Breakfast 2 eggs and a grapefruit (need to get these eaten soon) Baby Grant had stomach flu last night :(. We were up with him from 11 until 5am! Poor Grant.
Something like this usually happens when I start a new challenge to test my resolve. We are taking Ginger tablets (Ginger kills flu virus.) But if I get sick this will be a setback. I may lose a few pounds faster but it will zap my muscle building. Anyway, no need to borrow trouble.
I went back to bed after taking some of the kids to school and slept through snack time. I’m having a wake up shake for my lunch and am planning a bigger meal after my workout. This one is:
Chocolate peanut butter smoothie:
1 cup almond milk
2 Tbs cocoa powder
1/4 cup protein plus peanut flour
1 Tbs stevia in the raw
1 frozen banana
5 ice cubes
Went down to do my workout about 1pm and did about half before the doorbell rang. After a half an hour my visitor left and I finished the workout. I really felt the lack of sleep/ low energy and decided that 20 burpees in a row is a loftier goal than I firsy imagined. I could do 4 before having to modify. I haven’t done real FYM intervals since last June and my substitute workouts haven’t been as intense as 1 min of burpees and 30 seconds of rest. I plan to switch to 60 60s Thursday and see how that goes.
After my workout I set up my snack for photos: an apple, 1 oz of almonds and a detour caramel nut protein bar. About that time the phone rang and the doorbell rang at the same time.
The door was my voice student who I totally forgot was coming. She is a genius with perfect tonal memory and so much fun to work with. I did get my snack around 3 but forgot to take pictures in all the zooeyness of my life.
Dinner: 1turkey burger; 3 oz baked potato strips; 2 Tbs BBQ sauce and a handful of veggies.
The kids had buns and cheese.
I meant to eat a little more today but now it is after 8 when I told myself all eating would cease. Maybe tomorrow will go smoother :). Here are the totals for today:
Angela,
I love this blog! Thanks for starting it, I’m sure it will give me the inspiration I need to get stronger this year!
Heidi, I’m so glad you found me. You are already nice and lean so it will be lots of fun to build up muscle :).
Is it just peanut flour or do you ever put peanut butter in the smoothie? I could use a wake up shake recipe!
Kelly, I only use peanut flour in smoothies. Because it doesn’t stick to the blades like PB does and it is so much higher in protein and lower in calories than peanut butter (because part of the fat has been squeezed out.) I do use regular pb when I’m dipping apples or celery. I’ll use reconstituted pb flour if I don’t have many calories left for the day, but it really doesn’t taste the same in this application. Hope that helps! You are so tiny, I’m sure you could get away with real peanut butter without much consequence to your figure.