Day 12

Energy Level

something must have clicked last night! I went to bed early (early enough that I was confused to wake up midway through the "night" to see that it was 10)

******** (8/10)

Food

Breakfast

egg
arugula braised in veg stock and lemon zest
zucchini braised in veg stock with ground sage
oatmeal
milk

Oh-la-la ... hating the feeling of being stuffed. One way to dodge tempting "shunned" foods: eat so much else that thinking about food is unpleasant. I keep expecting this to get easier, but it isn't.

mid-morning snack

1/2 mango

Lunch

rice

steamed tilapia
zucchini braised in veg stock and ground sage
carrots

mid-afternoon snack

mango

Dinner

quinoa

tilapia & tuna

broccoli

Evening Snack

mango&milk shake

Exercise

I am still nowhere near being able to do all my jump-ropes at once - the most I've been able to manage has been about 200 before my feet cramp up (not that I don't appreciate the little breather) and it took me about 15 minutes to do the full 700 this morning. Sigh. I went to the gym this morning to get a little run in because it's still raining out and used the counter-balance chin-up machine instead of doing the incline chin-ups as I've yet to find a good way of doing that at home. Then, forgetting that I'd done them yesterday, an extra set of lunges. No wonder they were so difficult.

My push up bars (you know, if you just transpose 2 letters ...:) arrived. My push-ups have now officially slid from a train wreck to a disaster. I had been warned. And I can see how they help with form and focus ... but they're a disaster on the personal pride/motivation front.

I'm pushing myself, which I like, but I am not enjoying it. Yet.