Yesterday, I did my best to be a healthy living blogger, reprioritizing making health important again: I ate good foods, I worked out (!), I tweeted, and I took pictures of everything!
First, I started my day off with my confessional blog and some breakfast. Coffee with cream and sugar (my one major vice but I use only a little) and some microwaved eggs. For the eggs, I butter a big mug, scramble the eggs with a little water, add my “toppings” (it was salsa), and microwave for 1 minute per egg. Easy!
I headed to my office at school to get to work. I had some tea because I find it relaxing and better than plane water. Sadly at work, they were doing construction in the hall way. It was super loud so I packed up my stuff and headed back home.
While I worked, I had a light lunch of salad mix with chicken and baby portabella mushrooms topped with Newman’s Own Olive Oil Vinaigrette dressing. This is another Paleo thing I’ve been holding out on: I’m too lazy to make my own dressing.
After my lunch, I was really itching to workout so I sorted through my DVDs and decided on Bob Harper’s Inside Out Method Kettlebell Cardio Shred (sans kettlebell). I promise to do a DVD review of this tomorrow!
After my workout, I was starved! I refueled with a banana protein shake and my supplements, but I was still hungry so I had dinner at 2:30 PM! A pork chop and squash. It was delicious!
I made sure to wrap and ice my ankle. I left it wrapped all night using KT tape. I can definitely feel the support using the tape and its better than the random pressure of a wrap. I’m still not sold on its magical healing capabilities though! But I will continue to tape it, especially for the marathon.
I was really snacky the rest of the night and it was mostly good, some not-so-good, and one bad but no regrets! Luckily I only had one little serving of the ice cream left but that Justin’s Chocolate Hazelnut Butter will be the death of me! I used a recipe for the Baked Apple from Living Super Human (Google search result). Again, more tea because its better than water!
I tracked all my food yesterday too and was basically in my calorie range (using My Fitness Pal and FitBit set to losing 1 pound per week – FitBit adjusts my intake according to how much I burned that day). I think I am going to keep tracking to get me back on the right track. Maybe seeing how bad my cheat foods are will make me stop wanting them again? I also have a problem when I am 100% Paleo of not eating enough. This is just my little experiment.
Anyway, today is a hugely busy day also. I have a meeting to go to with some other classmates at another university. I hesitated on going at first because I have back homework (from when I was in South Africa) I wanted to hand in today but I guess that will have to wait until later. Also, I got permission from my professor to work from home on Fridays! He is so understanding and had no problem with it at all.
Now, I must be off for my very long day! Its an hour drive to the meeting and an hour back. Then I have a 2 hour class. After that, I have to pack up my apartment, eat dinner, and drive 2 hours home. Lots of car time today!
What is one healthy thing you did yesterday that you are proud of?
I tried really hard to have a good day and I’m pretty happy with it! I am especially proud that I worked out, and it was a 54 minute work out at that!
Cool! Glad you are finding a way to reprioritize. I’m realizing that I too need to track, and I need to get back on ‘something’, in a blogging fashion. It’s amazing what the accountability does to help. The weight is slowly creeping up on me. My clothes don’t fit, and my exercise regime sucks. Yep. I’ve got a few things to change.
Tracking REALLY helps me. I’ve done it off and on since 1985 and that and water (at least 2L a day, more if I worked out) are the ONLY good things I’ve kept from that program 🙂
I didn’t do so well yesterday. Not having my Fitbit (it died 10 days ago, getting the replacement takes forever due to where I live) seems to have knocked the wind out of my tracking sails. One thing I did was trim fat off my pork chop? Can I count that? Fat is healthy and necessary but I took off about 1/2.
Sounds like a great day! Keep the momentum going…
I ran 6 miles yesterday and did my core exercises.
OH! Just got my new cookbook – Paleo Slow Cooker – might be the answer to your cooking issue…you can prep it, plug it in and VOILA! Supper! or Lunch! There are even some breakfasts…for when you’re home…perfect for me! I won’t have to cook 5 individual fritattas!
I want to incorporate some Paleo meals into the meal plan and that slow cooker recipe sounds perfect for my lazy style. Thanks for the tip!
I tracked everything I was going to eat…and then ate some things I didn’t track. *face/palm* I’ll get there. I’m toying with the idea of another attempt at Whole30 before Thanksgiving just to clear everything out and give me a good boost to the system (plus, seriously, fog head faded on day 6 last go ’round and I felt so good that I cheated my way out of Whole30…so now fog head is back and I *hate* it! MUST find out what is causing it!).
Tracking is key for me and my fitness pal paired with fit bit do the trick for me.
I ran 4 miles yesterday so I am feeling real good about that!
Yes! I love using MFP with my FitBit! It was more fun when I could walk often to get my steps but its still super helpful to have!
~Ang