Well, maybe not quite just food, but that is the idea behind this post. As I said in the last post, I get asked regularly about what I eat, so I thought I'd give you an example of what I ate over the weekend. As I said, I chose the weekend just gone because, not only did I work both days, but I also went to the movies with a gf of mine.
Kung Fu Panda 2 is awesome! I may have a slight attachment to kids movies at the moment. Oh well...
So, here's what I ate on Saturday:
B: 2 weet bix with skim milk, boiling water, 1 tsp sugar
1 cup of tea with a little skim milk and 2 tsp sugar.
S: fruit and nut mix. Sometimes I make this at home with almonds, peanuts, wallnuts, cashews etc, and some dried fruit. I was lazy on Saturday, so a bought fruit and nut mix was what I had. Still really good though.
L: 1/2 chicken breast, and diced bacon, cooked in some garlic, with some salad. Usually I just throw whatever I have around the house into it. Today it was tomatos, cucumber, lettuce, fetta cheese, carrot, and some bok choy with some balsalmic vinegar.
2 whole boiled eggs.
S: 1 apple. Sometimes I find that apples on their own make me hungry, but it got me through the afternoon.
D: 1/2 a pub size serving of pasta with chicken and bacon tossed in a creamy sauce.
S: 1/2 small popcorn, 1/2 small coke, some maltesers. You have to have some junk at the movies, it's just the way it is.
As you can see, my day was pretty light during the day so I could have my pasta and junk food at the movies. I don't really think about it too much, it just becomes habit after a while.
So, this is what I ate on sunday:
B: same as Saturday. This is a fairly standard breakfast for me during the winter. It's warm and it fills me up.
S: 1 apple and sml box of mixed nuts.
L: Ham, cheese and salald sandwich. I managed to get lunch in before I started work at 11.30.
S: Strawberry yoghurt. I'm on a yoghurt kick at the moment. I'm trying so many different brand and variety's.
D: Baked vegetables and roast lamb. We have one of those convection overn thingy's where you plug it in to the wall and you don't need any oil or anything to cook it. It makes boiled veggies so nice and crispy on the outside without all that fat and grease.
So again a fairly light day food wise again.
I'm not strict with what I eat. I firmly believe int he 80/20 rule. If you eat well 80% of the time, you can afford to have a bag of popcorn at the movies, or a beer at the pub, or a piece of birthday cake. Life is meant to be enjoyed, not picked to pieces.
I do, however, need to be a little more organised with making food to take with me to work at the gym. At the moment we don't have any hot water or microwave to heat things up. I'm considering buying a kettle that we can hide in the cupboard so we can at least have tea/coffee etc of a morning when it's so cold. Inly having a refrigerator limits my meal options alot so I do have to be more organised.
Have to go get ready for work. Have a great week guys.
Monday 11 July 2011
Friday 8 July 2011
I'm Back!!!
I apologise once again for how long this blog has sat not being updated. As I have said in previous posts, I have been on a wonderful holiday in the USA, and have been back only 2 weeks. A very hectic 2 weeks at that.
I have started a new job as a pt/gym instructor at the new gym in the town I live in, and I'm still trying to work my head around all the new precedures etc that I have to learn. I've been there a little over a week and I'm really enjoying it. I'm still technically employed at the supermarket too, so I'm also trying to work that one around the gym schedule. Very trying on my brain at the moment. I also spent some time with my grandmother which was nice. I don't do it nearly enough. Other than that, I spent alot of my first few days at home catching up with family and friends, adjusting back to the time change (always harder coming back to Aus, than going anywhere for some reason) and reaclimatizing to the winter weather. Ouch.
Unfortunately, all this 'newness' has left me with little motivation to exercise. But, yesterday I did it. I made myself have some lunch, get ready, and I put in a little ove 1.5 hours at the gym. My chest and shoulders are feeling it today, but I kinda like it. It's always a nice feeling being sore from a good workout.
However, with the change in location has come another change in diet and my body has decided to revolt against it with headaches, nausea, bloating and some horrible stomach cramos. At first I thought it might have been ttom, but that has been and gone, so clearly not that.
So... what do I do to try and fix the problem..?
Firstly... I'm going to up my water intake. I haven't been drinking nearly enough water, and I'm hoping that by drinking more, I'll flush whatever is playing havoc with me, out of my system. It's a pretty easy fix too. I just have to remember to take a litre water bottle with me. If I forget, the drinks fridge is right next to the desk at the gym.
Being a PT in a new gym I get asked alot of questions about what I do myself. What do I eat? How much do I exercise? What exercises do I do? How much reading and research do I do? So I've decided, in the coming weeks, to share with you what I do, eat and read. I hope this shows you that most pt's aren't perfect (I know of only one that is close to perfect and that's for her own health reasons) and we all struggle with the same things everyone else struggles with: time, energy, work, family commitments etc, that derails your good intentions when it comes to food and exercise.
On sunday I'll post my food diary for saturday. I'm choosing saturday because, not only is a weekend day, but it's a saturday where I'm at work for 8 hours, them I'm heading to see Kung Fu Panda 2 at the movies with a girlfriend after dinner. So it's a really good example of a weekend day for me, because weekends are when most people go a little off the rails for various reasons. Then on monday I'll show you what I did on sunday to make up for saturday. I would have posted about today's food except that I can't actually remember what I ate. As I said in a previous post, I'm not very observent about what exactly I eat.
Over the next week I'll also post some of my workouts plus recipes and photos of what I eat and some of my personal nutritional and workout tips.
Enjoy your weekend. I will.
I have started a new job as a pt/gym instructor at the new gym in the town I live in, and I'm still trying to work my head around all the new precedures etc that I have to learn. I've been there a little over a week and I'm really enjoying it. I'm still technically employed at the supermarket too, so I'm also trying to work that one around the gym schedule. Very trying on my brain at the moment. I also spent some time with my grandmother which was nice. I don't do it nearly enough. Other than that, I spent alot of my first few days at home catching up with family and friends, adjusting back to the time change (always harder coming back to Aus, than going anywhere for some reason) and reaclimatizing to the winter weather. Ouch.
Unfortunately, all this 'newness' has left me with little motivation to exercise. But, yesterday I did it. I made myself have some lunch, get ready, and I put in a little ove 1.5 hours at the gym. My chest and shoulders are feeling it today, but I kinda like it. It's always a nice feeling being sore from a good workout.
However, with the change in location has come another change in diet and my body has decided to revolt against it with headaches, nausea, bloating and some horrible stomach cramos. At first I thought it might have been ttom, but that has been and gone, so clearly not that.
So... what do I do to try and fix the problem..?
Firstly... I'm going to up my water intake. I haven't been drinking nearly enough water, and I'm hoping that by drinking more, I'll flush whatever is playing havoc with me, out of my system. It's a pretty easy fix too. I just have to remember to take a litre water bottle with me. If I forget, the drinks fridge is right next to the desk at the gym.
Being a PT in a new gym I get asked alot of questions about what I do myself. What do I eat? How much do I exercise? What exercises do I do? How much reading and research do I do? So I've decided, in the coming weeks, to share with you what I do, eat and read. I hope this shows you that most pt's aren't perfect (I know of only one that is close to perfect and that's for her own health reasons) and we all struggle with the same things everyone else struggles with: time, energy, work, family commitments etc, that derails your good intentions when it comes to food and exercise.
On sunday I'll post my food diary for saturday. I'm choosing saturday because, not only is a weekend day, but it's a saturday where I'm at work for 8 hours, them I'm heading to see Kung Fu Panda 2 at the movies with a girlfriend after dinner. So it's a really good example of a weekend day for me, because weekends are when most people go a little off the rails for various reasons. Then on monday I'll show you what I did on sunday to make up for saturday. I would have posted about today's food except that I can't actually remember what I ate. As I said in a previous post, I'm not very observent about what exactly I eat.
Over the next week I'll also post some of my workouts plus recipes and photos of what I eat and some of my personal nutritional and workout tips.
Enjoy your weekend. I will.
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