intro

ok, so i am going to try this blogging thing on for size as my facebook posts are just getting to be a bit much and they are very unorganized.  first, a bit about me...

my name is selina and i am mom to a wonderful eleven year old daughter named wendy who just happens to have high functioning autism and adhd. she started middle school last week (where has the time gone). my husband is brian, computer geek extroidenaire. my top weight was two hundred seventy pounds! i obviously dealt with disordered eating. when my daughter was born, i decided to just stop being so unhealthy, so i did what most do this day and age: at home workout videos, tracking what i ate, and undereating....a lot. i tend to have an obsessive personality type. i joined a gym when i got down around two hundred and pretty much cut out the videos in favor of beginning some basic machine based lifting....and too much cardio and not enough food. this went on until about the middle of last year when i decided to hire a trainer after having gotten a promotion at work.  i eventually got down to about 137, but had gotten too obsessive with it again, under eating and over cardioing. my body fat percentages were staying about the same

this past spring there was a local push/pull meet at a gym. we decided that i should do that since i seem to like lifting more than anything else. i did it, and am now hooked. august 24, i did another push/pull meet and october 26 i have a full powerlifting meet. i still have a wonderful trainer and am following the cube method to keep myself from doing too much, but still progressing. my weight is now closer to 158, but most of that gain is muscle and i am ok with that. i am working on the balance thing you see....

training schedule is usually as follows

monday squats
tuesday bench
wednesday cardio/conditioning
thursday deadlifts
friday other usually shoulder based
saturday cardio/conditioning
sunday rest

thank you for bearing with me, this is my first attempt at this. i may be adding some easy meal ideas and such also in the future.  i have a facebook, feel free to follow me. i log my workout specifics on fitocracy, it is awesome, you should use it too https://www.fitocracy.com/profile/SelinaPedersen/?feed .  i also have a youtube channel, started to video my workouts to check form and decided that i may as well upload them. http://www.youtube.com/user/selinapedersen

my daily food intake is roughly as follows

protein 225
carbs 120
fat 55

total calories are at about 2000, more on squat and deadlift day around my workout

later peeps!