Today woke up headachey and sore after my boxing workout. Really sore. Used to get headaches after doing body combat classes but haven't had one recently :(
Dragged myself out of bed at 6:30 and took Yoshi for a 4.11 km run! Half of it spent trying to control an out of control puppy! So slow but a decent distance and around 260 calories.
Couldn't face the berry bruschetta again so I turned my berries into a shake with banana, almond milk and a protein scoop. Lunch was pumpkin soup - tasty but left me hungry. Substituted a slice of toast for the whole grain roll.
Slight lapse of a koko black chocolate (I had to check my f-day present was ok...). It would have been a Vic market donut but they were sold out at 1pm!! >:( probably just as well.
Dinner was the caramelised pork with sweet potato mash and green beans. I probably ate more meat than I was supposed to - and it was slightly overcooked as I had thin steaks. But still a bit hungry after dinner.
Realized my beef mince was going to go off so had to precook that for tomorrow night (I swear I seem to be spending too much time in the kitchen now!!) 1 cup/100g of meat (with veggies) is supposed to feed 1 person?? I think jase will be getting 2 pies!
The meal and exercise plans came out. No change in the exercise. Have adjusted the meal plan so remove the fish and vegetarian penne on Sunday night. Also replaced the minestrone soup with the leftover pumpkin - beats making another 6 serves of soup whilst there's still some in the freezer!
Exciting though next week we get some pieces of chocolate for 2 evenings and pasta a couple of times. I'll have to hide my chocolate pieces from jase though to ensure I get to eat them :)
Today's work torment was someone eating cake at me and someone else emailing me photos suggesting there was a chocolate truck downstairs :P
Work team lunch tomorrow - yum cha!! Can't wait even though it's not the capsicum sandwich I was supposed to be eating!! :)
Sore and a bit grumpy.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Day 3
Alarm set for 6:30 as I was planning on going for a short walk with the dogs. Didn't sleep well - bit stressed about work, non-work stuff and my back and neck were really sore. Alarm goes off, turn it off, consider going back to sleep. Decide I should walk the dogs at about 6:45 so got out of bed, dressed, dogs leashed and eventually out of the door. Couldn't find my headphones so put my iphone on loud in my pocket. Started off walking then did a bit of jogging, but for the last stretch of road Yoshi just didn't want to run anymore. Probably because I switched sides so he was on the fence side, not the grassy side where he had been previously bolting off to.
20 mins and 136 calories later back home for breakfast. Baked beans on toast with baby spinach leaves. Whilst I'm a big fan of baked beans it still took me a while to get through it all - still not used to eating in the mornings I don't think!! Prepared my Mediterranean vegetable sandwich - with no enthusiasm. Basil and ricotta, artichoke heart sliced, char grilled capsicum and chargrilled eggplant. Not being a fan of artichoke or eggplant I was kind of dreading lunch time. However it turned out to be ok. It still took me about 40 minutes to get through - I ate half of it and felt pretty full. Pushed through the second half though. I still prefer the roast beef and rocket sandwich from earlier on in the week - however I had visions of me chucking out this sandwich but it wasn't bad. I should probably have done my own capsicum and eggplant instead of buying it from the deli - but I wasn't sure if I'd like it enough :)
Dinner was the pumpkin soup - seriously awesome to be able to go home, spend a small amount of time heating up the soup and cooking little rolls. I didn't quite have a small wholegrain roll - but had a bake at home type woolies white little roll. I stopped at 1 though! Even better was that Jase was happy with the consistency. Just the serving size was a bit too small. I was starving afterwards - and it was a bit iffy how big a serve actually was, especially when I didn't use 2 cups of the stock because I wanted it thick. Meh.. I think my last two containers of soup I'll just heat up at once.
Had to wait until 8:30 for my boxing class to begin - sooo annoying. Had I not been meeting someone there it's highly likely I wouldn't have gone. The class itself was really intense. When he called for a break you really wanted the break. Burnt around 260 calories.. but worked my arm muscles good! Afterwards though my knee and foot were a bit sore from kneeing and kicking the heavy bag. Plus the foot I'd been kicking with has been the one that's been sore for the past week - so maybe I should have switched sides :)
Took me a little while to calm the brain down to sleep!! Good class though (I think). Shame as the parking there is atrocious - and it's a decent drive away. But $5 a casual visit - nice!
20 mins and 136 calories later back home for breakfast. Baked beans on toast with baby spinach leaves. Whilst I'm a big fan of baked beans it still took me a while to get through it all - still not used to eating in the mornings I don't think!! Prepared my Mediterranean vegetable sandwich - with no enthusiasm. Basil and ricotta, artichoke heart sliced, char grilled capsicum and chargrilled eggplant. Not being a fan of artichoke or eggplant I was kind of dreading lunch time. However it turned out to be ok. It still took me about 40 minutes to get through - I ate half of it and felt pretty full. Pushed through the second half though. I still prefer the roast beef and rocket sandwich from earlier on in the week - however I had visions of me chucking out this sandwich but it wasn't bad. I should probably have done my own capsicum and eggplant instead of buying it from the deli - but I wasn't sure if I'd like it enough :)
Dinner was the pumpkin soup - seriously awesome to be able to go home, spend a small amount of time heating up the soup and cooking little rolls. I didn't quite have a small wholegrain roll - but had a bake at home type woolies white little roll. I stopped at 1 though! Even better was that Jase was happy with the consistency. Just the serving size was a bit too small. I was starving afterwards - and it was a bit iffy how big a serve actually was, especially when I didn't use 2 cups of the stock because I wanted it thick. Meh.. I think my last two containers of soup I'll just heat up at once.
Had to wait until 8:30 for my boxing class to begin - sooo annoying. Had I not been meeting someone there it's highly likely I wouldn't have gone. The class itself was really intense. When he called for a break you really wanted the break. Burnt around 260 calories.. but worked my arm muscles good! Afterwards though my knee and foot were a bit sore from kneeing and kicking the heavy bag. Plus the foot I'd been kicking with has been the one that's been sore for the past week - so maybe I should have switched sides :)
Took me a little while to calm the brain down to sleep!! Good class though (I think). Shame as the parking there is atrocious - and it's a decent drive away. But $5 a casual visit - nice!
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Day 2
Last night fell asleep during my 15 minute meditation session (iphone app).. was so tired. But again my brain was stupid and I was awake at about 3am, and then 5:20am. This time I thought bugger it I'm going back to sleep. Alarm went off at 6 and was turned off. I then woke up about 30 minutes later, back to sleep and finally up at 7. So by this time I'm an hour off schedule (but I did feel a little better after extra sleep). Got up, put Bear out (sorry Bear) and took my dog for a run. 2.8km approximately in around 20 minutes, then came in to do the short cardio circuit.
Because I was running late I wasn't overly prepared. I hadn't blown up my fitball for my tricep dips (so they got skipped). I did my pushups on my knees, did squats instead of squat jumps (as my indoor shoes were off in another room and I didn't want to be jumping barefoot). I think I did the ice skaters wrong. Tried doing the ab crunches and noticed how sore my neck was.. and didn't quite hold the plank for a minute.
So maybe I'll do my 25 minutes with the dog, then come in and have the dvd workout ready to go so I just follow along to that?? Or I'll do another dvd workout that doesn't require any equipment! Sure Jillian Michaels workouts are around 20-30 minutes.
So according to my HRM I only did 40 minutes of exercise and burnt about 256 calories. I would have gone for a walk at lunchtime but as I'm leaving work a bit early today I'll most likely be working through lunch. Won't get home until about 7:30 and after making dinner I don't think I'll want to be doing another 20 or so minutes of cardio. So maybe I will stick with walking the dogs for 20 minutes tomorrow as I'm doing a boxing class tomorrow night.
Also as I was running late I didn't eat breakfast at home.. but diligently grated my half an apple, added to my oats, added a sprinkle of cinammon and came to work. Turns out 1 serve of oats is MASSIVE.. I ended up chucking most of it out - as whilst apple and cinnamon sounded awesome, the taste didn't live up to the name. Wondering if I'm allowed to add brown sugar?? :D The thought of the Berry Bruschetta tomorrow is making me a little blegh.. so at this rate I might be going back to making my banana-berry "shakes" in the morning, as at least that's quick and I can work out rough calories for it. I did want to try eating breakfast instead of drinking it.. but so far not loving it!
Add to that getting to work to find jelly beans on my desk (promo thing) and a project launch special (complete with sausage rolls & party pie - had 2:1 of those as I'd thrown out my breakfast and was hungry but passed on the chocolate cake). One of my work neighbours keeps talking up his chocolate chip cookies to me, the other left a 100s and 1000s freddo on my desk yesterday. Grrr..! In the afternoon the freddo delivery puts chocolate cake on my desk - I move it to his (smelling the cake mmmm), he moves it back, so I put it to the other side - and when he got back he was eating it and noisily enjoying every mouthful).
Dinner was lamb cutlets with mushy peas (which I forgot to mush). I was making more than the recipe said so that Jase didn't starve and ended up oven baking them as I didn't have a fry pan big enough to do them in one lot. It felt a bit weird just eating lamb and peas.. but tasted alright. Had a small cacao bite to tide me over.
Because I was running late I wasn't overly prepared. I hadn't blown up my fitball for my tricep dips (so they got skipped). I did my pushups on my knees, did squats instead of squat jumps (as my indoor shoes were off in another room and I didn't want to be jumping barefoot). I think I did the ice skaters wrong. Tried doing the ab crunches and noticed how sore my neck was.. and didn't quite hold the plank for a minute.
So maybe I'll do my 25 minutes with the dog, then come in and have the dvd workout ready to go so I just follow along to that?? Or I'll do another dvd workout that doesn't require any equipment! Sure Jillian Michaels workouts are around 20-30 minutes.
So according to my HRM I only did 40 minutes of exercise and burnt about 256 calories. I would have gone for a walk at lunchtime but as I'm leaving work a bit early today I'll most likely be working through lunch. Won't get home until about 7:30 and after making dinner I don't think I'll want to be doing another 20 or so minutes of cardio. So maybe I will stick with walking the dogs for 20 minutes tomorrow as I'm doing a boxing class tomorrow night.
Also as I was running late I didn't eat breakfast at home.. but diligently grated my half an apple, added to my oats, added a sprinkle of cinammon and came to work. Turns out 1 serve of oats is MASSIVE.. I ended up chucking most of it out - as whilst apple and cinnamon sounded awesome, the taste didn't live up to the name. Wondering if I'm allowed to add brown sugar?? :D The thought of the Berry Bruschetta tomorrow is making me a little blegh.. so at this rate I might be going back to making my banana-berry "shakes" in the morning, as at least that's quick and I can work out rough calories for it. I did want to try eating breakfast instead of drinking it.. but so far not loving it!
Add to that getting to work to find jelly beans on my desk (promo thing) and a project launch special (complete with sausage rolls & party pie - had 2:1 of those as I'd thrown out my breakfast and was hungry but passed on the chocolate cake). One of my work neighbours keeps talking up his chocolate chip cookies to me, the other left a 100s and 1000s freddo on my desk yesterday. Grrr..! In the afternoon the freddo delivery puts chocolate cake on my desk - I move it to his (smelling the cake mmmm), he moves it back, so I put it to the other side - and when he got back he was eating it and noisily enjoying every mouthful).
Dinner was lamb cutlets with mushy peas (which I forgot to mush). I was making more than the recipe said so that Jase didn't starve and ended up oven baking them as I didn't have a fry pan big enough to do them in one lot. It felt a bit weird just eating lamb and peas.. but tasted alright. Had a small cacao bite to tide me over.
Monday, August 27, 2012
And they're off....
So the fact that I published this after entering only the title suggests how tired I'm feeling lol.
At about 4pm Sunday I went grocery shopping. About 5:30pm I finally left the supermarket a little in shock at the first grocery bill. Hopefully there's a few items which will be reusable/last awhile as I don't want to be spending that much every week! I guess I wasn't preparing lunches at home before but still.
Get home, get everything packed away (already had done a bit more of a tidy of the freezer and the pantry finding stuff that was out of date), then put the pumpkin in the oven to make pumpkin soup. I made the mistake of then sitting down on the floor with my dog who attempted to curl up in my lap (he's not very little). This made it more difficult to get the motivation to get back up and do the other half of the preparation (doing the potatoes, leek, onion in stock). Whilst that was cooking I made Cacao Bites. Yet to try them as I'm not sure they're going to be that sweet. Dates, Cacao Powder and Walnuts... hmm... other people have said they're good so fingers crossed. So after dinner (which Jase thankfully cooked) I processed my soup in the food processor (a little too full as it leaked out the top), I decided to keep it thick in the hope that Jase will eat it (not a soup fan). The recipe was supposed to use another 2 cups of stock.. so that kind of sounds like it would be mega runny.. unless it thickens more with more heat?? The recipe was written as if you were eating it straight after but 2 tupperware containers went into the freezer, one in the fridge for dinner and another small mug in the fridge for lunch. Tasted alright as I'm not a massive pumpkin fan. Though I'm not sure how full I'm going to feel after eating it. So after all that it was time to wash all the dishes I had messed up.. ALL the dishes, and the bench tops - although being a sunday night I just wanted to kick back in front of the telly.
In bed around 9:45pm with the tv on (I know that's bad.. but within a tv episode I managed to drift off to sleep). The plan was to wake up at 6am and be exercising by 6:05. I was obviously too excited about getting up early as I was awake at 2:30am, and then again at 5:20am with tossing and turning inbetween. By 5:45 I decided there was no point going back to sleep to get up at 6 so I got out of bed. The dogs were super excited that I was up and wanted to be up too so I let them out of their crates - then decided to put them out the back so I could do my workout in peace. My dog decided to go bark at the neighbour's dog (or at the side door I'm not sure which) so they were brought back inside to their crates. Now I was feeling pretty tired and not quite ready for Michelle Bridges super bubbly, excited attitude. It took me a little while to get into the workout. I'm not sure what size living room other people have but mine isn't so conducive to running around in a 4 pace square . Can't say I loved the Toning dvd, and burnt only 136 calories in 45 minutes (focus was on strength work though). I think I might alternate with Bob Harper's strength dvd even though that goes for over an hour. As I'm not after a massive weight loss I'm not going to try to make up to 500 calories for the day. Feeling a bit sore now.. but also sore in my forearm - so it doesn't all seem like a good sore :/ In theory this is what I should have been looking like this morning!
For my cardio day I had planned to run with the dog and then do the cardio circuit after I was warmed up - but spanner in the works... the sun isn't up at 6AM and I don't feel safe running in the dark through the local streets near me :( So the alternative is eating breakfast first (porridge) and then running - which might make me feel ill, or I ditch the planned breakfast and have a "smoothie" so that I can get up later :) Or of course get up earlier, do the DVD warmup, then the circuit and then a run... but umm.. given how I'm feeling today after lack of sleep I'm not feeling so keen at getting up EARLIER than 6am.
Breakfast this morning was Berry Bruschetta. I had halved the recipe as it would have been wasted on Jase - though forgot to halve the ricotta. So had 2 pieces of grainy bread toasted, topped with (too much) ricotta, and too many berries - apparently the two "handfuls" were supposed to be smaller. That and the berries hadn't fully defrosted yet... after one piece of toast I'd had enough and the other bit got chucked out. Made lunch which was a Roast beef sandwich with rocket, horseradish, beetroot and tomato. Quite tasty! Still feeling hungry though - am trying a big glass of water!! At least my Quaker's oat apple & cinammon cookies were yummy. :)
Big brain dump today!! Let's see if I grow to love mornings.
At about 4pm Sunday I went grocery shopping. About 5:30pm I finally left the supermarket a little in shock at the first grocery bill. Hopefully there's a few items which will be reusable/last awhile as I don't want to be spending that much every week! I guess I wasn't preparing lunches at home before but still.
Get home, get everything packed away (already had done a bit more of a tidy of the freezer and the pantry finding stuff that was out of date), then put the pumpkin in the oven to make pumpkin soup. I made the mistake of then sitting down on the floor with my dog who attempted to curl up in my lap (he's not very little). This made it more difficult to get the motivation to get back up and do the other half of the preparation (doing the potatoes, leek, onion in stock). Whilst that was cooking I made Cacao Bites. Yet to try them as I'm not sure they're going to be that sweet. Dates, Cacao Powder and Walnuts... hmm... other people have said they're good so fingers crossed. So after dinner (which Jase thankfully cooked) I processed my soup in the food processor (a little too full as it leaked out the top), I decided to keep it thick in the hope that Jase will eat it (not a soup fan). The recipe was supposed to use another 2 cups of stock.. so that kind of sounds like it would be mega runny.. unless it thickens more with more heat?? The recipe was written as if you were eating it straight after but 2 tupperware containers went into the freezer, one in the fridge for dinner and another small mug in the fridge for lunch. Tasted alright as I'm not a massive pumpkin fan. Though I'm not sure how full I'm going to feel after eating it. So after all that it was time to wash all the dishes I had messed up.. ALL the dishes, and the bench tops - although being a sunday night I just wanted to kick back in front of the telly.
In bed around 9:45pm with the tv on (I know that's bad.. but within a tv episode I managed to drift off to sleep). The plan was to wake up at 6am and be exercising by 6:05. I was obviously too excited about getting up early as I was awake at 2:30am, and then again at 5:20am with tossing and turning inbetween. By 5:45 I decided there was no point going back to sleep to get up at 6 so I got out of bed. The dogs were super excited that I was up and wanted to be up too so I let them out of their crates - then decided to put them out the back so I could do my workout in peace. My dog decided to go bark at the neighbour's dog (or at the side door I'm not sure which) so they were brought back inside to their crates. Now I was feeling pretty tired and not quite ready for Michelle Bridges super bubbly, excited attitude. It took me a little while to get into the workout. I'm not sure what size living room other people have but mine isn't so conducive to running around in a 4 pace square . Can't say I loved the Toning dvd, and burnt only 136 calories in 45 minutes (focus was on strength work though). I think I might alternate with Bob Harper's strength dvd even though that goes for over an hour. As I'm not after a massive weight loss I'm not going to try to make up to 500 calories for the day. Feeling a bit sore now.. but also sore in my forearm - so it doesn't all seem like a good sore :/ In theory this is what I should have been looking like this morning!
For my cardio day I had planned to run with the dog and then do the cardio circuit after I was warmed up - but spanner in the works... the sun isn't up at 6AM and I don't feel safe running in the dark through the local streets near me :( So the alternative is eating breakfast first (porridge) and then running - which might make me feel ill, or I ditch the planned breakfast and have a "smoothie" so that I can get up later :) Or of course get up earlier, do the DVD warmup, then the circuit and then a run... but umm.. given how I'm feeling today after lack of sleep I'm not feeling so keen at getting up EARLIER than 6am.
Breakfast this morning was Berry Bruschetta. I had halved the recipe as it would have been wasted on Jase - though forgot to halve the ricotta. So had 2 pieces of grainy bread toasted, topped with (too much) ricotta, and too many berries - apparently the two "handfuls" were supposed to be smaller. That and the berries hadn't fully defrosted yet... after one piece of toast I'd had enough and the other bit got chucked out. Made lunch which was a Roast beef sandwich with rocket, horseradish, beetroot and tomato. Quite tasty! Still feeling hungry though - am trying a big glass of water!! At least my Quaker's oat apple & cinammon cookies were yummy. :)
Big brain dump today!! Let's see if I grow to love mornings.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
My last Hoorah
So Friday afternoon Mish sends out an email saying not to use the weekend prior to the program as a last binge. Her motto "Start the way you intend to finish". Some people were complaining about how the email should have been sent out earlier.
I'd already been to Trunk Diner for a wagyu beef burger with Cheddar cheese, avocado and the salad they give you (the burger isn't massive), fries and an awesome "Gaytime" milkshake. I noticed they also had a Tim Tam Slam milkshake AND are doing hot dogs now (which look massive - there was one with chilli con carne). The fries were a waste of time. They're the shoestring fries but were broken so you'd get tiny bits of fries. Disappointing. But the burger and milkshake were fantastic. I might have felt a little ill afterwards!
Friday night work drinks was a cider and then some chips (as I wanted something to help absorb the alcohol). The packet - not hot variety. Then off to highpoint for Gomez Y Guzman (or something similar to that name) burrito bowl goodness. Now granted I'd had a couple of chips - but when I got my burrito bowl with a side of guac I couldn't get over how big the serving was. I would have been lucky to get through half of it. They could easily do half serves (and charge half as much) and that would make me happy!
.JPG)
From there I went to Big W, and then back via Ben & Jerrys for a farewell 2 scoop cup. Now that tasted awesome - but I had eaten way too much food. Not so awesome was the walking outside to the freezing cold eating ice cream (I haven't bought B&Js in months!!)
Next day was a healthy banana shake/smoothie thing before the SSS. Lunch was a very nice pork sausage ragu with penne (really wanted the risotto but they were out), also had a peppermint tea. So the drinks are getting easier with sticking to water and tea mentally. Unless I start thinking about it :) Saturday night was dinner at a friends place. Moroccan themed meat dishes and grilled? vegetables, oh and couscous. Very yummy but I had a few drinks that evening so I woke up early Sunday wanting to die. Sunday was a piece of raisin toast and no lunch as I couldn't be bothered going to go get something. Went to a friend's place so I ended up having corn chips and dip. For dinner a nice roast lamb, with roast potatoes, steamed vegetables and gravy.
So the friday isn't how I intend to finish. I imagine I'll have treat meals, but not have like 3 treat meals in the same day :) I do think I'm eating less than what I used to - but I still look at MB's recipes and wonder how I'm supposed to feel full after a 125g "Chicken Parmigiana" - but maybe I have indeed been eating too big a portion size!!
I'd already been to Trunk Diner for a wagyu beef burger with Cheddar cheese, avocado and the salad they give you (the burger isn't massive), fries and an awesome "Gaytime" milkshake. I noticed they also had a Tim Tam Slam milkshake AND are doing hot dogs now (which look massive - there was one with chilli con carne). The fries were a waste of time. They're the shoestring fries but were broken so you'd get tiny bits of fries. Disappointing. But the burger and milkshake were fantastic. I might have felt a little ill afterwards!
Friday night work drinks was a cider and then some chips (as I wanted something to help absorb the alcohol). The packet - not hot variety. Then off to highpoint for Gomez Y Guzman (or something similar to that name) burrito bowl goodness. Now granted I'd had a couple of chips - but when I got my burrito bowl with a side of guac I couldn't get over how big the serving was. I would have been lucky to get through half of it. They could easily do half serves (and charge half as much) and that would make me happy!
.JPG)
Next day was a healthy banana shake/smoothie thing before the SSS. Lunch was a very nice pork sausage ragu with penne (really wanted the risotto but they were out), also had a peppermint tea. So the drinks are getting easier with sticking to water and tea mentally. Unless I start thinking about it :) Saturday night was dinner at a friends place. Moroccan themed meat dishes and grilled? vegetables, oh and couscous. Very yummy but I had a few drinks that evening so I woke up early Sunday wanting to die. Sunday was a piece of raisin toast and no lunch as I couldn't be bothered going to go get something. Went to a friend's place so I ended up having corn chips and dip. For dinner a nice roast lamb, with roast potatoes, steamed vegetables and gravy.
So the friday isn't how I intend to finish. I imagine I'll have treat meals, but not have like 3 treat meals in the same day :) I do think I'm eating less than what I used to - but I still look at MB's recipes and wonder how I'm supposed to feel full after a 125g "Chicken Parmigiana" - but maybe I have indeed been eating too big a portion size!!
Saturday, August 25, 2012
First week planned
So last Thursday the exercise plans and food/recipes got released. Overall looks pretty good! There's a few food items I've swapped out. Briefly considered the Cajun fish stew but meh! Have swapped out the breakfast frittata as I don't have a grill - and realised a banana breakfast smoothie would be easier before our Saturday group session. Will be trying heaps of different food which is pretty cool! Will be super weird taking in prepared lunches especially! I've also printed out the intermediate indoor and outdoor workouts.
Now that I have the plan I can complete the organise and diarise task (for week 1). Already I have 2 red flag days. Friday is a work team lunch we try to do fortnightly - I figure I'll try to find a vego dish (I'm supposed to be eating a roast capsicum sandwich). Sunday is fathers day. No idea what's happening for it. Shame as that's when I'm supposed to be enjoying a beef and red wine stew. My Saturday lunch is supposed to be leftovers and dinner is open. Hoping to persuade jase to make something yummy. As long as I don't go overboard! :)
So the plan:
Monday - toning DVD (supposed to be on Tuesday but I'm working around a boxing circuit class on Wednesday).
Tuesday - 25 mins cardio run with the puppy followed by the cardio circuit (outdoors planned for Monday).
Wednesday - potential walk with both puppies, boxing class at derrimuts at night. Will see how many meatheads go :/
Thursday - 25 mins cardio run with the puppy followed by cardio circuit that was planned for Wednesday.
Friday - Bob Harper yoga DVD
Saturday - group pt session with the Transformers
Sunday - well earned rest!
But to do all that I'll be getting up at 6 am most weekdays. Seriously?!! Hopefully I don't have my usual insomnia - if I miss a morning workout I'll do the full DVD option when I get home from work!
Must do my supermarket shopping tomorrow - might need to change that to Saturdays in future in case something unexpected crops up!
It's amazing how full the diary seems when you plan everything out. Only thing missing is my snacks but will have to see what I find at the supermarket.
Good luck everyone :)
Now that I have the plan I can complete the organise and diarise task (for week 1). Already I have 2 red flag days. Friday is a work team lunch we try to do fortnightly - I figure I'll try to find a vego dish (I'm supposed to be eating a roast capsicum sandwich). Sunday is fathers day. No idea what's happening for it. Shame as that's when I'm supposed to be enjoying a beef and red wine stew. My Saturday lunch is supposed to be leftovers and dinner is open. Hoping to persuade jase to make something yummy. As long as I don't go overboard! :)
So the plan:
Monday - toning DVD (supposed to be on Tuesday but I'm working around a boxing circuit class on Wednesday).
Tuesday - 25 mins cardio run with the puppy followed by the cardio circuit (outdoors planned for Monday).
Wednesday - potential walk with both puppies, boxing class at derrimuts at night. Will see how many meatheads go :/
Thursday - 25 mins cardio run with the puppy followed by cardio circuit that was planned for Wednesday.
Friday - Bob Harper yoga DVD
Saturday - group pt session with the Transformers
Sunday - well earned rest!
But to do all that I'll be getting up at 6 am most weekdays. Seriously?!! Hopefully I don't have my usual insomnia - if I miss a morning workout I'll do the full DVD option when I get home from work!
Must do my supermarket shopping tomorrow - might need to change that to Saturdays in future in case something unexpected crops up!
It's amazing how full the diary seems when you plan everything out. Only thing missing is my snacks but will have to see what I find at the supermarket.
Good luck everyone :)
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Warm up challenges (4, 5, 6)
Here are the second set of warm up challenges
4. Write Down Everything You Eat
Over the next 7 days I want you to write down everything you eat and drink. Don't change your diet, eat as you always have. I'm not quite eating as I always have but I'm still having "naughty" stuff (by the end of the week more so :))
Mon - Raisin Toast x 2 slices, cheesy pasta, prime rib with roasted beetroot, onions and potatoes. Coconut water (without the splash of fruit juice, glasses of water)
Tues - Kapai Puku with almond milk, leftover prime rib steak and beetroot sandwich with white bread, jam doughnut (from the vic market), Carman's Dark Choc Cranberry & Almond bar, chicken stirfry with udon noodles. Chai Tea, glasses of water
Wednesday - banana, raspberry and almond milk smoothie, beans on toast, big Mac (oops), 2 pieces of pizza hut pizza (oops)
Thursday - The second half of my smoothie from yesterday. Pear, a huge bowl of penne with chicken and mushrooms (well it was a girly lunch that I specifically had to have my last bowl of creamy tasty pasta - although it wasn't that creamy), a glass of Shiraz Cabernet, a 100s and 1000s freddo (it was for charity and the guy next to me has had 4 sitting on his desk uneaten all week, although it left me with a horrid sickly sweet aftertaste - boo!), small chicken stirfry and less than normal basmati rice, a weak glass of ribena
Friday - Kapai Puku with almond milk, Half a strawberry freddo twin pack (thanks desk buddy), Lamb Rogan Josh with rice, garlic naan, papadum with yoghurty stuff (I think I had too much naan but it sure was tasty), Apple Cider and a handful or potato chips, fried rice with beef
Saturday - my breakfast smoothie, small penne carbonara, a much too sweet mocha (good though), cinnamon doughnut, slice and a bit of iced fruit bun, peppermint tea, chicken taco, chocolate pudding with cream
Sunday - no breakfast as jase had to fix the rangehood (yay for having someone handy!), beef with fried rice (too salty - maybe MSG in there), cadbury's creation bar (jelly bean and popping candy - why am I just trying this a week before the program starts?!), roast lamb with potatoes, pumpkin, gravy, steamed carrot, corn and brocolli.
Wow looking back on that I sure eat lots of crap!! I think I'm supposed to work out daily calories - but they'd just be largely guesses anyway. From a take away perspective we did pretty good this week. Friday, Saturday and Sunday all involved 1 meal eaten out - but it's not rare that we'd eat out twice on a saturday! Alcohol intake was pretty good. I look forward to having more meal ideas after the 12 weeks! :)
5. Set Yourself a Meal Schedule
This challenge is about pre-planning what you will to eat and also when you will eat it. If I could be bothered organising my own meals and meal schedule I wouldn't have signed up for this challenge :)
I do see the benefit in pre-planning. Makes it easier to eat healthy stuff if it's all planned out.
Can't wait until the program starts complete with shopping lists so that my thinking is largely done!
6. Track How Much You Spend On Food
How many times do you open your wallet each day to buy food?
Monday - almost bought Maccas but after waiting awhile and then having a little asian woman cut in front of me I decided just to eat at home.
Tues - $1 doughnut.
Wednesday - $4.80 big Mac.
Thursday -$22 for pasta and my glass of shiraz cabernet, $1 for a freddo
Friday - $20 for lamb rogan josh meal
Saturday - $2 water, $15 for pasta and mocha
Sunday -$12 for my rice and pasta
It's a bit rare that I'd organise a group lunch in the same week the work developer group lunch would happen - plus it was someone's farewell lunch on the friday as I wasn't stoked about paying $20 for indian food (not including a drink!) I think part of my choices are influenced by the fact I know I have 8 days to go before I'm "eating clean". Whilst I'm sure it won't be as bad as part of me expects - it's still sitting there in my mind! At least I've cut back on how much I buy from the work vending machine :)
4. Write Down Everything You Eat
Over the next 7 days I want you to write down everything you eat and drink. Don't change your diet, eat as you always have. I'm not quite eating as I always have but I'm still having "naughty" stuff (by the end of the week more so :))
Mon - Raisin Toast x 2 slices, cheesy pasta, prime rib with roasted beetroot, onions and potatoes. Coconut water (without the splash of fruit juice, glasses of water)
Tues - Kapai Puku with almond milk, leftover prime rib steak and beetroot sandwich with white bread, jam doughnut (from the vic market), Carman's Dark Choc Cranberry & Almond bar, chicken stirfry with udon noodles. Chai Tea, glasses of water
Wednesday - banana, raspberry and almond milk smoothie, beans on toast, big Mac (oops), 2 pieces of pizza hut pizza (oops)
Thursday - The second half of my smoothie from yesterday. Pear, a huge bowl of penne with chicken and mushrooms (well it was a girly lunch that I specifically had to have my last bowl of creamy tasty pasta - although it wasn't that creamy), a glass of Shiraz Cabernet, a 100s and 1000s freddo (it was for charity and the guy next to me has had 4 sitting on his desk uneaten all week, although it left me with a horrid sickly sweet aftertaste - boo!), small chicken stirfry and less than normal basmati rice, a weak glass of ribena
Friday - Kapai Puku with almond milk, Half a strawberry freddo twin pack (thanks desk buddy), Lamb Rogan Josh with rice, garlic naan, papadum with yoghurty stuff (I think I had too much naan but it sure was tasty), Apple Cider and a handful or potato chips, fried rice with beef
Saturday - my breakfast smoothie, small penne carbonara, a much too sweet mocha (good though), cinnamon doughnut, slice and a bit of iced fruit bun, peppermint tea, chicken taco, chocolate pudding with cream
Sunday - no breakfast as jase had to fix the rangehood (yay for having someone handy!), beef with fried rice (too salty - maybe MSG in there), cadbury's creation bar (jelly bean and popping candy - why am I just trying this a week before the program starts?!), roast lamb with potatoes, pumpkin, gravy, steamed carrot, corn and brocolli.
Wow looking back on that I sure eat lots of crap!! I think I'm supposed to work out daily calories - but they'd just be largely guesses anyway. From a take away perspective we did pretty good this week. Friday, Saturday and Sunday all involved 1 meal eaten out - but it's not rare that we'd eat out twice on a saturday! Alcohol intake was pretty good. I look forward to having more meal ideas after the 12 weeks! :)
5. Set Yourself a Meal Schedule
This challenge is about pre-planning what you will to eat and also when you will eat it. If I could be bothered organising my own meals and meal schedule I wouldn't have signed up for this challenge :)
I do see the benefit in pre-planning. Makes it easier to eat healthy stuff if it's all planned out.
Can't wait until the program starts complete with shopping lists so that my thinking is largely done!
6. Track How Much You Spend On Food
How many times do you open your wallet each day to buy food?
Monday - almost bought Maccas but after waiting awhile and then having a little asian woman cut in front of me I decided just to eat at home.
Tues - $1 doughnut.
Wednesday - $4.80 big Mac.
Thursday -$22 for pasta and my glass of shiraz cabernet, $1 for a freddo
Friday - $20 for lamb rogan josh meal
Saturday - $2 water, $15 for pasta and mocha
Sunday -$12 for my rice and pasta
It's a bit rare that I'd organise a group lunch in the same week the work developer group lunch would happen - plus it was someone's farewell lunch on the friday as I wasn't stoked about paying $20 for indian food (not including a drink!) I think part of my choices are influenced by the fact I know I have 8 days to go before I'm "eating clean". Whilst I'm sure it won't be as bad as part of me expects - it's still sitting there in my mind! At least I've cut back on how much I buy from the work vending machine :)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)