This is a picture of our dinner last night. Home made chicken strips and a garden salad. The chicken strips are seriously to DIE for!! So much better than shake n' bake. It was quite the hit in my family. I will definitely make those again. So yesterday was a clean eating kind of day.... that is until the sugar demon caught hold of me. We had 2 pieces of log cake left in our fridge and I seen a plate with remnants of it so I couldn't get it off my mind. I buckled and had a piece of cake, I felt soooooo guilty, but I need to post about that because that is part of being human and part of this journey I am on. So I cheated, but worked twice as hard today to NOT cheat.
I felt very sore last night.
Now on to today. Today is Day 2 and it got off to a much better start! Breakfast was delicious, below is a picture of what I had. SO good. It is a Mediterranean Breakfast Mix. I really enjoyed it, the recipe called to once again mix the cottage cheese/yogurt in with the fruit, but I had them on the side separately instead which was better for me. I know they sell those cottage cheese with fruit stuff in stores and honestly I think that is a disgusting combination. I'm not opposed to cheese with fruit, as I like block cheese & grapes but cottage cheese is all curdled like.
Anyway so today was going so good, at one point I gave the juice jug a double take and internally fought with myself to resist having any (and I did!) and had water instead. Man did I feel proud of myself. I completed Day 2 of the Jillian Michael's 30 day shred today; I think in the beginning its harder to work out because your muscles are all achy and you seriously feel like someone has beat the crap out of you. My ribs, abs, thighs, neck, pecks... man everything HURTS and to make myself do the same work out that caused this pain was hard but I managed to get through it.
I think I did a bit better today. I managed to do 8 push ups before I needed to pause, and did all my squat and press (23 total) without pausing. Jump & jacks was harder as every time I came down I felt that ache in my waist/ribs area.
I have to say I have more energy today ALREADY, what a huge difference by eating cleaner and adding in only 2 days worth of exercise. I managed to vacuum my entire house, and mop the floors AND do the work out and still I don't feel that tired.
The only downfall today was on my way to pick up the exchange students I left a bit earlier as P was beyond cranky so I figured he could sleep in the truck while I waited. It is 28 degrees here right now and I just thought "Hmm... an Iced Capp would be great right about now!".... totally not even THINKING, grrr.... so yes I went to the drive thru and got some iced capps for myself and the boys and drank half of it before even remembering about my clean eating. WHOOPS! Big mistake but hey, my nutritionist is going to allow me 1 pepsi a day (which I am not going to have anyway) so I will just treat it as a treat instead.
When meeting with her she had this cool little mind exercise for me to do. She said to close my eyes and picture a red apple in great detail and once I had it in my mind firmly to open my eyes and describe it, the second part of the exercise was to close my eyes again but whatever I do, do NOT picture that red apple. She explained that as soon as you tell yourself no to something you will immediately do it. The brain apparently does not work on negative thinking and so she told me to not ever say "I won't ever have sugar again" because as soon as I say that I will immediately crave it, so true!
Well that is my day so far.
It means a lot to me to have so much support. I think that is what's keeping me going is knowing that I am accountable. I am just going to take it a bit easy tonight. Will post tomorrow of course.
~Ciao
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