So this weekend has been a great one so far for me. As I said in my last blog I'm hoping to start my awesome eating plan again with Coach Rita on Monday - will have confirmation on that later tomorrow. In the meantime, last week I bought and read my favourite Celebrity Trainer (Harley Pasternak's) book "The Body Reset Diet". Without going into a whole lot of detail I liked a lot of what he said, disagreed with some of but definitely took away some ideas. He advocates doing 15 days of smoothies - the first 5 days, 3 smoothies a day in place of meals with 2 quality snacks in between, then the next 5 days 2 smoothies, 2 snacks and 1 meal and then the final 5 days 1 smoothie, 2 meals and 2 snacks and then basically maintain your life like that. Anyone that has read my blog in the past saw my little experience with Isagenix that lasted a mere 6 hours and was filled with anxiety. I didn't feel that way when I read his book and I think thats because each shake I would be personally making from scratch and each shake is filled with real food that I bought. I do however believe, as does Coach Rita, that humans are meant to chew their food and not drink it so this certainly isn't a lifestyle for me, but I thought hey - lets try it for Sat and Sun and this way when I start with Rita on Monday, I am fresh and clean and ready to go. So his book provides a list of the groceries you will need and its mainly fruits, veggies, vanilla protein powder, some nuts, greek yogurt and almond milk to name a few. So my grocery list wasn't huge and wasn't expensive.
I made my first shake for breakfast around 900am today and consisted of the following (and he gives a whole bunch of shake receipes for white shakes (breakfast), red shakes (lunch) and green shakes (supper). And let me say also that doing the shakes came at a time when I've been feeling so sick of all food healthy and non healthy and just bored in general, so this has been a nice change.
Breakfast white shake
5 raw almonds chopped
1 red apple, skin on, cored and chopped
1 small banana (that I froze over night and chopped up)
3/4 cup plain fat free greek yogurt
1/2 cup almond milk
1/2 tsp cinnamon
This shake was delicious and I had a hard time finishing it and felt very full and satisfying and having a shake for breakfast for me is easy peasy.
For my mid morning snack he has a whole range of ideas that include a protein and should be crunchy because its hard not to chew your food for sure and approx 150 calories. Ideas he gives are things like:
-2/3 cup raspberries with 8 oz fat free greek yogurt
-4 crackers and 2 pieces low fat cheese (he asks that the crackers be 5 gr of fibre and over which is very hard to find)
-3 oz fat free greek yogurt, 1/3 tbsp natural peanut butter and 1 small red apple
-3/4 cup edamame
-3oz lean roast beef and 1 1/2 red bell peppers
-1 apple and 3 slices roast beef
-low fat popcorn
-high protein, high fibre cereal like Kashi Go Lean
Just to name a few
So my first snack I actually ate in conjunction with my lunchtime snack as we were out hiking all morning - more on that shortly.
For that snack I had 4 small multi grain crackers that were only 2 gr fibre - I didn't find one kind of cracker at the grocery store that had 5 gr so I have to look into that more and a piece of low fat cheese. Along with that was my lunchtime shake - or my red shake. This shake was:
small amount of water
1 cup frozen raspberries
1/4 cup frozen strawberries (you can use blueberries too but I hate them)
1/2 small orange peeled
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
1 tbsp ground flaxseed.
Again delicious and I had this around 100pm and I was full until about 400pm. At 400pm I had my afternoon snack which was low fat organic popcorn.
Then when I should have done the third shake for supper I went out for dinner with my parents. I chose a huge salad with chicken and I will admit I had a few of my sons fries and a few bites of my daughters cheese sticks. I still feel like that was a great day for me and if I had been at home I believe I could have done the supper shake no problem. The supper shake or green shake was:
small amount of water
2 cups spinach
1 ripe pear unpeeled and cored chopped
15 green or red grapes
3/4 cup fat free plain greek yogurt
2 tbsp avocado
1/2 tbsp fresh lime juice
Tonight would have been hard I'm sure after just the shake. Lots of Davids white tea on ice for me.
The other great thing is that yesterday I finally bought a Fitbit and its going to be a great tool. In Harley's book he talks about how we as a society work out crazy hard for our one hour a day and then the rest of the day we are kind of sedentary and that was me for sure. Id do my great workout in the morning and spend the evening on the couch. So with my fit bit its tracking how many steps I take a day and the minimum they want for optimal health is 10,000/day. Megan, my dad and I took 8 of our kids out hiking on the trails in Exeter this morning - we did 2 hours and it was amazing. Even more so because this was my dads first real walk since his hips were done so I was one proud daughter. As of right now I walked close to 12,000 steps today - woohoo - think of how many I will get after doing a step class and then spending an hour each evening walking. This fitbit has given me new motivation. I'm taking the kids to Gibbons Park tomorrow morning and I look forward to seeing how many steps we get in.
So this is where I'm at now - tomorrow I plan to do the 3 shakes and 2 snacks - we are home all day, by the pool, no distractions. It will be tough but I can do it. And then hopefully Monday I can have a sit down with Rita and get back on track.
Stay tuned....
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