lorelei729’s BodyBlog

Today was a good day.  I took my certification exam in the morning to officially become a certified occupational therapist assistant (COTA) in the morning.  Though I won’t know the results until next week, I am pretty optimistic.  In the afternoon I ran outdoors.  It’s a beautiful day in Ohio, almost 60 degrees.  Awesome.  I had a pretty good run, too.  It was the first outdoor run I’ve tried since I’ve been training for my 5k.  The course was 2.9 miles (according to gmap-pedometer.com) and I ran a huge majority, other than the leftover snow piles  I had to step over and the large puddles I had to get around and a very brief breath about 3/4 of the way through.

For my leg workout, I ran into a friend of mine from work and I ended up doing a much longer workout than I normally do.  We swapped machines and worked out well together.  I was even able to increase some of my weight again this week.  I’m getting stronger!

For my eating, because of my exam the whole day was difficult to plan.  But this is how it ended up:

7am breafast: oatmeal, 1/2 cup cottage cheese

8:30: 10 almonds

test

12:45 10 more almonds

2pm (got home): grilled turkey sandwich with peppers, tomato and cheese, a big cup of coffee

run

6pm (husband was home late and I wasn’t hungry anways) 1/2 cup whole wheat pasta, 1/2 cup sugar free pasta sauce, 1 turkey burger cut up and stirred in, 2oz of crab stirred in (good mixture!)

Gym

9pm: protein drink

I’m still working on improving my diet.  I had planned a lot and went *almost* entirely to plan today.  It was my first day working as an OTA (occupational therapist assistant) and one of the girls brought in doughnuts to celebrate…  I had the smallest one in the box.

Breakfast: oatmeal and 1/2 cup cottage cheese

snack:one small doughnut

Lunch:2 low carb wraps with 1/3 cup each of 93% ground beef, flavored with taco seasoning and a sprinkle of cheese, 6oz. yogurt and 5 carrots

snack: one small homemade protein bar (and a handful of dry organic cereal)

Dinner: 6oz. tilapia, 1/4 cup baked sweet potato, 1 banana and 5 almonds

snack: protein shake.

All-in-all, it’s a mixture of good and bad choices.  I kinda felt crappy during my workout, but I was able to add weight to each exercise in my chest workout.

My run wasn’t that great again, though.  I ran solid for 15 minutes before I had to slow down to rest and glug some water for a minute and then I finished my run.  (Mind you, I’m training for a 5k and I’ve been able to run more than that.

Oh well, some days are better than others.

Today was an okay day.  I am having an easier time making good food choices when I am well prepared and I continue to increase my protein intake instead of so many carbs.

Breakfast: protein pancake (1 whole egg, 1/2 cup egg whites, 1/2 cup oats, flavored with cinnamon and splenda)

Lunch: 1/2 cup whole wheat pasta, 1/2 cup no added sugar pasta sauce, 2.5 ounces crab meat, 10 almonds, 1 small home-made protein bar ( I need to figure out how many actual calories are in each!)

snack:1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 cup yogurt, 1/2 cup mixed berries

dinner: 2 low carb whole wheat wraps, 1/3 cup each 93% ground beef with taco seasoning and a pinch of cheese, 10 carrots

evening snack: (having shortly after I post this) protein shake

Today I already made better choices than I did yesterday.  I increased the amount of protein with my meals and the one snack I tried to have (birthday cake at work) I tossed into the garbage after a bite because I really didn’t want it and it really wasn’t that good anyways. 

9am Breakfast: Protein pancake (1 whole free range egg, 1/2 cup egg whites and 1/2 cup plain oatmeal) flavored with cinnamon and splenda

12n Lunch: 1/2 cup potatoes and light turkey kielbasa, 1/2 cup cottage cheese and an apple

3pm afternoon snack: (probably the worst choice of the day and most carbs in a meal) two slices of lowcarb whole wheat bread, 1 banana and 1 tbsp of natural peanut butter

6pm Dinner: 4oz my light keilbasa on a low carb wrap with a touch of cheese and red peppers, 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 10 carrots

9pm evening snack: vanilla protein shake

This is an "Off" day for exercising, but I went for a 40 minute walk because it was 50 degrees outside!!  That’s a lot for Ohio in February…

I decided that one thing I am still lacking is the accountability for my eating.  I am starting today to blog about my eating and my workouts.  Today wasn’t a particularly good day at the gym, I ran errands all day and didn’t get to the gym until 7pm.  I did my biceps and triceps exercises and was able to increase my weight used by 5 lbs each respectively.  But my running stank.  I’ve been training for my first 5k and this week I did monday 20 minute run, tuesday intervals, wednesday off, thrusday incline running for 22 minutes and today was supposed to be another long run.  It didn’t work out that way.  I guess the incline took too much out of me yesterday, and I ended up doing intervals again for 25 minutes.  Yuck.  I guess it’s better to do something than nothing at all.

As for my eating,

Breakfast: oatmeal

morning snack:apple and natural peanut butter

Lunch: chicken wrap with a yogurt.  This is where I strted to mess up.  I brought an orange to have with lunch, but it ended up being bad and I was still hungry.  So I was at work and I went over to the cupboard and got a pack of lorna doones and two packs of saltines…  Bad choice, but I’m bloggin so that I have to be honest.

Afternoon snack: I forgot to pack one… poor planning… and bought a dove dark chocolate bar when I was grocery shopping.

Dinner: 2 - 93% fat free beef in wraps, 10 almonds and a spoon of light cool whip

post-workout snack: 1 cup cottage cheese

Part of my problem was poor planning today.  The other problem was lack of choosing a better option.  My work has a kitchen and I could’ve found better foods.