Food and (no) Exercise 2

-big bowl soup (300 cals)

-whole wheat crackers (80 cals) with 1 tbsp peanut butter (90 cals) 

-1/2 a banana (50 cals)

-12 oz serving Recharge sports drink (100 cals)

-water

-same fake chicken parm-type sandwich as yesterday b/c it's so freaking good (400 cals)

-small bowl soup (150 cals)

-jr ice cream with reeses (160 cals)

-1 mug yogi chai redbush tea (0 cals)

total: 1330

Unfortunately, I couldn't work out at all today :(. I woke up with a delayed reaction to the Jillian Michaels DVD and can barely move my arms! My calves are also uber sore from all the running. I feel pathetic and walk like a robot in pain LOL. Hopefully by tomorrow I can at least do *something*..even some type of stretching/yoga? I think the problem with my arms was that I used 5lb hand weights when I should have started out with 2 or 3. Although, I kept doing the arm movements, but I never could do the entire sets w/o dropping the weights, so ugh I thought I was helping prevent this! Weird the pain took 2 days to show up, but..surprise.

But I do have some good news. I have 2 sigg bottles to carry water around in, but I lost the top to the one I use the most. I figured it'd show up and it finally did. When I was toasting the bread for my dinner I saw it was right next to the toaster. Random, but yay. Now I can go back to drinking copious amounts of water without even thinking about it. 

I also turned down the opportunity to go out for dinner tonite and opted to make my own at home.

Although of course I'd love to lose as much as possible, I think I've decided my current goal is to lose 25lbs by June 1. I heard that goal from someone else (forget who) and decided that sounded good for me too. Especially because I'm going on vacation June 2. Wish me luck.

XO,

Amanda

New Beginnings

I've decided to start this blog to have a separate place to talk about what I eat & what I do for exercise. I've really been neglecting my (former) healthy lifestyle lately and I want to actually GET on track, not just talk and think about getting on track. I'm now on Day 2 of working out again and although I am sore, I feel GREAT already. How ironic is it that the more out of breath you make yourself when exerting energy, the better you breathe overall? I have asthma (fairly mild, I don't get attacks or anything really, I just feel short of breath sometimes when I shouldn't). I've always been fairly obsessive about working out and knowing anything and everything about health food (and junk for that matter), but it's time to get back in the habit of practicing what I preach! I don't believe in dieting, but I am attempting to loosely follow the Anti-Candida eating plan for health reasons (which I'll get into another time). Overall, though, I identify with the "everything in moderation" lifestyle (well, for the most part) and just being your best self. I am also trying to eat predominantly whole foods (i.e. very little processing, no dyes, chemicals, artificial sweeteners, etc.), but I know this is not always realistic in the world (and country...) I live in today. But again, I'm doing my best and that's all I can really ask for of myself! 

In a little bit I'll post some "before" pics & at the end of the day I'll list everything I ate and all the exercise I did.

Talk to you soon!

XO,

Amanda