Day 21 - Tuesday low carb

I woke up today and still felt horrible. My eyes were puffy and my hands were swollen and sore. I really learned a hard lesson with how I strayed WAY away from ED over the weekend and it is taking more than 24 hours to get the crap out of my system. Luckily I drank a lot of water today and was able to pee quite a bit. By the evening after karate I feel much better

Exercise was limited again today. I got up at 6am to do the morning workout but I had an awful stomach ache so I took Magic for her walk and came home and actually broke down and took a tablespoon of Pepto Bismol. I was really feeling bad to do that. Then I laid back down for 45 more minutes and went to work.

I went to Karate at 7:15pm and that was good exercise. Then I stayed after class and did the Body Weight Workout as best I could. I can barely do 4 dive bombers in a row and I certainly cannot do the squat roll back stand up yet, but I tried and went through the series twice...

Food:
B - skipped but had tulsi tea
L - chicken breast, spinach and mixed salad
D - turkey, spinach and cabbage mix

Lunch picture


Dinner picture



I SHOULD BE BACK TO NORMAL TOMORROW !!!!

Day 20 - Monday and back at work

I feel like total crap on this day!! After lots of alcohol yesterday and eating crap, I have certainly learned the HARD WAY.

Exercise: none I slept in late and didn't even take Magic for a walk :((

Food:
B - skipped but I had 2 cups of coffee
L - work buffalo chicken salad
D - chicken lettuce wraps

Here is a picture of my lunch - the chicken part is not too healthy :( the only saving grace is I did not dress this salad


Dinner - much healthier I ate 2 chicken lettuce wraps - lettuce, lots of fresh veggies and some chicken. Now we are talking much healthier option!!

Day 19 - Fast Day

Again, posting late - so for Day 19 we had a fast day. Today I did only one exercise - it was the new Body Weight workout. I went to Mass, and then Orlando and I went to Lake Jackson. At mom's house, I had 3 glasses of wine and I broke the fast with some chips and quacamole.

Later I went to Lesa's house and we went out to eat around 6pm. We had chips and salsa, I had 3 more glasses of wine and we had some queso flameado!

OHHHH TODAY WAS SO BAD with regards to my program!!

Lesa and I had a heart-wrenching conversation through all of this and we talked and cried and I have since felt a really bad feeling of dispair that has taken me about 2 days to shake !!!!!

No pictures for this day :((

Day 18 - Carb day

Wow I have some catching up to do on my blog.
Im posting this late, so for my own memory, day 18 is Saturday it is a carb day.

Exercise:
Karate - 8:00am - 9:30am
PT - 11am - noon
DB Matrix x 2 - 3pm-ish

Food:
B - Blueberry protein smoothie
L - Rice and beans
D - Turkey, sweet potato, spinach salad, bread, wine, pie :(

OK breakfast was a super yummy blueberry protein smoothie that I drank between karate and PT training.


I ate lunch after PT training and had some brown rice and some home made beans my hubby made (the bad news is it ws so yummy, I think I had one and 1/2 bowls) but I think after some pretty intense working out, this may not have been too bad.


Dinner was a bad cheat. I broke my ED meal plan and had about 3 glasses of wine, had 2 pieces of bread with some turkey, sweet potatoes, and spinach salad. After dinner I had a piece of sweet potato pecan pie and a piece of spice cake. it was not ED compliant this night :((

Day 17

Thought for the day: Tired? So what! do it anyway :)

Exercise:
Mobility Matrix - 6:30am
Walk Magic - 7:00am
PowerCircuit - 12:00pm 64/34 !!

Food:
B - 2 hard boiled eggs and leftover kale salad
L - baked tilapia with pico de gallo
Sn - no snack
D - not sure yet but something low carb and ED healthy

OK, to my point yesterday about some times I should not listen to myself, I had brought this kale and hb eggs to work, but was trying to convince myself it was yukky or somehow bad for breakfast. Well... I forced myself to eat it and it was absolutely DELICIOUS!!


Lunch - really good too. I wasn't huge hungry so I purchased a piece of baked tilapia (yes at the dreaded work cafe) but it was prepared well and it was very yummy

DAY 16

Thought for the day: There are times I shouldn't listen to myself. My brain has a tendency to try to talk myself out of the committments I've made, so I need to ignore me sometimes.

Being at the half-way mark is easy to start waning away from the overall goal. I just spent a good portion of today FORCING myself to do the program! That worked for me :)

Exercise:
DB Matrix - 6:40am (2 rounds)
Walk Magic - 7:00am
Pyramid - 11:30am finished within 20 minutes with 1:09 to spare
Stairs - 3:45pm up & down 7 flights. did this 3 times for 15 minutes
Karate - 7:15pm
PT - 8:30pm-9:00pm

Food:
B: You know... i skipped breakfast and just had some tulsi tea because I am very tired of eggs :)
L: Grilled chicken salad with home made dressing
Sn: Smoked salmon pieces (4)
D: 1/2 rotiserrie chicken breast and kale,artichoke,walnut salad YUM

For breakfast there is not a picture

Here is my standard lunch option from work

Snack was some smoked salmon pieces from Whole Foods - I ate this before karate

Dinner was 1/2 rotisserie chicken breast and a kale, artichoke walnut salad that I pieced together from the Whole Foods salad bar. It was very yummy.

DAY 15

Thought for the day: If I make it through the first half that's absolute proof I can certainly make it through the second half !

Today is the half-way mark for our 30 days with MAP. Wow, I think it will continue to get more interesting from here. Now I just need some motivation to do my exercise

Exercise:
OK today I was a total slug with regards to exercise. The only thing I did was the morning jog with Magic! Yikes!! I think my issue started with getting up late this morning and letting myself off the hook from there. Oh well, no sense beating myself up. Tomorrow is a new and better day :)

Food:
B: Egg and turkey-ham scramble
Sn: Nuts
L: Spinach-green bean - Grilled chicken - mix
D: Warm Spinach & Scallop salad

Breakfast came early today as I was hungry! This is approx 1.5 eggs with some turkeyham scrambled together.


Lunch was leftover leftovers haha, but today I mixed in a bunch of extra green beans and spinach with the leftover grilled chicken. This weekend we will grill more chicken because it sure is diverse and easy to re-use. Oh, forgot to mention a spoonful of GHOST PEPPER salsa! Hot hot hot!!!



Dinner soooooo yummy! I think this is my favorite meal so far. And by far the easiest to make. Pan sauteed scallops with warm spinach salad. Small chopped up turkeyham to give it some bacon flavor, and lots of garlic cooked into this as well.

TWO WEEK RESULTS

Here are my stats and my pictures after 2 weeks on MAP

Day 1 / Day 14 / Change
Weight 176 / 169 / (- 7lbs)
Chest 41" / 40.5" / (- .5 in)
Waist 39" / 36.5" / (- 2.5 in)
Hip 43.5" / 42.5" / (- 1 in)
Knee 19" / 18.5" / (- .5 in)
Thigh 24.75" / 24.25" / (- .25 in)
Arm 13.5" / 13" / (- .5 in)

FRONT


SIDE


BACK


FACE

Day 14

Today's thought - My brain is raring to go, but my body feels a little exhausted! I think the stair climbing yesterday and the 3 days of low carb have slowed me down a bit, but I feel good and I will achieve my days goals !!!

Exercise:
Power Circuit 6:30am - wow an amazing 62/32 with only 1 stop during the walkouts!
Karate 7:15pm
PT 8:15pm

Food:
B: Blueberry-Banana smoothie
L: Fajita meat with onions and spanish rice
Sn: Grapefruit
D: grilled chicken / spinach / broccoli

I used my Magic Bullet I got for Christmas ;) and breakfast was super delicious smoothie I made with 1/2 frozen banana, a handful of blueberries, 4oz unsweatened coconut milk & (shame on me) vanilla protein powder.


Lunch... well... OK... yes I ate at the work cafe again. Seems like the only time I get any variety is to have someone else cook it for me :( Oh well, it was a decent lunch. It started as fajita meat in a flat bread with a side of rice. I took off the flat bread and smelled it several times, and I ALMOST took a bite out if it, but I refrained from that and tossed it in the trash can :) I had to pull the cheese off the fajita meat, and then - I had me lunch :) I must comment that the rice was heavenly! Carbs today are heavenly !!!


Snack - I forgot to take a picture of my super yummy and juicy grapefruit so I'm using this one from the internet instead


Dinner - yum. We found some grilled chicken in the freezer that we had not eaten yet, so thawed it out and then peeled it off the bone and heated it in a pan. Combined that with some fresh veggies - made an awesome meal!

Day 13

Thought for the day: BREATH !! Working out should not be stressful.

I have noticed how shallow and unhealthy my breathing is, so I am going to make a conscious effort to BREATH and breath deeply and meaningfully. This should help my cause with stress. And... working out should not be stressful. Sometimes I think I put a little too much pressure on myself with regards to working out and I really need to chill out and have some fun.

Exercise:
Pyramid - 6:30am
ICP - 11:20am
Stairs with work friends - noon 3x7 flights
Practice karate (il soo sik hand and foot 1-10) - 6:30pm
DB Matrix - 8:00pm

Food:
B - 2 eggs over medium
L - ground turkey with cucumbers and celery
S - piece of fish with cucumbers and celery
D - I had a few nuts as a snack before my workout and I felt satisfied so I didn't have any more to eat after that :)

Here is my breakfast - yes, I got it from the work cafe ....


Lunch was from home - ground turkey with fresh cucumbers and celery. This lunch pleasantly surprised me. It was yummy and very refreshing.


Snack: Leftover piece of fish and I polished off the veggies I brought to work :)

Dinner: A few nuts (no pic)

Day 12

Thought for the day: no thought :)

Exercise:
DB Matrix
Meltdown

Food:
B: Spinach-sausage scramble
L: leftover meatballs
Sn: Mixed raw nuts
D: Broiled fish (we caught it last summer in the gulf)

Breakfast was spinach, kale, cabbage mixed with sausage and eggs. Very yummy

Lunch was leftover meatballs from yesterday (darn i don't have a picture)

Dinner was fish we caught in the gulf last summer and some cabbage salad. Yummy! Well, originally I was counting on my hubby to cook the fish ---uLLLLL --- I just don't like messing with it. But he was late getting home and I didn't want to eat too late, so I looked at it and determined that I could deal with it. Then I took that knife and cut down both sides away from the back bone. I slapped a few pats of butter and some spices on it, baked it for 10 minutes and then broiled it for 3. My husband came home and was shocked that I filleted the fish and said now I can do it all the time. This was a specked trout and it was DEVINE!!!! I ate 1/2 a filet and saved the other half for a snack on Monday.

Day 11

Thought for the day: It feels good to feel good. It tastes good to eat healthy and it feels good to feel good... did I say that already :) ?

Exercise:
Karate - 8:00am - 9:30am
PT - 11:00 - 12:00pm (balance and core strength)

Food:
B: Salmon and veggie scramble
L: meatballs
D: more meatballs and deviled eggs (went to a party)

OK, besides breakfast, my food day was not very healthy. Yes I stayed off the alcohol, sugar, caffeine, and carbs, but I did not get enough veggies in the day. The meatballs I made with grassfed beef. I didn't take a picture (unfortunately) so I only have my breakfast picture for today. The tomatoes kind of hogged the picture, but there is spinach, kale, cabbage, eggs and salmon scrambled together and this was absolutely delish!

Day 10

Thought for the day: You ALWAYS pay for your own poor choices. They never have a way of escaping you!

My body is the consequence of my past choices. I can't escape that - literally I am currently stuck with the body of my past choices. It's time to get comfortable in my own skin so that one day my today's choices will lead to a new consequence.

Exercise:
(no early morning exercise ... I slept in till 7 on a cold day)
(no Magic walk... she's sad)
Meltdown - 11:30am

PowerCircuit - 8:30pm 58/28

B: Protein shake with banana!!
L: Apple & nuts
D: Tom Yum soup, chuka salad, 6 pieces fresh sushi

Dang I forgot to take a picture of my breakfast - but it isn't too hard to imagine.
Imagine a yummy chocolate and vanilla Prograde Protein shake with a banana blended in. Yes, I'm a bad girl because on MAP we are not supposed to have any store bought protein shakes :(

Snack: Chips and salsa. These are my home made chips. I get the sprouted corn tortillas from whole foods, cut them up, and then bake them. The salsa is a local Texas blend of tomatoes, spices and no preservatives or yucky stuff! Texas really has some great options for salsa, but you have to look at the label carefully and pick the healthy ones.

Lunch - Oh MY GAHHHH. I swear I will not eat at the lunch cafe ever again except for a salad!!! I ordered a shrimp/primavera thing without the noodles. It was so disgusting - I had to throw it away. Yes, I paid for a poor choice on this one !!! Look at the nasty juice that I cannot even describe what it was except for the fake butter taste. The shrimp was also the cheap stuff and was not cooked all the way. The veggies would have been good (cauliflower, broccoli, and spinach) but they were drenched in the nasty sauce! YUK

Luckily I had an apple and some nuts that I ate instead. The juice in this picture was from the apple. Very sweet and juicy and a much wiser choice :)

Dinner was yummy! small seafood salad, 6 pieces of sushi with brown rice, and bowl of tom-yum soup

Day 9

Thought for the day: My neck needs to BACK OFF and leave some room for my chin to show :)

Not sure if this is just a part of aging, putting on weight, or both, but I really would like it for my chin to have it's own space and my neck to be the slender part underneath it whose sole purpose it to hold up my head.

OK, so confession... On day 3, I took a picture of my face because I do believe after this 30 days I will see improvement. So here it is but for now I am putting it on here in small format :)

Exercise:
ICP - 6:30 am
Walk Magic - 6:50 am
Stairs with work peeps - 11:50am
PowerCircuit 12:20pm
Karate - 7:15pm
PT - 8:15pm

Food:
B: 1 hard boiled egg
L: little itty bitty stuffed peppers (leftover from dinner)
Sn: hard boiled egg, cucumber, celery
D: baked chicken tenders with peppers and spinach,kale,cabbage salad

OK the picture shows 2 eggs for breakfast, but I only ate one of them because one of them smelled kind of yucky and I decided to toss it, which I'm sure was a good decision

For lunch I had leftover stuffed peppers from last night's dinner. yummy

Here was my afternoon snack:

For dinner my hubby cooked some chicken tenders from whole foods. I instructed him that the meal couldn't have carbs so he baked the chicken with red peppers from our garden and green snap peas. He spiced it with some super hot ground peppers! yikes - it was pretty darn good though. We had a side of spinach, kale, and cabbage salad. Again I didn't dress mine. (then he made himself some rice which he forgot to bring to the table!!)

Day 8

Thought for the day: When I feel so tired that I just can't go do it, I bet I'm wrong!
Tired is a really good excuse I like to use often to let myself off the hook. But you know what? Maybe I am tired, but I can still follow through on my plan and so far today I have proven it!

Tired, Tired, TIRED today. I got up at 5:15am and started PowerCircuit. Only made it through half because I have a cute little dog that was begging me to take her for a walk. Wednesdays are my "skip-the-dog-walk" day because I have an option for 6am karate class and have to be to work at 7:30am. I think I'll need to adjust my schedule to fit Magic in. Meanwhile I am sooooo tired, BUT I completed sweating and huffing and puffing the Pyramid workout at lunch. So, I'm tired, but proved I can still go on. Let's hope I'm singing the same tune for Meltdown tonight.
Good news is I weighed in at 170.5 today !!

Exercise:
1/2 PowerCircuit - 5:30 am
Walk Magic - 5:40 am
Morning Karate class 6:00 am
Pyramid 12:30pm

B: veggie omlette with salsa
L: grilled chicken salad
D: stuffed peppers
Had to say "with salsa" otherwise this looks like blood :)

Lunch - typical work salad :) I bring my own dressing from home

For dinner I cooked some cute little stuffed peppers. The peppers are picked fresh from our garden (they didn't grow very big), and I stuffed them with ground turkey breast, mixed with some tomato, and a bunch of fresh herbs also from our garden. We had a side salad of spinach, cabbage, and kale with almonds (from Whole Foods). Honestly, I'm not sure which was better! Hubby had two full portions of this meal. It really turned out great.

Day 7

Thought for the day: I want to be one with my body.

I want my eyes to be ok with what they see in the mirror when I'm dressing. I want to see a flight of stairs and not dread the next few moments of time. I don't want my mind to always be thinking my body is too fat or my body doesn't look good. To be one with my body would mean any difficult motions or exercise I go through would be pleasantly challenging. It would mean feeling so good in my own body that I don't even think about a single change of clothes, what I look like, or having any want to change.

Excercise:
Pyramid workout - 6:45am
Walk/jog Magic
Meltdown - noon
Karate - 7:15pm
PT - 8:15pm

B: 2 hard boiled eggs
L: Leftover shrimp and lobster salad (see dinner picture from yesterday :)
D: 1/2 breast roasted chicken with pieces of zuchini & yellow squash

Multiply this egg by 2 and that is what I had for breakfast :)

The blue thing is the radio lamp in my office

Lunch was leftover shrimp/lobster salad from last night dinner

Dinner ended up being a 1/2 breast of roasted chicken I purchased at work cafe thinking I would be hungry before karate. My appetite seems to be going down some, and I had a crunch for time between work-dentist-karate class. Anyway I added some cooked zuchini and yellow squash and warmed it in the pan (no microwave) but ate this AFTER my workouts in the evening and before bed.

Day 6

Thought for the day: A morning walk is good for your soul!

I absolutely loved the morning walk today. A storm was moving in, so Magic and I hit the sidewalk early around 6:45am before the sun was up and we took an extra long walk until 7:20am. I loved the walk because it was quiet and peaceful and it gave me time to think. Today's walk was extra pleasant because of the weather. There was a fantastic breeze and it was cool but not at all cold. For January our weather in Houston has been like the spring almost, so the cool breeze made me feel rejuvinated. I spent some time praying and determining that I am going to do my best by following the ED and MAP 2012 protocol 100% to completion and then some!! If I don't lose any weight then I'm OK with that. My desire is to have the body God wants for me. I still must do all the right things with regards to eating and exercising. My body is God's gift to me and I want my body to be what God wants my body to be. Be it warrior princess or chubby little cherubim I won't be disappointed after doing all the right things. My shape is up to God!

Exercise:
Meltdown - 6:20a
Walk/Jog Magic - 6:45a
ICP - lunch
PowerCircuit - 8:30pm

Food:

B: 1/2 apple & almonds

L: Grilled chicken salad (cafe)

D: 1/2 dozen raw oysters & 1/2 shrimp & lobster salad (Pappadeaux)

Lunch was pretty standard. A grilled chicken salad I picked up from the work cafe. It had a tiny bit of grated parmasen cheese which I took off to the best of my ability. I brought my own salad dressing from home which was a mix of olive oil, red wine vinegar, and dijon mustard with some spices.

Dinner was very nice! I had a girls night dinner with my good good friends from work and I chose a restaurant to avoid Italian food :) I ordered 1/2 dozen oysters and a shrimp and lobster salad. I forgot to bring my own dressing, but their dressing, which I got on the side, was pleasantly light. It was a creamy citrus vinaigrette and it was mostly citrussy. I only ate 1/2 the salad, but the oysters were not so lucky... GONE!

As for the cheesecake. My friends tempted me to have JUST ONE bite.... But I politely said no thanks :) After them telling me that just ONE bite wouldn't hurt me, I told them ~ if you ask me one more time I'm gonna beat you up :)

PS - NO WINE!!! AMAZING

Day 5

Thought for the day: It's time to recognize and iterrupt the "excuse mechanism" in my brain. Lately it's been telling me I've done enough for the day and when I succumb to this idea it keeps me from going all the way!

Obviously I have a tendency to let myself off the hook with regards to following the rules. I have to admit that I do alot physically, however I need to go all the way to the letter with my commitment. Afterall, half measures avail nothing. I stand at the turning point.

Meltdown: done @8:45am

B: 2 scrambled eggs w/spinach

L: 1 apple

D: Warm spinach salad with scallops (Macaroni Grill)

Des: Peach Freeze (peach, 1/2 banana, coconut milk, cinamon, 2 dates)

The eggs are very basic and always good. The spinach salad for dinner was from a restaurant and they used a little too much oil in preparation. It had nice roasted garlic pieces, about 10 of them. And about 5 scallops - not too much. Even though my hubby ordered and ate a pasta alfredo with chicken in it, he was envious of my healthy salad and we discussed how to make this dish for dinner at home soon :)