Starting to feel less bloated and puffy now after having a good day's eating yesterday, and feeling more positive again. Thankfully it's another two weeks until my next social event, so I can get my head down and get cracking again!
Meals:
Today I did a 17 hour fast and broke it with a green smoothie, usual ingredients.
Had an early dinner as out all evening teaching. I'm going to attempt a longer fast tomorrow, but what time I eat really depends on what time I will be training with my client. Will have to see.
Home made buffalo burger with steamed broccolli, spinach and oregano garlic tomatoes.
And boy is my ass hurting after training legs and glutes yesterday! But it's all good :)
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Had enough of feeling fat, bloated and puffy after all the extras over the last few days. Time to re-focus and get organised again.
Meals:
Lovely green goodness smoothie for starters
Chicken, prawn and sun dried tomato salad for lunch
For dinner, frying steak, steamed spinach and roasted parsnip, courgette, red onion, cauliflower, garlic and oregano
There were some home grown strawberries on offer so had some with raspberries, pomegranate and a drizzle of cream for a taste. Mmmm :)
A much better day and stayed away from the sugary crap, hurrah!
Training:
Heavy weights session - legs and shoulders
I CAN DO THIS!!!
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Thank goodness I was shattered when I went to bed in the hotel as being in the city centre, we were right on top of the nightlife so was like sleeping in a nightclub...boom, boom, boom. Amazingly I slept like a log.
The next morning...usual hotel buffet and offerings. We never eat this way normally so crazy we have to eat a bit from everything offered! Well, I started with a side plate's worth of scrambled egg, beans, sausage and a hash brown. I avoided the crappy cereal and all bread, but I do like an occasional croissant so had a couple of those and some banana chips. But stayed with my herbal tea and lots of water.
We finally managed to escape the hotel. There'd been a stabbing outside in the early hours and the police had taped off the road! We started the looooong and booooring drive home, via the services again for more sugary rubbish. Not a good weekend's food for me, but so be it. I bypassed dinner too.
And unfortunately I fell down a sugar hole for a couple of days. The downside to my mum buying and having biscuits in the house and me caving in! Aside from the sugar I always try and keep my main meals nutritious and healthy.
But a weekend of complete food relaxation does show up on the scales. 4.5lbs heavier! It's really easy to be annoyed with yourself and think that there's no point healthy eating and carrying on but there absolutely is. The majority of the scale weight is merely water retention. A few days of clean eating and abstaining from sugar means it will go down again, as I have shown in previous weeks. This was a much bigger intake of sugar though this time.
Here's my meals for these days...
Day 22
Veggie scrambled egg, after a morning's fast.
Pilchard and avocado salad
Chicken and hummus salad, after a mornings fast
Got in really late and didn't want a full dinner so this was the easy and quick option. Hummus, prawns and tomato on rye toast
So food doesn't look too bad, but it's minus all the biscuits I had on both days. Not feeling too good, really bloated, fat and puffy.
Enough now, what's done is done. Time to get back on track, only 7 weeks till beach time!
Training:
Day 21
Rest day
Day 22
Heavy weights - back, biceps and core
Day 23
Ten minute bodyweight and core interval session
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My Saturday began covering 4 sessions for my colleague, a 7, 8, 9 and 10am. So getting up at 6am after only about 5.5 hours sleep was not a great start!
Half way through the morning I drank my smoothie that I'd made the night before.
Straight after the sessions I collected my friend and I drove us up to Tamworth in the Midlands for a charity fitness day. At the services I ended up buying some sugary food as I was already shattered! Viennese whirls and an oat cookie later, we continued our journey.
We missed the start of the first session, Armageddon with Richard Callender (Biggest Loser), which was probably a blessing, it's tough! I joined in with a little latin fit, then 80's cheesy aerobics after which my knee started to complain after the high impact old 80's moves. I sat out for TKO combat and ate half my salad. Really hard to eat properly at these events without feeling sick or missing out!
Back to the hotel in Birmingham after surviving the horrendous roads that are in the city centre, and ate the other half of my salad and sugary crap from the services.
We showered and went downstairs so my friend could eat. It was quite late by then and we were waiting for the rest of our gang to get ready. I had a lovely tomato and mozzarella salad. One of the better non-bread/wheat/stodgy choices from the hotel menu. I figured I'd had enough sugar for one day, and I was having a small wine too.
11pm we finally got to the bar! I was hanging. Had 2 more drinks and got back about 2am, exhausted, zzzzzzz
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Didn't get to do a ten minute blast in the morning. Woke feeling drained and heavy in the body, so I decided to listen to it and rest instead. Felt leaner though so feeling positive.
Meals:
Day two of my first aid at work refresher. Managed to fast in morning, which was easy as I wasn't hungry and I knew I would be occupied with learning.
Lunchtime came and I completely forgot to photograph it, so this pic below is the other half which I will have tomorrow, minus the lettuce I had today.
Tuna, cannellini beans, sun dried tomatoes, oregano, avocado, red onion, green pepper and pomegranate pips.
Don't know what happened after I left the course. I had a good day, not stressful and I was no longer tired, but I went and bought chocolate. Can't explain why. Can only think a seed was planted after talking about it with some of my clients. Oh well.
After talking about planning yesterday, I hadn't planned my own dinner! *Smack wrists!* I arrived home after my weights session hungry. Not a good place to be. I need to go shopping too so had to rustle up what I could.
Ended up with organic bacon and eggs fried in coconut oil, on a slice of rye bread with some steamed chard. Quite a satisfying meal. Only thing is by the evening I was feeling full still and quite bloated. Bye bye my lean feeling that I had this morning :(
Training:
Heavy weights with my client. Chest, triceps and core.
Off to a charity dance day in Tamworth tomorrow after covering my colleague's 4 sessions in the morning. Whew will be a busy day! AND out for the evening in Birmingham, so a couple of wines will be had. No idea where we are eating though, so I already have lunch ready and a smoothie to take in the morning.
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Today was going to be a busy one so essential to get organised the night before. I was off doing my first aid refresher course for the next two days. Then tonight teaching two sessions after.
So, I got all my smoothie ingredients together and got the blender out ready.
I then made myself a salad to take the next day, and left the prawns defrosting and avocado to add first thing in the morning.
I then put some brocolli and chard in the steamer, added the water and put it on the hob ready. I wasn't going to get home till 9pm so needed to be able to just come in a switch it on. I also put some foil under the grill ready for my steak. Sorted.
It was then so easy this morning to come down, throw everything into the blender and add the bits to my lunch. Job done.
IF YOU FAIL TO PLAN THEN YOU PLAN TO FAIL!
Simples.
Meals:
Didn't take a photo of my smoothie but same no fruit concoction as usual (without the raw cacao)
Lunch was the prawn and avocado salad. Only ate two thirds of it as out lunch break was earlier than I would have eaten and I wasn't that hungry still after the smoothie.
I ate the rest during our afternoon break.
I think doing this half and half thing threw me out a bit as I felt I needed something when I got home. So I went for a couple of slices of cheese as I had no other protein available without opening a tin of fish, which I didn't fancy.
Dinner was buffalo rump steak, brocolli and chard from the farmers market. Proper big leaves!
Lunch all ready for tomorrow. Planning to fast in the morning. Am also planning to get up and do a quick ten minute blast before I leave for my first aid course day two. Let's hope I sleep ok first.
Training:
Not a full on session. Just joined in a bit with my bootcampers and their interval accumulator session. Proper session tomorrow!
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Starting to feel leaner again, hurrah! I bombarded you with a lot of info yesterday so going to keep it simple today and just give you my food and training.
Meals:
Protein banana pancakes. Not had these in ages! I blended 3 eggs with a scoop of protein and a small banana and cooked them in a little coconut oil. Then served with home grown strawberries, pomegranate, toasted seeds and cinammon. OMG yummy, but very filling!
Dinner was a bit of an experiment, but wasn't great. I baked some white fish in chopped tomatoes, red onion, brocolli, cauliflower, green pepper and oregano. It was all a bit dry and chewy, but never mind. You learn from your mistakes.
I didn't feel satisfied after so had some rye bread, cheese and tomato, which did the trick.
Looking at my meals above, they are not green enough! Need to sort that tomorrow.
Green foods, especially the dark leafy ones are the most nutrient dense, packed full of vitamins, minerals and fibre, and more importantly, aid fat loss! So get eating brocolli, kale, spinach, watercress etc.
Training:
Workout 1 - ten minute HIIT workout (high intensity interval training)
Mixture of sprints, lunges and core work
Workout 2 - heavy weight training
Legs, shoulders and core. Should be interesting trying to walk tomorrow!
So plan is to keep going...keep eating clean fresh food, what mother nature gave us, stay active, get out of breath and leave the pink fluffy weights on the floor.
And remember...
Doing a workout and then treating yourself to a muffin or chocolate bar is not the way forward! Find non-food related treats such as a new top or a massage or something :)
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