Centsably Fit

I’m all ready to post my food journal and realized I didn’t put up my starting stats yet. Oops!  Here they are:

So before pictures were fresh out of the shower getting ready for church.  No makeup and wet, uncombed hair.  That will make the afters all the better :). 

And here’s my food today:

Breakfast is not pictured:  Chocolate covered strawberry smoothie:  1 cup almond milk; 1 Tbs cocoa powder; 1 Tbs stevia in the raw; 1 scoop Designer whey protein powder in French Vanilla and 5 frozen strawberries (about 1 cup.)

No snack today:  I woke up late, took my shake intending to work out and then got a live Skype message from two of the programmers that I’m interviewing for a job and spent the next hour on that.  Didn’t work out or read my scriptures. Took my two daughters to swimming lessons and came home with a dog to babysit and two cousins.  Spent the day online trying to catch up from vacation last week.  

Lunch: Low carb Ole brand tomato basil wrap with half an avocado, 3.5 oz sliced chicken and romaine.

Snack was 6oz Mountain High plain yogurt with 1/4 cup peanut flour and 1 Tbs stevia in the raw stirred in. With half a chopped Gayla apple over the top. I ate the other half of the apple out of hand.

After my snack, I  learned the June FYM workout of the month and then finally worked out around 4pm.  That workout was tough!  I remember halfway through I thought I was done and she said, “Now we just have to do all of that again.” And I thought I would die!  I dropped to a lower weight and kept going.  It felt really good to finish.  But two hours later I’m still shaking a bit, lol.  I drank a post workout shake after the workout.

Dinner was half a baked sweet potato with just salt. Then a huge plate of romaine topped with 4 oz of sliced chicken breast and 1 oz of Aldi’s fit and active light Caesar Dressing.  I’m still starving.  Today I actually measured my food instead of eyeballing it and got up to 1600 calories.  But this is shockingly less to my body than what it is used to to maintain my 144 pound frame.  Hopefully this will make some fat burning take place :).  I’m planning on some tea tonight to help me get through the hungries.

Left for tonight is to attend a funeral.  The little girl next door who plays with my daughter and goes to church with us lost her non-custodial mother.  It is sad for all involved. My son has a fever so my oldest will babysit the littles and my youngest daughter and I will go alone as a date.  After that I’m planning to stay up as late as I have to, to get my scripture study in.  Then tomorrow I plan to get up earlier and be more productive for the day.  Here’s the calorie breakdown:

2 eggs with a side of spinach and peppers

Snack: 1/3 met rx bar

Lunch:

2 low carb tortilla with 2 oz shredded chipotle beef each; lettuce; salsa and a pinch of coconut.

The beef I slow cooked with garlic salt, cumin, liquid smoke, jalapenos and homemade lemon extract. (Lime would have been good too.) Then shredded and chopped with two forks and a knife. It ended up very lean.

Snack: smoothie with raw milk, protein powder, spinach, strawberries and banana.

Spaghetti squash with a little turkey sausage and mushrooms with a side of baby carrots and hummus.

2 eggs, 3 baby peppers, 1/4 cup onion = omelet 🙂

1/3 of Met-Rx Colossal cookie crunch bar; 1 banana; 1/2 slice Panera Asiago cheese bread

Workout of the month January B. This was my last day on this workout series. I started out modifying all the stability ball exercises and today did all 4 sets on the ball, though it was far from easy. The SB jack knives were killer.

Chicken Salad with grapes in a homemade 100% whole wheat pita with home grown sprouts.

I had 2 pitas for lunch and one more for a snack. They were sooo good!

Dinner was red and romaine lettuce topped with sprouts, 1 oz toasted almonds, 1/2 cup pomagranate, 1 string cheese chopped and 2 Tbs fat free raspberry dressing. (Meat free)

Baby thought it looked good too 🙂  He’s a healthy food snitch.  Yay!

1 oz bran flakes, 2 Tbs raisins, 1 Tbs sunflower seeds, 6 oz raw skim milk

8 oz fat free plain yogurt from Aldi, 2 Tbs peanut flour, 2 Tbs cocoa powder, 1 Tbs stevia in the raw and 1 sliced banana.

My friend brought over a Danish wreath from Panera. I thought I wouldn’t be tempted. I was wrong. Darren ate most of what you see missing, but 8 admit to the bite out of the cheese section. I’m allergic to cherries and that kept me from inhaling 3 slices. That and I really want to have a healthy body.

I also had a detour protein bar for a snack 🙂

It’s deliciously warm today, at least 70. I ran a 5k just to enjoy the weather. That was before lunch and now I will work on my push-ups and burpees. I wasn’t going to, but Darren just scrubbed off the deck so I could do them outside like Holly 🙂

The stomach flu; the letters P and U; the Color green; the number 8 and Surf laundry detergent.

Be back on Monday….

I have some big goals to achieve this challenge. Here’s how I’m going to do it.

For the first 3 weeks, I will use clubFYM’s January workout of the month.  It is 5 exercises each performed for 50 seconds with 10 seconds of rest before going on to the next one.  After the 5 are completed there is 1 minute of rest before starting the cycle again.  I plan to do 3 cycles for the first 2 weeks and 4 for the last week. I will do this 3 – 4 times a week.

On the between days, I will do intervals with 60 seconds of work and 30 seconds of rest for 15 minutes.  I will alternate between running stairs and burpees on A days and Mountain Climbers and jumping jacks on B days.

February 1st I will change my work outs to prevent plateau :).

There are several challenges I face:  I love food–especially sweet treats and I have 7 other family members that do not need to lose fat and have high metabolisms.  They need more healthy carbs than I do. The challenge will be to feed them well and not tempt myself too badly feed myself well even though our needs are different.

To help with my cravings I’m deciding ahead when I will have my planned indulgences (foods that wouldn’t normally be on my fitness plan.)  I’ll start with 3 a week and then evaluate how it’s going.  I’ll also have some calorie neutral foods available like baby carrots, celery sticks, apple slices, peppermint tea and warm broth available.

My workout challenge is muscle soreness.  The more children I’ve had the more sensitive I’ve become to pain.  I’ve stocked up on epsom salts for muscle soothing baths.  When I get really sore, I just want to quit.  I’m preparing myself psychologically to press on.