I have woken up exhausted this morning. Not the best start to the 12 week challenge. But when I look at the crap that I ate over the weekend, is it any wonder that I'm sluggish today?
You read all the time about how eating bad food causes you to have less energy and feel like crap, but until you start eating clean and then have a couple of days of not doing so well, that's when you really notice the difference.
For some reason, when I spend my weekends at home, I tend to want to eat bad food. I know there is probably some psychological explanation, but whatever the reason, I need to work on that. Saturday morning I did my first boot camp to start off my Super Saturday Sessions that are part of the challenge. And as much as it hurt like hell, I felt great afterwards. I went and bought the last of the food I needed to start the challenge (meat and vege etc), and the grocery items I ordered were delivered in the afternoon, which was very exciting. I have planned my weekends out so that I will spend at least some part of every sunday cooking up a storm so that I have all my foods ready for the week. This is to stop me over eating when I get home from the gym and am so hungry that I try to eat more than I should.
Saturday afternoon was fine, I had a bowl of plain popcorn that I popped myself in the machine, and this is a healthy snack, which wasn't so bad. Then Saturday night my sister came over for dinner, so I made Pad Thai from a packet mix. Probably not the healthiest of meals but I don't agree with throwing things out and I had the mix in the cupboard. This was then followed by two small handfuls of m&m's... which was not a good idea as I have not consumed any chocolate since Sydney, and it tasted too rich and made me feel a little ill...
Sunday morning came around and I had decided to start eating from the challenge meal plan as I now had all the food, so I had the Apple Porridge, which ended up being a huge effort to make (do you know how hard it is to grate an apple?! I sure as hell didn't, and it wasn't fun, took way too long and ended up eating cold porridge). Then I started cooking, and it all smelt so good! I cooked up the Beef and Broccolini Stir Fry, the Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup and the Beef Fajitas. I then took a break to sit down cause that all took me 3 hours and I was buggered. In that time I consumed some left over Pad Thai. Then I made my lunches for the week (pretty straight forward, I'm having the turkey wraps 4 days in a row). And for some reason, I decided I just had to use up the last of the cheese in the fridge so I made a pizza for a snack... Really shouldn't have, because then I was not that hungry when it came time to eat my awesome Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup, but I still really wanted those cruskits with jam for a snack later in the evening. I know it doesn't sound that bad, I didn't gourge myself on chocolate or chips, and I didn't have any fast food, but it was enough to leave me feeling like I've been hit by a truck today.
So, I've learnt yet another valuable lesson (2 if you count that it's hard to grate apples!). It's OK to throw out foods rather than eating them just to get them out of the fridge. Bad food effects my body in ways that make it hard to get going in the morning. All those years I thought there was something wrong with me when I was waking up tired when there was just a simple answer... Stop eating CRAP!
The challenge started this morning, my breakfast was the Banana Bruschetta with a cup of tea. Followed by a snack of Light Cruskits with vegemite and a hard boiled egg. I don't feel like this is a challenge at all and I'm loving the food and the exercise. Bring it!
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