Day 25

The past week has been tuff! When I've been exercising hard, my work has been so monotonous that I find myself feeling tired and counting the minutes till the work day is over with. And on the easier training days, I've found myself itching with too much energy after work. And this frustrates me EVEN more than the tiredness! And so I indulged into the world of sugar!! For dinner last night I had a small packet of biscuits, a small packet of crisps, a chocolate and 6 pieces of sushi... I'm more bummed that I don't have a solution for this irritated itchy feeling, than I am about the set-back of all that junk in my body!! But moving forward... I had 2 boiled egg whites and a huge piece of cucumber for breakfast. An apple for AM snack. Chicken salad for lunch (loads of leafy greens and about 50g of chicken breast). My afternoon snack will be half a protien shake. And just before and during our track session this this afternoon, I'll have a few sips of the slim pack drink. I'm not exactly sure how tonight will go, but we'l do a couple of 400m's, 800m's and 300m's -sprint. I'll take another half protien shake right after the run. And then chicken and vedge for dinner.

Day 23 and 24

My work during the day is a bit montanous and I find myself wishing the work day was over faster. I hate this because life is just to precious to wish away-so even at the office I'm gonna step it up a notch so that I'll af able to enjoy it more! But yesterday was tuff! I could not keep my eyes open! I think it's also to do with the fact that I've ran hard everyday since Sunday... Yesterday we did another 10km before work. And I went for a nice 45min. spinning class after work. My energy levels picked up, but I felt quite stiff from Monday's hill session with the club: 18 x 60m hill sprints up and jog down. Resting 3mins after the first set of 9. Yesterday I ate: teaspoon of peanut butter before AM run. Half a protien shake after run. Future life cereal shake for breakfast.mixed with water. (I'm loving it's texture and all of the prebiotics and boosting elements in it!!) An apple for AM snack. Chicken and raw spinach sandwich for lunch. 4PM snacked on half a future life portion shake-mixed with water. And during the spinning class I drank half a slim pack drink for energy. After that I drank half a protien shake. And dinner was unfortunately prepared too late and not too healthy: chicken pasta with milky sauce only at 8PM last night! On Monday night we had Chicken and steamed vedge! Yum! Today I had again another teaspoon peanut butter before AM 10km jog. And a full portion protien shake right after for breakfast and recovery. I'll have an apple for my AM snack. Chicken and cucumber sandwich for lunch. And 3 provitas with cottage cheese for PM snack. Dinner will be chicken and vedge.

Day 20, 21 and 22 Usn challenge

I had an 80% clean eating weekend and 100% for my dreadful Monday - the only plus... Friday night I just HAD to have popcorn and smarties at the movies, but the real killer was the McD's chicken wrap afterwards!! I wasn't even hungry! So I'll look out for such stupidity next time! No exercise on Saturday, but I cleaned my house, which for sure burned plenty of calories! And I ate very clean, except for the evening when I had three starters of a small pizza! Eeeck! The other no-no was the cocktail that went with it. I'm gonna have to learn to drink white wine spritzers from now on! Sunday was race day and it went extremely well! Woke up at 4am. And by 5am I had had a sports shake for breakfast. I ran a 10km in 47.52min's! And felt great afterwards! Immediately beter the run I drank half a protien shake for recovery. And on the drive home, about 2hours after the race, I had a slim pack drink for more energy. Today I only did our athletic club's hill session 18 x 60m hill. I felt the previous day's race in my legs,but again felt strong still - I had a sports shake for breakfast, an apple for am snack. A huge home-made chicken salad for lunch. Half a sports shake for pm snack, on my way to training. And half a protien shake after training. Chicken and steamed vedge for dinner and off to bed! I'm pooped! And there's some hard and early training in the morning! Ps. At our weigh-in I'm at 57.6kg's and 0.8% down on my body dat percentage!

Day 19 - The time really does fly! I feel like so much time has already passed and I haven't worked hard enough to make the days count... It's almost the end of week 3 and although I feel much healthier and when running, I feel so much stronger! I can't find any visible differences in my body :-( So I really feel that I have te step it up a notch! Suprisingly, when I did my 30 sit-ups today, I struggled with the last 10, which in turn made me feel great about last night's speed session with the club: 8 x 600m's. And I do recall using my abdoman muscles to get me to the finish line, especially on the last 3! It was tuff, but again the excitement was pumping as I felt my legs and muscles working - feeling so much stronger than before! And it's in part because of my changed eating program this week-I've been eating more and more protien. I had om slim pack cool drink on the way to the track for energy and my half a shake directly beter the session for recovery. So, Sunday is weigh-in and we'll see what all that eating did to my overall weight. And I'll adjust if needed accordingly. All in all, i'm pleased with this week so far! Dinner was a bit late (our dinner plans with friends got cancelled), so we braai'ed Steak and made a mean salad! Breakfast was strawberries and paw-paw. Snack was an apple. Lunch was huge salad with ver little of the steal from last night. And i'm feeling quite hungry now, but will wait a short while longer for my next snack: half a shake. And dinner I'm hoping to opt for only a salad! Resting today from exercise. But maybe I'll try and drag hubby out for a very short jog!

Yesterday I felt like a million bucks, because I've exercised really hard so far and ate completely clean!! But we went for a braai at friends last night and we ate only after 11pm! I got in bed at 1am! And when my alarm went off at 5am I felt like a train had gone over me!! Our athletics coach has been telling me that I train to hard and when om husband suggested that I cancell this morning's run because of the same reason, I did just that... And it had put me in an awful mood! That plus the late night last night... So yesterday I ate toast with almond nut butter-yum! I had one slice for breakfast beter our 10km run. An apple for my 10am snack. A chicken and raw spinach sandwich for lunch. Half a protien shake for 4pm snack. And then chicken, vedge and salad late last night. This morning I had pronutro with skim milk for breakfast. Apple for my snack. Same sandwich for lunch and will also do my half a shake for another snack. Plus I'll sip on my slim pack berry drink mix during our speed work session with the club tonight. And then it's my friend's birthday party tonight - i hope there's salad on the restaurant menu! And i'll drink a white wine spritzer... I think that from now on, on days that I don't run in the mornings, i'm only going to have half a sandwich for lunch. Because I'm still stuffed from today's!! Ps. I started with 30 sit ups during the day, on Monday. I skipped Tuesday and still have to do today's...

Day 16 and it's Tuesday afternoon... We weighed-in today (should've done it on Sunday already, but I'm glad we didn't). I'm 1.5kg's lighter and 0.3% less body fat - weighing 57.9kg and with 18.6% body fat. The loss is the only positive thing... It's that time of the afternoon where I'm tired and nothing else really matters... Although I'm excited and nervous in the back of my head to go do a fast 8km Time Trial with the club tonight!! I can't wait to see how I'll do! I'm eating more this week for energy and it feels like it's paying off... I forgot my breakfast this morning, so I took half a shake instead (it was the only extra I had on me). Snack was a yummy green apple. Lunch-so awesome! I had a brown bread sandwich with chicken breast and lettuce and mustard, on. It was sooo good!!! Snack will be half a shake mixed with water. And I took a Cla capsule after breakfast and lunch.

Day 13, 14 and 15

I'm a bit demotivated, because everyday of the weekend I cheated on something. Plus I didn't have any more energy to go gym it off... :-( So this week I'm going to start eating more, so that I'll have more energy in general. Rather than all that fruit, I've had corn flakes with milk for breakfast beter my 10k run. I've had a quarter of tuna pie for 10am snack. I'll have the rest of it for lunch. And a naartjie for 4pm snack. My husband is doing dinner tonight, but since he made a awesome salad for dinner last night, I'm hopefull for tonight's dinner!! Right now though, I'm just walking past all the blueberry muffins and koeksisters, in the kitchen - open for all to help themselves... And made a yummy cup of joe with half a sweetner in it! Stuff u muffins! I'm gonna loose my belly flab and cellulite!!