Probably need to start over

OK, so I am finally feeling better. Not totally whole but better.

I pretty much stuck to the diet today. I will begin exercising again tomorrow.

Breakfast
English muffin
turkey
cheese

lunch
we ate at HuHot
I had the pad thai and was too tired to fetch more than one serving.

Supper
beef with peppers mushrooms, tomatoes, onions and a small amount of cheese
P90x cole slaw

Just as a side note, that cole slaw is AWESOME! I substituted fresh ginger for the jicama, not that they are the same but it tasted great. Hubs requested a leeetle less ginger next time and I probably agree but it was good.

Day 8

Still sick. Didn't work. Didn't exercise. Didn't stick to the diet.

Interestingly, after eating mushroom soup for lunch and a boxed mix of scalloped potatoes for supper, I felt awful. Overfull. Heavy. Nauseous.

It tasted awesome but I hated what it did to my body. I had no idea what price I was paying for the food I was eating every day.

I only ate the p90x diet for less than a week but I can already tell that way of eating is a much, much better way of living. The food tastes good, not awesome like those scalloped potatoes, but don't leave me with that sick feeling.

Hubs, the know-it-all, said he was going to tell me to stick to the diet, sick or not, but held back. I learn much better on my own.

Day 7

Sick agin. Correction. Sicker.

Eating naughty things like toast and grape juice. Not moving much except to go from bed to couch.

Day 6

Sick. Not exercising.

Boxers

So far, five days into this exercise program, hubs has ripped and destroyed two pairs of boxers. This is going to get expensive.

Day 5

I forgot and ate one small cookie. But I bought it at a lemonade stand sold by two little kids raising money to help another little boy that has cancer! Come on!

Other than that, I stuck to the diet and exercised. I was thinking maybe, after last night, I was just chickening out. But I had no problems with tonight's workout.

For some reason, yoga just pisses me off.

Day 4

I hate yoga. Almost quit 10 minutes in. Then, a little over halfway I nearly vomited and really did quit.

It wasn't so much physical exersion as it was:

1. I am a vomiter
2. That damn powerbar I ate too close before the workout

Day 3: part 2

I did not exercise tonight. I'm on a weekly cycle of deadlines at work and Wednesday is my worst day. I think Wednesdays are going to be my break days. I can only handle so much.

Day 3

Cravings!

I was craving things I don't even usually crave. Then I had to go to the grocery store for some dish soap - mine field.

I managed to triumph by buying soynuts and protein bars. I ate two protein bars and too many soynuts, but it has to be better than chips or cake or cheesy pizza.

I also bought Simba a superman dolly/stuffed animal. He loves it!

Day 2

Breakfast

Protein shake: Icky. Bluech.

I might be able to choke it down if we get some ice and blend it with that. The water hubs used was cold from the tap but by the time I drank it it tasted lukewarm.

Snack

I can see why we are told to eat mid morning snacks. By 10:230 a.m. or so I was feeling shaky and thinking fondly about the chocolate in my pocket. (see previous post)

But, complication, I was stuck in a morning long meeting. So, on the pretense of a bathroom break, I snuck out to my car and snarfed down the protein bar. If I feel full I can combat my cravings, which is a good thing.

Lunch

I ate another chefs salad for lunch. The menu said stir fry but we ran out of time this morning and salad was easier to prepare.

Snack

12 almonds
peanut butter and celery

Supper

The menu for supper was, again, AWESOME!

Vegetable soup
green beans
turkey (we substituted turkey ham because we were already out of the other kind)

I loved the vegetable soup. And, despite the cilantro, which I thought might not be hubs favorite, he liked it too. I made enough for four meals for us, one cup for me, two cups for him. I froze them in individual containers all measured out for meals.

While I was waiting for hubs, who, of course, was late coming home tonight, I made butternut squash soup. Really easy. Really tasty. (I sampled) That's now in the freezer too. I Googled it and found it should freeze well. The vegetable soup should be OK too, although I am a bit worried about the zucchini. Might turn to mush. Oh well.

Exercising

Although Meadowlark warned me about plyometrics, tonight's exercise tape, I actually liked it much better than what we did last night. I'm just not a push up girl, both because I suck at them and because my knees and back ... well, they suck too.

I don't pretend to keep up with the people on the DVD and I modify like everything. Like, when they jump, I might just move or barely get air. But I'm sweating, my muscles are complaining and I am sore. I'm doing more exercising than I have for ... maybe ever. So figure it is progress.

Yay! End of day 2! Only 88 to go...

Day 1: part 2

Supper was amazing, but it took a long time to make!!

baked salmon

red pepper soup (a pureed soup with red peppers, tomatoes, garlic, onions and celery)

wild rice

asparagus

I love the red pepper soup. I could eat that even if I was not on this diet.

Speaking of the word diet, at first hubs objected to the use of the word diet. We're not dieting, he said. And, no, not in the traditional starve-yourself sort of way.

But I am avoiding certain yummy foods and sticking strictly to a certain menu. It feels like a diet.

Today, in a meeting, they were passing out caramels and I automatically took one. But then I remembered and snuck it into my pocket so no one would see I wasn't eating mine. It got all gooey and squishy (yummers) in my pocket and I threw it away when I got back to the office. Yeah me!

Also, the word diet doesn't just mean restricting intake to lose weight. It's also a general word to describe the kinds of foods that a person, animal or community eats. As in, the diet of a cow is grass and grains.

The exercising part was interesting. There are three programs, classic, lean and classic double (for if you are totally nuts). I should do lean, it's more cardio and described as fitting with most women. But I want to do it along with hubs, so I suffered through tons and tons, and TONS of pushups last night. I just can't do a pushup worth squat and by the end of the night I stopped trying as my back was hurting. I need to go to a chiropractor, soon.

I didn't push myself as hard as hubs, I wasn't breathing as hard and I didn't wake up as sore. But, it's more exercise than I have done in a long time so I figure I am still ahead.

After exercising we drank the recovery drink. It actually doesn't taste bad, especially now that I have compared it to the protein shake we drank the next morning. Oh momma.

Ground zero

Hubs and I are starting the P90X exercise and fitness program today. We're following the meal plan provided with the DVDs.

Day 1: part 1:

This meal plan seems so counterintuitive. I want to lose weight, not bulk up.

Breakfast:

mushroom omelet (let's be honest, it was more scrambled than folded)

6 egg whites

3/4 cup fresh mushrooms

2 Tbs. chopped green onions

1.5 oz. fat free cheddar cheese

6 oz. yogurt

1 cup fresh strawberries

OK, so the egg white scrambled eggs were better than I thought they would be. I was imagining something like that dried out part around the edges of a fried egg. It was nothing like that. Tasted pretty much like scrambled eggs and I loved the green onions and fresh mushrooms! I didn't realize how much cheese 1.5 oz. is. A lot.

Strawberries: good. Yogurt: good.

Overall everything tastes good, but there is so much of it! Hubs and I both felt nauseous at one point, as we struggled to choke it down.

Midmorning snack

Power bar

I was surprised how quick it was time for a snack. Also, that I was actually slightly hungry for it even after such a monster breakfast.

The power bar didn't taste too bad, but it has a weird unnatural sweetener taste. I was supposed to eat a yogurt too but didn't. For. Shame.

Lunch

Chef's salad

2 cups romaine lettuce

3 oz turkey ham

3 oz turkey

1/4 cup hearts of palm (we used canned since we can't get that fresh here)

1.5 oz of fat free mozzarella cheese

1/2 roma tomato (which hubs confused me by calling a romaine tomato.)

I omitted the avocado, not because I don't like it, but because we were running out of time.

Again, there's a lot of food here. Not so much I nearly puked, like this morning, but a lot. And meat, meat, meat! There's more meat than lettuce, people. I like a little meat with my salad, not the other way around.

Also, again, 2 tbs. of dressing and 1.5 oz. of cheese is a lot!

My snack this afternoon is 12 almonds and, I suppose, the missed yogurt.

I am not really looking forward to supper. It sounds good, but like even more food than breakfast.

And I am totally not looking forward to the exercising part. But that's the whole point of stuffing all this protein down our gullets.

And, no, I am not telling you my starting weight. Maybe after I have lost 20 pounds and I am proud as $#it.