Eats: 2216 cals.
I've a tiny deficit, but not much. bad planning meant I had to buy a protein shake while on the go, and the shop didn't really have anything I'd have sought out intentionally. I ended up with a 500cal shake.
To my credit, there's an unopened KitKat on my desk. A coleague of mine bought them for all of us, and I managed to graciously accept it and not eat it. I'll budget it in another day.
Workout:
I switched to real planks instead of those on the weight bench. I don't feel like my endurance is improving. I want to work on my form doing them without the bench. I really am just pathetic when it comes to doing planks. Fleh! I'll be good at them by summer.. or 2010.
So, I promised my husband I wouldn't fuss about food on the 14th. That seemed reasonable. Unfortuantely, I also woke up on the snacktacular side of the bed and just munched through the day before a decadent dinner.
Nutrition: it was good until the drinking. Met my husband at a pub after gym class and that involved a bit more drinking than i had planned on. I need to work on saying no.
So, I promised my husband I wouldn't fuss about food on the 14th. That seemed reasonable. Unfortuantely, I also woke up on the snacktacular side of the bed and just munched through the day before a decadent dinner.
17th Workout:
I'm still sticking with the wuss weight bosu squat, as the physiotherapist thinks it's key. I'm also taking it easier on the stepups and lunges to ensure I'm using the right muscles instead of cheating my using my ITband to stabilize myself. We've determined that part of the cause for the injury was that i often turn my toes in on lunges. stepups, etc on my left side.
I'd like to be progressing faster, but I also don't want to further injure myself.
18th:
Went out to dinner. It wasn't disasterous, but it wasn't admirable, either. I did walk from my office in the City to the restaurant in Mayfair via a scenic route - it took about an hour.
2534cals. (why i am powerless in your presence, cheese plate? wine?)
2058 cals... slightly overbudget today. I had planned to lift tonight, but I'm really just feeling wiped out. I've been like this for the last few days. I literally could just put my head down and sleep at any given moment.
I've a birthday dinner tomorrow, which will nix that workout, but I'll go do weights again Saturday. My husband pickedup a copy of Wii fitness coach, and I think i might start using it for a little extra cardio in the mornings until I start cycling into work again.
Friday i came down with food poisoning at work. The hurling started at four, and continued through my arrival home around 9. Since then, I've been eating mostly crackers, toast, ginger ale, and sprite zero.
Although, tonight, I thought I was doing better so I tried eating a hot dog for dinner tonight, and that wasn't so good. Ugh.
I'm definitely better than I was. I just don't feel good yet. I'll be back tomorrow, even if not fully.
Yeah, but you have to sit on a bike for 100 miles...
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Just thinking about it makes my butt hurt.
true, but it's actually fun... for me, anyway. I get a sort of euphoria from riding my bike. I love looking at the scenery, listening and singing along to my music ( I wear an earphone in my ear that isn't on the side where the cars are).
Sorry to hear about the food poisoning. We all have comfort foods when we're not feeling well. Find those things that you really want and you should be able to keep them down. Strangely, mine are canned peaches and lemonade. When I need to take in calories just to keep me going, they seem to go down easily. Hope that you're feeling better soon.
I'm feeling much better and despite working from home, I finally left the house this evening!!
Tomorrow, I'll aim to workout. I'm still pretty low energy, but even so, I'm hoping tomorrow is much better. In the meantime, no workout means more time to read logs!
LOL--I have to work up to sitting on a bike for anything more than five miles.
I promise it is so much easier than running!
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Sorry to hear about the food poisoning. We all have comfort foods when we're not feeling well. Find those things that you really want and you should be able to keep them down. Strangely, mine are canned peaches and lemonade. When I need to take in calories just to keep me going, they seem to go down easily. Hope that you're feeling better soon.
Thanks for the advice. I worked up to macaroni and cheese and a quorn filet (it's vegetarian meat), which made for a very beige and bland dinner.
I'm going to try for more normal foods tomorrow!
I woke up on the super cranky side of the bed today. The day that followed did little to improve that.
I did learn something, though.
I've noticed from reading logs and other lifting sites that lots of people seem to eat oatmeal and just add protein powder to it. I decided that it was time for me to give this a go.
So, today, I get to work, settle in, and go for second breakfast (B2). I get some porridge, which is like oatmeal and head back to my desk. I dump out half of the porridge because even I can't eat that much and i start adding in the protein powder.
This is where it all went wrong. I managed to get about 10g of the powder into the porridge of the 20g I was hoping to cram in there. I'm stirring away, trying not to spread the sticky powder away while on a call, and as I do, the stuff keeps getting thicker. It's like natural peanut butter when you remove it from the fridge. My spoon, albeit plastic, broke off into the porridge.
I get another spoon and tried to eat it- after all, I don't want to let all that potential protein go to waste! I made it through about 80% before giving up, chewing away on my porridge/ newly discovered defense technology.
So, I guess you're supposed to add the protein powder into it while cooking it... and I wonder why my cooking sucks?
eats: 1992 cals - pretty much a perfect deficit. woo!
Once again, this elusive *other* has snuck into my day!!
workout:
After getting home later than planned again (damn work), finishing dinner at 930 and a having a quick browse of logs while digesting, i went to do as much of a workout as I could, knowing I wouldn't have much time, especially after losing 10 minutes trying to find my key.
I got to the gym and lost a bit of time setting up for the deadlifts. For the past few months, i've been using a pulley machine, but having outgrown it, i'm stuck with dumbells again.
I also did a bunch of weighted squats on the bosu to keep my physio happy. i'm up to doing them w- 25kg of weight
Anyway, this was a pretty halfassed workout, but I suppose it's better than nothing. I did as much as I could before lights out.
Tomorrow is another day... likely one without my frankenporridge.
Today lacked a porridge situation; although, I did add the protein to yogurt. It, too, was pretty chewy, but no flatware was damaged.
I was pretty good today, except that when I woke this morning, my sweet tooth was in full force, so I had a candy bar. (Yes, I know that isn't good). I resisted all other sweets, including candy that was sitting on my desk all day, so I'm glad I just indulged this morning and fed the craving.
Exercise:
Went to a spin class. I'm still being careful about my IT band.
Yeah, I can't add a whole scoop to oatmeal or when I make protein pancakes. It's just too pasty tasting then. I guess the upside is that you could use it for glue!
Ugh, ugh ugh. I tried that with the Oats and Protein. Lots of people swear by it, but all I got was gelatinous glue, although I think I merely bent the spoon, rather than breaking it. Now I just eat my oats and have a shake on the side. I have completely given up all of the "protein pancake" "protein pudding" and "healthy sweets"--it's just too disgusting. I would rather eat a little real food than force down some chemical-laden ick. Protein powder is pretty much the only fake food I eat at this point--not even artificial sweeteners.
On the highly viscous combo that is oatmeal & protein powder...
Yeah... i really thought it could be edible. The worst was trying to neatly extract the half of the plastic spoon that will still stuck in the oatmeal. ew.
I am still going to try sneaking it into homemade low fat ice cream. I realize it will likely be revolting, but I can' t resist
-Chocolate Protein Powder
- Peanut Butter
- Add water a bit at a time stirring until it's like mud
- Stir in fat free chocolate cool whip
= YUM
Alternatively, stir in blueberries instead of the cool whip....still YUM.
Jane, you are full of excellent ideas! I'll have to see if we have Cool Whip here. It's funny, I don't miss American foods until I need them for something.... when i had food poisoning, I learned that there are no saltines!
The page says to...
.Perform each complex once per week for four training sessions per week. Use the following progression:
Week One: 4 sets of 5 reps of each — 90s rest
Today's: Complex A Bent Over Barbell Row
Hang Clean
Front Squat + Push Press Hybrid
Jump Squat (bar on back)
Good Morning
My gym does have a few body bars, despute lacking real barbells. Anyway, i took the heaviest one, which is 10kg or so (22 lbs) and gave this a go. From the directions, it sounded like heavy weights weren't suitable.
It wasn't as hard as I expected, but it did get the blood flowing. I did the first 3 sets with the 10 kilo bar, the last set with a set of 7 kilo dumbells.
On to workout 4A. I had hoped to make more progress in this stage, but increasingly, I find that some of the exercises upset my IT band. After a number of sprains, I'm especially wobbly on my ankle, and my physio thinks I'm using my IT band to compensate.
I'm not sure what to do here, as a lot of the exercises demand stability, which I lack. On the step ups, I don't step up straight- there's a bit of wobble, so I can work to keep stable using lower weights or work to challenge my muscles but cheat a bit to stay stable, but seemingly not both. Something to ask about, i guess.
I was especially keen to up my shoulder press weight, but no dice. I just couldn't get the weghts up there, even though I did last week. The jump from 10->12.5 kg is just taking me a long time!
Anyway, here's all of 4a-
One observation...by the time i get to the end, I'm so sick of the workout, I skip something. Bad habit.
I went for a short jog after as well.
One observation...by the time i get to the end, I'm so sick of the workout, I skip something. Bad habit.
Thats a tough workout, how long does it take you? What are you using to track your calories, I think I should do something but not sure what to use. Fitday is ok, but time consuming to enter new foods in there.
Now I remember that article! Thanks for reminding me of it. I may try that for a month once I get past this cold/flu/gunk that is hanging around my family.
Today was not a day that would inspire pride from a nutrition standpoint. I should have planned more and better.
I went out for lunch and dinner and my husband bought my favorite treat, which I really am powerless in the presence of.
In terms of stats for the monthly postings, I weighed myself for the last three days, so I'm going to use the value that seems more accurate (i.e. the one I saw 2/3 of the time) and still do my measurements Sunday.
I also talked to my physio, and he agreed that I'm just going to keep hurting myself if I'm overly reliant on this muscle between my hip and knee (It Band) to stay stable on my right foot. So, more PT lies ahead. In the meantime, I'm just going to be careful with the exercises that tend to aggravate it, such as the stepups. When i do stepup on my right side, my knee doesn't stay straight - even if I lower the weight significantly. On the left, I have no problem.
Thats a tough workout, how long does it take you? What are you using to track your calories, I think I should do something but not sure what to use. Fitday is ok, but time consuming to enter new foods in there.
It takes a while. That's one of my challenges. By the time I get home from work and eat dinner, there isn't always enough time to do a full hour workout.
The warmup/ complexes took 15 mins.
The NROLFW workout, which I didn't fully complete took another hour or so. Maybe an hour and a quarter?
Then there was a 15 min run
I use http://caloriecount.about.com
The thing i like is that it has a bunch of stuff already in it- both US and UK foods. You can add your own foods in, and you can tag them to save them to your own quicklist. With the tags, you can save individual items or entire meals. In that sense, it's like the weight watchers points tracker.
It also has an analysis page, where it will show your macronutrient ratios. This is where I get my little graph from.
workout-
none. I put on all my gym clothes and my heart just wasn't into it. I decided that rather than push through, I'd get myself organized for tomorrow, which I have done. My gym bag is packed, my food is planned, etc.
Weekends are always hard for me. During the week sometimes, I don't manage to eat enough, and weekends are always the same old same. Something to work on.
This month has it's own set of challenges- the biggest being that my baby brother is visiting for a week, which means lots of potential for me to eat badly. I'm going to try to stick to good habits, and just do the best I can when we head to Edinburgh for a few days.
This week, I'm going to -
Spin Class tomorrow.
Lift Tuesday and try to squeeze in more cardio, even if it's just walking mid-day
Class on Wednesday, so no workout probably
Spin Thursday
Lift Friday - with a bit of cardio
Pilates and Cardio on Saturday
Lift Sunday morning - after which I'll get my hair straightened and like a gremlin, not be allowed near water for 2 days.
Hey, I have a cousin who lives in Edinburgh. Well, at least for a little while. He and his wife are heading for New Zealand. I don't pay attention to dates though, so they may have already gone....
Fat - 24.9% (49 grams)
Protein - 31.0% (137 grams)
Carbohydrates - 44.1% (195 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0% 
Other - 0.0%
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