As you can maybe guess, this happened to me yesterday. I went to bed Friday night with a naggy headache on one side of my head and it persisted all day yesterday. This affected my workout significantly, but I was able to mostly stick to my meal plan.
I didn't start my day with my crunch/plank/pushup routine. To get the blood flowing and not sit around all day, I chose a very mild room temperature yoga class called Yinyasa. This is a blend of yin yoga, which targets connective tissue by holding stretching poses for 5-10 minutes at a time, and vinyasa, a simple flow for movement. The music is soft, the lights are dimmed and our instructor was magnificent. I really enjoyed this class and it took some of the pain away. I had been craving a soothing cool class like this, so it worked out in the end. I did my plank before bed but not the pushups and crunches - I was on Skype with my boyfriend and his brother joined in and we all chatted for a while until it was way too late to get anything other than sleeping done.
I had my regular breakfast of toast with peanut butter and an apple, with orange juice and tea. For lunch I had a salad of spinach with a hard-boiled egg and a piece of that cheese (it's almost gone!). Dinner was a bit difference since I had a date with one of my girlfriends. She got to pick the restaurant so we went to Curry Original. It's pretty hard to keep a diet up in a place that specializes in meat stewed in cream, butter and yogurt and served with rice and bread. We got tandoori chicken, served on rice with salad (yay green things!) and saag paneer (more green!) with some rice. We skipped the naan and didn't get anything battered or fried, so I think overall we did ok. My friend is also pretty conscious of what she eats so I didn't feel bad asking to skip the naan (although I love naan and it was a sad thing not to have some to sop up the paneer). I also didn't eat until I needed to be rolled out of the restaurant, so it helped to order less, eat slowly and stop when I was full.
I mentioned on Friday that yesterday was my first grocery since starting this thing. I loooove grocery shopping. I feel like a chef carefully choosing her ingredients to create with and savour. That sounded super corny, but I shamelessly love food, so whatever. Here is a summary of what I got:
- low-fat plain yogurt, 2 tubs
- eggs
- whole grain bread, 2 loaves
- loads of bananas
- basil and cilantro
- massive tub of baby spinach
- baby carrots, cucumbers, red peppers and snap peas (for snacks)
- zucchini
- almond milk (2 containers of plain, 2 of vanilla and 2 of chocolate, all unsweetened) (they were on sale)
- 1% milk
- strawberries, 2 pints
- blueberries, 1 pint
- clubpack of boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- bits of fresh salmon (the bits that they can't sell as whole fillets or pieces)
- avocados, 5
- PC Blue Menu Granola Boost with Protein (OH. MY. GOD. This stuff tastes so good, and is meant as a supplement to yogurt or milk. It's addictive straight out of the bag so I'll have to be careful but my dear god this stuff is delicious)
I then made a trip to one of my favourites places, Bulk Barn. I wanted to stock up on smoothie ingredients, bulk whole grains and other organic/whole ingredients for cooking. My haul:
- organic coconut oil
- tahini
- kamut flakes
- kasha
- chia seeds
- flaxseed oil
- wild rice blend
- dry chickpeas
- quinoa
- steel-cut oats
- large oats
- whey protein powder
- Vega One Berries Nutritional Shake trial size
To me the above ingredients scream healthy and I can't wait to use them. I'll keep you posted!
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