Excellent weekend

This last week has been tracking well. In particular this weekend.

Saturday was a nice and lazy day at home, played some computer, relaxed and had an overall lovely day. Ate good food all in all as well, nothing crazy, a couple of choc coated coffee beans was the extent of the indulgence.

Sunday. Personal training day. Up and at them quite early (I can't seem to sleep in really late any more, even if I stay in bed late I wake up at 6am) read a few things from the readers (have a massive backlog on my non-fitness / crafty reader) and then mooched off to the other side of town for PT. I train Sundays' at lunchtime, across city once a week. I drive for an hour to get to personal training because a) I have an AMAZING trainer, b) I get to train with my Mum, c) I have coffee with Mum after and then visit Dad to spend the rest of the day with them, which truthfully wouldn't happen otherwise because they live on one side of the city and I live on the other. d) I occasionally score home cooked dinner. SCORE!!!!!

Today was a long one. Training: I have to say even though I had to stop at one point during the kettlebell workout and have a lie down because I thought I was going to puke, I had the best work out and felt GREAT afterwards. How do people work out how much water to drink during training, if I'm just running / biking I'm fine drinking when I'm thirsty, circuit training though, I'm dying of thirst the whole time, but if I drink more I just want to puke >< ???

I train for about 40 minutes, start on the tread mill and then do 30 - 35 mins of circuit. It's something different every week, high intensity and flat out the whole time. A really great workout, I train with usually Mum and another girl, I am the heaviest and also the most unfit, this is improving though. I almost fell off the treadmill when I looked at what speed I had put in for some "fast walking / jogging" and it was over a km/hr faster than what I had been able to manage previously. Obviously I need to make sure I'm up'ing my speed more regularly at home and paying less attention to the numbers and just going with what "feels" right.

I also think I had an amazing work out due to my new support garments. I found a really wonderful lingerie store down the road from my training studio and lo and behold they sell bras in my size and fitting, which after not being properly fitted in over 14 years turns out to be a 20FF, or US 42FF. I thought I was a 24DD, oh how wrong I was :P

I almost fell over when she told me the size, and the fit is wonderful, my underwires actually sit on my sternum... who would have thunk it ... GO, get fitter properly people the difference is mind blowing. (the price for large size bras blows my mind too, I forgot that they were over $100... ) I kind of hope my cup size drops a bit so I can shop at regular stores again or I'm going to cry. At least now I know where I can go to get decent bras for at least working out, which is the most important thing at the moment. My rib cage is smaller than I though though which was a nice surprise :)

I was up .3kg last Wednesday at WI. This week I intend to get that back off. I'm quite enjoying the Propoints plan to date, however I have been less than focused, I will work to rectify that this week and next. I've been tracking really well and haven't gone through all my points yet so should see some good progress this week, if not then the fact that I have to take all my pants in again is good enough for me.

Hope everyone had great weekend, here is to a good week

New WW Propoints - Day 1.

Well my Wi day is not until Wednesday but everything online was updated this morning. So on i logged to track and I've found out my new "rules of food".

I have daily 46 Propoints®, and the additional 49 a week. So today I tracked and re-jigged some of my recipes. My Muesli works out at 9pp a serve, quite respectable I think considering how long it keeps me going for, it's Vegan, high protein, fibre and a good dose of good fats from the seeds, not to mention good fibre as well. Basically a rocking meal to start my day with. I got some apricots and mango and will add them tomorrow morning along with the apple just to change it up a little, I think I might have some mango for dessert tonight as well.

So day 1 breakdown:

Breakfast:

Bircher style muesli

Green Tea

Morning Tea:

3 corn things

Yoghurt Top muesli bar

Lunch:

Mega grainy bread with; Roast Pork, Cheese, pickled onions, lettuce, tomato, carrot, alfalfa, capsicum and cucumber.

Some cucumber spears

Jarrah hot chocolate

Afternoon Snack:

Banana

Dinner:

Jarrah Hot chocolate

5 bean mix with bamboo shots and salsa quesadilla with light sour cream 1/4 avocado and some more salsa on top

Maybe a Mango for dessert?

I was a bit excited about the sour cream (love it) and probably a bit over the top with cheese (new pack and it moved a bit faster than I liked so I've written off all my points for the day. 46 done and dusted.

Had I replaced some of the beans with green beans and peas and some more corn then probably could save some points. Also moving the 1kg bag of cheese into a container rather than pouring over the stove would save me about 4 pp. Sour cream, well it's light and it's my fav, and I have points, it's dairy. Considering I'm edging more and more towards Vegetarian / Vegan I may as well love it whilst I still buy it :P

Doing well this week all in all, looking forward to my HUGE salad with chicken tomorrow night, it has become the usual Tuesday fare. Lots and lots of salad little bit of chicken from the Turkish Takeaway place. Works out at about 5 points (if that) total, there is a tiny amount of chicken, maybe half a breast and then a few cubes of feta. and it ROCKS!

I hope everyone else starting on PP is doing okay. I'm not overly fussed or worried about the change, it's something new and interesting if nothing else.

It's basically a focus on low GI foods, I know how to eat like that already, just working to incorporate the vegetarian slowly into my diet now. I've decided for the rest of this week I'm not having meat in my daily sandwich i'm having char-grilled eggplant instead. Something with a bit of body, flavour and not just salad vegies which I already have 3 inches of in my sandwich (can hardly close the container).

The Wednesday we see how we go :)