My Six Day Slim Down Journey - Day 2
Today is Monday, and the start of another busy week. Weekday mornings are always a little bit backwards for me, since my first order of the day is to get our boys up and going and out the door with good, healthy food in their bellies and lunches. Also, I like to exercise in the morning, but I don’t like to eat breakfast before I exercise, so breakfast comes later for me.
8:00 In order to compensate for this switched around morning, I started my day with my mid-morning snack of 15- 20 almonds. I have another confession to make here. I eat Emerald’s Dark Cocoa Roasted Almonds, not the raw almonds that the plan calls for. I know - bad Jan. What can I said, I’m a chocoholic and have to sneak some chocolate in somewhere to keep from binging!
After getting the kids out the door, it’s time for exercise. I have decided that this week I’m going to give Hip Hop Abs a try, and rotate that with ChaLEAN Extreme’s Burn Circuit 1. I’m not going to push real hard in the Burn Circuit this week, however. I’m using this week to learn how to use Resistance Bands in weight training so I can provide all of you some insight into that.
9:30 - But today I did Fat Burning Cardio from Hip Hop Abs. It was a great, low-intensity workout that did a great job of targeting my abs. It was a lot of fun! By the time I was done, though, I was really ready for breakfast. Luckily, there was a nice, big breakfast on the menu - a 3-egg white, 1 whole egg omelet with mushrooms, broccoli and swiss cheese. I ended up just making a scramble of it all, and it was yummy!I did find I was hungry again by 11:30, but since I hadn’t had any more water since I drank my bottle with my workout, I figured I was just thirsty. Sure enough, after I drank more water, I felt fine
12:30 - By lunchtime, I was definitely ready to eat again. I don’t know if it’s because of exercising today, but the food isn’t keeping me feeling as full today as I did yesterday. For lunch, I had a Shrimp Ceasar Salad which was also very yummy. Unfortunately, it didn’t feel very filling, either. I drank a lot of water with it, and continue to drink water, but it is going to be a struggle to wait until snack time to eat again.
3:00 - Time for a snack, and boy am I ready for it! Today’s afternoon snack will be the same as yesterday, except I am having roast turkey instead of roast beef. Four ounces of turkey is a heck of a lot of meat. Seven (thin) slices of deli meat on one piece of Swiss Cheese! I again used about a teaspoon of Lite Miracle Whip.
4:00 - I’m hungry again. Even after eating all of that meat, I’m hungry again an hour later. Where’s my water? Ugh…it’s going to be a long time until dinner!
5:30 - I made more of the Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies while Mike made dinner. I wasn’t feeling as hungry by this time, so it was fairly safe for me to make them. I have a bad habit of taste-testing the cookie dough, and while I did succumb to the temptation, I just had a little, little bit. So I’m not going to worry about it, considering that I have a pretty big calorie deficit today.
6:00 - Dinner tonight was a 4 ounce boneless, skinless chicken breast and two cups of broccoli! LOTS of broccoli! You can’t say that you don’t get plenty of servings of fruits and veggies with this diet!
7:30 - my cheat snack of Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip cookies - fresh out of the oven…sigh…it doesn’t get much better than this!
All in all, I feel like I did a good job with my eating overall. I am well under my normal calorie intake, especially considering the calories I burned off this morning while exercising. I am pleased that I was able to ignore my hunger and wait for meal or snack time to eat. That was the hardest part, ignoring the hunger. I also drank plenty of water today, 80 ounces so far, and the day isn’t over yet! Below is my food dairy from MyFitnessPal.com, so you can see what the calories look like.
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