2 weeks on - So far so good!

Afternoon!

2 weeks after Easter and my progression isn't too bad!

My exercise habits are yet to be picked up, but I'm trying my hand and just eating away the fat I stored. It took 2-3 weeks, but I finally shifted 1kg.

I ate cleanly for most of the week, having either half a banana or a small bowl of my gluten free quinoa muesli for breakfast, a protein shake at some point in the day, and a lot of cuppa-soups to keep up my blood pressure. I haven't been drinking nearly enough water to compensate for that yet, so that's part II of my challenge - raising up the water in-take.

I've tried my hand at some more vegetarian options in an attempt to cleanse myself a little and had some alright success!

I made a tofu and greens stirfry:

I made a portion size that was waaay too big - I really need to make sure I start using the medium sized plates (a great tip to watch portion size, for those of you playing at home!)

I also bought a huge pot to make a week's worth of veggie soup! I tried to make it fun by using purple carrots instead of your garden variety orange ones. (See what I did there?)
 

So not only was it fun to look at, it was packed full of nutrients like carrots, celery, onion, capsicum and parnsip! With a shit tonne of garlic of course.

For two weeks, I'm going to try doing a series of body weight exercises to get things moving a little, and try to do a bit more cardio on top of that at least 3 times a week.


Here's to good eating!

-MM

Easter tricks

I don't know about you guys, but I made a special request this Easter to receive no chocolate because I simply did not need it.

What I came home to, was this...

   Don't look in it's eyes!


So now I have to try to not eat any of this (am pretty determined to avoid that rollercoaster of binge eating). Fortunately, my new "break in case of emergency" saved the day today!

After reading that approximately once a week, a spoonful of Nutella can be consumed as a source of good fats, I developed an ingenious plan!

Whenever I get an insane craving for chocolate, I just have a small small of Nutella. Not only is it giving me a dose of good fats for the day, it seems to really ease my chocolate cravings and stops me flipping out and buying a block of chocolate in haste.

The only problem with this is holding the discipline to only have that one spoonful. I find if I just remind myself that it is a decadent blob of good fats, like avocado or nuts, then that helps keep me in the disciplined mode to consume just a small bit.


See if it works for you!


-MM

Easter strikes again

So Easter is done.

Who else has put on weight? I thought so.


 Before Easter, I made a deal with myself. I'll avoid chocolate, if I can knowingly eat as many hot cross buns as I can cram into my mouth until Easter Monday, then it's back to business. So cram my face I did. I have eaten probably a total of 25 hot cross buns in about 2.5 weeks.

Spread out of course, that's not so much. 1-2 a day? That, of course, is not how I consumed them. In fact, I'm quite sure there was one or two days where I would eat two mini hot cross buns for every meal throughout the day.

It was not my proudest moment. But who am I to resist the Easter bun?


Long story short, as expected, I've stacked on 2kg and approximately 2% body fat.


I have a rough plan of a bit of a vegetarian detox. However, I don't get paid until Friday, and the usual food in this house rarely comes in fresh and organic.

Dad's actual groceries.


Still, my metabolism has been sky high the last four days or so which is both a good and bad sign (great for metabolising fat etc, not so great given our bare cupboards void of actual food).

Today's diet thus far has been the last hot cross bun and a few mouthful's of yoghurt - my final goodbye to hot cross buns for another year. I was alright until about lunchtime when I decided I needed to eat everything. So I poured half a bag of frozen broccoli into the pan to fry up with some garlic and threw in a tomato for good measure.

The result was a delicious vegetarian mess.

For some reason, despite the protein high veggies I became absolutely ravenous afterwards. After half an hour I had another few spoonfuls of yoghurt.


I briefly did some weights too, but don't really feel like my heart was in it. I'll dig out my old exercise physiology notes tomorrow and go for a 15 minute run - if I can - based on very specific interval training to help burn off all this fat.

With my body, it's a miracle to hope for that I can shed 2kg/2% body fat in 2 weeks, but hey, let's give it a try.


-MM