Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Too.......too........
tired to blog. I am totally exhaustipated. Be back as soon as my energy levels are up. Hope you are all doing brilliantly on the 12WBT journey.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Miracles and muscle malady
I had lunch with a friend today at the cafe at the bottom of our building. Decided to go with a lamb wrap for lunch. To my dismay, it came with chips. Really nice crispy chips.
Old me would have scoffed the wrap and all the chips.
I did eat the whole wrap. And I wanted to try the chips. So I tried one. And I thought to myself, I can eat all of them. There is nothing stopping me. But I couldn't. I did eat three in the end.
But I couldn't eat any more because I was TOO FULL!!!
Why is this a miracle you ask?
Because I have never ever felt too full or so full that I stopped eating. I could eat piles of food and still eat more. And there is no way I would have left all those tasty crispy chippies on the plate. But I felt so full that I didn't even feel like dinner tonight (which is good given that I worked out that wrap and three chips must have been around 600 calories at least, even if it was mainly salad [but I did forgo all my snacks today to have enough calories to cover it]). So I'm going to have a nice no fat strained yoghurt with passionfruit. And go to bed not feeling all bloated, but fresh and not hungry and happy.
I have never ever had a feel full point - and this wasn't even a milestone, but something I've achieved incidentally on the program. And I say woo hoo to that!!
Then tonight I started with my lovely new PT. As it was our first session, she did a long assessment of what I can do and how I take up information. And here was the conclusion, very much the same as the running coach, I have very lazy non working glute muscles on my right side. Who would have thought that you could have muscles that just don't work. So I'm not sure how, but I have to get those muscles firing again, or just firing (maybe they've never worked). And it really is time to go to the osteopath again. I was lying on my back and she got me to shift my butt over a bit and my feet and I felt all twisted up and she told me that I was actually straight!
Had a disaster on the cooking front this week. Cooked 4 lots of the chicken noodle soup so I could freeze up the 16 serves for after training or Bikram or getting home from work late. Don't know quite how it happened but I ended up using mung bean vermicelli instead of rice vermicelli and twice as much of it. Calculated up the calories. Uh-oh - each serve would be 70% higher in calories than it was supposed to be. Luckily the family down the road with the seven kids (6 at home and four boys) were happy to take it off my hands. To balance that out, I made the Cajun Fish Stew last night and love it!! Those 12WBT recipes are mighty mighty good! And they taste fresh and clean and not fatty. Really rev you up with energy.
Old me would have scoffed the wrap and all the chips.
I did eat the whole wrap. And I wanted to try the chips. So I tried one. And I thought to myself, I can eat all of them. There is nothing stopping me. But I couldn't. I did eat three in the end.
But I couldn't eat any more because I was TOO FULL!!!
Why is this a miracle you ask?
Because I have never ever felt too full or so full that I stopped eating. I could eat piles of food and still eat more. And there is no way I would have left all those tasty crispy chippies on the plate. But I felt so full that I didn't even feel like dinner tonight (which is good given that I worked out that wrap and three chips must have been around 600 calories at least, even if it was mainly salad [but I did forgo all my snacks today to have enough calories to cover it]). So I'm going to have a nice no fat strained yoghurt with passionfruit. And go to bed not feeling all bloated, but fresh and not hungry and happy.
I have never ever had a feel full point - and this wasn't even a milestone, but something I've achieved incidentally on the program. And I say woo hoo to that!!
Then tonight I started with my lovely new PT. As it was our first session, she did a long assessment of what I can do and how I take up information. And here was the conclusion, very much the same as the running coach, I have very lazy non working glute muscles on my right side. Who would have thought that you could have muscles that just don't work. So I'm not sure how, but I have to get those muscles firing again, or just firing (maybe they've never worked). And it really is time to go to the osteopath again. I was lying on my back and she got me to shift my butt over a bit and my feet and I felt all twisted up and she told me that I was actually straight!
Had a disaster on the cooking front this week. Cooked 4 lots of the chicken noodle soup so I could freeze up the 16 serves for after training or Bikram or getting home from work late. Don't know quite how it happened but I ended up using mung bean vermicelli instead of rice vermicelli and twice as much of it. Calculated up the calories. Uh-oh - each serve would be 70% higher in calories than it was supposed to be. Luckily the family down the road with the seven kids (6 at home and four boys) were happy to take it off my hands. To balance that out, I made the Cajun Fish Stew last night and love it!! Those 12WBT recipes are mighty mighty good! And they taste fresh and clean and not fatty. Really rev you up with energy.
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