BREAKFAST: porridge with skimmed milk and blueberries
LUNCH: 4 oatcakes with cottage cheese and a Japanese Miso cup a soup with Tofu, 1 large raw carrot!
DINNER: 3 oatcakes with homemade mackerel pate, packet of salt and vinegar snack a jacks, 2 satsumas
SNACKS: Apple, handful of mixed unsalted nuts, Sue’s rice pudding!
EXERCISE: 45 minutes circuit training with Sue and Pear, 1 hour toning class
Brimming with energy today after a lovely weekend of being in the fresh air. I’m pleased to say no repercussions from feeling ill at the weekend. After a good night’s sleep last night and back to less rich food today...feel great again.
Loved my exercise sessions today. As I think I said last week I find working out with friends so much fun and so motivating. Definitely my favourite way to exercise!!
I’ve started to think a lot more about my emotions and how strong I feel at the moment. I feel like I could cope with anything thrown at me right now. For instance today I was surprised that an old friend had completely forgotten my birthday last week, or maybe chose not to acknowledge it, and that normally would have really upset me. But...not at the moment! I wonder if the fact that I am getting physically stronger is helping me to become mentally and emotionally stronger too??
I definitely feel I am going through a transformation at the moment...the cocoon stage maybe? I’ve left the caterpillar stage behind and I’m really excited about becoming a butterfly!! I’m not expecting it to happen overnight....in fact I don’t want it to because I’m enjoying this stage at the moment so much and learning so much about myself. I’m looking forward to a gradual transformation but I know now...I am sure now...that I am in a much better and brighter place than I was at the beginning of the year and there is only better things still to come!
Lastly I must mention I was SO proud of Pear today. She has worked so very hard in the last three weeks in all our exercise sessions and I know they haven’t been easy for her as she doesn’t love the workouts as much as me! But wow!!!! What she achieved today was simply amazing, doubling or better still her work rate from week one! That is truly an achievement to be proud of.
I think I can speak for both of us when I say we feel pretty invincible at the moment so watch out world...here we come!!!
Pear....
BREAKFAST: Porridge with Blueberries
LUNCH: 4 Rice Cakes with houmous and prawns
DINNER: Fish Pie (left over from yesterdays dinner)– assorted fish with onion, carrot, cream, egg, parsley and sliced potato with green veg. Small bowl of rice pudding made with coconut milk (courtesy of Sue)
SNACKS: handful of nuts and a banana
EXERCISE: 45 min session with Sue and Apple, 30 min dog walk
Felt really good when I woke this morning, full of energy and ready for the busy day ahead.
We had a session with Sue today, which was great. She made us do the same work out we had done with her on our very first meeting. Wow what a difference three weeks makes. I was surprised and extremely pleased that I found it much easier and my numbers in each exercise had doubled or more from the first time I’d done them….what an achievement! It just goes to show how much stronger I’ve become and in so little time! So I must thank her for all her time, effort and advice she has given us.
I was full of life for the afternoon and achieved lots. I had to take the dog to the vets to have his paw looked at and hopefully bandage taken off, but was very disappointed when she said he’d have to wear another one until Saturday, no long walks again for me this week.
I was once again very appreciative of having left overs from yesterday’s dinner to save me time today and Sue had made Apple and me a rice pudding to try made from coconut milk with chunks of pineapple and mango. It was great, so nice to have a pudding and I will definitely be making my version.
I must say it’s now 9 o’clock and I’m ready for my bed!
Me….
BREAKFAST: porridge, yoghurt, berries, seeds
LUNCH: Rice cakes, avocado, houmous
DINNER: Jacket potato, tandlori chicken, salad made with apple, celery, carrot, cucumber, spinach
SNACKS: banana, walnuts, Satsuma, rice pudding (made with coconut milk) and mango and pineapple
EXERCISE: 120 mins dog walk, 30 mins workout, 30 mins ball class
What a relief..I felt much better again today, no bloating etc like I had yesterday, so hope I have cracked it now! I was faced with my first really huge temptation today – a delicious looking variety of homemade cakes..a whole table full of them! I had gone to a charity tea and cake event and was hoping that the cakes would be boring shop bought ones as I would find it easy to resist these, but no such luck! I could even smell that lovely aroma of freshly baked cakes as soon as I walked in the door, but I politely explained to the host that was on a sugar, wheat and dairy free diet for health reasons and she seemed to quite happy to accept my refusal. In fact no one seemed bothered that I wasn’t having any - I think they thought that meant more for them – and I surprised myself by not being bothered either. If I had been tempted I think I would have only had to think of how I felt yesterday and that would have stopped me!!
I had an amazing workout together today with Apple and Pear – amazing because of the improvement in their strength and fitness. This is due to the type of exercising we have been doing which is working at levels just outside our comfort zones so that our bodies adapt to the higher levels of work we are giving them. The good news is, that as our bodies become stronger and fitter, they will find it exercise easier and so be able to work harder, which means that they will continue to become leaner. Compare this to a diet which tells you to eat less to lose weight. What happens when your body adapts to this lower intake of food? Do you then have to eat less to lose weight ????!
2 comments:
Apple, it is so good to hear that you are enjoying being in the “now”, enjoying this stage of learning and transformation. Yes, you can look at this stage as “the cocoon stage”. It is the stage where we grow and transform through periods of activity and inactivity. It is where we consciously start making the necessary changes through engaging in action, developing a positive mindset and attitude about ourselves and possibilities, so that change can happen at the subconscious level. It is where we can sometimes feel that it is a long struggle that requires a lot of hard work. It is a stage where, as we work to become stronger, we often need to feel supported, encouraged, and safe.
I know that you are helped at this stage by your family and friends who are there to support you, encourage you and keep you safe and I think you will agree that working together on these FAT-SCRAP trials, it has also been the support we have given each other, the encouragement we have given each other and through trust feeling safe with each other, that has helped us achieve such fantastic results.
p.s you could both still benefit by including more vegetables in your food choices, especially at lunch time! Your targets this week could be to eat three portions of vegetables a day! I like to think of vegetables as preventers and fruits as cleansers - preventing disease and cleansing my system.
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