Whole 30 Day One

Start weight: 275.5
With this Whole 30 I hope to get back on track in my mind. I also hope to drop fifteen pounds and incorporate some exercise into my life.

My day one plan:
Breakfast- 2 hard boiled eggs
Lunch- salad with romaine, carrots, red cabbage, red peppers, tomato, 3 oz grilled chicken with balsamic & olive oil
Dinner- steak, zucchini and avocado

I am trying not to snack but if I do get hungry I have a pear standing by.

I am not much of an exerciser but want to be healthier so as part of my Whole 30 I plan on adding in exercise. (Did that sound too trainwrecky?) I am going to ride the dust collecting Schwinn Airdyne. I plan on riding until I feel like I am going to die. That should be about fifteen minutes. (I know that sounded trainwrecky!) However long I last today I will add on two minutes tomorrow, and two minutes the next day, etc.

I also plan on adding in some strength exercises. But haven't figured which ones. I'll have to look at Norma's routines and scale them back around 400% and maybe I can do a third of it. I'll probably start with squats and push ups. Do as many as I can and then add at least one more the next day. Maybe I'll even watch some YouTube videos to see how to use the paperweight kettle bell without breaking some part of me.

I have lots of  boiled eggs, vegetables and grilled chicken at the ready. I feel good and am excited to rock this Whole 30!

Observations

I cannot be trusted with cereal. Was tired of hard bolied eggs, done with the Whole 30 so I figured I would have some Kellogs Crunchy Nut cereal. Bad idea. Carb cravings like friggin crazy. And a very bad day followed. Still have a fat girl's brain.

Walking up to the glass doors of my office building: I noticed I wasn't waddling any more. My ass and thighs didn't take up the whole picture.

I had zero trouble walking up the stairs to my office.

When I wrapped the towel around myself yesterday it actually went all the way around! No gaping view of thigh and ass cheek. My husband high fived me.

I bought a couple of five pound weights and an eight pound kettlebell this weekend. Pretty low weight compared to what some of you beasts lift but that shit feels heavy to me right now!

Been out of sorts since the Whole 30 ended. Told my man I am just going back on it. It is easy, it works for me, I felt great. So I am back to the Whole 30, except maybe now it's just "the way Beth eats".

Thinking Like a Fat Girl

I let the fat girl do my thinking earlier in the week.

Losing Bernice threw me for a loop, I really did not expect to have to make that decision. I really just thought she had a virus or allergies or something relatively easy to deal with. It was awful.

I was sad, depressed, and trying to hold it together for the kids. I ate ziti. Then I ate pretzels. Then I stopped myself with a "wtf do you think you're doing?" It's scary how easy it was to slip right into carbing it up in a vain effort to feel better, or rather, to not feel at all.

Tuesday I rode the Schwinn Airdyne stationary torture machine. And by torture I mean boredom. Even with a previously unseen Big Bang Theory on the tube I was B O R E D.  I rode 6.4 miles in a half an hour. I repeated this last night. Tonight my ass is killing me. Not my calves or thighs or arms from the moving handlebars- my ass.

After reading some stuff Norma, Susie and others have posted regarding weight/strength training, I know I need to do this kind of exercise. Mother's Day is coming and the go to gift of chocolate truffles are completely off limits. I will be "suggesting" to my husband that the girls could get me a kettlebell and some hand weights.

The Fit Girl is going to be doing the thinking around here.