It's butt freezing cold in the mornings and the winter jacket is back on... its warm enough during daytime to melt the snow tho. Work is (of course) very busy now and I'm feeling a tad bit stressed but not to bad. Prefer having a bit to do rather than trying to make time pass...
The cold is finally starting to ease! Don't have the clogged feeling in my head YAY but well see in the afternoon... it always gets worse then. Had a solid 9 hour sleep last night, where supposed to sleep at the bfs place but I just didn't feel that was q good idea, not feeling to fresh and his daughter has a bit of fever as well as I'm not used to sleeping with 2 other persons and need sleep at the moment... miss him terribly tho.

Did however go to the gym, I know, not so smart... but a light session.. back only and it did feel good but probably should have stayed home... anyways.... as I'm feeling better today it wasn't to bad.
Tomorrow ive got to return my things to old work, keys, computer and what not. Then its AW with the girls there. Won't be a late one for me (seeing bf after + driving and I miss him ;-) )

Decided to take it easy one more day, subway was having problems, half of the city had gone powerless and I we really late an still not 100 in the body and not even 100 today.. but not dead tired at least. Woke up at 3 with the strangest pain across the upper part of my chest, nothing specific just bloody painful. Took 2 pain killers and it must have passed cause I fell asleep again. It was like cramp but not... I've had it once before and I don't know what to do about it...
Fingers crossed I'd be feeling okay to go to the gym today.

Ended up not going to the gym, sore throat... went home and slept instead... woke up around 8 had more food and then back to sleep again. The sore throat went away and I'm only stuffed in the nose :-D so that's great! I'm a bit frustrated with the sickness that keeps hitting me but at least its nothing more than a bit of a cold! Funny nose doesn't affect much.

More tired than ever today... uff and woke up in the middle of the night with a stuffed nose too but that's gone now. Odd...
It's butt freezing too and had a bit if snow overnight with some 0 degrees so it was half melted on the car and now its -6 so extremely hard to clear the windows...
the ice skating was great! Ice was good and the wind not to bad! Great end of season! Next weekend me and bf are going to the movies and a steak house! He's got a babysitter :-) looking forward to that!

Its been a very quiet weekend. I managed to cut myself real bad on Friday, the cheese slices jumped and cut my thumb up. Blood everywhere and gawd it just looks awful :( I couldnt do anything that night cause it was hurting so bad. Woke up in the middle of the night to, must have hit the thumb or something cause it was pounding...

Went to the gym yesterday, did squats, 50 min of it haha and really focused on the technique, I started going heavy but straight away I cheated so back down to lower weights... today my BUTT hurts like hell. LOVE IT! hamstring training and calfs went really well too.

I decided to go food shopping after gym and saw an advert for 20% of in the local bike store. Ive been thinking about getting a cyclocross but I just dont want to get into that again, to dangerous, to much money and to much time... plus it wont work with power lifting... so ive been looking at MTB, but I wanted a stiff frame with quicker tires and lighter (like a cyclocross but more like mountainbike) And I found a pretty good one. Only the guy didnt have any put together in my size so he brought out a black one, same manufacturer only not as fancy brakes or carbon fiber fork. It was also about 3000 SKR cheaper than the first one. So I just coulndt resist, its perfect!!!

Later my sexy bf came past (lunch break) and we had dinner together, or lunch for him... good to see him, he works nights 7 days on / 7 days off so he'll get off on Wednesdays. We had oven roasted vegetables with fresh garlic that i just chopped. Pork and a feta salad. Not bad at all :)

Today its a bit windy but the snow has melted on the ice and its been pretty cold during the nights. Me and dad are going to try to get one last skate before the season is over!

We also had the summer/winter time switch, forward one hour, so I had to force myself up early today so I wont have to much trouble going to bed early... real hard to as I got stuck in my book (Im doing a re-read of all my Stephen King books, at the moment its Dreamcatcher) and ended up falling asleep waaaaaaaaaay to late..

Was soo tired last night, went home and went to bed pretty much... that time of the month to so that wouldn't have helped. Had a great sleep, although woke up extremely warm and had to put on a new t-shirt... yeeeew
Really tagged for tonight and I feel strong and super charged haha
I've also figured out (part of the problem at least) why my back is a bit unbalanced... I ALWAYS carry my shoulder bag, massive purse, on the left side, with food, water and a load of other things.... making the right (strong) side take the load.... now trying to use the other side and I feel it in the left side haha better start thinking about using this side often...

Happy Friday to you!

I can still feel the sickness that infested my body... I guess its normal and I have to be patients and think recovery thoughts LOL
It's real spring weather outside and I've had the cravings for jogging... for a while now... not done it yet tho and maybe it'll pass once I've actually gone out and realized its hard work and not so much fun after all hehe I'm thinking I'm going to save that experience till we go to Scotland as training will be limited there.

The more I speak to Mr Sexy the more it hits me (both of us) how alike we are in so many ways... its a bit funny and so far a great experience :-) he's 3 years younger but more mature in some ways. He's got a 4 year old daughter who I instantly fell in love with and that's why. He also has a dog, yes a working dog but such a sweet one, energic full on but great!

Didnt do much yesterday :-) mainly snogging on the couch with the boyfriend :-D yes its official and feels great! I'm such a lucky girl!

8 degrees and sunny on the forecast today! Fantastic! Spring is comin :D I sure hope that spring is comin to Scotland too as its only 3 weeks till we leave! Yes!!!
The kiro yesterday was great he had a look at my shoulder, apparently a liters shoulder hehe and he stretched it a bit and gave me an excersice to do, rotator cuff, starting with easy light rubberband then going a bit heavier and either.more weights. I've not done that before so I'm guessing it will do a lot of good. I'm also left side crooked lol not really balanced and its probably because of my back, not completely straight so he told me to shift my grip during deads and do another back extension lift with the weight on the left side/leg. To spare my knees I'm going to have to build more hamstring and butt as (apparently) women tend to be quad dominant! Loads of good information :-)

Back in business now! Been a great weekend, not by being well, still have felt it but I've had the chanse to spend time with R and I've met hit lovely energic daughter :) long Sunday walk yesterday and R helped me to fix my car. It died on Saturday evening. The battery (that worked fine in -20 and earlier that day) just flat out died...
Today I'm a tad bit tired and feeling a bit swollen. Haven't exactly been eating good this week, just. Couldn't be bothered and my body sure feel it.. so I'm going to tighten diet up again and if I'm not back to normal by next weekend ill have to tighten it up a bit more. 6 weeks till the next comp!
I'm also seeing a physio tonight so I don't train wrong or hurt myself as I tend to be a bit crooked when I train and might need to straighten my back up/crack it (have had some problems before)

And I've done some shopping, in addition to the car battery I got a pair of light nude jeans (about the same price) and a pair if wranglers hihi love the nude's and the wrangler's was 70% off! Gotta love that! Wrangler's have flair haha but since some of the fashion that's coming have some flair its all good lol

woke up at 12 from a nightmare and couldn't fall back to sleep again. Not feeling great either :/ slightly sick to the stomach... I have slept for about 3 hours.. gaaaaaah fingers crossed its because Im tired and not the other way around...

Ive just had the oddest session in a while. I felt very weak but got the best contact ever. After pretty much warming up I had a pump... continued the whole session. I just couldn't do 3s so I abandoned that pretty quickly and practiced a bit more on technique... why not... i reckon its stupid trying to push and then get hurt...

This week I have company on the train rides so blogging might be suffering a bit lol. Meeting up with handsome tomorrow :D

I cant recommend using soy milk for cooking... at least not if your going to freeze it... it turns out very watery... lessons learned, tasted great but didn't look very nice.... hehe

Great leg session yesterday, managed a 3 on 80kg :) and got some great technique tips. I have the tendency to flip forward and thats no good when you start adding weight. So did some additional technique training to and man i feel it today. all of my lower body is sore hahaha
No long distance ice-skating today, the weather has been to warm, 7degrees and sunny during the days and not cold enough during the nights. So dad reckons it will be to hard and no fun. I reckon that's good since I am walking like a old lady today haha
A friend of mine is on the way over and we are heading out for a walk, her being pregnant (and suffering from it)so not going to be a quick or long one but nice to catch up with her and have a chat ;)

On Friday we had a say good buye at work, they had some great looking cakes this time. Soo pretty and Im sure they tasted great too ;)

Hmm not sure what I've been doing all these mornings... now I'm early again! Great since I need a bit of buffer with flex time! Got a bit of company last night :D awesome and I like this guy more and more!
Sleeping is good to, no problems anymore not even after a hard training session! Love it!
Bench went great, managed 57.5kg on 2 and a bit reps! And the 55 kg 3s felt good too! I need to do more bench with stop tho, harder but since you have to stop on the comps its a good idea, might have to go down in weights for that...
Tried dips as well haha started with the ladder, the one was easy... the two reps was easy... so I true.more and managed 10 haha and after that 8 and 6! Lol I was stronger than I thought haha so when I van do 3 set of 10 ill be adding weight on :)
Sooo sore today tho hihi perfect for a Friday with a movie!

Work is a tad bit quiet today so ill be writing manuals and I do enjoy that!

Wow I'm already on the train to work haha early as! Dunno why my morning ritual took 20 min shorter than normally...

Origin yesterday went fabulous! I even increased more than planned (2.5 kg every week) and did 112.5kg deads a 3 reps and it felt good! Loving it! Also did (almost) 3 ladders of Chins, you start with one, rest, 2 rest and so on. Git up to 4 strict ones. Then you start over. After that 3 work sets of 3 rep dumbbell rows (not much rest between sets) I finished the backsession with lats pulldowns and 2 bicep excersices! On a high when I got home but for once I didn't have any problems sleeping :)
Feels like Friday today for some reason hehe but today is bench day, ill also try the ladder strategy for dips :)

Looking forward to the movies tomorr. Were going to go see love, sex and other drugs :)

Might be lucky to get some company one of the evenings too hihi someone special works around my place some nights :) I'm so lucky :D

Best Tuesday ever :) I'm completely smitten with this guy!

Back and biceps today and a bit tired but got a good feeling about it anyway!

Today is the Semla day (never mind the womans day) and everyone goes crazy for these cream and almond paste filled buns.

wiki
"The semla was originally eaten only on Shrove Tuesday, as the last festive food before Lent. However, with the arrival of the Protestant Reformation, the Swedes stopped observing a strict fasting for Lent. The semla in its bowl of warm milk became a traditional dessert every Tuesday between Shrove Tuesday and Easter. Today, semlas are available in shops and bakeries every day from shortly after Christmas until Easter. Each Swede consumes on average five bakery-produced semlas each year, in addition to all those that are homemade."

Interesting read

Athletes and exercisers have utilised high-protein diets for centuries. The objective of this review is to examine the evidence for the efficacy and potential dangers of high-protein diets. One important factor to consider is the definition of a 'high-protein diet'. There are several ways to consider protein content of a diet. The composition of the diet can be determined as the absolute amount of the protein (or other nutrient of interest), the % of total energy (calories) as protein and the amount of protein ingested per kg of body weight. Many athletes consume very high amounts of protein. High-protein diets most often are associated with muscle hypertrophy and strength, but now also are advocated for weight loss and recovery from intense exercise or injuries. Prolonged intake of a large amount of protein has been associated with potential dangers, such as bone mineral loss and kidney damage. In otherwise healthy individuals, there is little evidence that high protein intake is dangerous. However, kidney damage may be an issue for individuals with already existing kidney dysfunction. Increased protein intake necessarily means that overall energy intake must increase or consumption of either carbohydrate or fat must decrease. In conclusion, high protein intake may be appropriate for some athletes, but there are potential negative consequences that must be carefully considered before adopting such a diet. In particular, care must be taken to ensure that there is sufficient intake of other nutrients to support the training load. 

Proc Nutr Soc. 2011 Mar 7:1-10. Tipton KD. Efficacy and consequences of very-high-protein diets for athletes and exercisers.  (found it at kollo)

Tried my first full 3x3 yesterday and it felt a bit funny. Not the same pump and it felt like I started and then in was over hihi Not that it was a quick session more the sets. I did shoulders and chest. 5 exercises, tried narrow bench for the first time. I did feel tired after lol and it was heavy, not really sore today but tired in the muscle :)
Today became resting day as I moved the back session till tomorrow (got company today :) and I like! So ;) )

Looking forward to Friday as well, hopefully getting (no confirmation yet) to try a Swedish celeb's food at a launch! Otherwise me and Sofie will go check out a chick flick so win win hihi

It's getting warmer and lighter here too, now its daylight going to and from.work, a couple degrees below 0 and some daring flowers are starting to appear where the snow has melted :)

Super dinner :) awesome company, bit tired today as it got a bit late! But worth it :D he is a great person! Fantastic day :) me and dad down 2 hours on the ice as well, stunning ice skating. Dad git the brilliant idea to put one car in one end of a lake then go to the other end of a second lake and ice skate with the wind back. Perfect as it was very windy! Had to walk between the lakes tho and it was a bit average as the shoes aren't made for walking in :)

Just did a great zucchini gratin!

Its 500g of zucchini cut into slices, 1 yellow onion, 500g of 4% cooking cream, 4 cloves of garlic, salt and pepper. I also had 250g of light quark in but it was a bit to much fluids so some have to go for the next one. Put zucchini and onions in a medium sized oven dish. mix cream with garlic, salt and pepper. Pour over the zucchini and onion and top with cheese. I used 12% grated cheese. Bake in the oven at 175 degrees for about 35 minutes. 54 kcal /100g, 3 gram of carbs, 2 gram of fat and 5 gram protein.
It was unfortunately to runny but tasted great. Ill be having that and chicken burgers for lunch next week. I absolutely love my meat grinder! Its just awesome!!!

Im so amazed, bursting of energy! Feel a tad bit of guilt not going to the gym... even have the feeling like Id want to go for a jog! Crazy, havent felt like this in ages, a year or more... I can now see how people have the energy to do other stuff than gym and haha Im loving it! And its friday! and I NEVER have any energy on fridays, not like this... No jog tho, bro said NO so haha not doing it. Cant wait to see how tomorrows leg session goes. Talk about having been over-trained for a LONG time...
Tomorrow will be jam-packed with gym, birthday celebration, a early walk with a friend and her pup (and planning for a date I have on Sunday, someone is coming over for dinner :) hihi )

We had test coffe and this week, one of the guys made chocolate ball, the 2 big ones are specially for one of the guys, hehehehe he always eats a LOT 

hehe peters balls hahaha

STOKED!!!!!!!!! I benched a one (.25 haha) on 60 kg today! Thats an increase of 7.5kg since the competition!! (my mistake, cant count haha thought it was 55kg hahaha) lucky I had spotting...

hehe just realized this... this is where Tibble gym is located (BAD = BATH)

Something really scary happened at the gym yesterday. 3 big SL boys where doing the bunch and at the end if their session one guy managed to tear a chest muscle. He had to go to the hospital and it looked soo painful! I hope it went okay, he's such a lovely person and really wanted to compete in may!

I did back yesterday, mainly deads, took the other sets down a bit. Managed 4 reps (really only the first one that's hard haha) in 107.5kg, set of 3 :) need to focus on lifting with my entire body! Legs legs legs! Lovisa was there to keep an eye on my firm so today I've got sore (everything) legs and back :) and as expected... less sleep last night... I'm having a complete rest day today!

Got a new batch of supplements today, blueberry, raspberry milk and chocolate flavoured protein (for my fluff) I can't wait to try em out! You can order big packs that comes in separate 750g bags so you can mix flavours! Gotta love that!

It's now less than 6 weeks till takeoff to Scotland! Can't wait!

I'm on a sleeping quest haha now my sleep is fantastic!! I'm getting 9 hours a day (3 days and counting) doing a sort of de-load in the gym as Sportsgirl suggested! Just shoulders and a few bicep exercises yesterday. Its good!!!

Had company on the train by Ida today :) good to have a chat and the train ride goes sooo much quicker when you get company!!

Managed to forget my bread for breakky tho.. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I was looking forward to it... I've made a oatmeal bread with eggs in it (instead of fiddling around with making oatmeal at work) and its real moist (looks like goood knows what) and quite tasty (with the right spices anything is tasty) and I cannot believe I forgot it.. GAWD!!!!!!!!!