Alright so I'm officially starting the 3rd month of all this! I feel better today than I did yesterday but I still need a little spirit-lift. I'm still positive about everything and I know I've been doing great up until this point, ESPECIALLY with the working out...I'm having a little more trouble forgiving myself when I mess up with the food. I noticed that early on when I started eating better I would eat perfectly for 6 or 7 straight days and any slip-ups would be infrequent. Now I find that I haven't really had a long stretch of eating well and I'm messing up a little more often. So I'm upset about that. Also, I really have been trying to not rush myself in terms of losing a certain amount of weight in a certain amount of time. However, since I've finally made it down to 180 i'm ITCHING to get into the 170s again and I'm putting some unnecessary pressure on myself to get my weight down more quickly. I think it's probably best that I ease off the scale (at the very least have my mom hide it from me haha) and just focus on the fact that i'm more in shape than I have been in years...maybe not from a visual standpoint but my endurance is getting progressively better so I really would just like to focus on that for now. I had mentioned yesterday that I was having a hard time spacing out my meals when I am at work, and someone I know made a pretty smart suggestion...she suggested that instead of eating EXTRA during the day to make up for finishing all my meals early, eat my meals in intervals...for example, instead of eating breakfast at 9, snack at 11, lunch at 1, and dinner by 3, eat breakfast at 9, snack at 11, HALF my lunch at 1, the other half at 3, half of dinner at 5 and the other half at 7 (or something to that effect) so that the food I've already packed just gets dragged out longer! I haven't tried this before but i work tomorrow so I plan on trying it then...I think it's a really clever idea and I'm so thankful to her for suggesting it to me. I really don't want to just keep adding meals so that I am done eating at the right time of day, so tonight when I cooked I tried to cut things in half and pack them separately so I can space it all out the right way...we'll see how it works out!
I worked out today, and I honestly don't know how I did it at all. As you all know I worked out in Belmar on Monday, and my abs have been killing me ever since. I was up late last night and for whatever reason this morning I felt like I was hit by a truck when I woke up. I dragged myself out of bed, went to lunch with a friend, went shopping, relaxed for about an hour then went to spin. It's crazy how much of your core strength you utilize during spin class...you don't realize it until you take a spin class with sore abs...my form was severely lacking today and it was much harder to do the workouts to my full potential because of the pain I was in. I was also exhausted...at the beginning of class I was convinced that I wouldn't be able to do most of the exercises or that I wouldn't even make it through class...but somehow god willing I made it through and did everything required of me! I'm really proud of myself for sticking with it, because I can tell you the "old" me would never have done such a thing, haha.
So as I had said last night, I was going to the diner today. After reading some things and talking to some people, it really seems like either plain grilled chicken or eggs & toast are the ideal healthy diner-meals. I ate neither of these today. My info came a little too late haha. Here is what I ate today though:
Breakfast:
None/Lunch was my breakfast since I woke up at 11 and had noon lunch plans.
Lunch:
-BLT on whole wheat toast with a little mayo
-1/2c cole slaw
-2 mini pickles
*This seriously hit the spot. I should try making BLTs with the turkey bacon I bought...wonder how that would taste...
-unsweetened iced tea
Dinner:
-Trader Joe's Mac 'n Cheese with 2oz butterball turkey kielbasa cut up in it
*Oh god this was good. It was the healthy adult version of kraft mac 'n cheese & hot dogs. That turkey kielbasa is the shit.
Snack:
-1 greek pomegranate yogurt with 1/4c granola cereal mixed in
*always good...should have bought more yogurts though because i'm almost done w/ them already!
Actually looking back it wasn't a bad day at all. I guess I could have nixed the cole slaw in lieu of something healthier (i just get sooo tired of vegetables sometimes), or I could have not had the mayo on the sandwich, I shouldn't have had both. But the sandwich was light, and really hit the spot. I was actually pretty full after lunch, too! Plus I only had 2 meals and a snack today so I can forgive myself the BLT.
Anyway, I should get to bed soon, I'm getting up early to go to belmar again to work out, let's see which muscle group hurts after tomorrow's session! It's always something new!
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I worked out today, and I honestly don't know how I did it at all. As you all know I worked out in Belmar on Monday, and my abs have been killing me ever since. I was up late last night and for whatever reason this morning I felt like I was hit by a truck when I woke up. I dragged myself out of bed, went to lunch with a friend, went shopping, relaxed for about an hour then went to spin. It's crazy how much of your core strength you utilize during spin class...you don't realize it until you take a spin class with sore abs...my form was severely lacking today and it was much harder to do the workouts to my full potential because of the pain I was in. I was also exhausted...at the beginning of class I was convinced that I wouldn't be able to do most of the exercises or that I wouldn't even make it through class...but somehow god willing I made it through and did everything required of me! I'm really proud of myself for sticking with it, because I can tell you the "old" me would never have done such a thing, haha.
So as I had said last night, I was going to the diner today. After reading some things and talking to some people, it really seems like either plain grilled chicken or eggs & toast are the ideal healthy diner-meals. I ate neither of these today. My info came a little too late haha. Here is what I ate today though:
Breakfast:
None/Lunch was my breakfast since I woke up at 11 and had noon lunch plans.
Lunch:
-BLT on whole wheat toast with a little mayo
-1/2c cole slaw
-2 mini pickles
*This seriously hit the spot. I should try making BLTs with the turkey bacon I bought...wonder how that would taste...
-unsweetened iced tea
Dinner:
-Trader Joe's Mac 'n Cheese with 2oz butterball turkey kielbasa cut up in it
*Oh god this was good. It was the healthy adult version of kraft mac 'n cheese & hot dogs. That turkey kielbasa is the shit.
Snack:
-1 greek pomegranate yogurt with 1/4c granola cereal mixed in
*always good...should have bought more yogurts though because i'm almost done w/ them already!
Actually looking back it wasn't a bad day at all. I guess I could have nixed the cole slaw in lieu of something healthier (i just get sooo tired of vegetables sometimes), or I could have not had the mayo on the sandwich, I shouldn't have had both. But the sandwich was light, and really hit the spot. I was actually pretty full after lunch, too! Plus I only had 2 meals and a snack today so I can forgive myself the BLT.
Anyway, I should get to bed soon, I'm getting up early to go to belmar again to work out, let's see which muscle group hurts after tomorrow's session! It's always something new!
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