T25 - Day 7

What a long weekend I had! I didn't even have the chance to blog. My little guy got terribly sick Friday night, and was down and out all day Saturday with a high fever we kept trying to keep down.

I ended up taking him to urgent care on Sunday, and thus missing my "Stretch" workout and my AB challenge. Life happens.
It sucked so bad, I ate breakfast before I left not thinking to bring a snack or anything and sat at urgent care for 4 hours. Missed my morning snack, missed lunch. Forgot my water. As you can see my mind was scattered! By the time I got home it was around 3PM and I was beyond famished. I was actually feeling pretty sick to my stomach.

My body is so used to food now that it literally felt like I was starving it, which probably wasn't the best for it either. So my husband dashed out and got me a whole wheat veggie/turkey sub with light mayo. I ended up eating the whole thing, which I guess considering everything else that was going on isn't too bad. It was mainly healthy and I ate it before 4PM which is apparently when they say is the best time to consume carbs.

For supper I just had a salad and forced myself to drink 5 of those 24oz water bottles, I did try to put in an effort once I got home. I only share all this to make a point that even if you think you have everything figured out and your eating well and exercising life still could throw you a curve ball and you just need to do your best to pick up the pieces, and pick up the pieces I did!

Today was back on track. I had my quinoa breakfast, apple for snack, and I made this delicious greek wrap for lunch, veggies for snack and then I made this for supper:

"CHICKEN CABBAGE STIR-FRY"

Ingredients:

 3 chicken breast halves
 1 teaspoon oil
 3 cups green cabbage, shredded
 1 tablespoon cornstarch
 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
 1⁄2 cup water
 1 tablespoon soy sauce
1/2 green bell pepper (or more as desired)
1/2 red bell pepper (or more as desired)
Broccoli (whatever amount is to your liking)

 Directions:

1. Cut chicken breasts into strips.
2. Heat oil in a frying pan.
3. Add chicken strips and stir fry over medium-high heat, turning constantly until done.
4. Add in red pepper/green pepper
 5. Add cabbage and sauté 2 minutes until cabbage is crisp-tender.
 6. Mix cornstarch and seasonings; add water and soy sauce, and mix until smooth.
 7. Stir sauce into chicken/cabbage mixture.
8. Add broccoli
 9. Cook until sauce has thickened and chicken is coated, about 1 minute.
 10. Refrigerate leftovers within 2 hours.

TIP: Instead of using "green cabbage" you can buy a bag of Dole mixed cabbage typically used for coleslaw and use that instead, and as an added bonus it has carrots and purple cabbage in there too!

You can find the "Roasted Garlic Cauliflower" recipe in my previous blog. I can't recall which. This was so satisfying! I didn't even need carbs with it as it was so filling as is. I made up some "oriental" wild rice for my family in just one of those Uncle Ben's Bistro microwave ones. We usually buy those a lot now since I am not eating as much carbs it makes mealtimes easier in my house to not have to worry about cooking rice along with all the copious amounts of vegetables I am cooking - ha!

Tonight's workout was a bit more challenging then I expected considering I didn't find it overly bad on Saturday... we also had to do our AB challenge tonight which was brutal:

• 120 crunches
• 50 leg raises
• 75 second plank

I definitely felt that burn for the crunches and it was a struggle to complete. The leg raises were surprisingly not all that challenging tonight - both her and I breezed through it, we did 50 without stopping.

For my actual T25 workout it was Cardio again. It wasn't as difficult as the first time I did it but I expected it to be easier as it is my third time doing it!
It is amazing what crappy food can do to your body. Within a couple days I am noticing my energy level isn't the same, the exercises were more challenging and I had more cravings then normal.  I still don't want to cut myself off completely as I still think it is fine to treat yourself, it is just all apart of the adjustment period.
Saturday I ended up indulging a bit more then I wanted to. I had about 3 pieces of pizza (over the span of a couple hours) and my friend brought over an apple caramel cake she baked and I had some of that. So I am sure that is what effected me. I did take a paper towel and dapped my pizza to soak up as much grease as I could (a nifty trick I learned from somebody awhile back)

I am nervous for this week as I am likely going to be on my own a few days (Thursday/Friday). Thursday is Cardio again so that should be ok and the double day on Friday is Lower body and Abs. Sucky!

Well I think that about covers my blogging for the last few days. I'm off to drink my shake now then go to bed!

~Ciao!