Ahh, my first few days without posting. I knew this day would come.
The last week has been hectic. The course I TA has its midterm this week, and between frenzied study help sessions, proctoring the midterm, answering questions and being stuck at work late, I have missed Wednesday's and today's workouts. I've been doing about 50% of my morning/evening ab and arm work. I have noticed that I have much less energy, I tire more easily and I end up slacking on my diet more when I don't work out. I get jealous of my boyfriend who makes it every day, and irritable and grumpy about it. It's funny but you almost get addicted to working out. Endorphins are a real thing!
But before my discomfort about missing workouts spirals into self-hate and destructive guilty eating patterns, let's point out one simple thing: this is life. There are days when you're stuck at work until 9pm and by the time you get home and eat something, it's 10pm and you don't want to drag yourself to the gym. There will be weeks where these days happen more than once and often back to back. Life gets in the way of diet and exercise. I know of many schools of thought that would call being ok with this fact "slacking" or "making excuses." But let's get something straight - I'm a real human. I wish I could be a machine and feel no exhaustion, no hunger, and soullessly drag myself to the gym every single day. But that's an extreme behaviour and isn't sustainable, nor would it get me anywhere.
Yes, I do feel bad. I think of that bikini and it's motivation to do better in the upcoming days. I know that I'm missing tomorrow's workout too, since I'm leaving right after work to catch my bus to Montreal. My boyfriend has offered to help get me a week-long gym pass at his university facility so we can go together every day next week while I'm there. We'll start Saturday and have a nice sweaty workout to make up for this week.
In terms of food, I have been keeping up 95% of my diet! Go me! I really enjoy the creative freedom that comes with a basic recipe like "1 serving protein + 2 servings veg." It's almost a challenge.
Breakfast has been my toast/avocado/salsa poached egg yesterday and today. I've also added a banana + peanut butter + unsweetened almond milk smoothie. Yes it's too much for breakfast but I'm dying to eat all these bananas before they go bad.
Lunch has been spinach salad with salmon and berries with yogurt/kasha/kamut/chia.
Because of the smoothie I've been pretty full all day, so I haven't felt hungry for my afternoon snacks. Plus there have been treats at work both today (lemon tarts) and yesterday (macaroons), and I indulged in one or two.
I had a wonderful dinner both nights:
- zucchini sticks "breaded" with crushed Rice Krispies, dill, pepper and a bit of parmesan and cooked in olive oil
- 1/2 chicken breast (the ones I bought at WalMart were HUGE) marinated in sesame oil, fish sauce, cilantro and garlic. SO GOOD.
Tonight I had this dinner at 4pm because of this proctoring thing, so when I got home I had a double helping of my breakfast salsa toast invention. Thankfully this was a few hours ago so I'm also adhering to the "no eating 2 hours before you sleep" rule.
Overall I think despite missing my workouts I've kept to my diet fairly well. I've struck a balance. Although, I admit I can't wait to sweat all this avocado out at the gym on Saturday with my man!
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