Day 2 of my 50 days of fitness showed me how weak I really am when it comes to sweets. Man... 9a and I am craving!
It is time to cut out all snacking of junk and especially vending machine goodies that I find myself gravitating towards at 3p when I am crashing from not eating enough throughout the day, and put myself on a healthy nutritious eating regimen. Everyone tells me diet is 80% of the success; and it is also 80% harder than exercising for me to control. I LOVE ALL FOOD THINGS BAD!
Before, my day would look something like this:
- Immeasurable amount of cereal and skim milk for breakfast + banana sometimes
- Whatever the self serve cafeteria at work was serving for lunch - or I made a salad and a roll/soup/yogurt
- Somewhere around 3-4 I would consume some junk from the vending machine on some days or on others stuff my face with handfulls of random not so great combinations of anything I could find when I got home from work
- Dinner consisted of a salad, microwave steamer bag of veggies or similar
Sometimes I would throw in a dessert or somewhere in my day get a large overdose of sugar and carbs.
Problem 1- not eating enough small things throughout the day to hold off late afternoon/evening crashing and cravings
Problem 2- over eating portions during lunch was an obvious issue for me and my all you can eat work cafeteria
Problem 3- WEEKEND BINGING - this is by far my worst habit. I am an anything goes, no holds bar on what I put in my face Friday night through Sunday... Truth be told, this has accounted for probably all extra 15lbs. Oy. For every week I ate "decent", I ruined it with a ridiculous fat, sugar, carb crazed weekend!
Now, eating will be similar to this give or take some equally as healthy substitutions:
Snack- 2 hardboiled eggs and serving of a low fat/unsalted nuts (pistachio, almond)
Lunch- veggies veggies veggies, and starch (wheat thin sandwich of hummus and fresh sliced bellpeppers, cucumbers, spinach,etc)
Dinner- fish(tilapia or salmon) and veggies
Protein shake after workout to help supplement my protein intake.
- throw an egg or two in sometime in the later day if I'm feeling extra hungry.
I have decided to follow most of the guidelines of Jamie Eason's LiveFit training program. Mike and I did the upper body workout and he was surprised about being sore the next day! I felt the same. In addition to some of the fun classes at the gym, and running and training to shave time off my next half marathon in the fall.
I don't think I will miss as much of the vices as I thought; and to clarify all things bad aren't forbidden, just put into a realistic moderation.
It is time to cut out all snacking of junk and especially vending machine goodies that I find myself gravitating towards at 3p when I am crashing from not eating enough throughout the day, and put myself on a healthy nutritious eating regimen. Everyone tells me diet is 80% of the success; and it is also 80% harder than exercising for me to control. I LOVE ALL FOOD THINGS BAD!
Before, my day would look something like this:
- Immeasurable amount of cereal and skim milk for breakfast + banana sometimes
- Whatever the self serve cafeteria at work was serving for lunch - or I made a salad and a roll/soup/yogurt
- Somewhere around 3-4 I would consume some junk from the vending machine on some days or on others stuff my face with handfulls of random not so great combinations of anything I could find when I got home from work
- Dinner consisted of a salad, microwave steamer bag of veggies or similar
Sometimes I would throw in a dessert or somewhere in my day get a large overdose of sugar and carbs.
Problem 1- not eating enough small things throughout the day to hold off late afternoon/evening crashing and cravings
Problem 2- over eating portions during lunch was an obvious issue for me and my all you can eat work cafeteria
Problem 3- WEEKEND BINGING - this is by far my worst habit. I am an anything goes, no holds bar on what I put in my face Friday night through Sunday... Truth be told, this has accounted for probably all extra 15lbs. Oy. For every week I ate "decent", I ruined it with a ridiculous fat, sugar, carb crazed weekend!
Now, eating will be similar to this give or take some equally as healthy substitutions:
Breakfast - 1/2 cup oats with 1 tsp of brown sugar, fresh sliced fruit, and walnuts or almonds or either granola mixed in
Snack- 2 hardboiled eggs and serving of a low fat/unsalted nuts (pistachio, almond)
Lunch- veggies veggies veggies, and starch (wheat thin sandwich of hummus and fresh sliced bellpeppers, cucumbers, spinach,etc)
Snack- carrots and an apple
Protein shake after workout to help supplement my protein intake.
- throw an egg or two in sometime in the later day if I'm feeling extra hungry.
I have decided to follow most of the guidelines of Jamie Eason's LiveFit training program. Mike and I did the upper body workout and he was surprised about being sore the next day! I felt the same. In addition to some of the fun classes at the gym, and running and training to shave time off my next half marathon in the fall.
Blogging about what I am eating and how well I train gives me some sort of feeling of accountability and I know many of my friends are interested in being healthy and active! I hope you follow along, take notes from things I do and don't do right, and give advice!
I don't think I will miss as much of the vices as I thought; and to clarify all things bad aren't forbidden, just put into a realistic moderation.
Circumstantially, we are half way through lent- which I gave up coffee and alcohol. I miss coffee, but alcohol not at all.
We all know drinking copious amounts of good craft beer or yummy sugary liquor infused libations are bad for the belly and I am guilty party #1 to know how crappy a hangover feels...
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