Steak, chicken or salmon for breakfast?
20 Feb 2012 3 Comments
in Diet and Nutrition, My Training Updates Tags: Breakfast, chicken, Clean and Lean Cookbook, diet, Eating, fitness, healthy eating plan, James Duigan, protein, salmon, Scrambled eggs, Steak
At the beginning of my diet, health and fitness search I wouldn’t eat breakfast at all thinking that I was saving calories and convinced that I ate less overall by not eating first thing. The days when I did actually manage to eat breakfast were when I had been awake for hours and breakfast would usually consist of yet another cup of coffee accompanied by (on a good day porridge with butter and sugar) or on a bad day white toast, crumpets or something similar. Always followed up a couple of hours later by something sweet and hoping I could just get through until lunch!
A very early change to my diet was getting my head around the concept of eating breakfast (a) at all and (b) within an hour of waking up both of which were a real challenge to the way I thought about food. I have been slowly changing my diet over the last year and trying to get better at eating clean – I never ate lots of processed food or ready meals but the culprits for me were flour (in anything from bread to pasta), white rice, potatoes and obviously sugary stuff.
Like this:
Clean and Lean – progress so far!
10 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates Tags: Clean and Lean, Clean and Lean Cookbook, healthy eating plan, James Duigan, nutrition
Well, the principle of eating clean and lean is there – protein at every meal and lots of veggies – but finding it hard to be a complete convert.
Reading the meal plans and bad, better, best from the Clean and Lean Cookbook James Duigan) I am not so very far off but I’m afraid that life gets in the way a bit – I know its no excuse really and if I was better organised or planned things better I would do my prep at the weekend and have lots of yummy meals just waiting for me. But juggling that with spending time with my family and looking after poorly bunnies (one of my house rabbits has been ill and is needing hourly nursing) means that completely Clean and Lean has to be compromised!
So, knowing all of that and rationalising it all in my head. why do I feel guilty when what I eat is less than perfect? Why do I put more pressure on myself and then beat myself up for not achieving perfection? Why is it when I have had a reasonably healthy home made meal (meatballs cooked in a homemade fresh tomato sauce with wild rice) do I feel bad that it wasn’t chicken rice and broccoli?
I know I should really go back to keeping a food diary; it would tell me how off kilter I am but probably more importantly it would show me how good I am being. BUT…….I spent so long obsessing about calories, cutting back and thinking about everything I ate; it was so hard to let go of all those years of thinking about every pound lost that I am scared that if I start recoding it, all those feelings will come back. Hmmm, bit of a dilemma to be explored a bit further……
Sunday 8th January
08 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in My Training Updates Tags: Advanced CPT, Clean and Lean, healthy eating plan
It’s been a really good day today, absolutely full of energy and no real after effects from training this week; no tiredness or soreness which is great – I have a sneaky feeling that once Kieran hears that the weights will increase for next week’s sessions!
So, started looking at courses for my advanced CPT course and am back to where I thought I was a few weeks ago; so many providers and so many choices it’s really hard to know which is the best one. I know that I can’t go for a full-time course as it will prove impossible to get the time off work even though it’s definitely the quickest route to certification. Based on how I felt towards the end of ACSM studying I don’t really fancy doing the whole course on my own so that is probably leading me towards the part-time option which is about 3 months of every other weekend. Will totally mess up my training plan and won’t go down well at home either so I need to give it some careful consideration. Think I need to speak to a few course providers tomorrow and see what they have to say.
The revised healthy eating plan is ok-ish, am beginning to learn things about how I eat, why and when so need to start listening to my body a bit more and get back to planning my meals properly. As far as food goes, yesterday wasn’t the best of days; training hard always makes me so hungry and spending time with my son means that I don’t always eat as clean as I would like – end result is I end up snacking on stuff I shouldn’t! Oh hum, not going to obsess about one less than perfect day and my new Clean and Lean Cookbook (Christmas pressie!) has given me so much inspiration I will have to make some food for the next few days, off to the kitchen I think!
