But I can't say I hate every second of it because it beats going to work and I get to lay in my bed with my dougie and the heater. I woke up at the crack of 7am today which is ridiculous for me. Had two pieces of sprouted low carb bread with low sugar jelly. I love this stuff. I get it from Henry's. Has 45 cal a slice- 8 g carbs, 5 g protein. Just to be clear I'm not endorsing low carb as a diet. I'm a carb lover not a hater. But I love carbs so much that if I eat regular bread too often all I want to eat is regular bread. This stuff doesn't quite taste like white bread but I think that's a good thing. It's much nuttier and grainier but also way more filling.
Then around 9am I made a lighter version of my green smoothie since I already had a small breakfast, I just put in a few frozen strawberries, blueberries and almond milk. Blend it together then add a handful of spinach. It looks funky sometimes but it tastes damn good. Plus the color of the blueberries masks the funky green and its a great way to get some veggies in for breakfast. If your into the green thing omit blueberries and use other light fruits like mango or banana. Might be a cool thing for kids too. You could call it a monster shake or a franken smoothie. Kids like that weird color stuff, remember green ketchup?
Long gone are the days of an iced cold mug of beer being the breakfast of champions. But never say never again :)
Ive been doing yoga or pilates the last 3 days so today I'm gonna get some cardio in. I like this class they have on Wednesday at Lava. It's 30 minutes of the gravity machine, which is basically like weight training but much more smooth and less room for error. Then 30 minutes of my trainer steve yelling at me on the treadmill. It's the only way I run on the treadmill. I've always enjoyed running outside much more but lately I just haven't been into it. Maybe in a few months when I get bored of the pilates and yoga kick I'm on. I notice I get burnt out on certain exercises after a couple months but I hear it's better to change it up so that your body doesn't get used to it. I used to be the eliptical queen when i first started going to the gym. I'd go 4-5 days a week and for 2 years I saw no results. I felt this false sense of accomplishment though because at least I was going to the gym.
Then one day for some crazy reason I decided to go for a jog even though Ive hated running all my life. I started with maybe half a mile. Then 3 months later I was at 3 miles without stopping. Eventually I moved near Balboa Park and fell in love with the area so I started running more. I had just met Sal and told him I always though about running a 10k but didn't want to commit to it. He pushed me to sign up and even said he'd do it with me. So we trained in the mornings for 3 weeks prior to the race. Doing a 10k was a huge accomplishment and I got results that I never had from the elliptical because it was something new that my body was so not used to.
The last few months I was doing a lot of boxing classes and boot camp style interval training but it started to get stale. I know that without proper diet I won't get anywhere near the results that I want so I'm hoping that sticking with my healthier eating plan and getting in 4 days of a good sweat drenching work out will slowly but steadily get me where I want to be. It sure beats the starve, binge, quite going to the gym cycle.
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