I'm pretty tired two night after two intense gym sessions in a row! Monday I warmed up on the bike for 10 minutes keeping the resistance and speed high, I then did full body weights for around 45 minutes, had a quick re-fuel and then relaxed with 15 minutes at a steady pace on the cross trainer with a fitness magazine. And power walked home! I didn't meant to I was just so keen to get back!
Today was cardio intervals - 15 minutes of sprints and uphill jogs on the treadmill, 15 minutes intervals on the bike - alternating medium/high resistance at a fast pace with high resistance at a slower pace and a final 15 minutes on the cross trainer with my magazine - steady pace but harder and faster than yesterday.
It's funny I always shunned reading while exercising, it didn't seem possible that I would be able to read while working out but I quite like varying the intensity and it makes a nice "cool down" and means I get a bit of reading done, I'm rubbish at just sitting down an reading!
I'm sorry I still haven't got round to doing a catch up of the last week, I've been meaning to do it on my lunch break at work, but haven't had a lunch break yet this week!
Let's see if I can remember what I ate yesterday.
I definitely had a smoothie for breakfast, it most likely involved some kind of non-dairy milk, half a banana and a scoop of protein powder. I had scrambled egg with smoked salmon for breakfast. (wow can't believe I forgot that even though I just uploading photos!)
Ready for scrambling at work
I also had some hot water with lemon
I snacked on the usual combination of a Babybel Light and satsuma
Lunch was some melon, some wrapped in parma ham - this was lovely but not best for eating in work, bit messy!
I didn't have time for a proper afternoon snack so just had a latte and I had a quick banana, semi-skimmed milk and protein powder smoothie before the gym
Between weights and running I had another scoop of protein powder in water plus a Lucozade Lite
Dinner was duck breast with cherry sauce (leftover from Christmas) with asparagus, baby corn, mange tout and baby potatoes. The pictures are from last week when I had the same but with asparagus and roasted butternut squash and sweet potato - I was too hungry to photograph it!
Just.... wow! LOVE duck! LOVE asparagus! LOVE cherry sauce (thanks Delia Smith ;) )
Since I still had plenty of calories left for the day I had a fresh orange juice and Cocoa Orange Nakd bar after dinner.
Today I started with a lovely creamy smoothie - 350ml coconut milk, 1 scoop cookies and cream protein powder, half a large frozen banana and 1 heaped tsp of coconut butter
This was just the over-flow glass!
No proper snack again so I made an Options coconut hot chocolate (bit of a coconut theme here!)
Lunch.... oh dear. Lunch was a tuna cheese panini. Fitted into the days calorie allowance but left me feeling bloated and sleeping for the afternoon.
Perked up a bit later on with some melon and banana
Pre-gym smoothie - chocolate oat milk and 1 scoop of chocolate orange protein powder
And since I was eating alone I had a Prawn Pad Thai for dinner - bloody love this!
Now I'm drinking lots of water, my head hurts so much, I think I just haven't drank enough.
How do you always manage to eat such small portions and be satisfied?
ReplyDeleteGenerally I eat little and often but usually my breakfasts and dinners are quite high calorie and normally lunch would be a lot bigger than melon and ham! This week isn't really usual as work has been getting in the way a lot!
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking the same thing! I think I must eat like a horse compared to this!!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised you both think so! I pack away a fair amount of calories but I am eating for weight loss for 0.5lb per week :)
ReplyDeleteIt all looks good to me! Great variety!
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