Oh boy. This is tough! I miss my smoothies, my protein powder and my nutritionally dense nuts, seeds and things. This is certainly an eye-opener into what life with my man would be like if we lived together ie. me struggling with whether to eat coconut granola or cheesy pizza and ice cream every day. AHH!
Breakfast yesterday and today hasn't been bad, but hasn't been as full of fruit as I am used to. I'm having toast with peanut butter. Could be better, could be worse. I've also snuck a few cups of coffee over the last three days. Not bad, and aside from these half-milk, half-coffee morning "coffees," I'm mostly caffeine-free now. It's been definitely affecting my energy. I hit a low around 3pm, another around 7pm and I'm WIPED by 11pm every night, something very unusual. Perhaps this has to do with being in Montreal, the commute, the treks uphill across campus, the crappier diet, and daily gym sessions with a 200lb man, but I'm certainly feeling it a lot more now.
Lunch has been the only part of my day that I've been good about. Thankfully something is sticking. Maybe something about being in study/work/focus/drive mode and not really being in position to put my feet up, snuggle and eat ice cream? Probably...
Anyway, lunch has been spinach salad with veggies, yogurt and fruit and more veggies as a snack in the afternoon. We don't get home until at least 8pm in the evening, so I really don't eat much between over the course of 12 hours.
Dinner last night was chips and pizza at my boyfriend's work. The crew there organized a movie night, complete with chips and Dominoes. I skipped the alcohol though, thankfully, so I was able to cut calories there. When we got home we had frozen yogurt.
Tonight's dinner was frozen pizza haha and more frozen yogurt. I'm doing horribly right now. Thankfully I trekked uphill (and I mean uphill, like your thighs hurt and you are out of breath when you arrive at your destination) three separate times today, and walked half an hour to the grocery store and went to the gym for an hour. I'm keeping up with exercise, but certainly that doesn't mean I can binge on whatever I want.
Speaking of workouts, we've been good!
Yesterday: 30 minutes of cardio + chest/back + abs
Today: 20 minutes of cardio + all that walking uphill + legs + abs (my legs will hate me tomorrow)
I've got to sneak veggies in and keep going on the smaller portions! I think the older I get the more of a canonical "must-eat-everything-in-sight-and-bloat-miserably" effect shark week has on me. Today I was grumpy and all I wanted was a cheesy piece of pasta. Can't wait to shake this feeling off and get back into my normal self. I'll take a picture when I don't feel so pregnant.
Also, fun fact: yesterday I weighed myself at the gym and I was down to 135lb. Either the day I was 138lb (Sunday?) the scale was poorly calibrated, the scale is poorly calibrated today, or I lost 3lbs in like 3 days (on a diet of daily pizza and frozen yogurt, this is unlikely). I think the likely culprit is the poorly calibrated scale the other day, so I'll say confidently that I'm down to 135lb! This is a little surprising considering how strong I feel and how much muscle I know I've built, but it also means that the fat must also be coming off. Neat!
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