Week in Review - 6/18

Today marks the end of the Tone It Up Bikini Series. It's hard to believe it's been 8 weeks already! It went by pretty fast. Probably because I was working so hard. :-D

Goal Check-In:
NO Fast Food ✔
Starbucks 1x per week ✔
72 oz of water a day ✔
Stick to the workout plan ✔Well, I did skip one workout this week due to time.
Sub 10:00 min/mile - Current avg pace: 10:24
Lose 10 lbs - ↓ 11.8 lbs

Jun 12-18
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Bikini Series Week 8 Schedule

	On The Schedule	What I Did
Mon:	Abs + Arms	1 mile run + 5 DMs  (3 sets of 15 each side) Shoulder Press + Cross Body Hammer Curls + Upright Row +  Starfish Crunch + Mermaid Crunch
Tue:	Total Body + Cardio	2 mile run + Beach Babe Mashup
Wed:	HIIT	1 mile run + Sandy Sweat HIIT
Thu:	Booty + Abs	20 min run + 5 DMs  (3 sets of 15 each side) Plank Knee Taps + Side Plank Crunch + Booty Kickback +  Single Leg Bridge Dips + V-Sit Crunches
Fri:	Total Body	30 min run
Sat:	Yoga Booty	1 mile run + InstaLIVE Yoga Booty workout
Sun:	Sunday Runday	6.2 mile run

DMs = Daily Moves


Before I get into the highlights from last week, here's a more in-depth goal check-in of the entire Bikini Series. I set 5 goals for the series, with an optional 6th goal of losing 10 lbs. Turns out that was the goal I succeeded at the best. :-D

Check 'em out!

No Fast Food
The point of this goal was really to help me focus more on eating real food made at home, which I feel like I did pretty good on. There was, of course, the one Jack in the Box burger on National Burger Day. And there were a couple sandwiches from Domino's that I never really mentioned on the blog because I didn't really qualify Domino's as fast food. LOL

Starbucks 1x per week
I'm not the kind of girl that goes to Starbucks for a black coffee. No, I'm the girl that gets a venti Coconut Milk Mocha Macchiato or some equally decadent drink. Those calories can really add up, so I wanted to limit those treats to only 1x per week. I nailed this goal! There were even a couple weeks that I skipped Starbucks altogether - once kinda by accident; once to make up for the Jack in the Box splurge.

72 oz of water a day
Drinking enough water is always a struggle for me. It's not that I'm drinking much else in place of water (usually just 1 cup of coffee in the morning and maybe something else a couple times a week); it's just that I often forget to drink water at all. Overall, I only fell short 4 days throughout the challenge, so I'm definitely calling that a WIN!

Stick to the workout plan
I really wanted to commit myself to this Bikini Series and give my ALL to the workouts. Since I wasn't doing the nutrition plan part of the challenge, I really wanted to focus on the workouts (and do my own nutrition thing). I modified some workouts and swapped a couple, but I think I only really skipped ONE and that was this past week.

Sub 10:00 min/mile runs
I haven't been focusing on speed for so long that my average pace has really plummeted, so I wanted to get back to that sub 10:00 min/mile pace. I didn't do as great with this as I'd hoped, because a) I didn't really do any speed focused work, and b) it got HOT here in Vegas. Oh and c) the #RWRunStreak started which made my legs a bit tired some days. Still, I feel really good about my progress with this goal.

Average pace of the series (not counting trail runs because those are always so much slower) - 10:24 

Total runs - 54

# of sub 10:00 min/mile runs - 7
4 were in the past week

5 were 1 mile runs

1 was a 2 mile run

and...

1 was a 5K at a 9:30 min/mile pace!!

The 2 & 3 mile sub-10 runs were this past week (so maybe I can't blame the heat) and I was beyond excited for both of them. But especially the 3 miler. I'm not going to say it felt effortless, but it definitely wasn't a struggle.

{Optional} Lose 10 lbs
I'm always hesitant to set a weight loss goal. My weight tends to fluctuate quite a bit, but its fluctuations have just been creeping higher and higher. Since moving to Vegas 5 years ago, I'd gained nearly 25 lbs. I've been casually trying to get that stinkin' number to drop but never with any luck.  I really think that focusing on eating more protein and more produce combined with focusing on doing all the workouts was the winning recipe.

Starting weight - 167.6 lbs

Final weigh-in - 155.8 lbs

I'm hoping to keep the momentum going! The series may be over, but I'm going to try to keep up with working out every day and watching what I eat. I'd secretly love to lose another 10 lbs by my birthday in August. Shhh.

If you're still with me, THANK YOU!! Keep reading to see my highlights of the week.

Highlights of the Week:

Zucchini Matcha Muffins
These were my breakfasts for the week, and they were so delicious! You can get the recipe here.

Speedy Running
4 of my 7 runs this week were sub-10 paces. Whoo hoo!! As mentioned above, the one I'm proudest of is the 5k I ran Friday morning before work. It was pretty amazing. :)


Dinner/Drinks with an Old Friend
A girl I was friends with in the late 90s was in town for a convention. We probably hadn't seen each other in nearly 20 years?! That's the great thing about living in Vegas. People you haven't even thought about in decades contact you to hang out and its like no time has passed.

We met up at a pretty casual place - The Dog Haus. It seems a little weird to go out for hot dogs, but it was delicious.

SOOO VEGGIE (but with Italian Sausage)
tomato wild arugula, crispy onions, avocado, spicy basil aioli

It was fun to catch up with her and learn more about her life in the British Virgin Islands, where she's lived since 2000.



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