breakfast: oatmeal w/raisins, banana & pb

lunch: egg cress sammich on wholemeal bread

dinner: homemade veggie soup

snacks: yoghurt & grapefruit

exercise:

5 mile run + 30 mins lifting

my gym opened a grungy warehouse alternative for peak hours which has no mirrors, no tvs, and hella more weights… i LOVE it. finding it SO much easier to concentrate on my workout….

the only thing is, the warehouse has a 10:1 guy:girl ratio of attendees.

cool to have something to look at.

not so cool feeling inadequate when lifting weights about a quarter as heavy as they do.

in 30 days… the scales does not decide everything…

revisiting my goals for the month of may:

• smallerportions
• less caffeine
• more water
• iron + calcium
• less processed food
• tabata (HIIT) 3x a week
• bootcamp
• more hiking
• beat PRs
• 90s plank
• make time for friends
• dress to kill
• track everything
• more guitar
• organize

The ones with a strike through were achieved.

I’m still a coffee nut but lave cut back considerably and only have it in the mornings (before I was drinking it at midnight to stay up studying). I remembered to take my supplements and drink lots of water, adding a slice of lemon for detox  goodness.

I’ve become a lot more mindful of what I eat, but have also ditched the ‘bad foods’ attitude. The result is that I no longer calorie count but instead have much better control of my portions. I stop eating when I’m full and have had maybe only one or two binges this month, whereas previously it was more like one or two a week. Also, my binges have been much smaller and less emotionally driven (e.g. I’m counting eating half a box of cinnamon toast crunch in a day as a binge).

I was doing quite well with the tabata to start with, but it fell to the side for distance running, I’ll definitely be making the effort to bring it back though.

Beat my time to run 10 miles by 15 mins (previously 2 hours 15 mins, now a little under 2 hours)

Also, I can plank and have started the 30 day shred, which I LOVE.

Have spent heaps of quality time with my friends and boyfriend instead of letting work take over. Being more daring in what I wear which is giving my self confidence a serious boost. Aaaaand working on writing music for the first time in  almost a year :)

Also, the combined changes in exercise and eating habits mean I have lost 2 inches from my waist (now 29.5) and 1 inch from my hips (40), and a few lbs (now 157).

and I’ve gone from a BMI of 24.5 to 23.9 aaaaaand from 30% bodyfat to 27.5%

happiest and most comfortable i’ve felt in my own skin in a long time :) looking forward to june and building on this progress….

when i felt full on 1000 calories :/ weird.

Breakfast: cinnamon oatmeal and soy milk [400]

Lunch: cous cous and chickpeas [400]

Dinner: steamed veggies           [150]

Snacks: banana

             peach yoghurt             [250]

Total: so far 1050, i haven’t touched the veggies i prepared for dinner yet, but 1200 counting them. i think i’mma make it my business to add something more to this though, given my height it’s hardly a sensible number.

Exercise: 3 mile run + 1 hour of yoga.

I am baffled at how full i feel… normally I try to eat 1500-1700 calories a day and the challenge is to stay under 1700, not over 1500.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of meditating and positive self-talk before I got to sleep reminding myself to stop eating when I’m full and eat for nutrition not stress relief.

It’s working suprisingly well. I’m kind of excited to step on the scales and see where this is going….