We just finished recovery week of our Insanity program. That means month one is done! I don't know if I've really improved much and I'm really scared for month two. Its supposed to be more intense that month one and month one tried to kill me! I'll just have to push through. The good news is that I have not injured my back again. :)
As far as our diet goes... we've tried to follow the recommended meal plans. I don't like using some of the processed foods but it makes the calorie control easier. I've been taking 4 small meals to work. I say meals but really they are snacks. Insanity recommends that I eat 5 "meals" per day, each 300 calories. For me that's usually:
Breakfast:
1 cup Oatmeal with handful of berries and 1/8 cup of slivered almonds.
or 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt with a bit of honey and vanilla and 1/4 cup grape nuts with some berries - there is a surprising amount of protein in Greek yogurt!
Mid morning and afternoon snack favorites:
half of a whole wheat English muffin (yes, its processed) with a tbs of natural peanut butter and half a banana sliced, then I eat the other half of the banana with it
1/2 cup of cottage cheese and some berries and/or slivered almonds
Greek yogurt as mentioned above
2 hard boiled eggs with fruit
Triscuits with about an ounce of Blue Heron Farm goat cheese - totally local and the best thing ever!!!!
Lunch
1/2 baked local chicken breast (sometimes with spinach, mushrooms and cucumbers) on "sandwich thins" - yes also a processed bread product
baked local chicken or tuna wrap on home made whole wheat tortillas - that reminds me I should make some more tortillas- I usually add spinach, mushrooms and cucumbers to this too
And lets be honest, I've gone to Freebirds for a burrito bowl a couple of Fridays. They are a bit large so I usually only eat half, then the rest at dinner.
Dinner-
Since I've been getting home late, once I'm done with my work out its around 8ish and I don't want much. So sometimes its just a bowl of watermelon cubes. We've been really big on watermelon lately.
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| Loved the pattern in the waternellon! And for those of you following , as you can see we still don't have a back-splash... |
The husband works out a few hours before I do and even sometimes is not up for much for dinner, When he decides he wants dinner he mixes some tuna with a little bit of mayo and mustard and then a couple of large spoonfuls of minced onion. He uses my handy mini food processor for the onion. The onion is amazing in the tuna. The he hollows out a few tomatoes and fills them with the tuna. It's pretty fabulous for a canned tuna dish. :)
This week my favorite was some baked local chicken with a side of sauteed local squash, local mushrooms and some onion, and slices of local heirloom tomatoes with a bit of Italian (brought back from our Italy trip) balsamic vinegar.
That whole meal would be "real food" approved had I not run out of my whole wheat bread crumbs. Shoot, I was close to that store where I get them and forgot to get more... Anyway my chicken is just usually coated in mustard and whole wheat breadcrumbs and then baked. Totally real food awesomeness!
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| Local chicken, squash, mushrooms and heirloom tomatoes (that's a salad plate, so the portions are actually small) |
I figure veggies and fruit shouldn't really count for calories because I really need to encourage the consumption of them in this house. I do realize that there is still a lot of sugar in fruit though.
If I could just eliminate sugar that would help me incredibly. Weekends are my downfall. This weekend I had dessert at Ray's on Friday. Ray's is a great restaurant near us that serves local foods and natural free range meats. And local fruit!
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| Ray's Gourmet Country grill - Nectarine Tart |
Then on Saturday I happened to drive by Ooh La La and tried the small vanilla cake gelato and the Italian cream cupcake.... Apparently I was missing Italy?
I think if I can figure out how to control/eliminate a lot of sugar from my diet I might make more progress with this Insanity exercise program. Wish me luck on month two!
