACKIN' HOT!

It's gonna get hot by the fourth ladies and gentleman. And you have Michelle Berger, aka The Buffmother to thank for it. I've been a member of her Rally Room off and on for a few years now, and let me tell you, you'll never find anyone nicer, kinder, more determined, or motivated than she is. And she motivates others too which is one of the reasons I love her so much. If you've caught the SlimChick Solution infomercials, then you know who I'm talking about and all about the GENIUS that is Hormonal Timing ((more on that later)). So from the 4th of June until the 4th of July, we are in the middle of the Fire CRACKIN' Hot for the 4th contest. I'm loving this. I'm good with mini challenges. I kicked my butt doing the Count down to Memorial Day challenge. I dropped a few percent body fat as a matter of fact. I'll have to post the before and after pics on that one.

So here's the POA for today. ((poa is plan of action. I'm going to have to do a whole post on acronyms and such..haha)). I woke up this morning and did a Metabolic Circuit. Which kicked my booty and got me revved up and ready to go! I did a lower body circuit this afternoon with my resistance bands since everything else has been packed up by the movers, and let me tell you ladies, you can do a lot with bands. Don't have money for a gym, don't have a lot of room for equipment? no problem! Get yourself some bodylastics and you can really kick your butt with them. Even my husband gets a good workout with them.

So here's my circuit:
Squats 3x12

Calf Raises 3x10

Stationary Lunges 3x12

Deadlifts 3x15

adductors: 3x10

abductors: 3x10

kickbacks: 3x15

ham curls: 3x10

leg extensions: 3x10

bridges: 3x10



I did my abs on monday so I didn't do any of those today. I'm going bowling tonight too. What's really awesome is that all the work that I've done over the past few months, I've had to bump up from an 8lb ball to a 9lb ball! The 8 lb is just too light now! Talk about unexpected side affects!



The plan of action tomorrow is some cardio in the am, either some tae bo, some sprints or some kempo. Not sure yet because it depends on what mood I'm in and whether or not the hubbs can keep an eye on the kids while I run. The afternoon will involve an upperbody circuit targeting my arms, chest and back. And lots of anticipation because on saturday we leave for cologne and UFC 99!



And here's a fun question for you, those of you who have been to a UFC fight before, what's standard dress code?? I hate looking out of place...

Hey! Hi! How are you Doing???

Hello and welcome to my blog! I'm Kayti, The Fit Mom. I call myself that because that's what I am. I consider myself a fit mom, I'm very focused on my health and my goals (more about that later), and I consider myself a Diva Mom too! For one, I have six children. Yes, I said SIX. Three boys and three girls, and you're damn right there's at least 1 diva in the bunch. I've also got a bit of a Diva vibe going on the mom front because I manage my six kids, my home, my volunteer work, with a single minded determination and the most common phrase I hear is "I don't know where you find the time! I could never do that!". I'm not trying to sound as though I'm bragging, because I'm not. What you see isn't always the way things are, and to get a full understanding, you need a real behind the scenes look. Which is where this blog comes in. I'm going to let you in on my life, which is crazy when things are normal, but at this time, things are most defininetly NOT normal! So here's a run down of what's going on in my world.

* Prepping for my first Figure Competition
For those of you who have never heard of figure competitions, you are not alone. It's like bodybuilding, but much softer. At least in my opinion. It's a sport that celebrates the beauty of a female form. not because she's got big boobs, or because she's a freaking stick, but because she's healthy and fit, determined and confident. I was competing in September, but due to item number two on this list, I'm not sure when this is going to be.

* Moving from GERMANY to LOUISIANA
That's right, I'm in europe right now! My husband is in the military (yet another bit of craziness in my life), and was recently deployed. For reasons I won't disclose here ((none of them are bad! Just complicated and technical)) he came home six months early and next thing you know we're PCS'ing (Permanent Change of Station, i.e. moving for all you civvies out there) to Louisiana in two months. Speaking of which, I'll continue this later, the moving company just pulled up!!