Today is the day I hit the wall. Sooo hungry. Light headed. Headache. I’m not sure what is going on –if I was worn out from our schedule. Or if my body is detoxing from fat loss (yep, starting to see a bit of fat loss.) I think my skin is breaking out as the toxins come through the sweat. Or if my hormones are swinging as the month goes on. Probably a bit of everything. If it wasn’t for sugar free popsicles I would have eaten everything–especially the Angel Food Cake leftovers; bread; and tostada chips. I know the popsicles aren’t on plan, but right now not sure I would have survived without them. And you’ll notice if you look at myfitnesspal journal–I had 3. And now there’s only 1 left–so tomorrow needs to be a better day :).
Morning: woke up at 7. I stayed up too late watching half a Netflix movie with Darren. Then couldn’t get up on time. Scriptures are going to happen before bed today.
Breakfast: Ate a light bowl of Greek Yogurt and strawberries for breakfast, then ran intervals at 7:30am outside. This was waaaay different than my normal run. I sprinted hard like a bad guy was chasing me for 1 minute then walked 1 minute. (A gym boss timer makes this easy to do.) If I pace myself it feels like I can run forever, but not like this! I kept checking my timer to see if my minute was up and I was breathing so hard. I completed 9 rounds–18 minutes total. Then I leisurely walked home and followed the same stretching video on youtube that I used yesterday.
I think stretching helps the body get rid of junk too and I tried to drink a bunch of water today to help the process along. Hopefully this is a temporary feeling.
Morning Snack: Half a met rx bar (righ tafter my run.) A Fresh nectarine and almonds around 9:30. And a popsicle at 11:00 to try and make it to lunch before I snarfed everything in the house.
Lunch: Another version of yesterday’s taco salad. This time I used 3 oz of ground beef and cut the rice in half to try to control the calorie spike from the beef. It was delicious and had over 400 calories, but I honestly felt like I could eat another one and not even notice.
Snack 2: I worked on menus after lunch which involves looking at a lot of pictures of food and thinking about food. Not awesome for my fitness journey. Around 2 I ate another bowl of Greek yogurt and strawberries. Then started to snack on almonds–but figured out that baby carrots had the same satisfying crunch without the big calorie tag. Baby carrots and popsicles was the ONLY way I got through today. I had two more popsicle before I could respectfully prepare dinner.
Dinner: The whole family enjoyed outdoor grilled turkey burgers. They had theirs with cheese on whole wheat buns. I had mine with ketchup, mustard and pickles (for the authentic hamburger experience :).) And ate it with a knife and fork like a steak. I served a side of broccoli salad and made macaroni and cheese for the kids to keep them full longer. They love that stuff but it doesn’t tempt me right now. With my dairy issues, I secretly rename the dish “stomach ache in a pan.”
I finished my dinner about 20 minutes ago and am already hungry again. My plan is to fix some hot tea and nibble on baby carrots to get through the evening.
