For anyone who has done a fitness session consisting of mainly squats, this picture will bring back memories for you!
This was me this morning, cue the hysterics from my children as I lowered my painful fat butt onto the toilet seat. Worst thing about the whole thing is that it will be tomorrow when the pain is at it's worst! Yikes!
So today has been pretty similar to yesterday. Have coped pretty well with eating, have managed to drink 1 litre of water whilst at work and have tried to take more steps where possible in my sedentary job.
The meals for today were:
Breakfast - Overnight oats with banana and vanilla
This was a bit easier to swallow, I used a bit more milk to make it less stodgy. Still not my favourite though.
Lunch - Mozzarella and tomato salad, mmmmmmm!
His and Hers
Dinner - Sweet potato, spinach and bean stew
So the recipe was butter beans, but I wanted to add some variety, so I added butter beans, black eyed beans and chick peas. I used my wonderful, amazing, super duper Instant Pot to cook this. Bunged all the ingredients in and cooked in 15 minutes!! I even cheated by using my mandolin slicer/cutter to prepare the vegetables, so was super quick to prepare too! Two out of 4 kids ate the lot, one ate half and the other point blank refused to touch it. We enjoyed it though, was different, clean and filling. I am learning that with the help of my gadgets, there's no excuse not to have a healthy dinner, even when on a busy schedule.
Exercise - ReSet Home Workout 1(The Tester)
So I was to record how many of the following I could achieve in 1 minute. I decided to do some jump rope as a warm up, I was pretty much dead after this alone. But hey, I will compare this mornings results to my results at the end of the 4 weeks and see how much I have improved (if I'm not dead by then!)
Bodyweight squats - 19
Press ups (box) - 25
Bodyweight reverse lunges - 9 (these kill me every time. I could really feel the tightness in my leg muscles)
High knees - 22
Jump squats - 12 (also a killer for me)
Tricep dips - 13
Alternating side lunges - 16
Plank (forearm) 30 seconds!! (How rubbish is that?? My kids can do 8 minutes!!)
I have had a dull headache today, despite drinking all that water. I'm guessing its my body's reaction to detoxing the refined junk out of it. I've had a moment on the way home from work where my mind turned to chocolate, I kind of wanted some in that moment, but it was fleeting and I'm ok again. I'm looking forward to my snack later, greek yoghurt and berries.
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