elleboogie’s BodyBlog

 What a great way to start my day

I wrote down everything i put in my mouth today and while i faced a major hurdle during the day i got past it.

Got up and had the usual cereal at 8am, my nuts at 10am and a frozen meal at 12:30pm. (don’t wowrry i know these meals r not recommended but i have to eat them out b4 i get onto something better). Anyway, by this time in the day i already had 6 glasses of water. Doing great aren’t I Then came the refill of my water. As I made my way to the kitchen at my job I bend the corner to run straight into a platter of cookies…yes i said it  COOKIES. I knew this was the ’sexy gods’ way of putting me through my first test. And boy oh boy it was a tough one. I came to a halt as i stared at the oatmeal raisin and the white chip macadamia nut and chocolate chip cookies. i felt like i was in hell. I swear to u….a tear almost fell from my eye. I can now fully empathise with smokers, alcoholics and anyone out there who suffers with an addiction of any sort and is trying to get out. Cause breaking the cycle is HAAAARD.

Anyway as hard as it was…..i walked away. I passed my first test with flying colors. I was so proud of myself as I exited the kitchen, water in hand and returned to my office. I promptly popped a piece of gum in my mouth and continued on my day.

The rest of the day was ok after that. Passing that first test gave me new motivation. After the gym I went to the grocery and bought new snacks for tomorrow…i got some baby carrots, grapes, protein bars and some oatmeal. Since i don’t really like oatmeal i think i will wean it into my diet rather than going on it cold turkey when my cereal is done. So we will see how that goes. I am shooting for the ‘high protein’ route as far as my diet is concerned. (need to drop those 8-10 lbs) My friend is telling me to take this whey protein stuff….but with so many of them out there it just gives me a headache when i think about how to figure out which one i should take…or which one taste good for that matter. I am a water only drinker (i gave up soda and juice couple years back and never could get back on it) so i am thinking that getting that thick stuff down my throat will be an issue. We will see…

Anyway…so my day begins. I go to the gym at 5:30am and get in 20 mins cardio, 45 mins of leg work and 15 mins on abs, then i head home to get ready for work. For starters I had a bowl of cereal @ 8am….I plan on changing my breakfast to oatmeal since it seems to be the meal of champions for all you sexy looking people out there. But i can’t start on it til the cereal is done. But it was a fairly small bowl so i don’t think it did too much damage.

At 10am I had a handful of nuts. I was told that nuts is ‘good fat’ and i actually like them so it worked for me. I am not going to mention that it is honey roasted peanuts that probably has too much sugar in it anyway….the point is that it is still NUTS….right???:S

At 12pm….time for lunch….now this is when it started to go downhill. I was invited out by a friend for lunch. We went to a seafood restaurant. So this is the challenge….’what to order?’ So while overlooking the vast menu i totally forget that i am ‘eating clean’ and order a seafood platter that contained salmon, shrimp, a crab cake, an oyster and scallops. As terrible as that all sounds it was a really small amount of everything so it really was not that big. I think I more messed up on eating the bread that they placed on the table. Anyway so that was over and then the STUPID waiter comes to the table with a tray of dessert……………..grrrrrrrr……this is when he got me:(. I was so upset with him…needless to say i ordered a chocolate mousse cake to go

I saved the cake for later on that afternoon all the while hoping that I would have the strength not to eat it and throw it in the trash. Unfortunately that did not happen. By 6 pm while driving home I got stuck in traffic and the cake came out….. and that was that

To make myself feel a little better I got home and immediately did 25 mins of abs….then sat on my bed thinking that the only just punishment for my bad behaviour today would be no dinner. So as i finish write this i am heading straight to bed with hopes of getting this ‘eating clean’ thing right tomorrow (whatever that is)….lol

 So until then….