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3 Week Blitz Day Three
The first two days MUST be the easiest. Day three just has to be the hardest! I am incredibly sore and didn’t feel like getting out of bed. My entire upper back and arms present a huge challenge to lift but ga – life must go on!
I didn’t have internet access yesterday to post live so that’s why the update was a little late. Hope you don’t mind!
Today was a really early start as Elliot and I stayed with friends last night. I went on a day trip with them to a camp for youth that I’ve been involved in for the past 7 years. So I strayed from what I should be eating a little but got in a lot more exercise than I would have! I spent the morning carrying around young children and walking around observing activities. But then in the afternoon I joined a team and went canoeing down a river for over two hours. Granted, I was the person in the rear – the steerer (if thats a word) – which meant I didn’t paddle as much as the others, and we were going downstream… but still, exercise is exercise right? And if paddling down a river wasn’t enough, I went for a 20 minute run at the camp. As well as just comfortable running, I did some sprints, also known as High Intensity Interval Training. More in a future article! Mahler recommended a 1-2 mile walk on Wednesday, so I overstepped a little… except I enjoy running so much more than walking.
Food
Breakfast was a pre-prepared smoothie consisting of banana and green Kiwifruit. Our smoothies are just over a standard cup. So however many bananas and Kiwifruit it takes to fill that much is what I make!
Mid morning I had a Nashi pear and some apple and orange slices – and then lunch was a little more than I really needed. I had two bowls of pumpkin and tomato soup, some beetroot, fresh lettuce and cucumber and tomato and half of a protein shake. So I ate a little more than normal – it wasn’t technically ‘controlled fasting’. But I kinda needed the energy for the canoeing!
After the run I had the second half of my shake and then had dinner. Dinner was quite large! I started off with carrot and celery salad (all raw with no condiments), then a lettuce salad with tomato and cucumber and capsicum – again all raw with no condiments. The main dish was roasted potato, onion, carrot, kumara, and sausage which I added tomato sauce and mustard to. As well as that there was bread. Sounds large – and it was – and I had three helpings of it! All that exercise made me really hungry. I had a pear for dessert which was so sweet. It was the sweetest I’d ever tasted and much better than the chocolate pudding and run’n'raisin ice cream! On the way home I had my little container of brazil nuts, almonds, cashews, pumpkin and sunflower seeds and two dried figs. Then I had a mandarin and upon getting home I ate up Elliot’s leftover pizza. About 4 slices. Yeah – so bad! Washed it down with natural unsweetened grape juice and soda water.
So I don’t really recommend eating what I did today! It was far too much during the day – and far too much at night as well. Needless to say my stomach was complaining a fair bit!
Here’s to a better tomorrow!
