This means I do most of my workouts at night. Mostly before bed. I’m a freak and working out before bed actually makes me sleep better so…
This also sucks, because I reach my net calories and then burn them and then end up in a situation where I run around 600 net calories and don’t feel like eating.
I’m trying to start working out in the morning. Like today, I walked/ran this morning on the treadmill and it was nice. So I guess I’m gonna keep doing that.
So today I officially started cycle 1: accelerate.
The purpose of this cycle is to start the rapid weight loss basically by detoxing your body. For the next seventeen days, I’m allowed unlimited protein (meat, poultry, fish, and my favorite, eggs!), but I have to limit my carbs. By reducing carbs, my body will have to turn to fat to convert into energy. Also, cutting sugar is a big part of this step. The book suggest truvia as an alternative to sugar, and also to splenda/equal/sweet’n’low. I HATE splenda with such a passion, but I had a truvia in my green tea before and it tasted like sugar. So thumbs up for that.
Anyhoo, I don’t want to get into all that technical stuff right now, i’ll do that maybe over the weekend. Today was particularly hard because I didn’t have any food prepared, and I only had some frozen vegetables, a little chicken. but here’s how my day went:
-Woke up at 10:30am: i’m still trying to straighten out my sleep cycle, so I had gone to bed around 2am, so I still got eight hours. I already take meletonin (a vitamin) to sleep, so I took that about an hour ago, so I should be asleep fairly quickly, and I hope to be up.
-Drank 8oz of hot water with half a lemon: the book suggests to do this every morning because it “awakens your digestive juices,” or something like that. to be honest, it doesn’t taste too good, but the lemon did wake me up some.
-By 11:00am went for a walk: the book (yes, I will be referencing the book a lot so I do suggest you buy it) directs to have 17 minutes of exercise to day, twice ideally. The 17 minutes I think is just a cutesy consistency with the title, but I walked around the state park for 45 minutes, just because it’s a full loop and I hate backtracking.
-Ate breakfast around 12:10: I still haven’t figured out if I want/should eat before or after walking, but today I decided to do it after. I had two scramble eggs with a sprinkle of low fat cheddar cheese with some salsa. Salsa is on the list of unlimited things you can have as dressings during this cycle, and it tastes really good with eggs. Also, by scrambling my eggs, I cut down on the amount of grease on my eggs.
-Lunch at 2:30: because I have to leave for work at 3:30, I had to have lunch a little early (meaning closer to breakfast than 3 hours, which is ideal). I made a salad with iceberg lettuce, orange peppers, cucumber, tomato, and a serving (palm sized) of grilled chicken. I drizzled a tablespoon of olive oil, with two tablespoons of balsamic vinaigrette for a dressing.
-Snack at 5:00pm: just had a chobiani Greek yogurt. nothing too special.
-Ritas: everyone at work got ritas and I caved and got a small vanilla custard (i figured it would hve less sugar than an Italian ice). I immediately regretted it, only ate three bites, and gave it to a coworker. I’m awarding myself ten points because I definitely would not have done that before.
-Dinner around 7:30: before work, steamed corn and defrosted some broccoli and had with another serving of chicken. it was pretty plain, but very filling. Corn actually isn’t on the list of unlimited veggies, but I didn’t have anything else. I’ll have to keep that in mind when stopping for veggies tomorrow.
-Cookies :( I baked some cookies for a friend that i’m seeing tomorrow and I munched on some dough. When the cookies were ready however, I let them cool and packed them up right away so I wouldn’t be tempted. I only had one small one with some milk. After eating healthy all day though, I do feel a little sick and “blah”
Today kind of look me by surprise, mostly cause I didn’t have all the food I needed. I need to buy a lot more veggies and fruit, and some more ingredients for meals. Tomorrow though, i’ve leaving my house fairly early and spending the day down at my friends house about two hours away. I hope to get in a walk in the morning before I leave and making breakfast, but i’m worried about the other meals, especially because I don’t know anything food places in the area. I am, however, looking forward to starbucks (for which my town lacks). I think i’m just going to go with an iced coffee with soy milk and a truvia. that’s not to be right?
See you later!
-A
I’ve never done it before- but I can’t stop feeling guilty for what I ate today. I’m scared to try it- but I feel like I have too. Ugh.
At least tomorrow is a new day.
Wednesday, June 8th 2011
To be honest I did slack of today and didn’t hit the gym, but I did do a little light exercise before bed
> 200 Crunches
30 Day Wight Loss Challenge
Day Three - Thinspiration
I’m not really into thinspiration. I look at it sometimes but usually to see what these girls are wearing. I’m really into fashion and clothes and things of that nature. I love lookbook.com and whowhatwear.com. I look at those websites all the time and i would love to feel more comfortable in my clothes and wear different, fun things!
I also have a total girl crush on Binki Shapiro from the band Little Joy. She is beautiful, talented and has great STYLE. A really inspiring woman.
Haven’t had a chance to weigh myself yet this week. I’ve been crazy busy with summer school starting (chemistry from 9:30am to 2:30pm…sick) and working six days this week. I managed to fit some exercise in tonight though. Did my first day of the 30 Day Shred and swam laps for about 30 minutes.
Morning~
In about 2 hours I’ll have my maths exam and all I can think about is, how can I get rid of these calories of my fxxking and horrible breakfast.
My mother forced me to eat 3 (!!!) little pieces of some kind of brownies. And then also gave me a sandwich for the exam. And if it’s not already enough, she gave me 5€ for lunch :’D
I think this woman doesn’t understand anything. Or my mind is just kinda damaged. I mean, HOW can people eat breakfast, snack, lunch and dinner?!
I would cry my eyes out if I had to eat this much…
But well~ that’s just my opinion. My family has very different thoughts.
Anyways. Wish me luck for the exam, I’ll be back after it.
Stay strong my sweeties ?
Day Twenty-Six- What excites you most about reaching your ugw?
Half of it is the thrill of experiencing something new. Something I’ve never ever had. The second part is getting to wear the clothes. I want to wear anything I want. Mary Kate Olsen dresses in a way that if she had like, 10 spare pounds, she’d constantly look like a bag lady, rather than a billionaire. I want that power.
couldn’t bring myself to do it. I hate myself right now.
Xenadrine Water
Breakfast: Grapes, Peach
Snack: Banana Chips
Xen Water
Lunch: Protein Bar
Xen Water
Dinner: Breaded Fake Chicken Nuggets w/ Hot & Sweet Mustard and a side salad w/ fat free balsamic vinaigrette dressing
man junior year of high school I was gettinn bigg!
and even at the beginning of this year!
I may not be 100% happy with what I look like now, but I am glad I’ve lost weight!
It motivates me to keep going!