So here are my fitness and nutrition plans for the first half of 2007 leading up to my wedding in the June/July timeframe:

January:
1. Train 3-4 days a week for 5k on January 20 with my fellas from n-Space and keep up with 3x/week Turbulence Training for Women workouts and 2x/week personal training sessions.
2. Maintain scale weight at 143-145 lbs by eating at maintenance (2200-2400 cals/day) until January 20.
3. Start moderate fat loss program (1800-1900 cals/day) on January 21.

February 1 - April 30:
1. Continue cutting following TT diet guidelines until goal body fat of 15% is reached (~130-134 lbs based on current stats of 145 lbs and 21% bf). According to my fat loss spreadsheet, this should take me approximately 90 days.
2. Stay at same daily intake level as long as 1.5-2 lbs are lost every two weeks. Reassess every 2 weeks and decide if another 250 calories per day need to be cut.
3. Use TT for Women weights/HIIT program M/W/F.
4. 30 minutes with personal trainer T/Th with shoulder/back/arms emphasis.
5. 30 minutes of additional general exercise (cardio, Yourself Fitness, P90X, yoga, walking, Forza, whatever) T/Th/Sa.
6. Sundays completely off.
7. If I choose to do another 5k, T/Th/Sa will be used for training runs.
8. Cheat meal 3x a week in February, 2x a week in March, 1x a week in April. :drool2:
9. Post progress photos and stats every 2 weeks.

May 1 - mid-June:
1. Go hardcore into Kim Oddo’s Body By O workout/diet program for 6 weeks to burn off the last vestiges of fluff before the wedding.
2. No extra workouts besides evening yoga at this point to avoid burnout.
3. Sundays completely off.
4. 1 cheat meal per week.

July - December:
1. Maintain weight at 130-134 lbs and bf% at 14-16%.
2. *Complete one full cycle of P90X classic unless I get bored in which case I will switch back to TT. (*Subject to change)

I am officially sick.

Not :eekb: sick, but definitely stuffier and moving into the occasional real *productive* cough and spine-wrenching sneeze instead of the vague scratchy throat and headache that has been plaguing me for the past 3 days. I can really tell because I was sweating twice as much as usual during yesterday’s leg and YF Core workouts and, more importantly, I have flat out lost my appetite. I think I ate only 4 meals today, and that is just not normal for Miss Maggie “Perpetually Starving” Wang.

I’m going to stick with my workouts as planned, though I may give myself an extra 5 minutes per workout for Kleenex breaks. Must pick up some anti-bacterial gel to take to the gym, too. I don’t want to pass this bug onto other folks who are struggling enough with their fitness resolutions. I am also going to do my best to keep my calories up, and my meals on schedule even if this cold makes everything taste like styrofoam.

Also–no more dairy or wheat while I have this cold. I am producing enough mucous already without the additional gobbiness I get from eating foods from those two groups. I swear I thought I was going to suffocate this afternoon after I had some skim milk and shredded wheat cereal with meal 4.

In happier news, Chibi-Robo for the Nintendo Game Cube is utterly fantastic. I have been playing it from my bed of snuffly sickness all day since I had the foresight to bring my GC home for the weekend. If you have a GC in your house and haven’t tried this game out, see if you can snag a copy for $10 at your local Gamestop or EB Games or hit up Toys R Us for around the same price. It’s almost too cute for words visually, but the gameplay combines exploration, traversal/climbing/jump puzzles, problem solving, and combat–rather like Castlevania for chicks.