Yesterday, I drank my hemp/strawberry/blueberry smoothie, asian pear, apple, some grapes, a couple of handfuls of nuts, odwalla bar (yuck, I hate eating bars but I was starving), bad banh mi from Lee's, Yogurtland. I would consider this my "normal" desired way of eating minus the Odwalla bar. Well the thing that's connected to that is I worked straight through lunch so I didn't really eat a lunch lunch.. the banh mi was lunch dinner. As you can see that is clearly not enough protein. It's lots of carbs and moderate fat. I remember when I was focused on what I was eating and making sure I was getting "enough" protein I did not feel bloated. This morning my stomach measured a bit over 26" whereas I would be a solid 26" before. Maybe I should indeed go back to the way I was eating before: high protein, low carb, low fat. I've been WAY slacking on the veggie juice. Like WAY slacking. My skin is not great right now as I've started to break out from eating too many of these processed foods and not drinking enough veggie juice. My main problems are:
- Tired all the time
- No veggie juice
- Not enough protein
- Too many carbs
- Unmotivated
- Battle between wanting to eat the way I want to eat and making Insanity worth it, eating plan and all
- Wake up
- Shower
- Make veggie juice
- Make smoothie
- Drink smoothie on car ride to work
- Get to work, drink veggie juice, eat correctly
- Go home, work out, drink protein shake
- Get to bed 2-3 hours later
- I need to leave the house by 6AM. 6:15 at the latest. Which isn't a problem in itself; #2 is the problem:
- I would have to wake up at 4:30. Do you know how hard that is? I can't shower at night after my work out; I don't want to sleep on wet hair, and I don't want to spend an hour blow drying it. Not to mention I can't ever style my hair after having slept on it (wet or dry). So I must shower in the morning. I must also make veggie juice in the morning, because I don't want to drink it at night.
- You should drink veggie juice fresh. I don't normally drink it until after I finish my smoothie, and I don't normally finish it until a couple of hours after I start. By then it's gross because it's warm and the juice starts to oxidize and turn brown and taste yucky, and a lot of the nutrients are gone by that time. It takes me about an hour or so to get to work, then some more time to get settled then start drinking.
- I usually either wake up hungry or get hungry soon after I wake up. I also heard that you should eat soon after you wake up to jump start your metabolism. If I wake up at 4:30 and not eat until when I get on the fwy, I will be voracious.
- Waking up at 4:30 means I would have to sleep at 8, since 8 hours of sleep is clearly not cutting it for me. I think I would be comfortable with 9 hours of sleep, but I'll try 8.5 first. Not sure if I have the willpower to go to bed at 8, and my social life on the weekends will suffer.
- I'm on an entirely different schedule from everyone else at work; I get in around 7-7:30, everyone else, 9-9:15. Ideally I get two lunches -- one at 11, one at 2. They normally eat around 12:30ish. That's fine, I guess; I just don't want to step out twice (I work in a small office, and office etiquette says don't eat things that smell!).
- This doesn't leave room for me being late anywhere, including staying late at work (although if I stay late at work that means I face boat loads of traffic, which is another discouraging thing about leaving late).
- I hardly ever have down time to read or do anything.
- Wake up at 4:30
- Shower, eat something real fast, do my hair and make up, make smoothie first, then veggie juice
- Drive to work at 6-6:15, drink smoothie in the car
- Finish veggie juice before 8:30
- Eat snack at 9
- First lunch at 11
- Second lunch at 2
- Hemp shake at 4 when I leave work
- Work out when I get home, finish protein shake by 6:30
- Be in bed by 8:00
Wish me luck...
