Dinner A bowl of Gazpacho 1 medium chickpea rissoles A random tear of italian bread Side of Tabbouleh sadad
Snack Fiber One bar
Look how Mediterranean my meal is! I loooove Mediterranean cuisine it's my favorite. I'm trying to increase my fiber in take. I will be looking into some fiber supplements because it's nearly impossible for me to get in my daily recommended intake of fiber right now. Any recs?
I ate better than the last couple days but didn't fit in working out into my schedule.
Breakfast - none, rush rush rush!
Lunch Wheat + Cheddar crackers Fiber One bar Carbonated water from Clear American in Pomegranate Blueberry Acai
I normally hate carbonated water, it tastes so bad to me but I decided to give this a try as it was cheap .64 cents for a liter. It tasted like soda! It was so sweet and it had no calories, fat, carbs, or sugars. I think my favorite part was that it tasted like a soda. I don't even drink soda but I liked this.
Dinner Oatmeal (3/4 cup) made with 1 1/2 cup whole mil with a cracked egg in it (yolk and all) Spicy chicken sandwich
I hate oatmeal but I really like it with a cracked egg! It fills you up very fast and very much too. Three hours later I still felt full and as if I just ate dinner. I think I will have to lessen that portion next time or skip on the sandwich completely. I know it's a breakfast food but I love to eat breakfast foods for dinner. Sometimes I'm too tired to cook a meal at night as well so I prefer something fast.
Oh shits. I did not record but trust me, it wasn't much. I've been eating McDonald's and Taco Bell and have not been working out. I'm only HUMAN!!!!
Did you know?
-if you're trying to lose weight or just maintain a healthy diet you should aim for 30-35 grams of fat per day?
-one of the sandwiches I buy the most from McDonald's is their McChicken because it's on the dollar menu.
-a McDonald's McChicken has 16 grams of fat. There goes half your daily recommended amount of fat.
-11 g fat in small fries -19 g fat in medium fries -25 g fat in large fries
I always order large fries
That means in one meal of 2 McChickens and large fries. I consume 57 grams of fat in one meal. Sure I save money and spend about only $4 but that's 920 calories in one meal. WOW.
I didn't work out today. I did a pretty intense strength training with a little bit of cardio sprinkled in yesterday and was a little sore. I don't think people are supposed to work out EVERY single day anyway. You have to let the muscles recover and rest before working them hard again, or else you'll regret it and could seriously hurt yourself. That's why if people workout (almost) everyday it's a good idea to alternate which muscle groups you plan to work that day. I'm a weakling and I am just starting to get into it so what looks like a little workout for me is a lot. My poor body can't handle it (haha).
I ate reeeally bad all day though. Today was JB's lazy lazy day.
No breakfast. Woke up late.
Lunch Japanese Shrimp Teriyaki with fried rice and vegetables THEN things went pretty down hill. McDonald's fudge sunday McDonald'sApple Pie 1/2 Subway chocolate chip cookie
O dear. After my food I was craving something sweet so I got a fudge sunday but I wanted some of McD's apple pie too so I got that. I didn't know it came with two pies. I gave one to my friend then she gave me a cookie because she got two cookies from subway. My teeth were hurting and I could not finish all of them. Before I would eat ALL of those but for the first time ever I noticed that I just was not hungry and could not tolerate all that sweet food so I ate most of it but not ALL of it. I should have gotten just the pie.
Dinner Wheat bagel with light cream cheese
Snack some Cheese-Its
I hope I can recover tomorrow. I'm trying not to feel guilty about what I ate because, no one should feel guilty about what they eat. I just can't help it I guess.
I focused on interval training today. Strength and Cardio were very mixed.
-I did reps of 10 instead of 6 like in this video for about 15 mintues. It was intense.
-bicycle for 15 minutes on level 5, slowly. Relaxed. I read somewhere that Megan Fox did lots of interval training for her body in Transformers. In case you don't remember here's a picture of her hotness.
THAT is no Jelly Belly
-Then back to strength training I did what she shows in this video below but with 10 reps instead of 6 for about 15 mintues. It was HARD for me. I was struggling and I had to take a couple breathers.
-25 swats on toes for butt
-100 sit ups old fashion way
-plank for 25 seconds
-side plank for 15 measly seconds on each side
-50 side crunches on each side
-20 "fire hydrants" on each side
-100 bicycle crunches
-20 leg lifts on each side (knees bent)
-20 crunches
Today was a pretty heavy day for strength training. It ended up taking me about an hour and 20 minutes.I hope I'm sore tomorrow. I stretched a lot after and was in a little pain haha. Felt GREAT!
Meal Plan
Breakfast Mini Wheats dry Lunch Grilled chicken breast with red peppers Wild rice Spinach + parmesean cheese + balsamic vinaigrette
the spinach with cheese
chicken + roasted red peppers I wanted the chicken to have a black "roasted" touch to it like the peppers
everything put together in one bowl rice and salad and the chicken an all I put a ring of the dressing on where I could see the spinach poke though
Dinner -left over wild rice (a little less than 1 cup maybe) -big glass of green tea with boba seeds
It was getting late and I didn't feel like cooking much again. Blah.
2 Week Pictures
I think I looked better last week haha. What the heck?! And what's up with under my arm. In person it's not red, in the picture it looks like I have a rash or something. Yuck.
No exercise today at all. My body was sore from running from yesterday.
Breakfast Mini Wheats cereal dry
Lunch Slim Fast shake with boba seeds in it. I thought it would be interesting. It ads a lot more carbs because it's pure starch but I liked it. Bubble tea always fills me up like a meal. This shake filled me up a lot more plus it tasted better!
Dinner I went out to eat (yes a date). First time since I've been on this little 'health kick'. I got a veggie sandwich (huge) that had asparagus, portobello mushrooms, red peppers with a fruit salad and sorbet on the side. Delicious. I don't really care about how healthy or not it REALLY was, it was great.
Maybe next time..just maybe I'll get a soup and salad. I have not restricted anything in my diet since I started. I still eat all meats that I want, cheese, ice cream, chips, everything. I just eat it in moderation.
Ever get the monday blahs? Who doesn't! I managed to get myself to run today though. I went to the track and ran ran ran, boy was I exhausted.
Cardio
Run/walk 2.5 miles in 20-25 mintues.
I cannot run for that long continuously, I have to walk. I find it easier if I walk the curved edges and ran the straight parts during some of the rounds. My stomach was getting cramps. It feels different compared to running on a treadmill.
Strength Training
100 crunches
20 squats
Meal Plan
Breakfast mini wheats and granola cereal, no milk
Lunch Spinach with sauteed mushrooms w/ balsamic vinaigrette and parmesan cheese
