Breakfast:
-medium grapefruit
-3/4 cup of 0% greek yogurt, honey flavour
Lunch: I was at Starbucks with friends, so of course with drink and food I took in more calories than I would have liked, but overall it wasn't too bad. I had:
-grande green tea lemonade (unsweetened)
-protein artisan snack plate (includes a hardboiled egg, grapes, apple slices, a bit of cheese, multigrain pita and a peanut butter dipping sauce)
Dinner:
-1/2 cup brown rice with 1/2 cup kidney beans, 1/2 cup tomato sauce stirred in
-2 cups steamed broccoli
No snacks were needed because I was feeling quite full throughout the day
Plan for today is:
Breakfast:
-1 cup raspberries
-175g 0% greek yogurt, plain flavour
Lunch:
-1 kiwi
-125g 1% cottage cheese
Afternoon Snack:
-2 stalks celery, 1 cup cucumber slices, 10 baby carrots and half of a green pepper with two tablespoons (30g) of spicy hummus
-200g of baked butternut squash (no fat or sugar added, just baked with a bit of salt and pepper)
Dinner:
-1 scrambled egg
-1 cup green beans
Additional snacks (only if needed):
-cherry tomatoes
-steamed edamame
I finally invested in a top-notch food scale so I'm slowly in the process of switching from measuring all my portions in cups and tablespoons like I had been previously to measuring everything very accurately in grams on the food scale. It turns out that with some foods I was indeed over-estimating the correct portion by measuring with cups, but with quite a lot of foods I was also under-measuring the correct portion, perhaps because the cup was loosely packed or the food didn't fit into the cup well. So some things I get to have less of, but others I get to have more of! The only things I won't check on the scale to make sure it's accurate to the last gram is veggies.
Hey guys! I haven't posted in a really long time!!!! My parents came into town and then I went on vacation and well, things didn't go very well as far as eating. Tomorrow is another day though! Glad all you guys keep posting, gives me motivation to get back with it. Any tips for how to stay on track as far as eating when you are vacationing? For me personally its hard to plan because I don't know where I will be eating at. I am going back home (Minnesota) for a wedding and my moms birthday. I will be there for ten days. My parents don't eat that healthy so usually I get back into old habits when I am around them, so it makes things more challenging. Suggestions are welcome.
Thanks so much
-Ashley
Hey doubtingJulia, I don't mean to be a creep, but I see from your signature that you must go to Goodlife??? I've been a goodlife member for two years and although I go frequently and love using all of the gym equipment, I haven't really been to any of the classes. I'm rather intimidated by them. Was just wondering if you are the only one participating in the "try every class at the gym" challenge or is this a challenge that others are participating in? Is there anywhere here on the board where you discuss your experiences/reviews of the various classes? I would love to hear your thoughts! Maybe we could start a thread! Thanks for any info!
Today:
Breakfast
-1 cup raspberries
-175 g 0% green yogurt, plain flavour
Lunch
-roasted carrots (one tablespoon extra virgin olive oil)
-3/4 cup chickpeas, dressed with balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper and italian seasoning mix
Dinner
-200g baked butternut squash
-2 large hard-boiled eggs
-1 cup green beans
Alicia: No I just made it up myself. We should start a thread though, I've never really had a problem going to classes but they seem to scare a lot of people. You should definitely tried the Les Mills classes. They're really accessible, you'll do fine.
Where in the Great White North are you anyway?
Food for today
Pre Workout: waffle with a little butter, half a glass of chocolate almond milk
Breakfast: Harvest Crunch cereal with greek yogurt, blueberries, pomegranate seeds, walnuts and a little ground flax seeds
Lunch: Subway! 6-inch Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki on 9-grain with veggies
Snack: string cheese, cashews and walnuts (a little too many)
Julia, I grew up moving back and forth between Toronto and Montreal but at the moment I'm living in Kingston (Queen's). Really looking forward to moving back to Toronto in another few years. I love the city and Kingston just doesn't cut it for me, lol. I will start a thread to discuss Goodlife in the exercise section tomorrow when I have a bit more time. It's not so much the classes or the exercise themselves that I'm intimidated by but more the good ol' never-dying insecurities of worrying about what other people think/how I look. All of the women I see going into the classes at my gym are what I call a "yoga set", they're all very thin women in their 30s who seem to all be friends or co-workers from the same office. So yes it's a bit intimidating to go into a class with just them and me, lol. I know I shouldn't concern myself with what anyone else is doing or compare myself to other's weights or worry about what they think or make the assumption that just because they are thin they are judging me, but I can't entirely get over those feelings. Working on it though . Good luck with the loss and the diet (spicy cabbage soup sounds really good!)
Breakfast:
-125g 1% cottage cheese with 1 cup mango chunks
Lunch
-2 hard-boiled eggs (which I decided to just eat on the side instead of on the salad)
-a large salad made out of romance lettuce, carrots, red onion, cucumber and mushrooms sprinkled with 1 tablespoon of dried cranberries, 1 tablespoon of slivered almonds and two tablespoons of maple balsamic vinegar
Dinner
-300g baked spaghetti squash with 30g cheddar cheese and 1/2 cup of Classico mushroom tomato sauce
-1 cup brussel sprouts
Lunch: Sandwich mad with two piecs of 12 grain bread, sliced up half a chicken breast, hummus, one slice of low fat cheese, some tomatoes and alfalfa sprouts; apple.
Post Workout: one glass of chocolate milk
Snack: far too much popcorn
Other Snack: a little bit of coconut sherbert
Dinner: 6 swedish meatballs with tomato sauce and a bit of parmesan cheese; handful of nuts; half a whole wheat naan bread
. Good luck with the loss and the diet (spicy cabbage soup sounds really good!)
