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challenge... It takes courage to take and post pictures.
OPT Week 1 Summary
Food:
My first week on OPT was really challenging. It actually turned in to two weeks as I got sidelined by a cold for about 5 days. My caloric limit is 1630 currently and I think I'm just finally getting used to it. There were several days with hunger pains and a few with other weird symptoms of hunger like nausea and headache. The past few days it has just been a little nausea, which is weird because usually I wouldn't eat with this feeling, but eating makes it go away. I hate forcing food down
Getting sick of ground turkey... Doing a lot more chicken this week. Also eyeing the buffalo burgers in my freezer. I finally got around to seasoning my new wok and tried it out last night. I can't wait to make more food in it. I wandered around the local mega asian grocery store (
Uwajimaya) Saturday just looking at labels.
I need to work on keeping my carbs down. It is soooooo easy to go over 143g of carbs. I have given up my black tea lemonades from Starbucks (I would get them unsweetened) and have just been getting black tea (0 cal!) and putting lemon juice and splenda in. For a treat, I have these Breyer's 40 calorie all natural pure fruit swirl bars.
Exercise:
Much better on this front than the food. I think this was the first time I have ever exercised so much in a week. Cardio has been interval running/walking and trying to get the mileage up. My knees are complaining after yesterday's step ups during weight workout and the 2.3 mile run/walk. Thank goodness today is a rest day. The weight workouts fortunately don't wipe me out like NROLFW, so I can actually do stuff afterwards.
This week is supposed to be HOT where I live so it will take extra effort to get to the gym. They elliptical may be on tap due to knees. I hate the treadmill, I'd rather be outside.
arms and legs akimbo
).
Black tea with lemon sounds good though...Green tea may sound even better...
