First Week of diet of the New Year

2010 is starting off to a great and busy start! I completed my first week of my diet and with out adding exercise to it right off the bat, I had a much easier time maintaining one thing...exercise will begin this week or next week. The p90 is a great, great system but I realized I kind of got bored, so I researched some of my available resources and I think I am going to mix it up a bit! Jillian Michaels offers some great exercises that kick butt...so here's to hoping.
My diet was the p90 diet for the most part. I would say on average I ate between 1400-1600 calories a day. I wrote down my worst food habits....SODA, eating late, snacking, not eating breakfast, always feeling the "need" to add a starch to my dinners, grabbing take out as an easier option. So this past week, I sat down created my weekly menu and grocery list and it went pretty well. I replaced any snacks with smoothies or fruits and vegetables. I ate before 8 at night. I planned out each dinner and made the time to cook it, it was nice getting back into that habit! in place of starch, I made more vegetables and salad. I ate breakfasts. And I never felt the need to have to grab take out! I even went to a Bridal Show and really didn't let myself eat a lot- I didn't even finish my cake.

Favorite recipe of the week:
Italian Turkey Meatloaf
1 pkg of ground turkey (for the 2 of us, i cut a 1/4 of it off and used it later for turkey burgers)
chopped onions
half can of chicken broth
garlic
rosemary
salt and pepper
oregano
tomato sauce

saute onions in chicken broth
add garlic
let them turn brown, take off heat and cool a bit
take out turkey, add sauce and seasonings (I never take accurate measurements....as my mother says it- eyeball it!)
add onions (my friend mae it with mushrooms, and said it was yummy!)
form mixture into a loaf pan
Cook 450 degrees 30-45 minutes!

Tablescape #1

My mom has been doing tablescapes since Halloween and I am jumping on the bandwagon! It kinda stinks that I missed the Holiday enriched theme possibilities, but I chose to do one that I can keep up throughout the year, in between holidays. I have been decorating with a Fat Chef theme in my kitchen for over two years now, so I figured I would use that as my main theme.

Day I have no idea...

Well I am sad to admit that I have completely been side tracked and have officially put this program on the back burner. The week I was moving was hard t balance waking up early. Packing and moving the amout of boxes I did on my own for two days was enough working out and lifting for me! Then there was the whole not buying groceries and getting food on the fly. Then once I moved I started interning, I woke up two days in a row and did the work out and then my lack of sleep and late nights of lesson planning caught up to me and I traded working out for an extra hour of sleep...I am a trader I know! So with that being said, I am starting back on Day One on Monday. It really makes me mad, cause I noticed a visible diference in ten days, but it seems to have gone away (thank you taco bell) so I have interned for two weeks and now I need to force myself into bed earlier and just do it. So we will see how Day One will be starting over....it is still something I believe in and want to do for myself, so here's to a better try!

Day Ten

So it's Day 10....20 days until the next picture is taken, so I am expecting to have double the results, progress, feelings as I have now. Last week I was really amped up and really strict. I think I need to get that back. I am still amped up and ready for this. I just tend to take shortcuts in diet when I can or when I am pressed for time with no alternative option...so after this hectic week of moving I am excited to get settled and back to a routine!

Today's video is my Krem de la Krem...the cardio and really there are really only particular cuss words that would accomodate one's feeling as you go through it. It starts with Power Yoga- so you start in PLANK, go down as a push upand hold the pose, then to downward dog where you spread out your feet look up and go flat on your heels then reach one leg all the way to the front into runer's pose then sit up into WARRIOR....yeah google Power Yoga Poses....I feel like a WARRIOR full of sweat at the end of doing that five times per leg. And that's just a warm up. You go into Knee lifts, jumping jacks, running in place, runner's lunges, punches, kicks, eek! But it's great when its over. Your supposed to do Ab Ripper after, but I decided that I would do Ab Ripper after scultping because I have less sweat!

Diet has been good today...shake for breakfast and then turkey sandwich with swiss on one piece of wheat from the coffee shop at school- they have healthy choices that I am excited that I have that option. Now what's for dinner? Hmmm....maybe I will get a salad to bring out to the softball field????

TEN DAYS DOWN....TWENTY TO NEW PICS (AND POSSIBLY REVEALING BEFORE PICS)...80 DAYS TO GO!

Day Nine

Whew I am feeling it from yesterday's workout, wow! Today I feel like I worked a bit harder to work off those nachos, but nobody can deny Lee Roy's nachos....yummy! Today was sculpting, which I feel comfortable with.

Diet
Am: Shake
PM: egg white omelet
Dinner- chicken tacos

Still waiting to get back that excited routine feeling. Not having to work this week and only two classes has really thrown me off as far as that excitement feeling it works for wanting to workout but I like the routineness of it. It's a lot easier to stay up late and sleep in a bit and be off of a eating schedule, so that is what I am looking forward to getting back in structure.

NINE DAYS DOWN, 81 TO GO!

Day Eight

After the weekend I felt like I was back to square one, eventhough it was just a few slip ups, made me feel like I had cheated the system. But it was just pizza and wings oh and a beer...but oh well it was the weekend. If weekends end up being that way I will just work out throughout the week with no rest on Sunday.

Monday's workout was a new video....a new cardio video that kicked my butt. I stuck to a diet, this one isn't as strict as the first six day one. I had a protein shake, then a chicken chopped salad and shared some nachos from Lee Roys. This week will be a lot diferent because of the lack of routine that I have. I liked last week how I had to wake up in order to work out and next week with interning will be the same. So I am looking forward to that, plus being able to plan out meals again. We'll see...

EIGHT DAYS DOWN, 82 TO GO!

Day Six & Seven

I am not happy about the first weekend of this diet. Day Six, Saturday I started off in the right direction. I mae up my own workout by combining moves of both sculpting and sweating videos that was about 25 minutes, with longer reps and shorter pauses. Ate my three egg whites for breakfast, a shake for lunch and once I was at the baby shower I made good food selections- turkey and swiss cheese and I said NO TO CAKE! I did have sweet tea and a sprite...oops! Then later in the afternoon I had bread, which I wasn' supposed to do and for dinner friends and I ordered pizza and wings. Although I had one slice, it still wasn't a great idea. Sunday I was ok, we went to Fresh Market and got chicken salad that ate on a kaiser roll for lunch and then left over for dinner. So it wasn't too terrible. I am hopng Monday is better...maybe if I am super strict during the week, I can relax a little on the weekend? Although I feel like I am back at square one today. They recommend not working out on your seventh day and I have to say for a beginner you kind of loose that ambition to work out...so I may not stick to that rule! Here's to Monday, Day Eight, let's hope for better progress and stricter eating guidelines!