A pretty good week for diet, but not really seeing the results on the scale, although my clothes are fitting better and I look leaner. But this week I've also been extra, extra hungry - starving, really. So that's not helped much. Knowing I can strip things out of my diet (take out more carbs, no alcohol) but also have been much stricter w/ food than before and am working out 5 days a week instead of 2 or 3 AND spinning - so feeling a bit frustrated. Typically my body takes a few weeks to adjust to a change in diet and fitness, so maybe next week's the week. I am going to try a more regimented diet this week, but it will be tough with five nights of parties and events scheduled!! Sigh.
Breakfast: four days: oatmeal. One day: multigrain toast (w seeds, raisins) + banana each day.
Lunch every day this week: fresh turkey half-sandwhich on whole-grain bread, with tomato and lettuce. Small bran muffin mid-morning as snack, carrots and an apple. (Tuesday I freaked out mid-afternoon and ate a small montreal bagel. I was starving. Friday, I ate some honey-graham bears in the afternoon (probably about 3 g fat))
Dinners:
Monday: "burrito" (lean turkey, black beans, salsa, cheese) in a wrap. W/ salad (lettuce, cucumber, red pepper + 1 tbsp dressing);
Tuesday: wedding tasting night at the venue! Tried six bite-sized appies, after, a small dinner of (1 cup) chicken korma (chicken, korma sauce, spinach) + a 1/4 of a piece of naan bread. 1 glass red wine.
Wedesday: "chicken fingers" (strips of breaded chicken) w/ honey mustard for dip, plus sweet potato "fries" (baked sweet potato tossed in a bit of olive oil).
Thursday; baked breaded chicken thigh w/ steamed broccoli and raw red pepper, tossed in a bit of italian salad dressing (party that night: two bottles of beer);
Friday: dinner out @ pub: three pieces of a 11-inch pizza (less than half) and two small beer.
Workouts: three morning workouts, w/ cardio and weights. Will go again today, and if gym closed tomorrow, will go on a bike ride.
workout
Tues: 20 min cardio. single-leg lunges. chinups. power shoulder press, reverse crunches, side plank
Thurs: .5 of new workout: 2 warmup exercises, deadlift/incline bench/row super set; plank (45 sec) and "YTWL" back excersise
Fri: the last superset of both workouts: box jump/split-leg squat w/ overhead bar/woodchop + elblow-to-knee crunches and "thrusters" aka squat w/ ball against wall w/ shoulder press.
