Today was the yoga workout. I was excited for a rest day and a chance to stretch my muscles. It felt GOOD! 

It was a standard yoga video. There were a lot of the traditional yoga poses I see in many of the Beachbody workout videos. None of the poses were too advanced and if you've done a little yoga before you will have no problem following the video.

I burned about 80 calories (57% from fat though, according to my heart rate monitor).

I knew today was going to be a bit of a challenge because it is my brother-in-laws birthday brunch. If you know anything about me, it's that I LOVE BREAKFAST FOOD.  So I made sure to eat a banana with some peanut butter on it before I left the house so that I wouldn't completely gorge myself when I went to breakfast (one purple one teaspoon).

He chose The Original Pancake House. There was a 30 minute wait with not a lot of waiting room on the inside. They offered complimentary coffee while waiting, which was nice. What was not so nice was their STYROFOAM cups. BOOOOO. Did you know that those will never decompose in a landfill? I shudder to think about how many of those they go through in a weekend.

Anyway, I was PRETTY good. I ordered the oven-baked veggie omelette. I have never had oven-baked eggs like these...they were so FLUFFY! I ordered it with a side of french toast and ate one piece. I also had to taste the pancakes, of course. I had just a few bites, but you could really taste the yeastiness/sourdough flavor. They were also extremely fluffy.  Haha, reminds me of this, but with food: 

Anyway, I figured my breakfast was equivalent to one green, 1.5 reds, 1 yellow and one teaspoon (Well, maybe more than one yellow, but I'm going to let it slide this time).

Then I ate:
-Vegan chocolate Shakeology, strawberries, yogurt, and water. Not as good as the one I make with almond milk, but pretty close! Might be better with peanut butter, I think I'll have to try that tomorrow.
-Carrots and hummus. The blue container of hummus far outweighed the amount of carrots that we are allowed to have, so I added the rest to my dinner (see next).
-Whole wheat tortilla with hummus, mustard, turkey and lots of lettuce. I still don't like deli turkey, but I gave it a shot.

I didn't get to my orange container (AGAIN). It figures that orange is my least favorite color too.

Week one results in tomorrow!

Weighed in at 105.4 (wrong way, scale)!

<3 Kristina

Today's workout was The Dirty 30. I was terrified because I didn't really have any idea what that meant. 

I shouldn't have worried because it was fine. It was a full body workout with both heavy and light weights, plus core exercises like plank. I mean, it wasn't EASY, and I sweated a ton, but I wasn't dead at the end. 

Today was different because I waited until the afternoon to workout instead of doing right when I woke up.

I burned about 200 calories and this workout was a little shorter than the rest at only 28 minutes.

Today was the first day I wasn't STARVING. I slept in a little bit and I am not sure if it's because I wasn't sitting at a desk all day or because I worked out later, but I'll take whatever it was!

As I said yesterday, a lot of the food I planned to eat at the end of this week was bad, so I had to improvise on a lot of my food. 

I ate:
-Banana with peanut butter
-Shakeology with peanut butter, strawberries, almond milk and water.
-Cottage cheese with a piece of raisin toast
-Salad with deli turkey and dressing
-Yogurt with strawberries and cinnamon

I had one red, one green and one yellow left before I went to work. We were crazy busy and I was running around all night. By the time I was done, I was STARVING. I had one bite of lasagna and a piece of pizza in place of my three containers. Not QUITE equivalent, but instead of making excuses I am just going to own it and say that is just how it turned out. This is real life and I am doing the best I can with what I have to work with! :)

Weighed in at 105.2.

<3 Kristina

Today's workout was Cardio Fix (not to be confused with day one, Total Body Cardio).

After my bad eating day, I felt like I had to do SOMETHING to balance it out. I happened to get off of work a little bit early, so I decided to do another workout when I got home. I was thinking about doing my favorite Focus T-25 video which I knew would burn a good amount of calories, but then I had a better idea. The program has an optional "doubles" week during your third week, so I decided to do whatever that workout was. When I got home and looked at the booklet, I was happy to find it wasn't Pilates, but not exactly thrilled that it was Upper Body. However, I figured that because I didn't know what the next two days were going to bring, I should probably do what the program suggested.

I burned around 325 during my morning workout and 200 calories during my evening one.

Today was kind of a shit show because all the food I had planned for the second half of the week I either hadn't prepared or it had gone bad during the week. That left me scrambling this morning to try and figure out what to eat for the day.

I got to work and remembered that it was my CEO's birthday and we had bought a bunch of treats for breakfast. Of course I caved.

I ended up having:
-2 eggs with hot sauce and whole grain toast
-1/3 of an almond croissant
-Yogurt with mixed fruit
-Salad with chicken and dressing

I was going to make stir-fry for dinner, but a girl from my work had left early and told me that she left her salad in the fridge and that I could eat it if I wanted it. I knew I had a whole night ahead of me at my second job and I was already hungry again, so I ate it. It was sooo delicious but large and full of beans and sunflower seeds. AKA, just like the salads that I am USED to eating for lunch, but for this program, definitely over my allotted portions of green, yellow and orange. 

Sigh...maybe I'll get a hang of this one of these days.

Weighed in at 104.8.

<3 Kristina

Today's workout was Pilates. I've never done Pilates before, but imagined it to be somewhat like yoga. This video was very similar to yoga I have done before, except the breathing here was short and fast vs. long and slow. 

It was great to have a rest day now that the soreness in my legs is starting to subside. The stretching felt really good, though I don't feel like I was able to fully do some of the movements because I am still so stiff from my workouts!

There was a good amount of core work between planks and abs. I am surprised that we have worked abs 4 days in a row.

I burned around 130 calories today.

Today was bad on the food front. It was one of those days where you can't get full! I knew I was in trouble when I ate my second meal before I even left the house for work this morning.

I ate:
-My usual Shakeology with soy milk.
-A piece of raisin toast
-Almonds
-Greek yogurt and mixed fruit
-Stir-fry with chicken
-A few snacks from work (pub mix and dried fruit and nut mix)
-Salad, veggie burger, cottage cheese, dressing
-Another Shakeology
I drank black coffee, green tea and lots of water.

I think all my food added up to about an extra red, blue, yellow and teaspoon today. I don't know if it's because I have no willpower or I'm actually hungry.

Tomorrow we have a birthday breakfast at work for the CEO. It's going to be hard to resist!

Weighed in at 105.2.

My goal for tomorrow is to stick to the plan (because apparently I haven't AT ALL yet) and to take more pictures! 

<3 Kristina

O...M...G...

I can't remember the last time I was this sore. Maybe I HAVEN'T ever been this sore. I am walking like I have something up my butt. I am sure I look like an idiot.

Anyway, on to Lower Body Fix...
I was dreading this workout, but once I was done with all the lunges, squats, etc., my muscles had stretched out some and I was actually able to walk a little bit better.

I burned about 275 calories.

Another STARVING day today. Nothing will satiate that monster! 

I ate:
-My usual Shakeology with 8oz of almond milk 
-Avocado on toast with a side of cottage cheese
-Greek yogurt and mixed fruit
-Chicken, salad and dressing
-Stir fry with chicken
I drank green tea and water.

Weighed in at 104.8.


Checking off day three!
<3 Kristina

Holy moly I am SORE today! I don't even remember the moves that we did, but whatever they were they worked my hamstrings and my ASS. One of the many hard things about working in an office is that you just SIT all day and your muscles just start to lock up. By the end of the day, I was really starting to feel the ramifications of yesterday's workout.

Upper body fix was a pretty good upper body workout. My heavy weights were 10lbs and my light ones were 5. That seemed to work well for me. I MIGHT do twelves next week, but we will have to see how I'm feeling. ;)

I burned about 250 calories. 

I keep meaning to post pictures but I have been so starving that I eat my food really fast and don't remember until afterward that I should have taken a picture.

I ate my menu but in a different order today. Also, all that greek yogurt made my stomach hurt a little, so from now on I am doing 1/2 red of yogurt and 1/2 red of cottage cheese:

-Shakeology (My usual): vegan chocolate, 1/2 purple of frozen strawberries, 1tsp of natural peanut butter, only water (which was GROSS).
-Greek yogurt (red) with 1 1/2 purple filled with strawberries
-Ezekiel bread toasted with 1/4 smashed avocado with a side of cottage cheese.
-Leftover stir-fry with tofu
-Went out for sushi with my man. For the day I had two greens, a red an orange and a yellow left. I had a salad for my greens and orange, but my sushi portion may have been a little large for the yellow. I am still learning. 
I drank coffee with a little bit of vanilla soy creamer (Excuses, but I don't want it to go to waste!), green tea, water and a vodka soda (long story and no, not on the plan).

Weighed in at 105.

I know sleep is important so I am off to bed!

<3 Kristina

Total Body Cardio Fix - This was my first workout in over 3 weeks, and let me tell you, OMG, it was rough. I have definitely lost some of my cardiovascular fitness over the past few weeks. I can't remember the last time I had to pause a video to catch my breath, but I did it THREE times during this workout. Oh well, it's all a process, right? It definitely felt good to be back at it.

The workouts (and Autumn) reminded me a lot of Jillian Michaels and her video series. 21-Day Fix workouts are definitely harder, but I think they are structured similarly. I am looking forward to Upper Body tomorrow.

I burned around 250 calories today.

I'm glad Tony prepped all that salad and chicken yesterday, because it was a breeze to put together my meals this morning! The containers look tiny (I remember getting them and thinking, "That's IT?"), but they actually hold more food then you think. 

I followed my meal plan exactly as posted on Feb 16, so this is what I ate:
-Shakeology (My usual): vegan chocolate, 1/2 purple of frozen strawberries, 1tsp of natural peanut butter, 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk, fill the rest with water and blend
-Ezekiel bread toasted with 1/4 smashed avocado
-Greek yogurt (red) with 1 1/2 purple filled with strawberries and peaches
-Salad (romaine, carrots and cherry tomatoes, equal to two greens), chicken (red), dijon dressing (orange)
-Stir fry, tofu (red), frozen veggie mix (green) and tiny bit of low sodium soy sauce (soy sauce not on plan, don't tell Autumn)
I drank black coffee, green tea, water.

I was STARVING by 7pm, so I went and hid as far away from the kitchen as I could so I wouldn't think about food.

What do you do help curb your appetite?

Starting weight:107

Sleeping curbs hunger haha, so off I go!
<3 Kristina