You
can do so much more than you think you can
DAY 11 WORKOUT: PILATES FIX
In today’s workout, I held an elbow plank for a full 60 seconds. That’s double what I
could hold the other day, and, in last week’s Pilates workout, I struggled to
hold plank for 10 seconds. If you would have told me a week ago, I could hold a
plank for 1 minute, I would have laughed. But today, I proved to myself that I
am capable of so much more than I thought. Don’t doubt yourself- just push
through it!
DAY 11 FOOD
For breakfast, I made egg whites with spinach and feta…but
wait, we were out of feta cheese! So, that turned in to egg whites with
spinach, and, to be honest, its not so good without the feta. The feta has this
magical power to marry all the flavors together and give you a punch of taste…
today I just felt like I was eating wilted spinach and unseasoned egg whites-
oh wait, I was. Next time, I’ll buy more feta… If anything, at least I still
have my blue serving left for later on. Silver lining.
Oh, I also had some cantaloupe (1 purple) and about a dozen
mini-wheats (1 yellow). I put just a teaspoon of unsweetened almond milk on the
mini-wheats to trick my mind into thinking I was devouring a giant bowl of
cereal and it pretty much the best thing ever and it totally made up for my egg
white/spinach debacle.
I haven’t had coffee in a few days because with this sore
throat, all I’ve wanted is hot tea. But, I made a chai tea this morning (because
I was still thinking about that amazing cinnamon chai tea I had last night) and
I think it must have been expired because it tasted like soap, not chai, soap. Another
reason I need to go find this new cinnamon chai tea at Fresh Market.
For my shakeology, I had chocolate with strawberries and I added
a little splash of vanilla extract. Honestly couldn’t taste the vanilla at all,
but it was still good.
Anniston
and I ran errands and had a playdate to fill the remainder of our day. Josh had
church band practice tonight after work, so our paths happened to cross around
dinnertime. We shared a few slices of whole wheat margherita pizza from Brixx.
Not gonna lie, we are totally eating the leftovers for breakfast tomorrow. I’m confused
how to tally this pizza though because I thought it would be 1 yellow (crust),
1 blue (cheese), 1 green (tomatoes), and some olive oil (because the pizza didn’t
have red sauce, was just brushed with olive oil). However, according to the Fix
book, if you eat ¼ of a 12-inch cheese pizza its 1 yellow and 1 orange. If you
eat a cheese and veggie pizza, it’s 2 yellow, 1 orange, 1 green. I don’t quite
understand the math there. How does the blue disappear? Where does the orange
come from (usually seeds, peanuts, dressings)? I’m thinking ours was closest to
cheese pizza because I probably only had 2 slices of tomato. Either way, my
portions are where they need to be, I just don’t like feeling confused about
it.
OTHER THOUGHTS
Every single night I have at least one dream about the 21 Day
Fix. I will wake up and be like “seriously did I just dream about
color-coordinated containers again?”
Someone on Instragram today put up this picture of bacon
coated in brown sugar and dipped in beer. And I’m like “is this real life?”…
I’ll stick to my shakeology and water…
Speaking of water, the flavored water I drink everyday is
strawberry-mint water. I used to make it in a pitcher, but now that I have my
fancy Camelbak water bottle, I just put 2 frozen strawberries and one mint leaf
in the bottom of the bottle in the morning and then refill with plain water
throughout the day. Its perfect.
Also, I finished my motivation wall! Love it- so inspiring.
And finally (I know, lots of extra thoughts today), I
probably wont get a post up tomorrow- I have a super crazy day and will be out
very late…so look forward to a double-feature on Saturday (hopefully)!
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