Some Like It Hot

I've decided to get back on top of photographing my daily food intake because it helps my motivation and it's fun. Just keep in mind that I'm not a nutritionist (haha) nor am I condoning a certain way of eating to lose weight or be healthy. This is totally for my own tracking and accountability. With that said...

Breakfast!

This is probably one of my favorite breakfasts ever. The toast is oat bran and made locally, the butter is european (not sure what that means, but it was on sale), the raspberry jam is organic and low sugar, the bacon is organic, the egg is local and the cherries are local and mail ordered. I made the same for Josh but left his egg runny and put it right on top of the toast.

Lunch:

Lunch was made from leftovers. Spinach wraps with my own homemade salsa, pinto beans, local spinach, a breaded by me chicken tender and a little bit of cheese and hot sauce.

Snack: One of those kashi pumpkin pecan bars.

Dinner:

Dinner was at the Mexican restaurant (where I ate one tortilla chip, go me!) I pretty much ate everything shown on this plate.

After dinner I drank a small glass of orange juice and headed for bed. Oh! And before breakfast I drink a little juice with my thyroid pill an hour before I eat breakfast (per my sisters recommendation!)

Exercise. We rejoined the gym yesterday! During the winter from hell we decided to cancel our membership, 1. because the gym was 15 minutes away on our crazy ice covered roads and 2. because we couldn't even make it onto the crazy snow covered roads if we wanted to.

Now, to be clear, the roads have been clear since march, but that's getting too technical! We rejoined and that's what matters and we live 2 minutes from the gym now.

I've missed strength training. It's the one thing that has helped me to lose weight (when consistent) since I started almost 4 years ago. I am decently strong, but building muscle has always helped me with my love for food, and my desire to lose weight. I also find it much more enjoyable than any cardio machine in the gym.

So we got back into it yesterday with strength training session A, here are my stats:

Chest Press: 100 lbs 8 reps for 5 second hold  + 30% lower on the same reps

Shoulder Press: 70 lbs 8 reps for 5 second hold  + 30% lower on the same reps

Rotary Hip: Max weight 8 reps for 5 second hold  + 30% lower on the same reps

Back Extensions: max weight 8 reps for 5 second hold  + 30% lower on the same reps

Leg Extensions: 120 lbs 8 reps for 5 second hold  + 30% lower on the same reps

Crunches with medicine ball

Cardio: 15 minutes on the elliptical at 135-155 heart rate, came home and danced the hell out of three songs from this (excellent !!) band:

And so this friends, is was getting back on track looks like to me.