Wednesday, January 4, 2012

New day.. try again

Since yesterday was SOO crazy, hectic and a total disaster with my calorie count, I decided to start over today. Today the kids went back to school, YAY.. not only for me, but they were excited as well. I love that my kids love to go to school. Great feeling. Got up and made waffles again, this time using bisquick. Perfect. Everyone was happy. Dropped the kids off at school and came back to try to get things back in order here at home. Our house is still a pretty bad disaster. My plans for today were, make shakeology, clean up kitchen, workout, get laundry started, pick up kids rooms, get living room organized again. Great plans right? Yep, if they had all went as well as I had planned them in my head. First rule of Chalene's from her book PUSH, write down your goals/plans for the day. Make written to do lists. First catastraphe was breakfast again. I have been talking to some fellow, local coachs through Beachbody trying to get some help with my nutrition & fitness. I'm really trying to get out of this "stuck" issue I'm having with my weight. I'm also trying to get some energy built back up so I can do my workouts the way I need to do them. I was advised to incrase my calorie intake to 15-1800 a day making sure to get 3-400 calories in a every meal (3 full meals a day). That meant I had to add something to Shakeology to get it up to at least 300. I don't like PB. I don't like the smell or taste. But it's loaded in healthy fats, carbs, protein & calories, so I needed to try it. I really didn't think I would be able to taste is with everything else I put in it. I figured the chocolate is so strong in it, the pb taste would disapate. So I mixed my usual ingredients: 1 1/4 cup milk, 1 egg yolk, 1 cup of water, about 3 tbspn of honey & this time 1 tbspn of pb; through it all in a mixer and tasted it. Not bad, I can handle this. I got about half way through my shakeology and started to feel full. Normally when I feel full, I stop and put the rest in the frig. This time, knowing I was trying to get more calories in my meals, I forced msyelf to finish the entire 12 oz of shakeology. OH GOODNESS UGH!!!! That was not smart. I was SOOOOOOOOO sick. I felt like I was going to puke. I was totally miserable. I had to lay down and be really really still. Even breathing made me nausious. Oh I've never been that full. I will never do that again. Next time, I will stop, let my gut settle and then drink more after some has settled. HUGE HUGE mistake. It took me about an hour and a half to finally feel better. But by that time, I was feeling weak and shaky. I think part of that was from my sugar level, and part because of my gut being empty again. But, because of what my stomach had just gone through, I wasn't quite to excited to put food back on it. So I slowly and carefully ate some grapes and granola with a full glass of water. Finally I began to regain my appetite and had lunch. Wow what a learning experience that was. The idea for me is to get at least 300 calories at every meal with a total of 15-1800 calories a day. I need to get most of my lean protein and healthy carbs from morning until about 4:00, then nothing but fruits, veggies & lean protein from 4:00 until 9:00. The idea behind that is my body needs most of it's fuel in the morning and afternoon to burn off fat and give me energy to get through my workouts. I have to have the majority of my protein and carbs before my workout so I can push through them and have the energy to burn a goal of 300+ calories each workout. That gives me a deficit of 500 calories a day. Depending on what workout I choose will depend on how many calories I burn, which will depend on how many calories I eat. Which is why planning my day is crutcial. There are those days where my workout time and plans change, so I have to change my food needs along with that. I just have to stop eating carbs at 4:00 so my body doesn't get more than it can burn. After that, my body won't be able to burn the rest off and that's how you get fat. On the flip side, I have to have enough calories to fuel my body to do what I need for it to do. So, I didn't get a workout in today due to how I felt and messing up my morning. I guess tomorrow will be another retake. I'm just glad I'm feeling better.

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